AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment of public records officers; returning positions to the civil service system; and amending Section 4.13.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
Favor not opposed the bill passes as amended and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affixed my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the court please read item four into the record? The Report of the Governance. And Education Committee agenda item for Council Bill 120120. Relating to the employment of public records, officers, returning positions to civil. Service system and amending section. 4.13.10. Of municipal code. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you so much as chair of the committee. I'll go ahead and provide the committee report and ask if there are any additional comments on the bill before we call it to a roll. Colleagues, as I've mentioned previously, this council bill would give civil service status to the five public disclosure officers who process the public records request of elected officials for the city of Seattle, including the mayor's office, the Legislative Department and the city attorney's office. This legislation was developed in partnership with city attorney Pete Holmes after engagement with the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, Seattle Information Technology Department and Public Disclosure Officers. And it is intended to ensure that the city of Seattle employees are shielded from undue political influence while carrying out their duties to respond to Public Records Act requests on behalf of elected officials. The legislation is an important step towards protecting the transparency and effectiveness of our public disclosure process, especially when the request is directed at an elected official. The Governance and Education Committee considered this bill and her presentations from our council's central staff and unanimously recommended that the Council bill be adopted by the City Council. And I'd like to encourage all of my colleagues to join us in voting to adopt this legislation. Are there any additional comments on the bill? Customers get a police. Thank you, Madam President. I just want to say thank you for your leadership on this legislation. I think that this is a really important aspect of creating greater transparency and accountability and an easy yes for me. I think that it's exciting to see how this bill put us in alignment with King County and Washington State. That and progress provides the public with a greater sense of trust about how we both make policy decisions based on those budgetary reports that we receive. I appreciate all the work that has been put into this legislation to create greater confidence in our forecasting capabilities of the city and help us create stronger financial positions going forward. Appreciate the work that you have done thanks to your team in special place as well. And I want to thank you and Tom for their work as you considered this legislation. I think it makes a lot of sense and look forward to working with you to implement. Thank you. You I think you're talking about agenda item five. We're on agenda item for right now, which is on the civil service bill. But I'm sorry. That's okay. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Okay. So any additional comments on the bill? Hearing none. Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill? Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Yes. Suarez. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Marcella. Hi. Petersen. I so want. Yes. And Council President Gonzalez. I mean, I'm in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please to fix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will a quick please read the short title of item five into the record?