A RESOLUTION expressing The City of Seattle’s commitment to being a more age-friendly city under the criteria established by the World Health Organization and the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities.
The Report of the Human Services and Public Health Committee. Agenda Item two Resolution 317 39 expressing the city's close commitment to being a more age friendly city under the criteria established by the World Health Organization and the AARP, Network of Age Friendly Communities Committee recommends that the full council adopt the resolution as amended. Good. Thank you very much for reading that into the record. I want to say thank you to my colleagues for supporting this and supporting me in this work. The age friendly designation for the city of Seattle happened at the end of August, just of 2016, and our mayor had worked with AARP and the World Health Organization so Seattle could be designated an age friendly city. Between that point and now, I will say that not as much has been accomplished as I would like to see. But fortunately, we now have an action plan and this resolution has been drafted. And the mayor just last week announced within the departments what the various departments are going to do. But I do want to acknowledge and say special thanks to Steve Lee from the mayor's office and Catherine Lester from the Human Services Department and our own Lily Ramon, who is now, as of last Saturday, Lily Rau, for the good work that they have done on that to generate these really age friendly goals and success measures. What I'm focused on is department by department, but I'd like to start with Seattle Department of Transportation. I would like to see us really implement an institute across our city, a new sidewalk program, and I should say sidewalk programs, plural. We can learn from other cities, but small things such as maintaining our sidewalks across the city, making a network that connects, having longer walk signals for safe crossing where appropriate, not just for seniors, people with strollers, kids who are learning to ride a scooter, which I mentioned earlier before, or people with disabilities. We really need to be conscious across our city that all of us are going to get there one time or another, so we might as well get going on it right away. So there are eight domains in the World Health Organization's criteria for livability, and it includes affordable housing, better transportation, better connections for neighbors with people who are aging and encouraging different ways for people to live. And that includes our auxiliary dwelling or accessory dwelling units. There are many, many things we can do, but as we're thinking about how do we make this a city where we are using a race and social justice lens? I really want us to include the lens for people who are aging. I think we can do a great thing, a great number of things with a small number of small costs, but make it a dramatic difference for our city. So I know that all of you have heard me say age friendly probably a thousand times in the last four months. But I say thank you, thank you for supporting this resolution. There's a lot we can do and I look forward to doing it with you. Thank you. Customer Show. Now. I was led to believe there could be an amendment she would be proposing by substituting versions three for two. Is that so? Thank you very much. These were provisions that Councilmember Harold Harrell I'm sorry, Councilmember Herbold recommended. And they really do focus on unemployed workers. That provides additional occupational training for people who are over 65 and also recognizing that people who are over 65 are either staying in or sometimes rejoining the labor force for whatever reasons that are in their individual lives. So I support Councilmember. Her Bolts recommendations, and they're in two warehouses on page three of the resolution that's in front of us. So you moved to substitute version three for version two? Is there a second? All those in favor of substituting version three for version two a please say I. I oppose the ayes have it. So we have a amended resolution. Are you. Would you like to see any more words? Better? You know, I think we're I think we're good. I said what I had to say, but I did want to recognize that Alan Lee on central staff has also been very helpful and moving things quickly and responding to the number of amendments that have been coming in. So this started off about two months ago, and I think that we've made some real progress on it. Thank you. Thank you. Any further comments? All those in favor of adopting the resolution as amended? Vote i. I. Those oppose vote no. The motion carries and the minute resolution is adopted, the chair will sign it. All right. Thank you. Please read the next agenda items. Plural, I guess. Three through five into the record agenda items.