A RESOLUTION designating the monthly President Pro Tem of the City Council of The City of Seattle for 2020-2021 and superseding Resolution 31884.
Okay. The Council will now discuss and consider one motion to suspend the council rules before we consider item four on the agenda. The Council rules require that the Council adopt by resolution a monthly rotation for the position of Council President Pro Tem in order of seniority and requesting that this Council rule be suspended to allow consideration of Resolution 31924, which does not delegate the Council President Pro tem rotation in order by seniority. Two thirds of council members must vote in favor of this motion for us to consider Resolution 31924 as proposed. If two thirds are in favor, the Council will then consider Resolution 31924. So I am going to move to suspend council rule one as yeah, one de point one relating to the delegation of a council president pro tem rotation in order by seniority. And I think this has been motion and it's been seconded. Are there any comments? You see no comments from my colleagues. Those in favor of the motion vote i. I. Those opposed vote no. The motion carries in the council rules suspended to allow consideration of the resolutions. So now the Council will consider resolution 31924. Which has not been read into the record. And we lost our clerk. Let me read here. We're going to go ahead and read it into the record first and then we'll we'll move through. A resolution designating the monthly president pro tem of the City Council of the City of Seattle for 2020 through 2021 and superseding Resolution 31884. Thank you, Judy. So we have now read. Agenda item four into the record. So I'm going to move to adopt the resolution, ask for a second and then we'll call for any comments. So I moved to adopt resolution 31924. It's been moved and seconded that the resolution be adopted. Are there any comments? Seeing none those in favor of adopting the. Sorry. No, it's okay. Those in favor of adopting the resolution vote i. I. Any opposed the motion carries and the resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. I can get in here. It's going be. Okay, folks. And for those of you who weren't quite following what we did on agenda item four, we essentially suspended the rules around around the need to do our council president pro tem schedule by seniority. So we have shifted things a little bit. Again, it's wasn't controversial and it was a agreed upon thing. So I don't want folks to think that this is an affront or an insult somehow to to you councilmembers talent. And in fact, I appreciate. So it means that that Councilmember Herbold will be council president pro tem in January, followed by Councilmember Suarez and then followed by Councilmember Mosqueda. And the only reason I'm highlighting that is because it's particularly relevant for the first three months of this year, which we will get to in a moment. So before I talk about my other business, is there any other further business to come before the council? And for the for the new members. This is if you need to be excused for a full council meeting, this is the opportunity for you to do that. All right. So I am though I don't have I'm not required under the council rules to be formally excused by the full council. I am nonetheless taking the opportunity to, in oral form, request that I be excused for all four Council meetings between January 13th and oh, what's the week before March 30th? S.O.S. We have March 30th. What's the Monday before that? March 20, March 23rd. So January 13th and. And March 23rd. I will be and I'm excited to be leaving on maternity leave. I will be the second council member in three months and in the history of the city of Seattle to request maternity leave and am very excited about about the opportunity to step away from my council obligations to bond with my first child. And I'm looking forward to be to being able to spend some time away from City Hall a little this morning I was having a little bit of FOMO, hearing all of you all talk about the wonderful things that are going to happen in the first quarter . But it is just an absolute humbling experience for me to be able to be in a position to start a family and to be able to have had some of the best prenatal care I could have ever asked for, and to have the support of my former colleagues and my new colleagues in carrying some of the work through in the first quarter. In my absence, I really appreciate all of the ongoing support from each of you up on the dais and from my own staff who have been key to making sure that the work will continue in my absence. So we have a solid work plan that we've been working on for weeks in my office to make sure that the roles and responsibilities of the council president office that are part of my office's responsibilities now are going to flow well with each of the three council president pro times that are going to be in place for January, February and March. And we are really looking forward to continuing to advance many of our policy priorities around child and and affordability and transportation issues and early learning and education issues throughout the city. And look forward to establishing all of that foundational work in my absence over the next three months. And then and then hitting the ground running on March 30th when I return to the city council. So really appreciate the again support from all of you as I step away and and focus on on family for for three months this this year undivided attention hopefully to that and really look forward to being able to do that . So if there's no objection to my being excused, I will be excused. That's it. All right. So as a reminder, once again, there is a short reception and that will commence now in the Bertha Knight Landis room, which is on the first floor of City Hall. All are welcome to attend. That is the last item on our agenda. And with that being said, we are adjourned. Thank you, colleagues. Thank you.