AN ORDINANCE relating to historic preservation; imposing controls upon the Wagner Floating Home, a landmark designated by the Landmarks Preservation Board under Chapter 25.12 of the Seattle Municipal Code, and adding it to the Table of Historical Landmarks contained in Chapter 25.32 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
Agenda item three Council 1 to 0 311 Relating to historic preservation, imposing controls upon the Wagner floating home, a landmark designated by the Landmarks Preservation Board. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you, Madam. Councilor Morales, as chair of the committee, you are recognized. Thank you very much. The Wagner floating home was built in around 1910, was originally located in Lake Washington near Madison Park, but was moved to Lake Union around 1938 and presently sits around the East Queen neighborhood. The controls and incentives agreement for this property applies to the exterior of the floating home and the floating foundation and platform, but not to intend maintenance or repairs of the designated features. Did want to make sure that the owner who actually lives in the home is able to make any repairs that are necessary. But the idea here is to preserve the foundation because it is historic. It is logs that are used rather than a more modern technology to keep the house afloat. And the committee recommends passage. Thank you. Councilman Morales, are there any other comments on the legislation? Seeing none with a clip. Please call the role on the passage film. Councilmember Nelson. I. Councilmember Peterson. Hi. Councilmember Strauss. Yes. Councilmember Herbold. Yes. Councilmember Morales. Yes. Councilmember Mosquera I Council. President Pro Tem Lewis. Yes. Seven in favor and unopposed. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Okay. Adoption of other resolutions. There are no resolutions for introduction of adoption on today's Council agenda. Last item other business. I did want to take a bit of a digression under other business to give Council colleagues space to make public comments and in recognition of the unprecedented news that has been shaping, what has the potential to dramatically reshape the country in a bad way? That broke yesterday evening. Well, after council briefing. I want to. Start. Oh, hold on just one moment. Madam Clerk did we have? On the agenda, an appointment for Joel Merkel to the public safety. With the council president pro tem Lewis. He was considered under the consent calendar. Oh, yes. Okay. Right. That's what I thought. Thanks. Sorry, I was just. Someone just reached out asking if. That was. Me. My apologies. This does happen occasionally. I'm sorry. I wanted to make sure we addressed that. Joel Merkel, if you're watching, we didn't forget about you. You were in the consent agenda. And we are honored to have you here at the city, to be to be part of the work, along with everyone else who is on the consent agenda. So thank you. See, that's some diligent committee chairing there to make sure all of your stuff got through on the on the final agenda. I'm sure going back to it, though, I did want to take a moment for good of the order to give an opportunity for public comment, given the recent mass of the news of the of the impending decision of the court to over overrule the Roe and Casey stare decisis opinions. And I just want to take a moment at the top just to recognize the historic tragedy of the of that impending decision by the United States Supreme Court. Having read the draft decision that's been circulated, it's a decision eroding decades of social progress. And this country has horrifying implications for impacting the privacy, civil rights and health care of millions of Americans. It's a decision entirely dismissive of the fundamental spirit of constitutional guarantees of privacy and personal autonomy that appear in several parts of our Constitution and indeed has frightening implications beyond this decision for future court actions to further erode personal liberties and rights recognized by the Warren and Burger Courts in particular. It is, in short, an edict that would be expected from a theocratic state and not the judiciary of a free and independent republic. And I did want to just express today, in open session, my strong feelings and in opposition to that decision, my commitment going forward to support state and federal leaders, as Councilmember Strauss indicated earlier, and indeed what we can do as local officials to make sure that rights and guarantees of privacy, of reproductive autonomy, of the right to do to make your own health care decisions without the government intervention is something that we strongly support. I salute the community members, including our own senior deputy mayor, Keisha Harrell, who gathered right as this council meeting was beginning in District seven and Carrie Park to express their strong opposition to this decision. And I understand some council officers are considering potential resolutions for the council to formally comment on this topic. And I look forward over the course of the next week to talk to council colleagues and duly consider those resolutions. So with that, I'm happy to open it up and allow opportunity for other good order comments from council members. Seeing no additional good to the order comments. Colleagues, this does conclude the items of business on today's agenda. Our next regularly scheduled city council meeting is on May 10th at 2 p.m.. I hope you all have a wonderful afternoon and the council is chance.