A RESOLUTION establishing spending details by year and program area for the spending plan adopted by the ordinance introduced as Council Bill 119811 that established the authorized uses of the proceeds generated from the payroll expense tax authorized by the ordinance introduced as Council Bill 119810.
Thank you so much, Madam Clerk. I hope that helped. The bill passes as amended and the chair will sign it at the clerk. Please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Okay, folks, we're going to go. Had moved to agenda item two. It's already been read into the record and it has been debated in terms of the substance of the resolution. So I'm going to go ahead and move us into discussion of Amendment one. Councilmember Strauss, I'm going to recognize you in order to move your amendment to Resolution 31957. Thank you. Council president as my. As the amendment that is connected to this in the last bill was not passed. I will be withdrawing this amendment. Thank you so much for creating that record. Colleagues, Amendment one is withdrawn, so we will not have any additional amendments to consider to the resolution. Are there any other comments on the resolution before we call it to a vote? Councilmember Morales. Thank you. Apologized council president for sending you a forensic text. I did want a. Chance to. Comment. Before we. Take the final vote. I do want to start by thanking you. Council member must get up for all of the work that you and your office have done here in 2017. I was part of the chapter of Seattle campaign. I'm sure many of you remember that it helped to pass the citywide income tax. I organized the D2 town. Hall where we got our then City Council representative Bruce Harrell to commit to supporting the plan. And I was very excited when it passed. As we know, that is as it was passed is not a not option, an option for us right now. In 2018, the employee. Our sex passed and then was. Repealed. And this year we've heard the. Hand-Wringing from many of our state legislators and other elected officials about why we should wait for the state or the county to pass progressive revenue. I will say that many of these same electeds have been in office for five, ten, 20 years and have not taken. Action themselves. On passing progressive revenue for the citizens of Washington. So here we. Are in 2020. Finally passing a citywide progressive revenue spending plan, knowing that we have. Already passed the jump. Start tax. And thanks to our veto proof majority that. That is about to become law. Today is so important for the people of Seattle, because today we're letting them know that we will shift the burden of paying for services from those who are the poorest in our city, to those who are the most privileged from individual households to the largest corporations in the city. And we do that. So that we fund more affordable housing or permanent. Supportive housing to address our homelessness crisis. The COVID relief we just passed and through the Equitable Development. Initiative and Green New Deal allocations. We commit to investing in communities. Of color. To reverse the pattern of displacement and gentrification that we've seen in this city for generations. I want to thank my staff, especially Lakisha Farmer, who's been leading this work in our office. I want to thank the people of District two who contacted my office over the. Last several months and also to thank the advocates who organized to let this council know that not only that progressive revenue is a priority for equitable financing. Of public. Services. And for critical anti displacement work, but also for community self-determination. Puget Sound Stage and South Core have been especially important and will continue to be my touchstone as we think about how to pass legislation that is equitable for communities of color. And finally, I want to thank my colleagues for supporting a plan that will benefit Seattle in the near term through an economic recovery, which we hope will begin very soon and into the future. Thank you for being bold and for doing what's right for our city. I remember Morales. And my apologies for not seeing your message. Thank you for thank you for speaking up. I really appreciate that. Colleagues, any other comments about either the council bill or their resolution that we're going to take action on? But. Okay. Well, let's go ahead and have the clerk call the roll on the adoption of the resolution. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Muscatel. Yes. Peterson. Yes. So what? Yes. Strauss. Yes. Purple? Yes. Juarez. Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Nine in favor, nine opposed. Thank you so much, Madam Clerk. The resolution is unanimously adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Congratulations. Colleagues. But most importantly, congratulations to the people of the city of Seattle who have been fighting the good fight for many, many years. Thank you, colleagues, for your ongoing work in collaboration to get this across the finish line. This is representative democracy right here and really excited that we are choosing to take bold action as opposed to kicking the can down the road in the hypothetical hopes that some other elected body will show up to rescue us. I don't believe that that is likely to occur and the urgency of now demands that we take action now, as opposed to waiting another cycle to see if someone else comes to our rescue. So thank you, everyone, for your hard work, for your engagement, and for your steadfast representation of the people that we are called upon to dutifully represent. Thank you so much, everyone. And right. Absolutely. Okay, folks, moving on to agenda item three, ask the clerk, please read the short title of item three into the record.