AN ORDINANCE related to appropriations for the Human Services Department; amending Ordinance 125207, which adopted the 2017 budget; lifting a proviso; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Thank you very much. The motion carries and the resolution will be adopted. The chair will sign it. Please read the next agenda item into the record. Three Further Human Services and Public Health Committee Agenda Item two Constable 118 919 Relating to preparations for the Human Services Department and many audience 125207, which adopted the 2017 budget lifting it provides and ratifying confirming certain prior acts. The committee recommends the bill passed. Thank you. Consumer Back show. Thank you very much. During last fall's budget, we put a proviso and a hold on $125,000 until our Human Services Department created and presented an inflammation implementation plan that was based on recommendations from the North Seattle Human Services Summit, which happened in December. And I want to say thanks again to Councilmember Juarez for leading the charge on this. And in February of this year, Director Katherine Lester of our Human Services Department Prevent presented the results and recommendations from the summit, and that recommends strengthening organizational capacity of human services agencies in the North End, strengthening existing networking infrastructure that allows for sharing of information and resources for the public and support the planning and implementation of the 2017 Connections Conference. And the implementation plan will be on an interactive asset map in the Human Services Department website. We'll have data collected and transparent to the public, and we're going to create the website, or I should say Human Services Department is that will include all the above and lists the resources for North End nonprofits and for the public. So our committee recommends that we lift this proviso and provide 125,000 to the Human Services Department. Thank you, Councilmember Bagshaw. Councilmember Juarez. Thank you. First of all, we thank my colleagues for working very hard with me on this, and I know you guys give me a hard time about District five in the North End, but I appreciate it. I had a chance to look back and in February of 2016, a year ago, we were discussing, discussing, releasing additional funds to the Human Services Department for the State of the emergency. At that time, I pointed out the continuing deficit of resources for North Sale residents in their communities. I challenged HST to make a greater commitment to geographical parity and to identify gaps in our systems that are leaving people and people in need underserved. I'm happy to say that. HST And the mayor saw that not as a challenge, but as an opportunity. And together we turned that opportunity into the first ever North Seattle Human Service Summit, where providers came together to talk about how we can improve the Human Service Network in North Seattle. During the budget, I was able to, with the support of my colleagues in our community, set aside 125,000 for 2017 and 2018 to make sure that the ideas that came out of the summit had a real chance to become a reality. So here we are today to lift the proviso so that these funds can be put into action. This is a vote I am incredibly proud to make today. I want to thank the providers from North Seattle who put their time and energy to partner with us to make this happen. Jack Weber from Family Works. Catherine Crump from the Meridian Center. Lynn Lively from the literature Seesaws. Elizabeth Dole from Aurora Commons. And I say this right now, Siri, John of from Hunger Intervention, Shaun Foresight from the Seattle Housing Authority, Nancy Long from the 501 Commons. I want to thank the members of HHS, HST and Department of Neighborhoods and the mayor's staff for all their hard work, including Danielle Lafferty, Jane Kline, Karen Coe and Thomas Whitmore. I also want to thank Catherine Lester for her great leadership on this endeavor and her continued commitment to ensuring that all communities have access to the resources they need to stay strong and stable. Lastly, a very big thank you to Steve Lewis and the University District YMCA for taking on the big job of spending these funds to create the long needed asset map so that providers for survivors I'm sorry for providers to improve services connection, connection and delivery of services, and to make it easier for community members to know what's available to them. My goal is to use this new asset map to identify gaps in our service system so that we as a city know what type of investments are needed in the north and our north Seattle, and where they will be currently needed in the future. This is a much needed first step to understanding what a Health Human Services Network looks like for North Seattle and actually putting into practice a new and higher standard of access that this community has so long needed. So, again, thank you. Yes, that was a lot, but I had to get it out. I'm just asking for the what the vibration was. That was me. Thank you. Thank you. Very much. Council members, any further comments about this piece of legislation? If not, please call the role on the passage of the Bill O'Brien. I so want i. Bagshot Burgess. I. Gonzalez Johnson. Whereas I. President Harrell i. Eight in favor and unopposed. The bill passed in the Senate. Please read the next agenda item.