AN ORDINANCE relating to the Technology Matching Fund Program; making allocations and authorizing implementation of certain Technology Matching Fund projects in 2017; providing that 2017 appropriations for the Technology Matching Fund from the Cable Television Franchise Subfund and from the Information Technology Fund shall automatically carry forward into the 2018 fiscal year; allowing that any unspent funds from an individual project may be applied to another project that meets the goals of the Digital Equity Initiative; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Short title The Report of the Education, Equity and Governance Committee Agenda Item ten Council Vote 1190 29 relating to the Technology Matching Fund Program, making allocations and authorizing implementation of certain technology matching fund projects in 2017, the committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you very much. So this is our annual technology matching fund legislation, and it's always an honor to look at these organizations and award them funds. And it's sort of a process I'll describe in a moment here about what our See Tab does. But again, this is a meaningful opportunity for us to make community investments intended to address the equity gaps and the digital gap that I think many of us know very well. This year's projects are projected to provide more than 600,000 community matching resources, and they will reach over 6000 residents, 3600 immigrants and refugees, 1500 seniors, 1100 people with disabilities, and other residents and workers throughout our city. So let me give a few highlights of these great projects. And again, I want to thank Councilmembers Gonzales and Suarez for, again, a very meaningful discussion at the table. The Ethiopian community in Seattle will upgrade their computer lab to provide Ethiopian communities with basic computer literacy classes for seniors and after school computer sciences classes for their youth. The Coalition for Refugees from Burma are awarded funds to provide computer literacy classes at Bailey Elementary and the Seattle World School and offer parent technology mentoring classes to support skill building for parents and students and community members. The Education for All Group and District One is a group that will focus on digital citizenship and communication project. It will establish a computer lab for East Africans offering workshops in computer usage, productivity and software and Internet citizenship. For Life Cares, an organization in District three Technology Access Enhancement Project. There they will expand the mobile lab to teach technology classes at nine more Seattle Housing Authority buildings. The Horn of Africa Services. They'll enhance East Africans access to technology. They'll upgrade a computer lab. This so serves over 200 East African community members and train home care home child care providers who use computers to improve their business and financial operations. Keen on community health care. And they're going to expand the senior friendly kitchen on Smart Lab that a senior friendly technology lab designed to enable Asian seniors in my that it's age 60 plus to increase technology and health literacy to prevent social isolation and increase access to health care and digital resources. Launch Code. They will provide 20 week computer programing classes that enables people with barriers to employment and technology to gain highly marketable tech skills. The North Seattle Boys and Girls Club Branch actually the Wallingford Boys and Girls Club in District four. They'll install new 14 desktop computer lab for 250 low income youth to use for homework help and hands on learning activities. One America. They will focus on English and digital skills for citizenship. I'll engage limited English proficient adult immigrants in the Chinatown ID District in increasing Digital Literacy Skills Senior Center of West Seattle. There, they'll upgrade an outdated ten station computer lab with new equipment, provide seniors and community members with current technology and Wi-Fi access. The Somali Family Safety Task Force is another organization, the East African Women Basic Computer Literacy Project, the South Park Information and Resource Center and District one. They'll empower South Park residents to gain and teach basic technology skills to 75 non-English speakers. STEM Paths Innovation Network, a project in the Dunlap Elementary Community, a program that provides math and reading interventions with infused science, technology, arts, engineering and math are steamed as students. And just two more. The West African Community Council in District two is empowering West Africans with technology to develop a mobile lobe, more mobile lab to increase digital literacy and access technology in the West African community. And last a wing luke Museum of the Asia Pacific American Experience will provide a mobile digital media lab for low income youth. And establishes mobile lab to improve, provide Asian Pacific American youth. And so before we vote on this, I do want to just make two points that came out of the discussions, one being that as we are now by districts that the you I want to thank the community technology technology advisory board, the volunteers looking at these under looking at these awards and looking at underrepresented communities. But now that we are by districts, I think a message we'll work offline with them as make sure that that the district representation filter is sort of part of the consideration as they move forward because we want to make sure that that is factored in. And then I think Councilmember Gosar made a point that we look at, again, how we award these presentations. If we there might be a possibility where we have an oral presentation part or at least utilize that as one tool to make sure that some groups that might be able to do a little better than that, that make sure that we're using the right filters to reach our communities were intended to do. And and that would be a good opportunity to sort of reset, if we will, how these awards are done. I think we're doing a great job of always improving those. That was the tenor of the conversation. We had a community at the at the committee table. Okay. That was a mouthful. Thanks for your patience. And you can get off your email and get ready to vote. Everybody set any questions or any comments. Okay, please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Suarez O'Brian. Big John Burgess. Gonzalez Herbold. Hi Johnson. President Harrell. I. Hate in favor and unopposed. Passes and Cheryl Senate please read the report of the Parks Seattle Center, Libraries and Waterfront Committee.