Report of the City Clerk on the Certificate of Sufficiency for Seattle City Charter Amendment No. 29, concerning action to address homelessness and keep areas clean of encampments.
Agenda Item one quick file 314480. Report of the City Clerk on the Certificate of Sufficiency for Seattle City Charter Amendment Number 29. Concerning action to address homelessness and keep areas clean of encampments. Thank you. I move to file Clark file 314480. Is there a second? Second? Thank you. It's been moved and seconded to file the Clark file. I Lewis. Lois, you are going to address this item, so I'm going to go and hand it over to you for that. Thank you, Madam President. So in my role as Chair of the Select Committee on Homelessness Strategies and Investments in consultation with Council President, we agreed that it would probably be most appropriate for me to just provide a couple of comments on the process that is before us today. In regards to Charter Amendment 29, I want to stress for the general public and for colleagues here, this is a ministerial and purely pro forma function, a cornerstone of our local democracy and part of our general process for receiving proposed referenda to put a charter amendment on the ballot. This Clark file and the related legislation acknowledges that the King County government has received sufficient signatures from a group of folks who have organized to put a measure on the ballot for consideration of Seattle voters to amend the charter. Voting on this matter today does not express support or opposition by council members to that given charter proposal. It is merely us acknowledging the legitimacy of the process and the certification that we have been sent from the county indicating sufficient signatures for this measure to be placed on our general election ballot. So with that, I would. Really just say that we proceed forward and do the responsibility outlined in the charter and approve this measure for placement on the November ballot and and take care of the clerk file and acknowledge its sufficiency. Thanks so much, Councilmember Lewis, for those comments on the quick file to just address the process procedure and why we are taking a vote today on this ministerial procedural matter. Are there any additional comments on the Clark File? And that's in any hands race. So will the clerk please call the roll on the filing of the clerk? Clerk? Gladys, I. Lewis. Hi. Morales. I must get that by Peterson. Yes, sir. Want? Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbals? Yes. In Council President Gonzalez. I died in favor and opposed. The motion carries. And the clerk file is placed on file. Will the clerk please read item two into the record? Agenda Item two Resolution 32012 regarding the voter proposal and Charter Amendment 29 authorizing the city clerk and the executive director of the Ethics and Elections Commission to take those actions necessary to enable the proposed amendment to appear on the November 2nd, 2021 ballot and in the local voters pamphlet requesting the King County Elections Director to place the