2026-09-24 - Select Budget Committee

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] -- GOOD MORNING. THE SEPTEMBER 24th, 2025 SELECT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING WILL COME TO ORDER. IT IS 9:31 A.M.. A LITTLE LATE THIS MORNING. I'M SORRY FOR THAT. I'M DAN STRAUSS,

CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE. WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? AND COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. IS EXCUSED AS SHE IS ATTENDING TO OUR ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON CITIES DUTIES, WHERE I SHOULD ALSO BE. BUT THIS

IS MY PRIMARY JOB. SO GREAT TO SEE EVERYONE. WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. -- COUNCILMEMBER SAKA HERE COUNCIL. EXCUSE ME. -- COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER HERE. -- COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT JUAREZ. SORRY. COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE HERE. COUNCILMEMBER LIN HERE. CHAIR STRAUSS. PRESENT FIVE. PRESENT. -- THANK YOU. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE DIRECTLY INTO PUBLIC

COMMENT PERIOD TODAY. I WILL RESERVE THE CHAIR'S REPORT FOR AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT. BUT WE DO NEED TO APPROVE THE AGENDA FIRST. SO AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT WE WILL HAVE AN INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF THE

BUDGET PROCESS. WE WILL HAVE THE CITY BUDGET OFFICE OVERVIEW OF THE 2026 PROPOSED BUDGET AND DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS FROM SEATTLE PARKS AND RECREATION SEATTLE CENTER AND THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND

CULTURE FOR FOLKS BRINGING BANNERS TODAY AND SIGNS. THE RULE THAT WE HAVE. AND I'LL LET. I'LL ASK FOR CLARIFICATION, BUT YOU CANNOT BLOCK OTHER INDIVIDUALS VIEWS OR DISRUPT PARTICIPATION IN THAT WAY.

SO IT WHAT WE'RE WHAT I'M SEEING FROM THE CLERKS IS MAYBE IF YOU COULD BE IN THE BACK INSTEAD OF THE FRONT ROW. WE ALSO CAN'T EVEN SEE IT WHEN IT'S IN THE FRONT ROW. SO THAT'S ALSO A JUST SHARING.

OKAY, WELL WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE RIGHT INTO PUBLIC COMMENT. I'LL SAVE CHAIR'S REPORT FOR AFTERWARDS. PULLING UP THE RULES NOW OPENING THE HYBRID PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. PUBLIC COMMENT SHOULD

RELATE TO ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA AND WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THIS SELECT COMMITTEE. THIS IS THE FIRST OF SIX PUBLIC COMMENT PERIODS AND TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS, WHICH WE WILL HAVE DURING THIS BUDGET

PROCESS. WE. HERE'S HOW THE BUDGET. THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WORKS. IF THERE ARE FEWER THAN 30 PEOPLE SIGNED UP, EACH PERSON RECEIVES TWO MINUTES. IF THERE ARE BETWEEN 30 AND 60 PEOPLE SIGNED UP,

EACH PERSON WILL WILL HAVE ONE MINUTE. IF THERE ARE MORE THAN 60 PEOPLE SIGNED UP, I WILL ADJUST THE TIME AS APPROPRIATE. WHETHER IT IS 30s OR 45 SECONDS, TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO GET THROUGH

EVERYONE AS BEST AS POSSIBLE. CLERK HOW MANY FOLKS DO WE HAVE SIGNED UP IN PERSON TODAY? -- SO FAR WE HAVE 20 IN PERSON AND EIGHT SORRY, SIX REMOTE. -- SIX REMOTE. AND ARE THERE STILL FOLKS SIGNING UP

RIGHT NOW? WE'VE GOT 23 IN PERSON AND SEVEN REMOTE. AND SO WE WILL HAVE EVERYONE WILL HAVE ONE MINUTE TODAY SORRY, 30 PEOPLE. -- YES. -- YEP. ONE MINUTE. THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS LIST.

WE'RE GOING TO DO IN PERSON FIRST. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO ONLINE PUBLIC COMMENT. I'LL READ NAMES IN GROUPS OF TEN SO THAT FOLKS CAN CAN SIGN CAN STAND UP AND GET READY. I SUGGEST THE TALL

MICROPHONE HERE IN THE MIDDLE. IT IS THE BEST. ALSO, GRAB IT AND MAKE SURE IT'S CLOSE TO YOU. WITH THAT, WE'VE GOT ANGELIQUE WILSON, KENNY STEWART, JEFF MILLER, RYAN ELLIS, LIAM, RONNIE RYAN B, TOM

BURKE, RILEY DOLAN, HELEN GILBERT, AND HOWARD GAYLE FOR OUR FIRST TEN. SO AS SOON AS YOU ARE READY, COME ON UP. AND I SEE COUNCIL PRESIDENT EMERITUS JUAREZ IS WITH US AS WELL. GOOD MORNING, MY FRIEND

FROM D FIVE. I KNOW THAT THE FIREFIGHTERS WILL, YOU KNOW YOU RESPONDED TO A HOUSE FIRE IN LAKE CITY JUST THIS MORNING. SO WE APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE AND GOOD TO SEE YOU. AS SOON AS YOU START TALKING,

WE'LL START THE CLOCK. GOOD MORNING. -- THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. -- YEAH. GOOD MORNING ANGELIQUE. -- GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS ANGELIQUE WILSON, FOUNDER

AND DIRECTOR OF SKILLS TO LIVE. WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE HOUSED, BUT HOUSING IS NOT ACCESSIBLE. SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE SOMEONE GETS A KEY SUCCESS IS BEING ABLE TO KEEP THAT KEY. OUR PROGRAM

PROVIDES PRACTICAL HOUSING TRANSITION SUPPORT, LIFE SKILLS, DAILY STABILITY, COMMUNICATION, UNDERSTANDING YOUR LEASE, AND LEARNING HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY MAINTAIN HOUSING. I HAVE SUBMITTED A SIX MONTH

SKILLS TO LIVE PROPOSAL AND BUDGET TO COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS OFFICE. TODAY. I'M ASKING THIS COUNCIL TO HELP CONNECT SKILLS TO LIVE TO THE RIGHT CITY PARTNERSHIP SO WE CAN PUT THIS TO WORK AND INTO

ACTION, BECAUSE OUR GOAL IS SIMPLE NOT JUST STAYING, NOT JUST GETTING HOUSED, BUT STAYING HOUSED. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU ANGEL. UP NEXT IS KENNY STEWART, FOLLOWED BY JEFF MILLER AND RYAN ELLIS. GOOD

MORNING KENNY. -- GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS KENNY STEWART. I'M A FIREFIGHTER IN BALLARD ON LADDER EIGHT. I'M PRESIDENT OF SEATTLE FIREFIGHTERS UNION LOCAL 27. I TOOK AN OATH TO PROTECT AND SERVE THE

PEOPLE OF SEATTLE. AND TODAY I'M HERE TO DO THAT. SEATTLE HAS BEEN A RAPIDLY GROWING CITY, AND THE DEMANDS ON OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT HAVE GROWN WITH IT SINCE 2010. SEATTLE'S POPULATION HAS INCREASED BY

MORE THAN 30%. FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLS HAVE BEEN GROWING BY HAVE GROWN MORE THAN 40%. YET FIREFIGHTER STAFFING HAS NOT KEPT PACE. IN FACT, WE'RE STRUGGLING TO MEET OUR STAFFING MINIMUMS AND NATIONAL

FIRE RESPONSE STANDARDS. ALREADY, WE UNDERSTAND THE CITY IS FACING FACING A BUDGET DEFICIT, WITH THE PROPOSED $7.1 MILLION REDUCTION TO CRITICAL PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES IS NOT THE PLACE TO FIND THE

FUNDING. PUBLIC SAFETY IS THE CITY'S HIGHEST PRIORITY, BUT IF THIS BUDGET TAKES EFFECT, PEOPLE WILL WAIT LONGER FOR HELP WHEN THEY CALL 911. THIS REDUCTION IS BEING CALLED A DECREASE IN OVERTIME, BUT

IS ACTUALLY A DECREASE IN SERVICE. THIS MORNING, NINE FIREFIGHTERS WERE INJURED IN A COLLAPSE AND THIS CUT WILL ALSO REDUCE FIREFIGHTER SAFETY. AS YOU CONSIDER THIS BUDGET, PLEASE COMPARE HOW MUCH OUR

CITY HAS GROWN, HOW MUCH OUR WORKLOAD HAS INCREASED AND THE ACTUAL STAFFING REQUIRED TO MEET THAT DEMAND. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU KENNY. UP NEXT, WE HAVE JEFF MILLER, RYAN ELLIS, LIAM, RONNIE. -- JEFF

MILLER, FIREFIGHTER OR CAPITOL HILL STATION 25, LADDER TEN. AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU TODAY WE DO MORE THAN PUT OUT FIRES WHEN SOMEONE'S SON IS DROWNING. WE SEND IN SCUBA DIVERS AND RESCUE SWIMMERS.

WHEN SOMEONE'S DAD IS WORKING IN A TRENCH ON A CITY SEWER AND THE WALLS COLLAPSE, WE SEND FIREFIGHTERS IN TO PULL THAT DAD OUT. WHEN MY MOM. IF SHE HAS ANOTHER HEART ATTACK, WE SEND FIREFIGHTERS.

MEDICS, DO CPR AND HOPEFULLY GIVE ME ANOTHER DAY WITH A LOVED ONE. EVERY CITIZEN IN THIS CITY DESERVES THAT SAME SHOT AT A SECOND CHANCE. SOMEONE GETS SHOT, OUR MEDICS SHOW UP. OUR FIREFIGHTERS SHOW

UP, AND THAT PERSON WALKS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL IS NOTHING LESS THAN A MIRACLE. WHAT I'M ASKING TODAY IS THE $7 MILLION CUT IS REVERSE THAT CUT BECAUSE OUR CITIZENS ALL DESERVE THAT SHOT. ALL DESERVE

ANOTHER SHOT AFTER A HEART ATTACK. ANOTHER SHOT FROM NOT NOT DROWNING WHEN THEY WOULD HAVE DROWNED, AND ANOTHER SHOT AT A SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE. PLEASE REVERSE THIS CUT. ALLOW STAFF TO BE STAFFED

FULLY WITH NO REDUCTIONS SO THAT EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD HAS A FIRE ENGINE AND A MEDIC UNIT AND TRUCK TO SHOW UP AND SAVE OUR LOVED ONES LIVES. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU JEFF. I'LL RESERVE MY COMMENTS FOR

TOMORROW'S COMMITTEE, BUT I'LL JUST LET YOU KNOW RIGHT NOW, I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT YOU GAVE A SECOND CHANCE TO AT LIFE. SO THANK YOU. -- GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. MY NAME IS RYAN ELLIS. I'M THE

PARAMEDIC OFFICER THAT WAS ACTUALLY AT THE BUILDING COLLAPSE THAT WE HAD THIS MORNING. AND ALSO THE PARAMEDIC OFFICER THAT WAS CHARGED WITH THE TRIAGE TREATMENT AND TRANSPORT AT THE SEATTLE SHOOTING.

SO I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR QUITE, QUITE A LONG TIME, AS WELL AS THESE OTHER FELLOWS. BUT I WANTED TO JUST SAY, NO MATTER THE EMERGENCY SEATTLE FIREFIGHTERS ARE READY TO ANSWER THE CALL FROM HOUSE

FIRES AND MEDICAL CRISIS TO EARTHQUAKES, VEHICLE COLLISIONS AND MAJOR EMERGENCIES LIKE MASS SHOOTINGS, OUR JOB IS TO PROTECT LIVES. SEATTLE HAS BUILT AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED EMERGENCY MEDICAL

RESPONSE SYSTEM WITH CARDIAC ARREST, SURVIVAL RATES THAT ARE 2 TO 3 TIMES HIGHER THAN ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY. THEY'RE ALSO IN THE TOP FIVE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. THIS PROPOSED BUDGET REDUCTION WOULD

CUT FIRE ENGINES, FIRE TRUCKS AND MEDIC UNITS, INCREASING THE RISK OF DELAYED RESPONSES. PLEASE RECOGNIZE WHAT THIS PROPOSAL MEANS FOR EMERGENCY READINESS IN EVERY NEIGHBOR. -- THANK YOU. RYAN. UP

NEXT IS LIAM, FOLLOWED BY RYAN AND THEN TOM. -- GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. MY NAME IS LIAM MORONEY AND I WORK ON LADDER THREE IN THE CENTRAL DISTRICT AT STATION SIX, SEATTLE FIREFIGHTERS ARE ASKED TO DO

SO MUCH MORE THAN FIGHT FIRES EVERY DAY. MY FELLOW FIREFIGHTERS AND I ALSO RESPOND TO PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MEDICAL EMERGENCIES, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISES AND DRUG OVERDOSES. FIREFIGHTERS SAVE LIVES AND

PUT PEOPLE ON A PATH TO RECOVERY. PROGRAMS LIKE SFD HEALTH ONE AND HEALTH 99 ARE MAJOR INNOVATIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY, EXPANDING OUR ABILITY TO HELP VULNERABLE RESIDENTS CONNECT PEOPLE WITH

TREATMENT AND SERVICES, AND ADDRESS SOME OF SEATTLE'S MOST CHALLENGING ISSUES. BUT OUR ABILITY TO SERVE PEOPLE IN CRISIS DEPENDS ON HAVING THE PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES TO RESPOND QUICKLY AND

EFFECTIVELY. THIS BUDGET DOES NOT MEET THAT NEED AND WOULD MEAN FEWER FIREFIGHTERS AVAILABLE TO HELP THOSE IN NEED EVERY DAY AS YOU CONSIDER THE PROPOSED FIRE DEPARTMENT BUDGET, PLEASE RESTORE NEEDED

INVESTMENTS AND STAFFING AND RECOGNIZE THE FULL RANGE OF SERVICES OUR FIREFIGHTERS PROVIDE, AS WELL AS THE PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON THEM EVERY DAY. -- THANK YOU LIAM. UP NEXT IS RYAN, FOLLOWED BY TOM AND

THEN RYAN. RILEY. -- GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. MY NAME IS RYAN BAKER. I'M A FIREFIGHTER, PARAMEDIC, AND I LIVE UP IN THE NORTH END IN LAKE CITY WITH JUST ONE MINUTE. I GUESS I WANT TO MAYBE TALK ABOUT

ONE EXAMPLE OF WHAT, WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE A, A LONGER RESPONSE. AN OPIOID OVERDOSE WHERE SOMEBODY STOPS BREATHING. IF YOU HAVE A THREE MINUTE RESPONSE, THAT MEANS THAT OUR FIREFIGHTER EMTS CAN

DELIVER BAG, MASK, VENTILATION, RESCUE BREATHING FOR THAT PERSON, GIVE THEM NARCAN QUITE FREQUENTLY. THAT'S REALLY EASY TO REVERSE. THEY CAN WAKE UP, THEY CAN GO TO THE ORCA CENTER, WHERE THEY CAN GET

FURTHER CARE AND TREATMENT ALONG THEIR PATH TO HEALING. THEY CAN GO TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT IF THAT'S WHAT THEY NEED. IF THAT UNITS OUT OF SERVICE AND THERE'S A DELAYED RESPONSE AND IT'S INSTEAD

OF A THREE MINUTE RESPONSE, IT'S A SIX MINUTE RESPONSE. NOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT A PROTRACTED, YOU KNOW, A CPR, RIGHT, WHERE THE OUTCOMES ARE, ARE, TEND TO BE, TEND TO BE MORE NEGATIVE. THAT'S JUST ONE

EXAMPLE. THE SAME IS TRUE FOR CARDIAC ARREST MINUTES WITHOUT DEFIBRILLATION LEAD TO POOR OUTCOMES. SO THESE CUTS REALLY MEAN DELAYED RESPONSE. AND I'M ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER THAT. THANK YOU. -- THANK

YOU RYAN. UP NEXT IS TOM RILEY AND THEN HELEN. -- GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS TOM BURKE. I'M A FIREFIGHTER WITH SEATTLE FIRE. I WORK ON LADDER NINE IN THE UNIVERSITY DISTRICT. AND I LIVE IN LAKE CITY. SO

WHEN I'M ON DUTY, IT'S SEATTLE FIRE THAT RESPONDS TO MY WIFE AND KIDS. IF THERE'S AN EMERGENCY, I WANT TO EXPLAIN WHAT'S PROPOSED IN THE $7.1 MILLION CUT TO SEATTLE FIRE OVERTIME. WHAT THAT ACTUALLY

MEANS. THE WORD OVERTIME MAKES IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS FUNDING IS PROVIDING EXTRA OR GRATUITOUS STAFFING AND SERVICE. THIS COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. OUR DEPARTMENT RELIES ON OVERTIME TO MEET

MINIMUM STAFFING REQUIREMENTS UNTIL THE DEPARTMENT IS ABLE TO HIRE AND TRAIN ENOUGH FIREFIGHTERS. THIS FUNDING IS PART OF HOW WE MAINTAIN OUR DAILY EMERGENCY RESPONSE. REDUCING IT WOULD MEAN CUTTING

THE NUMBER OF FIREFIGHTERS AND PARAMEDICS ON DUTY EVERY DAY, AND ROTATING OUTAGES OF ENGINES, TRUCKS AND WHOLE STATIONS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO SUPPORT THIS CUT, FEWER FIREFIGHTERS, PARAMEDICS,

ENGINES AND TRUCKS TO SUPPORT THIS CUT IS TO SUPPORT LONGER RESPONSE TIMES. PLEASE PROVIDE THE NECESSARY SUPPORT SO WE CAN KEEP OUR NEIGHBORS. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU. UP NEXT IS RILEY, FOLLOWED BY

HELEN AND THEN HOWARD. -- GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS RILEY DOLAN. I'M A FIREFIGHTER ON LADDER 11 IN WEST SEATTLE. FIREFIGHTERS TAKE AN OATH TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY. WE RUN TOWARDS DANGER WHEN OTHERS

NEED HELP. WE CAN ONLY DO OUR JOB IF WE HAVE ENOUGH STAFFING TO RESPOND. AND THIS PROPOSED CUT OF $7 MILLION WOULD REDUCE OUR MINIMUM STAFFING FROM 222 PER DAY TO 209, WHICH WOULD MEAN 4 TO 6 UNITS

OUT OF SERVICE EVERY SINGLE DAY WE'VE BEEN STEPPING UP AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING EXTRA SHIFTS IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN OUR STAFFING, AND THIS PROPOSAL WOULD CREATE ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES FOR AN ALREADY

STRETCHED DEPARTMENT ASKS THAT THESE CUTS BE RESTORED SO THAT THE PEOPLE OF SEATTLE DON'T HAVE THEIR EMERGENCY SERVICES CUT. AND I THINK IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THE SEATTLE FIREFIGHTERS HAVE

BEEN DOING MORE WITH LESS FOR YEARS. WE HAVE LESS FIREFIGHTERS PER 1000 RESIDENTS COMPARED TO OTHER MAJOR CITIES. AND YET WE'RE ABLE TO STEP UP AND MEET THESE CONCERNS AND WE'RE ABLE TO RESPOND TO

EMERGENCIES. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU UP NEXT IS HELEN GILBERT, FOLLOWED BY HOWARD GAIL, HELEN, WELCOME. -- HI, I'M HELEN GILBERT, I'M SPEAKING FOR RADICAL WOMEN. TODAY. WE'RE A SOCIALIST FEMINIST

ORGANIZATION, AND ALTHOUGH MUCH HAS BEEN MADE ABOUT THE SO-CALLED SOCIALIST MAYOR, I THINK IT'S A REAL DISCREDIT WHAT SHE HAS PROPOSED TO THE PEOPLE OF SEATTLE. IT'S A GIFT TO BUSINESS AND DEVELOPERS.

AND THAT'S HARDLY WHAT WE AS SOCIALISTS STAND FOR. THIS IS NOT A TIME FOR STATUS QUO AND KEEPING THINGS AS THEY ARE. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TAKING AWAY AID TO CHILDCARE. HEAD START. WE'RE LOSING

ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE. TRANS PEOPLE ARE COMING TO THE STATE FOR SAFETY. PEOPLE WHO NEED REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ARE COMING TO THIS STATE FOR CARE. THEY CAN'T ACHIEVE IN THEIR OWN STATES. AND

AND STAY ALIVE. AND OUR CITY HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP THE PEOPLE OUT THERE ON THE STREETS, RIGHT OUTSIDE THIS BUILDING, EVERY DAY, OUT HOUSES WITHOUT MEDICAL HELP, WITHOUT MENTAL HEALTH CARE. WE

CALL ON YOU TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY, NOT TO ACCOMMODATE. -- THANK YOU HELEN. UP NEXT IS HOWARD. I APPRECIATE EVERYONE CLAPPING, BUT IT'S HARD TO GET THE NEXT PERSON UP. WE USE JAZZ HANDS.

THANK YOU HOWARD. WELCOME. GOOD MORNING. -- GOOD MORNING. RIGHT NOW, AS OF THIS BUDGET, BOSTON HAS INCREASED THEIR BUDGET FROM 2020 2021 BY 17% FOR POLICE, SEATTLE HAS INCREASED IT BY 54% NOW BRINGING

US TO TWICE 2.3 TIMES THE COST PER OFFICER COMPARED TO BOSTON AND BOSTON REQUIRES POLICE TO ACTUALLY LIVE IN A VERY EXPENSIVE CITY. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? YOU'VE HEARD FROM PEOPLE TODAY WE NEED

MORE MONEY TO SAVE LIVES, NOT MONEY THAT ENDS UP TAKING LIVES. AND WE NEED MONEY TO AMELIORATE THE HARMS THAT WE'VE DONE, PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN HARMED BY POLICE VIOLENCE, FOR THOSE WHO

HAVE BEEN SHOT BY POLICE, IT SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. IF YOU IF YOU WANT TO ADDRESS GUN VIOLENCE, IT SHOULDN'T MATTER IF THE PERSON WHO PULLS THE TRIGGER IS A COP OR IS SOMEONE ELSE. THAT HAS

TO END. WE NEED MONEY FOR THE VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE. WE'VE SEEN VICTIMS JUST IN THE LAST WEEK. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU, HOWARD. UP NEXT, WE HAVE LUCKY JORDAN, KENNEDY, LUCAS, AJ RANDALL. GOOD

MORNING. -- I'M A DISTRICT ONE RESIDENT. SPD MURDERED KEENAN PEARSON LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO AFTER KNEELING ON HIS NECK. DAYS LATER, THEY SHOT AND CRITICALLY INJURED A WOMAN MINUTES AFTER CONTACT.

NOW, SEATTLE MAYOR KATIE WILSON WANTS TO INCREASE THE POLICE BUDGET BY $68 MILLION, WITH $0 ALLOCATED TO VICTIMS. SEATTLE MAYOR KATIE WILSON'S PROPOSED BUDGET INCREASES SEATTLE POLICE SPENDING BY $68

MILLION, THE LARGEST IN CITY HISTORY. SINCE MAYOR WILSON WAS ELECTED. THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY SEATTLE POLICE AND EVEN MORE BRUTALIZED, WITH LITTLE TO NO

ACCOUNTABILITY. THE MAYOR HAS MENTIONED NONE OF THEM VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE DO NOT QUALIFY FOR VICTIM COMPENSATION FUNDS. AS HOWARD WAS JUST SAYING, EVEN THOUGH OFFICERS ARE GIVEN TAX FUNDED PAID

LEAVE WHEN THEY SHOOT AND KILL SOMEONE, THE MAYOR HAS BEEN MADE AWARE SEVERAL TIMES THAT VICTIMS ARE IN URGENT NEED OF RESOURCES IN ORDER TO BURY THE LOVED ONES. SPD HAVE KILLED OR ACCESS HEALTH CARE

AFTER BEING SEVERELY INJURED, AMONG OTHER NEEDS. HOWEVER, SHE HAS CONTINUED CHOSEN TO CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE LOSS AND TRAUMA THAT PEOPLE IMPACTED BY POLICE VIOLENCE ARE FORCED TO ENDURE BY NOT

INCLUDING ANYTHING TO ADDRESS THEIR NEEDS IN THE BUDGET. I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO PASS THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY POLICE VIOLENCE PROGRAM AND THE COUNCIL BUDGET ARE ADVOCATING $50,000 SO TO

CREATE THAT PROGRAM. -- THANK YOU. LUCKY UP IS KEANDRE AJ CHERESH. GOOD MORNING. -- GOOD MORNING. I WANT ALL OF YOU TO LOOK BEHIND ME. THE PEOPLE YOU SEE ON THIS BANNER ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED

BY POLICE. AND THOUGH NOT ALL OF THEM WERE FROM SEATTLE, WE DO HAVE VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE HERE IN THE CHAMBERS TODAY. FOR ALL THE LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS WE DO FOR ALL THE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF LGBTQ

RIGHTS, WE DO NONE OF THOSE MEAN ANYTHING IF WE DON'T ACTUALLY PUT THESE INTO POLICIES. VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE NEED SUPPORT, AND THEY ARE HERE IN THIS CHAMBER RIGHT NOW ASKING FOR THAT. SO PLEASE,

I'M ASKING THIS COUNCIL TO DO THE RIGHT THING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE, OF SEATTLE POLICE VIOLENCE, ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT HAPPEN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU

KEANDRE. UP NEXT IS AJ SURESH. NEIL GOOD MORNING. -- MY NAME IS AJ RANDALL. I HAVE A YOUTUBE CHANNEL CALLED SQUID TIPS AND I'M HERE TO SUPPORT CASTIEL HIGHTOWER IN HER EFFORTS TO HELP THOSE WHO, LIKE

HER AND HER FAMILY, HAVE HAD THEIR LIVES IRREVOCABLY HARMED BY POLICE VIOLENCE. ALTHOUGH I'M SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH NOT TO BE MURDERED OR HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER KILLED BY POLICE, I'VE BEEN

MOMENTS AWAY FROM DEATH AT THE BUSINESS END OF THEIR SERVICE WEAPONS, AND HAVE HAD MY LIFE COMPLETELY UPENDED BY OVERT ACTS OF GROSS MISCONDUCT BY KING COUNTY SHERIFFS AND SEATTLE POLICE OFFICERS. THE

ONLY REASON THERE'S EVER BEEN ACCOUNTABILITY FOR COPS WHO HAVE ABUSED THEIR POWER AND BROKEN THE LAW TO WITH ME IS BECAUSE I'M A STRAIGHT WHITE MAN WITH A PLATFORM WHO'S NOT AFRAID TO NAME AND SHAME

EVERY ONE OF THEM, BECAUSE THIS CITY AND ITS AMAZING THREE PRONG ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM THAT I KEEP HEARING ALL SPEAK SO HIGHLY OF, HAS COMPLETELY FAILED TO PROTECT THIS COMMUNITY FROM BAD POLICING. IF

YOU DO NOT HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND HOLD COPS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR CRIMES, THEN THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS SUPPORT THE INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES VICTIMIZED BY THEM. THANK YOU. -- THANK

YOU, AJ. UP NEXT IS SURESH, NEIL AND THEN CASTIEL HIGHTOWER. -- HI, MY NAME IS SURESH SHANMUGAM. MY FAMILY LIVES IN DISTRICT THREE, AND I'M HERE LIKE OTHERS, TO SPEAK ABOUT THE PROPOSED 2027 BUDGET.

ROUGHLY ONE OUT OF EVERY THREE HOMICIDES IN AMERICA, WHERE THE VICTIM DID NOT KNOW THE PERSON WHO KILLED THEM WAS CARRIED OUT BY A POLICE OFFICER. I'M ASKING FOR THE COUNCIL TO INCLUDE RESOURCES FOR

VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET. VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES OFTEN STRUGGLE TO PAY FOR FUNERALS, BURIALS, MEDICAL EXPENSES, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE, LEGAL FEES, LOST WAGES AND MORE.

I'LL USE THE REMAINDER OF MY TIME TO REMEMBER JUST SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THIS CITY DUE TO VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE, CHRISTIAN NELSON, MICHAEL ROWLAND, HERBERT

HIGHTOWER, CHARLENA LYLES, JOHN T WILLIAMS, JACK ALY, WILLIAM MICHAEL STEVENS, RIGOBERTO BRAMBILLA TERRY J. CARVER, RYAN SMITH, DANNY RODRIGUEZ SHUNMA. -- THANK YOU. UP NEXT IS NEIL AND THEN CASTIEL.

YOU'LL BE RIGHT AFTER NEIL -- MORNING, CHAIR STRAUSS. NEIL PATEL, EX TECH PRIVATE INVESTOR, GEORGETOWN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION WE'VE ALL MET BEFORE IN GEORGETOWN. WE ARE CONSTANTLY BESET BY CRIME. YOU

WOULD THINK THAT WE ARE IN FAVOR OF MORE PUBLIC SAFETY. I'M HERE TO TELL YOU WHY THAT IS NOT THE CASE. THREE WEEKS AGO, THERE WAS A SHOOTING IN OUR BUSINESS DISTRICT. BULLETS WERE LODGED IN LOCAL

SHOPS, AND THIS WAS A CULMINATION OF SEVERAL REPORTED DISTURBANCES TO POLICE. COMMUNITY MEMBERS RALLIED. WE COLLECTED WITNESS STATEMENTS. WE INSTRUCTED NEIGHBORS TO CALL PATROL, AND OUR POLICE DID

NOTHING, EVEN NOW, AFTER I CALLED THE CITY ATTORNEY MYSELF, AND THIS ISN'T A NEW THING, I RECOGNIZE THERE IS SCARCITY, BUT THIS CITY HAS A PROBLEM OF ALWAYS TRYING TO DO THE SAME THING AND GETTING THE

SAME RESULT. WE SPENT MONEY ON HOUSING AND THERE'S A SURPLUS OF HOUSING. NONE OF IT'S AFFORDABLE. ARMED COPS WITH PEPPER BOMBS THAT CAUSE MISCARRIAGES AND S.U.V. TANKS. AND EVERY TIME I CALL PATROL, I

GET IGNORED. WHY DON'T WE TRY DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR EACH? WHY DON'T WE TRY ACTUALLY WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES AND WORKING FOR VICTIMS LIKE EVERYBODY ON THAT POSTER BACK THERE. -- THANK YOU

NEAL. THANK YOU. NEIL CASTILLO HIGHTOWER, STEVEN LEE, CASSANDRA. AND THEN ANDREA. GOOD MORNING. CASTILLO. -- MY NAME IS. -- CASTILLO AND I'M THE SISTER OF HERBERT HIGHTOWER JUNIOR, WHO WAS MURDERED BY

SEATTLE POLICE. THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES AN INCREASE OF 68 MILLION IN POLICE SPENDING, MAKING IT THE LARGEST IN THE CITY'S HISTORY. MEANWHILE, AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY SPD

SINCE THE MAYOR WAS ELECTED, ONE BEING KEENAN PEARSON, WHO WAS MURDERED LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO BY SPD AFTER THEY KNEELED ON HIS NECK UNTIL HE STOPPED MOVING AND STILL REFUSED TO RELEASE THE BODY OR

DASH CAM. VIDEO SIX DAYS AFTER HIS MURDER, A WOMAN WAS CRITICALLY SHOT BY SPD MINUTES AFTER THEY MADE CONTACT. SPD'S VIOLENCE IS OUT OF CONTROL AND FAMILIES ARE FORCED TO PAY THE PRICE WITH NO

ACCOUNTABILITY AND ZERO ALLOCATED FROM THIS BUDGET. TO EVEN BURY SOMEONE, SPD KILLS. WE ARE ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL TO STEP IN AND ALLOCATE AT LEAST $50,000 TO SUPPORT WORK TOWARDS THE CREATION OF AN

OFFICE, TO PROVIDE RESOURCES TO VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE. IF THIS CITY ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY, IT NEEDS TO INCLUDE THOSE MOST IMPACTED BY ITS OWN EMPLOYEES. -- THANK YOU. CASTILLO AND I

MISREAD THE NAMES HERE. NEXT IS OPHELIA. MY APOLOGIES. DON'T WORRY, WE GOT TIME. DON'T RUSH. JUST DON'T RUSH. THAT'S ALL I ASK. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A MINUTE AND THEN. LUCKY IF YOU WANT TO. LUCKY IF

YOU WANT TO USE THE SMALLER MIC AND JUST BEND IT DOWN RIGHT NOW, SHE WON'T HAVE TO GET OUT OF HER WHEELCHAIR. SORRY ABOUT THAT, OPHELIA -- AM I HERE? -- GOOD MORNING OPHELIA. WELCOME. -- YEAH. I'M

OKAY. THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. TODAY I AM HERE TO SUPPORT ALL OF THE PEOPLE HERE. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THIS STATE AND CITY WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY POLICE BRUTALITY AND GUN, GUN AND

THEIR OWN AND UNTIMELY DEATH OF ALL OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. IT IS JUST OUTRAGEOUS. AND SO WHAT I AM, I AM A MOTHER OF A SON WHO WAS MURDERED BY THE POLICE. AND WHAT WE AND I HAVE SPENT MORE THAN $50,000

TRYING TO GET JUSTICE FOR MY SON AND OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE WHO CANNOT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. AND THEY ARE IN. SOME OF THEIR PARENTS CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. SO WE ARE ASKING SUPPORT. IT COSTS MONEY TO

TO TRY TO GET JUSTICE FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. IT TAKES MONEY FOR US TO GO FROM PLACE TO PLACE. WE PAY TAXES. WE WANT YOU TODAY TO CONSIDER -- ALL YOUR HEART, TO PUT MONEY TO HELP US, TO MAKE SURE THAT

JUSTICE IS DONE FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE. AND MY SON TO GET US BACK TO THE SAME. SO WE CONSIDER WHAT THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE WHO SPOKE BEFORE ME, AND THE ONE WHO MIGHT COME AFTER ME. BELIEVE ME TO SUPPORT

THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE POLICE ARE SUPPORTED, AND I THINK IT'S IS SUCH A SUPPORTIVE. SO THAT WE CAN DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO WITHOUT. AMY. FOR JUSTICE. FOR OUR FOR OUR CHILDREN. THERE IS NOT ONE DAY

THAT I DON'T THINK ABOUT. MY SON WAS MURDERED WITHOUT COMMITTING THE CRIME AND WE NEED TO STOP THIS. WE DON'T VIEW THAT. WE KNOW YOU HAVE IT. BUT WHAT DO YOU DO? WE FOR US IT IS WITHIN YOUR SUPPORT.

WE KNOW THAT YOU. SOMEHOW WE NEED THEM. BUT WE NEED YOU TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PROTECTED FROM THEM AS WELL. SO WE KNOW YOU PUT THEM ON THE STREET AND WE. WE, WE WANT YOU TO PUT IN THE BUDGET FOR US.

SO WE. SILENCE FROM RANDY. LEESA MANION BUDGET. UNTIMELY. THANK READING PLAN. THIS AND WE DON'T GET ONE DONE. THERE'S ALSO SOMETHING. TO. AND I HOPE THAT YOU I AM I KNOW THAT I AM. BECAUSE THEY ARE

GOING TO BE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY. -- THANK YOU. OPHELIA. -- THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU, THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH. -- THANK YOU. AND FOR -- [APPLAUSE] -- THANK YOU. AND FOR

MY COLLEAGUES. THANK YOU FOR MY COLLEAGUES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. I JUST USED THE ELDER EXCEPTION FOR CUTTING PEOPLE OFF. YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED I EVEN CUT THE UNION. THE FIREFIGHTER UNION PRESIDENT,

WHOM I APPRECIATE DEEPLY. I CUT HIM OFF. BUT WHEN YOU HAVE AN ELDER IN THE ROOM, YOU SOMETIMES JUST LET THEM SPEAK. SO THANK YOU FOR COMING ON DOWN. UP NEXT, WE HAVE STEVE LEE, LEE, CASSANDRA JACKSON,

AND ANDREA L. -- GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS STEVE LEE. I'M A MEMBER OF THE UNITED FARM WORKERS PARTY. AND I WANT TO SAY THAT A 5 OR 10% CUT TO THE SOCIAL PROGRAMS IN SEATTLE. THAT IS AUTHORIZED BY THE

MAYOR IS A TRAVESTY. SEATTLE IS A RICH CITY. SEATTLE HAS LOTS OF MONEY. AND YOU'RE CUTTING. YOU'RE CUTTING BACK. WHAT IS NEEDED. SOCIAL PROGRAMS, THE IDEA OF GIVING $68 MILLION TO THE POLICE WHILE YOU

CUT THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO ACTUALLY SAVE LIVES IS RIDICULOUS. THIS BUDGET NEEDS TO BE REJECTED, AND YOU NEED TO COME UP WITH A BUDGET THAT FUNDS HUMAN NEEDS AND NOT THE NEEDS OF RICH PEOPLE AND

REPRESSION. IT'S TIME TO SUPPORT THE VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE AND ENACT THE COMMISSION THAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. THIS BUDGET NEEDS TO BE REJECTED, AND YOU NEED TO GO BACK TO SQUARE ONE. THANK YOU.

-- THANK YOU STEVE. UP NEXT IS CASSANDRA, FOLLOWED BY ANDREA. AND I'LL ASK AGAIN FOR JAZZ HANDS INSTEAD OF CLAPPING SO WE CAN KEEP ON MOVING. CASSANDRA, WELCOME. GOOD TO SEE YOU. -- GOOD MORNING. GOOD

MORNING, COUNCILMAN STRAUSS COUNCILMAN AND COUNCILWOMEN. CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME? -- YES WE CAN. -- I PREPARED MYSELF FOR TWO MINUTES, BUT I GUESS I ONLY HAVE ONE. SO I HAVE MY LEAD. -- I'LL READ THE

REST OF IT AFTER SHE'S DONE WITH THE FIRST. -- DID YOU SIGN UP? -- YES, SIR. I'M ANDREA LONGINO. -- OH, YOU'RE UP NEXT. GREAT. YEAH. WELCOME. GOOD MORNING. CASSANDRA. -- OKAY, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW

ME, MY NAME IS CASSANDRA. I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CLEAN QUEEN INCORPORATIONS NONPROFIT RV OUTREACH PROGRAM. WE ARE IN THE RV OUTREACH. WE ARE IN THE RV COMMUNITY DAILY DOING THE WORK. AND I'LL

TELL YOU, THERE'S SO MUCH TO DO. I HAVE SEEN IT FIRSTHAND. AND EVEN THOUGH THE MUCH NEEDED SERVICES AND RESOURCES WE PROVIDE, LIKE HYGIENE AND CLEANING ESSENTIALS, GAS CARDS, HELP WITH SOME VEHICLE

REPAIRS AND WEEKLY MEALS, AND EVEN A SAFE LOT FOR RVS IS BUT A FRACTION OF WHAT A SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME TO HELP PROVIDE STABLE HOUSING FOR OUR RV COMMUNITY LOOKS LIKE, WE RECOGNIZE THAT FOR TOO MANY

PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY, IT'S DEVASTATED BY SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND SOME KIND OF MENTAL, PHYSICAL, OR EMOTIONAL HEALTH THAT LACKED SUFFICIENT ROLE MODELS. CASE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL TREATMENT, AND

DIFFERENT TYPES OF COUNSELING TO HELP GUIDE AND STABILIZE THEM DURING THEIR MOST VULNERABLE TIMES. THE CLEAN QUEEN NONPROFIT RV OUTREACH HAS A TEAM, AND WE ARE WORKING DILIGENTLY TO DISRUPT THIS. --

THANK YOU. AND ANDREA, GOOD TO SEE YOU. WELCOME. -- OKAY. WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER AN ESTIMATED BUDGET FOR THE FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION THAT COULD COVER START UP COSTS, STAFFING, FACILITY EXPENSES, AND

RESOURCES FOR OUTREACH SERVICES. WE ARE GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR FINANCES AND THE PUBLIC TRUST. WE ARE WELCOMING, LIFE AFFIRMING AND NON-JUDGMENTAL. WE ARE RESPECTFUL IN OUR COMMUNICATION, HONEST IN

SPEECH AND ACTION. WE ARE COLLABORATIVE TEAM PLAYERS WORKING TOWARD A COMMON GOOD OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE. WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE AND PROFESSIONAL TO EACH OTHER, BENEFICIARIES AND

PUBLIC AT LARGE. AS I STATED BEFORE, WE ARE EAGER TO DO MORE WITH THE CLEAN, CLEAN TEAM AND SELF-FUNDED AND AND ASKING THE COUNCIL TO SPONSOR US WITH THE BUDGET SO WE CAN CONTINUE THE COMMUNITY

SERVICE. AND THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. SO SINCE I DIDN'T ADD, I'LL ADD ON MY PART. SO I PERSONALLY HAVE LIVED IN THE RV ENVIRONMENT. I'M A RECOVERING ADDICT AND I'M A PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST,

CERTIFIED. SO I WALKED IT AND I UNDERSTAND THE LIVING SITUATION. I UNDERSTAND IT FIRSTHAND. SO I JUST WANT TO BE OF HELP OF SOMEBODY THAT HELPED ME BECAUSE OUTREACH HELPED ME AND I WANT TO REACH OUT

AND HELP OTHERS. SO PLEASE ASSIST US WITH THIS BUDGET. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. GOD BLESS. -- THANK YOU ANDREA. THANK YOU GUYS AND THANK YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE SOMER M J. AND I THINK WE HAD ONE MORE

PERSON JUST SIGN UP AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO GO TO REMOTE PUBLIC COMMENT. I'M GOING TO LET THOSE FOLKS KNOW THEIR ORDER RIGHT NOW JUST SO THEY CAN BE READY. WE HAVE CEDAR ISSUE. YOU ARE NOT PRESENT.

NICOLE PIERSON IS PRESENT. HALEY SEXTON IS NOT PRESENT. STEPHEN WOODS, JANICE CLARK, ALBERTA PIERSON ARE PRESENT. AND DAVID HAYNES IS NOT PRESENT. AND SO FOR THE FOLKS ONLINE, YOU WILL START IN ABOUT

FOUR MINUTES. SUMMER, WELCOME. -- MY NAME IS SUMMER MILLER. I'M A MEMBER OF LABOR MILITANT UNITED FRONT FOR A WORKER'S PARTY. KATIE WILSON'S BUDGET PROPOSES A RECORD BREAKING $68 MILLION INCREASE TO

POLICE BUDGET TO THE POLICE BUDGET. IN JUST THE LAST WEEK, SEATTLE POLICE MURDERED 47 YEAR OLD KEENAN PIERSON AND SHOT AT LEAST ONE OTHER PERSON. AND THIS QUOTE UNQUOTE SOCIALIST MAYOR IS PROPOSING TO

REWARD THEM WITH $68 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL FUNDING. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS HAPPY TO GIVE $68 MILLION TO THE COPS, BUT IS REPEATEDLY OBSTRUCTED BASIC RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS OF POLICE BRUTALITY. SINCE

2020, CASTILE, HIGHTOWER AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN DEMANDING AN OFFICE FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY POLICE VIOLENCE, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT FUNERAL AND BURIAL MEDICAL EXPENSES, TRAVEL COSTS AND

THE COSTS THAT FAMILIES TAKE ON WHEN THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS ARE INJURED OR MURDERED BY THE POLICE. IT'S VERY CLEAR FROM THIS BUDGET THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS MORE CONCERNED WITH PROTECTING THE COPS

THAN THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS BRUTALIZED AND MURDERED BY THEM. WE SUPPORT THE DEMAND TO PASS THE PROPOSED WORK GROUP, AND THE $50,000 THAT CASTILLO HIGHTOWER HAS JUST ASKED FOR. BUT WE'RE ALSO DEMANDING

THAT THERE IS A QUICK AND UNOBSTRUCTED PATH TO CREATING AN OFFICE FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY POLICE VIOLENCE. -- THANK YOU. SUMMER. -- FULL COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS OF. -- THANK YOU SUMMER. UP NEXT IS OEM

SMITH, FOLLOWED BY JASON THIEL. -- PARTY INDEPENDENT OF THE DEMOCRAT. -- M SMITH. -- M SHOVEL MORE MONEY FOR THE COPS. TAKE MONEY FROM FIREFIGHTERS AND GIVE MORE. -- M SMITH. -- WILL FIGHT FOR THINGS

WORKING PEOPLE NEED AND FIGHT FOR WORKING CLASS CONTROL OF SOCIETY. -- THANK YOU, THANK YOU. SUMMER M SMITH. THEN JASON THIEL. -- MY NAME IS M SMITH. I'M A MEMBER OF LABOR MILITANT UNITED FRONT FOR

WORKERS PARTY AS WELL AS SEATTLE DSA. I WANT TO START BY JUST SAYING SOLIDARITY TO THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE FIREFIGHTERS UNION. THIS COUNCIL IS LOOKING AT A BUDGET THAT KATIE WILSON PROPOSED

THAT CUTS $4.5 MILLION FROM THE FIREFIGHTER FIREFIGHTERS BUDGET. THAT IS AN EVEN MORE FROM THAT FROM THE OVERTIME FUND. AS PART OF THAT. THAT'S PART OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF CUTS THAT ARE BEING

PROPOSED, INCLUDING $68 MILLION IN CUTS TO HOUSING. THAT'S THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT'S BEING INCREASED IN THE POLICE BUDGET. I ALSO WANT TO SAY SOLIDARITY WITH CASTIEL AND OPHELIA AND THOSE WHO

ARE FIGHTING FOR THIS OFFICE, FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY POLICE FUNDING OR POLICE VIOLENCE. AND WE DEMAND FUNDING FOR THAT OFFICE AND A RAPID AND UNOBSTRUCTED PROCESS TO THE CREATION OF THAT OFFICE. IT IS

SHAMEFUL TO BE EVEN CONSIDERING THIS LEVEL OF CUTS TO PUBLIC SERVICES IN IN ONE OF THE RICHEST CITIES IN THE WORLD, WE HAVE 500 SIGNATURES THAT WE'VE COLLECTED DEMANDING NO CUTS TO PUBLIC SERVICES.

THANK YOU. NO LAYOFFS OF CITY WORKERS. -- THANK YOU. M. -- WORKING. -- CLASS PEOPLE. UP NEXT IS JASON THIEL. -- THE $68 MILLION OF. -- JASON THIEL. -- AND PUT THAT TOWARDS THE THINGS THAT ARE BEING

CUT. -- JASON THIEL. JASON THIEL. JASON, WELCOME. -- HI. MY NAME IS JASON. I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF LABOR MILITANT UNITED FRONT FOR WORKERS PARTY AND SEATTLE DSA. THIS BUDGET IS A NAKED ATTACK ON WORKING

CLASS PEOPLE BY A SO-CALLED SOCIALIST. KATIE WILSON IS NOT A SOCIALIST. SHE'S JUST ANOTHER DEMOCRAT. THIS BUDGET HAS ACROSS THE BOARD CUTS TO PUBLIC SERVICES, INCLUDING HOUSING, TRANSIT, PARK

SERVICES, FIREFIGHTING SERVICES AND DISABILITY SERVICES. THERE'S SUPPOSEDLY NO MONEY FOR WORKERS, BUT THERE'S 68 MILLION NEW DOLLARS FOR THE COPS. THERE'S ALWAYS MORE MONEY FOR COPS, BUT NO MONEY FOR

VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE. AND KATIE WILSON HAS CLAIMED THAT SHE'S ONLY CUT $50 MILLION. BUT THAT IS INCREDIBLY MISLEADING. SO MUCH OF THE BALANCING THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE CLAIMING IS BY RAIDING THE

AMAZON TAX, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO FUND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. MORE AND MORE OF THAT FUND IS BEING MISAPPROPRIATED TO PLUG BUDGET HOLES AND MORE AND MORE OF THE COST OF FUNDING OF THESE PROGRAMS, LIKE THE

TRANSPORTATION, ARE BEING THROWN AT WORKING CLASS PEOPLE THROUGH SALES TAX INCREASES, SUGAR TAXES, PARKING FEES, LEVIES AND PROPERTY TAXES. INSTEAD OF TAXING THE RICH, WE SHOULD NOT BE TAKING $5

MILLION FROM THE FIREFIGHTERS AS WE'RE FACING INCREASING THREATS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. -- THANK YOU, JASON. -- AND WE CAN'T RELY ON ANY OF THESE. -- THANK YOU. JASON. UP NEXT IS RACHEL LICCARDO, PAUL

DELL, DANIEL WANG, RACHAEL, WELCOME. HI JUST ONE SECOND. YOUR MICS COMING RIGHT BACK ON. I THINK YOU'RE GOOD TO GO. OKAY. THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING. RACHEL. -- HELLO, COUNCILMEMBERS. MY NAME IS RACHEL

KATULA. I LIVE IN DISTRICT FIVE, COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ DISTRICT. I'M HERE TODAY AS AN ORGANIZER WITH THE CHURCH COUNCIL OF SEATTLE, BUT ALSO AS SOMEONE WHO WAS RAISED IN SEATTLE, HAS LIVED AND WORKED

HERE IN LOCAL NONPROFITS FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. FOR TOO LONG AS I'VE GROWN UP IN THE CITY, I'VE SEEN THE POLITICS BEND TO THE INTERESTS OF CORPORATIONS AND BILLIONAIRES, BELIEVING IN THE FALSE

PROMISE OF TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS. AND NOW WE'RE SEEING THE FRUIT OF THAT INVESTMENT MASS LAYOFFS, UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND. EMPTY HIGH RISES AND OFFICES THAT ARE JUST SITTING VACANT. AS YOU ALL

KNOW, BECAUSE YOU HEAR PEOPLE COME IN DAY IN AND DAY OUT, WE'RE STRUGGLING. WE'RE NOT DOING WELL. AND THE CITY COUNCIL CANNOT AFFORD TO CONTINUE TO PASS THE SAME STATUS QUO BUDGET, BECAUSE THESE ARE

NOT STATUS QUO TIMES SERVICES THAT ARE LIFE AFFIRMING AND DIGNITY ENHANCING. YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS. AND THE QUESTION IS, WHO WILL YOU BE FOR US IN THIS CYCLE? THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU.

RACHEL. UP NEXT IS LEE, FOLLOWED BY PAULA AND THEN DANIEL. THIRD REQUEST. IF WE'RE NOT CLAPPING. THANK YOU. -- MORNING COUNCIL MEMBERS. I'M REVEREND LEE CARL. I'M PASTOR OF SEATTLE FIRST BAPTIST

CHURCH, AND I'M ALSO HERE WITH CHURCH COUNCIL OF GREATER SEATTLE. MY CHURCH IS AND COUNCILMEMBER HOLLINGSWORTH DISTRICT. I ALSO LIVE IN THAT DISTRICT. AS WE ENTER INTO YET ANOTHER BUDGET SEASON, I'M

HERE TO SAY THAT WE CAN DO MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT IS PROPOSED. BUDGETS ARE A MORE ARE A MORAL DOCUMENT. THEY REFLECT OUR VALUES AND. RIGHT NOW OUR BUDGET TELLS ME THAT WE VALUE POLICING AND THE

WEALTHIEST AMONG US. MUCH MORE MONEY CAN BE INVESTED INTO THE COMMUNITIES THAT NEED IT MOST, INTO ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SERVICES. IF REVENUE IS GENERATED THROUGH A TAX ON THE WEALTHIEST AMONG US AND

DIVERTED, THE INCREASE AND DIVERTING THE INCREASE IN THE POLICE BUDGET, THE REALITY IS THAT THE WEALTHY HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH, AND A TAX WOULDN'T EVEN BE A BLIP FOR THEM. BUT IT COULD CHANGE THE LIVES

OF MANY IN OUR CITY WHO NEED IT. THIS BUDGET SEASON, I ASK YOU ALL TO REJECT THE NOTION OF SCARCITY AND EMBRACE ABUNDANCE. THERE'S MORE THAN ENOUGH TO GO AROUND, AND WE CAN BE A CITY THAT LEADS THE

WAY AND CARING FOR OUR NEIGHBORS, INVESTING IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING, SCHOOLS, CHILDCARE RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE, AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME. -- THANK YOU. THANKS,

LEE. SEE YOU AGAIN SOON, PAULA. AND THEN DANIEL. AND THEN WE'LL TRANSFER ONLINE. AND THEN, DANIEL, IF YOU WANT TO COME UP TO YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO. GOOD MORNING, PAULA. GOOD TO SEE YOU. -- I'M

PAULA FROM OPEN POLICE ARCHIVES AND I'M WANTED TO MAINLY DIRECT MY COMMENTS TO THE AUDIENCE AS WELL, BECAUSE WE KNOW WHICH SIDE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND CITY COUNCIL STANDS ON THIS QUESTION. THEY'RE

CUTTING ESSENTIAL SERVICES, INCLUDING THE FIREFIGHTERS FOR THIS CITY AND FINDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR THE COPS AND MILLIONS MORE TO DEFEND THEM WHEN THEY ACTUALLY SHOOT PEOPLE DOWN AND KILL THEM.

AND WE SAY, OPEN POLICE ARCHIVES. WE THINK THAT THE ROAD FORWARD, WHICH IS SOMETHING KATIE WILSON COULD ACTUALLY DO IF THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS COMMITTED TO. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS

ARE ALL ABOUT. AND WE THINK EXPOSE THEIR DIRTY SECRETS, UNITE THIS STRUGGLE NEEDS TO UNITE US ALL WORKING PEOPLE, ALL THOSE VICTIMS OF COP TERROR ON THE BROADEST POSSIBLE BASIS, IN ORDER TO FIGHT FOR

ADVANCE THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK PEOPLE, FOR ALL THE OPPRESSED, AND GET SOME RELIEF FOR THE FAMILIES. SO I WOULD, YOU KNOW, LIKE TO TALK TO PEOPLE OUT THERE ABOUT HOW TO. -- THANK YOU. -- AND NOT THANK

THE DEMOCRATS. -- THANK YOU, PAULA. THANK YOU. UP NEXT IS DANIEL WANG. DANIEL, WELCOME. GOOD MORNING. -- HEY, I'M A MEMBER OF UNITED FRONT FOR A WORKERS PARTY. AND UNTIL RECENTLY, I WAS A WORKER AT AN

AMAZON WAREHOUSE. AND I BRING THIS UP BECAUSE WHAT THE FIREFIGHTERS WERE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF UNDERSTAFFING UNDER BUDGETED PEOPLE HAVING TO WORK OVERTIME TO FILL HOLES, REALLY REMINDS ME OF WHAT

WAS GOING ON IN MY OWN WORKPLACE. SHORTLY BEFORE I LOST MY JOB. AMAZON. THIS MULTI-BILLIONAIRE COMPANY THAT REALLY RULES THIS CITY, ITS PROFITS HAVE TRIPLED SINCE THE AMAZON TAX WAS PASSED TO FUND

AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AMAZON MADE A BIG STINK AND CRY ABOUT THIS AT THE TIME. THEY DID THAT BY TIGHTENING THE BELT, MAKING WORKING PEOPLE PAY FOR THEIR OWN PROFITS. THAT MEANS IN THE WORKPLACE WE LOSE

OUR JOBS. THE ONES WHO KEEP THEIR JOBS HAVE TO PICK UP THE SLACK FOR BEING UNDERSTAFFED EVERYWHERE ELSE. WE LOSE OUR PUBLIC SERVICES, HAVE OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMPROMISED, AND MEANWHILE PAY MORE TAXES

AND FEES TO FUND COPS WHO CAN MURDER US WITH IMPUNITY. WHILE BIG BUSINESS TAXES ARE RAIDED TO FILL THOSE BUDGET HOLES, TO GIVE THOSE CALLS MORE OVERTIME PAY. IT IS EMBARRASSING. WE ARE FACING AN

AUSTERITY BUDGET FROM A SUPPOSEDLY SOCIALIST MAYOR. BUT THAT'S BECAUSE KATIE WILSON IS PART OF THE PRO COP PRO-IMPERIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY. -- THANK YOU DANIEL. -- SOLIDARITY WITH PUBLIC WORKERS,

SOLIDARITY WITH THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE. -- THANK YOU. DANIEL. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ONLINE TO REMOTE PUBLIC COMMENTERS OF ALL OF THE REMOTE PUBLIC COMMENTERS. CEDAR BIJOU, YOU ARE NOT PRESENT. HALEY

SEXTON, YOU ARE NOT PRESENT. AND SO I'M GOING TO CALL THROUGH THE FOLLOWING FOLKS IN THIS ORDER. AND CEDAR AND HALEY, IF YOU BECOME PRESENT, WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU AT THE VERY END. SO THE ORDER IN

WHICH WE WILL GO IS NICOLE PIERSON, FOLLOWED BY STEVEN WOODS, JANICE CLARK, ALBERTA PIERSON, DAVID HAYNES, AND SO NICOLE, CEDAR AND HALEY, YOU'VE GOT ABOUT FIVE MINUTES UNTIL WE GET TO YOU. IF YOU

CHECK YOUR EMAIL, CALL IN NOW. SO WE'VE GOT NICOLE PIERSON HERE ALREADY OFF MUTE COMMENTER NICOLE, WHENEVER YOU WANT TO ROLL, WE'RE READY FOR YOU. GOOD MORNING. -- MY NAME IS NICOLE PIERSON AND I'M

THE SISTER OF KEENAN PIERSON. MY BROTHER WAS KILLED BY A SEATTLE PD ON SEPTEMBER 12th IN GEORGETOWN, SIMILAR TO GEORGE FLOYD, MY BROTHER MATTERED. AND I'M HERE TODAY SERVING AS A VOICE FOR HIM. LIKE

CASTELL HIGHTOWER AND MANY OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE. TODAY, I'M DEMANDING POLICE VICTIM RESOURCES AND JUSTICE FOR ALL AFFECTED BY THE BRUTALITY FROM SEATTLE PD. WE AS VICTIMS DESERVE TO BE HEARD,

ACKNOWLEDGED AND THE PROPER RESOURCES FOR SUCH INJUSTICE. SO TODAY, I IMPLORE YOU TO PROVIDE THE PROPER RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU. NICOLE. UP NEXT IS STEPHEN

WOODS, FOLLOWED BY JANICE CLARK AND ALBERTA PEARSON. STEPHEN, I SEE YOU'RE HERE. STAR SIX TO UNMUTE. STEPHEN, YOU'RE WITH US NOW, BUT YOU GOT TO PRESS ON YOUR PHONE. STAR SIX. STEPHEN. WRIGHT IS READY

FOR YOU. IF WE CAN LEAVE. STEPHEN PROMOTED BUT ALSO PROMOTE JANICE CLARK AT THIS TIME. JANICE CLARK IS THAT. AND I BELIEVE THAT'S DR. JANICE CLARK. FOR THE RECORD, I SEE YOU'RE ALL. -- THANK YOU. YES,

SIR. OH OH. WHICH IS. HELLO IN TURKEY NATION CHAIR AND COUNCILMEMBERS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. I AM DR. JANICE CLARK, AN ELDER OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, A 100% SERVICE CONNECTED DISABLED VETERAN. THE

MATRIARCH OF THE FERGUSON CLARK FAMILY CIRCLE AND ALSO FOUNDER OF THE BOARD OF SAFE HOMES A MOUTHFUL. I URGE YOU TO CONTINUE FUNDING THE SAFE HOMES INDIGENOUS AND BLACK WOMEN, VETERANS, FOOD SECURITY

AND RESILIENCY INITIATIVE THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS DONE. I ALSO URGE YOU TO CONSIDER FUNDING THE SAFE HOMES ENVIRONMENTAL TRAUMA MITIGATION INITIATIVE THAT I SPOKE BRIEFLY ABOUT, BUT I

WILL FOLLOW UP. I WAS UNABLE TO GET THERE IN PERSON TODAY, BUT LET THERE BE NO MISTAKE. I WILL BE THERE AGAIN. A BUDGET IS A STATEMENT OF VALUES I RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT YOU ENSURE THESE WOMEN VETERANS

REMAIN VISIBLE. -- THANK YOU, DR. CLARK. LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU NEXT TIME. AND PLEASE DO FEEL FREE TO EMAIL US WITH ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS. I'VE GOT ALBERTA PEARSON. I SEE YOU'RE HERE. STAR

SIX TO UNMUTE. -- THANK YOU. -- ALBERTA, IF YOU IF YOU CAN HIT YOUR KEYPAD STAR AND THEN THE NUMBER SIX STAR. SIX TO UNMUTE. ALBERTA. IF WE CAN LEAVE STEPHEN IN ALBERTA PROMOTED AND BRING UP DAVID

HAYNES. DAVID. I SEE YOU'RE HERE. DAVID STAR SIX TO UNMUTE. -- HI. THANK YOU, DAVID HAYNES FOR YEARS, SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY HAVE HANDED OVER MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO RUN

PILOT PROGRAMS BASED ON HOUSING FIRST MODELS FOR REPEAT OFFENDERS WHO WERE BOTHERING PEOPLE IN THE TOURIST DISTRICT AND PRE-ARREST DIVISION. DIVERSION THAT'S CONNECTED TO THE CRIMINAL DRUG UNDERWORLD.

WE WERE PROMISED THESE ALTERNATIVE POLICIES WOULD FIX CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS AND CURB REPEAT OFFENSES. INSTEAD, OUR STREETS TELL A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORY BY FAILING TO ENFORCE MISDEMEANOR DRUG LAWS.

THESE POLICIES HAVE INADVERTENTLY CREATED GRAY MARKETS WHERE RIVAL DRUG GANGS OPERATE WITH IMPUNITY, ESCALATING VIOLENT CRIME ACROSS OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. WORSE, THE VERY NONPROFITS TRUSTED WITH THESE

MASSIVE PUBLIC CONTRACTS HAVE FACED SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS OF MISMANAGEMENT AND FRAUD, OPERATING WITH ZERO TRANSPARENCY. TRUE COMPASSION REQUIRES ACCOUNTABILITY. IT'S TIME TO STOP USING SEATTLE AND KING

COUNTY AS A TESTING GROUND FOR UNCHECKED SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS. WE MUST DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE AUDIT OF THESE NONPROFIT CONTRACTS AND RETURN TO A SYSTEM THAT PRIORITIZES PUBLIC SAFETY OVER FAILED IDEOLOGY.

-- THANK YOU, DAVID. WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE TWO FOLKS WHO ARE STILL HERE. STEPHEN WOODS, STAR SIX TO UNMUTE. STEPHEN, IF YOU'RE WITH US, STAR SIX, TO UNMUTE. ALSO, CEDAR AND HALEY, YOU ARE

STILL NOT PRESENT. PLEASE CALL IN NOW. STEPHEN, I SEE YOU'RE OFF MUTE. -- YES, THIS IS STEPHEN WOODS. -- WELCOME. GOOD MORNING. -- OH GOOD MORNING. I'M MCKINNON'S BROTHER I WAS JUST I'M JUST HERE TO

GET INFORMATION ON THE THE SITUATION. AND I HOPE TO GET A JUSTICE FOR THIS SITUATION THAT'S GOING ON UP IN SEATTLE. -- SOMETIMES WHEN WORDS ESCAPE US, SILENT REFLECTION IS THE BEST USE OF OUR TIME.

THANK YOU STEPHEN. UP NEXT. AND FINALLY, IS ALBERTA PEARSON, ALBERTA STAR SIX TO UNMUTE. LAST CALL FOR CEDAR AND HALEY, WHO ARE NOT PRESENT AT THIS TIME. AND ALBERTA, I SEE YOU ARE OFF MUTE. WELCOME.

TAKE IT AWAY. -- HI. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS ALBERTA PEARSON AND I'M KEEPING. AND I'M SORRY, BUT I JUST WANT JUSTICE FOR MY BABY. PLEASE HELP US. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU. ALBERTA. I DON'T SEE ANY

ADDITIONAL PUBLIC COMMENT. REGISTRANTS PRESENT. CAN IT CONFIRM? -- THAT IS CORRECT. -- THANK YOU, MR. G. AND DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL IN PERSON? WE DO NOT. AND SO THAT DOES BRING US TO THE END OF OUR

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. BEFORE WE BEGIN AND GET INTO PRESENTATIONS, I'LL JUST PROVIDE SOME FIRST KIND OF OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS, AND THEN I'LL GIVE YOU MY MY FIRST REACTION TO THIS BUDGET. SO FROM

HERE, WE WILL HAVE A NUMBER OF PRESENTATIONS. WE'LL FIRST HAVE AN INTRODUCTION, AN OVERVIEW OF THE BUDGET PROCESS. NOW THAT WE ARE IN THE COUNCIL BUDGET PROCESS, WE'LL HAVE THE COUNCIL, THE CITY

BUDGET OFFICE PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THIS BUDGET, AND THEN WE'LL GET INTO THE SPECIFIC DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS FROM PARKS SEATTLE CENTER AND ARTS AND CULTURE. WE'LL CALL FOR THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE

PROCESS FROM HERE. AND CENTRAL STAFF PRESENTS THEIR ANALYSIS. AND WHEN WE HAVE COUNCILMEMBER AMENDMENTS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH, WE WILL STRIVE TO HAVE A ONE HOUR BREAK DURING THE DAY. HOWEVER, IF WE

ARE OVERWHELMED WITH INFORMATION, IT MIGHT BE 30 MINUTES. IT ALSO DEPENDS ON HOW OFTEN AND FOR HOW LONG. EACH OF US SPEAK AS AS A KIND REMINDER THAT WE CAN USE THE SHAREPOINT AS A WAY TO RECEIVE

INFORMATION AS WELL AS A KIND REMINDER. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO GET INFORMATION FROM DEPARTMENTS AT THIS POINT IS WE HAVE TO SHARE, GO THROUGH THE SHAREPOINT PROGRAM SO THAT CENTRAL STAFF IS ABLE TO

TRACK WHAT WE ARE REQUESTING SO THAT THE DEPARTMENTS DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER IT NINE DIFFERENT TIMES AND NINE DIFFERENT WAYS TO THE SAME QUESTION. AND SO WE WILL HAVE AN HOUR BREAK SOMETIME BETWEEN NOON

AND ONE TOMORROW, I CAN ALREADY TELL YOU, IS GOING TO BE AN EXCEPTION OF THIS RULE. IF WE ARE ABLE TO GET THROUGH OR TO THE SEATTLE FIRE DEPARTMENT BY 1 P.M., THAT IS GOING TO BE GREATLY DESIRED.

WE'VE GOT SOME SCHEDULING CONFLICTS ON OUR END THAT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH, BUT IF THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE, WE ARE GOING TO SPEND AS MUCH TIME DIGGING INTO THE FIRE BUDGET AS WE NEED TO, TO GET THE ANSWERS

THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. AND SO WE WILL HAVE THE FIRST OUR DEPARTMENTS PRESENTING, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE CENTRAL STAFF. I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE LISH'S PRESENTATION. I SEE THE LOOK. SORRY, SIR, BUT I WANT

TO GIVE YOU COLLEAGUE, JUST KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN, WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND WHERE WE'RE GOING. OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, WE'VE BEEN WORKING TO ADDRESS THE CITY'S STRUCTURAL BUDGET

DEFICIT WHILE MAINTAINING PUBLIC SERVICES THAT WORKING SEATTLEITES DEPEND ON. WE'VE SEEN THIS BUDGET DEFICIT GO AS HIGH AS $275 MILLION, DOWN TO $150 MILLION. WE HAVE TAKEN A MULTIYEAR STRATEGY

BECAUSE IF WE TRY TO SOLVE TEN YEARS OF STRUCTURAL DEFICIT IN THE MAKING, IF WE SOLVED THAT IN ONE YEAR, WE WOULD BE UNNECESSARILY CUTTING PROGRAMS BECAUSE BY STEPPING DOWN, WE'RE ABLE TO BRING

OURSELVES INTO STRUCTURAL BUDGET ALIGNMENT WITHOUT USING A SAW. USING A SCALPEL IS ALWAYS MUCH BETTER BECAUSE IN MANY CASES, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CITY EMPLOYEES, IF WE WE COULD SOLVE THE

STRUCTURAL BUDGET DEFICIT BY LAYING OFF CITY EMPLOYEES EASY, BUT THEN WE WOULD NEED TO HIRE THEM RIGHT BACK TO DO THE WORK THAT WE'RE ASKING, THAT WE'RE ASKING TO HAVE ACCOMPLISHED. WE WOULD HAVE TO

HIRE THEM BACK TO SERVE THE SEATTLEITES FOR THE SERVICES AND THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED. AND SO THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF WHY TAKING A MULTIYEAR STRATEGY HAS BEEN SO IMPORTANT TO GETTING THIS TO.

LAST YEAR, WE ENDED WITH $150 MILLION IN STRUCTURAL BUDGET DEFICIT, COMING DOWN FROM A $275 MILLION HIGH. TOGETHER, WE'VE MADE GREAT STRIDES IN DOING THIS WORK TOGETHER, AS WELL AS LAST YEAR,

COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE PASSED THE SIX YEAR. IT WAS YOUR AMENDMENT, BUT WE ALL PASSED IT. WE ALL WORKED TOGETHER HERE, REQUIRING THE EXECUTIVE TO SHOW HOW THE BUDGET BALANCES THROUGH 2030. SINCE THIS IS

THE FIRST YEAR THIS WAS IMPLEMENTED, WE'VE ALL BEEN PRETTY CLEAR THAT IF FOLKS NEEDED RELIEF FROM THIS, THAT RELIEF WOULD BE PROVIDED. BUT I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED TO SEE THAT FOR THE MOST PART, THIS

REQUEST HAS BEEN MET WITHIN A YEAR, SO I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT. WE'VE DONE THIS ALL WHILE FACING HEADWINDS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE SLOW GROWTH START OVER A YEAR AGO, BUT

WE'VE SEEN THE FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT CHANGE IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT'S CREATED INSTABILITY IN BOTH THE INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL MARKETS. THIS JUST LAST YEAR, WE FACED A FOOD EMERGENCY BECAUSE SNAP

BENEFITS WERE PAUSED OVERNIGHT. AND I WANT TO THANK IN PARTICULAR, THE CITY BUDGET DIRECTOR, ALY PENNUCCI, FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP ON ALL OF THESE. IT'S NO SECRET TO ANYONE IN THIS CITY THAT THERE HAVE

BEEN COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES, I THINK IS THE ACADEMIC TERM, THE COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES BETWEEN ELECTED OFFICIALS IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE AND DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. I'VE NEVER HAD COMMUNICATION

CHALLENGES WITH YOU. AND I THINK THAT THAT IS THIS BUDGET PROCESS. WE CAN AGREE AND DISAGREE ON A WHOLE HOST OF DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT THE PROCESS OF WORKING WITH YOU HAS BEEN SPECTACULAR. AND SO HERE

WE GO WITH THAT. I MEAN, AND AT THE SAME TIME, I'VE GOT CONCERNS THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THE PURVIEW OF THE CITY BUDGET DIRECTOR WHO WORKS FOR A MAYORAL ADMINISTRATION, JUST TO BE CLEAR, THE CITY BUDGET

DIRECTOR IS REQUIRED TO BALANCE THE BUDGET AND PROVIDES DIRECTION AS WELL AS TAKES DIRECTION. SO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS NOT REGARDING THE COMMUNICATION, THE STRONG COMMUNICATION THAT I'VE HAD WITH CITY

BUDGET OFFICE TODAY. I HAVE CONCERNS REGARDING PUBLIC SAFETY, PARTICULARLY THE FACT THAT THE PROPOSED BUDGET MAKES SIGNIFICANT CUTS TO THE CARE DEPARTMENT AND HALTS EXPANSION OF 911 RESPONSES LIKE

COMMUNITY CRISIS RESPONDERS, A TEAM THAT WE'VE THAT I'VE BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS TO BUILD AGAINST SIGNIFICANT HEADWINDS. I HAVE GRAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF REDUCTIONS TO THE SEATTLE FIRE

DEPARTMENT AND THE SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT, PARTICULARLY IN REDUCTIONS OF CIVILIANS, RECRUITMENT AND PARKING ENFORCEMENT. BUT WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING THE FIRST NEWS STORY I READ WAS ABOUT HOW

THE SEATTLE FIRE DEPARTMENT SHOWED UP FOR OUR CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. AND PULLED, I BELIEVE, A 57 YEAR OLD MAN OUT OF HIS HOUSE. YOUR FIREFIGHTERS WERE INJURED IN THE PROCESS. I'M NOT. YOU

CAN'T ANSWER THIS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE'RE NOT IN PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE ON OVERTIME THIS MORNING I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT AND CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD UNTIL TOMORROW. I DO HAVE

CONCERNS WITH ONGOING ISSUES AT THE SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THEIR MANAGEMENT OF THE BUDGET. THEIR PRIORITIES, LONG PROMISED PROGRAMS, AS WELL AS THE CULTURE IN THE DEPARTMENT OVER THE

NEXT TWO MONTHS, WE AS THE COUNCIL, WILL EXPLORE ALL OF THESE ISSUES AND OTHERS IN DEPTH. AND THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS, I'LL BE WORKING HARD WITH MY COLLEAGUES TO BUILD A BUDGET THAT FOCUSES ON SAFETY,

AFFORDABILITY, AND STABILITY. THE COUNCIL HAS DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OVER THE PAST NUMBER OF YEARS OF REDUCING THE STRUCTURAL BUDGET DEFICIT WITHOUT TAKING A HACKSAW TO THE BUDGET, UNNECESSARILY CUTTING

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES. IT IS AGAIN THIS YEAR THAT WE WILL ENDEAVOR TO DO THIS. IT IS AGAIN THIS YEAR THAT I'LL ASK EACH OF US TO DIG INTO THE DEPARTMENTS IN WHICH REPORT TO OUR COMMITTEES USING OUR

SIX YEAR LOOK BACK, WHICH I BELIEVE MIGHT BE SEVEN YEARS AT THIS POINT. IT'S A VERY HELPFUL DOCUMENT, AS WELL AS THE PRINTED BUDGET RESPONDING DIRECTLY TO WHAT I READ AND HEARD THIS WEEK FROM THE

MAYOR ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE'VE BEEN KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD. I DON'T TAKE THAT STATEMENT TO BE TRUE. WE'VE BEEN ADDRESSING THE STRUCTURAL BUDGET DEFICIT EVERY SINGLE YEAR. WE WERE ABLE TO

PROVIDE HER A SMALLER STRUCTURAL BUDGET DEFICIT THAN WHAT WE INHERITED. AND THAT'S SOMETHING TO BE NOTICED. AND THAT'S BECAUSE WE TOOK A MULTIYEAR STRATEGY. I WAS TOLD THAT WE WERE AT THE END OF THE

ROPE AT THE END OF THE ROAD, AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT TO BE TRUE. I ASKED THE QUESTION OF, WOULD WE HAVE TO BE LAYING OFF PERMANENT STAFF TODAY IF THE MH AYE ACCELERATOR PROGRAM HAD BEEN PASSED

EARLIER THIS YEAR WOULD WE STILL HAVE TO SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR ON BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN PARTS OF OUR CITY, INCLUDING THE SEATTLE CENTER? HAD WE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET A PACKAGE TOGETHER TO

REDUCE THAT GENERAL FUND DEFICIT. I ASK, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT THE FIREFIGHTERS HERE RIGHT NOW, AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S STILL A FAIR AMOUNT OF CHALLENGES THAT WE ALL HAVE TO WORK THROUGH. ABOUT THE FIRE

DISTRICT. ET CETERA. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT IF YOU HAD A FIRE DISTRICT RIGHT NOW, WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE BIGGEST BENEFIT, I WOULD SAY, IS THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHERE YOUR FUNDING COMES

FROM OR HOW MUCH YOU GET. AND TODAY, HERE WE ARE. AND SO AND THAT'S NOT PUTTING THAT ON Y'ALL. THAT'S JUST THAT'S PUTTING IT ON ALL OF US TO SAY, WHEN I HEAR THAT WE'RE AT THE END OF THE ROAD. I SEE

ADDITIONAL EFFICIENCIES THAT CAN OCCUR WITHIN OUR CITY. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR BUDGET THIS YEAR, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT UNNECESSARILY CUTTING PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS AND SERVICES. SOME

MAY NEED TO END BECAUSE OTHERS MAY NEED TO BEGIN. AND THAT IS THE ITERATIVE PROCESS OF GOVERNING AND BUDGETING THAT SOME PROGRAMS NO LONGER SERVE US. AND WE NEED NEW PROGRAMS IN OTHER PLACES. AND I'LL

USE ONE PLACE THAT I'M VERY HAPPY ABOUT, WHICH IS THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT IS GOING INTO HOMELESS SHELTERS. AND THE FACT THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT A HIGH ACUITY AND COMPLEX NEEDS, INSTEAD OF RELYING ON

SHELTERS THAT ONLY HAVE A FRONT DESK CLERK. AND SO THAT'S A GOOD PLACE. THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF A PLACE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE MORE FUNDING. BUT THERE ARE ADDITIONAL EFFICIENCIES IN GOVERNMENT AND WHILE I

WAS VERY AWARE THAT KATIE WILSON, BEFORE SHE WAS MAYOR, ADVOCATED FOR THE CREATION OF JUMPSTART. I PASSED IT AND WHEN I, ALONG WITH COUNCILMEMBER MOSQUEDA AND MANY OTHERS, PASSED THAT BILL, WE KNEW

THAT JUMPSTART WAS NEEDED FOR THE FOUR PRIORITIES OF ECONOMIC. SORRY, EDDIE SMALL BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATE, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, HOUSING. WE KNEW THAT THOSE WERE OUR FOUR PRIORITIES

AND THAT WE NEEDED TO BACKFILL OUR GENERAL GOVERNMENT SO THAT WE DIDN'T LAY OFF EMPLOYEES LIKE THE REST OF OUR THE REST OF THE MUNICIPALITIES IN OUR COUNTRY WERE. THAT WAS A KNOWN FACT. DAY ONE. AND

THAT'S A. AND THAT'S BEEN A REPEATED PROCESS THAT WE HAVE USED SINCE SINCE ITS FIRST DAY OF INCEPTION. AND THE REASON THAT WE'VE DONE THAT IS TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE NOT UNNECESSARILY CUT FIRING STAFF

OR CUTTING PROGRAMS BUT AT THE INCEPTION OF JUMPSTART, IT WAS A BIT LIKE THE INCEPTION OF THE PANDEMIC, WHERE WE ALL THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE TWO WEEKS. WE ALL THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE TWO YEARS

BEFORE WE COULD GET REALLY BACK ON TRACK. WE THOUGHT WE'D BE BACK THERE ABOUT A YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF AGO, THE FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT HAS CHANGED. WE ARE STILL IN NEED OF THAT FLEXIBILITY AND NOTING THAT

THE REVENUE IS DOUBLE WHAT WAS PREDICTED ORIGINALLY. SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THE USE OF OUR JUMPSTART FUNDS FOR IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT CITY SERVICES THAT ARE NOT EDDIE HOUSING, SMALL BUSINESSES OR CLIMATE,

BECAUSE EVEN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, I'VE HEARD TESTIMONY AGAINST THESE TYPES OF USES. AND TODAY I SEE A REVERSAL OF THAT POSITION AND AN ACCEPTANCE OF WHAT HAS BEEN DONE SINCE THE FIRST YEAR OF

JUMPSTART KUOW REPORTED THAT THIS BUDGET IS MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN THE PROPOSALS FROM THE LAST TWO MODERATE MAYORS. LAST YEAR, WE PASSED PROGRESSIVE REVENUE, EXPANDED AND EXPANDED SERVICES WHILE

BALANCING THE BUDGET. THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED NOT BY THE COUNCIL AGREEING OR DISAGREEING BLINDLY WITH THE MAYOR. IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT, THROUGH STRONG COMMUNICATION,

COMPROMISE AND COLLABORATION. OUR CITY COUNCIL HAS LED US THROUGH THIS MULTIYEAR PROCESS. INSTEAD OF OFF OF A CLIFF. TOGETHER WE HAVE REDUCED THE DEFICIT WHILE EXPANDING MANY SERVICES. AND WE HAVE SET

THE PATH FOR A MORE STABLE FUTURE. AND WE'RE HERE TO DO IT AGAIN. AND SO TODAY BEGINS THE COUNCIL BUDGET PROCESS. SO I ASK EACH OF YOU TO LOOK DEEPLY INTO YOUR DEPARTMENTS. I ASK YOU TO USE THE

SHAREPOINT PROGRAM SO THAT WE'RE ALL FUNNELING OUR QUESTIONS INTO THE SAME PLACE. I ASK YOU TO CHOOSE TO EITHER MAKE BUDGET CHANGES OR REQUEST STATEMENTS OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT, BUT PLEASE DON'T DO

BOTH. AND I ENDEAVOR TO BE ON TIME EVERY SINGLE DAY. SO, COLLEAGUES, I LOOK FORWARD TO GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS WITH YOU, WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE CITY BUDGET OFFICE TO DELIVER A BUDGET THAT WE CAN

ALL BE PROUD OF. AND SO AS WE ENTER DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS, I WILL CALL ON COMMITTEE CHAIR THAT OVERSEES THAT DEPARTMENT TO GIVE FIRST AND FINAL REMARKS. DURING THAT PRESENTATION. I ALSO ASK THAT

FOLKS USE THAT SIX YEAR LOOK BACK BECAUSE IT IS VERY HELPFUL, AND I'LL ALLOW COUNCILMEMBERS, AND I'LL ALLOW THE COUNCIL CHAIR OF THAT DEPARTMENT TO ASK THE FIRST AND LAST QUESTIONS. AS I SAID, AND

FOLKS, JUST PLEASE, THIS IS THE LONGEST TIME THAT YOU'LL HEAR ME TALK SINCE IT'S DAY ONE, BECAUSE IT'S QUITE HYPOCRITICAL, AS I'M ABOUT TO SAY. CAN YOU PLEASE MODERATE YOUR TIME? BUT I'M JUST AWARE

THAT THIS IS PROBABLY THE LONGEST SPEECH YOU'LL HEAR FROM ME UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS BUDGET. BUT JUST PLEASE, IF ALL NINE OF US TALK FOR TEN MINUTES, WE'LL BE HERE TILL 2028. WITH THAT, OVER TO MR.

LISH WHITSON, OUR DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL STAFF, TO GET US STARTED AND TAKE US THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION. GREAT. -- THANK YOU. AND I'LL BE VERY BRIEF. WE ARE NOW IN STEP ONE OF THE COUNCIL'S SIX STEP

PROCESS TO REVIEW AND ADOPT A BALANCED BUDGET BEFORE THANKSGIVING. NEXT SLIDE. AND NEXT SLIDE. THIS STEP INCLUDED THE MAYOR RELEASING HER PROPOSED 2027 2028 BUDGETS. AND KICKS OFF THIS MORNING WITH AN

OVERVIEW PRESENTATION FROM DIRECTOR PENNUCCI OF THE CITY BUDGET OFFICE. THIS AFTERNOON, WE'RE GOING TO BE HEARING FROM CITY DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION, SEATTLE

CENTER AND THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE. TOMORROW WILL BE OUR PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENTS, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, CARE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. AND THEN NEXT WEEK WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER SIX DEPARTMENTS

PRESENTING NEXT SLIDE. AFTER DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS, THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING ON OCTOBER 6th AND MY STAFF WILL START PRESENTING THEIR DEEP DIVES INTO EACH CITY DEPARTMENT ON OCTOBER 13th. WE

WILL RECEIVE AN UPDATED REVENUE FORECAST ON OCTOBER 16th AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER. ON OCTOBER 20th, WE ARE ASKING THAT YOU SUBMIT YOUR BUDGET PROPOSALS BY NOON AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. --

THANK YOU, MR. WHITSON. COLLEAGUES. QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. THAT MEANS THAT WE HAVE DONE OUR JOB TO BRING THIS TO YOU, THE FRONT OF YOUR ATTENTION. I WILL TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO NOTE THAT

COUNCILMEMBER BUDGET PROPOSALS ARE DUE OCTOBER 20th AT NOON. TWO CO-SPONSORS ARE REQUIRED. SO EARLY WARNING HERE, PLEASE. THAT'S AN ELECTRONIC DEADLINE SO CAN'T BE WAIVED COLLEAGUES, ANY OTHER

QUESTIONS? EXCITED TO DIG IN. WELL, WITH THAT, THE I REALIZED I DIDN'T HAVE THE CLERK READ THE FIRST ITEM INTO THE RECORD. SO CLERK, IF YOU COULD READ THE FIRST TWO ITEMS INTO THE RECORD AND WE'LL

MOVE RIGHT ON TO DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. WELCOME, FRIEND. -- AGENDA ITEM ONE INTRODUCTION AND BUDGET PROCESS OVERVIEW FOR BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION AND AGENDA ITEM TWO CITY BUDGET OFFICE OVERVIEW THE 2027

AND 2028 PROPOSED BUDGETS FOR BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION. -- THANK YOU. AND TO FILL IN A MINUTE OF TIME DEPARTMENTS, EVEN IF THEY ARE SHOWN TO TO PRESENT IN THE AFTERNOON, THEY SHOULD BE READY TO GO AS

SOON AS THIS IS DONE. BECAUSE IF DIRECTOR PENNUCCI HAS TOLD US EVERYTHING THAT SHE'S ALREADY TOLD US BEFORE AND WE HAVE A SHORT OF A PRESENTATION, AS WE HAD WITH MR. WHITSON RIGHT NOW, WE'LL BE

GETTING RIGHT INTO THE SEATTLE PARKS AND RECREATION PRESENTATION ASAP. ALSO, FOR DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE. IF YOU NOTICE THAT WE'RE MOVING QUICKLY, WE WILL TRY TO COMMUNICATE. BUT IF. IT JUST MEANS THAT

IF YOU'RE DOWN IN THE LINE, DON'T EXPECT THAT WE WILL JUST WAIT. WE MIGHT BUMP YOU UP WITH THAT. GIVE ME THE HEAD NOD WHEN YOU ARE READY TO GO. DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. WELCOME. GOOD MORNING. -- GOOD

MORNING CHAIR STRAUSS COUNCILMEMBERS, MEMBERS OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT MAYOR WILSON'S 2020 728 PROPOSED BUDGET. FOR THE RECORD, I'M ALY PENNUCCI CITY BUDGET

DIRECTOR. I FORGOT THAT PART BEFORE DIVING INTO THE DETAILS. I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A BRIEF MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE A FEW FOLKS. FIRST, TO MY BUDGET TEAM THAT MADE THIS THIS POSSIBLE. THERE ARE MANY,

MANY HOURS OF WORK ANALYZING PROPOSALS AND ASSEMBLING ASSEMBLING THIS BUDGET TO MY COLLEAGUES ON THE CABINET DEPARTMENT LEADERS AND THEIR FINANCE AND BUDGET TEAM CITYWIDE FOR APPROACHING THIS

CHALLENGING BUDGET YEAR WITH THOUGHTFULNESS AND PARTNERSHIP BUILDING THIS BUDGET IS A TEAM SPORT, AND WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT ALL OF YOU. AND TO MAYOR WILSON AND ALL MY COLLEAGUES IN THE MAYOR'S

OFFICE TEAM FOR THEIR STEADY LEADERSHIP AND WILLINGNESS TO MAKE SOME TOUGH BUT NECESSARY DECISIONS. THANK YOU TO CHAIR STRAUSS FOR ALWAYS MAKING TIME TO DISCUSS ALL THINGS BUDGET AND COMMITMENT TO

TRANSPARENCY AND COLLABORATION. AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE COUNCILMEMBERS FOR SPENDING TIME OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS AND TALKING ABOUT THE BUDGET WITH ME. WHAT I'M PRESENTING TODAY IS THE STARTING

POINT FOR YOUR DELIBERATIONS, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO BEING RESPONSIVE PARTNERS AS YOU WORK TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE, BALANCED BUDGET THAT REFLECTS THE CITY'S PRIORITIES. TODAY, I'M PRESENTING MAYOR

WILSON'S FIRST BUDGET, WHICH TAKES MEANINGFUL STEPS TO STRENGTHEN THE CITY'S LONG TERM FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY. WHEN I WAS HERE EARLY IN THE YEAR FOR MY CONFIRMATION, I THINK I GOT NO LESS THAN SEVEN

QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW I'M GOING TO HELP MOVE TOWARDS GREATER SUSTAINABILITY. YOU WILL SEE THAT REFLECTED IN THIS BUDGET AND IN MY RESPONSES AS WE MOVE THROUGH THIS PROCESS TOGETHER. SO WITH THAT, LET'S

JUMP INTO SOME OF THE DETAILS. THIS IS JUST A QUICK GUIDE OF WHAT I'M GOING TO COVER TODAY. I WILL GO OVER THE APPROACH, THE BUDGET PREVIEW, SOME FUN, SOME SPECIFIC FUNDS. I'LL SPEND MOST OF MY TIME

TALKING ABOUT THE THE GENERAL FUND HIGHLIGHT SOME KEY INVESTMENT AND THEN TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS FOR JUST A MOMENT. YEP SORRY. I JUST NEED TO CATCH UP. SO JUST A QUICK, QUICK REMINDER OF WHAT WE'RE

KICKING OFF TODAY. THE CITY OF SEATTLE UTILIZES A MODIFIED BIENNIAL BUDGET PROCESS, A TWO YEAR BUDGET PROCESS WHERE THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVES FUNDING FOR ONE YEAR WHILE ENDORSING THE AMOUNTS FOR YEAR

TWO. SO TODAY WE PRESENT A TWO YEAR BALANCED BUDGET FOR 27 THROUGH 28. THE BUDGET ITSELF IS COMPOSED OF TWO MAIN DOCUMENTS THE OPERATING BUDGET AND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. LIKE I SAID

PREVIOUSLY, MOST OF MY PRESENTATION WILL FOCUS ON THE OPERATING BUDGET WITH THE MOST DETAIL FOCUSED ON THE GENERAL FUND. BUT BEFORE I GET INTO THE DETAILS OF WHAT IS IN THE BUDGET, I WANT TO TALK A

LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW WE APPROACHED BALANCING THE BUDGET THIS YEAR. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO THIS BUDGET REALLY FOCUSES ON RIGHTING THE SHIP AND REALLY BUILDS ON THE WORK DONE IN DEVELOPING A PATH TOWARD

SUSTAINABILITY. AND I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SOME WORK DONE THIS YEAR IN RESPONSE TO A STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT THAT WAS ADOPTED LAST YEAR, I SPONSORED BY CHAIR STRAUSS THAT REQUESTED THAT THE CITY

BUDGET OFFICE AND COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF WORK COLLABORATIVELY, COLLABORATIVELY, EXCUSE ME. I'LL GET I'LL GET MORE COMFORTABLE AS WE MOVE ON, ON A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT BUDGET SUSTAINABILITY IS.

I'LL BE DISTRIBUTING THAT SLIDE RESPONSE LATER TODAY THAT WE PREPARED IN COLLABORATION WITH CENTRAL STAFF AND CHAIR STRAUSS OFFICE. THIS RESPONSE BUILDS ON THE YEARS OF BUDGET REFORM WORK THAT CHAIR

STRAUSS HAS UNDERTAKEN, AS WELL AS THE WORK THAT MANY OF YOU HAVE UNDERTAKEN, INCLUDING COUNCILMEMBER, COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE AND OTHERS CALLED THE OTHER, AND ALL OF YOU THAT CALLED FOR A LONGER TERM

BALANCED FINANCIAL PLAN WHEN ADOPTING LAST YEAR'S SEATTLE SHIELD INITIATIVE. THIS YEAR'S BUDGET MAKES MEANINGFUL STEPS TOWARDS THAT LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY. THANKS IN LARGE PART TO THE GROUNDWORK

THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED OVER MANY YEARS, IT IS IN THAT SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AND A SHARED GOAL OF SUSTAINABILITY THAT I PRESENT THIS BUDGET, AND WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO I REGULARLY GET

ASKED, INCLUDING IN MY CONFIRMATION QUESTIONS, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? HOW DID WE GET HERE? THERE ARE SO MANY CONTRIBUTING FACTORS, SO I'M NOT GOING TO TRY TO WALK THROUGH IT ALL TODAY, BUT THERE ARE A

NUMBER OF FACTORS THAT HAVE LED US HERE. AS SEATTLE'S POPULATION GREW QUICKLY, SO DID ITS WEALTH AND INCOME GAPS. PAYING FOR THESE NEW COSTS AT THE SCALE OF COMMUNITY NEED HAS BEEN A REAL CHALLENGE.

WE WERE ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING CITY DURING THE 2010s. CITY SERVICES EXPANDED TO KEEP PACE WITH OUR. LIKE OUR FTE GROWING FROM 11,400 IN 2010 TO OVER 13,500 TODAY. THE NUMBER OF DEPARTMENTS HAVE

EXPANDED. THIS WAS IN RESPONSE TO REAL COMMUNITY NEEDS. AT THE SAME TIME, WE HAVE REAL CONSTRAINTS ON OUR REVENUE AND STRUCTURAL CHALLENGE IN HOW THE CITY CAN PAY FOR THESE SERVICES. OUR MOST FLEXIBLE

SOURCE, THE GENERAL FUND, REMAINS LIMITED BY STATE IMPOSED RESTRICTIONS SUCH AS THE PROPERTY TAX, SALES TAX AND WHILE THE CITY HAS PURSUED MANY NEW OR EXPANDED REVENUE TOOLS, THOSE EFFORTS HAVE

LARGELY BEEN NEEDED TO ADDRESS GROWING NEEDS AND HAVE NOT BEEN SUFFICIENT TO FULLY ADDRESS THE GAP AND CONTINUE TO EXPAND AT THAT PACE. YOU ADD TO THAT THE THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC BOOM THAT SUPPORTED

SALES GROWTH THAT HAS COOLED WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, THE BIG INFUSION OF ONE TIME FEDERAL FUNDS THAT ALLOWED FOR SOME NECESSARY EXPANSION AND CHANGES IN SERVICES THAT HAVE NOW BEEN

DEPLETED. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SORT OF HIGHLIGHT THERE'S A LOT OF FACTORS, AND WE ARE NOT ALONE. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ACROSS WASHINGTON STATE AND THE WHOLE COUNTRY ARE GRAPPLING WITH THE SAME

COMBINATION OF REVENUE CONSTRAINTS, INFLATION, SLOW ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, GROWING COMMUNITY NEEDS. AS ONE EXAMPLE, THE CITY OF PORTLAND IS FACING WAS FACING A ROUGHLY 170 MILLION DEFICIT, $170 MILLION

DEFICIT THIS YEAR, SIMILAR IN SCALE TO WHAT WE WERE FACING, DESPITE HAVING ONLY ABOUT HALF THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IN THEIR PROPOSED BUDGET, THEY'RE ELIMINATED. THEY HAD TO ELIMINATE OVER 100 FILLED

POSITIONS, MORE THAN SIX TIMES THE NUMBER OF SEATTLE IS LIMITING. THEY ALSO REDUCED INVESTMENTS IN HOMELESS SHELTERS AND PARKS, AND SCALING BACK OPERATIONAL HOURS FOR SOME FIRE TEAMS. THIS IS NOT A

JUDGMENT ON PORTLAND'S BUDGET. THIS IS JUST A REFLECTION OF THE REALITY THAT MANY CITIES ARE FACING. AND JUST I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S COLD COMFORT, BUT WE ARE NOT ALONE. IT'S THERE'S SOME REALLY TOUGH

DECISIONS THAT MANY CITIES ARE FACING ACROSS THE COUNTRY. NEXT SLIDE SO THIS TABLE HIGHLIGHTS HOW EACH YEAR THE CITY HAS MET ITS LEGAL OBLIGATION TO ADOPT A BALANCED BUDGET, BUT HAS DONE SO WITH

DEFICITS PROJECTED IN THE NEXT YEAR OR THE NEXT BIENNIUM. COUNCIL HAS RECOGNIZED THIS ISSUE, WITH CHAIR STRAUSS REQUESTING THE WORK THIS YEAR TO DEVELOP THAT SLI RESPONSE AND A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF

SUSTAINABILITY AND BEING A CHAMPION OF OF CHANGES TO CODE LIKE REQUIRING THAT WE DEVELOP A JUMPSTART RESERVE. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE AMENDMENT TO THE SEATTLE SHIELD INITIATIVE THAT REQUIRES A BALANCED

LONG TERM FINANCIAL PLAN, LAID THE GROUNDWORK THAT THIS BUDGET BUILDS ON TO REALLY CHART A PATH TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY. I BELIEVE THEIR SHARED VISION HERE, AND LOOK FORWARD TO HOW YOUR DELIBERATIONS

MAINTAIN OR STRENGTHEN THE SUSTAINABILITY. ACHIEVING A BALANCED BUDGET AND A SUSTAINABLE PLAN ISN'T AN END IN ITSELF. IT'S ABOUT WHAT IT ENABLES. PREDICTABILITY FOR OUR CITY WORKFORCE, FOR OUR SERVICE

PARTNERS AND THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE, AND THE CHANCE TO SHIFT FROM TRIAGE, BUDGETING TO ADDRESS THIS DEFICIT TO A BUDGET REVIEW PROCESS THAT CAN FOCUS MORE ON OUTCOMES AND ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF THE

COMMUNITY, SOMETHING COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA, WHO'S I KNOW NOT HERE TODAY BUT HAS MENTIONED TO ME MANY, MANY TIMES, AND I KNOW MANY OF YOU SHARE THE DESIRE FOR A HIGHER FOCUS ON OUTCOMES. THAT'S A

PRIORITY BOTH FOR ME AND MAYOR WILSON, WHICH IS WHY SHE SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON FRIDAY THAT IN PART, DIRECTS ME TO BUILD A FRAMEWORK FOR AN OUTCOME BASED BUDGET REVIEW PROCESS, AND I LOOK FORWARD

TO COLLABORATING WITH CHAIR STRAUSS, COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF AND ALL OF YOU IN THE COMING YEARS TO DEVELOP THAT PROCESS. NEXT SLIDE. SO WHEN I STEPPED INTO THIS ROLE IN EARLY IN THE YEAR, THE MAYOR WAS

VERY CLEAR THAT ALL REASONABLE OPTIONS HAD TO BE CONSIDERED IN APPROACHING THE STRUCTURAL BUDGET DEFICIT. WE TOOK THAT SERIOUSLY IN THE CITY BUDGET OFFICE AND ALL, AND THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND ALL OF

THE DEPARTMENTS IN THIS BUDGET, YOU'LL SEE THREE MAIN STRATEGIES DEPLOYED IN ORDER TO BALANCE ALIGNING ANNUAL PROGRAM BUDGETS TO HISTORICAL COSTS. THAT LOOKS AT LOOKING AT LONG TERM VACANCIES, LOOKING

AT REGULAR, CONSISTENT PATTERNS OF UNDERSPEND, WHERE A PROGRAM IS DELIVERING A CERTAIN LEVEL OF SERVICE AND IS ABLE TO DO SO WITH LESS THAN WHAT THEY ARE ALLOCATED IN THE BUDGET EACH YEAR, SLOWING

DOWN GROWTH. CHAIR STRAUSS MENTIONED SOME OF THE NEEDED EXPANSIONS. SOME OF THOSE EXPANSIONS HAVE NOT YET OCCURRED, AND THERE IS NOT A SUSTAINABLE WAY BASED ON EXISTING RESOURCES TO MAINTAIN THEM. SO

THIS BUDGET PAUSES ON SOME OF THOSE EXPANSIONS AND THEN MAKING SOME DIFFICULT REDUCTIONS. YOU HEARD FROM PEOPLE TODAY ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT REDUCTIONS IN THIS BUDGET WAS THE PROPOSAL TO REDUCE THE

FIRE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET, WHICH OVERALL IS LESS THAN A 1% REDUCTION. SO THIS BUDGET IMPLEMENTS ALL OF THESE APPROACHES AND STRATEGIC WAYS WHILE ALSO MAKING CRITICAL INVESTMENTS TO PRESERVE, AND IN

SOME CASES, EXPAND COMMUNITY SERVICES. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO START JUMPING IN TO THE ALPHONSE. OKAY. I'LL JUST DEFER TO YOU, CHAIR, IF YOU WANT ME TO PAUSE FOR QUESTIONS, LET ME KNOW. -- THANKS.

I WILL SAY THANK YOU FOR TAKING THIS PAUSE. I AM HOPING THAT WE'LL LET FOLKS GET THROUGH PRESENTATIONS BEFORE WE START ASKING QUESTIONS. I DO THINK THAT THIS IS A GOOD PAUSING POINT FOR THE OVERVIEW

BEFORE WE GET INTO THE HIGH LEVEL FLAVORS OF THIS BUDGET. COLLEAGUES, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME? SEEING NONE. KEEP ON ROLLING -- SO HERE IS JUST A REPRESENTATION OF THE TOTAL CITY BUDGET

ACROSS ALL FUNDS. WE HAVE ABOUT A $9.1 BILLION BUDGET PROPOSED FOR 2027. THAT'S ABOUT A 2.2% INCREASE COMPARED TO LAST YEAR'S BUDGET. YOU CAN SEE IN THIS CHART THAT PRESENTS THE BUDGET BY FUND SOURCE

AND THE BREAKDOWN OF THOSE FUNDS. ALMOST 80% OF OUR BUDGET ARE RESTRICTED FUND SOURCES, SO THEY'RE LEGALLY RESTRICTED AND CAN ONLY BE USED FOR CERTAIN THINGS. I KNOW YOU ALL KNOW THIS. THIS IS MORE

FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC THAT MANY OF THE FUNDS, WELL, YOU CAN MAKE SOME CHOICES WITHIN THEM. YOU CAN'T USE THEM FOR OTHER PURPOSES. FOR EXAMPLE, THE CITY LIGHT FUND CANNOT BE USED TO PAY FOR FIRE

SERVICE, HOMELESS SERVICES, POLICE SERVICES. SO WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME TALKING ABOUT 22% OF THE BUDGET, WHICH IS WHY MOST OF MY PRESENTATION WILL FOCUS ON THE GENERAL FUND NEXT SLIDE. THANK YOU.

THIS IS A ANOTHER VIEW OF THE $9.1 BILLION BUDGET THAT IS PRESENTED BY SERVICE INVESTMENT AREA. YOU CAN SEE IN THIS CHART THAT UTILITIES, TRANSPORTATION AND ENVIRONMENT MAKE UP THE LARGEST PORTION.

WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING ACROSS ALL FUNDS IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, YOU SEE THE LARGEST GROWTH IN PUBLIC SAFETY, ARTS, CULTURE AND RECREATION COMPARED TO THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET. -- SORRY. -- OKAY, SO NOW I'M

GOING TO JUMP INTO THE GENERAL FUND AND SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THE JUMP START PAYROLL EXPENSE TAX FUND THAT I WILL LIKELY JUST REFER TO AS JUMP START MOVING FORWARD. SO FIRST, JUST A

REMINDER OF WHERE THINGS WERE LEFT WHEN THE 2026 BUDGET WAS ADOPTED LAST NOVEMBER. AT THAT STAGE, THE PROJECTED DEFICIT WAS $150 MILLION. IN 2027 AND PROJECTED TO DECREASE TO 98 MILLION BY 2029. NEXT

SLIDE PLEASE THIS IS A SNAPSHOT FROM APRIL SHOWING A PROJECTED $175 MILLION DEFICIT IN 27 AND 150 IN 2029. I WANT TO JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO TO NOTE THAT THESE DEFICIT THESE DEFICIT PROJECTIONS ARE A

MOMENT IN TIME. IT IS NOT UNCOMMON. UNCOMMON IN ANY GIVEN DAY IN THE CITY BUDGET OFFICE, WHEN WE'RE DEVELOPING THIS BUDGET FOR SOMEONE TO WALK INTO MY OFFICE, HAVE A NEW ESTIMATE FOR SOME TYPE OF COST

THAT IMPACTS THE CITY. AND IT'S LIKE GOOD NEWS. WE FOUND OUT THAT NEXT YEAR'S COST FOR THE EMPLOYER, FOR THE RETIREMENT FUND IS GOING DOWN BY $5 MILLION. AND IT'S JUST LIKE FOR A MINUTE, IT'S LIKE,

HEY, GOING IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION. AND THEN WITHIN THE SAME HOUR, SOMEONE COULD WALK IN AND SAY, OUR HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE INCREASING BY $28 MILLION. AND SO I KNOW THERE'S A INCLINATION TO WANT TO BE

ABLE TO SAY THIS PLUS, PLUS, PLUS. THIS IS HOW WE ADDRESS THE DEFICIT. IT IS A CONSTANTLY SHIFTING SITUATION WHERE WE ARE ADDRESSING COST INCREASES, LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO SAVE MONEY, ALLOCATING

FUNDS TO THE HIGHEST PRIORITIES. SO THIS IS WHERE THINGS WERE. THIS IS WHERE THINGS ARE TODAY. SO THE PROPOSED BUDGET NO LONGER PROJECTS A DEFICIT IN THE GENERAL FUND. AND WHILE THIS IS JUST A

PROJECTION, THE COST OF PROVIDING SERVICES COULD RISE ABOVE EXPECTATIONS OR THE CITY'S ANTICIPATED REVENUES COULD COME IN LESS. IT REPRESENTS SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN THAT IT ACTUALLY REPRESENTS A

BUDGET THAT DOESN'T ASSUME A DEFICIT IN THE OUT YEARS, AND MEETS THE REQUIREMENT OF COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE AMENDMENT THIS IS JUST A QUICK SUMMARY OF WHAT I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT. THESE ARE SOME OF THE

COST DRIVERS THAT ARE REALLY UNAVOIDABLE, UNAVOIDABLE, THAT HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED WHEN DEVELOPING THE ANNUAL BUDGET. BEFORE WE CAN REALLY TALK ABOUT OTHER SORT OF GROWING COMMUNITY NEEDS. AS I

MENTIONED, HEALTH CARE COSTS INCREASED BY 28.8 MILLION IN 2027 ACROSS ALL FUNDS. THAT'S ABOUT 13 MILLION TO THE GENERAL FUND. OUR JUDGMENT AND CLAIMS LIABILITIES CONTINUE TO GROW. THIS INCLUDES ALMOST

A $10 MILLION INCREASE IN GENERAL FUND COSTS IN 27 ALONE, IMPLEMENTING CLOSED LABOR CONTRACTS. THOSE TYPES OF THINGS ARE THE FIRST THING WE HAVE TO DO TO SORT OF ESTABLISH OUR BASE. NEXT SLIDE.

PLEASE. SO HOW DID WE BALANCE? THERE ARE OVER $40 MILLION IN GENERAL FUND SPENDING REDUCTIONS. AND WHAT IS REALLY KEY HERE, AND I WOULD SAY DEVIATES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS BUDGETS, IS THAT THE MAJORITY

OF THESE REDUCTIONS ARE PROPOSED TO BE ONGOING. AND WHILE THAT IS NOT AN EASY CHOICE, IT IS WHAT IS NECESSARY TO PUT THE CITY'S BUDGET ON A SUSTAINABLE PATH. THE PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO INCLUDES FUND

SWAPS OR TRANSFERS BETWEEN FUNDS. FOR MANY YEARS, THERE HAVE BEEN ONE TIME PROPOSALS EACH YEAR TO SWAP TO PAY FOR PROGRAMS FROM A DIFFERENT FUND, OTHER THAN THE GENERAL FUND. THIS BUDGET RECOGNIZES

THAT IN ORDER TO SUSTAIN THOSE PROGRAMS, THAT ALTERNATIVE FUND SWAP IS THE BEST WAY TO CONTINUE THEM AND MAKES THOSE SWAPS ONGOING. THE PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO CONTINUES TO RELY ON JUMP START REVENUES TO

SUPPORT KEY CITY PROGRAMS. BEYOND THE ORIGINAL SPENDING PLAN, INCLUDING MAINTAINING THE ONGOING GENERAL FUND TRANSFER THAT WAS ALREADY PRESENTED IN LAST YEAR'S FINANCIAL PLAN. SO IT'S CONSISTENT WITH

THE ADOPTED BUDGET. LAST YEAR. IT ALSO UPDATES THE OFFICE OF HOUSING'S APPROACH TO JUMPSTART FUNDED CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, FREEING UP ABOUT 65,000,000 IN 1 TIME FUND BALANCE THROUGH THE ABANDONMENT OF

26 APPROPRIATIONS. UNDER THIS APPROACH, THE OFFICE OF HOUSING WILL USE 2027 AND FUTURE YEAR APPROPRIATIONS TO PAY FOR BOTH PRIOR YEAR AWARDS AND NEW AWARDS GOING FORWARD, AND THERE'LL BE MORE

DISCUSSION ON THAT WHEN THE OFFICE OF HOUSING IS BEFORE YOU TO PRESENT. AND THE PROPOSAL SHIFTS ROUGHLY HALF THE COST OF THE CITY'S HOMELESS SERVICES FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE JUMPSTART FUND. SO

MANY OF THESE STRATEGIES THAT ARE OCCURRING IN THIS BUDGET ARE NECESSARY TO PRESENT A BALANCED BUDGET THROUGHOUT THE PLANNING PERIOD. SO THROUGH 2030. OKAY, THIS IS MY LEAST FAVORITE SLIDE IN THE

PRESENTATION. I'M GOING TO TRY TO WALK US THROUGH IT. PEOPLE HAVE MANY PEOPLE HAVE ASKED, WHAT IS THE SORT OF WHICH DEPARTMENTS ARE TAKING THE LARGEST CUT BY PERCENT BY TOTAL DOLLARS? YOU PUT A ROOM

FULL OF, YOU PUT IN A ROOM, A BUNCH OF BUDGET ANALYSTS, AND WE COULD ALL ANSWER THAT QUESTION. MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. WHAT THIS TABLE IS PRESENTING IS BY A PERCENT OF THEIR PREVIOUS YEAR'S BUDGET, AFTER

YOU MAKE BASELINE ADJUSTMENTS. SO AFTER YOU ADJUST THEIR ONGOING BUDGET FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR FOR ANY INCREASES OR DECREASES DUE TO HEALTH CARE COSTS, LABOR AND IMPLEMENTATION, THAT SORT OF THING,

AND BREAKS THAT DOWN BY PERCENTAGE SO THAT IS WHAT THIS DOES. THE DEPARTMENTS LISTED IN PURPLE ARE ACTUALLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THE BUDGET BOOK, THEY SHOW A NET INCREASE IN THEIR BUDGET. SO FOR EXAMPLE,

THE SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THERE ARE $9.5 MILLION OF REDUCTIONS PROPOSED. BUT OVERALL, THE NET IMPACT TO THE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET IS A $68 MILLION INCREASE. SO THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT

THIS COULD BE CUT. THIS IS ONE WAY OF PRESENTING THE INFORMATION AND HAPPY TO TALK WITH YOU ALL MORE OFFLINE AS NEEDED LET'S SEE HERE. HOW ABOUT. I'VE HAD IT MYSELF. OKAY, SO THIS IS THE GENERAL FUND

PROPOSED BUDGET, A $2 BILLION BUDGET BROKEN DOWN BY THE INVESTMENT AREAS. YOU CAN SEE ON THE SLIDE THAT PUBLIC SAFETY CONTINUES TO MAKE UP MORE THAN 50% OF THE INVESTMENTS FROM THE GENERAL FUND. I

WILL ALSO JUST NOTE, BECAUSE I OFTEN GET THIS QUESTION, WHY THE ADMINISTRATION PART OF THE PIE IS SO HIGH? THERE IS A LOT THAT FLOWS THROUGH THAT ADMINISTRATION CATEGORY, INCLUDING MUCH OF OUR HEALTH

CARE. WELL, THAT'S IN THE OTHER FUNDS. OUR HEALTH CARE COSTS. BUT MANY OF THE INVESTMENTS IN CAPITAL PROGRAMS THAT ARE FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT TACKLE FLOW FLOW THROUGH THERE.

SO IT IS NOT JUST SORT OF ADMINISTRATIVE BUREAUCRACY. IT ALSO INCLUDES THE BUDGET FOR THE CITY BUDGET OFFICE, THE LEDGE DEPARTMENT, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, THAT TYPE OF THING. SO THIS IS JUST ONE WAY OF

LOOKING AT IT. AND AGAIN, THE LARGEST AREA OF GROWTH IN THIS BUDGET IS IN PUBLIC SAFETY. BUT OVERALL THE GENERAL FUND IS ONLY GROWING BY 0.7% COMPARED TO THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET IN THIS SLIDE, YOU CAN

SEE THE BREAKDOWN OF THE INVESTMENTS BY CATEGORY FROM THE JUMPSTART FUND. SO THE BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS, THE GRAY, IS THAT ANNUAL TRANSFER FROM THE JUMPSTART FUND TO THE GENERAL FUND IN THE 27 AND 28

PROPOSED BUDGET, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE IS A NEW CATEGORY, HOMELESS PROGRAMS, THAT IS AT THE TOP OF THE CHART THAT REFLECTS SHIFTING ABOUT HALF THE COST OF PROVIDING HOMELESS SERVICES IN THE CITY TO

THE JUMPSTART FUND. SO I'VE HIGHLIGHTED A FEW TIMES HOW THIS PROPOSED BUDGET MAKES REAL PROGRESS TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY. BUT WE DO HAVE MORE WORK TO DO. THE FINANCIAL PLAN FOR THE JUMPSTART FUND SHOWS

A ONE TIME REDUCTION IN 2029. JUMPSTART INVESTMENTS THAT ARE RESTORED IN 2030 THAT IS NECESSARY TO REMAIN IN BALANCE IN DEVELOPING THAT SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT BUDGET SUSTAINABILITY MEANS. IT

WOULD BE A FULLY BALANCED FINANCIAL PLAN WITHOUT REQUIRING ANY REDUCTIONS IN FUTURE YEARS, AND THIS IS WHY WE ARE SAYING THIS BUDGET MAKES REAL PROGRESS TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY, AND THERE IS MORE WORK

TO DO, BOTH TO ADDRESS THE STRUCTURAL IMBALANCE, TO HAVE REAL SUSTAINABILITY AND TO ADDRESS WHERE WE NEED TO EXPAND TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY. BUT EVEN WITH THIS ONE TIME REDUCTION IN 2029,

THIS PLAN SUSTAINS THE MAYOR'S COMMITMENT IN ALL YEARS THAT AT LEAST 30% OF ANNUAL JUMPSTART TAX REVENUES ARE ALLOCATED TO THE OFFICE OF HOUSING. I ALSO WANT TO NOTE THAT THERE REMAINS A COMMITMENT TO

PURSUING NEW PROGRESSIVE REVENUE SOURCES TO MEET SOME OF THOSE NEEDS, AS WELL AS CONTINUING TO WORK ON OTHER BUDGET STRATEGIES AND WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WITHOUT THE CONTINUED SUPPORT OF JUMPSTART

FOR THE GENERAL FUND AND FOR INVESTMENTS IN CATEGORIES OUTSIDE THE ORIGINAL INTENT, THE CITY WOULD BE UNABLE TO SUSTAIN CRITICAL SERVICES THAT RESIDENTS DEPEND ON DAILY. AS CHAIR STRAUSS MENTIONED IN

HIS OPENING REMARKS, I'M GOING TO TAKE A PAUSE TO HAVE A DRINK OF WATER. -- YEAH, I'LL JUST NOTE THAT USE OF FUNDS WAS A USE. WE USE THOSE FUNDS DAY ONE IN THAT WAY. WE'VE USED THEM EVERY DAY EVER

SINCE. SO. -- KEEP MOVING. -- IF YOU'D LIKE. I'M GOING TO LEAVE THAT UP TO YOU TO I'M JUST LOOKING THROUGH YOUR ENTIRE PRESENTATION. YEAH. WHY DON'T WHY DON'T WE TAKE A QUICK PAUSE? I'LL JUST SHARE A

LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DEFICIT YOU SHARED, ABOUT THE GROWTH THAT WE ALL AGREE UPON, THAT WE'RE THE FASTEST GROWING CITY IN THE NATION UNTIL 2020, IN WHICH GROWTH DROPPED PRECIPITOUSLY. WE HAD THE

PANDEMIC, WHICH WE'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED, WHERE CITIES ACROSS THE NATION JUST CUT PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, AND PEOPLE. AND I APPRECIATE YOU SHARING THE COMPARISONS OF OTHER CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND

OUR NEIGHBORS AND OTHER STATES. I WILL ADD TO THAT WITH SAYING, IN WASHINGTON STATE, WE ARE PARTICULARLY CONSTRAINED WITH THE 1% PROPERTY TAX GROWTH. THE CITY OF SEATTLE HAS HAD RELIEF FROM THIS

THROUGH OUR LEVIES. BUT EVERY 200, ALL 280 OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS IN OUR STATE ARE EXPERIENCING THIS SAME STRUCTURAL BUDGET DEFICIT BECAUSE WE CANNOT GROW OUR REVENUE AT THE SAME PACE AS INFLATION,

WHICH MEANS WE ARE BEING ASKED EVERY YEAR TO USE THE SAME DOLLAR TO. WE HAVE $0.75 FROM THE DOLLAR THAT WE HAD LAST YEAR, AND WERE EXPECTED TO GIVE $101.25 WORTH OF BENEFIT THIS YEAR. AND SO JUST

NOTING THAT IT IS EVEN MORE EXPANSIVE HERE JUST IN WASHINGTON STATE. BUT WITH THAT, COLLEAGUES, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME FOR THIS SECTION? I SEE COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. -- THANK YOU SO

MUCH, CHAIR STRAUSS, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. DIRECTOR PENNUCCI, AS ALWAYS, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR DEDICATION, LEVEL OF DETAIL AND JUST YOUR OVERALL SPIRIT OF SERVICE TO THE CITY. I'M REALLY GRATEFUL

THAT WE HAVE YOU. I WANTED TO JUST ASK IF YOU COULD REPEAT THE WHAT YOU WENT OVER IN TERMS OF THE JUMPSTART REDUCTION AND THE OUTLOOK FOR 2030. FOR US. ONE MORE TIME. -- YEAH. HAPPY TO AND I'M HAPPY

TO PROVIDE MORE MORE DETAILED CHART ON THE OUT YEARS AS A FOLLOW UP. SO YES, THANK YOU. SO YOU CAN SEE IN THIS SLIDE SORT OF THE CATEGORIES BY LIKE, ESPECIALLY WHEN LOOKING AT HOUSING, ECONOMIC

REVITALIZATION, EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE THAT IS EDDIE ON THE SCREEN AND GREEN NEW DEAL RIGHT NOW, BASED ON OUR FORECAST AND ASSUMPTIONS AROUND INCREASES IN EXPENSES IN ORDER TO STAY IN

BALANCE IN 2029, WE WOULD HAVE TO REDUCE SPENDING IN THOSE CATEGORIES TOTAL BY ABOUT $19 MILLION IN ORDER TO REMAIN IN BALANCE WITHOUT DIPPING INTO THE JUMPSTART RESERVE THAT IS THEN RESTORED. SO IT

WOULD BE A ONE TIME REDUCTION THAT THEN GETS RESTORED IN 2030. AND SO I WILL BE WORKING WITH MY TEAM AND THE DEPARTMENTS OVER THE NEXT YEAR TO IDENTIFY WAYS TO MITIGATE THOSE REDUCTIONS AND IDEALLY,

WORKING PERHAPS WITH YOU, COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, ON IDEAS FOR ADDITIONAL REVENUES THAT COULD HELP ADDRESS OR HELP US AVOID THAT TYPE OF REDUCTION, AS WELL AS MAKING OTHER REALLY IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS

IN COMMUNITY SERVICES. -- THANK YOU. -- FOR THAT. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. SO IT WOULD BE 19 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS. -- IN ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS ONE TIME, BUT NOT ONGOING

REDUCTIONS. YEP. -- THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT. AND THEN I JUST HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION ON THIS CHART. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND. I'M NOTICING HERE JUST THIS IN WE DON'T HAVE THE GREEN

LINE FOR YOUTH SERVICES HERE STARTING IN 2026. AND I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S A CUT OR IF THAT'S MOVED ELSEWHERE. CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN THAT TO ME, PLEASE? -- SURE. HAPPY TO. THAT IS NOT A CUT THAT THOSE

INVESTMENTS WERE ADDED IN 2024 DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS, AND IT WAS REALLY RESPONDING TO ACUTE NEEDS AND INVESTMENTS IN YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND WHAT IS THE THE FEP LEVY WAS DEVELOPED THOSE

COSTS AND THOSE PROGRAMS ARE HAVE BEEN SUSTAINED, BUT ARE FUNDED BY A DIFFERENT SOURCE. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE IS THERE HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF INVESTMENTS THAT JUMPSTART HAS SUPPORTED OVER

THE YEARS, AND THEN PLANS TO TRY TO UNWIND THEM IF AND WHEN THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHIFT THOSE BACK TO A DIFFERENT, A DIFFERENT FUND. -- THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CHAIR. -- YEAH. -- THANK YOU,

COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER COLLEAGUES, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE HEAD INTO KEY INVESTMENTS BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE? SEEING NONE AT THIS TIME. SO LET'S ROLL RIGHT ON IN. -- AND BEFORE I MOVE TO THAT, I

THINK I JUST WANT TO NOTE ONE THING, BECAUSE THE SUSTAINABILITY CONVERSATION IS REALLY FOCUSED. WE'VE BEEN HEAVILY FOCUSED ON THE GENERAL FUND AND THE JUMPSTART FUND. AND I JUST I WANTED TO TAKE A

MINUTE BOTH TO LIKE OFFER SOME PROPS AND RESPECT FROM FORMER BUDGET DIRECTOR AND CENTRAL STAFF DIRECTOR BEN NOBLE. AS I WAS ENTERING THIS ROLE. AND MANY OF YOU HAVE QUOTED THIS TO ME AS WELL. SO I

KNOW HE SAID IT TO TO YOU THAT THE THE THAT THIS YEAR'S BUDGET WAS DEEPLY UNSUSTAINABLE AND THAT I HAVE A HARD JOB AHEAD AND WE ALL HAVE A HARD JOB AHEAD. MY PERSPECTIVE, THIS BUDGET MAKES HUGE

STRIDES. I DON'T THINK THAT ANYONE WOULD DESCRIBE THIS AS DEEPLY UNSUSTAINABLE. IT'S NOT PERFECTLY SUSTAINABLE, BUT IT IS NOT DEEPLY. BUT THERE ARE STILL SOME FUNDS THAT NEED MORE WORK. YOU WILL HEAR

MORE ABOUT THE TRANSPORTATION FUND THAT THERE ARE SOME CHALLENGES THERE. YOU WILL SEE SIMILAR STRATEGIES DEPLOYED IN THAT BUDGET. AND I'M GOING TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE JUST A COUPLE OF OTHER FUNDS THAT

CROSS MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS RIGHT NOW. OKAY. SO THIS IS THE REAL ESTATE EXCISE TAX. THIS IS A TAX LEVIED ON ALL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS IN THE CITY. REACH REVENUES SUPPORT PROJECTS IN THE CAPITAL

BUDGET, BOTH THROUGH DEBT SERVICE ON REIT BACKED BONDS FOR LARGE PROJECTS SUCH AS MEMORIAL STADIUM AND PAY AS YOU GO PROJECTS SUCH AS MAJOR MAINTENANCE OF CITY FACILITIES. REVENUES ARE HIGHLY VOLATILE

AND DEPENDENT ON THE LOCAL REAL ESTATE ECONOMY. THE HIGH INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT THAT WE CURRENTLY FIND OURSELVES HAS REALLY TAMPED DOWN, BOTH ON THE NUMBER OF TRANSACTIONS AND THEIR PRICE, WHICH

IMPACTS OUR REVENUES. THE AUGUST REVENUE FORECAST GAVE US A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN OUR PROJECTED REVENUE. SO YOU WILL SEE IN SOME OF THE PRESENTATIONS COMING UP TODAY AND THROUGHOUT THE COMING DAYS,

SOME REALLY TOUGH CHOICES WHERE WE HAD TO REDUCE SOME OF OUR CAPITAL INVESTMENTS OR SHIFTING THEM TO OTHER FUNDS. THIS IS PRIMARILY IN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

THEY RECEIVE THE LARGEST ALLOCATION OF DISCRETIONARY REIT REVENUES, AND THEREFORE, THAT IS WHERE WE HAD TO LOOK TO TRY TO ADDRESS THE IMBALANCE. ANOTHER FUND THAT WE SAW, A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT DECREASE

FOR THE SIZE OF THE FUND IN THE AUGUST FORECAST WAS THE SWEETENED BUDGET, THE SWEETENED BEVERAGE TAX FUND. IT WAS ABOUT A $3.8 MILLION REDUCTION OVER THE THREE YEAR PERIOD. IT IS NOT A HUGE FUND. SO

THAT LEVEL OF REVENUE DROP WAS DIFFICULT TO ADDRESS WITHOUT SOME HARD CHOICES AND REQUIRED THAT WE MAKE SOME CHANGES IN ORDER TO BE LEGALLY BALANCED. SPECIFICALLY, THIS FUND IS OUR INVESTMENTS IN THE

BASE FOR THE. FRESH BUCKS PROGRAM, AND MANY OF THE FOOD PROGRAMS THAT THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT INVESTS IN. IT IS ALSO THE FUND SOURCE FOR THE FOOD EQUITY FUND OUT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF

NEIGHBORHOODS. IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET THAT THE FOOD EQUITY FUND IS. IS BUDGETED AT $2.8 MILLION AND IT FUNDS MANY ORGANIZATIONS WITH SMALLER GRANTS OUT TO COMMUNITY. THIS. IN THIS BUDGET, THE MAYOR

REALLY PRIORITIZED INVESTMENTS THAT ARE DIRECTLY SERVING PEOPLE. MANY OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS ARE DIRECTLY SERVING PEOPLE, AND SOME ARE CAPACITY BUILDING AND THAT SORT OF THING. SO THIS WAS A TOUGH

CHOICE. THE REDUCTION, THE CHOICE IN ORDER TO STAY IN BALANCE IN THIS FUND WAS TO REDUCE INVESTMENTS IN 2027 FOR THE FOOD EQUITY FUND BY $1 MILLION. SO $1.8 MILLION REMAINS IN THAT BUDGET. AND THEN

WOULD HAVE HAD TO COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE PROGRAM IN 2028. SO 1.8 MILLION OF GENERAL FUND, ONE TIME IS PROPOSED IN 2028. WE WILL BE WORKING TO IDENTIFY HOW TO SUSTAINABLY BALANCE THAT FUND OVER THE

NEXT YEAR AND FIGURING OUT THE BEST WAY TO SUSTAIN THOSE PROGRAMS. THIS REVENUE SOURCE ALSO IS, BY DESIGN, MEANT TO DECLINE OVER OVER TIME. WE ARE NOT YET SURE WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING HERE, AND I

HOPE FOR ALL OF US THAT YOU GET A POSITIVE REVENUE FORECAST IN A FEW WEEKS AS YOU CONSIDER YOUR BUDGET, BUT MORE WORK IS NEEDED HERE AND THEN FINALLY, SOMEWHAT OF A NON SEQUITUR, BUT I WANTED TO TALK

ABOUT THE IMPACTS TO THE POSITIONS IN THE BUDGET THAT AREN'T JUST UNIQUE TO ONE FUND IN 2027, THE PROPOSED BUDGET ADDS 169.5 FTE AND ELIMINATES 128. SO FOR A CITY WIDE NET CHANGE OF 43.5. AND THE. THE

BULK OF THE ADDITIONS ARE IN THE UTILITIES TO IMPLEMENT THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLANS AND THE WORK THAT THE COUNCIL HAS RECENTLY PASSED, AS WELL AS IN THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. AS WE STAND BACK

UP, THE HOMELESS EXCUSE ME, HOMELESS SERVICE DIVISION IN. AS WE. AS THE CONTRACTS FROM KCRHAR RETURNED TO THE CITY FOR THE BIENNIUM. EXCUSE ME FOR THE BIENNIUM. THE PROPOSED BUDGET REDUCES FTE BY

ABOUT 113, MOST OF WHICH ARE VACANT. 15 ARE FILLED POSITIONS WHICH ARE DIFFICULT CHOICES AND IN SOME CASES REFLECT THE END OF A PROGRAM OR A BODY OF WORK OR. AND ABOUT HALF OF THOSE POSITIONS ARE IN

THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION AND INSPECTION DUE TO DECREASING PERMIT VOLUMES AND THE WORK, THE. THE PERMIT REVENUES THAT SUPPORT THOSE POSITIONS ARE IN SIGNIFICANT DECLINE. I'LL PAUSE HERE. --

THAT'D BE GREAT. THANK YOU. DIRECTOR WITH EMPLOYMENT, I'LL TALK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE THE CORE STAFFING FUND AND SDCI. OVER THE COURSE OF ALL OF THESE YEARS. FIRST, WE BALANCED SOME OF THOSE

POSITIONS JUST COMING OUT OF OUR AFTER THE PERIOD OF HIGH GROWTH, WE WERE ABLE TO BALANCE THOSE POSITIONS BECAUSE WE HAD THE CORE STAFFING FUND THAT IS A RESERVE FUND THAT PERMIT REVIEWERS ARE PAID BY

THE PERMIT FEES THAT ARE GENERATED. AND SO WHEN WE HAVE FEWER PERMITS, WE HAVE TO RELY ON OUR RESERVE FUND, WHICH I APPRECIATE. WE'VE BEEN BURNING THROUGH THAT RESERVE FUND AT A RAPID PACE. YOU

RECALL, TWO YEARS AGO, WE HAD TO LAY OFF MANY PERMIT REVIEWERS. IT WAS THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY STAFF THAT THE THE MAJORITY OF THE ONLY CITY STAFF THAT HAVE BEEN LAID OFF BETWEEN TODAY AND THE 2008

RECESSION. AND SO, AGAIN, A LOT OF THE STAFF REPRESENTED IN THE POTENTIAL LAYOFFS HERE ARE ALSO IN THE PERMITTING DEPARTMENT. THIS COMES AFTER WE ALSO INCREASED PERMIT FEES. LAST YEAR, THERE WAS A TWO

LENGTHY CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE OF THE SAME CONTENT AT DIFFERENT POINTS IN THE BUDGET PROCESS LAST YEAR, WHERE WE REALLY DUG INTO THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE THREE OPTIONS WE CAN LAY OFF STAFF, INCREASE FEES

OR ADD GENERAL FUND, AND TO BACKFILL THEM. AND WE'VE DONE TWO OUT OF THE THREE. AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE GOING BACK TO THE FIRST OPTION HERE. BUT THE REALITY IS, IS NO MATTER WHAT. MUCH LIKE THE

SWEETENED BEVERAGE TAX, IF WE DON'T HAVE IF PEOPLE AREN'T DRINKING SODA, BUYING SODA IN SEATTLE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET SWEETENED BEVERAGE TAX REVENUE IN THE SAME WAY. IF PEOPLE IF PEOPLE ARE NOT

SUBMITTING AND PULLING PERMITS FOR BUILDINGS, THEN WE ARE NOT GETTING THOSE PERMIT FEES. WE'RE ALSO NOT GETTING THE CONSTRUCTION SALES TAX. WE'RE ALSO NOT GETTING THE 1%. THE ADDITIONAL NEW

CONSTRUCTION ON TOP OF OUR 1% PROPERTY TAX. THE RIPPLES GO DEEP. AND SO THAT'S WHY COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU ARE SPEARHEADING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT ESPECIALLY THE MHA, THE

MHA ACCELERATOR, ESPECIALLY WITH THOSE VESTED PROJECTS, BECAUSE THOSE VESTED PROJECTS ARE PROJECTS WHERE THEY PAUSED DURING THE PANDEMIC DURING A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY. AND WE EXTENDED THEIR MUPS, WE

EXTENDED THEIR PERMITS. I FINALLY SAID, FOLKS, I'M NOT EXTENDING THEM ANY MORE. AND YOU CAME IN TO REALLY LEAD THAT CONVERSATION. THANK YOU. I WISH THAT WAS A CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD ALREADY HAD

PREVIOUSLY THIS YEAR, SO THAT WE COULD KNOW IF WE DID NEED TO LAY THESE FOLKS OFF OR NOT. RIGHT. AND THAT'S NOT ON ANYONE. THAT'S NOT ON ANYONE. IT'S JUST ME SAYING SAYING IT OUT LOUD BECAUSE WE'RE

GOING TO BE FACED WITH A DECISION THIS YEAR OF, DO WE NEED TO LAY FOLKS OFF? AND THEN YOUR ACCELERATOR PROGRAM WORKS. AND THEN SUDDENLY WE HAVE PERMITS COMING IN THE DOOR. THAT'S MY THAT'S WHAT THAT'S

A DEEP FEAR OF MINE. RIGHT? SO I'M JUST KIND OF NAMING IT. THERE'S NO FAULT BEING PLACED ANYWHERE IN THIS CONVERSATION. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS AS INFORMATION. ANYONE ELSE ON THIS SECTION I'M

GOING TO START TIMING MYSELF BECAUSE I'M TALKING TOO MUCH. -- I'LL PUT YOU ON A TIMER. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. I WON'T COMMENT ON THE PERMITS.

I THINK YOU'VE ALREADY ALREADY MADE SOME SOME IMPORTANT COMMENTS THERE. I DO WANT TO TURN JUST REALLY QUICKLY TO THE THE SWEETENED BEVERAGE TAX. AND THIS MAY BE LATER IN THE PRESENTATION HERE, BUT I,

I WASN'T OBVIOUSLY ON COUNCIL AT THE TIME, BUT I REMEMBER THE CONVERSATIONS AND I APPRECIATE YOUR POINT. DIRECTOR PENNUCCI OF THIS WAS, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE INTENT HERE WAS NOT WAS THAT THIS WOULD

NOT BE COMING IN AT THE SAME LEVEL OVER TIME, BECAUSE WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO IS HAVE SOME BEHAVIOR CHANGES WHEN IT COMES TO THE CONSUMPTION AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS ON FOLKS. DO WE HAVE A

SENSE OR WHAT IS THE OUTLOOK OF THAT, THAT FUND SOURCE TODAY? AND HOW IS THAT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN THE OVERALL BUDGET? AND HAPPY TO DO FOLLOW UPS. AND APOLOGIES IF I'M GOING TOO DEEP, TOO FAST ON MY

MY FIRST RODEO HERE. DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. -- I LOVE THE DETAILED, THE DETAILED QUESTION. -- AND WILL BE HONEST, I'M NOT PREPARED TO FULLY FULLY ADDRESS IT, BUT I'M HAPPILY HAPPY TO FOLLOW UP AND DO A

DEEPER DIVE. BUT IN GENERAL, YOU KNOW, IN TALKING WITH THE FOLKS WHO DO THE FORECASTING, IT'S IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A TRICKY FUND TO PROJECT. AND I WILL NOTE, WE'RE NOT YET SURE IF THERE WAS A WORLD

CUP EFFECT, BECAUSE AT THE TIME OF THE AUGUST FORECAST, THAT DATA WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO INFORM THE FORECAST. SO I AM CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC THAT IT WILL BOUNCE BACK AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT. BUT IT DOES

APPEAR TO BE SORT OF A DECLINING REVENUE SOURCE. AND I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH MORE MORE DETAILS. -- THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER ANYONE ELSE AT THIS TIME NOW WE WILL RUN

AND ROLL INTO KEY INVESTMENTS. I WAS AHEAD IN MY OWN POWERPOINT. OVER TO YOU, DIRECTOR -- THANK YOU. OKAY. I'M NOT GOING TO READ THE ENTIRE SLIDE. I'M JUST GOING TO HIGHLIGHT PARTS OF IT. BUT WHAT I

THINK THAT THIS IS WHAT WE ARE REALLY TRYING TO DO IN THIS BUDGET, WE OFTEN SPEND A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THE INCREMENTAL INCREASES. WHAT ARE WE ADDING? WHAT ARE WE EXPANDING? WHAT ARE WE GROWING?

I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE ALL OF THE REALLY IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS THAT ARE IN THE BASE OF THAT $9 BILLION BUDGET AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT SUPPORT. SO SOME OF WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ME

HIGHLIGHT HERE ARE JUST MAINTAINING KEY INVESTMENTS THAT MANY OF YOU WERE THE CHAMPIONS OF OVER, OVER MANY YEARS OR RECENT YEARS. AND IN SOME PLACES, WE'LL HIGHLIGHT WHERE, WHERE PROGRAMS ARE PROPOSED

TO BE SCALED DOWN OR, OR UP IN THE HOUSING AND HOMELESS SERVICE CATEGORY. THERE IS OVER $340 MILLION TO THE OFFICE OF HOUSING AND $445 MILLION TO THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. THAT'S OVER ALMOST $800

MILLION IN INVESTMENTS IN HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS. HOMELESSNESS IN THIS INVESTMENT AND THIS BUDGET. THIS INCLUDES $183 MILLION IN HOMELESSNESS INVESTMENTS TO FUND, INCLUDING $37 MILLION TO FUND THE

NEARLY 1000 NEW SHELTER UNIT UNITS SERVING. I THINK I MISSTATED IN MY BUDGET OVERVIEW BOOK FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC. SOMETIMES WE MAKE ERRORS, BUT IT'S ABOUT, I THINK, 1750 PEOPLE. I SAID 2000. IT

INCLUDES IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS FOR INFLATION TO OUR HUMAN SERVICES CONTRACTS SUSTAINS 30% OF JUMPSTART ANNUAL REVENUES TO THE OFFICE OF HOUSING. AS A HOUSING OMBUD TO SUPPORT PERMANENT EXPEDITING FOR

OUR. OUR HOUSING DEVELOPERS IN THE COMMUNITY. AND THEN I'LL ALSO JUST FLAG THAT IT ADDS $6.5 MILLION ONE TIME. TWO TIMES IS WHAT I CALL IT IN A IN A BIENNIAL BUDGET. THAT IS AN INCREASE IN OFFICE OF

HOUSING INTEREST EARNINGS TO SUPPORT HOMELESS PREVENTION INVESTMENTS OR OFTEN, YOU KNOW, MORE, THE MORE KNOWN TYPE OF INVESTMENT IS IN RENTAL RENTAL ASSISTANCE, BRINGING THE TOTAL OVER THE BIENNIUM TO

OVER 15 MILLION. IT ALSO MAKES KEY INVESTMENTS OR PRESERVES KEY INVESTMENTS IN FOOD ACCESS, $57 MILLION IN TOTAL FOOD SECURITY FUNDING. THIS INCLUDES MAKING PERMANENT THE ONE TIME PROPOSAL ADDED LAST

YEAR TO EXPAND THE FRESH BUCKS PROGRAM. SO WITH THE OTHER FUNDING SOURCES, THAT'S OVER $11 MILLION ANNUALLY, SERVING 20,000 HOUSEHOLDS. IF THIS WAS NOT MADE ONGOING, WE WOULD HAVE SEEN 5000 PLUS

HOUSEHOLDS LOSING THAT BENEFIT THIS YEAR. IT ALSO MAKES ONGOING. LAST YEAR, THERE WAS A ONE TIME INVESTMENT TO EXPAND SUPPORT FOR FOOD BANKS AND FOOD MEAL DELIVERY THAT IS MADE ONGOING IN THIS BUDGET.

SO YOU'LL SEE THAT AS A THEME. THERE ARE NOT AS MANY PROGRAMMATIC INCREASES OR EXPANSIONS AS AS HAVE BEEN PROPOSED BY PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS, BUT WHERE THEY ARE TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY, THEY ARE

PROPOSED TO BE ONGOING. SO IT PROVIDES MORE STABILITY FOR THE FUTURE FOR THOSE ORGANIZATIONS AND THE PEOPLE RECEIVING THOSE BENEFITS IN TERMS OF PUBLIC SAFETY THE APPROACH IN THIS BUDGET IS REALLY TO

TAKE A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH THAT INCLUDES INVESTMENT TO STRENGTHEN EMERGENCY RESPONSE, TARGET RESOURCES, WHERE VIOLENCE IS MOST CONCENTRATED, AND INVEST IN UPSTREAM COMMUNITY BASED PREVENTION. THIS

INCLUDES OVER A HALF $1 BILLION TO THE SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT, FULL FUNDING FOR 1250 OFFICERS WILL ALSO HAVING TO MAKE SOME HARD CHOICES TO REDUCE SOME CIVILIAN POSITIONS, MOST OF WHICH ARE VACANT,

AND SOME OF THE RECRUITMENT AND MARKETING BUDGET IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE INVESTMENTS MAINTAIN CORE SERVICES AS PEAK TIME AID, CAR STAFFING AND STATION RENOVATION FUNDING. AND AS YOU'VE ALREADY

HEARD ABOUT, A REDUCTION TO THE PROPOSED OVERTIME BUDGET IN THE CARE DEPARTMENT, THEY SEE A NET INCREASE IN THEIR BUDGET TO SUPPORT EXPANDED HOURS FOR THE CRISIS. CARE RESPONDERS TO TRANSFER SOME OF

THE GUN VIOLENCE WORK FROM THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO THE CARE DEPARTMENT, INVESTMENTS TO SUSTAIN THE POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM AS WELL. IN THE CARE DEPARTMENT, YOU ALSO SEE SOME WHERE. ONE

OF THE STRATEGIES I TALKED ABOUT IS SLOWING THE GROWTH OR PAUSING EXPANSIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PROPOSED WITHOUT A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO PAY FOR THEM. THERE ARE 14 VACANT POSITIONS IN THE CARE DEPARTMENT.

FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE KR TEAM THAT ARE PROPOSED THAT AREN'T FUNDED IN THIS BIENNIUM, BUT THE POSITIONS REMAIN. THAT TEAM, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF CHIEF BARDEN, HAS STILL EXPANDED THEIR GEOGRAPHY AND

THEIR HOURS OF OPERATION BY USING A DIFFERENT STAFFING MODEL, AND YOU'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT LATER THIS WEEK AS WELL. OR MAYBE NEXT WEEK. TOMORROW. YEAH. THANK YOU. OKAY. NEXT SLIDE. AND THEN THESE

ARE JUST SOME EXAMPLES OF OTHER AREAS OF INVESTMENT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, MAINTAINING THE COMMUNITY SAFETY COORDINATORS. MANY OF YOU HAVE MENTIONED THIS IN OUR CONVERSATIONS THIS YEAR

ABOUT BUDGET, OVER $45 MILLION IN THE SAFE AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES THAT FUNDS IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE, CRIME, SURVIVOR SERVICES, AND SO ON. AND THEN

MANY INVESTMENTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND EARLY LEARNING. OKAY. KEEP MOVING. PUBLIC RESTROOMS. THIS IS ONE AREA OF NEW INVESTMENTS IN THE BUDGET. THERE IS $1.8 MILLION -- PROPOSED IN THE

PARKS DEPARTMENT THAT YOU HEAR MORE ABOUT LATER. FOR TWO BATHROOMS, NEW RESTROOMS IN PARKS. INCREASED FUNDING FOR PARKS, BATHROOM, RESTROOM MAINTENANCE, AND THEN 1.5 1.4 MILLION ONGOING IN THE FINANCE

AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO CONTRACT WITH A PRIVATE FOR INSTALLATION OF PUBLIC RESTROOMS THROUGHOUT BUSY AREAS OF THE CITY. FAS WILL BE WORKING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,

PARKS, OTHER KEY CITY AGENCIES AS THEY DEVELOP A PLAN OF THE BEST WAY TO DEPLOY THIS NEW INVESTMENT. AND THE BUDGET ALSO INCLUDES SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS IN YOUTH PROGRAMS. THIS INCLUDES ALIGNING THE

FAMILIES, EDUCATION, PRESCHOOL AND PROMISE AND LIBRARY LEVY INVESTMENTS. IT SUPPORTS BROAD YOUTH PROGRAMING AND IT INCLUDES NEW INVESTMENTS IN RAINIER BEACH HIGH SCHOOL AFTER SCHOOL PILOT, EXPANDED

TEEN LATE NIGHT PROGRAMS. COUNCILMEMBER SAKA LEFT THE ROOM, BUT I WAS GOING TO SHOUT HIM OUT FOR THE PILOT PROGRAM HE PROPOSED LAST YEAR. INCREASES RECREATION, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND THE LIST GOES ON.

ALSO, IT ADDS KEY INVESTMENTS IN THE OFFICE OF LABOR STANDARDS BY IMPLEMENTING SOME OF THE FEEDBACK, FUNDING AND INCREASE TO FUND SOME VACANT INVESTIGATOR POSITIONS. THERE IS ONE REDUCTION IN THE

OFFICE OF LABOR STANDARDS TO A VACANT POLICY POSITION, BUT IT FULLY FUNDS THEIR CORE SERVICES TO PROTECT WORKERS AND SUPPORT BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND IT ADDS FUNDING TO IMPLEMENT THE FAIR

PRICING LEGISLATION, CREATING A NEW REGULATORY FRAMEWORK THAT YOU ALL PASSED THIS WEEK. TUESDAY, TWO WEEKS AGO. RECENTLY. GOOD JOB. OKAY, WELL KEEP MOVING. AND THEN BUILDING FOR OUR FUTURE. SO THIS IS

A KEY INVESTMENT. I CAN, I CAN SHOUT OUT COUNCILMEMBER SAKA AGAIN, WE HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THE SEATTLE CENTER THIS YEAR. YOU WILL SEE IN THE BUDGET OVER $3 MILLION OF PROPOSED

INVESTMENTS TO ADVANCE THE WORK TO GET READY TO PUT THE INITIATIVE ON A BALLOT, TO FUND A MAJOR RENOVATION, TO MAKE CRITICAL INVESTMENTS IN THIS KEY C CITY ASSET. THIS IS BACKED BY AN INTERFUND LOAN

THAT WOULD BE PAID BACK FROM THE BOND PROCEEDS ONCE THE VOTERS APPROVE IT NEXT YEAR. IT ALSO SUSTAINS. OH, SORRY, WE CAN KEEP MOVING. THANK YOU. I FORGOT. OH, I THOUGHT THERE WAS. CAN YOU GO BACK ONE.

ONE MORE THIS ONE. I THINK I WENT OUT OF ORDER THIS BUDGET SUSTAINS IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS TO SUPPORT OUR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY. THE $4 MILLION THAT WAS ADDED ONGOING IN THE BUDGET LAST YEAR

IS SUSTAINED. $125,000 OF THAT IS SHIFTED TO THE OFFICE OF LABOR STANDARDS TO SUPPORT THEIR WORK SPECIFIC TO THAT COMMUNITY, NEW ONGOING SUPPORT FOR QUEER AND TRANS ORGANIZATION. THIS IS BUILDING ON

THE WORK THAT COUNCIL MEMBER RINCK WAS HELPING LEAD AND THE WORK OF THE IT TEAM THIS YEAR, AND IT ADDS FUNDING, AS I SAID, TO IMPLEMENT THE FAIR PRICING LEGISLATION. OKAY. THAT IS MOSTLY THE END. I'M

JUST GOING TO MAKE A COUPLE OF FINAL. REMARKS. I THINK HERE. SO ONE MORE SLIDE. OKAY. SO MOVING FORWARD, AS I MENTIONED MANY, MANY TIMES ALREADY, BIG STRIDES TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY, BUT THERE IS MORE

WORK AHEAD. THIS IS BOTH TO GET TO REALLY ADDRESS THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIT PROBLEM AND RIGHTSIZING BUDGETS DOES NOT ALLOW FOR EXPANDING CITY SERVICES OR ADDRESSING THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OUTSIDE OF THE

CITY'S CONTROL. AS DEMAND FOR SERVICE GROWS AND AS THOSE CONDITIONS OUTSIDE OF OUR CONTROL CONTINUE TO PUT PRESSURE ON OUR BUDGET, WE WE NEED TO KEEP DOING THE WORK TO FIGURE OUT STRATEGIES OF HOW WE

SUSTAIN AND PRESERVE THESE EXISTING OR THESE IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS. SO YOU'LL SEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE PROPOSED BUDGET, A FEW TOOLS THAT WILL NEED MORE WORK OR THAT WILL HELP US MOVE TOWARDS GREATER

SUSTAINABILITY IN THE FUTURE. ONE IS LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH A VOLUNTARY SEPARATION PROGRAM THAT IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS AN EARLY RETIREMENT PROGRAM THAT WILL WOULD ALLOW SOME NATURAL ATTRITION,

POTENTIALLY IN A WAY TO SAVE, TO HAVE TO ACHIEVE SOME SAVINGS WITHOUT HAVING TO ELIMINATE FILLED, FILLED POSITIONS. THE BUDGET DOES NOT ASSUME ANY SAVINGS ON THIS. IT WOULD AUTHORIZE THE EXECUTIVE TO

ESTABLISH A PROGRAM, AND THEN WE WILL BE WORKING TO DEVELOP THE DETAILS AND LIKELY A PROGRAM THAT WOULD LAUNCH EARLY NEXT YEAR. IT IS A WAY TO IDENTIFY SOME POTENTIAL ONGOING SERVICES. THERE'S ALSO

THE EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT AND BUILDING A RESILIENT SEATTLE ECONOMY. EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT WERE RECENTLY ISSUED, PARTICULARLY THE EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT IS IS A LOT OF DIRECTING ME AND MY COLLEAGUES IN

THE CENTRAL SERVICE DEPARTMENTS TO CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR WAYS TO IMPROVE HOW WE SUPPORT OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS AND GETTING MONEY OUT THE DOOR, LOOKING AT NEW WAYS OF DOING THE BUDGET PROCESS AND

MANAGING, MANAGING OUR FINANCES TO CONTINUE MOVING US TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY. AND THEN, AS I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, A REAL COMMITMENT TO CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR NEW PROGRESSIVE REVENUE THAT CAN SUPPORT THE

COMMUNITY NEEDS. SO THIS ONGOING WORK WOULD HELP US TO DEDICATE MORE JUMP START REVENUES TO THE ORIGINAL SPENDING CATEGORIES, CAN HELP US STABILIZE AND EXPAND OUR IMPORTANT PUBLIC SAFETY INVESTMENTS.

ADDRESS NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR PUBLIC FACILITIES. THAT IS A LONG LIST TO ADDRESS AND THEN CONTINUE TO EXPAND PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS AFFORDABILITY. THIS INCLUDES INVESTMENTS IN CHILD CARE, HOUSING,

FOOD, ACCESS TO ARTS AND CULTURE. AND THE LIST. THE LIST COULD GO ON. SO I AM PROUD TO BE PRESENTING THIS BUDGET THAT I, YOU KNOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MANY, MANY YEARS, PRESENTS A BUDGET WITHOUT A

DEFICIT IN THE GENERAL FUND AND RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS WORK AHEAD AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP AS YOU MOVE THROUGH THIS BUDGET PROCESS. AND WE WORK TOGETHER IN THE COMING YEARS. --

WONDERFUL. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. IT TOOK ME A MINUTE TO START TALKING BECAUSE I AM, IN FACT, TIMING MYSELF. COLLEAGUES, ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME FOR DIRECTOR PENNUCCI ON KEY INVESTMENTS OR

ANYTHING AT LARGE? I WILL ASK THAT AS DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS COME UP IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, IT IS NOT NECESSARILY THEIR DECISION TO MAKE THE CHANGES WITHIN THEIR BUDGETS, IT IS WITHIN THE PREROGATIVE OF

THE MAYORAL ADMINISTRATION AT THIS TIME. AND THAT'S WHY I HOPE, WHILE I STILL ASK YOU TO BE NICE TO DIRECTOR PENNUCCI FRUSTRATION AT DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS MIGHT NOT BE APPROPRIATE BECAUSE IT MIGHT NOT

BE THEIR DECISION. SO WITH THAT, I SEE COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE HAS HIS HAND. TAKE IT AWAY. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. -- THANK YOU CHAIR. I ALSO WANT TO THANK DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. ALY. PENNUCCI, WHO IS A TRUE

EXPERT ON BUDGETING. AND YOU KNOW WHO I FIRST LEARNED SOME BUDGETING PIECES, AT LEAST AT THE CITY LEVEL. AND I WILL SAY I DO HAVE MY CHALLENGES OR CONCERNS AND ALL THE ABOVE, BUT TWO THINGS THAT

SEATTLE HAS GOING FOR IT. ONE IS HAVING ALY PENNUCCI JOIN THE TEAM AND THE OTHER ONE IS DWIGHT DIVELY. MY HOPE THAT THE TWO OF THEM, IN TERMS OF PARTICULARLY OF THIS AREA AND THE RELATED AREAS THAT

THEY CAN MAKE VERY STRONG POSITIVE CHANGE FOR SEATTLE. NOW, WITH THAT SAID. I'VE BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT BUDGET AND I'VE ALSO BEEN SPEAKING RECENTLY ABOUT INFLECTION POINTS. I HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT INFLECTION

POINTS WE'RE FACING FIRST WITH THE BITE OF SEATTLE MASS SHOOTING AND THEN THE REMOVAL OF SHON BARNES AS CHIEF OF POLICE, AND THEN START TO FIND HIS REPLACEMENT. THE BUDGET, HOWEVER, IS THE MOST

IMPORTANT INFLECTION POINT. AND BY DEFINITION, INFLECTION POINT IS A MOMENT WHEN SIGNIFICANT CHANGE OCCURS OR MAY OCCUR. AND TO BE CLEAR, THIS BUDGET SUBMISSION IS REVEALING TO BE A SIGNIFICANT

CHANGE, A NEGATIVE CHANGE TO THE WORK WE AS A COUNCIL HAVE DONE OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS ON PUBLIC SAFETY. IN ADDITION TO THE LONG TERM BUDGET PLANNING AMENDMENT AND WORK, I'VE ALSO ADVOCATED AND WE

INCLUDED AS A COUNCIL, A PUBLIC SAFETY ELEMENT IN OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROCESS. THIS IS CRUCIAL, AS HIGHLIGHTED BY LOCAL 27 LEADER FIREFIGHTER KENNY STUART TODAY AT PUBLIC COMMENT. WE MUST KEEP UP.

WE MUST KEEP WHERE WE WILL BE IN 24 AND 25 AS A NORTH STAR AS WE NAVIGATE ALONG THE BUDGET WAYPOINTS TO INCLUDE WHERE WE ARE HERE TODAY ALONG THE WAY TO DO SO WILL PLACE OUR CITY 20 AND 30 YEARS FROM

NOW WHERE WE ARE UNFORTUNATELY AT TODAY. GIVEN THE LACK OF INVESTMENT IN FIRE STATIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, 20 OR 30 YEARS AGO THIS BUDGET, AGAIN, SPECIFICALLY THE PUBLIC SAFETY ELEMENTS, IS A IS REVEALING

SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR EFFORTS TO CREATE A SAFER SEATTLE THAT CAN BRING ABOUT A THRIVING AND VIBRANT CITY. THE BUDGET SHIP SUBMISSION IS LISTING, HOWEVER, I OFTEN SAY SEATTLE IS AND

WILL ALWAYS BE A MARITIME CITY. IT IS, OF COURSE, A TECH CITY AS WELL. AND SEATTLE, THOUGH, IS STILL A JET CITY. AND WITH THAT IN MIND, THIS BUDGET AND MY CONCERNS IS THAT IT PUTS US BELOW GLIDE PATH

AND ACCOMPLISHING OUR PUBLIC SAFETY GOALS. COLLEAGUES, I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THIS BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO TO POLICE, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, FROM A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PERSPECTIVE, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU

KNOW, WE NEED LIKE 1800 OFFICERS, WE NEED TO BE OVER 1400 OFFICERS. THAT IS OUR GOAL. THE 1258 GOAL WAS INTERMEDIATE GOAL. AND SO THIS. 1250 AND MY CONCERNS ABOUT IT PLATEAUING AT THAT LEVEL IS

REALLY, YOU KNOW, PART OF THESE CONCERNS TO GO ALONG WITH WHAT WE HEARD TODAY, BECAUSE OVER TIME IS CURRENT SERVICES AND WE WILL HAVE A CUT IN SERVICES IF WE CUT THE OVERTIME. AND WE REALLY NEED TO

RIGHTSIZE AND TO RIGHT THE SHIP, IF YOU WILL, ON THAT FRONT AS WELL. AND SO WITH THESE DIFFERENT POINTS, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE RELATED TO PUBLIC SAFETY. I DO APPRECIATE THE THE AREAS

OF THE THEME OF PUBLIC SAFETY, PARTICULARLY THE SCENE BETWEEN PUBLIC SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH, HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES. BUT STILL, ULTIMATELY, IT'S THOSE MAIN PIECES OF PUBLIC SAFETY THAT WE NEED

TO WORK AND BACK IN JUST TO CLOSE TO BACK IN JULY OF 20th JULY 20th, ACTUALLY, I SENT A LETTER TO THE MAYOR REGARDING PROPOSED BUDGET REFORMS AND ADDRESSING STRUCTURAL BUDGET DEFICIT. YOU KNOW,

TALKING ABOUT VARIOUS DIFFERENT THINGS. AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THREE AREAS THAT I CALLED FOR WAS A PRIORITY. PRIORITY, A PRIORITY BASED BUDGET SYSTEM, AND WITHDRAWING FROM UNNECESSARY LINES OF

BUSINESS AND UPDATING THE PAYROLL EXPENSE TAX. THESE ARE SOME OF THE AREAS, COLLEAGUES, THAT I'D LIKE TO WORK WITH YOU ON. NOW THAT THIS IS OUR BUDGET, AS WE MOVE FORWARD BETWEEN NOW AND THANKSGIVING.

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU, DIRECTOR PENNUCCI, AND I'M QUITE SERIOUS THAT YOU AND DIRECTOR DIVELY ARE REALLY IMPORTANT PIECES IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE MOVING FORWARD AND THE WORK FROM A BUDGET PROCESS. I REALLY

RESPECT AND APPRECIATE THAT WORK. NOW, OBVIOUSLY, I HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT SOME OF THE DECISIONS THAT WERE MADE BEYOND THAT, BUT THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE DIRECTOR

PENNUCCI ANYTHING? -- YEAH, AYE. -- JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE FOR THOSE COMMENTS, AND THEN LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION. I THINK IT'S JUST FOR THE FOLKS FOLLOWING ALONG AT

HOME. THERE ARE ALWAYS CHOICES IN A BUDGET. I WILL JUST SAY RESPECTFULLY, WHAT THIS BUDGET DOES IS IT HONESTLY PRESENTS WHAT THE CITY CAN AFFORD TO SUSTAIN AT THIS GIVEN MOMENT. YOU, AS YOU TAKE ON

THIS BUDGET. AND I'M I'M HAPPY TO I'M HAPPY TO HAVE IT HANDED OFF. WILL LIKELY CONSIDER AND MAKE DIFFERENT CHOICES ON HOW TO MOVE THE. THE DOLLARS AROUND WITHIN THE BOX THAT WE HAVE WITH OUR EXISTING

REVENUE FORECAST. BUT WHAT IT DOESN'T DO AND AND FRANKLY, MANY PREVIOUS BUDGETS HAVE DONE IS MADE COMMITMENTS ON GROWTH AND EXPANSION THAT ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE. SO I REALLY WANT TO WORK IN PARTNERSHIP

WITH YOU TO LOOK FOR STRATEGIES AS YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR PRIORITIES AND HOW WE CAN FIGURE OUT STRATEGIES TO DO THAT IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T CREATE A DEEPER LEVEL OF UNSUSTAINABILITY IN THE FUTURE,

BECAUSE I DON'T NEED TO DEBATE THE PRIORITIES. THAT IS WHY YOU GET TO BE ELECTED, BUT WANT TO HELP SUPPORT AS YOU CONSIDER THE OPTIONS OF HOW THAT HOW THAT CAN WORK IN A WAY THAT REALLY CAN BE

SUSTAINED AND DELIVERED ON IN THE FUTURE. -- THANK YOU. AND I DO AGREE, THE WORK THAT YOU DO IS IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET PROCESS, THE MECHANICS, THE MACRO PIECES. SO THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT EMERITUS JUAREZ. -- THANK YOU. AND AGAIN, THANK YOU. ALY. IT'S GOOD TO SEE ALL YOU FOLKS HERE. SO I'M JUST GOING TO GET RIGHT TO THE POINT. AND I KNOW WE'LL WE'LL GO BACK AND FORTH

ON THIS. WE HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO GO THROUGH THE BUDGET. THIS IS MY 10th BUDGET CYCLE AND I DON'T I'M I MAY RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE WITH YOU ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THIS BUDGET DOES NOT MAKE COMMITMENTS TO

FUTURE AND UNSUSTAINABLE PROJECTS. AGAIN, I DON'T WANT TO DEBATE THAT. THAT'S THAT'S MORE OF A SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS THAN I'M READY TO GIVE TODAY. SO I'M LOOKING AT PAGE 33. MOVING FORWARD, CONTINUED

EFFORTS TO STABILIZE. AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT NEW PROGRESSIVE REVENUE IS THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ANTICIPATING BRINGING BACK OR CONSIDERING THE SEATTLE CENTER TAX OR FIRE DISTRICT TAX, AS YOU WERE ALL

SUGGESTING IN THE WINTER AND THE SPRING. -- WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE FIRE DISTRICT THAT DID NOT COME FORWARD. THE SEATTLE CENTER BOND ISSUANCE IS ASSUMED. THERE WAS A RESOLUTION PASSED BY

THE COUNCIL CONCURRED BY WITH THE MAYOR TO MOVE FORWARD WITH DEVELOPING THE PLANS TO PUT AN INITIATIVE ON THE BALLOT NEXT YEAR TO FUND THE MAJOR RENOVATIONS. THAT IS A, A A FINANCING STRATEGY TO

SUPPORT THAT WORK THAT WOULD BE BACKED BY A PROPERTY TAX. IF THE IF THE VOTERS THE VOTERS APPROVE IT, THERE IS NO SPECIFIC REVENUE OR NEW PROGRESSIVE TAX, NECESSARILY, BUT WE KNOW THAT THERE IS A NEED

TO INCREASE OUR REVENUES IF WE WANT TO FUND ALL OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE AND ALL OF YOU ARE ASKED TO EXPAND AND ADDRESS EVERY DAY, AND THAT INCLUDES WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP UNDER COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER'S

LEADERSHIP ON CONSIDERING POTENTIALLY A FUTURE CAPITAL GAINS TAX, AS WELL AS LIKE, I'M ALL EARS, IF YOU HAVE OTHER IDEAS, ANY ANY GOOD PROGRESSIVE TAX IDEAS THAT ARE GOING TO NOT NEGATIVELY IMPACT OUR

BUSINESSES AND IDEALLY ADDRESS DON'T IMPACT AFFORDABILITY. SO MY EARS ARE OPEN. IF YOU HAVE ANY. -- WHY DO YOU WHY DO YOU QUALIFY EVERY TAX AS PROGRESSIVE? WHAT. TELL ME WHAT YOUR DISTINCTION IS. -- I

DON'T QUALIFY EVERY TAX AS PROGRESSIVE, BUT THE MAYOR'S PRIORITY IS LOOKING FOR PROGRESSIVE TAX IDEAS. SO FOR EXAMPLE, IT IS DEBATABLE WHETHER, YOU KNOW, A PROPERTY TAX IS NOT THE MOST PROGRESSIVE TAX

ON IT. SO I WOULDN'T HAVE CALLED I WOULDN'T HAVE DESCRIBED THE FIRE DISTRICT AS A PROGRESSIVE TAX. IT WAS A TOOL THAT IS AVAILABLE TO THE CITY. THERE ARE LIMITS TO WHAT THE CITY HAS AUTHORITY TO DO.

-- SO EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT HAPPENED. ALL FROM JANUARY, RIGHT UP UNTIL I DON'T KNOW, AUGUST ISH, WE WERE TOLD, BASICALLY, IT'S GOING TO BE FRANK WITH YOU. YOU KNOW, THE SKY IS FALLING. THERE'S $175

MILLION DEFICIT. AND THEN BACK IN THE FALL OR WINTER AND SPRING, WE HAVE TO PASS THIS FIRE DISTRICT TAX. WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, DOING A BOND MEASURE FOR THE SALES CENTER. AND THEN AND THEN IT'S

GONE. SO AS YOU KNOW, WE MET, I'M FULL DISCLOSURE, WE ALL MET YOU AND I AND THE MAYOR AND ESTHER ON ZOOM. AND THEN YOU SAY, OKAY, WELL, YOU GAVE US A BALANCED BUDGET. SO WHAT HAPPENED? HOW DID YOU

CLOSE THAT GAP? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS HEAR THIS LIKE, THERE'S A $130 MILLION DEFICIT. THERE'S 170, 175. WE HAVE TO RAISE THIS PROGRESSIVE TAX, OR WE HAVE TO DO THIS. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT

WENT AWAY. SO CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME HOW, AGAIN, JUST HOW THAT GOT CLOSED? -- SURE. AND I WENT OVER THIS ON, ON SEVERAL SLIDES AND IT DIDN'T ALL OF A SUDDEN GO AWAY. IT WAS THROUGH SOME VERY TOUGH

CHOICES AND LOOKING REALLY CAREFULLY AT THE BUDGET. SO THAT INCLUDES FOR THE GENERAL FUND, OVER $40 MILLION AND JUST SPENDING REDUCTIONS TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY. WE LOOKED FOR REDUCTIONS THAT WOULD

NOT IMPACT CURRENT LEVELS OF SERVICES. SO AS I MENTIONED, THAT MEANS PAUSING ON PROPOSED EXPANSIONS IN PREVIOUS BUDGETS THAT NOT HAVE NOT YET BEEN IMPLEMENTED, ELIMINATING VACANT POSITIONS, ALIGNING

BUDGETS TO ACTUAL SPENDING, AND IN SOME CASES, SOME HARD CHOICES. IT ALSO INCLUDES SOME FUND SWAPS. SO LIKE I MENTIONED, SHIFTING THE COST ABOUT HALF THE COST OF HOMELESS SERVICE INVESTMENTS FROM THE

GENERAL FUND TO THE JUMPSTART FUND AND THEN OTHER OTHER TYPES OF LIKE FUND SWAPS LIKE THAT. AND THEN WE WERE ALSO FORTUNATE TO HAVE A MODESTLY A MODEST INCREASE IN THE AUGUST REVENUE FORECAST IN THE

GENERAL FUND THAT RESULTED IN ABOUT A $20 MILLION INCREASE EACH YEAR. WE ALSO SIMILARLY SAW A POSITIVE REVENUE FORECAST FOR THE JUMPSTART FUND THAT ALLOWED US TO MAKE THAT SHIFT FROM IN THE HOMELESS

SERVICE INVESTMENTS, FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE JUMPSTART FUND. -- I FOLLOWED ALONG ON YOUR POWERPOINT, ALL 34 PAGES. I JUST I JUST KIND OF WANTED YOU TO PUT IT MORE IN JUST SIMPLER TERMS TO JUST

BECAUSE I'M OBVIOUSLY WE'LL SPEND MORE TIME GOING THROUGH THIS AND LOOKING WHERE AS YOU SHARE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN WE CAN DEBATE THOSE PRIORITIES LATER. SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, ALI. --

THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT EMERITUS, JUAREZ COLLEAGUES, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME? STATEMENTS FEEDBACK. ALL RIGHT. WELL, DIRECTOR PENNUCCI, I LOOK FORWARD TO DIGGING INTO ALL OF

THIS. I'M NOT GOING TO SIT UP HERE AND DEBATE WHO HAD THE MORE STRUCTURALLY SOUND PROPOSAL OR WHO HAS MADE PROMISES WITHOUT PLANS UP HERE. I WILL JUST SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE UNIFIED AGREEMENT ON. I

FORGOT TO START MY TIMER. WE DON'T HAVE UNIFIED AGREEMENT ON ALL OF THAT, BUT I DO APPRECIATE THE LEVEL OF COLLABORATION THAT YOU ENGAGE IN AND THE DIRECT AND HONEST AND EARNEST OF THOSE

CONVERSATIONS. I DON'T FEEL LIKE THERE'S A HIDE THE BALL WITH YOU. SO THANK YOU. APPRECIATE THAT. COLLEAGUES. LAST CALL. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THIS IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE TIME TO

DISCUSS WITH CBO. ALL RIGHT. SEEING NONE, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP RIGHT ON MOVING. THEN IT IS 1146. DO FOLKS WANT TO TAKE 30 MINUTES NOW OR DO PARKS NOW AND TAKE 30 MINUTES LATER? LET'S JUMP INTO PARKS.

LET'S ROLL RIGHT INTO PARKS BECAUSE IT IS STILL BEFORE NOON. AND THEN WE'LL TAKE A HALF AN HOUR BREAK. AT THE END OF THAT, WE'LL BE AT EASE UNTIL THE PARKS DEPARTMENT IS READY TO GO. IS THAT OKAY? DID

I DO IT RIGHT? -- GIVE ME A READ. -- ITEM THREE. -- YEAH, -- [LAUGHTER] -- WELL, COUNCIL. -- MR. CHAIR, HOW LONG IS THE BREAK? -- WE'RE JUST AT EASE AS THEY'RE GETTING SET UP. SO IF YOU NEED TO STEP

AWAY, IT'S OKAY. -- OKAY. THANK YOU -- OKAY. WELL, YEAH -- RIGHT NOW. NO, NO. WHY NOT? A GOOD IDEA. YOU LIKE TO. I GOT TO TELL YOU, I AM NO, NO, I AM YOURSELF. YEAH I GOT YOU AT THIS MOMENT. LIKE.

YEAH, YEAH, I GOT YOU. YEAH. FOR SURE. I GOT YOU. I LEARNED THAT ABOUT YOU. I IN A GOOD WAY, IN A GOOD WAY. OKAY. I WANT TO GIVE YOU A HEADS UP BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT ALL I NEED IS, YOU KNOW? YEAH. FOR

SURE. YOU THINK I DON'T FIGURE IT OUT? WHATEVER. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH ME TOO. THAT'S WHY I WILL TEXT SOMEONE IMMEDIATELY. -- AND IF YOU CAN START SHARING YOUR SCREEN, WE ARE. ARE YOU

READY TO START SHARING SCREEN. -- ON THE SCREEN? -- AWESOME. -- IS WHAT IS BACTRIM? -- YEAH. -- WE NEED ONE MORE PERSON. TWO, FOUR. YOU WANT TO MAKE THE MICS HOT AGAIN? THEY ARE HOT. AWARD WINNING

SEATTLE CHANNEL. AS SOON AS WE GET ONE MORE COUNCILMEMBER TO RETURN FROM BEING AT EASE, WE WILL START AGAIN. IF THERE ARE FOLKS WATCHING IN THEIR OFFICES NOW AND YOU SEE A COUNCILMEMBER, PLEASE SEND

THEM BACK TO CHAMBERS. JUAREZ IS BACK. WONDERFUL. COUNCIL PRESIDENT EMERITUS, GOOD TO SEE YOU. WE HAVE QUORUM. WE WILL START RIGHT UP WITH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT. I SEE ALI IS NOT QUITE BACK, BUT I'M

SURE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SAY ANYTHING THAT'S GOING TO GET YOU IN TROUBLE IN THESE FIRST 30s. SO WITH THAT, IF YOU'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF, I'M GOING TO FIRST HAVE THE CLERK READ ITEM NUMBER THREE

INTO THE RECORD. -- AGENDA ITEM THREE SEATTLE PARKS AND RECREATION FOR BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION. -- WONDERFUL. IF YOU'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELVES AND THEN WE'LL DIVE RIGHT ON IN. -- GOOD MORNING.

GOOD AFTERNOON -- SORRY, GUYS. OKAY, THERE WE GO. THANK YOU -- WHEN YOU MICHELE TO SPEAK UP A LITTLE MICHELE. I CAN'T HEAR YOU. -- THAT'S BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE THE MICROPHONE ON COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ.

IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS. THERE YOU ARE. EVERY -- [LAUGHTER] -- TIME -- THANK YOU. -- GOOD. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU. CHAIR STRAUSS AND COUNCILMEMBERS FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY. I'M MICHELE FINNEGAN,

INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT OF SEATTLE PARKS AND RECREATION AND JOINED TODAY BY AMY WILLIAMS, WHO LEADS OUR BUDGET AND POLICY TEAM. WE'RE HAPPY TO BE HERE TO PROPOSE TO PRESENT THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET

FOR SEATTLE PARKS AND RECREATION. WE BELIEVE THIS IS A STRONG BUDGET PROPOSAL, ACHIEVING REQUESTED GENERAL FUND AND RATE SAVINGS WHILE ALSO MAKING INVESTMENTS TO INCREASE PROGRAM ACCESS AND ADDRESS

PRIORITY EMERGENT CAPITAL PRIORITIES. BEFORE WE JUMP IN, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK AMY AND THE SPR TEAM WHO WORKED ON OUR BUDGET PROPOSAL INTERNALLY. AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE DIRECTOR PENNUCCI FOR

HER LEADERSHIP AND HER TEAM SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS, AS WELL AS OUR OPERATIONS MANAGER, RACHEL SHULKIN, WHO ALONG WITH THE MAYOR'S EXECUTIVE TEAM AND THE MAYOR HERSELF, SUPPORTED A THOUGHTFUL

DECISION MAKING LEADING TO THE PROPOSED BUDGET, WILL WALK THROUGH NOW. I'D LIKE TO START BY SHARING THAT AS WE APPROACH THE BIENNIAL BUDGETING PROCESS, WE CENTERED OUR MISSION AND THE DESIRE TO

PREVENT TO PRESERVE CRITICAL SERVICES FOR THE COMMUNITY. AS PART OF DEVELOPING THIS PEOPLE FIRST BUDGET, WE REVIEWED OUR BASELINE BUDGET FOR EFFICIENCIES AND POTENTIAL FUNDING REALIGNMENTS. AS YOU'LL

SEE, THESE APPROACHES SERVED AS THE BASIS FOR MANY OF THE PROPOSALS TO SAVE GENERAL FUND AND REACH DOLLARS. SOME OF THESE EFFICIENCIES AND FUNDING REALIGNMENTS RECOGNIZE WHERE WE ARE ON CERTAIN

CAPITAL PROJECTS AND HOW THAT INFORMS SPENDING PLANS FOR THE UPCOMING BIENNIUM. IN DEVELOPING OUR RECOMMENDATIONS, WE WERE MINDFUL OF OUR PARK DISTRICT CYCLE TWO COMMITMENTS AND OUR BASELINE SERVICE

LEVELS. BUT WE'VE ALSO HEARD YOU ALL IN THE DESIRE TO HAVE A MORE INFORMED CAPITAL BUDGETS AND LESS CAPITAL CARRY FORWARD. THIS REVIEW INCLUDED A DEEP DIVE ON OUR COMMUNITY CENTER PROJECT SCHEDULES

AND PARK DISTRICT FUND BALANCE. AS YOU'LL SEE IN THE UPCOMING SLIDES SOME IDENTIFIED CAPACITY FROM THAT REVIEW IS PROPOSED TO OFFSET GENERAL FUND AND REVENUE IMPACTS, AND SOME IS PROPOSED TO MEET

EMERGENT NEEDS. IN SOME CASES, THE RESULTS OF THESE PROPOSALS IS THAT FUNDING SOURCES IN THE OUT YEARS WILL NEED TO BE IDENTIFIED, IN SEATTLE, PARKS AND RECREATION IS COMMITTED TO DEVELOPING OPTIONS

FOR FUTURE COUNCIL CONSIDERATION. I HEARD DIRECTOR PENNUCCI SAY HER LEAST FAVORITE SLIDE IN HER PRESENTATION, AND I WILL SHARE THAT THIS IS MY LEAST FAVORITE SLIDE, AS IT'S A LOT OF STUFF BUILDING

INTO THESE BIG NUMBERS, BUT I WILL ATTEMPT TO WALK YOU THROUGH OUR PROPOSED BUDGET AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. OUR OVERALL BUDGET INCREASES BY ABOUT 10% FROM THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET OF 363 MILLION TO 400

MILLION, OR APPROXIMATELY 37 MILLION, WHICH IS MAINLY DUE TO THE LONG TERM GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND APPROPRIATION IN 2027. FOR OUR CYCLE, TWO COMMUNITY CENTER PROJECTS, IT INCREASES TO 448 IN 2028,

WHICH IS ALSO MOSTLY DUE TO ADDITIONAL LEGAL BOND APPROPRIATION AND ASSOCIATED DEBT SERVICE. WE'LL WALK YOU THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND SAVINGS ON THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, BUT BASICALLY, THE INCREASE YOU SEE

HERE BETWEEN 26, 27 AND 28 IS ABOUT 3% PER YEAR. AND THESE CHANGES ARE MOSTLY RELATED TO THE ANNUAL BASELINE ADJUSTMENTS LIKE HEALTH CARE AND CENTRAL COSTS, THAT DIRECTOR PENNUCCI WALKED YOU THROUGH

THE DECREASE IN OTHER FUNDS FROM 2026 TO 2027 IS MOSTLY REFLECTING A $5 MILLION, APPROXIMATE $5 MILLION REDUCTION IN RATE STARTING IN 2027. REAL ESTATE EXCISE TAX. SORRY, I DIDN'T CORRECT MYSELF

THERE, AND THE INCREASE IN OTHER FUNDS FROM 27 TO 28 REFLECTS INFLATIONARY ADJUSTMENTS TO THE MPD. THE SEATTLE PARK DISTRICT, AS WELL AS PAYING DEBT SERVICE WITH THAT FUND. FINALLY, I'D LIKE TO POINT

OUT THAT THE PROPOSED BUDGET APPROPRIATION OF 134 MILLION OF GENERAL FUND IN 2027 AND 137 IN 2028, MAINTAINS THE GENERAL FUND FLOOR REQUIREMENT SET BY THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE

PARK DISTRICT, WHICH WOULD BE 131.7 MILLION IN 27 AND ABOUT THE SAME IN 28. WE'LL WALK THROUGH OUR FTE CHANGES ON OUR FINAL SLIDE, SO I WON'T GO INTO THAT HERE. TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE VARIOUS

ELEMENTS OF OUR PROPOSED BUDGET, THIS SLIDE SUMMARIZES THE FOUR MAIN CATEGORIES OF CHANGES. AS JUST DESCRIBED. THE FIRST TWO CATEGORIES ARE EFFICIENCIES AND FUNDING REALIGNMENTS. PROPOSED TO SAVE OVER

$11 MILLION IN GENERAL FUND. I'LL THEN COVER THE 2027 TO 2032 RATE REDUCTIONS, AS WELL AS THE ONE TIME 2026 REDUCTION THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE COMPANION PIECE OF LEGISLATION, WHICH, SPOILER ALERT ALSO

RECOMMENDS SOME FUNDING REALIGNMENTS. WE'LL THEN CONCLUDE WITH PROPOSED INVESTMENTS, NOTING THAT THESE ARE MOSTLY ONE TIME SAVINGS SUPPORTING ONE TIME INVESTMENTS. AS MENTIONED, SPR PROPOSED BUDGET

SAVES OVER $11 MILLION IN GENERAL FUND ANNUALLY. THREE AND A HALF IS SAVED THROUGH THE SLATE OF PROPOSED EFFICIENCIES FOLLOWING A ROBUST REVIEW OF OUR ENTIRE BUDGET, NOT JUST THE GENERAL FUND. THESE

INCLUDE REMOVING GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATION TO REPAY BONDS FOR MAGNUSON PARK BUILDINGS 11 AND 30. THESE WERE FULLY PAID IN 2025, SHIFTING 50% OF OUR LEASE COSTS FOR ONE OF OUR ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDINGS

TO THE CIP OVERHEAD, REFLECTING THE STAFFING FOR OUR PLANNING AND CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM IS HOUSED AT THAT FACILITY, REMOVING APPROXIMATELY $300,000 IN MPD RESERVES. PARK DISTRICT RESERVES RELATED

TO ADDRESSING PAY DISPARITIES IN THE RECREATION DIVISION. THIS ISSUE, WHICH WAS RAISED IN THE CYCLE TWO PLAN, HAS BEEN ADDRESSED THROUGH A RECLASSIFICATION AND THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MOST

RECENT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT. JUST TO NOTE, I WILL REFERENCE THESE RESERVES AGAIN IN AN UPCOMING SLIDE WE ALSO PROPOSE ABROGATING 4.5 FTE OF LONG TERM VACANCIES, INCLUDING A SENIOR

MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ANALYST ON OUR BUDGET TEAM, A STRATEGIC ADVISOR IN OUR HUMAN SERVICES TEAM, AND TWO AND A HALF ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS IN OUR UC T UNIFIED CARE TEAM. FINALLY, WE'RE PROPOSING TO

REDUCE NON-LABOR BUDGETS TO REFLECT OUR KIND OF OUR BASELINE SPENDING ASSOCIATED WITH TWO PROGRAM AREAS AT THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM. THE PROPOSED BUDGET REDUCES $600,000 FOR CONTRACTED SERVICES TO ALIGN

NON-LABOR BUDGETS WITH ACTUAL SPENDING. WE DO NOT INTEND. WE DO NOT EXPECT OR INTEND TO IMPACT SERVICE LEVELS ON THAT TEAM. FOR THE GRAFFITI PROGRAM. THE PROPOSED BUDGET REDUCES $500,000 OF NON LABOR

DISCRETIONARY FUNDING THAT WAS ADDED BY THE EXECUTIVE IN THE 2026 BUDGET. AS YOU'LL SEE OVER THE NEXT TWO SLIDES, THE REMAINING 7.8 MILLION IN ANNUAL GENERAL FUND SAVINGS IS ACHIEVED THROUGH PROPOSED

PROGRAMMATIC FUNDING REALIGNMENTS. THE 2025 2026 BIENNIAL BUDGET SHIFTED THREE ARTS RELATED PROGRAMS FROM IN SPR, FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE ARTS AND CULTURE FUND, SAVING A LITTLE OVER $700,000. THE

PROPOSED BUDGET BEFORE YOU PROPOSES CONTINUING THIS REALIGNMENT. THESE PROGRAMS ARE THE ARTS AND PARKS PROGRAMS, A GRANTING PROGRAM BY WHICH ARTISTS AND ARTS ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVATE PARK SPACES

THROUGHOUT THE CITY IN A PROCESS COORDINATED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE, THE TEEN SUMMER MUSICAL, A LONG STANDING FREE SUMMER PROGRAM THAT INTRODUCES YOUNG PEOPLE TO THE WORLD

OF THEATER AND THE CENTER CITY BUSKER PROGRAM, WHICH BRINGS MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT TO PARKS MANAGED UNDER OUR CENTER CITY ACTIVATION UMBRELLA. ON THIS SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR

PROPOSED FUNDING REALIGNMENTS TO SAVE GENERAL FUND AND INVOLVE REALLOCATING PARK DISTRICT CAPITAL RESOURCES TO THE OPERATING BUDGET TO OFFSET A LIKE AMOUNT OF GENERAL FUND. THESE TRANSFERS ARE

OPERATIONALIZED IN THE GROUNDS MAINTENANCE LINE OF BUSINESS. SO THAT IS THE BUDGET INFORMATION SHOWN ON THE TABLE ON THIS SLIDE. SIMILAR TO THE LAST SLIDE. THE FIRST CHANGES CONTINUE WHAT WAS PLANNED

AS A ONE TIME REALIGNMENT IN THE 2526 BIENNIUM. MORE SPECIFICALLY, THIS CONTINUES REALLOCATION OF $4.1 MILLION OF PARK DISTRICT REVENUES, PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTING ACQUISITIONS, MAJOR MAINTENANCE, AND THE

COMMUNITY FUND TO SUPPORT GENERAL PARK MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS. IN ADDITION, THE PROPOSED 2027 2028 BUDGET INCREASES THE REALLOCATION FROM CAPITAL MAJOR MAINTENANCE TO THE GENERAL PARK MAINTENANCE

OPERATIONS BY $3 MILLION. WHILE THIS ONGOING REDUCTION FOR MAJOR MAINTENANCE AND ASSET PRESERVATION IMPACTS OUR ABILITY TO ADDRESS LONG TERM CAPITAL MAINTENANCE NEEDS, WE ARE CONTINUING TO ADDRESS OUR

NEEDS AND OUR APPROACH TO THIS WORK. AS THE THROUGH THE PARKS AND RECREATION OPEN SPACE PLAN AND THE PARK DISTRICT MID CYCLE REPORT, WHICH WE'RE DEVELOPING NOW. UNFORTUNATELY, THE REDUCTION TO PARK

DISTRICT CAPITAL FUNDING IS COMPOUNDED BY THE DEMAND FOR REACH AND THE ASSOCIATED REVENUE FORECASTS. IN ADDITION TO THE ONE TIME 2026 BUDGET LEGISLATION, WHICH WILL SPEAK TO NEXT, THE 27 TO 2032 CIP

REDUCES REACH RESOURCES AND OUR PROPOSED CIP BY ABOUT $25 MILLION OVER THE SIX YEARS, OR ABOUT $5 MILLION ANNUALLY, TO ACHIEVE THIS REDUCTION, THE PROPOSED BUDGET REDUCES REACH FOR THE GAS WORKS, PARK

REMEDIATION PROJECT IN 2027 THROUGH 2029. BASED ON THE LATEST INFORMATION WE HAVE ON PROJECTED SPENDING THROUGH THIS TIME FRAME, THAT SAVES $2.8 MILLION. THE ONGOING PROJECT SUPPORTS OVERALL CLEANUP

AT GASWORKS PARK, INCLUDING UPLANDS AND SEDIMENTS, AND SPR WORKS WITH SPU AND PUGET SOUND ENERGY TO ALIGN BUDGETS WITH PLANNED REMEDIATION WORK. WHILE $2 MILLION REMAINS IN EACH OF THE OUT YEARS OF

THE CIP, ADDITIONAL FUNDING WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED FOR PLANNED REMEDIATION WORK. AT THAT TIME, THE PROPOSED BUDGET REDUCES ATHLETIC FIELD REPLACEMENTS BY $7.1 MILLION IN 2027 THROUGH 20. SORRY. IN 2029

THROUGH 2031, BUT DOES INVEST AN ADDITIONAL $8 MILLION IN 2032, FOR A TOTAL OF $30 MILLION IN THE PROPOSED CIP. AS YOU KNOW, THE ABILITY OF SYNTHETIC FIELD TURFS TO ABSORB IMPACTS DECLINES AS FIELDS

REACH THE END OF THEIR 10 TO 12 YEAR SERVICE LIFE, WHICH REDUCES PLAYABILITY. GENERALLY, SYNTHETIC TURF REPLACEMENTS CAN RANGE BETWEEN 2 AND $5 MILLION, AND WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 12 SYNTHETIC TURF

FIELDS DUE FOR REPLACEMENT IN THE NEXT CIP. GIVEN THESE CHANGES, ADDITIONAL FUNDING MOST LIKELY WILL NEED TO BE IDENTIFIED OR WILL MOVE SOME OF THESE REPLACEMENTS INTO THE OUT YEARS. SORRY, I WENT TOO

FAST. SORRY. CONVERSIONS. THE OUT YEARS OF THE CURRENT CIP INCLUDED PARTIAL FUNDING FOR CONVERSION OF THE WEST MAGNOLIA PLAY FIELD AT $5.1 MILLION. WE NOW ANTICIPATE THIS PROJECT TO BE EIGHT PLUS

MILLION DOLLARS IN THE PROPOSED CIP ELIMINATES THE ASSOCIATED RATE, BUT CONTINUES THE PROJECT IN THE CIP. ACKNOWLEDGING THIS IS A PRIORITY PROJECT FOR FUTURE FUNDING. IN FACT, THIS IS THE FINAL

OUTSTANDING PROJECT IN OUR JOINT ATHLETIC FACILITIES DEVELOPMENT PLAN WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE CIP ALSO INCLUDES $9.6 MILLION FOR THE MAGNUSON PARK ATHLETIC FIELD 12 CONVERSION PROJECT WE ARE

WORKING ON NOW. THE PROPOSED CIP ELIMINATES REACH SUPPORT BUT REPLACES IT WITH PARK DISTRICT FUNDING. WILL PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION ON THIS REINVESTMENT IN AN UPCOMING SLIDE. TO MEET THE CURRENT

CITYWIDE PROJECTED REVENUE SHORTFALL, THE YEAR END SUPPLEMENTAL INCLUDES ABOUT $12 MILLION IN REDUCTIONS ACROSS SEVERAL SPR CAPITAL PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS, INCLUDING. A ONE TIME REDUCTION OF PARK

DISTRICT CARRY FORWARD IN THE ACQUISITION PROJECT, INFORMED BY SPENDING PLANS AND RECOGNIZING THE PROPOSED CIP CONTINUES $1 MILLION ANNUALLY TO SUPPORT GREEN SPACE ACQUISITION OPPORTUNITIES AND IS

MATCH FOR CONSERVATION FUTURE TAX SUPPORTED ACQUISITIONS. SIMILARLY, A ONE TIME REDUCTION IN OUR ACCESSIBILITY PROJECT FUNDING ALIGNS BUDGET WITH SPENDING AND IS NOT EXPECTED TO IMPACT CURRENT

EFFORTS. THE PROPOSED CIP CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM WITH $2 MILLION ANNUALLY. REGARDING COMMUNITY CENTER STABILIZATION AND DECARBONIZATION. SPR HAS BEEN WORKING ON A PACKAGE OF DECARBONIZATION

PROJECTS UNDER A G C, C M MODEL, WHICH IS NEW FOR US. WITH THIS FUNDING IDENTIFIED IN THIS PROJECT, WE ARE PURSUING DECARBONIZATION AT VAN ASSELT, OUR GENESEE CREW QUARTERS AND GARFIELD COMMUNITY

CENTER. WE ARE ALSO DESIGNING DECARBONIZATION FOR JEFFERSON AND RAINIER COMMUNITY CENTERS. WE HAVE ALSO RECENTLY BEGUN WORKING ON A SEPARATE COMMUNITY CENTER STABILIZATION PROJECT WITH DECARBONIZATION

FOR HIGH POINT COMMUNITY CENTER. WE ESTIMATE THIS PROJECT WILL NEED $6 MILLION OVERALL, BUT WE ARE RETAINING $1 MILLION TO CONTINUE THE PLANNING AND DESIGN, WHICH IS WHAT WE EXPECT WE WILL NEED OVER

THIS BIENNIUM. THIS APPROACH OVERALL ALIGNS CURRENT SPENDING PROJECTIONS WITH BUDGET AND POSITIONS. ALL THREE OF THESE PROJECTS BEING DESIGNED AT JEFFERSON, RAINIER AND HIGH POINT FOR OUTSIDE FUNDING

AND FOR READINESS FOR CYCLE THREE OF THE PARK DISTRICT. FINALLY, WE ARE RECOMMENDING ABANDONING APPROPRIATION IN TWO PROJECTS. FUNDING WAS ADDED IN CYCLE TWO OF THE PARK DISTRICT FOR PRE ENGINEERING

EVALUATION OF 1 TO 2 POTENTIAL WATER REUSE PROJECTS CAPTURING STORMWATER RUNOFF OR RAINWATER HARVEST, OR SOME OTHER ONE FOR FUNDING OR WATER SOURCE FOR IRRIGATION USE. THE TEAM HAS BEGUN TO LOOK INTO

THIS CONCEPT, AND GIVEN THE POTENTIAL COST, SPR IS RECOMMENDING, WE FOCUS RESOURCES ON OTHER PRIORITY PROJECTS AT THIS TIME FINALLY, THE PROJECT AT SMITH COVE IS NEARING COMPLETION AND THIS. THIS

CHANGE REALLOCATES UNUSED CONTINGENCY TO MITIGATE RATE REDUCTIONS. IT DOES NOT IMPACT DELIVERY OF THAT PROJECT. THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO INVESTS IN CITY PRIORITIES THROUGH PARK DISTRICT

REALIGNMENTS. THIS SLIDE OUTLINES OUR OPERATING BUDGET PROPOSALS, AND THE NEXT SLIDE COVERS CAPITAL BUDGET. THESE ARE PRIMARILY FUNDED WITH ONE TIME CAPACITY. FROM A REVIEW OF OUR COMMUNITY CENTER

PROJECT SCHEDULES. THE PROPOSED BUDGET ALMOST DOUBLES SPR RECREATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM IN 2027 AND 2028. RECOGNIZING THE DEMAND FAR EXCEEDS AVAILABLE FUNDING IN 2025. THE PROGRAM EXCEEDED ITS BUDGET

BY ABOUT 20%, ALLOWING IT TO SERVE APPROXIMATELY 1800 RECIPIENTS, LEVERAGING SOME VACANCY SAVINGS. AND IN 2026, YOU ALL SUPPORTED AN ADDITIONAL $200,000 THROUGH OUR SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET PROCESS. THE

PROPOSED $400,000 PER YEAR INCREASE IS SUPPORTED BY PLANNED ONM THAT IS NOT NEEDED FOR NEW FACILITIES COMING ONLINE. THE OTHER PROPOSED USE OF THIS ONE TIME CAPACITY IS TO SUPPORT OUR AQUATICS LINE OF

BUSINESS, RECOGNIZING OUR POOLS CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE FINANCIAL CHALLENGES. THIS PROPOSAL CONTINUES. $1.6 MILLION IN REVENUE SUBSIDY IN 2027 AND 2028 TO ENSURE SERVICES ARE NOT IMPACTED. THAT SAID,

I'D LIKE TO CLARIFY THAT OUR AQUATICS LINE OF BUSINESS IS STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR GENERATING OVER $6 MILLION OF EARNED REVENUE, AND SPR HAS IDENTIFIED THIS AS A KEY PROGRAM TO REVIEW AS PART OF OUR PARK

DISTRICT MID CYCLE REPORT. TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE OPERATIONAL AND FINANCIAL ISSUES WE ARE ALSO PROPOSING THREE ONGOING REALLOCATIONS TOTALING $1.3 MILLION. SEATTLE CONSERVATION CORPS. WE ARE

PROPOSING TO REPRIORITIZE NON-LABOR BASELINE FUNDING TO ADD TWO NEW HR POSITIONS TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAM AND THE TEAM ACTIVITIES THAT THEY WOULD BE PERFORMING RANGE FROM PARTICIPANT SELECTION,

READINESS TO IDENTIFY AND OFFER ENHANCED SERVICES SUCH AS ONBOARDING, TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT. LATE NIGHT AT HIGH POINT, THE PROPOSED BUDGET SUSTAINS THE 2026 COUNCIL BUDGET AD SUPPORTING

LATE NIGHT AT OUR HIGH POINT COMMUNITY CENTER. THIS ONGOING CHANGE ALSO INCREASES FTE BY TWO DIFFERENT POSITIONS, TO A TOTAL OF .75 FTE AND UTILIZES REMAINING FUNDING RESERVE ORIGINALLY IDENTIFIED TO

ADDRESS PAY DISPARITIES. DISPARITIES IN THE RECREATION DIVISION I REFERENCED EARLIER. THIS BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF LOCATIONS WITHIN LATE NIGHT PROGRAMING TO NINE CITYWIDE. AS YOU KNOW, THE TEEN

LATE NIGHT PROGRAM PROVIDES SAFE, ENRICHING SPACES FOR TEENS AGED 13 TO 19 TO RECEIVE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT, CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, ATHLETICS, CAREER READINESS AND JUST TO HANG OUT WITH CARING ADULTS. THE

PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO REPURPOSES $600,000 IDENTIFIED IN CYCLE TWO OF THE PARK DISTRICT FOR YOUTH OPPORTUNITY FUND. THAT HAS NOT BEEN FULLY IMPLEMENTED TO PILOT A HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER

IN COLLABORATION WITH RAINIER BEACH HIGH SCHOOL, AS WELL AS EXPAND TEEN PROGRAMING AT RAINIER BEACH COMMUNITY CENTER. THIS PROPOSAL INCLUDES FUNDING FOR CONTRACTS TO SUPPORT THESE TEEN SERVICES AND

ALSO INVEST IN THE TEENS. THE STAFF SERVING IN THESE PROGRAMS CITYWIDE. NOW, TURNING TO THE CAPITAL SIDE, THE REALIGNMENT OF DEBT SERVICE ISSUANCE AND PAYMENT AND DEBT PAYMENT WITH UPDATED PROJECT

SCHEDULES CREATES ABOUT $16.5 MILLION IN ONE TIME CAPACITY IN 2027 AND 2028. THE PROPOSED BUDGET UTILIZES THESE FUNDS, AND ABOUT $600,000 OF ONE TIME KING COUNTY PARKS LEVY FUNDING TO ADDRESS SEVERAL

SEVERAL CAPITAL PROJECTS, BRINGING THE TOTAL RESOURCES TO ABOUT 17 MILLION. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THIS IS HOW SPR IS PROPOSING TO REPLACE $9.6 MILLION OF REVENUES FOR THE CONVERSION OF MAGNUSON PARK

ATHLETIC FIELD 12, WITH PARK DISTRICT REVENUES. THIS PROJECT CONVERTS A GRASS FIELD TO SYNTHETIC TURF, INCLUDING LIGHTING AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS CONSISTENT WITH THE MAGNUSON PARK MASTER PLAN. THE

PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO INVESTS IN TWO NEW PARK RESTROOMS ONE AT CHERYL CHOW PARK, WHICH WAS OPENED IN APRIL OF 2025. AND AS PART OF THAT PROJECT, THE UTILITY CONNECTIONS WERE INCLUDED IN PREPARATION FOR

A FUTURE PORTLAND LURE. SIMILAR PREFABRICATED RESTROOM. THE PROPOSED BUDGET INVEST $900,000 FOR THIS RESTROOM. THE PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO SETS ASIDE PARK DISTRICT RESOURCES FOR A NEW RESTROOM IN

NORTHEAST SEATTLE. IN RESPONSE TO A PARK COMMUNITY FUND PROPOSAL. SPR HAS BEEN EVALUATING THE GAP IN ACCESSIBLE RESTROOMS IN THIS AREA AND THIS EVALUATION IS UNDER REVIEW, AND WE ANTICIPATE

IDENTIFYING A SITE IN EARLY 2027. THE PROJECT TO RESTORE THE DAMAGED ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AT THE DISCOVERY PARK ENVIRONMENTAL, ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER IS CURRENTLY IN DESIGN FOR IN-

KIND SYSTEM REPLACEMENT AND IS ON PACE TO START PERMITTING BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR. THE TOTAL PROJECT COST IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 3.3 MILLION. WHILE WE EXPLORE DECARBONIZATION, THE COST WAS MORE

THAN DOUBLE AND WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT OTHER PLANNED DECARBONIZATION PROJECTS REFERENCED EARLIER. A PORTION OF THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED WITH REACH, AND SPR INTENDS TO FUND THE REMAINDER OF THE

PROJECT WITH ONE TIME PARK DISTRICT FUNDS. AT LITTLEBROOK PARK, THE PREFERRED DESIGN REQUIRED ADDITIONAL PERMITTING AND HAS EXPERIENCED LONGER PROJECT SCHEDULES, RESULTING IN A HIGHER ENGINEER'S

ESTIMATE TO FULLY FUND THE PROJECT. SPR IS PROPOSING TO INCREASE THE BUDGET SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH BIDDING. THE PROJECT. SPR IS ALSO PROPOSING TO MAKE ONE TIME INVESTMENTS TO UPGRADE SAFETY AND

SECURITY CAMERAS THAT ARE INOPERABLE OR PAST THEIR USEFUL LIFE AT 19 SITES THAT CURRENTLY HAVE SYSTEMS. WHILE THIS COULD ALIGN WITH A FUTURE INVESTMENT FOR SITES WITHOUT CAMERAS, AS WELL AS AN ONGOING

PROGRAM TO ENSURE THEY STAY OPERATIONAL, THE PROPOSAL HERE RELATES TO EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTER POOLS, TEEN CENTERS, ET CETERA. THESE SYSTEMS PRIMARILY FACE ENTRANCES AND INTERNAL SPACES, SUPPORTING

STAFF AND MANAGING THE FACILITIES INOPERABLE AND AGE SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN FLAGGED AS PROBLEMATIC, ESPECIALLY AFTER INCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED AT SOUTHWEST TEEN CENTER AND POOL IN RECENT EVENTS AT YESLER AND

VAN HASSELT, THE PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO INCLUDES $700,000 IN PARK DISTRICT RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THE ONGOING DESIGN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CAMP LONG LODGE RENOVATION PROJECT. THIS THIS INVESTMENT POSITIONS

SPR TO DETERMINE WITH BETTER COST CERTAINTY WHAT THIS PROJECT WILL NEED AND ALSO CONSIDERS A GQM MODEL. WHILE IT APPROACHES OR. WHILE THIS WOULD FUND US REACHING 60% DESIGN. THIS WILL KEEP THE PROJECT

MOVING FORWARD. WHILE WE'RE EXPLORING FUNDING OPTIONS FOR THE UNFUNDED WORK, INCLUDING GRANTS, STATE APPROPRIATION AND FUTURE PARK DISTRICT CAPITAL FUNDING FINALLY, THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET

INCLUDES $570,000 TO INCREASE TO INCREASE THE SCOPE OF WORK FOR THE WEST MAGNOLIA PLAYFIELD PLAYGROUND RENOVATION PROJECT TO INCLUDE INCLUSIVE PLAY ELEMENTS. THE FIRST ROUND OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

JUST BEGAN FOR THIS PROJECT, AND THE CURRENT SCOPE INCLUDES RENOVATING THE PLAY AREA TO MEET MODERN SAFETY AND ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS, REPLACING THE EQUIPMENT THAT HAS REACHED ITS 20 YEAR LIFE. WITH

NEW EQUIPMENT FOR AGES 2 TO 12, NEW SAFETY SURFACING SITE FOR AND SITE FURNISHING FURNISHINGS, THIS PROJECT WILL ALSO INSTALL NEW ACCESSIBLE RAMP AND SIDEWALK SYSTEM CONNECTING THE COMMUNITY CENTER TO

THE PLAY AREA, TENNIS COURTS AND FUTURE SKATE DOCK CONSTRUCTION WILL INCLUDE SURROUNDING LAWN RENOVATION AND PROTECTIVE CARE FOR EXISTING PARK TREES. THE EXISTING COMMUNITY ART, INCLUDING THE CAIRNS

PLACE BLOCKS, WILL REMAIN SAFELY IN PLACE. THIS SLIDE PROVIDES THE SPECIFIC POSITION CHANGES IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET. THIS INCLUDES THE ABROGATION OF FIVE LONG TERM VACANT POSITIONS, NONE OF WHICH ARE

CURRENTLY REPRESENTED. TITLES. THE ADDITION OF FOUR POSITIONS, THREE OF WHICH I'VE ALREADY REFERENCED AS IT RELATES TO OUR. TEAM PROPOSAL AND THE CONSERVATION CORPS, AS WELL AS CREATES A NEW

INSTALLATION MAINTENANCE POSITION WITH OUR GOLF PROGRAM, SUPPORTED BY REVENUES FROM THAT FUND, FROM THAT FUND. AND I THINK WITH THAT, UNLESS. ALY YOU WANT TO CORRECT ME OR ADD TO WHAT I SAID, I WILL

TURN IT OVER FOR QUESTIONS. -- THANK YOU. NO. NO CORRECTIONS. I JUST REALLY WANT TO THANK THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, WHO I WILL SAY LIKE, IT WAS A REALLY STRONG PARTNERSHIP THIS YEAR AND TRYING TO FIND

WAYS TO PRESERVE SERVICES, HELP ADDRESS THE CITY WIDE GENERAL FUND AND REACH CHALLENGES AND MAKE SOME REALLY KEY INVESTMENTS IN OUR PARKS, FACILITIES AND TEEN PROGRAMING AND OTHER INVESTMENTS THAT ARE

PROPOSED. SO THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU, DIRECTOR FINNEGAN AND DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. I AM GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO COUNCIL PRESIDENT EMERITUS JUAREZ FOR FIRST STATEMENTS OR QUESTIONS, SINCE SHE'S CHAIR OF

THE COMMITTEE OVERSEEING THE DEPARTMENT. AND IF YOU NEED A MINUTE, I CAN CALL ON COUNCILMEMBER LIN. -- I'M GOOD. I'LL BE QUICK. -- BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF TIME ON THIS. THANK YOU MICHELLE.

THANK YOU ALY. I KNOW YOU GUYS. I LOVE WORKING WITH YOU GUYS IN PARKS AND I KNOW ALL THE STUFF THAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO. I'M GOING TO I'LL PROBABLY COME BACK WITH SOME MORE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT I MAY

DIRECT AT ALY LATER. AND THAT IS JUST THE REDUCTION IN THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM. AND THEN THE REDUCTION IN THE GRAFFITI NONLABOR REDUCTION AND THE GRAFFITI PROGRAM. SO I'M JUST GOING TO PUT THOSE OUT.

THERE IS, IS COUNCILMEMBER HERBERT USED TO SAY, PUT A PIN IN IT, AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK TO IT AND KIND OF DIG A LITTLE BIT DEEPER WHEN WE START, YOU KNOW, MAKING SOME CHANGES HERE AND THERE. SO I

JUST WANTED TO PUT PUT THAT OUT THERE. NOW. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCIL PRESIDENT EMERITUS. -- THANK YOU. -- COUNCILMEMBER LIN. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU TO OUR PRESENTERS. AND THERE'S A LOT IN

HERE THAT I APPRECIATE, INCLUDING THE LATE NIGHT TEEN PROGRAMING AT RAINIER BEACH. WE'VE CERTAINLY HEARD A LOT FROM THAT COMMUNITY. THE DIRE NEED FOR SAFE PLACES FOR TEENS TO GO AFTER SCHOOL IN THE

EVENINGS, WEEKENDS, AND SO VERY MUCH NEEDED, CERTAINLY ALSO INTERESTED IN EXPLORING HOW TO GO EVEN FURTHER. I KNOW WE'RE IN A TOUGH BUDGET ENVIRONMENT, BUT AS PART OF THE NEXT PARKS DISTRICT LEVY, AND

THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF INTEREST IN FINDING ADDITIONAL TEEN CENTERS. AND CERTAINLY RAINIER BEACH WOULD WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ONE, IF THAT'S AT ALL POSSIBLE. QUESTION IS FOR JUST WHERE IN THE BUDGET COULD

YOU POINT TO FOR FOR PARKS LIKE HOMAI OR JOSE RIZAL, WHICH ARE ESSENTIALLY UNUSABLE BY FAMILIES AT THE MOMENT? AND I KNOW THIS IS A COMPLICATED ISSUE. I DON'T HAVE EASY SOLUTIONS, BUT JUST WONDERING

IF YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON HOW DO WE ADDRESS THOSE PARKS LIKE THAT WHICH WHICH ARE, YOU KNOW, I THINK ABOUT WE HAVE A NEW RESTROOM THAT'S ABOUT TO BE OPENED AT JOSE RIZAL. MUCH NEEDED. THERE'S PLANS

TO DO A NEW PLAYGROUND THERE. AND I THINK THE, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY IS A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED OF WE'RE GOING TO BUILD THIS NEW PLAYGROUND FOR KIDS AT JOSE RIZAL, AND NOBODY'S GOING TO USE IT, OR AT

LEAST FAMILIES WON'T USE IT, GIVEN THE CURRENT CONDITIONS THERE, JUST ANY REFLECTIONS OR THOUGHTS? -- LOTS OF THOUGHTS. YES. THANK YOU. YEAH. I OUTSIDE OF THE PIN THAT COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ PUT IN

ABOUT THE UCT, I THINK THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT PARK. OVERALL, THE PROVISION OF PARK SERVICES IS KIND OF A THREE LEGGED STOOL BETWEEN MAINTENANCE, ACTIVATION AND ENFORCEMENT. AND THOSE AREAS ARE ALL

MAINTAINING THEIR BASE LEVELS OF SERVICE. SO IT'S NOT A AS UNLESS I POINTED IT OUT TODAY, IT'S NOT ADDITIVE, BUT WE DO. MANY OF YOU MAY RECALL WE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS INTO HAVING PARK RANGERS

OPERATING CITYWIDE. AND THAT WAS A HUGE INCREASE IN THIS CURRENT PARK DISTRICT. I THINK THAT PROGRAM IS SUPPORTING OUR PARKS. WE HAVE THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM WITH IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SDOT AND HSD THAT

WE'RE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY AND BUILDING REALLY STRONG RELATIONSHIPS, AS WELL AS WITH THE SPD. WE HAVE THE SUMMER, WE'VE HAD WEEKLY SUMMER OF SAFETY MEETINGS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL THESE HOT SPOT

PARKS AND ALL OF THAT CONTINUES THE BASE LEVEL OF SERVICES. THE OTHER PIECE WITH ACTIVATION, THE PARKS THAT YOU MENTIONED, NOW THAT WE'VE GOTTEN THROUGH IMPLEMENTING ALL OF THE 2026 ACTIVATIONS, WE'RE

TALKING TO THOSE TEAMS ABOUT WHAT HOTSPOTS TO BE FOCUSED ON FOR 2027 AND OUR SUMMER OF SAFETY PLAN WITH SPD ACTUALLY GOES THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30th. AND SO WE'RE JUST STARTING TO WORK ON LIKE AFTER

ACTION REPORTING. AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO INFORM HOW WE ARE OPERATIONALIZING THAT PROGRAM NEXT YEAR? SO THAT IS VERY MUCH TOP OF MIND FOR ALL OF US -- THANK YOU. AND YEAH, I APPRECIATE YOU

MENTIONING THE SUMMER SAFETY, SORT OF A SIMILAR QUESTION. CERTAINLY HAD A LOT OF ISSUES, YOU KNOW, AND SOME OF OUR WATERFRONT PARKS AND THE BOAT LAUNCHES. STAN SAYRES, ATLANTIC STREET BOAT LAUNCH,

WHERE THEY BECOME KIND OF PARTY AREAS. AND THEN UNFORTUNATELY, THAT CAN ALSO NOT ONLY, YOU KNOW, VERY SERIOUS NOISE CONCERNS FOR NEIGHBORS WHICH GO LATE INTO THE NIGHT, BUT ALSO CAN LEAD TO GUN

VIOLENCE AND OTHER SORT OF SERIOUS PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES. AND JUST WONDERING, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE ADDRESS THROUGH, YOU KNOW, CRIME PREVENTION, THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, ADDRESSING SORT OF THESE

LARGE OPEN PARKING LOTS, IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO SORT OF DISCOURAGE SORT OF THAT ACTIVITY, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH ACTIVATION OR OTHER SORT OF IMPROVEMENTS, DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS. SO I DON'T KNOW

IF YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS, BUT THAT THAT IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT I WOULD BE LOOKING FOR IN THE BUDGET IS FINDING WAYS TO BOTH ADDRESS THAT. AND THEN AGAIN, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH PARK RANGERS OR A

BETTER PARTNERSHIP WITH SPD OR CARE TEAM OR OUR OUTREACH FOLKS, IT'S JUST I THINK A LITTLE BIT OF A BITTER PILL FOR SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO HAVE BASICALLY UNUSABLE PARK SPACES AND VERY, YOU KNOW,

COMMUNITIES THAT THAT DESERVE IT JUST AS MUCH AS OTHERS. AND SIMPLY JUST DO NOT HAVE PLACES FOR, FOR KIDS TO GO THAT ARE SAFE. SO ANYTHING WE CAN DO AS PART OF THIS BUDGET PROCESS TO, TO MAKE SURE

THAT WE HAVE THOSE FOR ALL NEIGHBORHOODS WOULD BE MY PRIORITY. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU. -- ANYTHING FURTHER FROM PARKS FOR COUNCILMEMBER LIN AT THIS TIME? -- NO, JUST AGAIN, THOSE ARE SITES THAT WE'RE

TALKING ABOUT AS PART OF THE AFTER ACTION PLAN. AND THIS YEAR YOU KNOW, I THINK WE HAVE SOME GOOD STRATEGIES FOR LAKE WASHINGTON BOULEVARD FOR AFTER HOURS WITH GATE LOCKING AND INSTALLING NEW GATES

AND SOME OF THE NOISE COMPLAINTS, WE WERE REALLY GETTING THERE ACTUALLY DURING OPERATING HOURS. AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO KIND OF DEVELOP NEW STRATEGIES DURING THE YEAR. AND I, I DO WANT TO THANK THE SPD

PARTNERS FOR LEANING INTO SOME OF THOSE SITES. AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE AS, AS FAST AS WE CAN. -- THANK YOU. I SEE DIRECTOR PENNUCCI, AND THEN I'M GOING TO FOLLOW UP ON DR. RIZAL PARK

BEFORE WE GO TO COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. -- THANK YOU. -- AND I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THE OBVIOUS, BUT ALSO JUST THAT, LIKE, I THINK YOUR QUESTION REALLY EXPANDS BEYOND WHAT IS WHAT PARKS WOULD WOULD

LEAD ON. IT'S A MULTI-DEPARTMENT. SO I'D LOVE TO FOLLOW UP OR HAVE SOMEONE FOLLOW UP WITH YOU TO TALK SORT OF MORE ABOUT THE, THE, THE BROADER STRATEGY THAT I DON'T THINK EITHER MICHELLE OR I ARE THE,

THE BEST FOLKS TO SORT OF PRESENT THE WHOLE, THE WHOLE SYSTEM ON. SO WE WILL FOLLOW UP -- THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO JUST JUMP IN HERE ON DR. RIZAL PARK. CAN YOU TELL ME WHEN THE THIS NEW PLAYGROUND IS

GOING TO BE BUILT? -- I DON'T HAVE THAT ON THE TOP OF MY. -- IS IT. -- LIKE THIS. -- YEAR OR NEXT YEAR, TEN YEARS FROM NOW? SORRY. -- I, I BELIEVE IT'S NEXT YEAR. THE BATHROOM IS SUPPOSED TO BE

OPENING IMMINENTLY AND THEN THE PLANS ARE IN PLACE TO. I THINK NEXT YEAR WAS FOR THE PLAYGROUND. -- IT'S PART OF THAT ELEVATE PROJECT THAT WE CAME AND TALKED ABOUT WITH RCO FUNDING, BUT I'M SORRY. --

NO. -- IT'S IMMINENT TO THAT POINT. -- YOU'RE TOTALLY FINE. THIS IS NOT A POP QUIZ TO GET PEOPLE. AND I AS I'M REFLECTING ON THE ISSUES THAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING, COUNCILMEMBER LIN AND THE FACT THAT WE

ARE FIXING THE RESTROOMS AND THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN A CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND, IT MAKES ME WONDER OUT LOUD WHAT OTHER DEFERRED MAINTENANCE THERE IS IN THE PARK. I KNOW WHEN WE HAD THIS SAME CHALLENGE AT

THE BALLARD COMMONS PARK THAT WENT ON FOR 15 YEARS, WELL BEFORE I WAS ELECTED, IT WAS. IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT WE TOOK A MOMENT TO CLOSE THE PARK, REDO ALL OF THE DEFERRED MAINTENANCE THAT HAD OCCURRED

OVER THOSE 15 YEARS, INSTALL THE CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND AND AND FIX THE BATHROOMS ALL AT ONCE RATHER THAN PIECEMEALING IT TOGETHER. SO I'M MIGHT SUGGEST OUT LOUD FOR THAT TO BE CONSIDERED. BECAUSE FOR

A PARK THAT IS EXPERIENCING THESE TYPES OF ISSUES, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU NOT ONLY REHAB THE PARK, YOU IMPROVE THE PARK, BUT YOU ALSO TAKE THE TIME TO RESET THE ACTIVITY THAT IS OCCURRING IN THERE.

-- SO THANK YOU. -- YEP. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. -- THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU. INTERIM DIRECTOR FINNEGAN FOR BEING HERE ALONG WITH MISS WILLIAMS. REALLY APPRECIATE THE THE BRIEFING. I JUST WANTED TO

START WITH THANK YOUS. THIS IS PARTLY FOR PARKS, BUT ALSO PARKS FOUNDATION AND AND THE WHOLE ECOSYSTEM, IF YOU WILL. I REALLY APPRECIATE, YOU KNOW, THE WORK THAT WAS DONE ON WESTLAKE PARK. AND, YOU

KNOW, AGAIN, IN PARTNERSHIP AND SO FORTH. ELLIOTT BAY CONNECTIONS WITH CENTENNIAL, MYRTLE EDWARDS PARK, AND THEN GENERALLY THE, YOU KNOW, THE WATERFRONT PIECE AS WELL, WHICH IS CLEARLY ALSO A

COMBINATION WITH SEATTLE CENTER SLASH SDOT. I MEAN, IT TAKES A VILLAGE IN THAT CASE. FOR ALL THAT WORK, I ALSO HAVE BEEN DOWN TO SMITH COVE WHERE I WAS WATCHING AS THINGS PROGRESSED, AND I'M LOOKING

FORWARD TO BEING THERE WHEN THAT PHASE ONE, YOU KNOW, THE BIOSWALE AND THE DOG PARK AND SO FORTH ARE SET UP. LOOKING FORWARD TO TO THAT. AND SO THANK YOU. REALLY IMPORTANT TO BIG HILL PARK IN ITS

ENTIRETY. AND SEPARATELY WITH THE RENAULT AT QUEEN ANNE COMMUNITY CENTER. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE FIX THAT'S NEEDED FOR QUEEN ANNE POOL. OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS A ONE OFF UNIQUE SITUATION, BUT SOMETHING

THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, YOU KNOW, COMING DOWN INTO MY DISTRICT. PORTAL PARK, THE PEOPLE IN BELLTOWN APPRECIATE THE CONTINUED STEPS TO FINALLY CREATE A GREEN SPACE IN BELLTOWN, WHICH IS SO IMPORTANT.

AND FOR MY FIRST HILL CONSTITUENTS, WHICH I PARTNERED WITH COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON FREEWAY PARK, YOU KNOW, TO TO IMPROVE THOSE PIECES AS WELL. AND, AND GIVEN THE FACT THAT I SHARE MAGNOLIA WITH MY CHAIR

HERE WEST, I SUPPORT WEST MAGNOLIA PLAYFIELD AS WELL, BECAUSE REALLY THAT FIELD IS NOT JUST SERVING MAGNOLIA. IT IS SERVING. INTERBAY. QUEEN ANNE AND AREAS BEYOND THAT AS WELL. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND I'M GOING TO BE OBVIOUSLY WORKING ON ALL THOSE WITH YOUR TEAM. AND AS PART OF THE BUDGET PROCESS SEPARATELY AND KIND OF SHIFTING TO PARKS AND PUBLIC SAFETY, YOU KNOW, TO PARKS CHAIR JUAREZ POINT

ABOUT UCT AND GRAFFITI. I KNOW SHE'S PUT A PIN ON IT, BUT HERE'S MY THUMB AND I'M PUTTING SOME EXTRA PRESSURE ON IT BECAUSE IT'S NEEDED. IT'S SO NEEDED. AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PARKS, PUBLIC SAFETY

CHALLENGES TO COUNCILMEMBER LIN, I SAY, WELL, WE HAVE A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK PLAN. WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT IT. YOU KNOW, AND SO THESE PIECES ARE ALL INTERCONNECTED. AND I WOULD SAY THE GOAL, THE LIKE FOR

SPD STAFFING, IT'S NEVER BEEN 1250. IT'S BEEN 14 PLUS. AND IF YOU GO FROM A COMP PLAN PERSPECTIVE, IT'S LIKE 1800. AND SO THAT GOES TO MY CONCERN BECAUSE EVERYTHING ELSE FALLS FROM THAT. AS YOU KNOW,

ALL MY COLLEAGUES KNOW. SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I HAVE MY OWN ISSUES. I MENTIONED FREEWAY, PARK, FREEWAY PARK HAS A LOT OF PUBLIC SAFETY CHALLENGES. AND THEN ON THE OTHER END,

A DIFFERENT KIND OF SORT. KERRY PARK HAS ITS PIECES TOO. SO WE'LL CONTINUE THAT. AND PARK RANGERS ARE VERY IMPORTANT. THANK YOU FOR THEIR WORK. I THINK PARK RANGERS IS PROBABLY AN AREA THAT PROBABLY

IT'S PROBABLY DUE FOR A KIND OF LIKE A CHECK IN REVIEW AT SOME POINT, MAYBE OVER THE COURSE OF 27. AND THEN AND THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE ON THE ON THE CAMERAS AS WELL. BUT OVERALL, AGAIN, APPRECIATE

THE WORK THAT PARKS DO, PARTICULARLY ON THE MAINTENANCE PIECE. THEY'RE COMING AROUND ALL THE TIME. YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A LADY THAT HELPED OUT COMMUNITY ON KERRY PARK. I DON'T KNOW HER NAME. IF I KNEW

THE NAME, I WOULD SAY PLEASE PASS A THANK YOU. BUT IT'S INDIVIDUALS LIKE THAT IN PARKS DEPARTMENT THAT MAKE SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE. SO. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER

KETTLE DIRECTOR. EITHER DIRECTOR. -- THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO I, I, I KNOW WE PUT A PIN OR A THUMB IN IT, BUT I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY ON THE REDUCTION TO THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM FUNDING IN THE PARKS

DEPARTMENT. IT IS ELIMINATING OR REMOVING LONG TERM VACANT POSITIONS TO OUR ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT POSITIONS. AND ONE IS A HALF TIME STRATEGIC ADVISER. IT IS. THEY'VE BEEN VACANT. IT IS NOT IMPACTING

CURRENT LEVELS OF SERVICES. AND THIS IS AREAS WHERE, ONE WE ARE ALIGNING BUDGET TO WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN ACTUALLY SPENDING IN CURRENT LEVELS OF SERVICE AND EXPANSIONS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SUSTAIN IN

THIS CURRENT BUDGET. SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY WHAT THE SPECIFIC ROLES WERE. I KNOW THAT JUST FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC. -- CHAIR RINCK. -- DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. -- THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD IS I

REFERENCED EARLIER THAT WE'RE DOING OUR MID CYCLE REPORTING INTERNALLY RIGHT NOW, DEVELOPING THAT REPORT THAT WILL COME TO YOU WEARING YOUR PARK DISTRICT HATS NEXT YEAR AND THE RANGER PROGRAM BECAUSE

IT IS EXPANDED IN THIS CYCLE AND CITYWIDE. AND THE CYCLE IS ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE KIND OF DIVING IN MORE DEEPLY TO AS WELL. -- SO THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. -- ANYTHING ELSE? THANK YOU

CHAIR. I WAS JUST GOING TO NOTE THE CHALLENGES, CURRENT LEVELS OF SERVICE, PARTICULARLY LIKE RELATED TO THE U. C T AS WE SEE ON OUR STREETS, IS, IS, IS NOT SUFFICIENT. THANKS. -- THANK YOU.

COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. FOLLOWED BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH AND COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR, AND THANK YOU TO THE PARKS DEPARTMENT FOR YOUR FANTASTIC PRESENTATION. I WANT TO

SEE IF YOU CAN RETURN. I BELIEVE IT'S SLIDE 19, WHERE WE HAVE THE OVERVIEW OF THE ADMISSIONS TAX RESOURCES. I JUST WANTED TO LET ME SEE IF I GOT THE SLIDE RIGHT FOR YOU TO CATCH UP THERE. THERE WE GO.

THERE WE GO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY. ARE THESE THE ONLY ONGOING ALLOCATIONS OF ADD TAX TO THE PARKS DEPARTMENT? OR DO THESE REPRESENT A SUBSET? -- THESE ARE THE ONLY ONES. --

OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL. AND THEN I ALSO WANTED TO TURN TO RESTROOMS AS WELL. I ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TO GET TO TALK ABOUT ON THE DAIS HERE. SO I REALLY APPRECIATED HEARING THE, IN

THE MAYOR'S BUDGET, THE ATTENTION GIVEN TO THIS ISSUE. AND I JUST WANTED TO SEEK A LITTLE BIT OF CLARIFICATION. I KNOW THERE WAS THE RECENT REPORT THAT THE AUDITOR DID PROVIDED FOR THE CITY IN TERMS

OF THE SORT OF STATUS OF OUR EXISTING PARKS, RESTROOMS. SO I KNOW IN THE MAYOR'S BUDGET, WE HAVE THE PROPOSAL FOR THE EXPANSION AND THE NEW RESTROOMS USING THE IT'S NOT THE LOO. WHAT'S THE RIGHT WORD?

-- POTENTIALLY THE PORTLAND LOO. -- THE PORTLAND LOO. OKAY. OKAY, WELL, I'LL GET THE RIGHT WORD HERE EVENTUALLY. SO. AND I THINK THOSE ARE FANTASTIC. I JUST WANTED TO ALSO CLARIFY, I BELIEVE THERE'S

ALSO RESOURCES HERE FOR MAINTENANCE AND CARE OF OUR EXISTING PARKS, RESTROOM FACILITIES. AND I'M CURIOUS IF YOU CAN SHARE HOW THAT INVESTMENT COMPARES TO WHAT WAS IN THE AUDITOR'S REPORT IN TERMS OF

HOW CLOSE THIS GETS US TO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE SURE OUR EXISTING RESTROOMS ARE OPEN, OPERABLE, AND AND MEET THE LEVEL OF CLEANLINESS THAT WE WANT FOR ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS -- SPECIFIC CROSSWALK

TO THE AUDIT REPORT. I'LL PROBABLY PUT UP ON MY NOTES AND. -- A PEN OR A THUMB. -- WELL, I'LL PUT IT ON MY LIST TO GET BACK TO YOU ON. BUT THIS IS ADDITIVE TO OUR ONGOING RESTROOM RENOVATION PROGRAM

THAT DOES FULL RENOVATIONS OF OUR RESTROOMS, REPLACEMENTS WHERE THEY'RE NEEDED. WE ALSO HAVE REGULAR MAINTENANCE TEAMS. WE ALSO HAVE THE RECENT PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING INCREMENT THAT'S HELPING US

STAFF AT CAL ANDERSON AND AT FREEWAY PARK THIS SUMMER. SO THERE THERE'S A LOT OF LEVELS OF, OF RESTROOM MAINTENANCE BECAUSE WE DO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT, BUT WE CAN GET YOU MORE SPECIFICS

ON THE AUDIT. WE HAVE SOME INTERNAL TRAINING AND PROCEDURE DEVELOPMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MEETING OUR OWN. FREQUENCY AND TYPES OF CLAIMS AND HAVE PURCHASED NEW EQUIPMENT TO MAKE THAT MORE

POSITIVE. I GUESS, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD. -- SO THAT SOUNDS GREAT. -- GET YOU MORE ON THE AUDIT STUFF SPECIFICALLY. -- YEAH. THANK YOU. I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. I'M SO EXCITED AGAIN, TO HAVE

THE EXPANSION IN ACCESS. AND I KNOW THAT AS WE DO THAT EXPANSION, WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING UP WITH THE MAINTENANCE OF WHAT WE HAVE SO THAT THOSE ARE OPEN AND AVAILABLE AND THAT

PEOPLE CAN USE THEM AND THEY WORK WELL. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND THEN YOU ACTUALLY SAID THE FINAL THING THAT I WANTED TO BRING UP, WHICH IS FREEWAY PARK. AND YOU, YOU MENTIONED THE PARTICIPATORY

BUDGETING. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT THE SOME RESOURCES THAT ARE ALLOCATED TO CARE OF THAT PARK THAT ARE COMING FROM A DELAY IN THOSE RESOURCES BEING USED FROM ANOTHER PARK

LOCATION. BUT THAT ONCE THAT OTHER PARK LOCATION IS UP AND RUNNING. FREEWAY PARK WILL NO LONGER HAVE THAT ACCESS. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO DIG IN YET. IS THAT STILL THE

STATUS HERE IN TERMS OF THE. I BELIEVE IT WAS THE PARK RANGER THAT WAS THAT WAS COMING TO FREEWAY PARK IN THE INTERIM PERIOD. -- IT'S ACTUALLY THE SEATTLE CONSERVATION CORPS. THEY'RE DOING OUR

RESTROOM STAFFING PROGRAM. SO THEY WHEN WE ORIGINALLY DID PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING, THE TWO SITES THAT WE SAID WOULD BE OUR PRIORITY WERE CAL ANDERSON AND THE SOON TO BE DEVELOPED RESTROOM AT PARK. AND

OUR CURRENT TIMELINE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SKEPTA FOR THAT SITE IS PROBABLY LATE BREAKING NEWS LATER IN 2027. SO WE ARE LOOKING AND WE'LL BE TALKING WITH THE FREEWAY PARK ASSOCIATION ABOUT HOW TO

PARTNER WITH THEM FOR EVENTS NEXT YEAR AT FREEWAY PARK TO CONTINUE COVERING RESTROOM STAFFING THERE WITHIN WHAT WE THINK WE WOULD HAVE FOR FLEXIBILITY BEFORE THE HING HAY PARK PROJECT OPENS. -- THANK

YOU FOR THAT AND APPRECIATE THE NEWS. IT'S SAD TO HEAR THE DELAY. I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING, BUT APPRECIATE THE ONGOING WORK TO GET GET THAT ONLINE AND TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT FREEWAY IN THE

INTERIM. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU CHAIR. -- THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER ANYTHING FURTHER FROM THE TABLE? ALL RIGHT. WE WILL MOVE RIGHT ALONG TO COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH COUNCIL. --

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CHAIR, AND I WILL BE I'LL BE QUICK BECAUSE THIS IS PROBABLY. PUT A PIN IN IT. THANK YOU. PARKS, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND CBO FOR BEING HERE. ONE OF MY QUESTIONS, AND THIS HAS

BEEN LIKE FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, IS WHEN WE'RE MAKING BUDGET DECISIONS ON SUSTAINABLE FIELDS, WHAT WE'RE REPLACING, HOW WE'RE MOVING PROJECTS THROUGH THE PROCESS. ARE THEY BEING DELAYED OR

WHATEVER? IF WE LOOK AT THE IMPACT ON THE ADDITIONAL REVENUE THAT SUSTAINABLE FIELDS BRING IN WITH THE LIGHTS AND THE FIELDS, AND ALSO THE SAFETY COMPONENT, YOU KNOW, THAT BRINGS SAFE SAFETY TO THE

NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THEY'RE BEING USED. AND THERE'S SO ANYWAYS, THAT'S ONE THING THAT I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU ALL BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S REALLY A BIG DECISION MAKER. IF YOU SEE, I'M SURE IF THERE

WERE, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN WHEN COUNCILMEMBER LIN IS TALKING ABOUT A DESIGN, WHAT'S THE THING YOU SAID GREAT. THANK YOU. -- PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN. -- THANK YOU. DESIGNING TO CURB

VIOLENCE AND AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. SO I'LL FOLLOW UP ON, ON THAT PIECE. THE OTHER THING IS, WAS IT EVEN CONSIDERED? AND I DON'T KNOW, I KNOW WHEN WE DID THE

AUDIT FOR RESTROOMS, DISTRICT ONE WAS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST FOR NOT IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER PLACES IN THE CITY THAT DID NOT MEET THE AMOUNT OF RESTROOMS. THERE WAS A BIG DISPARITY. SO WHEN WE'RE

LOOKING AT EXPANSION, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS EVEN CONSIDERED DISTRICT ONE. I THINK WE APPROVED A BATHROOM LAST YEAR. OKAY, BUT STILL, JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT PIECE. SO THAT'S MY SECOND QUESTION,

WHICH WE CAN FOLLOW UP OFFLINE. WE DON'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT HERE, WHICH IS GREAT. AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER'S COMMENTS REGARDING MAKING SURE THAT THE

MAINTENANCE FOR RESIDENTS IS WELL, I ALSO THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME TYPE OF ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES IN THE SENSE WHERE WE'RE EDUCATING PEOPLE ABOUT, LOOK, WE HAD PEOPLE BLOW UP BATHROOM TOILETS

DOWN IN MADRONA, YOU KNOW, WITH BOMBS AND FIREWORKS. THAT IS THAT IS JUST UNACCEPTABLE. AND I KNOW IT'S NOT PARKS FAULT AT ALL, BUT JUST THINKING ABOUT THINGS IN WHICH WE CAN SHOW PEOPLE, THIS IS YOUR

NEIGHBORHOOD. HOW DO WE RESPECT THIS? YOU KNOW, I, I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE AT CAL ANDERSON THAT ARE DOING THAT WORK AND CLEANING UP AFTER PEOPLE, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE TO CLEAN UP AFTER

GROWN ADULTS FOR, FOR THINGS WHERE I'M LIKE, HEY, HOW CAN WE FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE CLEANING UP AFTER OURSELVES? AND WE'RE NOT JUST PUTTING IT ON THE PARK STAFF THAT CONSTANTLY HAVE TO DO THIS. SO

ANYWAYS, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF, YOU KNOW, MAINTENANCE COSTS. AND THEN ALSO, ARE WE THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN BETTER CONNECT THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO KNOW THAT THIS IS YOUR CITY TOO, AS WELL AS, AS, AS

THE MAYOR TALKS ABOUT THAT THIS IS THIS, WE HAVE TO ALL TAKE CARE OF IT. SO ANYWAYS, NO ANSWER, NO ANSWER NEEDED. I WILL FOLLOW UP OFFLINE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THOSE GENERAL COMMENTS. THANK YOU.

-- THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. ANYTHING THE COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE AT THIS TIME ALL RIGHT. -- COUNCILMEMBER SAKA THANK YOU, CHAIR. FIRST OFF, I WANT TO THANK INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT FINNEGAN

AND EVERYONE AT THE TABLE, FRANKLY, FOR FOR BEING HERE AND THE YOU KNOW, ALL THE WORK THAT WENT BEHIND PUTTING TOGETHER THIS PACKAGE. NOW, THE BALL'S IN OUR COURT. SOME THINGS THAT ARE YOU KNOW, I'M

DELIGHTED TO SEE HERE IN THE PARKS BUDGET SIDE, YOU KNOW, THE THE HIGH POINT LATE NIGHT TEEN PROGRAMING AND ESPECIALLY WANT TO THANK MAYOR WILSON FOR HER LEADERSHIP AND AND BRINGING THAT TO LIFE

BECAUSE THAT WAS AN ITEM THAT WE ADDED. AND I MY OFFICE SPONSORED. WE ADDED LAST YEAR DURING BUDGET. IT WAS A ONE TIME THING. SHE MADE IT PERMANENT. REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. ALSO, THE CAMP LONG LODGE

PLANNING INVESTMENT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE OTHER KIND OF CAMPUS UPGRADES FOR TURF IN GENERAL. TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MOMENT. LIGHTING, PLAY AREAS, SPRAY PARKS WITHIN SOUTH PARK, THE SOUTH PARK CAMPUS IN

PARTICULAR, AND THEN SOME OF THE BROADER ACCESS FOR CERTAIN PROGRAMING AS IT RELATES TO AQUATICS. I'M THINKING ABOUT THE AQUATIC SUBSIDIES THAT I WOULD HOPE HELP PROTECT. SOUTHWEST POOL HOURS AND

FEES, WHILE ALSO EXPANDING RECREATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS. COOL STUFF ON THE ON THE INITIAL IMPRESSIONS WITH RESPECT TO CONCERNS SIDE OF THINGS, THE TURF REDUCTIONS OF 7.1 MILLION, WHICH WAS REMOVED FROM

REPLACEMENTS AND THEN $14.7 MILLION THAT WAS REMOVED FROM THE SORT OF NET NEW NAME CONVERSION PROJECTS, PLUS ONE, ONTO SOME OF THE THINGS EXPRESSED BY SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES AND SOME OF WHICH WE MAY OR

MAY NOT BE PUTTING PUSHING PINS IN OR NOT, I DON'T KNOW. BUT THE GRAFFITI ABATEMENT REDUCTIONS AND UC T CAPACITY I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACTS, THE MOUNTING IMPACTS ON THAT WE'RE LIKELY TO SEE ON

THE MAINTENANCE PRESSURES SPECIFICALLY AS IT RELATES TO POTENTIAL INCREASES IN VISIBLE MAINTENANCE ISSUES. IN D ONE, WE TALKED I WANT TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH

FOR TALKING EXTENSIVELY ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF OF OUR PARKS, RESTROOMS, AND AND THANK YOU FOR ACKNOWLEDGING, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE SIGNIFICANT DISPARITIES, BECAUSE ONLY WE'RE ONLY ONE OF SEVEN COUNCIL

DISTRICTS, BUT WE SEEM TO ACCOUNT FOR ROUGHLY 40 TO 45% OF THE. THE SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM AS IT RELATES TO VANDALISM, GRAFFITI, THAT KIND OF THING. SO PLUS ONE, ALL THOSE COMMENTS, I'LL TRY TO ADD A NEW

DIMENSION ON THE TURF. THANK YOU AGAIN, COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR FOR CALLING CALLING OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE PROJECTS, I WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR SUBMITTING THAT SLY RESPONSE EARLIER THIS MONTH. I

READ IT I, WE IT'S NOT JUST SOMEONE ISN'T JUST WRITING THESE AWAY, WRITING THESE SOMEWHERE AND IT GOES OFF TO AN ETHER. I ACTUALLY READ THEM. SO THANK YOU. AND IT WAS GOOD TO SEE. AS AN ASIDE, THAT OF

THE PROJECTS WE ASKED YOU ALL TO STUDY THE THE BEST CANDIDATE THAT YOU CHOSE IN TERMS OF READINESS RIGHT NOW WAS RIVERVIEW PLAYFIELD IN WEST SEATTLE. SO THAT WAS THAT WAS COOL. BUT IN ANY EVENT, THE.

I AM CONCERNED THAT THE PROPOSED. ABOUT THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF $7.1 MILLION FROM TURF REPLACEMENTS AND 14.7 MILLION FROM NEW TURF PROJECTS. WILL PARKS COMMIT TO MAKING. BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE

THERE'S. THERE'S CYCLE THREE PARKS DISTRICT PLANNING GOING ON RIGHT NOW. WILL PARKS COMMIT TO MAKING CYCLE THREE A MAJOR ATHLETIC FIELD INVESTMENT PACKAGE THAT FIRST RESTORES THESE DEFERRED PROJECTS

THAT THAT I MENTIONED. AND THEN FUNDS A SUBSTANTIAL GEOGRAPHICALLY BALANCED PIPELINE OF ADDITIONAL TURF CONVERSIONS ACROSS SEATTLE, INCLUDING SOME OF THOSE CANDIDATES LISTED IN THAT SLIDE REPORT FROM

EARLIER THIS MONTH. WILL YOU COMMIT TO WILL YOU COMMIT TO THAT FOR CYCLE THREE? -- SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. ONE THING IS THAT THIS PROPOSED BUDGET DOES REDUCE RATE FOR PARK CONVERSIONS BY THE 14

MILLION YOU REFERENCED, BUT 9.6 OF IT WE REPLACED WITH THE PARK DISTRICT AS A ONE TIME REVENUE. SO THE, THE ONE CONVERSION PROJECT THAT IS CURRENTLY IMPACTED. AND WE ARE LOOKING AT FIGURING OUT A WAY

TO FUND IS THE WEST MAGNOLIA PROJECT. BEFORE COMMITTING TO A GEOGRAPHIC APPROACH, WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO. ON THE NEXT JOINT ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL. SO I

WOULD LIKE TO EXPLORE THAT MORE BEFORE COMMITTING AT THIS MOMENT AND BE MORE INFORMED IN THAT. BUT OBVIOUSLY, YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES AS THE PARK DISTRICT BOARD WILL HAVE A LOT TO TO SAY ABOUT WHERE

THOSE RESOURCES GO. -- THANK YOU. WOULD LIKE TO SEE A SUBSTANTIAL OR UNDERSCORE THE INFERENCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENTLY CLEAR THERE IN MY IN MY QUESTION, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A SUBSTANTIAL

ATHLETIC FIELD TURF FIELD CONVERSION PACKAGE AND ANY EXECUTIVE PROPOSED RENEWAL OF THAT FOR THE NEXT CYCLE. YOU KNOW, STARTING FIRST WITH THAT ROADMAP THAT I OFFERED THE DEFERRED PROJECTS, THE, THE,

THE PROJECTS IN LAST YEAR'S SLIDE THAT YOU GUYS DID A GREAT JOB OF REPORTING OR REPORTING ON AND ANY ANYTHING ELSE. SO THAT IS ALL FOR NOW. APPRECIATE THE WORK, LOOK FORWARD TO LEARNING MORE AND

CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU AGAIN. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. ANY TO ADD THERE? NOPE. ALL RIGHT, COLLEAGUES, ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? I'LL BE BRIEF WITH MINE. THANK YOU

ALL FOR GOING BEFORE ME BECAUSE YOU ASKED A LOT OF MY OWN QUESTIONS. I AM LOOKING AT OUR IS IT LISH? ARE WE ON SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK RIGHT NOW? EIGHT. -- YEAH, GOING BACK TO 2019. -- SO SEVEN YEAR, THE

SEVEN USING THE SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK, IT HAS FLAGGED A COUPLE OF THINGS FOR ME. WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT SEATTLE CONSERVATION CORPS. SEATTLE CONSERVATION CORPS HAD TO START. THE TIMER IS ONE OF THE MOST

UNKNOWN AND IMPACTFUL PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR CITY THAT HELPS PEOPLE WHO ARE FORMERLY HOMELESS. THEY DON'T PROVIDE IT, BUT THEY HELP THEM GET HOUSING, AND THEN DO WORK AND THEN GET JOBS. IT'S

AMAZING. GLAD TO HEAR THAT WE ARE MAKING SOME OF THOSE ADDITIONAL HR CHANGES. I THINK THAT WILL PROBABLY HELP IN ALL OF THAT WORK. I DO SEE HERE ON OUR SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK UNDER SEATTLE CONSERVATION

CORPS, THAT IT WAS ZEROED OUT IN THE OPERATING BUDGET. IS THIS BECAUSE IT WAS PUT INTO THE PARKS DISTRICT FUND, OR HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? BECAUSE I'M SEEING BOTH. AND IF THIS IS SOMETHING WHERE WE NEED

TO GO OFFLINE AND I'M JUST FLAGGING IT RIGHT NOW. -- WE'LL HAVE I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THE SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK, BUT IT IS THERE IS A LOT OF FUNDING FROM THE PARK DISTRICT. IT'S A LOT OF EARNED REVENUE

THAT FUNDS IT THROUGH ACTUAL CAPITAL PROGRAM OVERHEAD. AND THEN THERE IS SOME. CDBG FUNDS AND SUCH. SO IT IS A MULTI FUNDED THING, BUT WE CAN GET YOU A BREAK DOWN OF WHERE IT CURRENTLY RESIDES. --

THANKS. AND I MIGHT UPDATE THIS NUMBER WHEN WE COME BACK FROM LUNCH. JUST SHOWING IN 2019, THE PARKS DEPARTMENT HAD $238 MILLION AND BUDGET. AND TODAY THEY HAVE 100 AND $363 MILLION, WHICH IS A 52%,

52.7% INCREASE OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS. AND WE'VE GOT A WORLD WORLD AWARD WINNING PARK SYSTEM HERE IN SEATTLE. WANT TO GET INTO IT IS NOTED THAT WE PROVIDE FUNDING TO THE ZOO AND AQUARIUM THAT ARE

BOTH FEE BASED, TICKETED PLACES. CAN YOU EXPAND ON WHAT WHAT ARE OUR CURRENT FUNDING LEVELS FOR BOTH OF THOSE? OR IF YOU JUST NEED TO FOCUS ON THE ZOO, THAT'S FINE. -- I'D HAVE TO FIND THE EXACT

NUMBERS. AND LET'S. -- LET'S. -- COME BACK TO IT SO WE DON'T. YEAH, BOTH OF THOSE ARE TO SUPPORT MAJOR MAINTENANCE AT THOSE LOCATIONS AS THEY ARE PARKS OWNED FACILITIES. SO THAT'S WHAT WE FUND THERE.

-- THANK YOU. AND YOU NOTED AND COLLEAGUES, I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THE IMPORTANCE OF SOMETHING THAT DIRECTOR FINNEGAN SAID. YOU ARE STARTING TO USE A G, C, C, M MODEL. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THAT

ACRONYM, WHAT THOSE LETTERS MEAN, IF NOT ACRONYM? -- I DIDN'T WRITE DOWN IN MY NOTES TODAY. I HAVEN'T NOT PROPERLY TRAINED BY JESSICA MURPHY, BUT IT DOES ALLOW US TO BRING THE FOLKS THAT WILL BE

CONSTRUCTING A PROJECT IN EARLIER, AND THEREFORE WE CAN GET BETTER COST ESTIMATES RATHER THAN THE TYPICAL DESIGN BUILD, BID PROJECT OR DESIGN BID BUILD PROJECT. SO WE ARE GETTING SOME GREAT ACTUALLY

AT THE GREEN LAKE EVANS POOL PROJECT, WE ARE LEARNING A LOT FROM THAT MODEL AND ARE SEEING A LOT OF GREAT RESULTS AND ARE LOOKING TO POTENTIALLY DO THAT WITH CAMP LONG AND AND OUR OTHER PROJECTS ARE

ALREADY IN LINE WITH. SO IT'S, IT'S BEEN A. OTHER DEPARTMENTS HAVE USED IT AND WE HAVEN'T UNTIL CYCLE TWO. AND WE'RE GETTING SOME REALLY GOOD RESULTS. -- AND THANK YOU. YEAH, I HIGHLIGHT THIS BECAUSE

AS I SAID, THAT THERE WERE ADDITIONAL EFFICIENCIES THAT WE CAN STILL FIND IN GOVERNMENT. THIS G, C, C, M MODEL HAS DEMONSTRATED EFFICIENCIES AS WE ARE WORKING ON THE GREEN LAKE COMMUNITY CENTER AS

COMPARED TO THE OLD MODEL OF DOING BUSINESS. AND SO I CONGRATULATE YOU. LET'S EXPAND THIS. LET'S CONTINUE. I WILL FOLLOW UP ABOUT THE MAGNOLIA PLAY FIELDS. WE DON'T NEED TO RIGHT NOW. CAN YOU JUST

REMIND THE VIEWING PUBLIC ALL 3000 PEOPLE WATCHING ON SEATTLE CHANNEL RIGHT NOW? WHEN DOES THE NEXT PARKS DISTRICT FUNDING CYCLE COME TO COUNCIL. -- 2028 FOR 2029 IMPLEMENTATION? -- THAT'S WONDERFUL.

AND DIRECTOR WHITSON, DO I SEE YOU. -- JUST BRIEFLY? DCCM MEANS GENERAL CONTRACTOR, CONSTRUCTION MANAGER. AND BASICALLY THE IDEA IS THAT YOU BRING THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE DOING THE CONTRACTING WORK IN

ON DURING THE DESIGN PHASE OF A PROJECT SO THAT THEY CAN IDENTIFY ANY PROBLEMS AS THEY ARE BUILDING THE PROJECT. -- YEAH. THANK YOU. -- VILLAGE. -- YEAH, I'LL I'LL MENTION AND THEN WE SHOULD FOLLOW UP

LATER. IT'S NOT MY DISTRICT, SOUTH LAKE, UNION PARK. I GOT TO GO DOWN THERE FOR THE SISTER CITIES EVENT JUST THE OTHER DAY, THE SISTER CITIES SIGNPOST, WHICH IS AN INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN PLACE NOW

FEELS LIKE IT'S LEFT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE THERE IS PROBABLY AN ACRES WORTH OF PEA GRAVEL. THERE IS, I WOULD SAY, AN UNDERMANAGED WHAT LOOKS LIKE A BIOSWALE OF, OF, OR A

RETENTION POND OF SOME SORT. BUT IT'S A LITTLE UNDERUTILIZED. AND I KNOW THAT LAST YEAR WE HAD PUT IN FUNDING, ESPECIALLY TO HELP THE JOHN PEARSON MEMORIAL. HE WAS A ROCKET SCIENTIST, BUT I DON'T

THINK IT TAKES A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO GET A MEMORIAL, JUST MONEY. SO I'LL BE FOLLOWING UP TO CHECK AND TO SEE THE STATUS OF ALL OF THOSE PROJECTS, BECAUSE I DO KNOW THAT WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE

$800,000 TO PREP THE PARK AHEAD OF WORLD CUP, AND A LOT OF THE GRASS ISSUES THAT WE HAD IDENTIFIED WERE ADDRESSED. BUT THE THESE OTHER ASPECTS SEEMED TO BE UNADDRESSED AT THIS TIME. SO UNLESS YOU'VE

GOT STUFF NOW, I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU AFTERWARDS. -- I'LL JUST SAY THAT THERE IS A DESIGN CHARETTE EVENT IN OCTOBER THAT SOME OF OUR TEAM IS GOING TO. WITH COMMUNITY ON THAT PART OF THE PARK AND THE

JOHN PEARSON PROJECT. THERE'S A THERE'S A DESIGN CHARRETTE THAT THEY'RE HOSTING. AND. OCTOBER. BUT WE CAN GET YOU MORE INFORMATION FOR SURE. -- WE COULD DESIGN FOR YEARS TO COME. I GUESS I'M CHECKING

IN ON OUTCOMES. AND WHEN OUR DELIVERABLES HITTING THE GROUND. THANK YOU COLLEAGUES. COUNCIL PRESIDENT EMERITUS JUAREZ. AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE OVERSEEING THIS DEPARTMENT, DO YOU HAVE ANY FINAL

WORDS? -- NO, I JUST WANT TO SAY KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. PUT A PIN IN IT. WE'LL LOOP BACK AROUND. THANK YOU. ALI, THIS IS MY LAST BUDGET WITH YOU. FOR SURE. FOR GOOD THIS TIME. THANK YOU. MICHELLE,

YOU'VE BEEN WONDERFUL WORKING WITH ALL THROUGH THE LAST 16, 17 MONTHS THAT I GOT BACK. SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING THE BUDGET. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. -- THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT, EMERITUS

COLLEAGUES, WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A LUNCH BREAK NOW A LITTLE BIT LATER THAN EXPECTED. WE WILL COME BACK. GOOD LORD, DOING MATH. COME BACK AT 135. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY MINUTES THAT IS, BUT IT'S FROM

NOW. SO IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION, THE SELECT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING WILL COME, WILL BE IN RECESS UNTIL 1:35 P.M.. WHICH TIME? WE'LL START WITH SEATTLE CENTER, FOLLOWED BY ARTS AND CULTURE. HEARING NO

OBJECTION, THE SELECT COMMITTEE IS IN RECESS UNTIL 135. WE WILL RESUME PROMPTLY. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU, MR.. -- CHAIR. -- [MUSIC]

Daniel Strauss: Good afternoon. This September 24, select Budget Committee will come back to order. It is 2:38 PM. My apologies for tardiness. If the clerk can call the role, please. Speaker 1:

Council member Rinck. Alexis Mercedes Rinck: Present. Speaker 1: Council member Saka. Council member Foster? Dionne Foster: Here. Speaker 1: Council President Hollingsworth? Council member Juarez.

Debora Juarez: Here. Speaker 1: Council member Kettle. Robert Kettle: Here. Speaker 1: Council member Lin and Chair Strauss. Daniel Strauss: Thank you. Speaker 1: Five present. Daniel Strauss: We will

come right back into order and jump right on in. Will the clerk please read Item 4 into the record. Speaker 1: Agenda Item 4, Seattle Center for briefing and discussion. Daniel Strauss: Thank you. We

have Seattle Center here. Director Engstrom. Council President is now here as well. Turn it over to the table for your presentation, and we'll save questions for easy stopping points or the end. Randy

Engstrom: My colleague Diamatris here and I will tag team the presentation, but thank you for being here. Thanks for the opportunity to present our budget. I just want to say that this was a tough

budget year for the city. I think that's known, but I just want to appreciate Ally Pennucci and Alan Lee and Alex Rouse and the whole team at CBO, because in spite of it being a challenge, I'm really

happy with the budget that we have, and I'm really confident that we can deliver with the resources that it contains. We'll start with just an overview. I'm sure you're all familiar with the Seattle

Center. I know some of you got to come and visit yesterday and take a tour. We are home to a 74-acre campus and also have stewardship over the 20-acre Waterfront Park, happy first birthday to

Waterfront Park just a few weeks ago. We saw over 11 million visitors to the campus in 2025, about nine million to the Waterfront. We anticipate seeing probably 15 million visitors to Waterfront Park

this year. Just a really successful and vibrant cultural and civic space. We're home to 35 independent organizations on the campus that call Seattle Center home, have a very close partnership also

with Friends of Waterfront Park and operating the Waterfront. The center is also a pretty big economic engine for the city. $3.3 billion of direct economic impact, $37 million of direct tax revenue

generated by the activities of the campus, and we support over 19,000 jobs, which is something that we're really proud of. We're largely self-funded. It's different than a lot of departments, wherein

we earn about 70% of our annual budget year over year. We have about 230 full-time staff and about 550 seasonal intermittent staff that fluctuate with the festival seasons. Our priorities for the year

are really to build on the recent success and the momentum. We approved a strategic plan last year that outlines a pretty aggressive fundraising campaign by our partners at the Seattle Center

Foundation, the goal of a significant public investment to address the big infrastructure needs that we'll, I'm sure talk more about today, and also to figure out how we can rightsize our economic

model and ensure a long-term sustainable future for the Seattle Center for years to come. We're really excited about the progress at Memorial Stadium. We're going to host a topping-out ceremony

tomorrow, which is really exciting, reaching the maximum height of the project. I know Council Merkel, you've been super involved in the Memorial Stadium for the last many years. It's going to be a

great resource. I think my friend Todd Lewicki described Memorial Stadium as a living classroom when it's done and redeveloped, and I'm really hopeful that's actually a way we can think about the

entire campus. I'd love to see the entirety of Seattle Center and the Waterfront be a living classroom and find ways to connect young people in this city with meaningful careers and jobs like the

19,000 that we support with our 10 union partners. That's something that we see in the future. Obviously, the most important thing that will happen as a part of our future is the potential bond

measure that we hope to see pursued next year. The budget does include, and we'll get into the detail of it, but a pretty significant investment in advancing that planning work so that we can stay on

schedule and be construction ready in 2028. I also want to acknowledge the public safety investments that the city is making in the Seattle Center. What happened at the Bite of Seattle was a tragedy.

It was also an opportunity for us to come together as a team and learn both what happened and what could be done better or differently. I've shared with a few of you our after-action review and the

implementation of the recommendations. The timing of that resource was also really good for us. Finally, I think you'll again, hear more about this, but we're excited to extend our stewardship of the

Waterfront and help take on the ongoing implementation of Elliott Bay Connection. Distinct from Waterfront Park, it'll have a different function, but we're really honored that the trust of the

stewardship of that space is going to live with the Seattle Center. Looking forward to working in collaboration with all of you on council with my colleagues across the cabinet to help this next year

be as successful as it can be. Diamatris Winston: Thank you, council member Strauss. Chair Strauss and council members. I'm going to give a quick summary of our budget. Then Dr. Engstrom and I will go

into more detail. First, there's two major changes to our budget this year. The first is the creation of the Seattle Center Campus Revitalization Fund, which will result in substantial reinvestment to

campus infrastructure via bond, which is proposed to occur in 2027. The second major change is Elliott Bay Connections, which will expand Seattle Center's Waterfront Park operations along the

waterfront. We have three other important changes, one being interfund loan support. Included in the budget, another one being Waterfront Park staffing to assist with repairs and maintenance. There's

also two general fund reductions in the budget, including an impact on our intermittent staffing levels and temporary staffing and McCaw Hall programming. Before I go to the next slide, to give you a

little bit more detail, just overview of our budget as Director Engstrom pointed out, we are a social enterprise, and so we generate revenue through commercial revenues, including parking revenues,

long-term leases, sponsorships, concession sales, and the Monorail. We also generate a significant amount of tax revenue for the city, including emissions tax, sweet and beverage tax, and commercial

parking tax. This is the first of the two general fund reductions. This one impacts our temporary and intermittent staffing. Essentially, it'll have an impact on our operations in support of campus

events and programming. The way we intend to mitigate that is through attrition and vacancy savings and revenue enhancements. Otherwise, we'd have to do less. Our plan is to mitigate that reduction.

The second of the two reductions involves McCaw Hall's prelude. Prelude is a dinner service that's provided before shows, and we will reduce the number of prelude dates in order to generate savings.

Our McCaw Hall manager discovered over the last couple of years we've really haven't had the volume at the dining services, and so we're going to cut back on that in order to make these savings

possible. Randy Engstrom: A couple of admissions tax resources are being continued that started in the previous budget. One in support of Northwest Folklife, which is really one of the incredible

anchor festivals on the campus. It brings about 300,000 people over the course of four days and really kicks off our festival season at Seattle Center, Memorial Day weekend. The second is for

WinterFest, which is the holiday. It's the train in the armory. It's the lights around campus. It's a great place to be able to bring families to celebrate the holidays in whatever way folks want to

celebrate. I also just want to acknowledge that I have deep love and respect for the Office of Arts and Culture and its need for its own admissions tax. I spent a lot of time in that office. I also

really appreciate Director Noel. I think she's a brilliant and visionary leader. I think the city's very lucky to have her in that role, and I look forward to collaborating with her on how we can grow

and sustain investments for all of our cultural communities and all of their needs. I get to do the additions part. Diamatris had to do the reductions part, so my part's more fun. But this is the

single biggest item on our entire budget, and this is the external resource. This is to hire planning consultants to advance the Century 21 Master Plan update to do more architectural and design work

on the armory to better understand its capital needs, to move forward with the decarbonization and revitalization of Fisher Pavilion, and also to extend the Monorail bridge. We just started

construction of the monorail platform at the north end of the terminus. We need to do some work on the bridge that connects the platform to the armory itself. That's the capital side. Then the next

slide is the staffing needs associated. It's a modest amount of positions because we're borrowing this money from future proceeds, but it does allow us to have a policy lead on the bond, which is

Michelle Caulfield, who joined our team from the Office of Sustainability. We're lucky to have Michelle. It also includes a finance analyst, management systems analyst, and a safety coordinator for

the campus because we're going to go into theoretically a level of construction that hasn't happened since the 1962 World's Fair. Shout out to Tiffani Melake, who is the lead division director for

Waterfront Park. She's built a really impressive team down there, and it continues to expand. I think if the World Cup taught me anything, it's that Waterfront Park might have been more successful

than we had even hoped. I can't believe that we're expecting 15 million visitors to go to that park and only it's going into its second year of operation. But we also found that there's pretty

significant maintenance needs for a park that gets that much use. This is really about positions that can up particularly our skilled labor, electricians, carpenters and help with the maintenance

needs of the park. Diamatris Winston: The next significant add for us is Elliott Bay Connections, some staffing additions. This item adds donated back positions to support operations and maintenance

of Elliott Bay Connections. Including that staff would be a maintenance crew chief, a senior gardener, installation maintenance worker, and half FTE for human resource specialists to help us with the

hiring and the labor management issues. The Seattle Center and the principal donors right now are working on an agreements, so that we can take over that space, and the takeover would happen in 2027

Quarter 2, and that area includes Myrtle Park and a new greenway along Alaskan Way between Pier 62 and Pier 70. The next edition is support for our Interfund loan. The Interfund loan is comprised of

some debt related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the city providing the center $2 million in 2027 and $1 million in 2028 to make those payments. We had worked pretty diligently with CVO staff to

help them understand what the loan did to our finances. This very much supports our strategic plan and tenure vision plan of being more financially sustainable. Randy Engstrom: This addition, as I

mentioned earlier, is around supporting our public safety and community safety needs. I want to reinforce how proud I am of how folks responded in the moment on that tragic day. Our team did their

job, and they did it with courage. I appreciate both our staff, our partners at SPD, our partners at the fire department, and the care team. It was an all-hands effort to meet that moment. Like the

rest of the city, we learned a lot about what we need to get right going forward. We're still figuring out exactly what we will use this money for. There's a list of equipment that we've proposed.

There's some staffing needs that we've identified, particularly on the com side, as well as on the training side. We're figuring out what of those items we can resource through the budget and what

items we might be able to resource through external support through the state, county, or others. These are the actual positions that were enumerated in previous slides, but that looks like five

positions related to the critical pre-bond work. That looks like four skilled labor positions for Waterfront Park. It looks like 3.5 FTEs for the Elliott Bay Connections expansion. We are looking

forward to growing the team and getting those folks on board as quickly as we can to hit the ground running. That is our presentation. Happy to answer any questions. Oh, go ahead. Aly, please. Aly

Pennucci: I just wanted to acknowledge for the Elliott Bay Connections work, this is just the initial positions that will be needed to really take over that work at Seattle Center. I just wanted to

flag for the budget chairs' awareness and the entire committee that we are needing to get that agreement settled, and there will likely be an ask for a first-quarter legislative package to fully

implement what it will take to fully take over the management of that. But right now because we don't yet have an agreement signed, we want to make sure we understand what the full reimbursement will

be. I just wanted to acknowledge that for the record. Daniel Strauss: Thank you. Director Pannucci, Director Engstrom, Councilman Rob Saka has been here with us since the beginning of the

presentation. His camera came on right as you started speaking, so I wasn't going to interrupt anyone with that. Councilman Rob Saka is the chair of the committee overseeing this department. You've

got first and last word. Rob Saka: Excellent. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Interim Director Engstrom. Diamatris really appreciate your leadership here in the presentation. Thank you as well, Chair,

for getting the Seattle Center in front of the council to provide a specific departmental briefing. As we know, they're not typically one of the selected departments to brief, but given the substance

and impact of what is likely to be proposed in terms of a substantial bond package, next year, it makes a ton of sense. Thank you, Chair, for your leadership on this. Also, want to acknowledge some

people within the department as well. The Seattle Center tragedy in July was awful. We learned a lot as a city, and we had some public conversations and Chair Kettles Public Safety Committee about

that, as recently as two days ago, and some things worked well, and some things didn't, we weren't at our best in certain regards. But I want to thank the hardworking people of Seattle Center, the

staff who did their job, showed up, provided thoughtful contributions to the Center's after-action report. Lets just focus on effectively implementing those findings and those mitigations. Special

shout out to Diamatris again. Really appreciate you. Roseanne Lopez, thank you. Bruce Linton. I think Kerro Tiono, V. Wynn who's the chief of staff, David Kunzelman and so many more within the

department that are showing up and doing this work and made our city, well, to the extent, we did great things, and we did do some effective things that tragic day. I just want to thank you again,

personally and publicly for your contributions and service to our city. I was really excited, in fact thrilled, tickle even when I saw the mayor's proposed budget for Seattle Center because recall

earlier this year, I think in May or June, we passed that council resolution affirming our commitment to put a bond measure package before the voters next year in 2027. It was a joint mayoral and

council resolution, but that was words on paper. Right now, during the budget season, it's our first major opportunity. She backed those value statements and words and commitments, back it with

dollars and tangible investment. That's why I was excited to see the proposed budget here, at least until the next round. Next year, we'll go through the major substantive package and I'II review

that. But really excited to see that. One or two learn a little bit more about the armory design and allocation. The proposal provides 3.14 million for the campus revitalization program, including

approximately 2.35 million for project work across the armory, Fisher Pavilion, Monorail, and comprehensive campus plan. As you'll recall, that resolution 32205, the Seattle Center Renovation

Resolution required a specific design milestone, 30%, in fact, for the armory, the flagship facility there, arguably. Of the money that I just mentioned, how much is specifically allocated to each of

those four workstreams, and does the armory allocation actually help achieve the 30% design milestone standard as required by the resolution? If not, what additional appropriation would be required?

Randy Engstrom: Thank you for that question. I should have said earlier, thank you Councilmember Saka, for your leadership, particularly on the joint resolution. You've been a huge champion of the

campus renovation project, and we really appreciate it. I also am grateful for your acknowledgment of our staff. I'm incredibly lucky to have a super talented team across every division. It's some of

the hardest working public servants I've ever met, and I feel privileged to work with them. The answer to Question 1 is that 500,000 of that appropriation is for a consultant that we have under

contract who had started early design work related to the armory. I don't know that in the time that we have, that we could get much farther than that $500,000 worth of work. I don't think it's going

to get us to 30% design. I can fairly confidently say I don't think it'll get us to 30% design. But that's more a feature of time versus money. We go before DIMPAC I think on October 14th. My hope is

that we can start spending against that appropriation that day and get that work moving pencil to paper to get as much design information as we can for the armory. It is a vast and complex building. I

appreciate a couple of council members coming down yesterday to take a tour. We know we need to know more so that we can have more certainty ahead of legislating a ballot measure. That's certainly our

goal. Rob Saka: No, thank you for that initial clarity. We'll talk about timing and sequencing in just a moment. Now, here it is. Bond readiness milestones for '27. By what specific dates will the

executive provide counsel with a prioritized project list, reliable cost estimates, public engagement results? I know there's efforts ongoing right now with respect to community engagement and

affordability analysis, a private, philanthropic and other non city matching strategy sufficient for a 2027 ballot decision. All those things, of course, we called out in the resolution. Aly Pennucci:

Thanks, Councilmember Saka, for the question. We will follow up with you with more details and potential timelines. We are working really hard to make sure we are prepared to transmit a package. To

the council, we are still not finalized on whether we'll go to the August ballot or the November ballot. Currently, we are working on a timeline that would deliver a package to the council early in

the year, assuming an August ballot, which is the feature of the timeline that Randy was getting, Interim Director Engstrom. Randy Engstrom: That's fine. Aly Pennucci: But anyways, I will follow up

with you offline with more details. Rob Saka: Yes. Thank you, Director Pennucci. Really curious to learn specific timing and sequencing for an executive proposed package, and look forward to

partnering with you all to get that done. The next question I have pertains to some of the safety and security investments in the proposal, noting that it includes $500,000 that is to be apparently

appropriated and spent on very specific safety investments, including weapons detection equipment, area fencing, support vehicles for campus security and various training and emergency training and

crisis situations. With respect to weapons detection equipment, what's the specific rollout plan, implementation approach, and anticipated milestones for deploying that weapons detection equipment?

Randy Engstrom: I can speak to some of that. I wanted to go back to your previous question. I can say that we are under contract currently with the armory consultants and with the Monorail Bridge

consultants. We interviewed three finalists for the Fisher Pavilion contract on Monday, and we hope to be out with an RFP for the Century 21 master plan within a week. We will just go as hard on those

things as we can, starting the day that we can spend the money. In terms of the timing for the safety investments, I believe this is going to be part of a 2026 fourth quarter supplemental, so we can

utilize the resources more quickly. We put together a combination of open gate metal detectors, which is what we use at McCaw Hall and what's been used for festivals like Bumbershoot and KEXP

barbecue. We also included fencing that can limit the number of access points. If we owned that fencing, it could bring down the cost for producers to have that option. We did include, for

consideration, a pilot related to cameras, not installing a full camera system because it wouldn't be enough resources to do that, but being able to bring out one of those portable solar powered

camera kiosks like they have at Memorial Stadium. The camera conversation is a bigger policy conversation that we will be at the table for. Those were all. Then various equipments that our emergency

services unit has requested an additional trike so they can move across the campus more quickly, updated radios, things of that nature. Then on the staffing side, there were two ESU positions that

we'd like to fill. We may be able to find a way to fill them outside of this. We know we need more communications capacity. That's been clear for some time. We need dedicated communication support to

be able to better communicate with our campus community and our staff. Rob Saka: No, I appreciate that. Thank you for clarity there. On the one hand, when I saw the safety and security investments, I

was really excited to see that and I want to thank the mayor for including those specifically in the proposal here. On the other hand, our review is ongoing, of course, but it took initial pass at

diving deeper into the specific terms of the Seattle Center related proposal that defined list that I mentioned of specific safety investments, weapons detection equipment, area fencing, support,

vehicles for security, training, etc. That's a great list. It's an excellent start, but also a little intrigued and little disappointed not to see security cameras, not on that list. But I'm hearing

now, not in the actual texts of the proposal that there's a pilot for some temporary. I'm fine with a temporary deploy. What's the executives plan to install permanent infrastructure? We can keep

those cameras on at all times, given the main event threat at Seattle Center. What's the plan to get some cameras deployed there that are not pilots? Aly Pennucci: Councilmember Saka, the current plan

is as represented in the budget book for the immediate security investments. Rob Saka: That's the immediate security investments. I'm asking longer term. Actually, I would prefer the short term, but

what is the plan or approach to deploying cameras at the Seattle Center? Aly Pennucci: There isn't currently a plan. Again, we were making an immediate investment, and as I think well, maybe it wasn't

with you, but there are more discussions to have, but this is the immediate plan. Randy Engstrom: My assumption is that the cost related to trying to stand up a program like that, if that's a decision

that's made at whatever point in time, would probably need to be part of a larger renovation package just because of the scale of it. But I'm happy to share what we know as soon as we know it. Rob

Saka: Well, just to underscore the urgency and importance of installing vital security cameras there, and it's important. Again, that list is a good initial list. It's not necessarily an exhaustive or

sufficient list, and cameras should be included in those safety and security investments for the Seattle Center as well. But thank you again for your presentation here. Look forward to continuing the

conversation, kicking the tires a little bit more during our budget deliberations here. But after taking an initial pass at reviewing the proposal and mapping it against the commitments made in that

resolution, we passed earlier this year. Really excited overall to see the level of investment. Our job now is to ensure that Seattle Center will truly be ready in 2027. I want to thank the mayor for

taking a great initial strides and responding to our resolution effectively and establishing the machinery to make sure we're set up for success next year during the bond proposal. Thank you, chair.

Daniel Strauss: Thank you, Councilmember Saka. Councilmember Kettle, District 7 in the center. Robert Kettle: Yes. I'm going to take the privilege of going second because for the first two years here,

I was looking out for Seattle Center and Waterfront issues as part of my district. Because of that, I have met many over those two years of your team. I thank them for their work and what they've done

across the board and all the various elements and their work with partnership. I noted partnerships with me because the work like with Pacific Science Center and the Space Needle chahuri, the arena.

You mentioned KXP. There's a lot of partners, the rep. There's a whole lot massive list. That work collaborating with those has been really important. Welcome Interim Director Engstrom and Mr.

Winston. For me, again, Seattle Center is super important because it's part of the neighborhood and with Uptown, primarily, but also Queen Anne on one side, South Lake Union, Belltown on another. Is

super important to the neighborhood to do these things right. You're right. I have been involved with Memorial Stadium since just before the school levy vote in various capacities. I am so upset that

I can't be there at the topping. Randy Engstrom: We'll get you to whenever you want. Robert Kettle: Well, the challenge of being the council member versus the mayor is that our schedules are driven by

council meetings and committee meetings and I can't flex too much. A little here and there, but not too much. But I do look forward to it, and I'll butt a plug in anything down the road, like six

months ahead. Please give me advance notice as soon as possible in terms as we hit these milestones for completion of the stadium. I do thank, by the way, one roof, you mentioned Mr. Lewicki, but also

the school district, Mr. McCarthy, who I used to be working with primarily for that. Then there's the bond work. I think it's important as seen here. We got to do it right. It's the same thing with

the vision setting up the future. You get what you pay for. Seattle Center is center to the city, and we have to do it right, so we have to make those investments. Similarly with Waterfront and the

Elliott Bay Connections, this goes to the parks discussion about receiving parks, like onboarding new parks or park land sometimes, not necessarily a full traditional park. There's cost to that. It's

great. Yes, great. Now the challenge that Miss Linda French Gates and Miss McKenzie Scott have created is that they've created something beautiful. There's going to be this transition period where

things will be beautiful and there's going to be an expectation for the city to make sure that it remains beautiful. This is where the partnership comes in, and we should plan for that because it is

such a gem for us. That's a long way of saying, I appreciate the various pieces in the briefing that speak to that. I am on the book about keeping everything related to arts and culture with arts and

culture, and I remain so. But obviously, you're in a very unique position right now as your former role. We need to be smart on that to ensure that we are good as it relates to arts and culture. This

is massive for the city; it's also massive for District 7 because the vast majority of them, particularly the more major or even, that are located within the district. We need to ensure that that's

because that's part of the linking. As I said previously, too, unfortunately, by Seattle and et cetera, is taken away, but nothing builds momentum like momentum. We have a huge amount of momentum

coming out of FIFA World Cup. It's sports, but it's like anything else; ESPN, it's entertainment and sports, and how can we then translate that to arts and culture as it relates to Seattle Center

here, which I'm speaking about. How can we build on that experience, in terms of the programming you're doing? Any idea like what can we do? Then how you can partner? Never mind outside partnerships,

but partnerships within the executive departments to further that is really important to me. 100%. I mentioned my admiration for Director Newin's work; we talk about this a lot. Thank you for pointing

out the important role that partnership plays. Next year will be 65 years of the campus, 50 years of the foundation, probably our closest partner, 30 years of Festal, which is the 25 cultural

festivals that represent the best of this city. Five years right now of Climate Pledge Arena; I'll be at the game tonight. If I can stay awake long enough. One year of Waterfront Park. Waterfront Park

and Climate Pledge and KESP, which you also mentioned, are some of the most successful examples of public-private partnership that I've ever seen. I think they offer us a bit of a roadmap for what

we're going to need to do over the next years to come in our redevelopment plans, our capital plans. I also want to highlight the partnership with One Roof. The answer to your question about how do we

expand and build off that momentum is twofold. One is what I mentioned about that notion of a living classroom. We're meeting next week with the executive director of Comprehensive Schools and

Athletics and the executive director of Alternative Schools to explore how we might build off of our partnership with the Center School and Memorial Stadium and really create a dedicated career-

connected learning campus, work with the skill centers, work with other CTE providers, and create an environment whereby any student in Seattle Public Schools on one bus can get to the campus and can

start building a pathway towards a meaningful career. I want every parent. I have a 10-year-old daughter, as you do. I want her to see that as a possible future for her as she comes up through the

Seattle Public Schools. The other is, we've already expanded our work through Waterfront Park; now, the addition of Elliott Bay. What are the other ways we could bring the unique capacity that Seattle

Center offers to broader parts of the city? We're one of the only producing departments that can bring event infrastructure. Does that look like bringing festival programming to all of the middle

schools in Seattle? Does that look like working with parks or neighborhoods or the Office of Arts and Culture to support neighborhood block party, neighborhood park festival infrastructure? I would

like to see the capabilities of Seattle Center extend beyond the borders of the campus and into more neighborhoods, especially downtown. I think there's a huge opportunity: every downtown in the world

has a combination of the challenges that Seattle has, but no downtown in the world has a Seattle Center to the north, a stadium district to the south, a Waterfront Park and a Pike Place Market to the

west, and a convention center to the east. We are surrounded by all of the human participation we could ever hope for. We have to figure out how to draw that into the center of the city. Those are two

ways that I'm hopeful that we can do that. I'll shout out another cabinet member, Rico Kiran Dongo, working with him through the planning for our future subcabinet along with a number of other

departments, including OED, arts, and sustainability. What could our role in downtown activation look like? What greater role could Seattle Center play? That's a good point with OPCD, Mr. [inaudible],

and I would encourage you to engage with community, like for the South Lake Union Regional Center plan and also the Uptown Regional Center plan. To your point about reaching out downtown, really

greater Downtown AK, Uptown, because last night I was at the Seattle Storm Game. I came out of there, and for whatever reason, it was a hot mess, traffic-wise. Who pays the price for that? The

neighbors, the residents that live there. They need a little extra love because they burden some of the effort, if you will, in terms of how all these major events that happen in the entire campus.

That's important. One last thing, Chair: public safety. We spoke about this Tuesday; we spoke about this. Thank you for your after-action report. I've already spoken to it. I gave copies to all my

colleagues on committee. I gave one to my honor member on Tuesday, Council member Strauss. I also gave him hard copies to the OIG and investigators that were here that day, along with fires as well,

because it's really important. I'm positively surprised not surprised, not the word, but I used the term pleasantly surprised because it was really well done with the 10 findings and recommendations,

and your response in terms of it's all about implementation. I go, yes. I can see that being part of a foundational document because I've written a letter to the mayor on this regarding a review of

major venues, major events, safety plans, and public safety approach. I want to do this in collaboration and partnership. With the mayor, along with gun violence for the record, also part of the

engagement, because it's really important. I think that document and Seattle Center are going to be important in terms of our work because we're already setting up next year's work plan for the

committee, Public Safety Committee, and that will be central to it as well. Thank you, Chair. Hopefully, that wasn't too long. Thank you. Daniel Strauss: Council member Kettle, not a problem at all.

That's why we're here. Council member Lin. Eddie Lin: Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the presenters. A comment and question, a little bit a little bit of a different aspect around public safety.

But one piece of public safety, at least for our youth, is getting them jobs. Earlier, we talked about Cherry; you talked about the Seattle Conservation Corps and what a great program that is that

Parks has. That's a transitional employment program for adults experiencing homelessness, where folks do generalist landscaper and generalist construction labor-type jobs. A couple of questions. I

know that there's a fair amount of landscaping and other grounds-type stuff at Seattle Center, wondering if you have anything currently, or could we do something like Seattle Conservation Corps at

Seattle Center. But the other point would be with this bond work, I really appreciate you talking about the CTE and the partnership with Seattle Public Schools. But we have a real opportunity to

dedicate or be very intentional about, who's going to be working on this site. I think a big part one of the big selling points for me is if we can employ our youth folks going through pre-

apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs. Seattle Public Schools has a new community workforce agreement where there is a priority for Seattle Public Schools families. A lot of times, it can take a

while to lay the groundwork to do that type of priority hire or to do that intentional outreach and to start that planning on the apprenticeship. To the extent possible, as you do the bond prep work,

if somebody could also be thinking about the apprenticeship, the plan is to make sure that these jobs we're laying the groundwork for Seattle Public Schools, students, and families. Robert Kettle:

Thank you, Councilmember. That's 100% the plan. We've been talking with our labor partners about how to really build a meaningful pipeline for their members. Many of the unions are part of the Skill

Center program. The electrical program down at Rainier Beach- could that come to Seattle Center for the summer when the skill centers happen in the summer? If we are successful with this public ballot

measure, we're going to be facilitating thousands of living wage building trades jobs, and I would love nothing more than to see meaningful internships and apprenticeships made available to young

people who are interested in those pathways. I said in my first confirmation hearing last week that not every kid in Seattle Public Schools- the 50,000 students is going to be in a position to pay 40,

50, $60,000 a year for a four-year degree. But if we give them a pathway to a meaningful job that can help them live and work in this city, I think that's part of our responsibility. Eddie Lin: Thank

you. Daniel Strauss: Thank you, Council member Lin, Council member Foster. Dionne Foster: Thank you so much, Chair. I really appreciate this presentation, and thank you for your leadership. I want to

turn us to Slide 7, and Interim Director Engstrom, I know you spent many years as the leader of the Office of Arts and Culture, and I know you have a lot of experience here. I want to make sure I

understand : for these two items that are funded through the admissions tax that are made permanent, are these the only two items in the Seattle Center budget that are now funded through the

admissions tax? Robert Kettle: Yes. Dionne Foster: Fantastic. Do we have any information? I love Folklife, and I haven't been to Winterfest in a little while, but I did take my kid there to see all

the fun when he was a little bit younger. But do we have any information in terms of the number of artists in the city that are directly supported through these programs? Robert Kettle: I could

definitely get that, and credit to Reese Tanamura and Ben Hunter, who are the managing director artistic director of Folklife. About five years ago, they started paying all of the artists for many

years in Folklife's history. It was all volunteer. Speaking of folks who do apprenticeship and workforce development, Folklife does a great job of that, and they really believe in paying artists.

Folklife represents a pretty big investment. I can also get you that number for Winterfest because we do contract with a ton of local artists, visual and performing arts, as a part of that series. I'm

happy to get you those numbers. Dionne Foster: I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I believe Festal is also funded by the AdTax at Seattle Center at about 460,000. Robert Kettle: It's correct. Dionne

Foster: Is that correct? Robert Kettle: Yeah, I stand corrected. I'm still new. Dionne Foster: That's why we've got a full table, full complement. Robert Kettle: I do want to say, my hope is that in

partnership and collaboration, we can work with our friends at the Arts Office, Economic Development Office, and Planning Office to grow the pie and to not be further and further subdividing. We have

this incredible opportunity ahead of us with this bond measure, and I want to see how it can have the maximum benefit for the maximum number of communities, particularly the working artists in the

city. I gave the best years of my life to that office in many ways, and I love it very much and care very much about how its resources are governed. Dionne Foster: Thank you so much, interim director,

and I hope you've still got some good years left to give to Seattle Center. Director Panuci, can I get you to give me that number one more time on fiscal, please? It's important to me to make sure

that we have an accurate accounting. I know there was very difficult decisions made here, and I appreciate the care taken by the mayor's office. I want to have an accurate accounting of the ad tax

resources that are not going directly into the Office of Arts and Culture. Aly Pennucci: Absolutely. It is $460,000. We can post a full list to whichever department. It makes sense. I'll consult with

Director Ritson, but we can give you a list of all of the swaps related to the AdTax. Robert Kettle: I will own up to the fact that when I was director at the Arts office, we initiated that investment

in the Seattle Center because they were having a down budget year, and the AdTax was growing. Now here on the other side of it, we find ourselves. There's so much overlap. There's so much shared

purpose between the Office of Arts and Culture and the Seattle Center. I really want us to be able to swim in one direction and be collaborative, solution-oriented partners and not be reaching for

resources across the table. Dionne Foster: I appreciate that. I'll say I do appreciate that the projects that the Seattle Center has that are being funded through AdTax, I appreciate that they are

ones that do have direct impact to local artists. When I say the care and the difficult decisions, that's specifically related to that, because that is something that's really important to me as arts

chair and as somebody who has a lot of working artists in my life. I appreciate the attempt at the through line and the connection there with what AdTax is funding. I'll have more comments about this

when we get to the Office of Arts and Culture. But thank you for that, and I look forward to the follow-up. Not a question, but a statement. I know there was discussion earlier, Council man Saka, in

terms of the design and the work that's happening there. I will say I share an interest in that to make sure that we have the fullest accounting and the deepest understanding of the needs for this

really important cultural institution, as we look ahead to the work that we'll need to undertake in the next year or so, getting to Seattle voters. I look forward to more engagement there. Thank you

so much. Thank you, Chair Robert Kettle: I'm glad that you're the chair of the Arts committee; that makes me really happy. Secondly, anytime you want to come down to the center, we'd love to give you

a tour and connect you with our planning and capital development team. It's something that I think we should do more of, and happy to have you anytime. Dionne Foster: Thank you. Thank you, Chair.

Daniel Strauss: Thank you, Council member Foster. Colleagues, any other questions? I'm going to jump in, and then I'll pass it back to Council member Saka at the end. I will say, as Council member

Foster came on and we had a brief discussion about the push-and-pull conversation around arts funding this year, the thing that she said to me most importantly is that we are using the money to pay

artists. Maybe not most importantly. I'll let you use your own words, but that was something that really stuck with me because it's really so critical. When I was looking through your budget book, the

Folklife aspect- using admission tax for Folklife in particularly sits it felt poignant to me because it's a donation-requested event that is open to the whole public, and we're using admission tax to

give people access, no matter how much money they can pay to the arts and culture of our city. I mean, Folklife was one of those first events as a young child that my parents took me to. I wanted to

thank you there. Also want to second what you said about Tiffany Malaki down at the Office of Waterfront. Dang, she's punching above her weight. Keep it up, Tiffany. Focusing back on your 70% of the

budget is self-generated, I think the hardest part about Seattle Center is that we, as the city, when we budget, we view Seattle Center still in that realm of when you were 100% revenue-generated and

operating. That might have been in the 1980s; that might have been in the '70s, but there was a time when we weren't adding general fund to your funding stream because you were able to generate that

money yourself. We are so far past that. It's this cognitive dissonance moment where, even under FIFA, we asked you to do off-campus events- the Seattle Center, like off of the Seattle Center campus.

We gave you some general fund money to do it, but we're asking you to upkeep nearly 100-year-old buildings without doing the deep maintenance and renovation; I believe I heard the last major

maintenance was McCall Hall in 1995. Was that about right? Robert Kettle: McCall Hall and Fisher. Daniel Strauss: That was 30 years ago was the last time that we did any infrastructure upgrades to

your campus. Just getting in I was one of the council members that took the tour yesterday really appreciated your time. Getting into the guts of the armory, I thought it was bad before I went on the

tour, it's worse than I expected. One of the pieces that really stood out to me is that your campus utility plant that provides the heating and cooling for 17 of your buildings, is that correct? This

is all off the top of my head, so tell me if I'm wrong. By the time when the plant the heat and cooling itself, that plant is highly efficient, but by the time the heat or cold air gets to the

building, it's lost 50% of its hot or cold, is that correct? Randy Engstrom: I believe that's right, that's why decarbonizing the campus. It's critical one, because I think we generate something like

10% of the greenhouse gas for the City of Seattle with our gas power plant. We need to decarbonize the campus for climate values reasons, it's also what we have now is terribly inefficient. A lot of

our campus was built for the 1962 World's Fair, and it was never intended to last beyond two or three years. There are literal duct tape and zip ties holding parts of the campus together and our TFM

team, our technical facilities maintenance team does an incredible job. I told this story at my first committee meeting when three hours before the Rainier Beach High School graduation of Memorial

Stadium, we lost power, the power plant went down and we had to scramble to find every generator available in King County so those kids could walk in their graduation. That's the risk of critical

failure that we're up against, so it's inefficient on its good days. Some days things just break and all of it is in desperate need of a reinvestment. Diamatris Winston: It's 16% of the city owned

building emissions. Daniel Strauss: Sixteen percent. Diamatris Winston: It's very efficient. Come work there for a day and you'll be cold or hot or come to event, and you will get a lot of calls

about, hey, it's too hot, it's too cool. It's too something, but it's hard to regulate very inefficient and costly. Daniel Strauss: Yes, so just using that, though, if we were able to just have pipes

that didn't have holes in them, we could reduce our city owned carbon emission by 8% of our total emission. I'm just doing back the envelope math. Diamatris Winston: Significant improvement. Daniel

Strauss: If we lose 50% of that heating or cooling by the time it hits that building, and you're making up 16% of our carbon emissions, if we just had new pipes, we would be 50% better? Diamatris

Winston: Or if we could decarb it would be better than 50% efficiency improvement. Daniel Strauss: Hundred percent, I'm just at status quo. I am here to help you get decarbonized, I'm just saying if

we took the current situation, and at the beginning of my remarks today, I talked about additional efficiencies within the city. This wasn't even it, but this is an example of why this Seattle Center

upgrade is so needed right now. I already mentioned that you and your team are punching above your weight. Something that struck me yesterday about this heating cooling is that in the armory, if

you're holding an event in the main hall, you then have to take that hot or cold air away from the offices or from the school or from the children's museum or from the theater, or from the police

station or from your offices or from the Folklife offices. I'm going on this long list because there are so many different organizations tucked in this really massive building, I just wanted to

highlight that. When we were talking yesterday, you have about a million visitors at the Seattle Center itself a month? I took that from 12.5 million or 11.5 million per year just at the Seattle

Center. It really stands out to me that this is a civic campus and so I'm glad to hear that the Monorail projects are going better because we need to provide better access there. I know that when

we've had the light rail placement conversations, a lot of folks at the Seattle Center have had displeasure about the proximity of that station entrance to the campus because of construction related

impacts. But my challenge right back to the entire Seattle Center campus and everyone there is that if we are negotiating against ourselves about impacts versus 100 year infrastructure, the farther

away that entrances from the center, the less well it will serve my grandchildren, their children and everyone they're after because, again, Pacific Science Center was built as a temporary building

that's now historically landmarked. If we are negotiating against ourselves about 100 year infrastructure, I think that we could lose out, that's more of a plug than anything else. That was my last

statement. First question. What are your maintenance costs? Oh, the time's running, this is on me. What are your maintenance costs for all of those lines getting into all of your buildings, both the

hot air and the cool air? Diamatris Winston: I don't have that number in front of me, we could get that for you. I do know our capital improvement budget has always been about 50% of what our actual

needs are to maintain the buildings, and that doesn't include any enhancements, like we're talking about in the bond. Daniel Strauss: Actually, this is my final statement, which is that if we are able

to upgrade your infrastructure, we are going to save money, and that money is general fund, and that is how we can address this structural budget deficit continually and it's just that is the point

that I was leading us to and making. Diamatris Winston: I appreciate that. Thank you. Daniel Strauss: That's what I got. I see, I got Councilmember Kettle and Foster's hands up. Those are old hands

great. Councilmember Saka, I'm going to pass it over to you. Actually, I'm going to let the committee table respond to me, if any last words, and then I'm going to pass it over to Councilmember Saka

for last last words. Randy Engstrom: No, I just really appreciate your time yesterday. You and Council President, I appreciate. We want to get into the details of really what are the hard costs, the

soft costs? Where can we be more efficient? What would it mean? We are going to put so many heat pumps online with the renovation of two dozen buildings that we could train a generation of HVAC

technicians that don't currently exist to take care of the heat pumps. The opportunities are really big and really exciting, and it's going to be in the details and figuring out how we sequence these

projects and how we're able to realize true efficiencies as a city as a result. Daniel Strauss: Thank you. Randy Engstrom: I love that you said the structural budget deficit because, we want to fix

that too. Daniel Strauss: Thank you. Councilmember Saka over to you. Rob Saka: Thank you, Chair. I want to thank the department for their presentation today. More importantly, all the hard work that

goes on behind the scenes and toil, that's reflected in the multi dozens and dozens of pages of documentation in the proposed budget so really appreciate that. I want to my colleagues, all of you that

have asked such terrific questions, couldn't agree more with the essence of everything you heard. Thank you, Chair, for your thoughtful questions, and I really appreciate, in particular, how you

teased out and very thoughtfully articulated the vision here and making clear, making more transparent, the specific need, and the problem that we'd be solving for if we put a bond measure package

before voters to do this. It's all those things that you mentioned and discussed at length in terms of the decarbonization and addressing the infrastructure and preventative maintenance. Yes, it will

have a long term positive impact in terms of addressing our structural budget issues, at least in part, absolutely. Crystal clear, so thank you for teasing out that point. It's all those things and

more because we're going to do all those things and build back better, restore the center to its original glory and vibrance, if you will, but make it better, as well. There'll be some cool new

features and opportunities to reimagine specific spaces. I'm really excited for that, I want to thank everyone for your great conversation and comments and questions. Thank you, Council President, Mr.

Chair, for joining that tour yesterday, so that is all. Daniel Strauss: Thank you, Councilmember Saka. Thank you to the Seattle Center employees and administration and to everyone down there at the

Office of Waterfront, keep up the great work. We're going to transition into the next presentation if the clerk can read item Number 5 into the record. Speaker 1: Agenda item 5, Office of Arts and

Culture for briefing and discussion. Daniel Strauss: Seventeen minutes, 51 seconds, that's where I'm at. FEMALE_1: Are you timing us, too, or? Daniel Strauss: I don't care about you guys. Well,

welcome, we're going to have the clerk read this item in in just a second. You read it in while we were doing other things. Welcome, Director Nguyen. Welcome, Alex. Great to see you again, Director

Pennucci. Director Whitson, you haven't moved, great to see you. I'm going to turn it over to you to run this presentation, and then we'll turn it over to Councilmember Foster. Amy Nguyen: Thank you

so much. Good afternoon. My name is Amy Nguyen, I'm the director for the Office of Arts and Culture, and I am joined by my wonderful colleague, Alexandra McGehee. I want to thank you so much, Chair

Strauss, all of the councilmembers, let's have a good close out here for your day. I know you have a lot in front of you for the days to come. Really, thank you so much for the opportunity to be here

to present on the Office of Arts and Culture 2027-2028 proposed budget. In this presentation, we will provide a high level overview of the department and its current work and walk you through the

proposed budget and its investments in Seattle's arts and culture sector. Following this presentation, we are happy to answer any questions you may have. In grounding us, the Office of Arts and

Culture was established in 1971 and started out with two core mandates to steward the 1% for public art program and to make investments in the city that foster and support a thriving art and culture

ecosystem. Our mission is to activate and sustain Seattle through arts and culture. We envision a city driven by creativity where everyone can engage in diverse, meaningful cultural experiences, we

work to make that vision real through grants, programs, partnerships and cultural planning that help make Seattle a vibrant and inclusive city. The backbone of this work is our racial equity lens. We

believe that art can be used to drive change and to reflect not only the world as it is, but the world we want to build together. We seek solutions that use arts as a strategy to drive not only our

office, but the city as a whole toward that racial equity and social change. Our office is structured around four programmatic areas, public art, which stewards the 1% for art program and manages our

exceptional world famous civic art collection, our partnerships education and grants, which focuses on community centered investments designed to support diverse arts experiences, cultural

organizations and manage the creative advantage partnership with Seattle public schools. Our finance operations and facilities, which is the backbone of our organization, operating the arts at King

Street Station Gallery and the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, and providing the technical resources and support to administer all grants and programming. Last but not least, creative

placemaking, which supports our cultural districts, job programs and other initiatives which are designed to embed arts and culture in community development. We are supported by a fantastic 16 member

Seattle Arts Commission, citizen volunteers appointed by the mayor and yourself, 2026 has been a big year for our office, the creative placemaking divisions scaled up to deliver an outstanding

experience for the hundreds of thousands of visitors and residents who celebrated FIFA World Cup in Seattle. With over two million in community grants, we supported community events far beyond the

Chinatown International District in Downtown, extending to every council district. In pure numbers, our office invested 2.3 million in community grants throughout the city, funding 29 organizations,

supporting over 100 community events across 16 neighborhoods. We also celebrated the successful passage of legislation establishing Georgetown as Seattle's newest cultural district. Georgetown joins

Capitol Hill, Uptown, the central area, Columbia City and Hillman City. We are so grateful to the mayor's office and counsel for your support of this legislation which continues our commitment to

protecting and investing in these key cultural neighborhoods and their districts verb and character. We also want to call out some interdepartmental partnerships we have been working on this year,

including community hubs, and innovative wellness program focused on youth mental health from our office, our Parks and Recreation and the Department of Early Learning, and new public art on the

symphony block, a key corridor with cultural anchors to enliven public space and really spark new art experiences in partnership with our Department of Transportation and other county and downtown

agencies. The 2027/2028 proposed budget makes key investments in grants and frontline services, the creative advantage, civic art collection maintenance, cultural districts, and King Street Station

activations. It also makes ongoing the formerly one time redirection of admission tax through the Office of Arts and Culture to Seattle Parks and Recreation and Seattle Center. The Office of Arts and

Culture budget is reduced from the 2026 adopted as one time funding lapses. Aly Pennucci: There's an overall drop as we move into the biennium reflecting natural reduction as one year appropriation

authority lapses. That said, the mayor's 2027/2028 budget includes some exciting one time and ongoing investments for the office of arts and culture, which we will talk about next. I'm going to kick

off these significant additions and really calling out arts education. This investment increases the budget of the creative advantage by 557,000 ongoing, raising the total annual program investment

into Seattle public schools from 541,500 to over one million annually. The program is a collective impact model and includes collaborations between the Seattle public schools, Visual and Performing

Arts program, our office, the Seattle Foundation, and over 100 community arts partners. The program's core goals are to expand equitable access, ensuring all Seattle public school students, regardless

of race, income, language, or ability, have access to arts education. Creates consistent sequential arts education experiences from kindergarten through high school, within students' neighborhood

school pathways. It's about connecting schools with a vetted roster of teaching artists and cultural organizations to provide in school multi session artist residencies. Offer training for educators

in our arts integration and culturally responsive teaching practices. Research shows that arts learning gives students far more than artistic skills. It's critical thinking, communication and

collaboration. There are 21st century skills that life and careers demand, and they matter even more in the age of AI. Arts learning also boosts student motivation, academic success, graduation rates,

well being, and civic engagement. This investment expands our community arts partnership grants, so every Seattle public school can use these resources. These grants pay for school day student

residencies with approved partners through our office community arts partner roster, exhibitions of student work and youth performances. It also raises the average award to 8K per school with exact

award amount scaled based on need. We set the old budget based on assumptions from a partial rollout. Now we fund the program as a full district operation, and we make our grants available to all

schools. The next area of investment is a broad 3% adjustment to all office of arts and culture grants and front facing service budgets. This impacts areas, including but not limited to our centering

arts and racial equity grants, which provide multi year funding to arts and cultural organizations, ARTS at King Street Station Gallery and the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. Smart

Ventures are flexible introductory grant for first time applicants. Arts and parks are partnerships with parks and recreation to bring arts and cultured, underserved and economically constrained areas

of the city. The cultural facilities fund, which creates better access for people who have been unfairly excluded from owning, managing, or leasing property and youth arts, which funds out of school

arts programs for middle and high schoolers. This reflects the importance of the cultural sector in Seattle and recognizes the higher costs to live and work here, especially for creative workers. This

investment modifies our base programming budget in these areas from $6.5 million to 6.7 in 2027 and nearly seven million in 2028. This investment will allow us to adjust grant sizes and continue to

deliver the high quality programming and arts experiences in our spaces. The next investment included in the mayor's proposed budget is a 98,000 increase to our civic art collection maintenance

budget. This is that beautiful artwork in your office. The Seattle Civic Art Collection is one of the largest civic collections in the country. It plays a vital role in preserving the city's cultural

identity and brings diverse artistic expression into the daily lives of its residents and visitors. Comprised of thousands of portable works and integrated public installations embedded in cities,

parks, libraries, and municipal buildings, the collection acts as an accessible open air museum that democratizes art outside of traditional gallery spaces. Law requires us to maintain the art in our

collection for 20 years or for the life of the capital construction bonds from our partner departments. That job gets harder. Material and labor costs are rising and our collection continues to grow

and age. As urgent repairs pile up, we struggle to keep up with routine maintenance. This investment helps us meet our legal obligation and honors the promises we made to the communities we partner

with to create these artworks. It also reflects our steady commitment to keeping the arts cared for and open to everyone in Seattle, no matter your neighborhood, income or background. The King Street

Station Activations Program has truly put ARTS at King Street Station on the map. It has helped establish the Office of Arts and Culture King Street Station Gallery as a cultural anchor and bridge

between the Chinatown International District and Pioneer Square neighborhoods. These activations increase the visibility of our office and our work, drawing thousands of visitors to our events. They

highlight local artists, cultural workers, and creative talent in a highly visible way. While we are fortunate to manage the ARTS at King Street Station Gallery, the space itself is Tucton's data

station and can be difficult for the public to find. The activations program brings energy and activity to both King Street Station Plaza and the gallery, reflecting the vibrancy of the neighborhoods

we serve. Our solstice events, longest day, and longest night, continue to grow in scale and impact. This year, programming expanded significantly with multiple activations each week and a full slate

of World Cup related events. The activations work that began in 2024 has no base funding in our budget. This investment allows us to build on the strong momentum created in 2025 and 2026 and continue

the work in 2027. It supports local creative talent and generates positive spillover effects into surrounding neighborhoods through economic activity, cultural vibrancy, community connection, and

improved feelings of safety. Much of our work happens behind the scenes. This program is our prominent public facing investment and creates cascading benefits when we operate not only as funders, but

as producers, conveners, collaborators, and change agents. It expands our ability to lead and engage directly with community beyond administrative and financial support alone. We want to end on,

again, thanking you all so much for your time and consideration, and let's dive into some questions. Dan Strauss: Thank you Director. Director Pennucci, anything to add? Aly, anything? Council member

Foster, over to you. Dionne Foster: Thank you so much, Chair and thank you for that fantastic presentation, Director Wynn, it's just such a pleasure getting to chair the housing Arts and Civil Rights

Committee. I will say, I'll be brief here and say one thing that's really on my mind often is the important role that arts plays in our city in many ways. You talked about the impact for young people

in our education system and the expansion of programming there. Just in our offices, the ability to have an incredible art collection here at the city that supports local artists and helps create

vibrant places both inside City Hall, out on the streets with our public art and so much more and it's also not lost on me the significant role that the emissions tax has in supporting the Office of

Arts and Culture and colleagues, I know you've heard me ask earlier today in previous presentations about the information regarding the ad tax going to other departments. Again, will echo what I said,

which is, I think that the approach taken in this budget has been balanced in terms of dealing with a really challenging situation and trying to refocus those ad tax dollars in places where they still

support artists directly. I am going to just take a second to recount some of those uses. I don't take issue with uses. I really want to make sure that I'm highlighting them for my colleagues here so

that we understand the impact to the arts department, particularly as we're looking ahead at any possible additional changes the council may want to undertake. I think I heard $460,000 for festal,

400,000 for folk life, 222,000 for winter fest, 280,000 for arts and parks, 210 I keep saying thousand. That's right. I think we're getting in the millions, so 210,000 for the teen summer musical.

Fantastic. By the way, and 224,000 to support buskers and I know that Director Pennucci is going to send some follow up so we have the full accounting. Again, I don't take issue with this use, but I

think it's important to highlight it. My question, because I know that was not a question, and I know that the budget chair has got the timer on me. My question, Director Wynn when we look at some of

the things, the programs that the arts department runs, programs that I think are again, really important say, for example, the cultural facilities fund. Can you talk about the way that the asks that

come into the department for that fund and how much of that ask you're able to fulfill, generally speaking? Aly Pennucci: Thank you so much, Council member Foster, and you said it so well. I will say

most of my time, my day is spent talking to small, medium, large arts and culture organizations, individual artists, and they're expressing that they're impacted just by several of the items that we

heard today, just as what we struggle as a city. You can't say enough on that rising cost, whether they are themselves employers on healthcare, how they struggle to keep their doors open and the very

limited levers they have to pool. I love that you leaned in specifically to the cultural facilities fund. We run a program that administers shy of $400,000 and we have tens of millions of dollars in

requests for those cultural capital needs. These are places where I can't emphasize enough that we saw as we are still now years out of COVID recovery that arts and culture is alive when it's in your

backyard in your neighborhood and that we have places in which we can access arts and culture together. Those cultural facilities in neighborhoods from our D5 in Lake City, all the way down through

South Seattle and Rainier Beach, they need a hand to keep I liked what you said, Director Engstrom about zip ties and duct tape. I hear a lot about creative uses of how to keep our aging

infrastructure going and the burden that that falls on small theaters to have to operate to keep up with that as well. I really appreciate so much of the framing today because it really is about the

future and rather than continuing to think in the short term of where our needs are, how can we partner and really think effectively about how investment for arts and culture can be truly sustainable

as we move forward? If the question comes into what I don't even know where to begin, how to even describe the needs that come out. I do open community office hours for sign up. I have one tomorrow.

If I could just even tell you scratching the surface on the totality of the complexities of problems that I hear come up, we're excited again, for all of these fantastic investments and I think folks

saw really the power of arts and culture investments that are very much guided by our Seattle Arts Commission and our open panel processes. In play and action when that happened this summer with our

We Still Dream of Future. Dionne Foster: Thank you so much, Director Wynn. I appreciate that and I know we still have the directors from Seattle Center here in Parks Department here, and I just want

to underscore, again, I think that the programming that is being run across the city to support arts is critical and is really important. It's just important to me as arts chair to uplift, to make

sure that we have I hope Council Barwis wasn't on here to hear me say uplift, but to make sure that we have a full view of the diversity of needs across our arts sector so that we can make the

smartest and the most informed decisions. Just knowing, you know, $400,000 in resources, obviously, it doesn't go that far when it comes to the diversity of arts based and cultural organizations

around the city. I appreciate that. Thank you so much, Chair. Dan Strauss: Thank you, Council Member Foster, Council Mayor Kettle. Robert Kettle: Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to thank Director

Guinn and Miss McCay for being here in presentation. You heard me before during Seattle Center, my points about arts and culture and again, to be consistent, I'll say it again, we do need to keep that

budget whole, keep that package together, not have it bifurcated. I don't think we're there now, but there has been a question in the past, so it's probably good to keep saying it, so then we don't

have any backsliding on that front. There's a lot of key points. I do like the point about partnerships. As I said earlier, too, again, in Seattle Center section, after FIFA World Cup, I had a

conversation with Inspire Washington, what they're doing and also bringing it to the DSA, too, about having an after action, speaking of after action, like a lesson to learn review of the World Cup

and then really how to transfer it from sports entertainment, and in this case, entertainment means arts and culture because I think there's opportunities there. I think about all the pieces. On one

hand, I go to a nonprofit group called Jazzd the music education to all these young people, and they serve a wide range across the city and beyond, actually. Then on the other side Seattle Chamber

Music Society and the work that they're going into their new location when that's done, that's going to be beautiful. We have this cluster, and it's like, how do we create, in terms of partnership,

like a unity loop for again the music venues or the theater venues or to get to keep the momentum and keep the activity and to keep the activation going. The partnership piece as it relates to arts

and culture is so important. How do you see that and how does that play out in terms of what you're looking to do with a budget? Amy Nguyen: I have to first compliment whoever paired these three

departments together, because I think that's where the partnership really starts. It was Director Engstrom, as the break came on that said, it's really about belonging. That's where parks and

recreation, Seattle Center and Arts and Culture meet. But I also want to add into the levels of complexity. What I'm interested in too, is how arts and culture can really reflect that we need to also

evolve and be more rigorous in how we think about our partnership. Councilman Kettle, I'm really glad you brought sports up. Often there's this idea that sports in arts and culture are opposition when

they really aren't at all. I think we also saw that with this fantastic summertime. What we're thinking about is things that bring us together, things that connect us. I've said this during my

confirmation processes, I so often taken by how much artists in order to survive must function as small businesses and entrepreneurs themselves. You cannot be a working artist and depend entirely on

public subsidy. There's a need to ensure that there's a creative competition in that. Those are skills that we hear all the time about businesses themselves needing to evolve from marketing budgets to

technical assistance. That's very much arts and culture. I'm very excited about several different partnership opportunities that we're looking at, and I think what you see also within the mayor's

proposed budget here is really a signaling on how we're thinking through those partnerships. This expansion to the budget and creative advantage, you heard me say it a bit in my remarks there, but we

know that some of the biggest tech firms, what they're actually recruiting for and looking for is creative critical thinking skills, and that is what is being diminished and lost within so much of our

education. When we look at the studies on student success, so much of that comes to an arts and culture education. I can rant about this for some time. I'm going to go ahead and stop because I just

love that you brought up partnership. I'll just pause there and hope that I answered your question then. Robert Kettle: You did and I'll give full credit to Chair Strauss for the pairing of parks,

Seattle Center and Arts and Culture. I am not an artist, but I did have an artistic opportunity earlier this year with our famous now FIFA World Cup artist for our poster, Mr. Shoguota because he did

a mural in Belltown near Pier 66 when you come off, and I was able to spray paint a little star into this mural. The captain from the cruise ship he also did a little piece but he stenciled the name

of the cruise ship on that little cruise ship that's part of the mural. I say that as this really makes a big difference. The mural program in Belltown, for example, is massive, and it makes a

difference because there's a lot of challenges, as we know, in public safety for that. Again, bring things to public safety, usually. I bring that up because as a Navy guy, it's all about maintenance.

Then in your briefing, you showed that one piece of art and it's the same thing with murals. If something's not maintained, one of the pillars in our strategic framework plan is urban blight

remediation. We have these issues that we have out there, we don't want to contribute it because the converse of is if we do the maintenance and that piece of art is looking vibrant, then that adds to

the thriving vibrant city goal that we all have. I just wanted to thank you for highlighting the maintenance piece because it's like what Director Pennucci's doing related to this budget process. It's

addressing the nuts and bolts pieces. Now, there's going to be disagreements on where and what. There already is. But not on approaching the budget, approaching these things. Another from a good

governance point of view is, you got to do the maintenance as painful as it is. This applies to arts and culture too. I just wanted to say thank you for that. I have no questionnaire, but if you want

to speak to maintenance, I'm more than happy to hear. Amy Nguyen: Now I need to check out your star edition on that mural. That's quite cool. No, thank you for recognizing the maintenance component of

it. I will say that we have dealt with, I think, so much of it. Even in the Seattle Times, back in 2020, with our public art collection, vandalism is up. There's the general aging of one's collection,

but it's everything from weather to ensuring that those costs are staying up and prime and we also put a lot of time into and lead up to World Cup to ensure that those beautiful art pieces were

shining and looked fantastic for the world to welcome in it. It's a place where there's a lot of ongoing maintenance needs, and it's also a place where we draw a line too, as we consult on public art

projects not only with our sister agencies, but also community partners that are interested in public art to really underscore the need to make maintenance sexy and prioritize it. Robert Kettle:

Excellent. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Daniel Strauss: Thank you, Council member Kettle, colleagues, additional questions, comments. I'm going to jump in and then give it to council member Foster at

the very end. Multiple notebooks. Thank you. A couple statements. I think I only have statements for you today. The murals and the artists and the funding of murals and artists is so impactful. Like

yesterday when I was visiting the Seattle Center, I had a pinch me moment as I was looking at Belltown. Belltown's mural projects over this last year have put dinosaurs and all sorts of other vibrant

pictures on what are otherwise dull gray walls. It just is amazing to see our city liven up in that way. For me, with the Ballard mural project that we've had a couple of years going, the momentum is

building incredibly. Stevie Shaw, I think we've got her best mural in the city in Ballard. I'm just so grateful. What was most impactful and this goes back to what council member Foster had schooled

me on when she came in was like, what about the artists? Are we making sure to pay them? The best part of the mural project for me is not the fact that it is a brighter, more vibrant space. It was

getting to meet these artists, hear their story, and get to support them along their way of living a creative life. Because those interactions stick, they stick with me, at least, well beyond the few

days it takes to paint the mural. I appreciate what council member Foster is doing about highlighting the pass through dollars that you are providing that is still the Office of Arts and Culture doing

that work, even if it's in other departments. Thank you for highlighting that because the breadth of your impact is just throughout the entire city. What I really see is that your department adds

vibrancy and adds life to people, whether your department is actuating it or not. Going back to the festal conversation of Director Engstrom on now both sides of festal funding. But at the end of the

day, it doesn't really matter because the people of the city and the people of the region are having an artful experience, and they don't need to know what kind of back end disagreements or agreements

we're having. They just need to have a nice day that they can't forget. Already talked about folk life and just admissions tax being used for an admission free festival. Just really that was a pinch

me moment again today. You asked who my favorite artist is in our collection. No, you didn't, but I'm going to tell you. Blake Hagood. Blake Hagood is my favorite artist in our collection. Now to my

only question about public art, again, your department punched above your weight during FIFA World Cup. It really made us look good to be an international city. An international city is live and

vibrant. You did this in partnership with many others, but this is your core focus so thank you. I think when we almost worked together, that was when King Street Station was just opening. It was

still under SDT control, and then it switched over. It's been amazing to watch that transformation at King Street. One of the things that I loved during FIFA was, I think it's on your second to last

slide. That art piece, if you want to switch slides real quick, just so we can bring it back up behind the dancer, that art piece. Was that temporary? Is it permanent? How do we do more of that? I

also see just you own that building, and there's no fault here, but the windows are kind of blank. Is there a way to put artful vinyl? How can we liven up this space? Amy Nguyen: Thank you so much,

Chair, for that question. I think if we more sophisticated social media investigators could, I saw that photo tagged in so much around internationally, that artwork with the train station behind, and

that artist, Alex Proba. That's a temporary public art piece. We're quite honored to be able to showcase based out of Oregon but internationally renowned public artist. That piece is no longer there.

We actually just de installed it. It's headed to its next home. But it was one of those really powerful stories of just how art can change and make a space alive. As soon as it was installed, we had,

like, 20 children running around it. I remember we stood in our office. We were like we probably should put some signage about that out there. Just to give you kind of a people just being alive in

that plaza. Also, it is a story of it was an upward battle for us to get that artwork there, and by battle, I shouldn't put it in such, we are so excited to be in an historic district. It is just the

hotbed of Pioneer Square, China hood and international district , where this gateway. That process, just as many of the processes of when we are considering or would like to do things on the facade or

within the public realm, is really about respecting the historic character of the neighborhood, which requires respecting the levels of review that go to it. That project, specifically that artwork,

opened up a lot of really great conversations on what should be allowed in Pioneer Square. I'm using very intentional language here to say that. I think we saw a lot of the power of embracing change

and what that can do to the life of that neighborhood. That artwork is no longer there, but we fully intend a part of one of the exciting ads that the mayor included is that one time funding to really

extend that King Street Station activation, we can build on that momentum with the full intent of having another temporary public artwork in that plaza. Daniel Strauss: Thank you. Very helpful. I

understand the need to protect our historic districts, and if that means that we have to have a black vinyl window, compared to a colorful vinyl window, I am challenged by how that is protecting a

historic preservation area. I'm not a preservationist, but we've seen in Belltown with their mural projects, those murals were able to go onto historic buildings because they were able to meet those

requirements. I know it's not out of the question. My request is that the historic preservation groups ensure that we are able to add vibrancy rather than leaving dark places in our community. With

that, Director, any last comments, either directors, I'm going to pass it over to council member Foster to take home. Dionne Foster: Thank you so much, Tara Strauss. I appreciate that we all get to

share our love for the arts and artists here in Seattle and how important they are to making the city that we all want to live in. I will just close out with this and say, there's really difficult

decisions that had to be made this year, and it's not lost on me that we're looking at an actual reduction in the overall budget for Office of Arts and Culture and that you all will continue to

sustain incredible, incredible work with the resources that you do have. I just deeply appreciate that. I look forward to working in partnership. I know we heard other folks speak earlier about the

need to grow the pie to make sure that we are able to invest adequately because artists are doing so many things for our city, whether that's the murals that council member Strauss spoke about, and

I've got a family member who painted one of those, and Dan and I have talked about that. That plays an important role for employing artists, for supporting our small businesses, making neighborhoods

more beautiful, reducing the amount of money that we're spending on scrubbing graffiti off the walls. I could go on and on. But those investments, we just get so much from them. I look forward to

continuing to partner alongside the mayor's office, office of arts and culture to grow the pie so that we can make these investments that I think we get more bank for our buck from them, I think. I

think that's important to note. Thank you so much. Thank you, Chair. Daniel Strauss: Thank you, council member Foster as chair of the committee overseeing the department. With that, Director Whitson

gets full credit of putting together presentations together. I just work here. Mr. Whitson makes sure everything happens on time and with grace so thank you, sir. MALE_1: It's been a great partnership

with the City Budget Office. Daniel Strauss: There we go. Love this. Colleagues, any other final comments? Questions for the day? Seeing none. Tomorrow's presentation will be the Seattle Police

Department, Community Assisted Response and Engagement Department and Seattle Fire Department. We will try to move things up, although there may be some timing issues with Seattle Fire Department, so

we'll keep you updated in the morning. There is no verbal public comment. Literally, at 9:31 A.M. the police department is starting their presentations. I believe council member Rink and Kettle were

the only ones on time for this afternoon session. I was on time, which is late. I am timing myself and no one else. I forgot to turn on the timer again. With no further ado, this does conclude the

September 24, 2026 select budget committee meeting. We'll see you tomorrow morning at 9:30 A.M.