AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of the Department of Finance and Administrative Services to execute and accept from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, on behalf of The City of Seattle, a waterway permit and three sequential waterway permits, for the Seattle Police Department’s Harbor Patrol use of Waterway 20.
Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation? Item three. Will the clerk please read item three into the record? Agenda Item. Three accountable 119882 authorizing the director of the Department of Finance Administrative Services to execute and accept from the Washington State Department of National Kidney National Resources. On behalf of the City of Seattle. A waterway permit and three. Sequential waterway permits. For the Seattle Police Department's Harbor Patrol. Use of. Waterway 20. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I move to pass Council Bill 119882. Is there a second? Second? It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill. Councilmember Herbold, you are the prime sponsor of the bill and are recognized in order to address this item. Thank you so much. As the title suggests, the legislation executes and accepts a waterway permit and three sequential waterway permits for the Seattle Police Department's Harbor Patrol. Use of what is called Waterway 20. This is the area to the west of the city owned Speedy Harbor Patrol facility adjacent to Gasworks Park. The area contains a dock, a holding pen enclosed by a log boom and a concrete boat ramp. This is on land that is under the jurisdiction of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Harbor Patrol has been using it for some time for temporary storage of navigational hazards, impounded or stolen vehicles, evidence and other uses. And as it relates to navigational hazards. This is detritus that they collect in the water as a condition of the permit. Frsc will have to meet with the Wallingford Council and the Center for Wooden Boats on a monthly basis in order to create a future conceptual plan for the use of Waterway 20, which meets the interests of both the city and the Community Council. It was a really interesting article that appeared in Crosscut a few weeks ago about the history of the waterways. Notes that the Harbor Patrol has been using it since 1962 and this would approve a permit to do so. There's been strong community interest in public access to the water at this particular location, and I'm really pleased that the permit itself addresses this by including as a condition of the permit. The Air Force will meet with the Wallingford Community Council and the Center for Wooden Boats on a monthly basis in order to create this future conceptual plan. The permit is through June 30th, 2022. It does not include an automatic right to renewal. The permit states that the city and the one for Community Council have not reached consensus by the end of the permit. The state shall deny the application for a new permit unless the state, in its sole discretion, waives the requirement of a consensus conceptual use plan. I also want to just real quickly give a shout out to some of the advocates, the Shoreline Access advocates who've been maintaining the site over a very long period of time. Ted Hunter and Lee Ryan are two of the many names that come to mind. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Herbals, are there any additional comments on the bill? Councilmember Peterson, please. Thank you. Council President. Thank you. Councilmember Harvell. I couldn't have said it better. And, you know, when I was a legislative aide, I would go to these community council meetings and this issue was brought up when I was a legislative aide about the desire to have more public access to the waterfront. And this is something, as you said, that they've been working on very hard for a long time. And this one, I think the Finance Administrative Services Department for for putting this forward, working with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources to get this done. It's an important step toward getting public access in the future. So thank you for your work, Councilmember both as well. Thank you, Councilman Peterson, are there any additional comments on the bill? During lunch. Will the clerk please call the role on the passage of the Bill Morales. Yes. Macheda. Yes. Petersen Yes. The what? Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Yes. Juarez. Yes. Lewis? Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. 9 a.m. favor. Unopposed. Opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation? Item number four. Will the clerk please read item four into the record? Agenda item for Capital 119896.