AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 126237, which adopted the 2021 Budget; changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; lifting provisos; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
Agenda item for Council Bill 120131 amending ordinance 126237, which adopted the 2021 budget change, changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels and from various funds in the budget. The Committee recommends that the bill pass. Thank you. Councilmember Skinner's chair of the committee you recognized in order to provide the committee report. Thank you very much. Council President Pro tem colleagues. This is a very exciting opportunity for us to take a vote on a body of work done by community representatives, created by community representatives as part of our investments in investing in communities that have been dealing with a legacy of racism, of redlining and of disinvestment. This comes out also of the uprising last year for a call for racial reckoning following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many more. There's been a large recognition across our country that we need to do more to invest in upstream solutions, to create greater housing stability, equitable job opportunities, investments in child care and early learning, and access to higher education and good living wage jobs and retirement security along with housing stability. These are part of the efforts for a much longer term investment strategy that we must be making towards investing specifically into our black community, our indigenous community, and our communities of color across this city. The Equitable Communities Initiative Task Force included 25 members across Bipoc communities who work together to identify four pillars for investments. Those pillars included housing, health, education and small businesses. The proposal in front of us includes $8.8 million into housing, $6.2 million into health initiatives, 7.5 million into education strategies, and 7.5 million into small business investments. I want to thank each of the task force members for their tremendous amount of work. We know that they have done this work in addition to their day jobs and their ongoing activism and work to create a more equitable community. And they did this on top of that work. I want to thank them and really congratulate them for bringing forward this proposal in front of us today as we consider lifting the proviso and releasing these funds with the expectation that they will be immediately released to the community. I want to thank Pastor Carrie Anderson from First Amy Church Song Bags from International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 46 Maggie Angela Cano from the Commissioner of our cleanup mission. Andrea Kaplan from Bird Place. Alicia de Brand. Dale Urban from Northwest African American Museum. Tricia Mullinax DiCicco from Technology Access Foundation. Bananas. Esther from Refugee Women's Alliance. Allie Garrett from Tabor 100. Chris Lampkin from SEIU 1199. Health Care Northwest. Dr. Sheila Edwards Leng from Seattle Central College. Paulina Lopez from the Warmest River Cleanup Coalition. Esther Lucero from Seattle Indian Health Board. Michelle Merriweather from the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle. Donna Moody from Marjorie Restaurants. Estella Ortega from El Centro de La Raza. Carolyn Riley Payne from Seattle. King County NAACP. Rizwan Rosie from Muslim Housing Services. Victoria Santos from Young Women Empowered. Steven Sawyer from Pocan. And Michael excuse me. Michael Tilley from United Indians of All Tribes. Rae Williams from Black Farmers Collective. Sharon Williams from the City Forum. Pastor Lawrence Willis from United Black Clergy. Christina Wong from Northwest Harvest. We got to say from Ventures. And of course, our very own ex-officio member, Councilmember Juarez, who participated in this task force as well, representing not only DFI, but this entire council. Thank you all for your hard work and I look forward to moving forward so we can get this legislation out the door and will conclude my comments there and turn it over to Councilmember. As Police Council member R.S.. Thank you. I was going to begin by thanking some folks, but Counselor Machete went through the whole list of 26 people, so she kind of beat me to the punch there. But thank you, sis. I appreciate that. I will be short with my remarks and I do have their quickly they're out there prepared, so I'll just go right through them. Today, colleagues, after 30 meetings and months of poring over the data, we get the opportunity to approve the work of 26 community members of the Equitable Communities Initiative Task Force. I served as an ex-officio position for this task force, and my staffer, Gene Alsop, attended every in each meeting. Once the mayor made the announcement, the task force members got to work immediately. The task force started their work by taking an inventory of what we would call the human capital in these neighborhoods, which includes expertize wisdom, leadership and fellowship, and to identify what strengths not only already existed, but what also it could be. To leverage that with investments from the city. In July, the task force transmitted their plan for investing in the four pillars health, housing, small businesses and education. Council members. You know, we don't need to tell bipoc communities what they need. They know we just need to listen and deliver. We're a city with amazing community organizations that are prepared and ready to implement these upstream investments. Now, thanks to the ECI task force, they will be able to apply through a competitive process to start the work. The investments have been vetted to ensure that they are aligned with the legal and constitutional requirements of Washington State. Thank you, Deputy Mayor Washington. And again, a quick thank you. Thank you to the amazing facilitation team by Pamela Oakes from the of the the profitable nonprofit. Another note of gratitude to the anchor group for their work with the media to get the word out about the task force. I've enjoyed we have enjoyed meeting with both organizations. And most importantly, thank you to the task force members as Councilmember Mosqueda listed and the and how we all believed in their mission, including my dear friend and our office. Sharon Williams You have left an indelible mark on the city. I'm grateful for your willingness to take a leap of faith, to work in partnership with our city, to bring us closer to the equitable city we aspire to be on. A just a personal note. I was going through my notes this morning back in September of 2020 when we were putting this task force together and also some of our budget notes. And, you know, there was talk that certain groups were being pitted against each other. And guess what? That didn't happen. We we adhered to the transparency. We are aligned in our core principles. We are aligned in our humanity and our philosophy in investing in upstream community projects with community leadership. So at the end of the day, we put our faith in black lives, black leaders and black community members and others, and good things happened. Today is a testament that we can have more than one plan towards equitable communities when we work together. So thank you so much. Thank you, Councilmember past colleagues. Any other comments on this? Yes. Councilmember Herbold. I was wondering, I moved the amendment. Oh. Okay. I'll go ahead and. Well. I've been waiting for a pause in all the wonderful, wonderful comment. And the love fest. So this this came out of yes, this came out of committee. So we don't need a special motion to start. But yes, you can recognize you do move the amendment plates. Thank you so much. I move to make up the bill 12 0131 as presented on as amendment a on the agenda. I can't imagine seconded that the bill be amended as presented on Amendment a council approval to sponsor the amendment you recognize in order to address it. Thank you so much. I really love customer warriors more than one player and for you. So this amendment is just simply to recognize the executive's intent as it relates to the administrative costs. It was a question that came up in committee. The administrative costs are estimated to average out as about 6.5% out of the 30 million. The intent is just really, again, to memorialize that expectation. So no one's taken by surprise when the costs are taken from the 30 million. Again, central staff confirmed with the city budget office and executive that that was indeed the intent. And I also just want to flag that that those those administrative costs might differ depending on whether or not it's HST quickly funding an existing investment or having to create a new program. Which new programs will. We'll have to take more time. They will not be these those are not likely to be investments that can be made immediately. And they also will have slightly higher administrative cost. But it should still hopefully even out at around. Thank you. Councilor Herbold, any comments on the amendment? Amendment A? Okay. Well, the clerk please call the role on the adoption of Amendment A. Lewis. I what? Alice. S Muscadet. I so want. Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold Yes. Suarez Yes. And Council President Pro Tem. Peterson Yes. Eight in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The motion carries, the amendment passes and the amended bill is before the council. Any further comments on the bill as amended? Okay. Will the clerk please call your councilmember? Okay. Well, the clerk please call the role on the passage of the amended bill. Lewis. I what? Alice? Yes. Must. Whether I so want. Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Juarez high end council president pro tem Petersen. High. Eight in favor nine opposed. Making the bill passes as amended and the chair will sign it with the clerk. Please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Will the clerk please read item five into the record? Agenda Item five Council Bill 120147 relating to the financing of the general fund authorizing and to fund loans up to a total of 205 million from multiple city funds to the general fund as bridge financing to be repaid from future tax proceeds and other anticipated revenues and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.