AN ORDINANCE relating to the AIDS Memorial Pathway project; authorizing the Director of the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, on behalf of The City of Seattle, to accept a license agreement for the installation and maintenance of artworks that are part of The City of Seattle’s Municipal Art Collection on property owned by Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, a regional transit authority of the State of Washington, and leaseholder MEPT Capitol Hill Station Joint Venture LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Agenda item two Council Bill 120037 An ordinance relating to the AIDS Memorial Pathway Project authorizing the Director of the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture on behalf of the City of Seattle to accept a license agreement for the installation and maintenance of artworks that are part of the City of Seattle's Municipal Art Collection on property owned by Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I move to pass Council Bill 120037. Is there a second I can. Thank you so much. It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill. Councilor Morales, this is your primary sponsored bill, so I'm going to hand it over to you to provide the committee's report. Thank you. Colleagues, you'll recall last year we passed Council Bill 119739, which accepted a donation of $750,000 for from the Seattle Parks Foundation for this AIDS Memorial Pathway Project. We are now at the point of installation of this project. And so, as the clerk said, this is to establish an agreement to allow this project to be installed at the Capitol Hill light rail station. In the last few months, so the AIDS Memorial Parkway is a community driven, community funded project to use public art as a physical space to tell the story of the AIDS crisis and includes a civic call to action through engagement, reflection and remembrance. For those of you who have been through the Capitol Hill area in the last few months, a few of the installations are up already, including Stormy Weathers. In this way, we loved one another, which is inside community roots, housing station house. And this is a tribute to the missing narratives of women and black people who lost who we've lost to the AIDS crisis. And then just last month, crews installed one of three groups of statues called We're Already Here around Kyle Anderson Park. And these statues resemble protest signs that evoke the historic moments of public convergence. And that that project will also be the final piece of that installation will happen in the next couple of months. And the idea is to finish this project by June in time for pride so that the piece will be completed by then. And so this council bill, again, is just to confirm that there is an agreement to install the next piece at the light rail station. And I moved adoption. Thank you so much, Councilmember Morales, for that description of this really important project. Are there any additional comments on this bill? All right. Looks like there are no additional comments on the bill. So I'm going to ask that the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill. But Alice. Yes. Must get to. I. Peterson. I so want. Yeah. Strauss. Yes. Yes. Purple goddess. I. And Council President Gonzalez I in favor and unopposed. Thank you so much. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the court please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read items three through seven into the record? Agenda items three through seven appointments 1860, 1861 and 1863 through 1865. The appointments of Rick are Lucy and Ebony Karenga as members. Seattle Arts Commission for terms to December 31st, 2022, and the reappointment of James Myles, Sarah Wilkie and Michael Me Williams as member Seattle Arts Commission four terms to December 31st, 2022.