AN ORDINANCE relating to funding for housing and community development programs; adopting The City of Seattle 2020 Annual Action Plan to the 2018-2022 Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development and authorizing its submission to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; authorizing acceptance of grant funds from that department for programs and activities included in the Annual Action Plan; amending Ordinance 126000 which adopted the 2020 Budget, by modifying appropriations to various departments and budget control levels in the 2020 Adopted Budget; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
Agenda Item one Capital 119 769 Relief Funding for Housing and Community Development Program. Adopting the City of Seattle 2020 Annual Action Plan through the 2018 through 2022 Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development and operating its submission to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Thank you so much. So before our council colleagues, this is the bill that requires a public hearing. Before I open the public hearing on this item, I am going to turn it over to Councilmember Mosqueda, who is the sponsor of the bill, to provide us with introductory remarks to Councilmember Mosquito Resource. Thank you, Madam President. As I mentioned during council briefing this morning, this bill adopts the annual action plan and details how the city will spend its annual entitlements for federal grants. This includes, first, the Community Development BLOCK grants for CDBG. Second, the housing opportunities for people with AIDS or Hoppa. There are the Emergency Solutions Grants or ESG, and for the Home Investment Partnerships Program, otherwise known as the Home Grants. A draft of this plan based on our best estimates of how much funding we would receive, and that was included in the 2020 adopted budget, were both heard in the Finance and Neighborhoods Committee in December of 2019. We have now received notice of the actual grant amounts. So this Council needs to adopt a final plan for submittal to federal HUD. One small technical piece. The plan was originally transmitted and has been updated by the executive. There is now a proposed substitute which reflects the very latest information on the federal grant funds and the projects they support. You can find the link to the proposed substitute on the council's agenda. Just very briefly, this plan includes over 25 million of funds for supporting people in Seattle, including 3.4 million to provide emergency shelter options, operations and case management to move people to permanent housing. 7.8 million to provide housing for persons living with AIDS and their families. 1 million to improve fire safety at Seattle Housing Authority. 6.4 million for affordable housing preservation and development. 2.8 million for small business stabilization. While most of these funds were included in the 2020 budget. This plan reflects that we received more grant money than expected, and these funds were added to the Affordable Housing Program and the Small Business Stabilization Fund. That's the quick overview, Madam President. Thank you so much for those introductory remarks. I am juggling between screens colleagues, so I appreciate your patience. I am acquiring the public hearing list and making sure that it is accurate for our staff. That is listening as I open up, make the comments to open up the public hearing. If you can look through the spreadsheet of folks who have signed up for public comment to make sure that they are have indicated that they're speaking on Council Bill 119785 as opposed to any other matter. I appreciate you cleaning up the list accordingly as I make the introductory remarks for the public hearing. As Presiding Officer, I am now opening the public hearing on Council Bill 119785 relating to the adoption of the 2020 Annual Action Plan. The online registration is to sign up to speak at this hearing opened at 12 noon today, and I will call on speakers in the order of registration. The online registration will remain open until the conclusion of this public hearing. The rules will apply to the public comment period also applied to this public hearing. Each speaker will be provided 2 minutes and a 10/2 warning to wrap up comments. Speakers microphones will be muted at the end of the allotted public comment time. Public comment relating to Council Bill 119785 is only been accepted at this public hearing, so speakers will be asked to begin their comments by stating their name. And again. I know we had a couple of different public comment pre-registration sheets going around this public hearing. Then I'm about to open up is only to accept comments on Council Bill 119785 relating to the adoption of the 2020 Annual Action Plan as described by Councilmember Mosqueda. And so my hope is that staff have worked on the signup sheet to make sure that we've got folks who are on the list only as it relates to Council Bill 119785. Okay. I will go ahead and begin the public comment period. I t if we can get the timer up on the screen, that would be great. Thank you so much. Okay. Let's go ahead and call the first speaker up who appears to be. Looks like everybody who's signed up for council. All 119785 is not present. We have one person who's president. I'm going to call on him and see if he's got testimony related to this matter. John Wisdom. I'm going to pass. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. And the only other person just testified about the eviction reform bill, and it doesn't appear that he's interested in testifying about this issue. Okay. So we don't have anyone else that has signed up for public comment on Council Bill 119785. Based on the registration sheet that I am looking at, so I'm going to go ahead and close out the public hearing. And the public hearing comes, Bill 11975 is now closed. Written public comment is still being accepted on this item. And for those who are interested, you can email us at council at Seattle Dot Goldie. Until the council passes this bill, which is scheduled to occur on Monday, May 11th, 2020, at our 2:00 PM, regularly scheduled meeting. Okay. So and just to confirm double confirm, I want to make sure that staff confirms that there's not a member of the public in the queue before closing the public hearing. I'm not. Not here. Yes, I don't see anybody. Council member. Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. So being that there is not a member of the club formally present for the public hearing on council's own items, but we will now officially close the public hearing period and we'll move into agenda item two. Will the clerk please read item two into the record?