2026-09-28 - Select Budget Committee

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] -- GOOD MORNING. THE SEPTEMBER 28th, 2026 SELECT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING WILL COME TO ORDER. I'M DAN STRAUSS, CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE. IT IS 9:30 A.M.. WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE

ROLL? COUNCILMEMBER RINCK PRESENT. COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. PRESENT. -- COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. HERE. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. HERE. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. HOLLINGSWORTH. PRESENT. COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ.

COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. HERE. COUNCILMEMBER LIN. HERE. CHAIR STRAUSS NINE. PRESENT. -- THANK YOU. WE HAVE THREE ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA. C A HUMAN SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND OFFICE OF

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. IF THERE. BEFORE WE BEGIN. IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION, THE AGENDA WILL BE ADOPTED. HEARING NO OBJECTION, THE AGENDA IS ADOPTED. WELCOME BACK FOLKS. IT IS 9:31 A.M.. I'M GOING TO

TAKE A MINUTE BEFORE WE START THE PRESENTATION. SO LITTLE DEPARTURE FROM WHAT I SAID ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUST TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF HOUSEKEEPING. LAST WEEK, THE EES DID NOT REALLY WORK VERY WELL, SO

WE MIGHT JUST TAKE A 5 TO 15 MINUTE BREAK. OR IF FOLKS NEED TO LEAVE THE DIET, THE ROSTRUM AT ANY TIME TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. WE'RE HERE FOR A REALLY LONG TIME. SO PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES

AND THAT ORDER. WE ALSO HAVE SNACKS, SO DIRECTOR PANUCCI AND PRESENTERS, IF YOU NEED A LITTLE BIT OF SNACKS, THERE'S SOME IN THE GREEN ROOM THERE AND WE WILL TRY TO TAKE AN HOUR BREAK TODAY FOR LUNCH.

BUT WE'RE JUST GOING TO KIND OF TAKE A VIBE CHECK AS WE'RE GOING. SO IF YOU NEED MORE TIME OR LESS TIME, PLEASE DO. SO I'M NOT GOING TO BRING UP HOW MUCH I'M TIMING MYSELF. I AM GOING TO CONTINUE

TIMING MYSELF. DON'T NEED TO MAKE IT A THING. AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU TAKE THE TIME AND THAT YOU SHOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE TAKING AS MUCH TIME, ASKING THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU NEED

ANSWERS TO. AND IF IT'S STARTING TO TAKE A LITTLE WHILE, LET'S FOLLOW UP ON SHAREPOINT WITH THAT. ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER? SEEING NONE. PHIL, IF YOU'D LIKE TO READ THE FIRST ITEM INTO

THE RECORD AND THEN WE'LL JUST TAKE IT RIGHT AWAY. -- THANK YOU. AGENDA ITEM ONE. HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT FOR BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION. -- RIGHT OVER TO YOU. SORRY. THERE IS NOTHING MORE THERE. I'M

GOING TO FACILITATE. SORRY. LAST PIECE OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE. WE'RE ABLE TO JUST HAVE CONVERSATIONS. AND SOMETIMES I NEED TO STEP IN TO FACILITATE. SO OFTENTIMES I'M DOING

THAT WITH MY EYES AND BODY LANGUAGE AND NOT JUST MY WORDS. SO WITH THAT DIRECTOR KIM, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO THE COMMITTEE TABLE, RUN THROUGH THE PRESENTATION UNTIL THERE'S A GOOD STOPPING

POINT. WE ALSO HAVE DEPUTY DIRECTOR CALVIN CHOW WITH US AND DIRECTOR LISH WHITSON'S STEAD. SO THAT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT THE LAST THEY GO TO THE ORDER. SO WITH THAT I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO YOU,

DIRECTOR KIM, IF YOU WANT TO INTRODUCE CHRIS AND AMY, PLEASE DO SO. AND WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE YOUR PRESENTATION BEFORE US TODAY. -- GREAT. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING. WE'LL BEGIN WITH AMY. --

GOOD MORNING, AMY HOLLAND, BUDGET MANAGER, HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. -- TANYA KIM. HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. DIRECTOR. -- CHRIS CLAYSON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. -- OKAY. AND I

THINK YOU INTRODUCED OUR DIRECTORS WHO ARE PERMANENT RESIDENTS AT THE TABLE. OKAY. SO GOOD MORNING, CHAIR STRAUSS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS, THANK YOU FOR INVITING US TO PRESENT MAYOR WILSON'S PROPOSED

2027 AND 2028 BUDGET FOR THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT'S MISSION IS TO CONNECT PEOPLE WITH RESOURCES AND SOLUTIONS DURING TIMES OF NEED. SO ALL COMMUNITY, ALL SEATTLE

RESIDENTS, OUR COMMUNITY CAN LIVE, LEARN, WORK, AND TAKE PART IN STRONG AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES. TO ACHIEVE THIS, HSD IS A FUNDER AND A DIRECT SERVICES PROVIDER. OUR DEPARTMENT FOCUSES ON SIX IMPACT

AREAS THAT'S PREPARING YOUTH FOR SUCCESS, SUPPORTING AFFORDABILITY AND LIVABILITY, ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS, PROMOTING PUBLIC HEALTH, SUPPORTING SAFE COMMUNITIES, AND PROMOTING HEALTHY AGING HSD

WORKFORCE AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE OUR GREATEST ASSETS. WE HAVE FOUR PROGRAM DIVISIONS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTRACTS, SERVICES AND OUR STAFFING GROUPS. ALSO SUPPORT OTHER ADVISORY COUNCILS AND

CONVENINGS. OUR FOUR PROGRAM DIVISIONS INCLUDE OUR AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES DIVISION, LED BY MARY PEARSON, FORMERLY MARY MITCHELL. OUR YOUTH AND FAMILY EMPOWERMENT DIVISION IS LED BY DR. SHUKRI

OLO. OUR SAFE AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES DIVISION IS LED BY INTERIM DIRECTOR EDWIN AMBROSE, WHO IS TAKING THE PLACE OF ERICA PUEBLO WHILE SHE IS ON LEAVE AND OUR FOURTH PROGRAM DIVISION IS OUR

HOMELESSNESS DIVISION AS WELL AS UNIFIED CARE TEAM AND THOSE FOR THE DIVISION DIRECTOR. WE'RE CURRENTLY HIRING AND CHRISTINA KAUPPI IS THE INTERIM DIRECTOR FOR UCT. TOGETHER WITH OUR PARTNERS, HSD IS

RESPONSIBLE FOR PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE SEATTLE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM THAT OFFERS HUNDREDS OF INTERNSHIPS THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. OUR FOOD AND MEALS THROUGHOUT THE CITY YEAR ROUND, EXTENSIVE

HOMELESSNESS SERVICES AND PREVENTION, AS WELL AS GENDER BASED VIOLENCE, INCLUDING OUR COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION EFFORTS. CASE MANAGEMENT FOR AGING AS WELL AS ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES. AS YOU'VE

HEARD THROUGHOUT THE BUDGET BRIEFINGS, DEPARTMENTS ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO DELIVER IMPORTANT SERVICES FOR OUR COMMUNITY. FOR EXAMPLE, HSD PARTNERS WITH SEATTLE CITY LIGHT AND SEATTLE PUBLIC UTILITIES

TO ADMINISTER UDP, THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM WE WORK WITH SPD, WHO REFERS SURVIVORS OF VARYING CRIMES TO HSD FOR VICTIM ADVOCACY. AND AS CHIEF SCOGGINS TALKED ABOUT ON FRIDAY, HSD SOCIAL WORKERS

JOINT JOIN FIRE TO OFFER THE MOBILE INTEGRATED HEALTH PROGRAM, WHICH IS KNOWN AS HEALTH ONE AND HEALTH 99. I SHARE ALL THIS BECAUSE HSD INVESTMENTS COVERS A LOT. THEY'RE COMPLEX BECAUSE WE CONTINUE TO

MEET THE EMERGING NEEDS OF OUR DYNAMIC COMMUNITY. GUIDING OUR BUDGET FOR 2027 AND 2028 ARE FOUR KEY PRIORITIES. THE FIRST BEING DELIVERING EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT. THE SECOND ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS.

THIRD, AFFORDABILITY AND FOURTH, COMMUNITY SAFETY. THIS SLIDE IS A SUMMARY OF WHAT WE'RE TO TALK ABOUT IN THE DECK AHEAD, AND IS FOR YOUR REFERENCE. SO WE'LL GO INTO THEM IN MORE DETAIL. COMING UP. IN

LOOKING AT OUR BUDGET, WE'LL START REVIEWING THE OVERALL NUMBERS. HSD PROPOSED 2027 BUDGET IS 445.4 MILLION, OF WHICH YOU CAN SEE OUR GENERAL FUND DECREASED WHILE THE CATEGORY OTHER FUNDS INCREASED

SIGNIFICANTLY. THE TOTAL 2027 BUDGET. A PROPOSED BUDGET IS NEARLY 6% HIGHER THAN THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET, AND THERE'S A SLIGHT INCREASE IN 2028, MOSTLY DUE TO CONTRACT INFLATION THERE IS ON THE BOTTOM

ROW, AN FTE INCREASE. YOU COULD SEE FOR OUR DEPARTMENT, AND THIS IS MOSTLY ATTRIBUTED TO THE EXPANDED HOMELESSNESS WORK. THIS SLIDE SHOWS OUR 2027 PROPOSED BUDGET. BY THOSE SIX IMPACT AREAS THAT I

READ OFF EARLIER. WITH OUR MISSION. ON THE RIGHT, YOU'LL SEE A WHEEL, A DONUT, ADDITIONAL CATEGORY TITLED LEADERSHIP AND AN ADMINISTRATIVE ADMINISTRATION THAT'S INCLUSIVE OF CRITICAL FUNCTIONS SUCH AS

FINANCE AND AUDITING, DATA ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION, HR COMMS, EMERGENCY RESPONSE POLICY, AND MORE. AND SO THAT 5% IS INCLUSIVE OF THOSE DEPARTMENT WIDE KIND OF OPERATIONAL FUNCTIONS. AND THEN YOU

COULD SEE IT DIVIDED UP AMONGST THE OTHER SIX IMPACT AREAS, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES STAFF AND CONTRACTS, PROVIDING THOSE INVESTMENTS. ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IS CLEARLY THE LARGEST AT 41%. AND OUR AGING

AND DISABILITY SERVICES SUPPORTS THE PROMOTING HEALTHY AGING AT 22%. I WANT TO SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT OUR PROMOTING HEALTHY AGING IMPACT AREA, BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS A GREAT

OPPORTUNITY TO EDUCATE FOLKS, BUT ALSO THERE IT'S A LITTLE UNIQUE TO THE CITY OF SEATTLE. WE HAVE A BUDGET WISE, THIS AREA HAS GROWN WITH ONE TIME STATE GRANTS BEING MADE ONGOING. AND WE ALSO SAW AN

INCREASE TO OUR MEDICAID FUNDED CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, WHICH NOW SERVES 13,000 CLIENTS ACROSS KING COUNTY. FOR BACKGROUND, OUR AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES DIVISION IS OUR REGION'S AREA AGENCY ON

AGING. THAT IS A FEDERAL DESIGNATION. EDDIE IS OUR BIGGEST DIVISION STAFF WISE, WITH OVER 200 EMPLOYEES. MOST PROVIDE DIRECT SERVICES, WHILE 50% OVER 50% OF OUR STAFF ACROSS THE DEPARTMENT PROVIDES

DIRECT SERVICES. NEARLY 80% OF HSD BUDGET WILL BE ALLOCATED TO COMMUNITY THROUGH APPROXIMATELY 600 CONTRACTS. THIS SLIDE ALSO LISTS HSD NUMEROUS FUND SOURCES ON THE LEFT. I'D LIKE TO CLARIFY THAT THE

CATEGORY CALLED HUMAN SERVICES FUND AT 29%, INCLUDES FEDERAL, STATE, INTERLOCAL, AND HOUSING LEVY FUNDS, AND SO THAT ONE CAN BE BROKEN OUT MORE. THIS IS MY LAST OVERVIEW SLIDE. IN THE FOLLOWING

SLIDES, WE'LL DISCUSS EACH OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET PRIORITIES AND THE SIGNIFICANT BUDGET CHANGES WITHIN EACH PRIORITY. I'LL GET US STARTED. AND THEN CHRIS WILL COVER HOMELESSNESS. AND THEN YOU WILL

HEAR AMY CHIME IN WITH THE TECHNICAL CHANGES OUR FIRST PRIORITY IS DELIVERING EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT. IN SHORT, THE PROPOSED BUDGET LEVERAGES MULTIPLE FUNDING SOURCES AND REDUCES OUR GENERAL FUND. I

KNOW THAT DIRECTOR PANUCCI WENT THROUGH SOME OF THE FUN SWAPS AND AND TALKED A LOT ABOUT LEVERAGING EXISTING FUND SOURCES. THESE ARE THE SIGNIFICANT ONES AFFECTING HSD, AND I'LL JUST READ OFF THE

FIRST FOUR BULLETS. SO WE HAVE 46.6 MILLION FUND SWAP OF JUMPSTART WITH GENERAL FUNDS TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS. WE HAVE 161,000 TRANSFER OF THE FEDERAL HUD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT

ADMINISTRATIVE FUNDS THAT WERE ONCE IN O H MOVING BACK TO HSD. THEY DO NOT NEED THAT. WE HAVE 329,000 FUND SWAP OF GENERAL FUNDS WITH GRANT FUNDING FOR ONE OF OUR AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES PROGRAM

CALLED COMMUNITY LIVING CONNECTIONS. AND THE LAST NOTABLE FUND SWAP IS 393,000 OF GENERAL FUND WITH OUR UTILITIES FOR THEIR REVENUES. THAT'S SPU AND SEATTLEITE PAYING FOR UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM. WE

PAY FOR UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM, ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS. AND WE HAD SOME DOLLARS THAT WERE PAID FOR BY GENERAL FUND. WE CAN UTILIZE SPU AND SEATTLEITE FOR THAT. AND THEN IN TERMS OF EFFECTIVE

GOVERNMENT, ONE OF THE OTHER IMPORTANT BODIES OF WORK THAT YOU HAVE DISCUSSED ALREADY IS TRANSFERRING IMPORTANT BOOKS OF BUSINESS. AND THAT'S TRANSFERRING SOME WORK IN, AND THAT'S ALSO TRANSFERRING

SOME WORK OUT. AND THAT'S REALLY FOR STRONGER COORDINATION AND OVERSIGHT. AND WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THOSE AT GREAT LENGTH IN THE UPCOMING SLIDES. AND SO NEXT I'M GOING TO TOSS IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE

CHRIS CLASEN, WHO WILL INTRODUCE OUR PRIORITY ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS. -- THANK YOU, DIRECTOR KIM. THE MAYOR MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES $184 MILLION TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS, WHICH IS A 6%

INCREASE FROM THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET. AS SHARED EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION, HOMELESSNESS REMAINS HSD LARGEST INVESTMENT AREA. THE 2027 PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES A NUMBER OF CHANGES THAT I'LL SHARE

MORE DETAILS ON IN THE COMING SLIDES, WHICH INCLUDE A SIGNIFICANT EXPANSION IN SHELTER CAPACITY WITH $18 MILLION IN ONGOING FUNDING PROPOSED FOR THE MAYOR'S SHELTER ACCELERATOR INITIATIVE. THIS WILL

BUILD UP TO 1000 NEW UNITS OF SHELTER BY THE END OF 2027, SERVING AN ESTIMATED 1750 PEOPLE EVERY YEAR. THERE'S ALSO $6.5 MILLION INCREASE FROM THE HOUSING LEVY FOR HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION SERVICES

THAT KEEP HOUSEHOLDS FROM LOSING THEIR HOUSING BY PROVIDING FLEXIBLE RENTAL ASSISTANCE, EVICTION PREVENTION, LEGAL SERVICES AND CASE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT. MOST SIGNIFICANTLY, THIS BUDGET ALSO ADDRESSES

THE RETURN OF NEARLY $113 MILLION IN CITY FUNDED HOMELESSNESS CONTRACTS FROM THE KING COUNTY REGIONAL HOMELESSNESS AUTHORITY, OR KCRW, AYE BACK TO HSD IN 2027. THE PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES AN

ADDITIONAL 29 FTE TO SUPPORT THE ONGOING ADMINISTRATION OF THESE RETURNING CONTRACTS, AS WELL AS THE MAYOR'S ACCELERATE SHELTER ACCELERATOR INITIATIVE. FIRST SLIDE HERE IS GOING TO FOCUS IN ON

EXPANDING SHELTER. AS THE MAYOR STATED, THE GOAL ISN'T SIMPLY TO OPEN MORE SHELTER BEDS ALONE, DEPENDING ON THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE BEING SERVED. NEW SHELTER INVESTMENTS WILL INCLUDE CASE MANAGEMENT

AND HOUSING NAVIGATION, AS WELL AS SEVERAL PROGRAMS WITH SPECIALIZED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, MEDICAL CARE, SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT AND LEGAL SERVICES. THIS WILL ALLOW THE CITY TO PROVIDE SHELTER SERVICES

THAT MEET THE FULL SPECTRUM OF CLIENT NEEDS TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS IN MOVING TOWARDS GREATER HOUSING AND PERSONAL STABILITY. AS YOU ALL KNOW, THIS WORK IS ALREADY UNDERWAY. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE

BAYSIDE ENHANCED SHELTER, BRIGHTON VILLAGE AND BELMONT VILLAGE OPENED AN. ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS ARE COMING ONLINE LATER THIS YEAR, SUCH AS CLOVERLEAF VILLAGE, GLASS YARD COMMONS, A PURPOSE DIGNITY

ACTION OPERATED SHELTER AND EXPANSIONS AT THREE EXISTING SHELTERS. LOOKING AHEAD, THIS BUDGET WILL ALLOW US TO OPEN ADDITIONAL EIGHT SHELTERS THAT ARE PLANNED IN 2027. AND FOR MORE ON THAT FUNDING,

I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO AMY. -- THE PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES AN $18.3 MILLION INCREASE TO MAYOR WILSON'S SHELTER ACCELERATOR INITIATIVE, FOR A TOTAL OF 37,000,000 IN 2027. OVERALL, THIS WILL

SUPPORT THE ADDITION OF 960 NEW BEDS SINCE 2026. THE PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO ADDS SIX FTES TO ADMINISTER THESE CONTRACTS, COLLECT AND REPORT ON DATA AND FOR ACCOUNTING PURPOSES. -- NEXT, I'M GOING TO

TURN TO HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION. AGAIN, THIS IS A CRITICAL PROGRAM IN OUR HOMELESS SERVICE SYSTEM. WHEREAS PROGRAMS LIKE EMERGENCY SHELTER OUTREACH AND RAPID REHOUSING SUPPORT UNSHELTERED INDIVIDUALS

WITH COMING INDOORS, PREVENTION HELPS RESIDENTS STAY HOUSED BEFORE THEY FALL INTO HOMELESSNESS. IN THE FIRST PLACE. AGAIN, TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, PREVENTION PROVIDES EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE, EVICTION

PREVENTION, LEGAL SERVICES, AND CASE MANAGEMENT TO THOSE FACING SUCH HOUSING INSTABILITY. ON TOP OF OUR CURRENT INVESTMENTS, WE ANTICIPATE THIS NEW FUNDING WILL SUPPORT AN ESTIMATED 1800 ADDITIONAL

RENTERS IN REMAINING STABLY HOUSED THROUGH 2030. -- AS PART OF MAYOR WILSON'S AFFORDABILITY AGENDA, HSD WILL PROVIDE RECORD LEVEL LOCAL FUNDING INTO HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION TOTALING 16.4 MILLION IN

2026, 2027 AND 16.6 MILLION IN 2028. THE PROPOSED BUDGET PROVIDES A ONE TIME $6.5 MILLION AD IN BOTH 2027 AND 2028 FROM THE HOUSING LEVY. INVESTMENT EARNINGS FROM THE OFFICE OF HOUSING, LOW INCOME

HOUSING FUND. -- OF COURSE, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WORK REGARDING OUR HOMELESSNESS INVESTMENTS PERTAINS TO HSD RESUMING THE OVERSIGHT OF CITY FUNDED HOMELESSNESS CONTRACTS THAT WERE AT KCRW A SINCE

MAYOR WILSON AND KING COUNTY EXECUTIVES ANNOUNCED THIS IN THE SUMMER, HSD HAS BEEN WORKING DILIGENTLY WITH THE KING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND HUMAN SERVICES TO ENSURE THIS TRANSITION OCCURS

WITH MINIMAL DISRUPTION, MAINTAINS REGIONAL COORDINATION, AND ENSURES PROVIDERS. UNDERSTANDS WHAT CHANGING WHAT IS STAYING THE SAME AND WHAT THEY CAN EXPECT NEXT. THE ADDED FEES WILL SUPPORT THE

EFFECTIVE RETURN OF CONTRACTS BY COVERING SEVERAL FUNCTIONS SUCH AS CONTRACT DEVELOPMENT AND EXECUTION, PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF HOMELESSNESS INITIATIVES, ONGOING CONTRACT AND FISCAL MONITORING, AND

PROVIDING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND MORE. WHAT IS NOT YET IDENTIFIED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS ADMINISTRATIVE FUNDING FOR KCRA'S OPERATIONAL NEEDS. THE AUTHORITY IS IN A PERIOD OF TRANSITION AND WILL

SCALE DOWN TO FOCUS ON SERVING AS THE REGION'S CONTINUUM OF CARE LEAD, COORDINATING SEVERE WEATHER EFFORTS AND SERVICES OFFERED BY ITS OMBUDS OFFICE, THE CITY AND COUNTY HAVE CONTRACTED WITH TURNING

POINT STRATEGIC ADVISORS TO PRODUCE A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE BUDGET. THAT IS RIGHT SIZED TO CREATE A NEW SCOPE OF WORK. THIS IS NOT THE ONLY WORK BEING ASKED OF THE FIRM, BUT WE EXPECT

TO RECEIVE A RECOMMENDATION IN THE COMING WEEKS. I CAN SHARE THAT. WE DO ANTICIPATE A STAFFING AND OPERATING NEEDS WILL BE COVERED BY ADMINISTRATIVE FUNDING INCLUDED IN THEIR FEDERAL CONTINUUM OF CARE

AWARD, WITH ANY ADDITIONAL NEEDS COVERED JOINTLY BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. ANY POTENTIAL CITY CONTRIBUTION FOR EACH. FOR KCRW, ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, WHEN KNOWN, WILL BE COMING OUT OF THE

PROPOSED BUDGETS. $183.5 MILLION. ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS PSL IN 2027. AND WE WILL AND WILL NOT BE AN ADDITIONAL REQUEST TO THE COUNCIL TO INCORPORATE IN THEIR BALANCING. WE WILL SHARE THIS

INFORMATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. AND FINALLY, I WANT TO THANK OUR COMMITTEE CHAIR AND CO-CHAIR, COUNCILMEMBERS RINCK AND FOSTER FOR THEIR DILIGENT OVERSIGHT OF KCRW AS GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS. THERE

ARE HUNDREDS OF MOVING PIECES IN THAT OVERSIGHT, AND WITH THE TRANSITION OF CONTRACTS, YOUR PARTNERSHIP HAS BEEN INVALUABLE. -- IN 2027, 113 MILLION IN FUNDING PREVIOUSLY ALLOCATED TO KCRW FOR

SERVICES WILL BE HELD BY HSD TO CONTRACT WITH 40 SERVICE PROVIDERS. WITH THESE CONTRACTS RETURNING TO HSD, THE BUDGET FOR HOMELESS SERVICE IS CONSOLIDATED UNDER A NEW BUDGET PROGRAM TITLED

HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS. YOU WILL SEE THIS TECHNICAL CHANGE REFLECTED IN THE CITY'S BUDGET BOOK. THE 23 FTES ADDED AS EMERGENCY POCKETS THIS YEAR TO SUPPORT THIS TRANSITION ARE PERMANENTLY ADDED TO HSD

AND INCLUDED WITHIN THIS BUDGET STARTING IN 2027. -- THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET ADDRESSES AFFORDABILITY ACROSS MANY CITY DEPARTMENTS, AND HSD IS READY TO SERVE EVEN MORE RESIDENTS. I WANT TO THANK

CHAIR STRAUSS AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM EXPANSION. AS YOU HAVE STATED THROUGHOUT THE LEGISLATION AND THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, THIS TOOK A

LONG TIME AND YOUR RELENTLESS EFFORTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SO MANY CITY DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING CBO, IS MAKING UDP EVEN MORE ACCESSIBLE. ALONG WITH THE UDP EXPANSION. I AM PLEASED TO HIGHLIGHT MAYOR

WILSON'S COMMITMENT TO PROTECTING CRITICAL FOOD AND MEAL INVESTMENTS BY ADDING SIGNIFICANT ONGOING FUNDING THAT WAS OTHERWISE SCHEDULED TO EXPIRE. FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC, THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM

OFFERS QUALIFYING RESIDENTS 60 TO 50% DISCOUNTS ON THEIR SEATTLE CITY LIGHT AND SEATTLE PUBLIC UTILITY BILLS. THIS TRANSLATES TO AN AVERAGE SAVINGS OF 120 TO $205 PER MONTH. THIS IS REAL MONEY GOING

BACK INTO THE POCKETS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO BALANCE THEIR HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS, AS OUTLINED IN THIS YEAR'S BILL, SPONSORED BY CHAIR STRAUSS AND COUNCIL, UDP WILL EXPAND TO SERVE APPROXIMATELY

31,000 ADDITIONAL HOUSEHOLDS STARTING THIS JANUARY. 3,032% OF ALL RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS WILL BE ELIGIBLE, AND THIS COVERS OVER 8000 NEWLY ELIGIBLE SENIOR HOUSEHOLDS. -- A $596,000 BUDGET INCREASE

BACKED BY REVENUES FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SEATTLE CITY LIGHT AND SEATTLE PUBLIC UTILITIES, AND ADDITION OF FOUR FTES, SUPPORTS THE UDP EXPANSION COUNCIL PASSED THIS SUMMER. THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE

$369,000 OF GENERAL FUND SAVINGS ACHIEVED BY SHIFTING PROGRAM COSTS TO THE UTILITY REVENUES -- FOOD ACCESS IS A KEY COMPONENT OF OUR MISSION TO SUPPORT STRONG AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES. WE PROUDLY

PARTNER WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS LIKE THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT ON FOOD ACCESS. THEY HAVE THEIR FOOD ACTION PLAN. IN OUR ROLE AS FUNDER, HSD PROVIDES ROUGHLY 16 MILLION FOR EMERGENCY

FOOD AND MEAL CONTRACTS, FOOD BANKS OFFER AN ARRAY OF SERVICES, INCLUDING MOBILE FOOD PANTRIES, HOME DELIVERIES FOR HOMEBOUND RESIDENTS, GROCERIES ON SITE RESOURCE NAVIGATION AND MORE. MEAL PROVIDERS

OFFER NUTRITIOUS MEALS FOR YOUTH, SENIORS AND PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. LAST YEAR, OUR PARTNERS DISTRIBUTED 2.6 MILLION MEALS AND DELIVERED 150 THOUSAND GROCERIES TO THOSE SEEKING FOOD

ASSISTANCE. OUR INVESTMENTS ARE MAKING AN IMPACT. -- THE PROPOSED BUDGET RETAINS 4 MILLION OF OTHERWISE EXPIRING ONE TIME FUNDING AND ADDS IT TO THE BASE BUDGET AS AN ONGOING INVESTMENT. MORE

SPECIFICALLY, THE ALLOCATION WILL BE 3 MILLION FOR FOOD BANKS AND 1 MILLION FOR MEAL PROVIDERS. -- THE NEXT PRIORITY IS COMMUNITY SAFETY. SAFETY HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IN SEVERAL BUDGET PRESENTATIONS, AND

I APPRECIATE THE FRANK CONVERSATIONS. HSD CONTINUES TO INVEST IN A DIVERSE SET OF CORE SERVICES RELATED TO GENDER BASED VIOLENCE. SURVIVORS OF CRIME, SCHOOL SAFETY, AND OTHER SUPPORTIVE SERVICES. AS

DISCUSSED LAST WEEK, THE PROPOSED BUDGET TRANSFERS, COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CONTRACTS FROM HSD TO CARE, ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT CHANGE THAT NEEDS HIGHLIGHTING IS A PROPOSED. IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET

IS AN ONGOING AD FOR THE QUEER AND TRANS STABILIZATION FUND. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER WAS RIGHT TO HIGHLIGHT THE OPPORTUNITY BEYOND ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSFER OF CONTRACTS. THE PURPOSE FOR CONSOLIDATING

THESE CONTRACTS WITHIN CARE IS TO ALIGN THE CVI. THAT'S THE COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION WORK TO ALIGN THE CVI WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT'S BROADER PUBLIC SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES, INCLUDING ITS NOW

OVERSIGHT OF PDA, LEAD AND COLEAD CONTRACTS AND THEIR WDC CONTRACTS. HSD IS TRANSFERRING ADDITIONAL BUDGETS ALONG WITH THE CONTRACTS THAT ARE MOVING OVER OR TRANSITIONING ADDITIONAL BUDGET TO SUPPORT

CARE'S LEADERSHIP ROLE AND THE NEW EFFORTS, AS OUTLINED IN THE MAYOR'S GUN VIOLENCE PLAN. YOU HAD A ROBUST CONVERSATION WITH CHIEF BARDEN AND DIRECTOR PANNUCCI ON THIS TOPIC LAST WEEK, AND IN A COUPLE

OF DIFFERENT PRESENTATIONS. AND SO FOR THIS SLIDE, I'LL OFFER SOME CLARIFYING DETAILS THAT I HOPE WILL HELP MOVE THE CONVERSATION FORWARD. COUNCIL PRESIDENT'S FRAMING OF PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND

ENFORCEMENT CERTAINLY SPARKED CLARITY AND CONVERSATION. SO I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT THE CVI CONTRACTS MOVING TO CARE FOCUSES ON INTERVENTION. THEY INCLUDE SERVICES THAT ARE DIRECTLY TIED TO HOSPITAL

BASED INTERVENTIONS, AND THEY ARE DIRECTLY TIED TO THE WORK THAT HARBORVIEW DOES WHEN RECEIVING PATIENTS WHO HAVE GUNSHOT WOUNDS. AND THERE ARE ALSO CONTRACTS DIRECTLY TIED TO COMMUNITY. WHEN THERE

ARE GROUPS OF FOLKS THAT THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED OR KNOW OF INVOLVED IN GUN VIOLENCE, OR RIGHT AT THAT CUSP OF OFFERING CASE MANAGEMENT AND OUTREACH AND HOT SPOT REMEDIATION, REACTING WHEN THERE'S AN

INCIDENT OF GUN VIOLENCE TO MITIGATE PREVENTION OF FUTURE RETALIATION. SO THERE IS THAT NEXUS TO THAT IMMEDIATE WORK INTERVENTION. HSD WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD THE PREVENTION CONTRACTS. THAT INCLUDES

SCHOOL SAFETY, WHICH WE DO PARTNER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND EARLY LEARNING AND SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AS WELL AS BROADER SUPPORTIVE SERVICES. SO I WANT TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA FOR

ACKNOWLEDGING THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY DRIVEN PREVENTION WHILE PURSUING NEW APPROACHES AT THE SCENE FOR INTERVENTION AND ENFORCEMENT. SPEAKING OF PREVENTION, HSD IS ALREADY THINKING MORE BROADLY

ABOUT OUR OTHER PROGRAMS, LIKE THE SEATTLE YOUTH AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM AND HOW THAT CAN BE CONNECTED, HSD IS COMMITTED TO PARTNERING WITH CARE BEYOND JUST THIS TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, BECAUSE, AS YOU

KNOW, AND YOU'VE STATED SERVICE COORDINATION ACROSS THE ECOSYSTEM IS CRITICAL. WHEN AYE. THANK COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO ADDRESSING PUBLIC SAFETY, PUBLIC HEALTH, HOUSING AND HUMAN

SERVICES LASTLY, I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR COMMUNITY BASED PARTNERS, THE COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS DOING THIS WORK. THE CITY'S CURRENT CVI WORK WAS INITIATED BY COMMUNITY PROVIDERS AND COUNCIL,

ADDED AS ONE TIME FUNDS IN 2020, WHICH EVENTUALLY BECAME ONGOING. AND JUST A COUPLE YEARS AGO, WE ADDRESSED A CRISIS IN THAT CVI BODY OF WORK WHEN THE SOUTHEAST NETWORK MADE A TOUGH DECISION TO END

THEIR COMMUNITY SAFETY INVOLVEMENT. WHILE THAT AFFECTS, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT SHIFT IN ONE OF A MAJOR PROVIDER DECIDING TO PULL OUT IS STILL BEING IMPACTED TODAY. WE WE ARE STILL TRYING TO PROVIDE A

CERTAIN LEVEL OF STABILITY. I WILL SAY THAT I BELIEVE THE COMMUNITY IS RESILIENT AND CONTINUES TO BE ADAPTIVE AND ACCOUNTABLE. THIS WORK IS NOT EASY, AND IT DOES TAKE A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH. --

STEVE WILL TRANSFER TO CARE 5.1 MILLION OF GENERAL FUNDS FOR 11 EXISTING CVI CONTRACTS AND 1.2 MILLION OF GENERAL FUND FOR OPERATIONAL SUPPORT AND ADDITIONAL NEEDS OUTLINED IN THE MAYOR'S GUN VIOLENCE

PLAN. -- THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES AN IMPORTANT AD FOR THE QUEER AND TRANS STABILIZATION FUND. THIS AD BUILDS UPON CURRENT EFFORTS. CURRENT 2026 EFFORTS TO PROVIDE RAPID RELIEF FUNDS TO

INCREASE ACCESS OF EXISTING AND TO INCREASE ACCESS TO EXISTING RESOURCES. IN FACT, I DO WANT TO SHARE THAT THERE IS AN UPCOMING LGBTQ PLUS EVENT AT EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ON NOVEMBER 7th, AND THAT IS

REALLY BEING LED BY THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMISSION AND THE SEATTLE OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. AND THE WHOLE PURPOSE IS REALLY TO TALK ABOUT RESOURCE AND ACCESS AND CONNECTING COMMUNITY

WE HAVE TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER RINCK FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE LEADERSHIP IN THIS EFFORT. YOU AND YOUR TEAM. I'M GRATEFUL THAT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND AND THE CITY, SEVERAL CITY DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING S OCR

COUNCIL AND THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMISSION, HAVE GIVEN SO MUCH AND PARTICULARLY WANT TO UPLIFT OUR COMMISSIONERS. THIS INTER-DEPARTMENTAL TEAM HAS WORKED TIRELESSLY. THIS IS AGAIN, JUST YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S

EXHAUSTING WORK, I THINK, FOR PEOPLE. BUT THEY ARE MOTIVATED TO DO THE RIGHT THING. AND THESE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE REALLY FOCUSED ON ENSURING THAT SEATTLE IS A SAFE AND WELCOMING PLACE, ESPECIALLY

DURING THIS TIME OF GREAT UNCERTAINTY. AND I AM PROUD THAT HSD IS SUPPORTING THIS WORK AND THAT IT IS VERY CLOSELY ALIGNED WITH OUR MISSION. -- 500,000 OF ONGOING BUDGET IS ADDED IN THE PROPOSED

BUDGET FOR CONTRACTS SUPPORTING THE EMERGENT NEEDS OF THE TWO S LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY. HSD. S INTENT IS TO ADMINISTER AN EXPEDITED REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL PROCESS IN EARLY 2027 TO ALLOCATE THE FUNDS. --

FINALLY, THE PROPOSED BUDGET CONTINUES CONTRACT INFLATION ADJUSTMENTS WITH 3.8% IN 20 2720, TOTALING 10.2 MILLION, INFLATIONARY INCREASE FROM THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET AND ADDITIONAL 3.5%, OR 11.1

MILLION INCREASE IN 2028. THAT'S A TOTAL OF 21.3 MILLION INFLATIONARY INCREASE IN 2028 COMPARED TO 2026. WHILE THIS ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT IS IN OUR SEATTLE MUNICIPAL CODE, MANY FUNDERS DO NOT PROVIDE

INFLATIONARY ADJUSTMENTS AT THIS LEVEL. SO IT'S IMPORTANT OR AT ALL. SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTINUE TO AMPLIFY THIS PRIORITY. ALL FUNDERS, ALL FUNDERS NEED TO DO THEIR PART. MOST AGENCIES HAVE

MULTIPLE FUND SOURCES AND SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTINUE TO LIFT THIS UP. AND WE'RE THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENTS. WE HAVE TO END WITH HUMANS AND IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY, YOU MIGHT SEE A

COUNCILMEMBER IN THERE. AT THE END OF THE DAY, HSD CONNECTS PEOPLE AND RESOURCES WITH SOLUTIONS DURING TIMES OF NEED. THIS IS DONE AGAIN BY DEDICATED TEAM OF STAFF AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND

PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS THE CITY, ALONG WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL. ON BEHALF OF HSD, WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO DESCRIBE WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE DO, AND THE SIGNIFICANT

PROPOSED CHANGES IN OUR BUDGET. AND WITH THAT, I THANK YOU AND TURN IT OVER TO YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU, DIRECTOR KIM. I'LL NOW TURN IT OVER TO COUNCILMEMBER RINCK. AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE

OVERSEEING THIS DEPARTMENT, FOR YOU TO HAVE FIRST AND LAST WORD, AND THEN I'LL FACILITATE DISCUSSION. OVER TO YOU, COUNCILMEMBER. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR STRAUSS, AND THANK YOU. DIRECTOR KIM. DEPUTY

DIRECTOR CLAYSON AND BUDGET MANAGER HOLLAND FOR BEING HERE THIS MORNING, AND HUGE GRATITUDE TO THE ENTIRE TEAM AT THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT FOR THE WORK THEY DO EVERY DAY TO MAKE SURE OUR

COMMUNITIES ARE TAKEN CARE OF. APPRECIATE YOU ALL. I WILL SAY, GIVEN THE DIFFICULT FISCAL SITUATION THAT OUR CITY IS IN, I FOUND MYSELF RELIEVED IN SOME WAYS TO SEE THE BUDGET THAT WAS TRANSMITTED BY

THE MAYOR, PARTICULARLY MAINTAINING MANY OF THE HUMAN SERVICES INVESTMENTS THAT WE'VE MADE AS A CITY OVER THE YEARS. TOO OFTEN IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE CUTS ARE NEEDED TO BE MADE, HUMAN SERVICES AND

PROGRAMS THAT PEOPLE DEPEND ON ARE THE THINGS THAT GO FIRST. AND THAT WAS NOT THE CASE WITH THE BUDGET THAT WAS TRANSMITTED. I UNDERSTAND WE'VE TALKED EXTENSIVELY ABOUT CHALLENGING CHOICES THAT THE

EXECUTIVE HAD TO TO MAKE, AND I KNOW WE'RE DIVING INTO A LOT OF THESE PIECES, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT AS CHAIR OF HUMAN SERVICES, I WAS EXCITED TO SEE, AGAIN, MANY OF THESE INVESTMENTS THAT WE'VE

MADE INTO OUR COMMUNITY BE MAINTAINED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET. IT'S EXCELLENT TO SEE THE EXPANSION OF THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM, AND I WANT TO THANK AGAIN THE LEADERSHIP OF CHAIR STRAUSS ON THIS

MATTER, AS WELL AS COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH, FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR FIGHT IN THAT INVESTMENT, AND HEARTENED TO SEE THE EMERGENCY FUNDING FOR QUEER AND TRANS COMMUNITY MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE

SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET MADE ONGOING. I UNDERSTAND THE EXECUTIVE IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS. LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THOSE FINAL DECISIONS AND FUNDS GOING OUT THE DOOR. BUT I

WANT TO THANK AGAIN, CHAIR STRAUSS, THROUGH YOUR LEADERSHIP AND SUPPORT ON THAT BUDGET AMENDMENT AND COLLEAGUES, FOR YOUR SUPPORT DURING THE SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET PROCESS TO GET THAT FUNDING THROUGH.

ADDITIONALLY, I WANT TO NOTE MY APPRECIATION FOR THE EXPANSIONS THAT WE MADE INTO FOOD ACCESS MADE THOSE, PARTICULARLY THOSE INVESTMENTS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE SEATTLE SHIELD INITIATIVE. AND IN

THIS BUDGET, THOSE BEING MADE ONGOING. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND ALL OF THAT BEING SAID, WE'RE STILL AT THE BEGINNING OF DIGESTING THIS BUDGET AND IN ITS ENTIRETY. AND SO I DO WANT TO TAKE A

MOMENT TO DIVE DEEPER INTO SEVERAL TOPICS THAT MY OFFICE AND BROADLY, THE HUMAN SERVICES, LABOR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE HAVE BEEN TRACKING THROUGHOUT 2026. I WANT TO ALSO NOTE, JUST FOR THE

RECORD, THAT THE CRA CONTRACT TRANSITION IS A HUGE UNDERTAKING FOR THE DEPARTMENT. THIS IS A STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ONE THAT WE. I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO ENGAGE ON IN COMMITTEE MOVING FORWARD TO

SUPPORT A HEALTHY TRANSITION FOR THAT BODY OF WORK. AND SO ALL THAT BEING SAID, I'M GOING TO JUMP INTO A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS TO UNPACK SOME OF THE PIECES ABOUT THE PROPOSED BUDGET, TAKING US FIRST TO

SLIDE SIX, I SEE SEVERAL DIFFERENT FUNDS SWAP AREAS, AND I'M WONDERING, CAN THE EXECUTIVES SPEAK TO THE METHODOLOGY BEHIND THESE FUND SWAPS? -- MORNING. COUNCILMEMBERS FOR THE RECORD BUDGET DIRECTOR,

I THINK THAT THE DEPARTMENT CAN SPEAK PROBABLY BEST SPECIFICALLY TO THESE ITEMS, BUT THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS, ONE OF THE STRATEGIES WAS REALLY LOOKING AT USING OUR MOST RESTRICTIVE FUND SOURCES FIRST.

SO WHERE THERE WAS A DIFFERENT FUND SOURCE THAN THE MOST FLEXIBLE GENERAL FUND, THE DEPARTMENT WORKED REALLY HARD TO IDENTIFY WAYS TO RETAIN AND PRESERVE INVESTMENTS BY LEVERAGING OTHER, MORE

RESTRICTIVE FUND SOURCES. AND SO THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE REFLECTED HERE TO SOME EXTENT. AND THEN IN TERMS OF THE THE SWAP WITH THE JUMPSTART FUND TO HELP SUPPORT HOMELESS SERVICES THAT WAS MADE POSSIBLE

BY A NUMBER OF STRATEGIES, PRIMARILY BY AN IMPROVED REVENUE FORECAST THAT ALLOWED THIS BUDGET TO MAINTAIN THE INVESTMENTS IN THE ORIGINAL SPENDING PLAN CATEGORIES CONSISTENT WITH PREVIOUS YEAR LEVELS.

IN TERMS OF THEIR ONGOING INVESTMENTS, WHILE ALSO ENSURING THAT WE CAN SUSTAIN SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS IN HOMELESS SERVICES. -- AND I CAN ALSO ADD, REGARDING THE 329,000 FUND SWAP OF GENERAL FUND FOR

THE COMMUNITY LIVING CONNECTIONS PROGRAM, WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY SOME GRANT FUNDING THAT WAS WITHIN OUR BASE BUDGET THAT COULD ABSORB THOSE PROGRAM COSTS TO FREE UP GENERAL FUND AND HELP ADDRESS THE

CITY'S BUDGET GAP. SIMILARLY, WITH THE FUND SWAP OF 393,000 OF MOVING UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM GENERAL FUND COSTS OVER TO OUR UTILITY PARTNERS, WE WERE ABLE TO PUT THAT FORWARD AS A GENERAL FUND

SAVINGS AS WELL. -- THANK YOU FOR UNPACKING THAT. I WANT TO SWITCH GEARS A LITTLE BIT TO TALK ABOUT JUST THE SEATTLE SHIELD INITIATIVE, AND THANK COLLEAGUES AGAIN FOR GETTING THAT MEASURE THROUGH,

SENDING IT TO VOTERS. AND THANK YOU TO THE VOTERS FOR OVERWHELMINGLY PASSING THIS. AGAIN, THIS WAS OUR MEASURE TO STABILIZE CORE HUMAN SERVICES WHILE ALSO CREATING A PATHWAY TO BE ABLE TO BACKFILL

SOME OF THE MOST EGREGIOUS FEDERAL CUTS TO SUPPORTIVE SERVICES. AND SO I'M WONDERING IF YOU CAN SPEAK TO WHERE THOSE INVESTMENTS ARE WITHIN THE PROPOSED BUDGET. -- THANKS FOR THE THANKS FOR THE

QUESTION. I WOULD SAY THE SEATTLE SHIELD THAT WAS PUT ON THE BALLOT LAST YEAR BY THE COUNCIL AND PASSED BY THE VOTERS IS REALLY CRITICAL TO HELPING PRESERVE MANY OF THE INVESTMENTS YOU SEE IN THIS

BUDGET, PARTICULARLY IN THE HUMAN SERVICES SPACE. SO BY THE ORDINANCE THAT WAS ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL THAT HELPS PRESERVE THESE INVESTMENTS IN FOOD ACCESS, GENDER BASED VIOLENCE, EMERGENCY SHELTER,

HOMELESS PREVENTION, WORKERS RIGHTS, AND THE LIST GOES ON. SO PRIMARILY, IT WAS USED TO BE ABLE TO RETAIN AND PRESERVE THOSE INVESTMENTS IN TERMS OF WHERE YOU SEE SOME SPECIFIC INVESTMENTS, IT WAS

ABLE TO MAKE ONGOING ABOUT $10.2 MILLION IN INCREASED FOOD ACCESS PROGRAMS THAT INCLUDE $6.3 MILLION THAT WAS ADDED ONE TIME IN THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT FOR THE FRESH BUCKS PROGRAM

LAST YEAR THAT IS MADE ONGOING IN THE BUDGET. THE $3 MILLION FOR FOOD BANKS AND MILLION DOLLARS FOR MEAL DELIVERY THAT MY COLLEAGUES AND HSD JUST PRESENTED TO YOU. AND IT ALSO ALLOWED US TO MAKE A ONE

TIME PRESERVATION OF A PORTION OF THE FOOD EQUITY FUND IN THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS IN 2028, WHILE WE WORK TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES WITH THE SWEETENED BEVERAGE TAX REVENUES THAT IN THE AUGUST

FORECAST SHOWED A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE. IT ALSO PRESERVED $4,000,004 MILLION OF FUNDING IN THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT FOR HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION THAT WAS ADDED ONGOING LAST YEAR USING THOSE FUNDS,

AS WELL AS $7.8 MILLION OF ONGOING FUNDING FOR EMERGENCY SHELTER. THAT WAS ADDED LAST YEAR THROUGH THE THE SEATTLE SHIELD INVESTMENT. -- THANK YOU, DIRECTOR PANUCCI. AND BUILDING ON THAT POINT, IN

ADDITION TO SEATTLE SHIELD INVESTMENTS, THIS COUNCIL MADE A NUMBER OF ONE TIME INVESTMENTS LAST YEAR BROADLY TO HUMAN SERVICES. OUTSIDE OF THAT ONE IN PARTICULAR BEING A $500,000 ONE TIME AD FOR

INCREASING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE SERVICES. AND I SEE THAT THAT INVESTMENT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS BUDGET. SO I'M WONDERING IF YOU CAN SPEAK TO HOW THIS REDUCTION WILL IMPACT SURVIVOR SERVICES FOR 2027

AND 2028. -- I DON'T HAVE THE INFORMATION BY THE NUMBERS, BUT I DO KNOW THAT IT WILL BE A DECREASE TO SERVICES SINCE THOSE FUNDS EXPIRED AND I KNOW THAT THAT IS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED TO SEE --

UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU. WOULD APPRECIATE A FOLLOW UP. JUST TO UNDERSTAND PROGRAMMATIC IMPACT TO YOU AND HOW MANY LESS FOLKS WILL BE SERVED BECAUSE OF THAT DECREASED INVESTMENT AND SEEING THERE'S AN

INCREASE MADE TO HEALTHY AGING PROGRAMS. CAN YOU SPEAK TO HOW OUR LOCAL SENIOR CENTERS ARE BEING SERVED BY THESE PROGRAMS? AND WILL ANY OF THOSE FUNDS FLOW DIRECTLY TO THOSE PROGRAMS? -- I CAN GIVE A

KIND OF OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE INCREASE THAT YOU'RE SEEING IN THE BUDGET IS RELATED TO. WE MAY HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON WHETHER ANY OF THOSE DOLLARS ARE GOING TO BE TOUCHING SENIOR CENTERS

SPECIFICALLY, BUT WE HAVE A NUMBER OF STATE GRANTS THAT WE HAD RECEIVED IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET IN IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS THAT ARE ADDED TO THE 27 BUDGET TO MAKE THEM ONGOING IN OUR BASE. SO

ONE OF THOSE IS THE HEALTH RELATED SOCIAL NEEDS GRANT. ANOTHER IS A GRANT FOR SENIOR NUTRITION. THAT'S ONE WHERE IT MAY SOME OF THOSE DOLLARS MAY BE SUPPORTING CONGREGATE MEAL PROGRAMS AT SENIOR

CENTERS. SO WE CAN GET BACK TO YOU ON ON THAT PIECE. AND THEN ALSO, WE HAVE A REALLY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN OUR TITLE 19 MEDICAID CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. AND SO THOSE ARE THE PRIMARY INCREASES THAT

WE'RE SEEING IN THE IN THE HEALTHY AGING AREA. -- THANK YOU FOR UNPACKING THAT. SHIFTING GEARS TO THE SHELTER ACCELERATOR INITIATIVE, THE MAYOR'S SHELTER ACCELERATOR INITIATIVE PROPOSAL ADDRESSES

FUNDING FOR SHELTER EXPANSION IN 2027. HOWEVER, I'M WONDERING HOW THIS BUDGET BUILDS A ROADMAP INTO 2028 AND BEYOND. AND BUILDING ON THAT POINT, WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM? ALSO, WITHIN

THIS ACCELERATOR INITIATIVE? YEAH, YEAH. -- EXCELLENT. YOU KNOW, ALL THE SHELTERS THAT WE'RE LOOKING, I THINK, TO OPEN UP BOTH THIS YEAR AND IN 2027, WE DO OBVIOUSLY RECOGNIZE OUR ONGOING OPERATING

COSTS WITH ALL OF THOSE PROGRAMS. SO DEFINITELY, I THINK LOOKING TO SUPPORT THEM IN 2028 AND BEYOND THAT AS WELL TO TO MEET THE NEED IN SEATTLE. AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING TO SERVE UP TO 1750 PEOPLE

ANNUALLY AND HOPEFULLY TAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS NEXT YEAR TO, TO GET THAT NUMBER UP EVEN HIGHER. AND I THINK ALSO IN TERMS OF IMPROVEMENTS WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU MENTIONED THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM. I THINK

IN THE SHELTER PLAN THAT WE, THE MAYOR AND HSD JUST SUBMITTED, IT DOES TALK ABOUT LOOKING AT UCT OPERATIONS AS WELL, AND SOME OF THE SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE THIS YEAR, SUCH AS

STREETS TO HOUSING AND PIONEER SQUARE. I THINK LOOKING AT HOW TO EXPAND SOME OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUSED WORK, IMPROVE KIND OF BY NAME LIST COORDINATION AND MATCH FOLKS INTO THE RIGHT SERVICE

SERVICES AT THESE SHELTERS AS THEY'RE STOOD UP. SO I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE A KEY POINT OF EMPHASIS MOVING FORWARD. -- THANK YOU. DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND MY LAST QUESTION FOR NOW BEFORE I I'M SURE I

PICK IT UP IN THE END WITH ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. I JUST WANT TO TOUCH ON THE KCJ CONTRACTS TRANSITION AND TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK VICE CHAIR FOSTER FOR HER WORK ON THE HUMAN SERVICES, LABOR

AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, AND SERVING ON THE KCJ GOVERNING BOARD. YOUR PARTNERSHIP HAS BEEN TREMENDOUS. THANK YOU. AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE FOR HIS SERVICE AS AN

ALTERNATE TO THE KCJ GOVERNING BOARD. TRULY, HE'S BEEN AN INTENDED FOR SO MANY OF THE MEETINGS, TRACKING THE WORK. AND I JUST TRULY APPRECIATE YOUR PARTNERSHIP NAVIGATING A CHALLENGING SITUATION FOR

ALL OF US AS WE'RE RESTRUCTURING OUR HOMELESSNESS SERVICES. SO THANK YOU BOTH. AND TO THAT END, I WANTED TO JUST UNPACK A LITTLE BIT SOMETHING THAT YOU SHARED JUST IN TERMS OF AS WE'RE UNDERGOING THIS

TRANSITION, ANY ADDITIONAL REQUESTS OR PIECES AROUND ADMIN DOLLARS? I JUST AM WONDERING, DIRECTOR CLAUSSEN DEPUTY DIRECTOR CLAUSSEN PARDON ME IF YOU CAN UNPACK A LITTLE BIT MORE. ARE WE EXPECTING TO

SEE ANY FURTHER FISCAL REQUESTS COMING FROM KCRA, AYE OR HSD AS IT RELATES TO ANY INCREASED COSTS THAT MAY COME WITH ADMINISTRATION OF NEW CONTRACTS? CAN YOU JUST UNPACK A LITTLE BIT MORE WHAT YOU

WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER? -- YEAH, DEFINITELY. I THINK IN TERMS OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF CONTRACTS, BOTH AT HSD AND ANY 2027 KCJ ADMINISTRATIVE NEEDS, I THINK, AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING TO JUST OPERATE

WITHIN THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND LOOK TO OUR ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS BSL TO SUPPORT THOSE. REALLY APPRECIATE CITY COUNCIL HELPING US BRING ON THE 29 FTE FOR BOTH THE

SHELTER WORK AND PRIMARILY THE KCJ CONTRACT WORK AS WELL. WE'RE WE'RE KIND OF UNDERWAY IN HIRING FOR THAT. AND THEN TURNING POINT AGAIN, TAKING ON A NUMBER OF RESPONSIBILITIES. ONE OF THOSE BEING,

WHAT DOES KCRA'S ADMIN LOOK LIKE NEXT YEAR? BUT YEAH, LOOKING TO KIND OF WORK WITHIN THE BUDGET. WE HAVE. -- THANK YOU. DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND CHAIR, IF I MAY, I JUST WANT TO CLOSE WITH A COMMENT ON

CONTINUUM OF CARE FUNDS. AS THIS BODY LAST YEAR TOOK A BOLD STEP TO ACTUALLY SET ASIDE FUNDING, GIVEN THE UNCLEAR PICTURE WE WERE SEEING WITH CONTINUUM OF CARE FUNDING MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH HUD, THAT

FUNDING HOUSES 4500 HOUSEHOLDS COUNTYWIDE, IT'S BEEN CRITICAL FUNDING FOR OUR PERMIT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PORTFOLIO IN THE REGION, AND THERE'S BEEN A VERY UNCLEAR PICTURE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THAT

FUNDING COMING TO THIS REGION. AND THIS COUNCIL TOOK AN IMPORTANT STEP, AND, I BELIEVE, A NECESSARY STEP TO HOLD ASIDE FUNDING UNTIL THE OUTCOME OF THE NOFO PROCESS TO SEE THE OUTCOME OF THOSE FUNDS.

WE HAVE AMAZING ATTORNEYS, NOT ONLY WITHIN THE COUNTY, BUT ALSO ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WHO HAVE BEEN TAKING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO COURT OVER THESE FUNDS. IT HAS DELAYED THE OUTCOME FOR THAT, THAT

NOFO PROCESS. BUT I DO WANT TO NOTE, FOR THE RECORD THAT THAT A RECENT DECISION IN COURT ALLOWED ESSENTIALLY THE 30% PERMISSIVE CAP ON PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMPONENT OF THE NOFO TO MOVE

FORWARD, MEANING THAT LAST WEEK, KCJ SUBMITTED THE HUD CONTINUUM OF CARE FINAL PRIORITY LIST FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026. THERE WERE ALLOCATIONS, REALLOCATIONS AND REDUCTIONS ON SEVERAL PROJECTS. THIS MIGHT

BE A BETTER QUESTION FOR THE KCRA TEAM ABOUT UNDERSTANDING IMPACTS FOR SEATTLE, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE'LL NEED TO NAVIGATE TOGETHER WHEN IT COMES TO PRESERVING HOUSING FOR THOSE HOUSEHOLDS. SO I WANT

TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES AGAIN FOR TAKING THAT STEP IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET, AND NOTE THAT IT'S NOT OVER. WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO CONTINUE THIS DISCUSSIONS ON WHAT THE LOSS IN

THESE FEDERAL FUNDING DOLLARS MEAN FOR OUR REGION. SO THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, CHAIR. THANK YOU AGAIN TO THE DEPARTMENT. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER RINCK I'VE GOT COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE, FOLLOWED

BY COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. OVER TO YOU. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR. I JUST WANT TO WELCOME DIRECTOR KIM. DEPUTY DIRECTOR CLAUSSEN, OUR NOTES HERE DON'T HIGHLIGHT THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR. SO

WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT MISS HOLLAND. AND OF COURSE, DIRECTOR PANUCCI AND OUR OWN FORMERLY WAS THERE, MR. CHOW FROM CENTRAL STAFF, WHO'S NOW ESCAPED. MAYBE BY ON PURPOSE. THANK YOU FOR THE

BRIEFING. AS I'VE GONE THROUGH IT. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S DIFFERENT PIECES THAT ARE ARE OF INTEREST, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT LIKE SLIDE SIX, DELIVERING EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT. I DO BELIEVE THE COMMUNITY

VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SWAP IS REALLY IMPORTANT. AND THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ALREADY ON OUR AGENDA IN TERMS OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, AND IT'S NOT LISTED IN THE IN THE SLIDE OR MENTIONED, BUT

IT BUILDS ON WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR IN TERMS OF THE DIVERSION PIECE. AND AS I SAID PUBLICLY, THE ONE PIECE OF THE MAYOR'S GUN VIOLENCE PLAN THAT REALLY CATCHES MY ATTENTION IS DEVELOPING A RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN CARE AND THE COMMUNITY SAFETY FOLKS, SIMILARLY TO THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH PDA PURPOSE, DIGNITY IN ACTION AS IT RELATES TO LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTED DIVERSION AND DIVERSION GENERALLY. I THINK

THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. I THINK THAT IS A STEP FORWARD. I THINK THAT IS DELIVERING EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT, AND IT'S ABOUT COULD IT BE WHERE IT WAS? YES. BUT IN TERMS OF THE MISSION AND THE

RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE WORK WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT CARE WAS JUST A BETTER PLACE FOR THAT. AND SO, AS I TOLD THE PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR HOLCOMB THAT, YES, NEED TO WORK TOGETHER

OVER THE COURSE OF THE FALL, MAYBE POTENTIALLY LEGISLATION PIECES NEXT YEAR AS IT RELATES TO COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND GUN VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AS WE MOVE FORWARD. SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY

IMPORTANT. ALSO, IN TERMS OF DELIVERING EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT. NOW, THIS IS A QUESTION BECAUSE UNIFIED CARE TEAM IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE BRIEFING, WHICH IS IN ITSELF KIND OF AN INTERESTING THING TO

NOTE. AND BECAUSE IT'S REALLY A BIG CHANGE, I MEAN, IT WAS A MAYOR'S OFFICE, YOU KNOW, OPERATION, IF YOU WILL, AND NOW IT'S BEEN SHIFTED TO HSD. AND THAT'S A BIG CHANGE, PARTICULARLY GIVEN THE THE

IT'S A MULTI DEPARTMENTAL ASPECT TO IT. CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT CHANGE? AND WHAT'S THE HOPE IN TERMS OF MAKING THAT CHANGE? AND HOW WILL THAT IMPACT MOVING FORWARD WITH THE WORK OF THE UNIFIED CARE

TEAM? -- THANK YOU. WE THAT'S A THAT'S A REALLY GOOD POINT WITH REGARDS TO UC T THE REASON WHY IT DOESN'T SHOW UP AS A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IS THAT IT HAS BEEN IN OUR BUDGET. AND SO THEREFORE, IT WASN'T

SHOWN AS AN AD OR REDUCTION. BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, FUNCTIONALLY IT WAS REPORTING TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, THE CORE TEAM, THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM THAT SUPPORTED THE MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS. AND SO YOU'RE RIGHT

IN THAT. SO THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T DISCUSS IT. BUT WE DID WANT TO NOTE THAT THERE'S CONTINUOUS WORK IN THAT SPACE. AND SO JUST MENTIONED IT AS PART OF OUR CORE WORK IN THE INTRODUCTIONS. AND THEN AS IT

RELATES TO OUR SHELTER EXPANSION WORK. BUT YOUR QUESTION IS A GOOD ONE OF MOVING FORWARD. AND IT IS FULLY EMBRACED IN HSD NOW. AND SO CHRIS CAN TALK ABOUT THAT INTEGRATION AND THE WORK AHEAD. -- YEAH,

I'LL JUST SAY IT'S IT'S BEEN GREAT THIS YEAR, I THINK TO BRING IN THE CORE TEAM, WE'VE BEEN REALLY LUCKY TO HAVE LI MOMEN AT THE START OF THIS YEAR, STEP IN AS INTERIM DIRECTOR WHO HAD BEEN INVOLVED

WITH THE UC T DATING BACK TO ITS BEGINNING, I THINK AS WELL. LI HAS RETURNED TO SPU AND WE'VE, AS DIRECTOR KIM MENTIONED, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO PUT THE INTERIM DIRECTOR IN THE HANDS OF CHRISTINA KORPI AS

WELL, WHO HAS BEEN WITH THE UC T SINCE 2022 AND SERVED WITH CITY OUTREACH. BEYOND THAT, EVEN SO, THAT'S BEEN A WONDERFUL PIECE OF IT, I THINK. AND THEN AGAIN, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING TO SEE HOW WE CAN

PAIR THE U. C T WITH THESE NEW SHELTERS THAT ARE OPENING TO MEET THE NEED THAT'S OUT THERE WITHIN THE EXISTING UC T OPERATIONS, AND HOPEFULLY EXPAND THAT IMPACT AS WELL TO BRING MORE FOLKS INDOORS --

THANK YOU. ARE YOU THE LEAD AS DEPUTY IN TERMS OF HSD LEADERSHIP? DEPUTY DIRECTOR? ARE YOU THE LEAD OF THE KIND OF THE FOR UCT? YES. PAT ON THE BACK SUGGESTS YOU ARE. -- HE HE OVERSEES THE

HOMELESSNESS DIVISION, THE CONTRACTS, ALL THE WORK IN THAT SPACE, AS WELL AS SUPPORTING UCT. AND THEY WILL RESPECTIVELY HAVE THEIR OWN DIVISIONS IN ORDER TO HELP WITH THE OPERATIONS FOR BOTH MAGGIE,

WHO IS IN THE AUDIENCE, SHE IS OVERSEEING THE OTHER THREE PROGRAM AREAS WITH OUR AGING, OUR SAFE AND THRIVING, AND OUR YOUTH AND FAMILY EMPOWERMENT, IT'S A BIG BODY OF WORK, AND SO WE NEED THE BRAIN

AND THE BANDWIDTH IN ORDER TO SUPPORT OUR CONTINUUM OF SERVICES. -- AT SOME POINT WHEN APPROPRIATE. I KNOW WE'RE IN BUDGET. THERE'S RULES, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A MEETING WITH THE NEW KIND OF

LEADERSHIP SET AND TO UNDERSTAND AND MAYBE DO ANOTHER. RIGHT. I'VE ALREADY DONE ONE, BUT DO ANOTHER RIDE ALONG OR ALONG THOSE LINES JUST TO ENSURE, BECAUSE IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR COMMUNITY SAFETY AND

THEREFORE PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR, I'M ASKING ON BEHALF OF CHAIR STRAUSS. ACTUALLY, FOR ME AND ACTUALLY FOR THE CITY OF SEATTLE A WEEK AND A HALF AGO, WHEN I HAD MY PRE-BRIEF ON THE BUDGET THERE WAS A

BIG POINT ABOUT FUND SWAPS AND, AND IT WAS SO KEY TO WHAT WE WERE DOING. AND THERE'S THE CAN YOU EXPLAIN FOR THE PUBLIC, THERE'S THE INTEREST, LIKE WHEN DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS PAY FOR SERVICES LIKE FAS

OR HR, IT AND ALL THAT. THERE'S THAT PIECE. BUT CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE STRATEGY OF FUND SWAPS? BECAUSE IT WAS VERY CLEAR THAT IT WAS A MAJOR PIECE OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING IN THAT PRE-BRIEF I RECEIVED, AND

I DON'T THINK MAYBE MY COLLEAGUES AS WELL DON'T NECESSARILY UNDERSTAND, LIKE THE CONCEPT OF THE STRATEGY OF IT. CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE FUND SWAP IDEA? -- I'LL DO MY BEST, BUT LET ME KNOW IF I COULD

EXPLAIN MORE CLEARLY. THE CITY MANAGES OVER 60 FUNDS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE BUDGET BOOK TOWARDS THE BACK, YOU CAN SEE FINANCIAL PLANS FOR OVER 60 FUNDS THAT ARE MANAGED BY THE CITY. SOME HAVE LIKE STATE

OR FEDERAL OR LOCAL RESTRICTIONS ON HOW THE FUNDS CAN BE USED. WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW TO MAINTAIN EXISTING SERVICES, WE ARE LOOKING AT ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES THAT CAN SUPPORT A CERTAIN ACTIVITY.

SO WHERE THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ANY. EXCUSE ME, LET ME TAKE ONE STEP BACK. THE GENERAL FUND IS THE MOST FLEXIBLE FUND SOURCE. AND SO FOR THINGS WHERE THERE ISN'T A DEDICATED FUND SOURCE FOR IT,

IT TENDS TO BE FUNDED THROUGH THAT. SO MOST OF THE, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SAFETY INVESTMENTS, THAT SORT OF THING ARE FUNDED THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND. SO WHEN THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO TAKE EXPENSES THAT

ARE CURRENTLY FUNDED BY THE GENERAL FUND AND MOVE THOSE EXPENSES TO A DIFFERENT FUND IF IT IS ELIGIBLE TO BE USED FOR THAT, THAT IS A STRATEGY TO TRY TO PRESERVE SERVICES, PARTICULARLY IF OTHER FUND

SOURCES ARE GROWING OR HAVE UNALLOCATED PORTIONS OF IT. SO WHAT THIS BUDGET DOES IS, IN AN EFFORT TO TRY TO PRIORITIZE INVESTMENTS IN SAFETY AND AFFORDABILITY, INCLUDING PRIORITIZING INVESTMENTS IN

SHELTER. AND AS IT RELATES TO THIS BUDGET, WE LOOK FOR ALL AVAILABLE FUNDS THAT COULD SUPPORT THOSE INVESTMENTS. AND WHERE THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY, TOOK EXPENSES OFF OF THE GENERAL FUND TO HELP

ADDRESS THE DEFICIT AND SHIFTED THEM TO ANOTHER FUND. SO THIS SLIDE HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE WAYS THAT THAT SHOWS UP IN THE BUDGET. FOR EXAMPLE, BY MOVING $46.6 MILLION OF THE COST OF OUR ONGOING

INVESTMENTS IN HOMELESS SERVICES TO THE JUMPSTART FUND. AND SO NOW IT'S PAID FOR OUT DIRECTLY OUT OF THE JUMPSTART FUND -- OKAY. THANK YOU. SWITCHING TO ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS. I'VE OFTEN SAID THAT

WE HAVE A REGIONAL HOMELESSNESS PROBLEM ON OUR STREETS AND OUR LOCAL STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THINGS LIKE BAYSIDE AND GLACIER COMMONS, WHICH I'VE BEEN SUPPORTING BECAUSE IT GOES TO THE SAME

POINT THAT DIRECTOR KIM, THANK YOU FOR THE USE OF THAT CONCEPT BECAUSE IT HAS SUCH A DIRECT IMPACT ON PUBLIC SAFETY, AS DOES UC, AND IT IS A REGIONAL PROBLEM. AND THIS IS WHY, LIKE I AND I DON'T KNOW

IF THIS IS PUBLIC, BUT KING COUNTY IS GOING TO BE THERE. THEY'VE ROGERED UP, THEY'VE OKAYED A NEW LOCATION, TINY HOME VILLAGE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED BECAUSE IT IS A REGIONAL PROBLEM. WE NEED THE

COUNTY AND THE STATE TO BE FRANK, TO BE SUPPORTIVE BECAUSE THEY END UP BEING HERE IN TERMS OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS IN CRISIS, WHATEVER REASON IT MAY BE WEATHER, MENTAL HEALTH, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH,

ADDICTION, OR JUST LIFE ITSELF. AND SO THAT'S KEY. AND AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S PUBLIC, BUT I'M WELCOME THAT BECAUSE WE'VE NOT SEEN THAT FROM KING COUNTY, PARTICULARLY UNDER THE PREVIOUS

ADMINISTRATION. THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER RINCK ON CXR. AYE. I DO BELIEVE BECAUSE IT IS A REGIONAL PROBLEM, THAT WE HAVE HAVE A REGIONAL APPROACH. I RECOGNIZE THERE'S REFORM AND CHANGES. BUT THIS CASE

CONSTRUCT ALLOWS US TO HAVE A VOICE IN THAT REGIONAL EFFORT. AND AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. AND THAT'S THAT'S WHAT DRIVES MY POSITION. AND I LIKE TO THANK BOTH COUNCILMEMBER RINCK AND

COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE TEND TO THINK THAT WE DON'T WORK TOGETHER BECAUSE LIKE, I'M THIS ON PUBLIC SAFETY OR WHATEVER, BUT WE DO ON MANY DIFFERENT AREAS. AND THIS IS ONE THAT WE'RE

DOING THAT ON BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT AND IT GOES BACK TO GOVERNANCE TOO, IN TERMS OF EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE, TO HAVE THAT KIND OF OVERSIGHT, TO HAVE THAT VOICE, THAT SEAT AT THE TABLE. IT'S REALLY SUPER

IMPORTANT. ON AFFORDABILITY. I'M JUST GOING TO NOTE THAT. SLIDE 11. YOU KNOW, FEDERAL LEVEL INFLATIONARY POLICIES OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, WHETHER IT'S TARIFFS, THE WAR, THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, THE,

YOU KNOW, THE GAS FUEL PRICES, ALL THE ABOVE THE INFLATIONARY PIECES. I'M CONCERNED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE CONSTRUCT OF THE BUDGET, PARTICULARLY IN THE OUT YEARS. AND I'M REALLY GLAD THAT WE HAVE TO

DO THIS KIND OF LONGER TERM WORK. AND THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE MEETING THOSE INFLATIONARY TARGETS BECAUSE OF LIKE, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. AND THAT COULD PUT OUR OUT YEARS IN JEOPARDY. BUT WE SEE

IT AT STATE LEVEL, TOO, IN TERMS OF PROPERTY TAX. I MEAN, THE COUNTY IS NOW LOOKING AT SALES TAX. AND WE OURSELVES, BETWEEN LEVIES AND SO FORTH, HAVE DONE PROPERTY TAXES. WE'VE DONE SALES TAXES. WE

HAVE THE UTILITY RATES PIECES. NOW. WE HAVE DIFFERENT LEGISLATION THAT HAS IMPACTS IN TERMS OF AFFORDABILITY, GOOD AND BAD. SO ON THE GOOD SIDE, WE HAVE THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM. BUT ON THE OTHER

SIDE, WE DO HAVE OUR CHALLENGES TOO. AND I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S REALLY CONCERNING. AND IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET, IT'S BEEN NOTED THAT IN ORDER TO SQUARE THE CIRCLE, IF YOU

WILL, IN THOSE IN THE SECOND BIENNIUM, YOU KNOW, MOVING OUT, IT'S IT'S BASED ON A, I THINK BOTH FINGERS, TOES, EVERY TOE FINGERS ARE CROSSED THAT THE INFLATION PIECE MEETS THOSE TARGETS. AND I THINK

THAT'S OPTIMISTIC. AND I'M I'M WORRIED THAT THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TOO ROSY OF A HOPE IN TERMS OF IN TERMS OF INFLATION. LASTLY, ON COMMUNITY SAFETY, AGAIN, WE'VE ALREADY SPOKEN TO COMMUNITY VIOLENCE

INTERVENTION. I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THAT. AND THANKS TO MY COLLEAGUES REGARDING THE QUEER AND TRANS PIECE, BECAUSE THAT IS THAT IS PUBLIC SAFETY TO IN TERMS OF THE COMMUNITY SAFETY

ASPECTS. AND, YOU KNOW, IN SOME WAYS THAT'S, YOU KNOW, TAKING CARE OF THE LITTLE THINGS. IT'S NOT LITTLE, BUT HELPS TAKE CARE OF THE BIG THINGS. YOU KNOW, IT'S THAT RELATIONSHIP. SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO

DO. AND I JUST WANT TO FOOT STOMP AGAIN BECAUSE IT WASN'T IN A BRIEFING. YOU SEE. NOW THE LAST THING, DIRECTOR KIM, I JUST HAVE TO ASK BECAUSE I SIT NEXT TO COUNCILMEMBER RINCK. BUT I REMEMBER, YOU

KNOW, THE WORK I DID ON BAYSIDE, YOU KNOW, SURE. THAT THAT WAS THERE AT THE BEGINNING, YOU KNOW, BEING THERE WITH YOU AT GLASS YARD COMMONS. I KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF PICTURES TAKEN, AND THEN, OF

COURSE, I WAS AT THE SUMMIT OF CRIME SURVIVORS LAST YEAR. I'VE ALREADY BEEN I'VE ALREADY RSVP'D FOR THIS YEAR. NO PRESSURE. HANNAH. AND THERE'S ONLY ONE COUNCILMEMBER IN THAT LAST SLIDE. AND IT'S

COUNCILMEMBER RINCK. -- CAN YOU CAN YOU EXPLAIN. -- CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE -- [LAUGHTER] -- DEPARTMENT'S POSITION ON THAT, PLEASE -- THANK YOU FOR THE -- [LAUGHTER] -- FEEDBACK. -- [LAUGHTER] -- WE

APPRECIATE YOU. -- VERY MUCH. -- THANK YOU. AND DIRECTOR. DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD? -- THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO NOTE ON THE BECAUSE I'VE HEARD THIS COME UP A FEW TIMES, MAYBE IN THIS ROOM, BUT

ALSO IT'S I KNOW IT'S IN THE MEDIA ABOUT THE, THE, THE WHAT INFLATIONARY FACTORS WERE APPLYING IN THE OUT YEARS IN THE BUDGET OVERALL, OUR FINANCIAL PLAN, LIKE OTHER FINANCIAL PLANS IN PREVIOUS

BUDGETS, THE OUTYEAR PROJECTIONS ARE BASED ON THE ECONOMIC AND REVENUE FORECAST PRESENTED BY OUR INDEPENDENT OFFICE. WE ALSO. BUT IT IS. AND YOU KNOW, IT WAS A ROSIER PICTURE FOR THIS YEAR FOR

INFLATION A YEAR AGO, WHEN YOU ALL WERE ADOPTING A BUDGET. AND WE HAD TO ADJUST TO THAT. SO THERE IS ALWAYS SOME RISK WITH A FINANCIAL PLAN. AND IT'S ALSO WHY IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE ARE

BUILDING THAT JUMPSTART RESERVE, THAT COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS HAS BEEN THE CHAMPION OF, AS WELL AS MAINTAINING AND MAKING THE MANDATE, THE REQUIRED AND TRANSFERS INTO OUR REVENUE STABILIZATION FUND AND

OUR EMERGENCY FUND FOR THE GENERAL FUND TO HELP MITIGATE. SHOULD THOSE PROJECTIONS BE ROSIER THAN THAN WHAT ACTUALLY COMES TO BE AND WHY? WE'VE BEEN CLEAR THAT WHILE THIS BUDGET MOVES, MAKES HUGE

STRIDES TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY, THERE IS MORE WORK TO DO, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO DOING THAT WITH ALL OF YOU OVER THE COMING YEARS. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, YOU ARE

STILL ABLE TO DO RIDE ALONGS AND MEETINGS ABOUT OTHER TOPICS. IF YOU WANT TO ASK ANYTHING OR IF YOU'RE BEING IF YOU ARE DOING A RIDE ALONG IN ORDER TO INFORM A BUDGET ITEM. THAT'S WHERE THINGS GET A

LITTLE STICKIER. BUT YOU'RE STILL ABLE TO DO ALL OF YOUR YOUR WORK. BUT IF YOU ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE BUDGET, IT HAS TO GO THROUGH SHAREPOINT. WITH THAT COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA, FOLLOWED BY

COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. -- THANK YOU. CHAIR STRAUSS. AND THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE THIS MORNING. AND TO THAT POINT. CHAIR STRAUSS. I WILL BE PUTTING SOME QUESTIONS IN THE TRACKER, BUT THIS IS OUR ONLY

OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS OF DEPARTMENTS AND PUBLIC. FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC, FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS. AND WE NEED TO HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO OUR CONSTITUENTS. AND WE NEED TO BE TRANSPARENT. SO

I'M GOING TO GO AS QUICKLY AS I CAN ON MY QUESTIONS, BUT I DO BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ME TO ASK THEM SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN HEAR AS WELL. ON PAGE FIVE, I'M JUST GOING TO TRY TO RUN THROUGH THIS AS

QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. THERE'S 600 CONTRACTS AT HSD. I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT THOSE 600 CONTRACTS ARE, SO WE'LL JUST LEAVE THAT THERE ON THE HUMAN SERVICES FUND THAT FUNDS 29%. I THINK YOU SAID IN YOUR

PRESENTATION, BUT I DIDN'T CATCH ALL THE THE THINGS THAT ARE UNDER THAT PARTICULAR FUND. WOULD YOU PLEASE REPEAT WHAT THOSE WERE? -- SO THE HUMAN SERVICES FUND, PRIMARILY COMPRISES OUR GRANT FUND

SOURCES. HOWEVER, THERE'S ALSO FUNDING FROM OTHER DEPARTMENT REVENUES THAT SUPPORT OUR PROGRAMS, SUCH AS THE HOUSING LEVY AND SEATTLE CITY LIGHT AND SCL FUNDING FOR THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM. BUT

IT'S PRIMARILY GRANTS. -- GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THEN ON PAGE SIX, I JUST WANTED TO NOTE, AND I WANTED TO THANK MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE FOR BRINGING UP THE PIECE OF THE FUND SWAPS.

BASICALLY, I NOTED THAT A LOT OF THIS DEFICIT WAS TAKEN CARE OF BY FUND SWAPS. WITH THE JUMP START, AND THAT IS APPROPRIATE. I WILL SAY, HOWEVER, FOR THE RECORD, THAT WHEN COUNCIL LOOKED AT THIS IN

PRIOR YEARS SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, INCLUDING THE PRIOR ADMINISTRATION, AND THEY PROPOSED FUND SWAPS, THIS WAS MET WITH A LOT OF RESISTANCE VERY VOCALLY. SO AND I SEE THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS ALSO

HAD TO GO TO THE FUND SWAPS. IT IS INEVITABLE. I UNDERSTAND WHY, BUT I ALSO WANT TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT WHEN WE TRIED TO DO THIS IN THE PAST, IT WAS IT WAS MET WITH QUITE A BIT OF RESISTANCE.

AND I THINK THAT THESE ARE REALITIES. SO WHEN WE HAVE TO PROPOSE THESE THINGS, THIS IS WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN. AND SO JUST WANTED TO STATE THAT, FOR THE RECORD, ON PAGE SEVEN. IT SAYS 113 MILLION

TRANSITION. SORRY, TRANSITION OF CONTRACTS FROM KCRA TO HSD. IT DOESN'T SAY HOW MANY THOSE CONTRACTS ARE AND WHO'S DOING THAT WORK. SO I'D LOVE TO KNOW IF YOU KNOW TODAY. GREAT. YOU CAN TELL ME. IF

NOT, WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE TRACKER. BUT. -- YEAH, I THINK WE CAN SEND THAT ALONG WITH THE TRACKER AS WELL. THE WHOLE LIST. -- OKAY. ON PAGE EIGHT, I'M WONDERING ON THE ON SITE SERVICES, ARE WE

TALKING ABOUT TINY HOMES, EMERGENCY SHELTER OR BOTH? WHERE ARE YOU LOCATING THESE AND HOW MANY? WHAT'S THE CURRENT VACANCY? I KNOW THERE WAS A BIG PUSH, AND THIS IS BEING TALKED ABOUT AS AN

ACCELERATOR, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TINY HOMES HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN CITED SINCE COUNCIL PASSED THAT THAT LEGISLATION THAT THE MAYOR SENT, SENT TO US IN AN EMERGENCY CAPACITY. HOW MANY TINY HOMES HAVE

WE STOOD UP SINCE THEN? -- YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. SO WE ARE LOOKING AT, I THINK, ALL EMERGENCY SHELTER TYPES AS WELL TINY HOUSE VILLAGES, MASTER LEASE PROPERTIES, PHYSICAL BUILDINGS, OF COURSE. AND THEN IN

TERMS OF SHELTERS THAT HAVE OPENED UP THIS YEAR, TINY HOUSE VILLAGES, WE HAVE THE BAYSIDE SHELTER THAT OPENED UP IN JUNE, BRIGHTON VILLAGE AS WELL OPENED UP THE BELMONT VILLAGE AS WELL. EARLIER THIS

YEAR. WE ARE LOOKING AT IN MID OCTOBER AS WELL. CLOVERLEAF VILLAGE WILL BE COMING ONLINE AND THEN THERE'S A NUMBER OF PROJECTS THAT I MENTIONED THAT WERE KIND OF IN DEVELOPMENT AND SLATED TO OPEN

EITHER END OF THIS YEAR OR THROUGHOUT NEXT YEAR, OBVIOUSLY, PENDING ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET. AND WHILE THE BUDGET IS COMING TOGETHER, WE ARE WORKING ON THINGS TO KIND OF TEE THAT UP, WHICH WOULD BE

WHERE THOSE COULD BE LOCATED AS WELL, AND TRYING TO IDENTIFY SITES. -- THANK YOU DEPUTY. AND THEN WHAT IS THE CURRENT VACANCY AT ANY OF THESE LOCATIONS? ARE THEY FALL. -- I CAN WE CAN PROVIDE THAT

INFORMATION. I THINK AS A FOLLOW UP IF THAT WOULD BE. -- GREAT. AND THEN THE LAST THING I'LL SAY ABOUT THE HOMELESSNESS. WELL, ACTUALLY I'LL SAY TWO MORE THINGS. ONE IS, YOU KNOW, I NOTED THAT LAST

YEAR WHEN WE WERE DOING SOME OF THIS HOMELESSNESS INVESTMENTS, THERE WERE FOLKS COMING TO CHAMBERS ADVOCATING FOR INVESTMENTS, AND SOME OF THEM WERE IN TENT CITIES AND WERE HERE FROM DENVER. I NOTED

THAT BECAUSE FOLKS ARE MOVING HERE, DO WE WORK WITH THE OTHER CITIES TO SEE, YOU KNOW, IF FOLKS ARE COMING HERE FROM OTHER CITIES? IT'S MY OPINION WE SHOULD BE WORKING WITH OTHER CITIES BECAUSE THEN

WE'RE ABSORBING THAT. WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS WITH NEED IN THIS CITY. AND SO HOW DO WE PARTNER WITH THE OTHER CITIES? SO THERE'S A REGIONAL COMPONENT WITH MY WHICH COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE, MY

COLLEAGUE JUST BROUGHT UP. THERE'S ALSO THIS CITY COMPONENT BECAUSE FOLKS ARE COMING FROM OTHER CITIES AS WELL. -- WE'RE NOT WORKING WITH OTHER CITIES SPECIFICALLY OUTSIDE OF KING COUNTY OR THE STATE

TO TALK ABOUT PREVENTION DIRECTLY AS MAYBE A, A POTENTIAL, YOU KNOW, SOURCE OF PIPELINE. AND HOW DO WE RESOLVE FOR THAT? THAT'S AN INTERESTING POINT. OF COURSE, WE ARE WORKING WITH KING COUNTY AS WELL

AS THE KING COUNTY REGIONAL HOME SECURITY AUTHORITY, AND WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO WORK WITH OUR CITY PARTNERS IN THAT REGARD. BUT THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. I ALSO JUST IF IT'S OKAY, YOU

ASKED A COUPLE OTHER QUESTIONS. WE DID SUBMIT A CONTRACT LIST THROUGH. WE HAVE A SPREADSHEET THAT WAS GIVEN TO CENTRAL STAFF. AND SO I KNOW THAT THAT INFORMATION IS THERE. OUR CONTRACTS ARE

COMPLICATED. AND I WONDER IF YOU WILL SEE ALL OF THEM THERE, BECAUSE WE DO A LOT OF WORK ON BEHALF OF THE STATE. AND SO WE'RE NOT PASSING THROUGH DOLLARS, BUT WE'RE PROVIDING ADMINISTRATIVE WORK ON

BEHALF OF THE STATE THAT ALLOWS AGENCIES TO BE REIMBURSED. AND SO THERE ARE DOLLARS THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALLOCATING. AND THEN THERE ARE CONTRACTS THAT WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR SO THAT AGENCIES CAN

GET ACCESS TO THE FUNDS. SO JUST WANTED TO EXPLAIN THAT. AND YOU WILL SEE AN INCREASE, OF COURSE, FROM 2026 TO 2027 BECAUSE OF THE NEW CONTRACTS. -- THANK YOU FOR THAT. I'LL LOOK FOR THAT IN OUR

TRACKER THEN ON THE HOMELESSNESS SIDE AS WELL, I NOTED THAT NOT IN YOUR SLIDES, BUT IN YOUR BUDGET AND THE BUDGET BOOK, THERE WAS A REDUCTION TO THE U. C T TEAM, IT LOOKS LIKE OF 352,000. TO THE

HOMELESSNESS PROGRAM BUDGET PROGRAM. SO IS THAT A REDUCTION TO UCT FOR A DIFFERENT PURPOSE? AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE IS THAT? AND THEN HOW WILL YOU DO THE UCT WORK IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN ALL OUR

NEIGHBORHOODS. WE RELY ON IT TO HELP US WITH ENCAMPMENTS THAT OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT. CAN YOU TALK TO ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, WITH THAT REDUCTION, HOW YOU PLAN TO DO THE U. C T WORK? --

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. THE THE REDUCTION IS ACTUALLY RELATED TO TWO POSITIONS THAT PROVIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT ON THE U. C, T CORE TEAM. SO NOT FIELD OPERATIONS PER SE. AND THESE POSITIONS, ONE OF THEM

IS A VACANT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ANALYST THAT PROVIDES SOME DATA AND REPORTING SUPPORT ON THAT. WE ARE FOLDING THAT WORK INTO OUR EXISTING DATA PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION TEAM TO FACILITATE THOSE

FUNCTIONS. SO WE DO NOT ANTICIPATE ANY PROGRAMMATIC OR OPERATIONAL IMPACTS FROM THAT. THE OTHER POSITION WAS A STRATEGIC ADVISOR ON THE CORE TEAM AS WELL. THIS POSITION HAS ALSO BEEN VACANT. AND WE WE

DO ANTICIPATE ABSORBING THAT WORK THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE CORE TEAM. AND THEN ADDITIONAL LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT FROM HSD STAFF NOW AS WELL. -- AND THIS GOES BACK TO THE POINT THAT

COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE RAISED, WHICH IS, I BELIEVE, WITH UCT HAVING BEEN UNDER THE MAYOR'S OFFICE VERSUS NOW FUNCTIONALLY INTEGRATED INTO OUR WORK, THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL SEE SOME EFFICIENCIES BECAUSE

SINCE THEY'RE A PART OF OUR TEAM AND WE HAVE A DATA PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION TEAM, FOR EXAMPLE, WE ARE SHIFTING THIS AS A PRIORITY WITH OUR EXISTING GROUP. AND THIS IS UNDER OUR CURRENT EXPECTATIONS

FOR THE TEAM. OF COURSE, IF THERE IS MORE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OR MORE WORK THAT'S HAPPENING, THEN THAT'S WHERE WE'LL TALK ABOUT INCREASED NEEDS. BUT WE DID IDENTIFY THAT THESE ADMINISTRATIVE TYPE

OF BACK, BACK OF THE HOUSE WORK EFFORTS SHOULD NOT BE FELT OUTSIDE AND PARTICULARLY ON THE STREET BECAUSE THAT TEAM IS PRESERVED. THE FOLKS WHO ARE WORKING IN COMMUNITY, WORKING WITH OUR CONTRACTED

OUTREACH PROVIDERS, THOSE THAT TALK TO YOU ABOUT INCIDENTS, THAT TEAM IS LEFT WHOLE. -- THANK YOU, DIRECTOR, AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT WE'RE TAKING MONEY AWAY FROM THAT TEAM WHEN IN

FACT, I'M NOT SURE THAT TEAM CAN HANDLE ALL THE WORK THAT IS HAPPENING ON THE GROUND. SO IF WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME IS THEY CAN HANDLE ALL THE WORK, IT JUST LOOKS DIFFERENTLY TO COUNCILMEMBERS WHO ARE

WORKING WITH CONSTITUENTS WHO ARE CONSTANTLY FLAGGING ENCAMPMENTS. AND WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO HELP FOLKS COME INDOORS, IF YOU WILL. SO IF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO MANAGE FOR

EVERY ENCAMPMENT WE'RE SEEING AND WE'RE NOT DOING IT. THAT'S ONE THING. OTHERWISE, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE, WHY WOULDN'T YOU USE THAT MONEY THEN IF WE'RE NOT FILLING THOSE POSITIONS TO DO SOMETHING ELSE

WITHIN THE U. C T TEAM TO EXPAND THE ABILITY TO DO THAT WORK? -- I WANT TO JUST HIGHLIGHT FOR THE COMMITTEE, ONE, WE'RE NOT SAYING I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IS SAYING THAT THIS BUDGET IN ANY WAYS MEETS

EVERY SINGLE NEED OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. WE KNOW THAT DEMAND FOR SERVICES IS HIGHER THAN WHAT OUR CURRENT RESOURCES ARE. THE REDUCTIONS TO THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM THAT YOU SEE IN THE HUMAN SERVICES

DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS OTHER DEPARTMENTS, IS REALLY IN APPLYING THE STRATEGY OF RIGHTSIZING BUDGETS BASED ON CURRENT LEVELS OF SERVICE. SO WHERE THERE HAS BEEN UNDERSPEND, VACANT POSITIONS, THAT SORT

OF THING, BUT NOT IMPACTING CURRENT LEVELS OF SERVICE, WE ARE JUST, FRANKLY, IN A SITUATION WHERE I HEAR YOU SAYING YOU WOULD LIKE AN EXPANSION OF THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM. THERE HAVE BEEN EXPANSIONS

PROPOSED TO OTHER PROGRAMS THAT ARE JUST NOT SUSTAINED IN THIS BUDGET, BECAUSE THERE AREN'T RESOURCES AVAILABLE. IN ORDER TO DO THAT, YOU WOULD NEED TO TAKE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.

THIS BUDGET, IN THIS CASE, IN THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, PRIORITIZED REALLY INVESTING IN GETTING MORE SHELTER BEDS OFF OFF THE GROUND. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S NOT QUITE THE RIGHT METAPHOR, BUT

ANYWAYS, IMPLEMENTING THAT. AND SO ANY REDUCTION IN ONE AREA OF THE BUDGET, YOU COULD SAY ANY OF THOSE DOLLARS ARE SUPPORTING ANY OF THE NEW INVESTMENTS, BUT IT IS A SERIES OF CHOICES AND IT IS NOT

EASY. BUT I WANT TO JUST HIGHLIGHT THAT THIS WAS RIGHTSIZING BASED ON EXISTING LEVELS OF SERVICE. -- THANK YOU, DIRECTOR PANUCCI. I WILL MY MY ORIGINAL COMMENT STILL STANDS THAT WE NEED THE UNIFIED

CARE TEAM TO BE ABLE TO DELIVER THIS SERVICE, BECAUSE THE THE TAKING MONEY AWAY FROM THAT, TO PUT IT TOWARD THE HOMELESSNESS SHELTER. IF WE CAN'T BUILD THINGS FAST ENOUGH, WE STILL NEED TO, TO PROVIDE

THIS SERVICE. SO ON PAGE 12, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM EXPANSION. SO IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE TRANSFERRING USED TO THIS AMOUNT THAT WAS COMING FROM THE GENERAL FUND IS NOW BEING

TRANSFERRED TO THE RATEPAYER AT AT THE UTILITY. AND SO THAT I JUST WANT TO STATE FOR THE RECORD, AS A POINT OF TRANSPARENCY, THAT WE ARE NOW REDUCING, TAKING THE GENERAL FUND THAT WAS GOING TO PAY FOR

THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM, AND WE'RE SHIFTING THAT BURDEN OVER TO THE RATEPAYER, WHICH WE JUST HAD TO INCREASE RATEPAYER RATES RECENTLY, AND WE WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO DO SO. SO, YOU KNOW, TO ME,

THAT IS JUST LIKE AN EXTRA BURDEN. AND I WANT TO STATE FOR THAT THAT FOR THE RECORD, TO SO THAT OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON ON PAGE 15. JUST AGAIN, THERE'S SOME CONTRACTS HERE. 11

EXISTING CONTRACTS. DOES THIS FUNDING MAINTAIN THOSE CONTRACTS OR EXPAND THEM? AND THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT THOSE CONTRACTS ARE. SO HERE'S ANOTHER AREA WHERE I WOULD LOVE TO SEE WHAT THOSE CONTRACTS

ARE. -- IT MAINTAINS THEM. AND WE'RE HAPPY TO PROVIDE YOU A LIST. -- PERFECT. -- THANK YOU. ALREADY SUBMITTED THAT THROUGH THE SHAREPOINT. -- OH GREAT. I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT YET. THANK YOU. DIRECTOR

KIM. AND THEN OF COURSE, FOR THESE CONTRACTS AND THOSE 600, YOU DIDN'T REALLY TALK ABOUT OUTCOMES AND HOW YOU MEASURE OUTCOMES AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THAT REALM. THAT IS IMPORTANT. I KNOW WE'RE

TALKING ABOUT BUDGETS AND MONEY, BUT IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO JUSTIFY CONTINUATION OF CONTRACTS, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW THE OUTCOMES ON ALL OF THAT WORK THAT WE ARE FUNDING THROUGH HSD.

SO I'LL SAY THAT I'D LOVE TO HEAR A LOT ABOUT THE OUTCOMES AS PART OF THIS BUDGET CONVERSATION. AND THEN I HAVE SORRY, CHAIR, ONE LAST QUESTION, IF I MAY. AND I'M TOGGLING BACK. OH, THERE WAS A

PROVISO THAT PRIOR COUNCILMEMBER NELSON PUT ON PUT IN ON TREATMENT. WE ACTUALLY DON'T DO ENOUGH ON THE TREATMENT SIDE, BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS THAT NEED IT. SO IT LOOKS TO ME I'M NOT SEEING WHERE

THIS IS IN THE BUDGET. SO DID THAT GET US? IS THAT INCLUDED IN HERE? IT'S 2.85 MILLION FOR TREATMENT SPECIFICALLY. OR DID THAT GO AWAY IN THIS NEW PROPOSAL FOR HSD BUDGET? -- THE PROVISO IS FOR 2026.

AND WE ARE UTILIZING THOSE FUNDS FOR TREATMENT. AND SO THAT IS ADDRESSED. FORMER COUNCIL PRESIDENT NELSON AND HSD HAS BEEN EMAILING ON THAT. AND SO WE'RE WE'RE LEANING INTO THAT SPACE. IT REALLY IS A

GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE COUNTY AND THE STATE WITH REGARDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES, AS WELL AS PUBLIC HEALTH AND AND THEIR LEADING ROLE IN THAT. BUT WE'RE

HAPPY TO USE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO FILL IN THE GAPS AND TO WITH WITH THAT PROVISO. PILOT, THAT EFFORT. AND SO WE DO HAVE A CONTRACT THAT IS FOR TREATMENT. IT IT WILL IT'S NOT PROVIDED FOR THE FOLLOWING

YEAR. SO THAT'S YOU DON'T SEE THAT THAT'S NOT A CHANGE. IT'S JUST IT'S THE FUNDS ARE ONGOING. AND DO YOU WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HOW WE'RE INTEGRATING INTO THE SHELTER ACCELERATION AND,

AND EMPHASIZING JUST THE FUTURE STATE OF THOSE EFFORTS? CHRIS. -- ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. AND I THINK THE 2027 PICTURE FOR A PORTION OF THOSE FUNDS KIND OF BUILDS ON THE WORK FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR AND

LOOKING TO INTEGRATE THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT SERVICES ON SITE IN SHELTERS. WITH THAT, WE'RE LOOKING TO CARRY THAT FORWARD IN 2027 AS WELL. AS MENTIONED, NOT JUST BRING ONLINE

A SHELTER WITH CASE MANAGEMENT, PLACE TO SLEEP, HOUSING, NAVIGATION, BUT THESE ENHANCED SERVICES TO MEET THE NEED OUT IN COMMUNITY. SO LOOKING TO BUILD ON THAT IN 2027. -- THANK YOU. SO WHAT I'D LIKE

TO SEE IS WHAT, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THIS FUNDING OR HOW MUCH OF THIS FUNDING IS GOING ACTUALLY TO TREATMENT, WHETHER OR NOT SOMEONE IS IN A TINY HOME VILLAGE OR EMERGENCY SHELTER, BECAUSE WE KNOW WE

DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE THAT NEEDS IT, FOLKS STILL NEED TREATMENT. WE COULD DO THAT EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO, TO ACCESS A TINY HOUSE. IF WE DON'T HAVE A VACANCY. BECAUSE A LOT OF THAT

TREATMENT IS IN IN HOUSE TREATMENT SOMEWHERE. -- WELL, I'LL HAVE TO CONFIRM HOW MUCH. AGAIN, I KNOW THAT YOU MENTIONED A DOLLAR AMOUNT, BUT WHAT THE PROVISO IS ATTACHED TO THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT. AND THEN

THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION FOR SHAREPOINT. AND WE'LL FOLLOW UP. -- THANK YOU, DIRECTOR, BECAUSE WHAT I'M HEARING YOU SAY IS YOU'RE GOING TO CONTINUE THE AT LEAST THE 2.85 AND TREATMENT ONGOING. AND SO

WHAT I'M SAYING IS I WANT TO CONFIRM THAT. AND I ALSO WANT TO KNOW, ARE YOU DOING ADDITIONAL DOLLARS ON THE TREATMENT FUND SPECIFIC TREATMENT RELATED TO TREATMENT, NOT A TREATMENT FUND, BUT RELATED TO

TREATMENT. GREAT. THANK YOU CHAIR. I THINK THAT COVERS MY QUESTIONS FOR NOW. THANK YOU. -- FANTASTIC. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH COUNCILMEMBER SAKA AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER LIN. -- THANK

YOU, CHAIR, AND THANK YOU, DIRECTOR KIM, FOR BEING HERE AND YOUR TEAM FOR PRESENTING THIS TODAY. FIRST OFF, KUDOS TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THE SHARED LEADERSHIP OF MY COUNCILMEMBER

COLLEAGUES AND THE COUNCIL AS A WHOLE, CALLING OUT SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF LEADERSHIP EXHIBITED BY MY COLLEAGUES IN THIS COUNCIL AS A WHOLE ON VARIOUS INITIATIVES, TALKING ABOUT THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

FOR WHICH WE THINK ABOUT AND CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THIS BODY THINK ABOUT VARIOUS INITIATIVES AND THE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PIE FRAMEWORK FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT WAS THE MOST

SOPHISTICATED, ADVANCED, NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF OF THE DYNAMICS AND HOW TO BEST SHOW UP WHEN YOU'RE AT THIS TABLE. AND SO I JUST WANT TO THAT I'VE SEEN ONE OF THE BEST THAT I'VE SEEN IN ALMOST THREE

YEARS NOW IN THIS ROLE, AND CERTAINLY THE BEST THAT I'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, FROM A DEPARTMENT THAT HAS PRESENTED AT THIS TABLE, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. SO KUDOS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND

YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S A LESSON FOR, FOR ALL, ALL OF THE 30 SOMETHING DEPARTMENTS TO, TO TAKE A PAGE OUT OF YOUR PLAYBOOK. SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THAT. WANT TO WANT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS WHOLE KIND

OF UNIFIED CARE TEAM SITUATION. SO HIGH LEVEL, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, THE INTER-DEPARTMENTAL STRUCTURE THAT WAS CENTRALLY COORDINATED BEFORE BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, AT LEAST ON THE FUNDING ASPECT, ALL OF

THAT WORK IS GOING TO BE SUBSUMED BY HSD. IS THAT CORRECT? WITH THE WITH THE THE EXPERTS FROM THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS STILL SORT OF REMAINING IN THE ROOM, PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL, SO TO SPEAK? -- THAT'S

CORRECT. -- OKAY. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AYE. I'VE BEEN IN SOME OF THESE ROOMS BEFORE WORKING ON STRATEGIC EFFORTS IN MY CERTAIN STRATEGIC EFFORTS IN MY DISTRICT, AND I FOUND IT VERY HELPFUL TO, TO

HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE THERE TO COORDINATE AND PROVIDE DIRECTIONAL GUIDANCE AND LEADERSHIP TO THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS ON VARIOUS THINGS, BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, AND THIS IS ONE OF

THE THINGS THAT I'VE LEARNED HAS EMERGED AS A BEST PRACTICE, HAVE A SINGLE THREADED OWNER MAYOR'S OFFICE COORDINATING BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST HSD WORK OR, OR, OR, YOU KNOW, ANY OF THE UTILITIES OR SDOT

OR WHATEVER THE PARKS, IT'S ALL OF THE ABOVE. BUT, YOU KNOW, I'VE ALSO LEARNED THAT THERE CAN BE A FAIR AMOUNT OF INTERDEPARTMENTAL FINGER POINTING AND LACK OF SOMETIMES LACK OF TAKING THINGS AS

SERIOUSLY AS NEEDED AS A SITUATION WARRANTS. IF THE DIRECTIVE WASN'T COMING DIRECTLY FROM A CENTRAL CENTRAL AND ACCOUNTABLE PERSON FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, THAT'S A REAL CHALLENGE AND A REAL CONCERN.

AND THAT'S WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT OPERATIONALLY. FROM A PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSED, YOU KNOW, REVISION HERE. SO TAKING A STEP BACK, CAN YOU HELP ME BETTER IN THE PUBLIC, BETTER

UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE PURPOSE GOAL AND, AND SORT OF RATIONALE FOR THIS PROPOSED CHANGE. -- DIRECTOR, IF YOU'D LIKE TO JUMP IN, YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO. AYE. -- I'M, I THINK I'M A LITTLE BIT UNCLEAR

OF WHAT THE QUESTION IS. -- YEAH. -- COUNCILMEMBER SAKA TO BE FRANK. -- I'LL TAKE IT. IF YOU WANT TO REFRAME THE QUESTION, THEN WE'LL ASK THE COMMITTEE TABLE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. THANK YOU. THANK

YOU. -- SO. SO SO REFRAME, I JUST HEARD A CLARIFICATION. DIRECTOR DIRECTOR KIM, ON MY ATTEMPT TO TO SHARE OUT THE THE CURRENT OR THE REVISED STRUCTURE OF UNIFIED CARE TEAM. SO, SO WE'LL START THERE

AGAIN. -- SORRY, I WAS A LITTLE BIT UNCLEAR. I THINK THAT WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS IN TERMS OF THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM, I THINK I GOT DISTRACTED BY WHICH SLIDE WAS ON THE SCREEN. AND SO I WAS MISSING. I WAS

HAVING A MOMENT OF DISCONNECT. I THINK YOU YOU'RE YOU'RE DIGGING INTO THE OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF UNIFIED CARE TEAM, WHICH IS REALLY AN EXECUTIVE FUNCTION. I HEAR YOU ON WHAT YOU THINK, HOW YOU

THINK THIS SHOULD BE OPERATED. WHAT I THINK IS THAT THIS IS A REFLECTION, ONE OF ONE, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE IS ENGAGED IN THIS WORK AND CONTINUES TO PROVIDE LEADERSHIP AND TO. THIS IS REALLY EMPOWERING

THE DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE WHAT YOU DON'T WANT IS THIS SHIFTING WITH IF, IF AND WHEN THERE'S AN ADMINISTRATION CHANGE IN A MAYORAL OFFICE, YOU WANT TO HAVE CONTINUITY OF SERVICE AND REALLY EMPOWER

DEPARTMENTS TO BE ABLE TO LEAD AND WORK TOGETHER ON THIS WORK. SO YOU'RE SEEING BOTH OF THOSE THINGS. THERE CONTINUES TO BE LEADERSHIP IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE HUMAN SERVICES

DEPARTMENT AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS, AND REALLY EMPOWERING THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO LEAD ON THIS WORK AND SUPPORTING THEM IN THAT EFFORT. -- DIRECTOR. -- IF I MAY ADD, BEHIND THE SCENES, THERE

ARE INCREDIBLE PEOPLE DOING THIS WORK LEADS THROUGHOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, AND THEY WORK VERY WELL TOGETHER. SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK PART OF THE WORK IS WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT THIS IN COMMUNITY,

BUT AT THE CITY TO THE RELATIONSHIPS AND THE WORK THAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING IS CONTINUING. AND WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE THAT THERE'S CONTINUITY IN A LOT OF THAT LEADERSHIP AND FOLKS ON THE GROUND. AND SO

THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THE WORK REALLY HAPPENS. AND I WANT TO UNDERSCORE TOO, WHAT DIRECTOR SAID IS THE MAYOR'S OFFICE IS NOT DIVORCED FROM IT, BUT THEY ARE RESPECTING THE DEPARTMENTS TO CARRY FORWARD

THE WORK. AND WHEN THERE ARE FLAGS OR OTHER I MEAN, I MEET WITH DIRECTOR ELLENBROOK WEEKLY. SO CERTAINLY THIS IS A BIG TOPIC. SO WE ARE ENGAGED CLOSELY AND I DO FIND. AND PARTLY IT'S, YOU KNOW,

THERE'S A LEVEL OF CONTINUITY AT THE LEADERSHIP LEVEL. THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLIMENT THAT DIRECTORS ARE ALSO LEANING IN AND WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET IT DONE. SO IF YOU SEE ANY HICCUPS PLEASE GIVE ME

THE FEEDBACK AND WE WILL TAKE CARE OF IT. -- YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND DIRECTOR PANUCCI, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THIS IS 100% PURELY AN EXECUTIVE FUNCTION WITHIN THE EXECUTIVE'S PURVIEW, SUBJECT

TO COUNCIL OVERSIGHT. AND IN MY MIND. SO IF THAT'S THE BEST WAY YOU THINK TO STRUCTURE THIS CRITICAL BODY OF WORK RIGHT NOW, I WOULD DEFER SUBSTANTIALLY TO YOU. ALL THAT SAID, IT DOES STRIKE ME AS

BEING A A RADICAL EXPERIMENTATION FOR THIS WORK, GIVEN THE CHALLENGES THAT I MENTIONED. AND SO THE, THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE, AND I'M OPEN TO TAKING DEEP SHOTS DOWN THE FIELD, BUT THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE

OF THIS REALLY HINGES ON COORDINATED EXECUTIVE DIRECTION IN ALIGNMENT. AND SO WE'LL BE CLOSELY MONITORING HOW, HOW IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROPOSED REVISION WORKS. BECAUSE TO YOUR POINT, IT IS A IT IS

AN EXECUTIVE DECISION. SUBJECT TO OUR OUR COUNCIL REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT MY NEXT QUESTION PERTAINS TO SOME OF THE SHELTERING CAPACITY AND AND AND LOCATIONS AND SITING. SO FIRST OFF, I NOTE THAT THE

PLANNED OPENINGS. THERE ARE A FEW PLANNED OPENINGS IN DISTRICT ONE. FIRST OFF, THE CLOVER LEAF VILLAGE AND THE GRASSY YARD COMMONS BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR AND STRONGLY SUPPORT THE GLASSY YARDS

COMMONS IN PARTICULAR, BECAUSE ME AND MY OFFICE HAVE WORKED CLOSELY. NOW OVER TWO ADMINISTRATIONS ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF, ALMOST TWO YEARS ON THE GLASSY YARDS, COMMON SITE ALONE, AND GETTING THAT

OPERATIONAL. SO REALLY EXCITED TO, TO TO SEE TO SEE THAT ONE COME INTO FRUITION OFFICIALLY BY THE END OF THE YEAR. BUT, YOU KNOW, TOGETHER, THESE TWO ADD TO AN ALREADY OVERREPRESENTED NUMBER OF

FACILITIES AND DISTRICT ONE AND SO I WAS HOPING THAT THE DEPARTMENT CAN TALK MORE ABOUT THE PLANS FOR FUTURE SHELTERS AND EXPANSION AND HOW MUCH OF THAT IS BEING LOOKED AT FOR OTHER COUNCIL DISTRICTS

PARTICULARLY DISTRICTS NORTH OF THE SHIP CANAL, SO THAT THE BURDEN OF SUPPORTING OUR NEIGHBORS IN CRISIS IS SHARED MORE EVENLY ACROSS THE CITY OF SEATTLE. -- ABSOLUTELY. I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION, AND

THANK YOU AS WELL FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE GLASS YARD COMMONS AS WELL. REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT OPENING UP AND THE IMPACT IT WILL HAVE. DEFINITELY. WE ARE STRIVING, I THINK, TO FIND SITES

THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY. AS YOU KNOW, NORTH SEATTLE AS WELL. THAT WORK IS ONGOING AND UNFOLDING, AND WE WILL HAVE A REAL STRONG FOCUS ON MAKING SURE WE CAN PROVIDE THAT KIND OF GEOGRAPHIC EQUITY AS

WELL. SO ALL COMMUNITIES IN SEATTLE CAN TAP INTO THESE SUPPORTS AS WELL. REALLY CRITICAL. I THINK, YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST, WE WERE ABLE TO RELY ON CITY OWNED PROPERTY THAT WAS MUCH MORE AVAILABLE ABOUT

A DECADE AGO. IT IS A CHALLENGING ENDEAVOR TO FIND SITES, IF ANYONE KNOWS OF ANY SITES WE ARE CONSTANTLY LOOKING, WOULD APPRECIATE HEARING ABOUT THOSE AVAILABLE TO TOUR THEM WHENEVER AND BRING THEM

INTO THE CONSIDERATION YOU HAD MENTIONED. IN TERMS OF JUST CROSS-DEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION. WE'RE DOING THAT AS WELL. ON THE SHELTER WORK. WHEN WE HEAR ABOUT SITES, WE BRING THEM IN TO ASSESS IF THEY

CAN BE VIABLE FOR A TINY HOUSE, VILLAGE OR A MASTER LEASE AS WELL. SO AGAIN, WHILE THE BUDGET DELIBERATIONS GOING ON, THAT'S WORK. WE, WE REALLY WANT TO DIG INTO TO, TO SET THE TABLE UP NEXT YEAR. --

THANK YOU FOR THAT. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. COUNCILMEMBER LIN AND COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA, IS THAT A NEW HAND? I'LL HAVE YOU GO LAST AFTER EVERYONE SPOKEN ONCE.

THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU TO OUR PRESENTERS AND THANK YOU TO THE COLLEAGUES. AND AND JUST SORT OF FOLLOWING UP ON COUNCILMEMBER SAKA LATEST POINT. I DO THINK PART OF THE DIFFICULTY WE

FACE AS A CITY IS THAT OUR CRISES CAN DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACT CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS, CERTAIN COMMUNITIES MORE SO THAN OTHERS. AND IT IT BECOMES VERY ACUTE AND, YOU KNOW, JUST WE WE KNOW THIS, BUT

I'LL JUST REPEAT, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST IN SOUTH SEATTLE, OBVIOUSLY LITTLE SAIGON, NORTH BEACON, THERE'S THE SITE WHERE WE JUST HAD IN RAINIER BEACH AREA OFF OF A BEACON WHERE THERE WAS A SHOOTING LAST

WEEK. NORTH RAINIER WHAT JUST IN TERMS OF AND SOME OF THOSE IMPACTS, IT'S NOT ONLY THE SHELTER KIND OF SHELTER, OTHER FACILITIES THERE, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK

COMPREHENSIVELY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SORT OF OVER CERTAIN CONCENTRATIONS AND OVERBURDENED COMMUNITIES. BUT JUST IN TERMS OF THE UCT WORK, CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE BIT? AND, YOU KNOW, ON THAT THERE IS THAT

OPERATIONAL SIDE. I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S ANY SORT OF BUDGET COMPONENT TO THIS, BUT, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S SORT OF EQUAL BY DISTRICT IN TERMS OF UCT OR WITHIN A DISTRICT, IS THERE A DIFFERENT WAY

THAT YOU THINK WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING ALL THESE DIFFERENT HOTSPOTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MOST IMPACTED COMMUNITIES ARE, ARE GETTING THE SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED? IS THERE A BETTER WAY TO TO STRUCTURE

IT SORT OF AT A CITY LEVEL, OR SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO KIND OF STRUCTURE IT THE WAY WE HAVE? -- YEAH, THANKS FOR THE QUESTION. WE DO HAVE DISTRICT TEAMS THAT WE'VE SET UP THROUGH THE UCT THAT TRY TO

SPREAD IT OUT EQUALLY ACROSS THE CITY. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, FOR HSD IN PARTICULAR, JUST WE HAVE THE MOST EXPERIENCE WITH THAT GOING BACK YEARS. THE OUTREACH COMPONENT, OBVIOUSLY HAVING REGIONAL

COORDINATORS THAT ARE SET UP TO GUIDE EFFORTS WITHIN EACH DISTRICT, AND THEN OUR OUTREACH COUNSELORS TO SIT WITH THAT IN THAT AS WELL. DEFINITELY POINT HEARD ON JUST AREAS THAT MAYBE NEED MORE FOCUSED

WORK ON THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, THE SHELTER PLAN THAT PUT OUT TO CALL THAT BACK AGAIN IS LOOKING AT WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM EFFORTS LIKE THE PIONEER SQUARE WORK THAT THE STREETS TO HOUSING WORK THAT

DOWNTOWN SEATTLE ASSOCIATION PDA ETHETS REACH WERE ENGAGED IN. WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THAT? SIMILARLY, THAT GROUP AND THE UCT SUPPORTED SOME EFFORTS IN BALLARD RECENTLY AS WELL. SO WHEN WE KNOW OF

AREAS THAT MIGHT NEED KIND OF EMPHASIS OR INCREASED SUPPORT, WHAT CAN WE HOW CAN WE BRING THAT IN? I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE SOME LEARNINGS WE TAKE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS. -- OKAY. THANK YOU

JUST FROM A BIG PICTURE PERSPECTIVE, FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW, THIS IS BEEN SUCH A HARD EXERCISE AND I KNOW SO MUCH WORK WENT INTO THIS SORT OF BUDGET OVERALL AND TO THE SORT OF BIG PICTURE POINT OF

LIKE, THERE'S SO MUCH MORE NEED THAN WE HAVE THAN WE CAN MEET WITHIN THIS BUDGET FRAMEWORK. AND, YOU KNOW, WE HEARD ABOUT DIFFICULT THINGS FROM, YOU KNOW, FIRE DEPARTMENT OVERTIME. AND, YOU KNOW, A

NUMBER OF POLICE OFFICERS AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT NEEDS. BUT CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SORT OF THE HARD DECISIONS THAT YOU'VE HAD TO MAKE, MAKE IN TERMS OF LIKE, IF THERE WAS ADDITIONAL FUNDING

FOR HSD AND JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK ABOUT. YOU KNOW, I WAS TALKING TO A FIREFIGHTER THIS MORNING AND TALKING ABOUT LIKE, WE NEED PLACES FOR, TO TAKE PEOPLE LIKE LANDING SPOTS FOR PEOPLE

IN CRISIS AND JUST NOT A NOT, NOT ENOUGH OF THOSE LANDING SPOTS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE SHELTER EXPANSION IS OBVIOUSLY ONE COMPONENT OF THAT. PLACES LIKE ORCA CENTER OR OTHER PLACES, I THINK ABOUT SORT

OF THE PAY EQUITY, YOU KNOW, CONTINUING LACK OF PAY EQUITY, GIVEN THE ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE DEMOGRAPHIC OF HUMAN SERVICE WORKERS BEING DISPROPORTIONATELY WOMEN AND OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS

OF HUMAN SERVICE WORKERS, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING IN HERE THAT REALLY I KNOW THAT THERE'S INFLATIONARY INCREASES, BUT I DON'T THINK THERE'S A STRONG COMPONENT ON THE PAY EQUITY ANY OTHER I

THINK, YOU KNOW, HEARD ABOUT THE CONTINUUM OF CARE, CONCERN, CONTINUUM OF CARE DOLLARS. I'VE BEEN HEARING FROM NONPROFITS ABOUT THE INCREASED NEED TO HELP PEOPLE APPLY FOR BENEFITS, GIVEN THE NEW AND

MAINTAINED BENEFITS, GIVEN THE NEW WORK REQUIREMENTS, JUST I MEAN, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT THERE AND CERTAINLY HAPPY TO DO IT THROUGH SHAREPOINT OR HAVE A WRITTEN RESPONSE. BUT I ALSO JUST EVEN THOUGH WE

ARE, WE HAVE HARD CHOICES TO MAKE. I ALSO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW SORT OF WHAT WHAT IS MISSING IN, YOU KNOW, THE HARD CHOICES YOU'VE HAD TO MAKE. SO JUST ANY SORT OF INITIAL

RESPONSE. -- THAT WAS THAT WAS -- [LAUGHTER] -- ROBUST. THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER LIN. I THINK THAT THERE WELL, ONE, THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT. SO YOU SEE, T IN ITSELF IS, YOU

KNOW, RELATIVELY NEW. AND I WON'T GO TO THE HISTORY OF WHAT I REMEMBER WITH NAV TEAM AND HOPE. AND HERE WE ARE WITH UKTI AND SOME ITERATIONS OF THAT. AND THEN ALSO WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE CONTRACTS

COMING BACK AND THEN THE SHELTER ACCELERATION AND WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, SO THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY HERE GOING BACK TO WHAT WE CAN CONTROL OF HAVING THE SYSTEM WORK FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT THE MOST. AND

I THINK THAT DOES INVOLVE ALL OF US, INCLUDING, DARE I SAY, THE SAME WITH PUBLIC SAFETY. AND I KNOW THAT THOSE COMPLICATED ISSUES THAT YOU SPEAK TO COUNCILMEMBER LIN A LOT OF TIMES THAT'S NOT JUST

GOING TO BE OUR OUTREACH OR SOCIAL SERVICES, BUT THERE IS AN INTERSECTIONALITY WITH THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIORS THAT ARE HAPPENING. AND, AND I'LL UNDERSCORE AGAIN THAT A LOT OF THAT ACTIVITY, MAY OR MAY

NOT EVEN INVOLVE OUR BEING BEING PERPETRATED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE UNSHELTERED, THAT IT IS A RIPE OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF POVERTY AND SO I THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF

DISCUSSION. WE'RE REACTING TO WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL, AS YOU SAY. BUT WE WE CAN BE MORE STRATEGIC INTERNALLY WITH THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE. AND SURE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A

WISH LIST OF EXPANDED RESOURCES, CERTAINLY THERE'S PROBABLY BOUNTIFUL IDEAS. BUT I THINK OFFERING SOME STABILITY, DOING SOME BETTER THINKING AROUND HOW WE ARE ADDRESSING THAT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY ALONG

WITH OUR UNSHELTERED FOLKS AND HAVING THE APPROPRIATE EMERGENCY SHELTER WORK WITH, WITH THE I KNOW THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS TO SAY THIS, BUT WITH THE RIGHT SERVICES, HAVING THEM SERVICE RICH IS GOING TO

BE REALLY IMPORTANT. THE ONE THING WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT EXTENSIVELY, BECAUSE AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT OUR SIGNIFICANT BUDGET CHANGES. BUT AS YOU'RE AWARE, WE'VE NOT THROUGH KCRA, DONE A NOFA FOR THEIR OWN

INVESTMENTS. AND SO THOSE DOLLARS THAT HAVE BEEN WITH KCRA, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME TWEAKS WITH DIFFERENT PROVIDERS, BUT ESSENTIALLY THAT SYSTEM HASN'T CHANGED VERY MUCH. AND SO I THINK WE HAVE ANOTHER

OPPORTUNITY THERE TO, TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS. BUT YOU'VE YOU'VE NOTED QUITE A BIT. IF I DIDN'T RESPOND, PLEASE DO FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT A QUESTION THROUGH SHAREPOINT -- THANK. THANK YOU. AND I'LL JUST

HAVE ONE MORE. BUT WHICH IS JUST I'VE ASKED. CARE DEPARTMENT, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF WORK ON TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE AS THEY ARE EXITING JAIL OR EXITING HARBORVIEW, WHO OFTEN JUST RETURN TO, TO

OUR STREETS. AND I KNOW CHIEF BARDEN IS WORKING ON THAT. I KNOW THE COUNTY IS WORKING ON SORT OF THE BREAKING THE CYCLE, AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS NOTHING NEW. LONG TIME WORK, BUT JUST WONDERING IF YOU

HAVE ANY THOUGHTS THERE ON INVESTMENTS IN THAT IN THAT WORK -- YEAH, I THINK I'LL JUMP IN HERE JUST ON THE HARBORVIEW RESPITE PROGRAM. THERE'S OBVIOUSLY AN ARTICLE, I THINK A COUPLE OF WEEKS BACK

TALKING ABOUT THE NEED FOR SHELTER FOR FOLKS EXITING THAT PROGRAM. AND I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO TALK WITH THAT PROGRAM A COUPLE TIMES THIS YEAR. THEY ATTENDED A SHELTER SUMMIT THAT WE HELD

EARLIER THIS YEAR AS WELL. AND I THINK JUST TO KIND OF REITERATE WHAT DIRECTOR KIM SHARED, I THINK THERE WILL BE SOME GOOD OPPORTUNITY COMING UP. I THINK WE HEARD EARLIER THIS YEAR WITH SHELTER

PROVIDERS, A DESIRE TO KIND OF REINVIGORATE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT COORDINATION THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LOST OVER THE YEARS. AND I THINK THAT PAIRED WITH THE RETURN OF CONTRACTS AND THE JOINT WORK WITH THE

COUNTY ON THE THE NOFO AS WELL COULD PROVIDE SOME WAYS TO REALLY KIND OF OPEN UP WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY AND SEE HOW WE CAN EXPAND SOME IMPACT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE HOPE I'LL BE BRINGING INTO THE NEXT

COUPLE OF MONTHS AND NEXT YEAR AS WELL. -- YEAH. AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH CARE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. AND SO THAT REENTRY IS GOING TO BE REALLY IMPORTANT. AND I BELIEVE IT WAS CONGRESSMAN

SMITH WHO PROVIDED SOME DOLLARS TO CARE TO HAVE THAT WELD CONTRACT. AND REALLY, THAT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HOW THAT'S WORKING. AND IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO DO TO SUPPORT THE EFFORT,

AND HOW DO WE JUST COLLABORATE? -- OKAY. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER LIN COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, YOU'RE UP NEXT. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR, AND THANK YOU ALWAYS. DIRECTOR KIM, I

APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR LEADERSHIP AND GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK HERE. DIRECTOR PANUCCI. SO I WANT TO JUST START WITH GOING TO KCRA AND THE OPERATIONAL DOLLARS. I JUST WANT TO CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING HERE

BECAUSE I THOUGHT I HEARD TWO DIFFERENT THINGS DURING THE PRESENTATION. BUT WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE TRUE IS THAT AS WE MIGRATE SOME OF THE CONTRACTS BACK HERE TO THE CITY AND HSD AND SOME OF THE

CONTRACTS REMAIN AT KCRA, WE ARE IN OUR INVESTMENT IN KCRA, INCLUDING THE OPERATIONAL DOLLARS IN THE RESOURCES THAT ARE STILL FLOWING THROUGH KCRA, BUT THOSE RESOURCES ARE SORT OF EMBEDDED WITHIN THE

OVERALL CONTRACT AMOUNT. IS THAT THE CORRECT WAY OF STATING THAT. -- I'M NOT A TECHNOCRAT? SO LET ME GIVE IT A TRY TO SEE IF IT THIS THIS MAKES SENSE IN A DIFFERENT WAY. SO IN THE FUTURE STATE OF

KCRA, WE WILL EXPECT THEY ARE. BECAUSE WE NEED THEM TO BE SUCCESSFUL WITH THE COC CONTRACTS THAT ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTION. MOST COCS IT'S TIED TO THE COC FUND, AND SO WE WOULD EXPECT THAT TO BE WHOLE

WHERE THERE ARE COC DOLLARS, THEY ALLOW FOR ADMINISTRATIVE AND INDIRECT COSTS TO BE ALLOCATED TO THE OPERATIONS OF DOING ALL THE THINGS TO SUPPORT THOSE COC CONTRACTS. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WHEN WE

THINK ABOUT OTHER IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS THAT WE FIND REALLY HELPFUL FOR REGIONAL EFFORTS AROUND SEVERE WEATHER, AS WELL AS WITH OMBUDS, WE KNOW THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT THAT THAT IS GOING TO NEED TO BE

NEGOTIATED IN TERMS OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT TURNING POINT STRATEGIC ADVISORS, THEIR ASSIGNMENT OF BUILDING OUT A 2027 BUDGET IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KCRA. WHAT IS THAT BUDGET LOOK LIKE? AND THEN WHAT IS THE

SHARE BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY IN ORDER TO OPERATIONALIZE THOSE, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BENEFIT THE REGION, THE BUDGET EXISTS WITHIN OUR PROPOSED BUDGET. THERE'S NOT A LINE ITEM THAT CALLS IT OUT

YET, BECAUSE WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR THAT INFORMATION. AND SO THAT WILL BE WHAT'S COMING OUT OF OUR HOMELESSNESS BSL OF 187 MILLION IS THAT 184? OH, EXCUSE ME, I JUST -- [LAUGHTER] -- BUMPED IT UP.

SO. 184 MILLION. SO HOPEFULLY THAT PROVIDES CLARITY. BUT WE EXPECT TO HEAR AND LEARN MORE DETAILS WITHIN THE NEXT COMING WEEKS BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THEY ALSO NEED TO PLAN. THEY HAVE STAFF AND THEY'RE

GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS TOO. -- JUST WANTED TO SHARE AS WELL. A LOT IS MENTIONED ABOUT THE COC FUNDS, OBVIOUSLY, WHICH IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO KCRA. THERE ALSO IS SOME

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FUNDS AND GRANTS THAT KCRA MANAGES, AND SOME ADMIN NEEDS THAT CAN BE SUPPORTED THROUGH THAT FUND SOURCE AS WELL. -- OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT. I THINK THAT'S THAT WAS THAT WAS

PRETTY GOOD FOR NOT A TECHNOCRAT. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. DIRECTOR KIM AND I, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AS A CASE HERE, H A GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO CONTINUE TO SEE THE

NECESSARY INVESTMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE ONGOING FUNCTIONS THAT I KNOW WE ALL BELIEVE IN ARE WELL SUPPORTED AND WELL EXECUTED. SO I APPRECIATE YOU GIVING ME A LITTLE BIT OF CLARITY ON WHERE TO LOOK

FOR THOSE RESOURCES AND WHERE UPCOMING INFORMATION IS GOING TO BE. AND I WILL JUST TAKE A SECOND TO COMMEND THE DEPARTMENT AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE IN KCRW FOR THE WORK WITH TURNING POINT, I'VE FOUND

THAT JUST TREMENDOUSLY USEFUL AND WELL, WELL DONE. AND JUST POSITIVE INFORMATION COMING FROM THAT PARTNERSHIP. SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING ON THAT CONTRACT. I THINK WE'VE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT BEST

PRACTICES AND IMPROVEMENTS, AND I WILL SAY, JUST GAINED A LOT OF CLARITY THROUGH THAT. I WANT TO STAY WITH COC JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER AND ASK, YOU KNOW, IN THIS BUDGET, OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE A LOT OF

THINGS TO BE DETERMINED AS WE WAIT FOR DECISIONS COMING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. CAN YOU SPEAK TO HOW HSD IS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT POTENTIAL RISK IN TERMS OF THIS BUDGET AND ANY ANY WORK THAT YOU'RE

DOING ON THE MAYBE I'D USE THE WORDS PREVENTION, BACKFILL OR SET ASIDE. -- THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. THE. THERE CONTINUES TO BE RISK WITH OUR FEDERAL FUNDING. THAT IS OF

CONCERN, I THINK, TO EVERYBODY IN THIS IN THIS ROOM, IN THE BUDGET, WHAT YOU WILL SEE IS SOME OF THE FUNDING THAT WAS HELD IN HSD VIA PROVISO IN THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET THAT. FORTUNATELY, WE HAVE NOT

HAD TO ACCESS THIS YEAR IS CUT FROM THE 2026 BUDGET AND ADDED BACK INTO FINANCE GENERAL, WHERE THERE IS A FEDERAL RESERVE. SO WE ARE CONTINUING TO MAINTAIN THAT FUNDING THAT WAS SET ASIDE LAST YEAR TO

PROVIDE AT LEAST SOME ONE TIME STRATEGY. IF THAT FUNDING TURNS OUT NOT TO COME TO FRUITION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO PLAN IN A SIMILAR WAY THAT THIS COUNCIL PLANNED LAST YEAR

FOR FEDERAL RISK OF LOSS OF FEDERAL FUNDING. -- THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL. AND THAT'S GOING TO SHOW UP IN THE FINANCE GENERAL RESERVE BUCKET. -- CORRECT. -- FANTASTIC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT,

DIRECTOR. OKAY, THEN I WANT TO TURN TO THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION PREVIOUSLY ABOUT UKTI AND, YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE I KNOW THERE WAS A SLY AND I DON'T EXPECT ANYBODY TO HAVE THE SLY IN FRONT OF THEM.

SO I'M JUST GOING TO, YOU KNOW, SHARE FROM WHAT I WAS REVIEWING, THE SLIDE THAT YOU ALL PROVIDED TO COUNCIL THIS YEAR ON AUGUST 14th, AS I LOOK AT THAT AND I LOOK AT THE DATA PROVIDED IN TERMS OF

REASONS FOR DECLINED, OFFERS TO SHELTER, WHAT STANDS OUT TO ME, YOU KNOW, THE LARGEST RESPONSE FOR DECLINES ARE THAT PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR PERMANENT HOUSING. THE SECOND LARGEST IS THE INDIVIDUAL

REPORTS THAT THEY ARE HOPING TO ACCESS PRIVATE SPACE AND NOT LIVE IN COMMUNAL SPACE. SO I KNOW THERE WAS DISCUSSION JUST IN TERMS OF THE SHELTER, THE SHELTER, ACCELERATOR AND OTHER TRADE OFFS. BUT I

GUESS I'LL SAY ONE THING I SEE WHEN I LOOK AT THIS DATA REPORTED BACK TO US IS THAT CERTAINLY ONE OF OUR CHALLENGES IN GETTING PEOPLE HOUSED IS ABOUT THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE IN CERTAIN

TYPES OF SHELTER, AND OUR LONG TERM PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE RESOURCE AVAILABLE TO MATCH THE NEEDS THAT PEOPLE HAVE. SO THAT'S A STATEMENT, NOT A QUESTION. BUT I WONDER

IF YOU CAN JUST SPEAK TO, AGAIN, THE THE WORK AND THE PROPOSED SHELTER ACCELERATOR. WHAT I BELIEVE I SEE IS ALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE GAPS THAT PEOPLE ARE REPORTING TO US. AND INVESTMENTS THAT WE NEED TO

MAKE SO THAT INSTEAD OF SEEING THESE DECLINES, WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE MATCHES WITH WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE, WHAT WE CAN THEN OFFER, AND THEN SEE MORE PROGRESS FOR OUR RESIDENTS. -- YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND

THANKS FOR TAKING THAT. LOOK AT THE THE SLI RESPONSE AS WELL. I THINK REALLY IMPORTANT JUST TO UNDERSTAND WHY FOLKS ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT THE OFFERS THAT ARE PROVIDED TO THEM AT TIMES. AND CERTAINLY

THAT'S KIND OF BEEN A NORTH STAR FOR THE WORK NON-CONGREGATE PRIVATE SPACE IS KEY. AND THAT IS GOING TO BE INCLUDED THAT WE ARE DRIVING TOWARDS THAT. I THINK IN ALL OF OUR SHELTER PLANS LINED UP FOR

NEXT YEAR AS WELL. UNDERSTAND THAT FOLKS DO WANT THAT PRIVATE SPACE, AND THAT'S REALLY CRITICAL TO BRINGING THEM INDOORS. SO THAT'S A GUIDING PRINCIPLE. I THINK UNDERSCORING ALL THE WORK. AND THEN

OBVIOUSLY THE POINT OF THE SHELTER PLAN TOO, IS NOT JUST TO STAND UP THESE BEDS ALONE, BUT REALLY WORK TO GETTING PEOPLE INTO PERMANENT HOUSING SO WE CAN OPEN UP THOSE BEDS AND SERVE MORE FOLKS THAT

ARE UNSHELTERED IN THE COMMUNITY OBVIOUSLY, THROUGHPUT IS A MAJOR CONCERN GOING BACK YEARS. WE DO WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT CAN BE DONE, MAYBE WITH COORDINATED ENTRY, SOME QUICK WINS TO PILOT AND

UNDERSTAND HOW TO HAVE SOME INTENTIONAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SHELTERS. WE'RE STANDING UP AND THOSE UNITS. AND THEN AGAIN, TO POINT TO THE WORK AS WELL WITH KC REACH CONTRACTS COMING BACK NEXT YEAR

IN THE FUTURE OF REGIONALISM AS WELL. I THINK WORKING WITH OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS, COUNSEL, SERVICE PROVIDERS AS WELL TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SOME OF THOSE GAPS ARE AND HOW TO REALLY BUILD A BETTER BRIDGE

INTO PERMANENT HOUSING. -- THANK YOU FOR THAT. I'LL JUST SAY, I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE WHAT I HOPE IS THAT IN THE COMING YEARS, WE'LL SEE THESE NUMBERS GO DOWN IN TERMS OF NOT JUST THE

NUMBER OF DECLINES, BUT SPECIFICALLY THE DECLINES, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT OFFERING AND WE DON'T HAVE AVAILABLE THE KIND OF SPACE THAT PEOPLE NEED ACCESS TO. AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I HEARD YOU

CORRECTLY AS THE SHELTER ACCELERATOR THAT THE AND THE UNITS THAT THE MAYOR IS WORKING ON ARE ALL FORGOT THE NUMBER 986. I'M CLOSE. OF THOSE NON-CONGREGATE INTENDED TO BE NON-CONGREGATE OPTIONS. --

YEAH, WE ARE PUSHING TOWARDS NON-CONGREGATE. EXCUSE ME, THERE IS. IT'S CALLED ESSENTIAL SHELTER IN THE PLAN THAT WE RELEASED, BUT EXPECTATION THAT WE CAN LOOK TOWARDS A NON-CONGREGATE OPTION THERE AS

WELL. -- OKAY, THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL. THANK YOU FOR THAT. OKAY. AND THEN I WANT TO JUST GO TO A MORE KIND OF GLOBAL QUESTION ABOUT HSD BUDGET. JUST AS I'M LOOKING ACROSS DEPARTMENTS AND WE HAVE FOLKS

COMING IN FRONT OF US, ONE THING I'M LOOKING TO UNDERSTAND IS JUST OVERALL GROWTH AND BUDGET OR REDUCTION IN BUDGET. AND, AND THIS MAY BE ONE THAT WE HAVE A FOLLOW UP ON. I KNOW THAT ON THE SLIDE

HERE. WHAT IS THIS SLIDE FOUR? IT SHOWS, AS YOU KNOW, GROWTH IN TERMS OF COMPARED TO THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET. BUT I ALSO KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THAT THIS REFLECTS A DIFFERENCE IN CONTRACTS AND THE KCRA

CONTRACTS. SO ARE YOU ABLE TO HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN THE DEPARTMENT BUDGET YEAR TO YEAR? IF WE TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT THERE ARE CONTRACTS THAT HAVE MOVED BACK TO THE DEPARTMENT OR

CONTRACTS THAT HAVE LEFT THE DEPARTMENT -- SO IT IS THIS IS, I THINK, WHAT I WAS TRYING TO GET AT WITH LIKE TRYING TO EXPLAIN THE, THE, THE MOVING TARGET OF THE, THE DEFICIT NUMBER AND THAT SORT OF

THING, BECAUSE THERE ARE LOTS OF INS AND OUTS. THERE IS THE SO IN TERMS OF CONTRACTS THAT ARE LEAVING, THERE'S ABOUT $6 MILLION THAT IS LEAVING HSD BUDGET BEING TRANSFERRED TO THE CARE DEPARTMENT. AT

THE SAME TIME, YOU SEE, LIKE THE $6.5 MILLION INCREASE FOR HOMELESS PREVENTION SERVICES IN THE HOMELESS SERVICE AREA. IN GENERAL, YOU SEE SOME REDUCTIONS FROM ANNUAL KIND OF UNDERSPEND IN KCRA'S

CONTRACT, AND THEN AN INCREASE OF $18 MILLION TO TO SUPPORT THE SHELTER ACCELERATOR. SO THAT KIND OF NETS OUT TO THE ABOUT 5.8% INCREASE IN THE 2027 BUDGET, BUT IT IS PRIMARILY A REFLECTION OF

REALLOCATING FUNDS WITHIN THEIR BUDGET AND THEN ADDRESSING SORT OF INFLATIONARY INCREASES. AND DIRECTOR KIM CAN PROBABLY ADD A LITTLE BIT MORE COLOR TO THAT. -- JUST A KEY NOTE IS THE CONTRACTS WITH

KCRA THIS YEAR, YOU WON'T SEE A BUDGET NUMBER CHANGE BECAUSE THAT COMES IT COMES TO HSD, AND THEN WE ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH KCRA AYE. AND SO THAT YOU WON'T THAT WON'T BE A SIGNIFICANT SHIFT.

WHAT IT DOES IS IT INCREASES POCKETS THAT ARE UNFUNDED, IF YOU WILL, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO USE EXISTING FUNDS IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THAT WORK, TO MONITOR CONTRACTS, TO DO THE, YOU KNOW, FINANCIAL

TRANSACTIONS, ET CETERA.. -- THANK YOU. AND THEN I APPRECIATE THAT. AND THEN I THINK MY FINAL QUESTION HERE, CHAIR, IS ON SLIDE SIX. I KNOW WE HAVE THE THE FUND SWAP IN TERMS OF JUMP START HERE, CAN

YOU JUST REMIND ME WHETHER THAT'S ONE TIME OR PLAN TO BE ONGOING. -- THAT IS PLANNED TO BE ONGOING? HOWEVER, WITH THE GOAL OF A LONGER TERM GOAL OF EVENTUALLY RETURNING MORE OF JUMP START FUNDS TO THE

ORIGINAL SPENDING SPENDING CATEGORIES. SO WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN THE FINANCIAL PLAN FOR THE JUMPSTART FUND IN THE IN THE BUDGET IS IN 29 AND 30, YOU START TO SEE THAT ONGOING FUND SWAP REDUCE A BIT, NOT

SIGNIFICANTLY, BUT WE'RE STARTING TO SORT OF SCALE THAT BACK SO LONG TERM, THAT WOULD BE THE INTENT IF RESOURCES CAN SUPPORT THAT IN THE GENERAL FUND. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. I REALLY

APPRECIATE THAT. AND I KNOW WE HAVE MANY MORE BUDGET PRESENTATIONS TO GO, BUT I WILL JUST SAY, I REALLY I KNOW THERE WAS HARD DECISIONS HERE IN TERMS OF JUMP START AND THE GENERAL FUND. AND WHAT I

WILL SAY IS THAT I APPRECIATE THE FOCUS ON HOMELESSNESS AND THE NEED TO HAVE A CONTINUUM HERE. SHELTER BEING A PART OF THAT PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, BEING A PART OF THAT. AND I KNOW WE'LL HAVE O

TOMORROW TO TALK ABOUT THOSE COMPONENTS, OTHER COMPONENTS OF OUR INVESTMENTS THERE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS AND LOOK FORWARD TO ENGAGING. THANK YOU CHAIR. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER

ANYTHING ELSE FROM THE COMMITTEE TABLE RIGHT NOW? I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA AND KETTLE, BOTH SPEAKING FOR THE SECOND TIME. I'M GOING TO ASK FOLKS TO PLEASE BE BRIEF AT THIS TIME,

AND I MAY ASK IN THE FUTURE THAT FOLKS JUST SPEAK ONCE. BUT FOR TODAY, IF YOU CAN JUST PLEASE BE BRIEF. I'LL BE QUICK. OVER TO YOU. COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR, I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT

THE GRANTS BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME FUN SWAPS RELATED TO GRANTS, LIKE IN THE AGING AND DISABILITY SPACE. SO WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DON'T GET THOSE GRANTS? AND ARE THEY FEDERAL STATE GRANTS OR COUNTY? I

DON'T. -- SO FOR THAT PARTICULAR FUND SWAP THAT'S RELATED TO COMMUNITY LIVING CONNECTIONS, THAT PROGRAM IS FUNDED BY A COMBINATION OF FEDERAL AND STATE GRANTS THAT WE RECEIVE THROUGH WASHINGTON STATE

DSHS AS OUR DESIGNATION AS THE AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, WE TYPICALLY RECEIVE THOSE GRANTS EVERY YEAR BECAUSE IT'S REQUIRED THAT AS THE AAA, THE AREA

AGENCY ON AGING, WE'RE THE RECIPIENT OF THOSE DOLLARS. SO WHILE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT IF THERE WERE CUTS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL OR CUTS AT THE STATE LEVEL, THAT THAT COULD BE IMPACTED, WE HAVE SEEN

RELATIVELY STABLE FUNDING FROM THOSE PARTICULAR GRANTS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. SO I DON'T THINK THERE'S A PARTICULAR RISK AT THIS AT THIS POINT IN TIME. BUT THANK YOU. -- AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG,

BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE DID RECEIVE THOSE. AND NOW THESE ARE BEING MADE ONGOING BECAUSE THERE'S DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, FISCAL YEARS. AND WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SWAP THIS OUT. SO FOR NOW, THIS IS

GOOD. -- FOR THE 27, 28 YEARS FOR THE BIENNIUM, YOU MEAN. -- YES. -- YES. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THEN CAN YOU JUST THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT THE U. C T AND, AND I GET ASKED THIS

FOR CONSTITUENTS FROM CONSTITUENTS. SO I'M GOING TO ASK YOU ALL, WHAT IS THE MAYOR'S STANCE ON CLEARING ENCAMPMENTS -- I DON'T THINK ANY OF US WANT TO SPEAK FOR THE MAYOR ON HER STANCE ON CLEARING

ENCAMPMENTS. THE MAYOR'S BUDGET CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM AT THE CURRENT LEVELS OF SERVICE. -- THERE IS SOME REDUCTION, THOUGH, SO THAT'S WHY I ASKED. BUT MORE

IMPORTANTLY, I GET ASKED THIS QUESTION. AND SO I NEED TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER. SO, ALI, PERHAPS YOU CAN GET THAT ANSWERED. WE WILL. -- WE WILL GET BACK TO YOU. BUT I WANT TO JUST REITERATE THAT THE

REDUCTIONS TO THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM IN THIS BUDGET ARE APPLYING THE STRATEGY OF RIGHTSIZING BUDGETS, WHICH IS ADJUSTING BUDGETS BASED ON CURRENT LEVELS OF SERVICE OR ELIMINATING ANNUAL UNDERSPEND AND

ELIMINATING VACANT POSITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN VACANT FOR SOME TIME. EVEN IN HSD. ONE OF THE POSITIONS, I BELIEVE HAS BEEN VACANT SINCE MARCH, AND ANOTHER HAS BEEN VACANT FOR MANY MONTHS WITH AN OUT OF

CLASS ASSIGNMENT THAT HAS NOW BEEN MADE PERMANENT. SO IT IS NOT. IT WAS A STRATEGY IN ORDER TO PRESERVE AS MUCH OF THE CURRENT LEVELS OF SERVICE AS WE COULD ACROSS THE BUDGET. -- UNDERSTOOD. THANK

YOU. ALI. I THINK CONSTITUENTS STILL WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE STANCE IS AND WHAT'S HAPPENING. -- AND IF I COULD JUST ADD A LITTLE BIT OF FLAVOR ON, YOU KNOW, BEHIND THE SCENES, WE WE HAVE NOT BEEN ASKED

TO CHANGE OUR APPROACH TO THE WORK, EXCEPT FOR WHICH I LOVE. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IMPROVEMENTS CAN WE MAKE? AND SO THE TEAM ACROSS DEPARTMENTS ARE REALLY EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO LEAN IN AND OFFER SOME

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS, BUT OTHERWISE, I JUST WANTED TO UNDERSCORE WHAT DR. PANUCCI SAID. -- I APPRECIATE THE THE EXTRA INFORMATION. DIRECTOR KIM. THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL BECAUSE I KNOW

CONSTITUENTS ARE TRACKING THIS AND ALSO I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THE UC T TEAM, SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS, HAVE BEEN REALLY GREAT PARTNERS TO WORK WITH. I KNOW THEY'RE CARING

INDIVIDUALS AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE HARD THEY HAVE HARD JOBS AND, AND THEY. AND THEY DO SO WITH GRACE. SO I WANTED TO STATE THAT MY LAST QUESTION IS, I DON'T NOT SURE THAT I POSE THIS QUESTION

PROPERLY EARLIER. MAYBE I DIDN'T POSE IT AS A QUESTION, BUT ON THE OUTCOMES OF THE CONTRACT SIDE, I KNOW THAT YOU ALL KNOW I'VE ASKED FOR AN AUDIT OF THE HSD CONTRACTS BECAUSE THE COUNTY HAS HAD

ISSUES WITH THEIR HSD CONTRACTS. IT'S ALL OVER THE PAPER. OF COURSE, I'M NOT SAYING ANYTHING ANYBODY DOESN'T ALREADY KNOW, BUT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU ALL ARE DOING. AND I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT FROM

THE COUNTY'S. THERE ARE SOME ISSUES WITH SOME OF THE HSD CONTRACTS THAT WE ALREADY KNOW ABOUT. SO WHAT ARE YOU PUTTING IN PLACE WITH THIS NOW BUDGET? AND AND THESE THE CONTINUATION OF THESE CONTRACTS

IN PLACE TO MANAGE FOR THE ISSUES THAT WE'VE SEEN WITH SIMILAR PARTNERS AT THE COUNTY AND CITY LEVEL. -- THANK YOU FOR THAT. I AM AWARE OF THE REQUEST TO AUDIT THE DEPARTMENT. AND BY THE WAY, WE GET

AUDITED REGULARLY FROM THE STATE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. WE ALSO AUDIT AGENCIES AND PROVIDERS AS JUST, OF COURSE, OF BUSINESS OF WHAT WE DO. AND I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT EVEN THERE WAS ONE THAT WAS JUST

CONCLUDED WITH THE STATE, AND IT CAME BACK WITH NO FINDINGS. AND IN FACT, WE'VE MADE IMPROVEMENTS. AND SO REALLY HAPPY TO SHARE THAT THE COUNTY'S WORK. AND THE REPORT AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT THEY'VE

BEEN MAKING IS REALLY IMPORTANT. AND WE'VE BEEN, OF COURSE, READING AND MONITORING ALL OF WHAT THEY'VE EXPERIENCED TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE ALSO LEARNING AND MAKING SURE THAT WE COULD DISTINCT WHAT IS

DIFFERENT FROM US -- COMPARED TO THEM, AND REALLY LEANING INTO AND DOUBLE DOWN ON OUR BEST PRACTICES, AS WELL AS IDENTIFYING AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY. THEIRS WAS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IN THAT THE ONES IN

QUESTION. SO THEY DID A SAMPLE AND THEY WERE LOOKING AT A PARTICULAR FUND SOURCE. THERE'S THE REPORT IS LONG, BUT ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS THAT I AM PAYING ATTENTION TO IS HOW THEY DID, HOW THEY

PROCESSED INVOICES. AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. AND SO THEY DIDN'T. ONE OF THE AREAS THAT THEY TRACKED WAS THAT THEY WOULD PROCESS THE INVOICE AND PAY, BUT THEN THEY WOULD VERIFY THE, THE OUTCOMES AND

PROCESS THE VERIFICATION AFTERWARDS, WHICH THEN WOULD, YOU'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND MAKE SOME CORRECTIONS. AND SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF OVERSIMPLIFYING. ONE OF THE DIFFERENCES OURS, WHICH YOU MIGHT

SOMETIMES GET COMPLAINTS ABOUT OUR INVOICING PROCESS IS THAT WE, IT IS ALSO REIMBURSEMENT, BUT WE VERIFY BEFORE WE ISSUE AND APPROVE A PAYMENT. SO SOMETIMES THERE'S SOME GOING BACK AND FORTH BECAUSE

IT'S NECESSARY FOR US TO ENSURE THAT WHAT WAS INVOICED IS WHAT WAS DONE. AND SO WE HAVE A LOT OF THE DESK MONITORING. THAT'S ONE. THE OTHER IS, AS I MENTIONED, WE ARE AUDITED FREQUENTLY AND WE CONDUCT

AUDITS WITH OUR AGENCIES. THAT'S A PRACTICE WE HAVE RISK ASSESSMENTS, WHICH THE DHS AUDIT TALKED ABOUT AS BEING REALLY IMPORTANT IN TRAININGS OR LACK THEREOF FOR THEIR STAFF MEMBERS, ESPECIALLY WITH A

LOT OF NEW EMPLOYEES. WE HAVE A LOT OF THOSE POLICY AND PROCEDURES IN PLACE. WE HAVE THOSE TRAININGS IN PLACE, AND WE HAVE PROCESSES BY WHICH WE IDENTIFY WHICH AGENCIES ARE DOING GOOD WORK, BUT THEY

MIGHT BE HIGHER RISK IN THAT THEY'RE NEW TO THE AGENCY. THERE WAS A DIRECT ADD TO THE DEPARTMENT, AND THEY'VE NOT GONE THROUGH AN RFP PROCESS. AND MAYBE THIS IS THEIR FIRST GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.

THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH WE DETERMINE HOW MUCH MORE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED FOR AN ORGANIZATION. AND SO THAT HELPS US TO DETERMINE, DO WE NEED TO GO DEEPER AND SEND OUT OUR AUDIT TEAM TO

DO A FISCAL REVIEW? DO WE NEED TO HAVE A CONTINGENCY PLAN, FOR EXAMPLE, AND SAY, YOU ACTUALLY NEED A FISCAL INTERMEDIARY? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW YOU DON'T HAVE ALL THE EXPERIENCE THAT WE NEED YOU TO HAVE

AND THINGS IN PLACE. SO, YOU KNOW, WE, WE SOMETIMES MAKE THOSE TOUGH DECISIONS WHERE WE NEED TO MAKE DIFFERENT CHOICES FOR DIFFERENT PROVIDERS, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THE ORGANIZATIONS ARE ALSO VERY

SERIOUS ABOUT BEING STEWARDS OF PUBLIC DOLLARS. AND THEY WELCOME THAT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND THE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT AND EVEN, HONESTLY, THE CORRECTIONS. MOST ORGANIZATIONS, AS PAINFUL AS SOMETIMES

THAT IS APPRECIATES THAT WE'RE LOOKING OUT FOR US CONDUCTING THE APPROPRIATE BUSINESS. SO WE CAN THEN FOCUS ON THE CLIENTS RECEIVING THOSE SERVICES. I DO WELCOME AN AUDIT. I THINK THAT A LOT OF THE

ORGANIZATIONS UNDERSTAND THAT TOO, BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE THERE MIGHT BE SOME MISSING COMPONENTS. AND WE'RE ALWAYS VERY MUCH WILLING TO MAKE ANY IMPROVEMENTS THERE. SO THERE'S THE FISCAL

MONITORING AND THEN THERE'S MONITORING TO ENSURE THE OUTCOMES ARE BEING ACHIEVED. AND THERE'S A LOT OF EXPLANATION I CAN OFFER THERE TOO. BUT ALL THE CONTRACTS HAVE PERFORMANCE MEASURES. WE MEASURE

THREE DIFFERENT. WE ASK FOR THREE DIFFERENT DATA POINTS, AND THEN WE ASK FOR VERIFICATION ON THAT. AND JUST TO OVERSIMPLIFY, IT'S THE QUANTITY. HOW MANY OF THE THINGS DID YOU DO? IT'S THE QUALITY IN

TERMS OF DOING IT WELL. AND THEN IT IS THE IMPACT. IT'S THE OUTCOME. DID YOU ACHIEVE WHAT IT WAS THAT YOU SET OUT TO DO? AND NOT ALL OF THE CONTRACTS ARE THE SAME. YOU CAN IMAGINE IT'S DIFFERENT FOR

FOOD WHEN YOU HAVE A LOW BARRIER AND YOU WANT PEOPLE TO COME IN AND GET THEIR GROCERIES AND BE ABLE TO LEAVE, ESPECIALLY WITH CONCERNS OF JUST, YOU KNOW, PRIVACY AND NOT SHARING TOO MUCH. WE WANT

PEOPLE TO BE FED. WE'RE NOT GOING TO ASK A LOT OF REALLY PERSONAL, IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT GETS TO, I THINK WE WANT PEOPLE TO ACCESS FOOD. SO THOSE METRICS MIGHT LOOK DIFFERENT THAN, FOR

EXAMPLE, WHAT'S IN OUR VIOLENCE PREVENTION CONTRACTS? DID THAT AGENCY WHEN THEY GOT A CALL FROM SPD? DID THEY GO OUT AND, YOU KNOW, WORK TOWARDS MAKING SURE THAT THERE WAS NO RETALIATORY ACTION? AND

THAT'S HARD TO PROVE. BUT IF THEY ARE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP AND SHOWING, DEMONSTRATING THE HOURS AND BEING ON LOCATION, AND SPD VERIFIES THAT THEY RESPONDED, THEN THAT'S AN INDICATOR THAT THEY ARE ON

THE GROUND DOING WHAT THEY SET OUT TO DO. SO THOSE ARE JUST A COUPLE EXAMPLES. BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ENDING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE OR YOU TALK ABOUT PREVENTION AND, YOU KNOW, GETTING RENTAL

ASSISTANCE OUT THE DOOR, AND WHAT IMPACT THAT THAT MAKES, THE METRICS ARE THERE. THEY ARE JUST SPECIFIC TO THE GOAL OF THAT INVESTMENT AREA. -- THANK YOU. DIRECTOR. AND I THINK MAYBE WE'RE OPERATING

FROM DIFFERENT INFORMATION BECAUSE THE COUNTY'S ISSUE WASN'T ABOUT WHETHER THE SERVICES WERE GOING OUT. IT REALLY WAS ON THE FISCAL END. AND SOME DOUBLE PAYMENTS, LACK OF RECEIPTS AND THINGS OF THAT

NATURE. AND IN TERMS OF FOOD, FOR INSTANCE, TAKING IT AS AN EXAMPLE, YOU STILL HAVE TO PRODUCE RECEIPTS FOR BUYING OF THE FOOD, EVEN IF YOU'RE RELAXING. SOME OF THE THE SO THAT PEOPLE WILL COME, YOU

KNOW, SOME OF THE REQUIREMENTS. SO PEOPLE WILL GET THE FOOD. AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT SOME OF THOSE COUNTY CONTRACTS ACTUALLY HAD SOME SERIOUS ISSUES ASSOCIATED. AND WE HAVE SIMILAR PROVIDERS. AND

MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT, YOU KNOW, EVEN ONE OF OUR PROVIDERS HAD SOME ISSUES. SO WE CAN THAT'S WHAT I WAS GETTING TO. AND THEN HOW DO WE HOW DOES NOT WE, HOW DO YOU ALL, AS A DEPARTMENT, MAKE SURE

THAT THAT'S NOT HAPPENING? -- THANK YOU. SO THE REPORT FOR THE AUDIT AND THE CORRECTIONS HAD MANY DIFFERENT ISSUES. I JUST HIGHLIGHTED ONE THAT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE'RE TRACKING ON HOW THEY CONTRACT

AND HOW THEY DO THEIR REIMBURSEMENTS TO PREVENT. BUT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS REALLY IMPORTANT. AND THAT'S WHY OUR SYSTEMS THAT ARE IN PLACE ARE CRITICAL. SO IF WE DO KNOW AND IF WE HAVE LEARNED,

FOR INSTANCE, THAT THERE IS A DOUBLE BILLING SITUATION, THEN IT WARRANTS FURTHER INVESTIGATION. AND OFTENTIMES WE RELY I MENTIONED THAT WE DO AUDITS OURSELVES. WE CAN DO A COMPREHENSIVE FISCAL REVIEW,

BUT IN SOME CASES WE ACTUALLY CONTRACT WITH ORGANIZATIONS LIKE CLARK NEWBERG TO DO A FORENSIC EVALUATION OR FORENSIC AUDIT. THAT'S IMPORTANT TO US. WE'VE TRIGGERED THAT OPTION. WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO

THAT. I THINK WHAT'S IMPORTANT HERE IS TO KNOW THAT IT IS THROUGHOUT MY CAREER, EVEN WHEN I WORKED AT NONPROFIT OR HERE AT THE CITY FOR THE PAST 16 YEARS, IS THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE

SOME ISSUES THAT COMES UP. WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS HOW DO WE RESPOND? AND SO YOU HAVE MY COMMITMENT. THERE'S PLENTY OF DOCUMENTATION. MY GOODNESS, WE ARE THE QUEEN AND KINGS OF MEMOS AT HSD, AND WE HAVE

THOSE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS AND WE MONITOR FOR THAT. THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS TO ESCALATE THE SITUATION WHERE IT COULD BE SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS REPAYMENT, OR IT COULD BE SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION.

AND WE'VE EXERCISED THAT. SO, YOU KNOW, WE CARE VERY DEEPLY ABOUT THE SERVICES. BUT MY NUMBER ONE RESPONSIBILITY IS TO BE A STEWARD OF FISCAL DOLLARS. AND THAT ALSO COMES WITH JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE

HAVE THE RIGHT APPROACHES WHEN THESE ISSUES ARISE. AND SO IN THAT CASE, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT SPECIFICITY. BUT IF IN A SCENARIO LIKE THAT, WE WOULD ABSOLUTELY MOVE QUICKLY. AND IF IT'S WITH THE COUNTY, WE

WOULD MOVE TOGETHER. -- YEAH. AND YOU KNOW, TO THE POINT ABOUT THE FISCAL PIECE, YOU CAN SERVE MORE PEOPLE IF YOU'RE NOT HAVING ISSUES ON THE FISCAL PIECE, BECAUSE YOU'LL HAVE MORE MONEY TO WORK WITH.

AND THEN ALSO, I WILL JUST SAY THE COUNTY TOOK SWIFT CORRECTIVE ACTION BY DOING THAT, BUT POSITION. SO THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING YOU WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE IN PLACE. IF. WELL, FOR THE THINGS THAT HAVE

COME UP THAT HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE AND THEN ONGOING. THANK YOU, THANK. -- YOU, THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER, COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE, PLEASE. -- CHAIR STRAUSS. I WON'T ASK A QUESTION SO I DON'T GET IN TROUBLE

FOR TAKING TOO MUCH TIME. JUST THREE THINGS IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE POINTS RAISED BY MY MY COLLEAGUES, I'LL START WITH COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. YOU KNOW THE WHOLE POINT ABOUT UKTI IS THE REASONS WHY AND

SO FORTH IS THAT THERE'S DEFINITELY BEEN A IN TERMS OF NUMBER AND SIZE OF ENCAMPMENTS OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS, WE'RE DEFINITELY MOVING IN A DIRECTION THAT HAS IMPACTS ON PUBLIC SAFETY. IT HAS IMPACTS

ON ECONOMIC ACTIVATION THAT HITS D7 ALL OVER THE PLACE, AND THAT'S THE DRIVER. AND TRUST ME, EVERY DAY I GET IT FROM MY CONSTITUENTS. I SEE IT EVERY DAY BECAUSE I'M ALL OVER MY DISTRICT AND IT'S

HAVING AN IMPACT, AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY IT'S BEEN COMING UP AGAIN AND AGAIN. I WON'T ASK THE QUESTION THAT SHE ASKED, BUT I HAVE MY OWN IDEAS ON THAT. BUT BUT I APPRECIATE THE POINT THAT YOU MADE

DIRECTOR KIM SAYING THERE'S BEEN NO DIRECTIVE TO YOU. SO THANK YOU. I ALSO WANTED COUNCILMEMBER LIN WAS WHEN HE WAS SPEAKING TO EXPAND SHELTER CAPACITY. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS LIKE IN BUILDING

OUR PUBLIC SAFETY PLAN FOR THE COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, THIS TIME LAST YEAR, WE WERE BUILDING OUT THE 26 PLAN. AND DEFINITELY BY JANUARY 1st. AND IT'S HAPPENING NOW FOR 27 AND ONE AREA THAT I WAS GOING TO

BRING LOOK TO AND BRING UP, BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THE THEME IN TERMS OF PUBLIC SAFETY. ON ONE SIDE, PUBLIC HEALTH, HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES IS THOSE HICCUPS. AND ONE OF THOSE HICCUPS IS THAT

PEOPLE ARE NOT IN A POSITION TO MAKE A DECISION. AND, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY WE REALLY NEED A SOBERING CENTER. AND I BRING THIS UP JUST TO START FACILITATING THE IDEA FOR THE CITY. I KNOW

THERE'S A COUNTY PIECE, BUT IN TERMS OF HAVING US HAVE THAT ABILITY TO CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY SO SOMEBODY CAN MAKE A DECISION THAT'S THOUGHTFUL AND THEN REALLY ENHANCE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE SUCCESSFUL

MOVING FORWARD. AND THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. SO I JUST WANTED TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF COUNCILMEMBER LYNN'S POINTS ABOUT THE SHELTER CAPACITY SLIDE. THERE. AND AND THEN DURING COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER POINT ON

THE BACK AND FORTH, COORDINATED ENTRY IS SO IMPORTANT. THIS IS THE REASON, LIKE I PUSHED ON BASELINE BECAUSE OF THE, THE HELPFULNESS TOWARDS, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S HAPPENING IN BELLTOWN DOWNTOWN PIONEER

SQUARE EVEN MAYBE BEYOND A LITTLE BIT WITH CID, IT IS SO IMPORTANT AND LAST POINT, CHAIR, AND THIS KIND OF GOES TO THE DIRECTOR POINT. PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE PAYROLL EXPENSE TAX AS OF AS

IF IT WAS FROM YEARS AGO. TODAY'S PAYROLL EXPENSE TAX IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT. IT'S DIFFERENT. IT'S NOT THE SAME, AND IT'S PART OF THE LAW. AND IF WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE IT, LET'S GET FIVE VOTES.

OTHERWISE, LET'S TALK ABOUT IT AS IT IS, THE PAYROLL EXPENSE TAX. THANKS, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE ANYTHING ELSE FROM THE TABLE RIGHT NOW? ANY OTHER COLLEAGUES THAT HAVE NOT YET

SPOKEN? I'M GOING TO TAKE THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME THAT I ALLOWED EACH OF YOU, WHICH IS QUITE A BIT. AND THEN I'LL TURN IT TO YOU. COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, CAN WE START ON PAGE 177 OF THE BUDGET BOOK THIS

MIGHT BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING. SO WE HAVE THE HOPE TEAM THAT WAS HSD COMPONENT INTO THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM. SO COLLEAGUES, JUST THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF BRUSH. BROAD BRUSH

STROKES. I WILL SHARE THAT EACH DEPARTMENT USED TO SEND PART OF THEIR DEPARTMENT TO THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM THAT WAS HOUSED IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, HSD COMPONENT WAS THE HOPE TEAM, AND THE REASON IT WAS

HOUSED IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE WAS SO THAT TO ENSURE THAT ALL DEPARTMENTS DID THEIR PART. THIS IS NOT JUST A HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT JOB. AND SO HEARING YOUR DESIRE TO EMPOWER DEPARTMENTS IS WELL

RECEIVED BECAUSE YOUR LONGEVITY IS SO THAT IT GOES BEYOND ANY MAYORAL ADMINISTRATION, WHICH, SINCE I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, HAS BEEN ONE AT A TIME THAT ALTHOUGH IS CHALLENGING WHEN WE NEED EXECUTIVE

LEADERSHIP BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS. SO CAN YOU SHARE WITH ME TWO? WELL, WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO A COUPLE DIFFERENT THINGS RIGHT HERE, HOW THIS YEAR THAT HAS CHANGED. SO THE EXECUTIVE IS NO LONGER

PROVIDING EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TO THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM. OR MAYBE THERE'S A MISUNDERSTANDING. I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN SAID TODAY. SO IT IS EITHER IN THE EXECUTIVE

DEPARTMENT, IT'S EITHER IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OR IT'S IN THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. THE EXECUTIVE IS EITHER PROVIDING DIRECTION OR NOT PROVIDING DIRECTION. THE BUDGET IS EITHER BEING REDUCED TO

CURRENT STAFFING, WHICH WE CAN COME BACK TO MOMENTUM IN A MINUTE OR NOT. AND THEN I SEE ON PAGE 177 THAT THE HOPE TEAM IS CUT. THE NARRATIVE SAYS IT GOES TO THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM. SO THE LAST PART OF

THIS QUESTION IS, WHERE DO I FIND THAT? SO I THINK THERE'S THREE QUESTIONS IN THERE. -- SO LET ME START WITH LEADERSHIP. THE EXECUTIVE THE MAYOR'S OFFICE CONTINUES TO PROVIDE LEADERSHIP IN THIS AREA

IN MANY AREAS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE BUDGET FOR THIS WORK, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT DOING THE WORK DAILY HAS AND CONTINUES TO BE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET. THERE WAS A, I BELIEVE, A, YOU KNOW, A

DEPUTY MAYOR AND A I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR TITLE WAS IN PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS, THAT SORT OF PROVIDED THE CENTRAL OVERSIGHT. THAT LEADER, THAT SORT OF CENTRAL LEADERSHIP, HAS TRANSITIONED TO THE

HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. BUT THERE CONTINUES TO BE LEADERSHIP AND DIRECTION FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. DIRECTOR ELLENBROOK, WHO OVERSEES HUMAN SERVICES AS WELL AS THE OPERATIONS MANAGER FOR HUMAN

SERVICES AND HOMELESS LINDSAY GARRITY, CONTINUE TO PROVIDE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE AND MANY, MANY OTHERS. SO THAT'S THE LIKE BIG, BIG PICTURE IN TERMS OF I MIGHT MISS A MIDDLE QUESTION. SO

I'LL RELY ON MY COLLEAGUES HERE TO JUMP IN. THERE IS SOME TECHNICAL WORK THAT HAPPENS IN A BUDGET BOOK, SO I'LL JUST FLAG ON THE HOPE TEAM BUDGET PROGRAM. THAT WAS A BUDGET PROGRAM THAT WAS DEFUNCT AS

OF THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET, IT CONTINUES TO SHOW UP IN THE BUDGET FOR HISTORIC REFERENCE. BUT SOMETIMES, AS THE SORT OF ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF A DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET CHANGES, YOU SEE SORT OF A

PROGRAM GET COLLAPSED OR TAKEN APART INTO MULTIPLE PIECES. SO THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE WITH THE HOPE PROGRAM IN THIS BUDGET. THE SHIFT IN THE BUDGET PROGRAMS OVERALL, BECAUSE YOU SEE A NUMBER OF PLACES ON

THOSE PAGES, YOU REFERENCED IS THIS YEAR, IT'S COLLAPSING. CITY MANAGE HOMELESS PROGRAMS AND KCRA PROGRAMS INTO A SINGLE HOMELESSNESS PROGRAM, BUDGET PROGRAM. THAT THOSE THREE PROGRAMS THAT ARE IN THE

ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS BUDGET SUMMARY LEVELS ARE HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS, UNIFIED CARE TEAM AND CONTRACT OVERSIGHT AND ADMINISTRATION. SO YOU SEE IT SORT OF BEING MANAGED UNDER ONE ONE PROGRAM AREA.

AND THERE MAY HAVE BEEN ANOTHER QUESTION. -- WHAT PAGE IS THAT? SORRY. -- THAT IS, I BELIEVE ON PAGE ONE, 70. EIGHT. AND YOU SEE LET'S SEE YOU SEE HOMELESS PROGRAM ON THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 177. YOU SEE

KING COUNTY REGIONAL HOMELESS AUTHORITY AT THE BOTTOM OF 177 THAT BLEEDS OVER INTO ONE 70 AT THE TOP OF 178. AND THEN THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM, THOSE ARE ALL BUDGET PROGRAMS WITHIN THE ADDRESSING

HOMELESSNESS BUDGET SUMMARY LEVEL. -- FANTASTIC. VERY HELPFUL. COMING BACK TO PAGE 160 IN THE BUDGET BOOK, REPURPOSING BUDGET FROM CLOSING SHELTER SITES, $4.9 MILLION. WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? -- YEAH,

ABSOLUTELY. AND I THINK THIS JUST CAME THROUGH THE SHAREPOINT BUDGET QUESTIONS AS WELL. THERE WERE UNFORTUNATELY, TWO SHELTER PROGRAMS THAT CLOSED OR ARE CLOSING IN 2026. SO THIS THIS IS GOING TO BE

TAKING THE BUDGET THAT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OPERATIONS OF THOSE AND BRINGING THEM INTO THE SHELTER ACCELERATOR WORK TO STAND UP NEW BEDS. -- FANTASTIC. THANK YOU. AND JUST WE'VE HAD MANY DAYS, AND

I'M GOING TO REPEAT DIRECTOR BUSH'S REMARKS THAT ASKED THE QUESTION. AND THE ANSWER IS IT DOESN'T FISCALLY PEN PENCIL OUT. I MAYBE THAT'S SHORTHAND. APOLOGIES, DIRECTOR. THIS IS THE SHELTER IS AN $18

MILLION INCREASE. THIS IS A CHANGE IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. SO JUST THIS IS ME EDITORIALIZING, WHICH IS THAT WE ARE TAKING A LOT OF CUTS ACROSS CITY DEPARTMENTS, ACROSS PROGRAMS, AND WE ARE

INCREASING. SO ON FRIDAY, WE TALKED ABOUT CHARTERED RESPONSIBILITIES THAT WE ARE REDUCING FUNDING FOR SHELTER IS ABSOLUTELY AN IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY. IT'S NOT CHARTERED. SO I JUST HIGHLIGHT THAT

FOR US. I WILL SAY THAT IT HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL GETTING TO WORK WITH YOU AND THE HIGH ACUITY TEAM THIS YEAR. WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT OUR IMBALANCE IN SHELTER IS CURRENTLY,

AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? AND I'LL MAYBE START WITH THIS POINT, WHICH IS EVEN SIX YEARS AGO, WE DID NOT HAVE TINY HOME VILLAGES REALLY. LIKE I THINK WE HAD A COUPLE MAYBE, AND IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO

STAND UP. AND WE HAD SO FEW BEDS AT TINY HOME VILLAGES THAT WE COULD NOT GET PEOPLE INTO SHELTER. TODAY WE HAVE THE PROBLEM OF PEOPLE HAVE ARE ON OUR STREETS THAT WE THEY'VE BEEN KICKED OUT OF TINY

HOMES. AND THIS IS. IT MIGHT SOUND BAD AT FIRST, BUT THE REASON THAT I'M SAYING THAT THIS IS GOOD NEWS IS BECAUSE SIX YEARS AGO, WE COULDN'T EVEN GET THEM INTO THE TINY HOME IN THE FIRST PLACE, MUCH

LESS TO BE KICKED OUT. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING WITH THIS $18 MILLION? WHAT ARE WE OVERSATURATED WITH AND WHAT ARE WE UNDER-SATURATED WITH? -- YEAH, GREAT QUESTION. AND

THE HIGH ACUITY WORKGROUP HAS BEEN REALLY AMAZING WORK TO JUST BE INVOLVED IN WITH, WITH COUNCIL AND REALLY FURTHERING WHAT IS IN THE SHELTER PLAN THAT WE JUST SUBMITTED. I THINK WHAT WE'RE MOVING

TOWARDS IS JUST UNDERSTANDING THAT, AGAIN, A SHELTER CAN'T JUST BE THE OVERNIGHT BED. IT DOES NEED TO BE MORE TO MEET THE NEEDS THAT ARE OUT THERE. OBVIOUSLY, LOOKING AT THE POINT IN TIME COUNTS THAT

HAVE COME OUT IN IN RECENT YEARS, A LOT OF CO-OCCURRING CHALLENGES THAT ARE UNSHELTERED POPULATION IS DEALING WITH CHIEFLY, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER AND SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH

CHALLENGES. AND I THINK THAT IS WHY IT'S WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE EMBEDDED ONSITE SERVICES TO MEET THOSE NEEDS AT SHELTER. AND THE SHELTER PLAN DOES OVERINDEX TO KIND OF CORRECT FOR THAT

AND BRING THOSE ABOUT. SO I THINK ALONGSIDE THE NON-CONGREGATE OPTION, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THESE ENHANCED EMBEDDED SERVICES ON SITE, AND THAT WAS REALLY KIND OF TELLING. AND JUST LOOKING BACK AT,

I THINK ALL OF OUR SHELTER INVESTMENTS TO DATE AND HOW THEY'VE BEEN FUNDED IN THE PAST AND WHAT'S NEEDED. SO I THINK, I THINK THAT'S DEFINITELY WHERE WE WANT TO MOVE TOWARDS AND FOR FOLKS THAT ARE

BACK ON THE STREET WHO HAVE SHELTER OR HOUSING CURRENTLY, I THINK THAT IS A MAJOR CHALLENGE. WE'LL HAVE TO JUST REALLY GO INTO EYES WIDE OPEN RIGHT NOW. AND I THINK WITH THE NEW SHELTERS, WE WANT TO

OPEN UP A HIGH ACUITY KIND OF SHELTER, CASE CONFERENCING SERIES AS WELL THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHO IS COMING FROM THE OUTREACH WORK THAT OUR UKTI REGIONAL COORDINATORS AND CONTRACTED PROVIDERS ARE

ENGAGED WITH. HOW CAN WE MAKE THE BEST SERVICE MATCH INTO THOSE SHELTERS? AND THEN AS WE HEAR OF FOLKS WHO, UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, MAY HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL AND BARRED FROM A SHELTER OR ARE BACK ON

THE STREET, HOW HOW CAN WE KIND OF UTILIZE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS IN THAT FORUM TO, TO BRING THEM BACK INDOORS AND GET THEM CONNECTED TO THE RIGHT SUPPORTS? I GUESS ONE FINAL POINT TOO, IF IT IS GOING TO

HAPPEN WHERE A SHELTER MIGHT JUST NOT WORK FOR A CLIENT. AND I THINK A BIG THING WE'VE HEARD THIS YEAR IS A DESIRE AMONGST SHELTER OPERATORS TO LOOK AT WHAT A TRANSFER POLICY MIGHT LOOK LIKE BETWEEN

SHELTERS, AND I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING WE WANT TO BUILD OUT AS WELL. -- THANK YOU. AND I HAVE TO SAY, I THINK THAT THE UNDERSTANDING AND IDEA THAT THERE IS AN IN AN INTAKE LOCATION THAT CAN THEN FAN

OUT TO THE APPROPRIATE ACUITY LEVEL IS A GOOD IDEA, BECAUSE THAT COULD ALSO HELP WITH THE TRANSFERS. THE. I'M GOING TO REPEAT BACK IN A FEW WORDS. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, OUR CONVERSATIONS ARE IS THAT

WE HAVE ENOUGH LOW ACUITY SHELTER. SO THAT'S OUR TINY HOME VILLAGES AND WE HAVE BETWEEN 1 AND 3 MEDIUM TO HIGH ACUITY SHELTERS CURRENTLY. IS THAT AM I REMEMBERING THE POWERPOINT CORRECTLY? -- YEAH, I

THINK THAT'S THAT IS CORRECT. YEAH. AND WE CAN PROVIDE THAT AGAIN AS WELL. BUT THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING TOO. AND SO. -- AND SO AT THIS POINT, WE FOR ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC THAT'S SEEING SOMEBODY WHO HAS

MENTAL HEALTH OR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY ISSUES AND WONDERS WHY THEY AREN'T COMING INSIDE, IT'S BECAUSE WE LITERALLY DON'T HAVE A PLACE FOR THEM TO COME INTO. THAT'S A STATEMENT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO RESPOND

TO THAT. AND THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED. HOWEVER, WHAT I CAN SAY IS THE WORK FROM THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM THAT I'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I'VE SEEN IT SINCE BEFORE IT EXISTED UNTIL TODAY. ONE OF

THE CRITICAL ASPECTS OF ITS SUCCESS IS THAT EVERY 2 TO 3 MONTHS, THERE WOULD BE SOME SORT OF SHIFT SO THAT THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM WAS CONTINUING TO MODULATE, TO ITERATE WITH OUR ENVIRONMENT, BECAUSE

NOTHING IS STATIC. ONE THING THAT I'VE HEARD, NOT ONLY HERE AT THIS COMMITTEE TABLE, BUT FROM THE MAYOR HERSELF DIRECTLY, IS THAT THINGS WITH THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM HAVEN'T CHANGED. AND I FIND THAT TO

BE A BIGGER PROBLEM THAN ANYTHING ELSE, BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT IT'S NOT ITERATING. AND WHAT I'M SEEING RIGHT NOW IS THE FOLKS THAT HAVE THESE HIGHEST NEEDS THAT WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE A PLACE FOR,

WE CAN COME BACK. SO I'M GLAD THAT WE ARE CHANGING MOMENTUM IN THAT WAY. BUT FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR, I SAW STANDING IN IN PLACE, STANDING IN MOTION, WHICH DROPPED OUR ABILITY, DROPPED OUR

MOMENTUM. AND I HAVE SEEN OVER THE LAST NINE MONTHS, STREET HOMELESSNESS CONTINUE TO GET WORSE MONTH AFTER MONTH. WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND SPECIFICALLY? ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE

RUN INTO IS THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO, CLIENTS THAT WE KNOW HAVE HOUSING, CLIENTS THAT WE KNOW HAVE SHELTER. WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE OUR OUTREACH HAVE FILLED OUT THE PAPERWORK AND TAKEN THEM TO THAT

HOUSING AND SHELTER THAT ARE SETTING UP TENTS IN OUR PUBLIC SPACE THAT ARE CREATING ENCAMPMENTS. AND WE KNOW THAT THESE PEOPLE HAVE HOUSING AND SHELTER BECAUSE WHEN THAT ENCAMPMENT IS REMOVED, OUR

TEAMS ARE HELPING THEM BACK TO THEIR HOUSE OR BACK TO THEIR SHELTER. SO TWO QUESTIONS HERE. WHAT'S GOING WRONG? WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO CHANGE THIS? AND WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR THESE FOLKS THAT HAVE

SHELTER AND HOUSING THAT ARE SETTING UP TENTS IN OUR PUBLIC SPACE? -- YEAH, GREAT QUESTIONS. I THINK WE DO WANT TO JUST KEEP ITERATING AND IMPROVING FROM THE UCT AND APPRECIATE WHEN COUNCIL OR OTHER

STAKEHOLDERS IN THE AREA CAN KIND OF PUSH US IN THAT REGARD AS WELL. I THINK THE KEY PIECE FOR UNSHELTERED FOLKS IS JUST HSD, THE HOMELESSNESS DIVISION, STANDING UP THESE SHELTERS AND PARTNERSHIP WITH

FOLKS AS SOON AS WE CAN. SO JUST APPRECIATE ALL THE SUPPORT FROM THAT. THAT'S COME FROM COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AS WELL. I THINK THAT IS A NUMBER ONE, WE JUST HAVE TO OPEN UP MORE BEDS, AND I

THINK ON THE PROCESS SIDE OF THINGS, TOO, IN TERMS OF WORKING WITH UNSHELTERED FOLKS, WHAT CAN WE LEARN AGAIN, JUST TO REFERENCE THE STREETS OF HOUSING INITIATIVE, OBVIOUSLY, ENCAMPMENTS, LARGE

ENCAMPMENTS CAN HAVE BIG IMPACTS ON SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES. AND I THINK WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THERE IS A NEED TO GO A LITTLE MORE GRANULAR AT TIMES THAN THE DISTRICT APPROACH. SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING

WE REALLY WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SYSTEMATIZE THAT AND WORK WITH PROVIDERS IN THAT REGARD. AND AGAIN, I THINK THE COORDINATED ENTRY, THE PATH TO PERMANENT HOUSING, WE, WE NOT ONLY NEED TO GET FOLKS

INTO SHELTERS, BUT THEN GET THOSE BEDS OPEN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AGAIN. AND I THINK THE INVESTMENTS IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET, IN TERMS OF THE SERVICES THAT WILL BE AT SHELTERS, ARE KEY TO BRINGING FOLKS

IN AND JUST REALLY MOVING QUICKLY TO BUILD THE CONNECTIONS TO HOUSING MORE FULLY. AND IN TERMS OF FOLKS WHO HAVE SHELTER OR HOUSING THAT ARE BACK ON THE STREETS, I THINK THAT'S US WORKING TO FIGURE

OUT WITH OUR CONTRACTED OUTREACH PROVIDERS WHAT WHAT ARE THE AVENUES WE CAN REALLY PURSUE TO JUST MAKE A MORE LASTING CONNECTION THERE? THE TRANSFER POLICY TO THAT COULD BE A KEY ONE. WORKING WITH

PARTNERS AT THE OFFICE OF HOUSING AND ELSEWHERE TO UNDERSTAND ANY GAPS WITH SPECIFIC HOUSING PROVIDERS TO. AND WHAT COULD BE ADDED, I THINK, IS KEY. IT'S A REALLY DIFFICULT CHALLENGE THAT WE FACE. --

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. HEARD. BUT I IS IT NOT MAYBE IT'S NOT A HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBILITY. IF THEY ALREADY HAVE SHELTER AND HOUSING AND THEY ARE LIVING ON THE STREET. AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE

IT'S NOT THAT THEY LOST THEIR SHELTER OR HOUSING, IT IS STILL ACTIVE WHILE THEY HAVE A TENT IN PUBLIC SPACE. -- YEAH, NO, TOTALLY. I THINK I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS WE JUST THINK WITH THE HUMAN,

HUMAN CENTERED, PERSON CENTERED, WE WANT TO DO WHAT'S BEST AND TRY TO HELP THAT INDIVIDUAL. BUT YES, I THINK IT DOES AT TIMES GO BEYOND HSD AND PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES. AGAIN, THAT MIGHT BE AT PLAY OR A

REAL CHALLENGE. AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU SEE YOU KNOW, DOESN'T HAVE DIRECT AUTHORITY OVER, OBVIOUSLY, PUBLIC SAFETY MATTERS AND TRYING TO WORK WITH OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS -- YEAH, NO, I AND

I ASK THAT QUESTION NOT BECAUSE I ALSO AGREE WITH YOU THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A HUMAN APPROACH TO IT. BUT IF WE'RE ASKING OUR OUTREACH WORKER TO, TO WORK WITH THE SAME PERSON EVERY SINGLE DAY TO GET THEM

BACK INTO THE HOUSING THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE, WHEN THEY COULD BE HELPING PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE HELP. I'M JUST THINKING FROM HOW ARE WE USING OUR STAFFING? HOW ARE WE USING OUR LIMITED RESOURCES HERE?

-- THANK YOU. -- YEAH. AND THE $18 MILLION I'M GOING TO BE REALLY BLUNT. IF WE SPENT IT ON TINY HOME VILLAGES, LOW ACUITY SHELTER, WE COULD GET PROBABLY 2 TO 3 TIMES AS MUCH SHELTER AS WE COULD FOR

COMPLEX OR HIGH ACUITY SHELTER. AND I THINK THAT IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE SPEND THIS MONEY IN THIS WAY. I AM STILL WITH MY EYE TO EFFICIENCY AND WHAT CONCERNS ME IS THAT WE HAVE HAD

SITUATIONS THIS YEAR WHERE WE HAVE CITY FUNDED, HIGH ACUITY SHELTER WITH CLIENTS THAT WE HAVE PRIORITIZED, WHO WE CANNOT THROUGHPUT INTO CITY FUNDED, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING THAT HAS THE RIGHT

WRAPAROUND SERVICES. HOW IS THIS? -- MAJOR FRUSTRATION. AND I THINK THAT, AGAIN, NOT TO KEEP POINTING TO COORDINATED ENTRY, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT CONNECTION, WHAT OTHER CONNECTIONS WE

CAN KIND OF BUILD AND ENHANCE, BECAUSE THAT IS WE DEFINITELY NEED THAT INTENTIONAL CONNECTION WITH THESE HIGH ACUITY SHELTERS TO BE EFFECTIVE. WITHOUT THAT, THEY THEY WILL NOT BE. SO WE NEED TO MOVE

ON THAT. -- AND I'M NOT ON THE HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE OR ON KCRW. SO MY COLLEAGUES THAT ARE KICK ME UNDER THE TABLE IF I'M OUT OF OUT OF SCHOOL HERE IS COORDINATED ENTRY IS JUST OUR MERGING OF

COUNTY SERVICES WITH THE REGIONAL NEEDS. IS THAT ESSENTIALLY IT. -- IT'S COORDINATED ENTRY REALLY MANAGED BY KCRA TO NOT TO FACILITATE REFERRALS INTO OUR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FUNDED PROGRAMS

WITH CITY AND COUNTY FUNDS AS WELL. CONTINUUM OF CARE TO. SO I THINK THERE IS OPPORTUNITY THERE TO SAY, HOW IS THAT WORKING? WHAT CAN WE PILOT AS WELL, MAYBE WITH SOME OF THESE NEW RESOURCES COMING ON

AND THAT WOULD BE WORKING, YOU KNOW, WITH THE KING COUNTY REGIONAL HOMELESSNESS AUTHORITY AS WELL. -- SO WE PROVIDE THREE QUARTERS OF KCRA'S BUDGET. WE USED TO THE COUNTY ONLY PROVIDED A QUARTER, AND

WE ARE LEFT IN THE WIND BECAUSE OF THEIR POLICIES. IS THIS ESSENTIALLY IT LIKE WE'RE FUNDING AN ORGANIZATION THAT MAKES POLICIES, THAT CREATES INEFFICIENCIES? AGAIN, IT IS AS SIMPLE AS CITY FUNDED,

CONTRACTED OUTREACH IDENTIFIES A HUMAN BEING THAT NEEDS TO COME INSIDE. WE PLACE THEM AT A CITY FUNDED SHELTER. WHO PROVIDES THE CORRECT LEVEL OF WRAPAROUND SERVICES. WE CANNOT GET THAT PERSON INTO

PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, WHERE WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE OPEN BEDS SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE'S A BUREAUCRATIC SYSTEM FROM THE COUNTY. -- WELL, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TO DIG INTO. AND I THINK I THINK THAT'S

PART OF THE WORK WE WANT TO REALLY KNOCK OUT AND UNCOVER WHAT WHAT HAS BEEN THIS CHALLENGE WITH THROUGHPUT THAT'S EXISTED FOR FOR MANY YEARS? AND WHAT WHAT CAN WE DO? OBVIOUSLY, AGAIN, STREETS TO

HOUSING, A LOT OF FOLKS, I THINK AROUND 70 INDIVIDUALS FROM PIONEER SQUARE MOVED INTO SHELTER OR HOUSING. THERE WERE FOLKS IN SOME OF THE SHELTERS THAT WERE CONNECTED TO THAT INITIATIVE, LIKE THE STAR

CENTER, THAT WERE ABLE TO MOVE FOLKS INTO PSH THROUGH A SMALL TWEAK. THAT WAS A GREAT PILOT FOR TWO MONTHS. I THINK WE WANT TO LOOK AT HOW DO WE EXPAND THAT FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME TO THEN INFORM

THAT REGIONALISM CONVERSATION NEXT YEAR, BECAUSE WE DO NEED CHANGE THERE. SO I THINK THAT'S WORK WE HAVE TO DIG INTO RIGHT NOW. I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. WE DON'T WANT TO BUREAUCRATIC CHALLENGES TO GET IN

THE WAY OF JUST FOLKS MOVING INTO HOUSING. -- SO YEAH, THANK YOU. AND BECAUSE THAT STREETS TO HOUSING PILOT IS WHAT I GUESS SHOCKED ME THAT WE ARE FUNDING ALL OF THESE PROGRAMS. AND YET A DIFFERENT

JURISDICTION GETS TO CREATE INEFFICIENCIES FOR US. AND I SIMPLY, IF WE'RE SPENDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY, I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THAT. SAID ANOTHER WAY, I AM AT THIS POINT. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT

WE INVEST $18 MILLION INTO SHELTER. I'M CONCERNED AS TO THE FUNDING SOURCES IN OUR BUDGET, AND I'M AND I'M CONCERNED THAT WE. WHILE WE NEED TO SPEND THIS MONEY WITH NO ADDITIONAL EFFICIENCIES, IF WE

ARE SPENDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY BECAUSE COORDINATED ENTRY IS CREATING A BARRIER TO HOUSING THAT WE ARE FUNDING IN PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, I DON'T HAVE PATIENCE FOR THAT. AND SO I SEE THIS $18

MILLION IS AN IMPORTANT STARTING POINT. AND I ALSO SEE THAT THESE EFFICIENCIES HAVE TO BE CREATED BECAUSE WE'RE ESSENTIALLY BEING ASKED TO SPEND MORE MONEY BECAUSE THERE'S AN OUTSIDE PARTY CREATING

BLOCKAGES FOR US. THAT'S A EDITORIAL COMMENT. NOT ONE FOR YOU TO RESPOND TO. BUT I JUST HIGHLIGHTED HERE ONLY THE FIRST AND LAST THING I'LL SAY ABOUT KCRW IS THAT I HAD A LOT OF ISSUES THE LAST TIME

WE SENT CONTRACTS TO KCRW, AYE, AND NOW WE ARE TAKING THEM BACK, THAT THEY WERE ALL TO BE DONE IN A ONE YEAR PERIOD OF TIME. I SUGGESTED ONE AND A HALF YEARS OR TWO YEARS. I'M FLAGGING FOR YOU THAT I

AM VERY CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THIS WILL GO. I, AT THIS POINT I, I AM STILL WAITING TO SEE KCRW TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES AS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED. SO NO LOVE LOST THERE. MY ONLY QUESTION HERE IS I'VE SEEN IN

PIERCE COUNTY THEY HAVE. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN VERSION OF A REGIONAL SYSTEM WHERE IT WAS PROPOSED AT LEAST, WHICH IS NOT SHIFTING FUNDING, BUT SHARING DATA BETWEEN DIFFERENT PEER CITIES. IS THAT

SOMETHING THAT WE ARE CONSIDERING TO DO HERE IN KING COUNTY? -- I THINK THAT CERTAINLY COULD BE SOMETHING WE CONSIDER, AND I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE A PART OF THE FUTURE OF REGIONALISM CONVERSATIONS

THAT COME UP AS WELL. OBVIOUSLY, IT CAN'T JUST BE THE CITY ALONE IN THAT INSTANCE. SO WE WILL BE, I THINK, CONTINUING OUR STRONG COLLABORATION WITH DC AND BETWEEN THE MAYOR AND THE EXECUTIVE'S OFFICE

AS WELL. AND I THINK IN PART TO TAKE IN LESSONS LEARNED LIKE THAT. WHAT HAS WORKED ELSEWHERE IN WASHINGTON STATE, ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY, AND WHAT CAN WE PIVOT TOWARDS HERE? -- THANK YOU. LAST

QUESTION ON SHELTER, AND THEN I'LL PASS IT OVER TO DIRECTOR KIM. KIND OF TEASING OFF OF COUNCILMEMBER SAKA QUESTION, ALTHOUGH I THINK MIGHT NOT BE FULLY INFORMED ABOUT NORTH OF THE SHIP, CANAL

DISTRICT FIVE HAS AN OVERSATURATION OF SHELTERS AS COMPARED TO OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY. I CAN AND MAYBE YOU DIDN'T KNOW. I HAVE BEEN OUT LOOKING FOR SHELTER LOCATIONS IN DISTRICT SIX IN PARTICULAR,

BECAUSE WE SEE WITH VEHICLE RESIDENCY, FOLKS DON'T WANT TO MOVE FROM BALLARD DOWN TO SOTO. FOLKS FROM SOTO DON'T WANT TO MOVE UP TO BALLARD. ALL OF THAT SAID, GLASS YARDS COMMONS HAS BEEN, WHAT, THREE

YEARS IN THE MAKING? WHERE ARE WE AT? WHAT'S GOING TO TAKE TO GET TO THE FINAL OPENING? AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE IN JANUARY I WAS TOLD THAT IT WOULD OPEN IN APRIL. AND JULY, THEN AUGUST, I'M HERE IN

NOVEMBER. WHERE ARE WE AT TODAY? AND THIS IS NOT YOUR FAULT. I JUST SO ANYONE'S WATCHING ALL 25 PEOPLE. THIS IS NOT CHRIS OR HSD FAULT NECESSARILY. -- IT'S GOING TO OPEN IN NOVEMBER. THAT'S WHAT WE

HAVE PLANNED NOW. WE WERE, AS COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE MENTIONED, THERE WAS A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY THAT WE WERE REALLY FORTUNATE TO GO TO. I THINK THIS KIND OF SPEAKS TO THE CHALLENGES OF JUST THE SITE

SEARCHING PROCESS. YOU CAN RUN INTO A MULTITUDE OF ISSUES TO LOCK DOWN SITE CONTROL AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES. YOU MIGHT RUN INTO. I THINK UNFORTUNATELY WITH THIS ONE, THIS WAS JUST IT TOOK A BIT OF TIME

TO GET THE THE SITE LOCKED DOWN FOR THIS USE. THANKFULLY THAT'S TAKEN CARE OF. NOW. THE WORK IS UNDERWAY. WHAT? WHAT AN INCREDIBLE ASSET IT WILL BE WHEN IT STARTS UP 92 SPACES FOR FOLKS LIVING IN RVS.

BUT YEAH, THAT THAT IS A GOOD EXAMPLE. WE NEED TO KIND OF BUILD TOWARDS HOW TO JUST BRING SHELTER ONLINE FASTER. AND I THINK PART OF THE WORK THIS YEAR, JUST WITH THE SITE ASSESSMENT PROCESS HAS BEEN

REALLY VALUABLE. THE LEGISLATION PROPOSED BY THE MAYOR, ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO ALLOW FAS TO ENTER INTO LEASES DIRECTLY, HAS BEEN, I THINK, A BIG GAME CHANGER. I KNOW A LOT OF PRIVATE OWNERS

ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. SO WE'RE LEANING INTO THAT, ITERATING AND JUST TRYING TO BRING THESE THINGS ON EVEN FASTER. HOPEFULLY THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION. -- YEAH, I MEAN, IT'S JUST HOW DO WE GET

IT? BUT IT'S NOVEMBER, NOVEMBER. -- WE'VE BEEN TOLD NOVEMBER. -- EVERYONE'S TOLD NOVEMBER. SO WE'LL FIND OUT WHAT THE DATE ACTUALLY IS. LET ME COME BACK TO THE BUDGET BOOK AND THEN I'M ALMOST DONE. SO

COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, I'LL LET YOU CLOSE THIS OUT. I'M ON PAGE 163 OF THE BUDGET BOOK, BUT I'LL JUST SAY IN OUR SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK, THIS IS SOMETHING I'LL FOLLOW WITH CALVIN CHAO AND SCHWITZEN ABOUT.

I SEE THAT WE HAVE A NET POSITIVE 99 FTE SINCE 2019. ONE THING I AM UNSURE OF IS HOW DID OUR SEVEN YEAR LOOKBACK ACCOUNT FOR THE CONTRACTS THAT WENT TO KCRA AND THAT ARE RETURNING? SO THIS IS A FLAG

FOR CENTRAL STAFF THAT WILL. WE WILL WORK TO MAYBE HAVE THIS AS A KCRA, AS A STANDALONE SECTION OR OVERVIEW FOR ONE YEAR, BUT IN OUR SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK, THE NOTWITHSTANDING, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK INTO

THE KCRHA. TRANSFERS AND HOW THEY SHOW UP HERE. BUT FROM THE SEVEN YEAR CHANGES PLUS $222 MILLION FOR 112% INCREASE SINCE 19 SINCE 2019, WITH AN ADDED 99 POSITIONS FOR 26%. INCREASE IN STAFFING. ALL

THAT SAID, THE CAVEAT IS HOW DID KCRA PLAY INTO THAT? BUT HERE ON PAGE 163, I HAVE ITEMS TRANSFER COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CONTRACTS TO CARE. BUT THEN. I THOUGHT WE HAD. BUT THEN THE INCREASED

STAFFING FOR ENHANCED COORDINATION OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES. AM I HAVING COGNITIVE DISSONANCE? ARE WE GOING OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS AT THE SAME TIME? ARE WE MOVING THESE VIOLENCE PREVENTION

PROGRAMS TO CARE, OR ARE WE KEEPING THEM IN HSD? -- WE'RE MOVING THOSE CVI CONTRACTS TO CARE, AND WE'RE INCREASING OUR CAPACITY AT HSD TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE THE BEST PARTNERS THAT WE CAN BE. AND SO

WE HAVE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND PREVENTION. WE NEED TO DO SOME COORDINATION WITH CARE. SO WE'RE HAVING ONE FTE COORDINATE OUR WORK TO ALIGN WITH CARES WORK. PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES NEED TO MAKE SURE

THAT THERE'S GOOD, SMOOTH REFERRALS. THERE'S INFORMATION, REFERRAL SERVICES THAT THE TEAMS ARE TRAINING TOGETHER, ET CETERA. WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON A DATABASE. SO WE THAT'S THE COORDINATOR ON OUR SIDE

IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE GREATER EFFORT AS, AS YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF THE MULTI-DEPARTMENTAL WORK THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. IT'S WITH OUR EXISTING BUDGET, IT'S THE POCKET THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR IN ORDER

TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN DO THAT EFFECTIVELY. AND THEN THERE'S A DATA ANALYST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE OUTCOMES THAT WE NEED. -- OKAY, I'LL HAVE MORE QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL SAVE THEM FOR SHAREPOINT.

OKAY. JUST ABOVE THAT, I SEE THE ONGOING FUNDING FOR FOOD BANKS AND MEAL PROGRAMS. JUST CONFIRMING, THIS IS THE ONE TIME FUNDS THAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH PUT IN THE BUDGET LAST YEAR, OR IS

THIS THE SNAP RESPONSE -- A NUMBER OF THINGS. -- IT'S NEITHER. IT WAS THERE WERE ONE TIME DOLLARS THAT THE EXECUTIVE ADDED LAST YEAR. AND SO IT'S NOT THE SNAP RESPONSE AND IT'S NOT WELL, IT IT COULD

HAVE BEEN, I GUESS FOR MANY REASONS LOOKING FORWARD OF ALL THE FOOD ISSUES, INCLUDING SNAP, BUT I KNOW THAT IT WAS THAT'S NOT A PART OF LIKE A FEDERAL RESERVE. SO I JUST DISTINGUISHING THAT. AND IT'S

NOT THE COUNCIL ONE TIME ADDS. -- SO THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN COUNCIL PRESIDENT ADDED FUNDS ONE YEAR AND THEN THE EXECUTIVE ADDED FUNDS ONE YEAR. AND NOW YOU'RE JUST CHOOSING TO MAKE THIS ONGOING. IS THAT

CORRECT? -- YEAH. AND I THINK MY MEMORY FOR MANY YEARS, THERE HAVE BEEN ONE TIME ADDS FOR FOOD BANKS IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, SOMETIMES PROPOSED BY THE EXECUTIVE, SOMETIMES ADDED, PROPOSED BY

COUNCILMEMBERS, OFTENTIMES SOME COMBINATION OF BOTH. IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET, THERE WAS ABOUT $4 MILLION ADDED. ONE TIME IN THE EXECUTIVE'S PROPOSED BUDGET THAT IS MADE ONGOING IN THIS BUDGET, AND THEN

I BELIEVE THERE WERE A COUPLE OF LINE ITEM ADDS. AND SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS BUILD A SUSTAINABLE BASE FOR HSD INVESTMENTS IN THIS AREA, BUT IT DOESN'T CAPTURE EVERY ONE TIME ADD. AND THAT IS

PART OF THE CHALLENGE OF THE ONE TIME ADDS AND THE UNSUSTAINABILITY OF IT IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT OUR ONGOING BASE IS. IT'S SOMETHING I KNOW THE PROVIDERS HAVE BEEN ASKING DIRECTOR KIM FOR IS A

STABLE BASE THAT CAN THEN PROVIDE CLARITY MOVING FORWARD SO THAT THIS DOES A PORTION OF THE ONE TIME FUNDING THAT WAS I, I HEAR YOU SAYING THERE WERE OTHER COUNCIL ONE TIME ADDS THAT I THINK ARE NOT

INCLUDED IN THIS 4 MILLION. -- THANK YOU. THE REASON I ASK IS WE ALL WANT TO PROVIDE MORE FUNDING FOR FOOD, FOOD BANKS. MANY DIFFERENT MEAL PROVIDERS, SOMETHING THAT I HAVE LEARNED IN MY SHORT TIME IN

CITY HALL IS THAT FOOD POLITICS ARE SOMETIMES THE HARSHEST. AND SO MY QUESTION HERE IS, AND THIS GETS BACK TO OUR NORTH STAR INTENT, WHICH IS THAT WE PROVIDE AS MUCH FOOD MONEY FOR FOOD SECURITY AS

POSSIBLE WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT PROVIDING FOOD IS NOT A CHARTERED RESPONSIBILITY. AND SO WE HAVE BEEN CAREFUL. AND AS GIVING AS POSSIBLE IN THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS WITH OUR FOOD MONEY, AS WE ARE

CHECKING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF OUR OTHER BASES COVERED, AND THEN PROVIDING AS MUCH FOOD MONEY AS POSSIBLE, WHICH IS WHY IT'S BEEN ONE TIME. AND SO MY QUESTION REALLY GETS DOWN TO WHICH FOOD

IS THIS? LIKE THE MEALS PROVIDERS? IS THIS JUST FOOD BANKS? IS THIS YOUR SACK LUNCH? YOU KNOW, SACK LUNCHES? LIKE ARE YOU CHOOSING WINNERS AND LOSERS AND HAVE YOU CONSULTED WITH COUNCIL PRESIDENT,

COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER OR ANYONE ELSE FROM THE COUNCIL THAT HAS ENGAGED IN THE FOOD DISCUSSIONS OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS? -- SO WE HAVE 4 MILLION. 3 MILLION IS FOR FOOD BANKS AND 1 MILLION ARE FOR THE

MEAL PROGRAMS. AND WHAT THAT'S GOING TO FEEL LIKE RIGHT NOW IS THAT FOR THOSE AGENCIES THAT HAD THOSE ONE TIME ADDS IN 2026, IT WILL FEEL LIKE IT'S CONTINUING IN 2027. SO WE'VE NOT CONSULTED ANYONE

YET ON A REDISTRIBUTION OF THAT. HOWEVER, THEY ARE GOING TO BE SCHEDULED FOR A COMPETITIVE PROCESS BECAUSE OUR SMC SAYS DO IT EVERY FOUR YEARS UNLESS THERE'S A REASON TO HOLD OFF. AND SO WE WILL BE

DOING A PROCUREMENT PROCESS THAT'S NOT ANNOUNCED YET, BUT WHEN CERTAINLY WE'RE FIRM WITH THE SCHEDULE, THEN DEFINITELY WILL CONSULT WITH KEY FOLKS ON COUNCIL. AND I WILL SAY ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE

HAVEN'T ANNOUNCED IT YET IS BECAUSE WE ARE ALSO IN CONVERSATION WITH THE COALITIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT FLOODING THE PROVIDERS WITH MULTIPLE RFPS IF THEY'RE PROVIDING DIFFERENT TYPES OF

SERVICES. SO IF THEY SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO BE THOUGHTFUL AND STAGGERING. THE RFP. BUT YES, WE WILL ABSOLUTELY CONSULT. -- THANK YOU. DID THE MAYOR OR CBO CONSULT COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH OR

ANY OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS ABOUT THIS -- WE TALKED TO COUNCILMEMBERS WHO MET WITH US IN THE PRE-BUDGET BRIEFINGS. WE HIGHLIGHTED THIS THIS INCREASE, BUT IT WAS TO MAKE A MORE STABLE FUNDING FOR THIS

AREA -- OKAY. THIS IS JUST MY ASKING BECAUSE THIS IS THE REASON THAT WE WERE HAVING THE ONE TIME CONVERSATIONS IN THIS REALM IS BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THAT EVERYONE WAS SET AS TO WHAT THESE STRUCTURES

WERE. AND WHEN WE HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS IN PUBLIC, IT NOT ONLY MISS ALIGNS PEOPLE'S EXPECTATIONS, BUT AS YOU HAVE SEEN AND I HAVE EXPERIENCED, YOU KNOW, IN MY OWN COMMUNITY THAT THE POLITICS ARE

REALLY ROUGH FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING THAT THEY POSSIBLY CAN, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR NEIGHBORS CAN EAT. AND SO THIS IS AN ACADEMIC WAY OF ME SAYING THAT I THINK THIS IS A FOOD

IS AN ITEM OF DEEPER COMMUNICATION. JUST GENERALLY, I'M GOING TO MOVE ON. ONLY OTHER QUESTION THAT I'VE GOT FOR TODAY IS. PAGE 165 NOTING THE CONTRACT INFLATION ADJUSTMENT TO ALIGN WITH SMC. CAN YOU

SHARE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS? AND THEN I HAVE ONE QUESTION ABOUT UDP. -- SO TO ALIGN WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SEATTLE MUNICIPAL CODE, THERE'S AN INFLATIONARY INCREASE THAT'S TIED TO THE

CPI W. SO FOR 2027 THAT'S 3.8%. SO THERE'S AN INFLATIONARY INCREASE OF 3.8% ACROSS ALL HSD CONTRACTS WHERE IT'S ALLOWED FOR THE FUNDING SOURCE. WE HAVE A FEW GRANTS WHERE WE'RE NOT ABLE TO INFLATE THE

THE CONTRACT AMOUNT. BUT FOR ALL THE REST OF OUR CONTRACTS, IT WILL RECEIVE 3.8% INFLATIONARY INCREASE. -- THANK YOU. AND TO DATE, OUR CONTRACTED OUTREACH ARE PAID ABOUT 75% OF WHAT A CITY OUTREACH

WORKERS PAY. DOES THAT ALMOST CORRECT? PRETTY FAR OFF. LITERALLY. SORRY, NOT A GOTCHA. AND I'M ALSO JUST DOUBLE CHECKING MY GATE. BEST ASSUMPTIONS. -- I WOULD IF I COULD TAKE THAT BACK AND LOOK AT IT

JUST MORE DEFINITIVELY. THAT WOULD BE GREAT. BUT YEAH, I BELIEVE CITY OUTREACH WORKERS EARN A BIT MORE. BUT YEAH, I WOULD NEED TO LOOK INTO THAT A LITTLE FURTHER. -- THANK YOU. PLEASE. -- AND IF I

MAY, THAT OUR OUTREACH WORKERS DO SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT BODIES OF WORK AS WELL. SO IF THAT'S WORTH ANYTHING, I WOULDN'T SAY IT'S EXACT APPLES TO APPLES, BUT THEY'RE THEY BOTH DO OUTREACH. AND THEN

THERE'S A PERIOD OF TIME DURING POSTING PERIODS THAT THEY ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED CONTINUOUSLY TO. -- THANK YOU. I MEAN, YES, DIFFERENT BODIES OF WORK AND OUTREACH WORKERS ARE DOING SOME OF THE HARDEST

WORK IN OUR CITY. AND I, I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT IF, FOR INSTANCE, IN THE VEHICLE WORLD, I HAVE SHARED OUR ONLY OUTREACH THAT IS DEDICATED TO VEHICLES IS VEHICLE RESIDENCY OUTREACH IN THE

SALVATION ARMY. WE DON'T HAVE CITY OUTREACH WORKERS THAT ARE DEDICATED IN THOSE SPACES. WE ARE RELYING ON THESE OUTREACH WORKERS AND PAYING THEM A WAGE THAT IS MUCH LOWER THAN IF THEY WERE A CITY

WORKER, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE DOING WORK ON BEHALF OF THE CITY. SORRY, THIS IS NOT LIKE THIS IS ME JUST KIND OF RIFFING HERE BECAUSE IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE, IF WE ARE ASKING THESE FOLKS TO DO

THE HARDEST WORK ON OUR STREETS, THAT WE'RE ALSO COMPENSATING THEM CORRECTLY. SO I APPRECIATE THIS CALL OUT IN THE BUDGET. LAST QUESTION AND STATEMENT HERE IS THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM.

APPLICATIONS ARE RUN THROUGH THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE HAD TROUBLE FOR A COUPLE DECADES OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS BEING EASY TO USE IN THE FIRST PLACE AND TO RENEW IN THE SECOND PLACE. I

HAVE SEEN THE DEPARTMENT MAKING CHANGES. ARE WE STILL ON TRACK TO MAKING THAT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO NAVIGATE, AND IS THERE ANY GENERAL FUND USED IN THIS? -- THE SMART PEOPLE BEHIND ME SAY WE ARE ON

TRACK, AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE FUND SWAP SITUATION ALLOWS US TO NOT USE GENERAL FUNDS. SO I BELIEVE IT IS BEING IN 2020, STARTING IN 2027, IT WILL BE FULLY PAID FOR BY THE UTILITIES. -- THANK

YOU. AND THIS WAS PART OF THE LAST RATE PACKAGE. IS THAT CORRECT, DIRECTOR YES. YOU JUMPING IN. -- YES THAT IS THAT IS ACCURATE. THIS THIS WAS ALL CONSIDERED AS PART OF DEVELOPING THE RATES. -- THE

REASON I BRING THAT UP IS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE WHO ARE ABLE TO USE CITY LIGHT OR SPU, WHO DON'T LIVE IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE, CAN BENEFIT FROM THE UTILITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM. AND THAT IS THAT IS WHY IT IS

IMPORTANT THAT THE GENERAL FUND NOT BE USED IN THESE WAYS IS BECAUSE WE. IF THE STARS ALIGNED, WE WOULD BE SPENDING GENERAL FUND MONEY TO HELP SOMEBODY THAT LIVES IN SNOHOMISH AND THAT I CAN'T DO

TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR GOING ON MY 30 MINUTE TOUR. COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU LAST WORD. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER SECOND TIME THROUGH. AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, LAST WORD.

THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH. CHAIR STRAUSS. I APPRECIATE THAT. I JUST I'M GOING TO BE REALLY BRIEF. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO ENGAGE HERE. AND

THEN OBVIOUSLY, TOMORROW, WHEN WE HAVE THE OFFICE OF HOUSING IN. BUT JUST A FEW THINGS I WANTED TO SAY WHEN IT COMES TO KCRA, BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAD A LOT OF HARD QUESTIONS AND THERE WAS SOME

DISCUSSION OF COC OF COORDINATED ENTRY, BUT I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL HAVE CLARITY ON THE FACT THAT BECAUSE OF THE INVESTMENTS THAT COME THROUGH KCRA, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ABOUT 4500 FOLKS

STABLY HOUSED WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE LIVING ON OUR STREETS. AND THAT THAT'S JUST INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. AND THAT'S AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT ROLE ACROSS KING COUNTY THAT THE AGENCY PLAYS. AND I KNOW

THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND CHAIR STRAUSS, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR QUESTIONS AS WELL AS COMMENTS AND THE JOURNEY, BUT THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT BECAUSE I THINK WHEN

YOU TALK ABOUT THE CHALLENGES WITH WHEN I HEAR THE CHALLENGES AROUND COORDINATED ENTRY, I THINK THAT WE HEAR FROM PROVIDERS. THERE ARE CERTAINLY MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS. BUT I

ALSO WANT TO COMMENT ALONGSIDE THAT THAT WE HAVE VERY LOW VACANCY RATES WHEN IT COMES TO PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. CAN WE CAN ALWAYS GO FASTER. WE SHOULD ALWAYS BE MAKING THOSE IMPROVEMENTS. BUT

WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE ARE GETTING FOLKS INTO THOSE THOSE UNITS. WHAT IS A REALLY BIG CHALLENGE IS OUR PIPELINE FOR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND FOR BRINGING NEW PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ONLINE

BECAUSE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE'RE SEEING WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BECAUSE OF OUR OWN SORT OF FINANCIAL CHALLENGES, YOU KNOW, WE ARE REALLY SEEING THE PIPELINE OF NEW PUSH START TO DRY UP. AND

THAT'S SOMETHING THAT REALLY WORRIES ME. AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO JUST LIFT THAT UP ALONGSIDE THE ONGOING IMPROVEMENT WORK THAT WE NEED TO DO AROUND COORDINATED ENTRY.

SO WE'VE BOTH GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING PEOPLE WHO NEED THOSE SPACES INTO THOSE SPACES AS QUICKLY AND AS EQUITABLY AS POSSIBLE, BECAUSE I WILL ALSO SAY PART OF THE INTENTION AROUND

COORDINATED ENTRY WAS TO ENSURE THAT WE WERE SOLVING FOR EQUITY AND MATCHING THE RIGHT PERSON TO THE RIGHT LOCATION. AND AGAIN, NOT TO SAY THAT WE'VE DONE IT PERFECTLY, I'VE HEARD FROM PROVIDERS, BUT

I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER THAT CONVERSATION AROUND WHY COORDINATED ENTRY WAS NECESSARY AND THAT WE ALSO HAVE TO HAVE SOME FORM OF THAT IN ORDER TO JUST RECEIVE THOSE HUD

DOLLARS. SO I JUST WANTED TO REALLY MAKE SURE I WAS READING THOSE INTO THE RECORD SO THAT WE JUST HAVE THE MOST FULL PICTURE OF BOTH OUR CHALLENGES AND WHERE WE HAVE SUCCESS, AND WHERE THERE IS REAL

SIGNIFICANT WORK TO DO, WHICH IS IN MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE INVESTMENTS TO GET NEW PSH ONLINE. AND I'M SURE WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT WITH HOUSING COMING UP. THANK YOU FOR THAT, CHAIR. -- THANK

YOU, COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER ANYTHING FROM THE COMMITTEE TABLE? I DIDN'T GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO REBUT MY 35 MINUTE JOURNEY, SO SOUNDS GOOD. COUNCILMEMBER RINCK HERE TO CLOSE US OUT AND THEN WE'LL TAKE

LUNCH, BUT WE'LL GO INTO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. -- THANK YOU. CHAIR STRAUSS. AND ACTUALLY, COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER COVERED SOME OF THE POINTS I WAS GOING TO MAKE BEFORE I GOT INTO MY FINAL REMARKS. I

JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES ON COORDINATED ENTRY, SO I'LL JUST JUMP TO ONE IMPORTANT PIECE THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO CLARIFY ON THE RECORD, FACTUALLY, IS THAT COORDINATED ENTRY IS

FEDERALLY REQUIRED FUNCTION FOR A CONTINUUM OF CARE. LEAD AGENCY. THIS HAS EXISTED LONG BEFORE KCRA HAS EXISTED, AND THIS, IMPORTANTLY IS A FUNCTION THAT THE CITY OF SEATTLE HAS NEVER HELD PREVIOUSLY.

THIS WAS HELD IN ALL HOME. THE COUNTY ENTITY THAT PRECEDED KCRA. SO I DON'T I DON'T THINK IT WAS THE INTENT TO MISCHARACTERIZE IT AT ALL ABOUT COORDINATED ENTRY. WHAT IT DOES, BUT I JUST WANT TO BE

ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT COORDINATED ENTRY IS NOT SOMETHING THAT KCRA IMAGINED UP AND THREW TOGETHER, BUT RATHER SOMETHING THAT IS FEDERALLY REQUIRED FOR OUR REGION TO HOLD IN TERMS OF FACILITATING THOSE

PLACEMENTS INTO PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. AND AS COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER NOTED, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING TO MEET THE NEED. THAT MEANS THAT SOME FOLKS WHO GO INTO COORDINATED

ENTRY, GET HOUSING, AND MANY DON'T. SO ALL OF THAT TO SAY COORDINATED ENTRY IS NOT WITHOUT ITS CHALLENGES. I HEAR THE FRUSTRATIONS UP HERE ABOUT HOW COORDINATED ENTRY OPERATES. I HEAR FRUSTRATIONS

FROM PROVIDERS ABOUT HOW COORDINATED ENTRY OPERATES, BUT I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT POINT ON THE RECORD FOR TODAY MOVING FORWARD, WELCOME EVERYONE'S ENGAGEMENT ON HOW WE CAN IMPROVE A SYSTEM TO BE

ABLE TO FACILITATE THOSE PLACEMENTS IN AN EQUITABLE WAY IN TERMS OF CLOSING REMARKS, COLLEAGUES, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ENGAGEMENT. I DIDN'T THINK WE'D GO THIS LONG TODAY, SO I'M GRATEFUL, TRULY, FOR THE

QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED AND JUST YOUR CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT ON HUMAN SERVICES. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE JOKED EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION THAT HE WAS NOT FEATURED IN THE DEPARTMENT'S PRESENTATION. I HOPE

IT WAS A JOKE, BUT I WHAT I HEAR IN THAT JOKE, RATHER, IS THE DESIRE TO MAKE IT KNOWN THAT YOU STAND BY OUR HUMAN SERVICES INVESTMENTS AND SHOW UP IN COMMUNITY FOR THEM. AND I KNOW I SAW YOU AND CHAIR

STRAUSS AT THE BAYSIDE SHELTER OPENING. I KNOW I SAW COUNCILMEMBER SAKA AT THE MAYOR'S INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE SHELTER ACCELERATOR COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA AT THE FAMILY WORKS REOPENING OF THEIR NEW

FOOD BANK, COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER AT THE NICKELSVILLE BRIGHTON VILLAGE OPENING LONG AWAITED, BY THE WAY, COUNCILMEMBER LIN HAS CONSISTENTLY SHOWN UP FOR COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS AND

COMMUNITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH HAS BEEN A RESOUNDING CHAMPION FOR FOOD AND MEAL PROGRAMS. COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ YOUR TREMENDOUS WORK WITH NORTH HELPLINE. EVERYONE ON THIS DAIS HAS SHOWN UP

IN COMMUNITY FOR PROGRAMS FUNDED BY THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, AND I SEE YOU ALL FOR THAT. AND I APPRECIATE THAT. AND I HOPE THAT THAT ENERGY CONTINUES BECAUSE NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED TO

PROTECT HUMAN SERVICES INVESTMENTS, ESPECIALLY DURING THIS TIME OF NATIONAL TURMOIL AND ECONOMIC INSECURITY AND UNCERTAINTY. SO I WOULD JUST SAY, ASK ANY PROVIDER RIGHT NOW WHO'S WORKING IN THE REALM

OF HUMAN SERVICES, AND THEY WILL TELL YOU THAT THE NEED HAS ONLY INCREASED. AND IT REMAINS MY FOCUS TO DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO SUPPORT OUR NEIGHBORS DURING THIS TREMENDOUSLY CHALLENGING TIME. SO

I WANT TO THANK THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT AGAIN FOR YOUR CONTINUED WORK AND YOUR TIME BEFORE COMMITTEE TODAY. THANK YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER RINCK. WITH THAT, COLLEAGUES, IT IS

1223. I'M GOING TO SAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO BREAK FOR AN HOUR AND SEVEN MINUTES, SO WE WILL BE BACK HERE AT 130. PRESENT SDOT PRESENTATION WILL START AT 1:31 P.M., WHICH MEANS THAT FOLKS SHOULD BE HERE

BY 129 TO BE ON TIME. I THINK THAT'S ALL I GOT, SO WE WILL DO THAT. AND THEN WE MIGHT TAKE A TEN MINUTE BREAK OR JUST RUN STRAIGHT INTO OED IN THE AFTERNOON. THANK YOU EVERYONE, AND WE'LL SEE YOU BACK

AT 129.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] -- IN THE SEPTEMBER 25th SELECT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING WILL. SEPTEMBER 28th SELECT BUDGET MEETING WILL COME BACK TO ORDER. IT IS 1:30 P.M.. WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL?

COUNCILMEMBER RINCK PRESENT. -- COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. HERE. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. COUNCIL CHAIR. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. HOLLINGSWORTH. COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ HERE. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE.

HERE. COUNCILMEMBER LIN. HERE AND CHAIR STRAUSS HERE. SIX PRESENT. -- THANK YOU. WE ARE GOING TO JUMP RIGHT IN. AND COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA IS NOW PRESENT. I'M GOING TO JUMP RIGHT INTO. AND COUNCILMEMBER

FOSTER IS NOW PRESENT. WE ARE GOING TO JUMP RIGHT INTO SDOT. SO DIRECTOR BRADY, WE ARE WAITING ON YOU NOW. WOULD THE COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF AS WE'RE WAITING DIRECTOR PENNUCCI, GOOD

TO SEE YOU AGAIN. DIRECTOR. DEPUTY DIRECTOR CHOW, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. WE'RE GOING TO TURN RIGHT OVER TO YOU ALL -- GOOD AFTERNOON. COUNCIL. MY NAME IS CHRIS CASTLEMAN AND I'M DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

AND ADMINISTRATION. -- GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS KYLE BUTLER. I AM FINANCE MANAGER. -- WONDERFUL. WE'RE GOING TO JUMP RIGHT INTO YOUR PRESENTATION. SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE CLARIFIED RIGHT

AT THE START IS DIRECTOR BRADY. I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR OF SOUND TRANSIT. YOU ARE THE SOUND TRANSIT DEDICATED REPRESENTATIVE, DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE AND ALSO CLARIFY WHAT YOUR ROLE IS

WITH THE OFFICE OF WATERFRONT AND ANY RESPONSIBILITIES AND HOW YOU'RE SPLITTING YOUR TIME BETWEEN THOSE THREE PRIORITIES. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO YOU, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE

COUNCILMEMBER SAKA OPEN US UP AND CLOSE US OUT. OVER TO. -- YOU ALL. WHY DON'T I? ALL RIGHT. I'LL INTRODUCE MYSELF AND THEN I'LL SPEAK TO THOSE POINTS, AND THEN WE'LL GET GOING. FANTASTIC. SO THANK

YOU FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY TO DISCUSS THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. I'M ACTING DIRECTOR ANGELA BRADY. I'M JOINED BY OUR FINANCE ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR,

CHRIS CASTLEMAN, AND HER SIDEKICK OVER HERE, KYLE BUTLER, OUR FINANCE MANAGER. SO YES, I AM THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF SDOT. I AM ALSO SUPPORTING THE MAYOR AS OUR SOUND TRANSIT DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE,

WHICH MEANS I INTERFACE WITH CBO WITH THE CEO OVER AT SOUND TRANSIT AND SUPPORT YOU COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS AS WELL AS THE MAYOR AND HER BOARD AND YOUR BOARD CHAIR SEATS WITH SOUND TRANSIT. I WAS

FORMERLY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF THE WATERFRONT CIVIC PROJECTS, WHERE I DELIVERED OUR NEW SEATTLE WATERFRONT, SO HAVE HANDLED THOSE DUTIES OFF TO A VERY CAPABLE TEAM IN BARBARA LEE, WHO IS NOW

OUR WATERFRONT DIRECTOR. SHE WORKED WITH ME FOR ALMOST A DECADE ON ON WATERFRONT SEATTLE IMPROVEMENTS. SO THOSE ARE MY OTHER THE OTHER HATS THAT I WEAR AT THE CITY. FIRST, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE

FINANCE TEAM AT S DOT WHO HELPED PUT THIS BUDGET TOGETHER AND MANY THANKS TO CBO FOR SUPPORTING US. I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE STAFF, ALL THE STAFF AT S DOT WHO WORK HARD EVERY DAY TO DO THE

CHALLENGING WORK TO KEEP OUR STREETS SAFE AND FUNCTIONING. I WANT TO BEGIN THIS BUDGET DISCUSSION WITH AN OVERALL FINANCIAL PICTURE TO PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT FOR THIS YEAR'S BUDGET DEVELOPMENT. OVER

MANY YEARS, CITY LEADERS, VOTERS AND TAXPAYERS HAVE CREATED A DIVERSIFIED FUNDING MODEL FOR TRANSPORTATION. IT'S BEEN 20 YEARS SINCE VOTERS PASSED THE FIRST TRANSPORTATION LEVY. THAT VOTE MARKED THE

START OF A NEW ERA FOR THE CITY OF SEATTLE. WE WENT FROM BEING FUNDED TO DO A MINIMAL AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE AND JUST A FEW TRANSFORMATIONAL PROJECTS EVERY YEAR TO GAINING A REVENUE SOURCE THAT

PROVIDES US WITH THE ABILITY TO IMPROVE OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK SIGNIFICANTLY. BACK THEN, THERE WAS NO LIGHT RAIL, NO PROTECTED BIKE NETWORK, NO RAPID RIDE SYSTEM, NO SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM,

AND VISION ZERO WAS JUST AN IDEA. SINCE THEN, THE CITY OF SEATTLE'S POPULATION HAS GROWN BY ALMOST A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE. THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK, HOW PEOPLE GET AROUND AND WHAT IS EXPECTED

OF SDOT IS NOW COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. IN THOSE 20 YEARS, MAYORS, CITY COUNCILS, CIVIC LEADERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS COALESCED AROUND A VISION FOR SDOT THAT RECOGNIZE HOW IMPORTANT TRANSPORTATION

INVESTMENTS ARE TO A GROWING CITY WITH GLOBAL ASPIRATIONS. WE SAW THAT ON FULL DISPLAY THIS SUMMER WHEN WE HOSTED VERY SUCCESSFULLY THE WORLD CUP RIGHT HERE IN SEATTLE. AS I'M SURE YOU'VE ALL SEEN

FIRSTHAND, THE DESIRE FOR OUR COMMUNITIES FOR MORE AND BETTER STREETS IS INSATIABLE. THIS IS WHAT PAST DECISION MAKERS FORESAW AS WE ARE MAKING. AND WE ARE MAKING TREMENDOUS PROGRESS. THESE SAME

COMMUNITIES HAVE REAFFIRMED THAT THE 20 YEAR HISTORY OF NEW TAXES, FEES, GRANTS AND LEVIES IN THE END HAVE BEEN WORTH IT. AND SDOT HAS DELIVERED OUR DIVERSE FUNDING STREAMS HAVE ALSO MADE US MORE

RESILIENT TO THE UPS AND DOWNS OF THE ECONOMY. MANY OF OUR REVENUE SOURCES REMAIN STABLE OR ARE GROWING, AND THEY ARE SUPPORTING MAJOR INVESTMENTS IN STREETS, BRIDGES, SIDEWALKS, TRANSIT AND SAFETY.

BUT RESILIENCE IS NOT THE SAME AS IMMUNITY. AND AS IS RIGHT NOW, FACING A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN FLEXIBLE FUNDING, PARTICULARLY FROM THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND. AS A RESULT, WE ARE LOOKING AT FUNDING

REDUCTIONS IN THE AMOUNTS OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. THIS FUNDING DYNAMIC MAY MAKE US LESS AGILE AND LESS ABLE TO TAKE ON NEW AND EMERGING PRIORITIES AND PROJECTS. WHY ARE OTHER FUNDING SOURCES

ARE INFLEXIBLE? THEY ARE DEDICATED TO VERY SPECIFIC PURPOSES, AND THOSE DOLLARS CANNOT SIMPLY BE MOVED AROUND TO FILL THE GAP. THAT MEANS WE HAVE BOTH A WELL-FUNDED PORTFOLIO OF MAJOR LEVEE PROJECTS

AND AT THE SAME TIME, INSUFFICIENTLY FUNDED CORE SERVICES AND DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS PAID WITH FLEXIBLE FUNDING. CHRIS WILL BE WALKING US THROUGH THAT FINANCIAL PICTURE IN DETAIL IN JUST A MINUTE, AND

EXPLAINING HOW TODAY'S REALITY IS REFLECTED IN BOTH OUR 2026 YEAR END AND OUR 27 2028 BUDGET PROPOSALS. BUT BEFORE WE GET INTO THOSE NUMBERS, I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT IN GENERAL.

OUR WORK HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN EASY. MAJOR PROJECTS ARE DISRUPTIVE. THEY OFTEN INVOLVE TRADE OFFS, AND CONSENSUS IS PRETTY RARE. WE KNOW PEOPLE EXPECT US TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THE PUBLIC DOLLARS AND

EFFECTIVE IN HOW WE DELIVER. WE SHARE THAT EXPECTATION AND HAVE PUT TOGETHER THIS PRESENTATION WITH TRANSPARENCY AND CLARITY IN MIND. TODAY, YOU'LL HEAR US ADVOCATE FOR RESPONSIBLE RESERVE FUNDS, FOR

EXAMPLE, AND THE HIGHER COST SHARING FOR PRIVATE INTERESTS USING PUBLIC SPACE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE WANT STREETS PAVED. THEY WANT BRIDGES REPAIRED. THEY WANT SIDEWALKS BUILT. THEY WANT SAFER

STREETS AND BETTER CONNECTIONS TO RELIABLE TRANSIT. THEY WANT A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM THAT WORKS FOR THE CITY THEY NAVIGATE TODAY AND INTO THE FUTURE. THAT WON'T CHANGE. OUR TEAMS ARE DELIVERING MAJOR

PROJECTS, MAINTAINING COMPLEX TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS EVERY DAY AND PUTTING A PUBLIC PUTTING PUBLIC INVESTMENTS TO WORK. THAT RECORD OF DELIVERY MATTERS AS WE ENTER A VERY DIFFICULT CURRENT BUDGET

ENVIRONMENT. WE COME INTO THIS CONVERSATION CONFIDENT IN THE DEPARTMENT AND CLEAR EYED ABOUT THE CHALLENGES AHEAD. THE FINANCIAL PRESSURE IS REAL. OUR REDUCTIONS ARE SIGNIFICANT AND THEY WILL REQUIRE

HARD CHOICES. THIS TENSION BETWEEN OUR SHORTFALL AND FLEXIBLE FUNDING AND REQUESTS OF US TO BE AGILE AND TAKE ON NEW AND EMERGING PROJECTS, SHOULD BECOME CLEAR IN OUR PRESENTATION TODAY. THAT SAID,

OUR RESPONSIBILITY REMAINS THE SAME TO MANAGE PUBLIC RESOURCES CAREFULLY, TO BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT THE TRADE OFFS AND TO DELIVER AS MUCH VALUE AS WE CAN FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON SEATTLE'S

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM EVERY SINGLE DAY. AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO CHRIS TO WALK THROUGH AS DOT'S PROPOSED BUDGET. -- THANK YOU. AND HELLO AGAIN. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR HOSTING US TODAY AND

FOR YOUR ONGOING PARTNERSHIP WITH SDOT. AS DIRECTOR BRADY HAS INDICATED, TODAY WE ARE DELIVERING PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE SDOT BUDGET UNDER VERY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES FROM PRIOR YEARS. AS DIRECTOR

BRADY HAS INDICATED TODAY. EXCUSE ME, I'M A LITTLE BIT NERVOUS. IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE I'VE BEEN AT THIS TABLE. OUR COSTS HAVE CONTINUED TO RISE WHILE REVENUES HAVE FLATTENED OR DECLINED, RESULTING IN

RECENT BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS OUTPACING AVAILABLE RESOURCES AND DRIVING DOWN OUR FUND BALANCES. WE ARE AT A CRITICAL FINANCIAL INFLECTION POINT AND TARGETED INTERVENTION IS NEEDED NOW TO BALANCE THE

BUDGET, MAINTAIN CASH TO FUND OUR DAILY OPERATIONS AND SAFEGUARD OUR FUTURE WITH A PATH TOWARD LONG TERM FINANCIAL STABILITY. THIS INTERVENTION WILL REQUIRE DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENTS TO THE BUDGET FOR 2026.

THIS YEAR, AS WELL AS IN BOTH 27 AND 28, TO BRING EXPENSES IN LINE WITH AVAILABLE RESOURCES AND MAKE PROGRESS ON MOVING SDOT INTO A MORE SUSTAINABLE FISCAL POSITION. THAT MEANS THAT WE ARE PROPOSING

SIGNIFICANT BUDGET CHANGES IN THE 2026 YEAR END SUPPLEMENTAL, AS WELL AS IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE UPCOMING BIENNIUM THE CHANGES PROPOSED IN EACH YEAR ARE ESSENTIAL TO IMPROVE OUR FINANCIAL

STABILITY IN THE YEAR THAT FOLLOWS, AND SHOULD THEREFORE BE SEEN AS A CONTINUUM OF BUDGET REBALANCING EFFORTS. WITH EACH STEP ALONG THE WAY, NECESSARY AND REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR'S

BALANCING NEEDS. SDOT HAS APPROACHED THIS PROBLEM WITH BROAD REDUCTIONS ACROSS OUR PORTFOLIO. WE ARE ALSO PROPOSING REVENUE TOOLS TO PARTIALLY OFFSET REDUCTION IMPACTS TO PROGRAMS AND SERVICES. I WANT

TO EMPHASIZE THAT IN DEVELOPING THESE PROPOSALS, WE HAVE FOCUSED ON PRESERVING ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND TRANSPORTATION SAFETY ACROSS ALL ASPECTS OF OUR WORK. THEREFORE, THIS BUDGET BALANCES THE GOALS OF

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND DELIVERY ON PRIORITIES. IT SUPPORTS THE FUTURE FINANCIAL RESILIENCE OF SDOT WHILE MAINTAINING OUR TOP PRIORITY PROGRAMS, INCLUDING VISION ZERO TRANSPORTATION LEVY

DELIVERABLES AND EXPANDED TRANSIT PROGRAMS. IF THE SEATTLE TRANSIT MEASURE PASSES NOW, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON WITH BUDGET AND OUTLINE HOW WE PROPOSE TO COURSE CORRECT. THIS CHART

HELPS US UNDERSTAND THE DIVERSIFIED FUNDING STREAMS. DIRECTOR BRADY MENTIONED AND HOW SDOT CAN USE THEM AT THE TOP ARE OUR RESTRICTED FUNDING SOURCES, WHICH MEANS THEY CAN ONLY BE SPENT ON THE

SPECIFIC PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS THEY WERE DESIGNED FOR, OR ARE DETERMINED TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR. WE THEN HAVE A GROUP OF MODERATELY RESTRICTED FUNDING SOURCES, WHICH ARE MOSTLY SPOKEN FOR IN CERTAIN

DESIGNATED PROGRAMS BY DESIGN, BUT CAN SOMETIMES HELP US COVER SHORTFALLS IN OTHER ELIGIBLE PROGRAMS. LASTLY, WE HAVE OUR TWO FLEXIBLE FUNDING SOURCES THAT DIRECTOR BRADY WAS REFERRING TO COMMERCIAL

PARKING TAX AND THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND. THESE FUNDS CAN BE USED TO SUPPORT ANY SDOT SERVICE OR PROJECT, BUT WE RELY ON THEM TO FUND OUR DAY TO DAY BUSINESS OF OPERATING AND MAINTAINING A SAFE AND

RELIABLE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE STABLE FUNDING FROM THE TRANSPORTATION LEVY AND A FEW OTHER SOURCES, BUT MOST OF OUR FUNDING BASE IS NOT STABLE. AND IN FACT, MUCH OF IT HAS

BEEN AND CONTINUES TO BE IN A STATE OF DECLINE. YOU'VE SEEN THAT IN THE CITY'S REVENUE FORECASTS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. WHAT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH TODAY IS THE REALITY THAT MANY OF OUR REVENUES ARE

IN A DOWN CYCLE, BUT THAT IS ESPECIALLY URGENT FOR US. BUT WHAT IS ESPECIALLY URGENT FOR US IS THAT OUR FLEXIBLE FUNDING SOURCES ARE BECOMING EVEN MORE TIGHTLY CONSTRAINED, AND YET THEY ARE USED FOR

CORE SERVICES AND HELP US TO BE RESPONSIVE TO EMERGING NEEDS FROM BOTH OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE COMMUNITY. WE'RE ALSO ADDRESSING THE VERY REAL NEED TO CREATE FINANCIAL STABILITY FOR THE

DEPARTMENT. AS YOU'LL SEE THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THIS PRESENTATION, MOST OF THESE ISSUES ARE OCCURRING IN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND. ONE OF SEVERAL FUNDS THAT SDOT MANAGES, BUT BEFORE WE GET INTO

REDUCTIONS POSITIONS AND NEW REVENUES, WE WANT TO SHARE THIS ADMINISTRATION'S AND SDOT SHARED GOAL FOR RESPONSIBILITY TO FUND OUR DEPLETED RESERVES. FIRST, I WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE VERY SMALL FONT.

THERE WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION TO PUT ON THIS SLIDE, BUT THE CHART SHOWS OUR RECENT HISTORY OF FINANCIAL RESERVES IN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND. SDOT IS SUPPORTED BY SEVERAL FUNDS, AS I SAID, BUT THE

TRANSPORTATION FUND SUPPLIES OVER 40% OF OUR FUNDING AND HOUSES. MOST OF OUR FUND SOURCES, INCLUDING GRANTS AND PARTNERSHIPS. THIS SLIDE DEMONSTRATES THE PRECARIOUS POSITION AS DOT IS IN WITH RESPECT

TO OUR ABILITY TO MAINTAIN A FUND BALANCE AND ESSENTIAL RESERVES IN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND SO THAT WE CAN RELIABLY PLAN TO SUPPORT OUR PROJECT AND SERVICE PORTFOLIO AND ALSO HAVE SOME AMOUNT OF

CONTINGENCY IF OUR RESERVES FURTHER DETERIORATE AND OUR REVENUES FURTHER DETERIORATE, OR SHOULD SOMETHING UNPRECEDENTED HAPPEN. THIS SLIDE SHOWS OUR ACTUAL FUNDING, OUR FUND ENDING FUND BALANCE IN THE

TRANSPORTATION FUND. FOR YEARS 2018 THROUGH 2025. POSITIVE ENDING FUND BALANCES ARE SHOWN IN THE BLUE BARS WITH A LIGHTER BLUE INDICATING THE RESERVES CONTAINED WITHIN THOSE AMOUNTS. ORANGE BARS

INDICATE NEGATIVE FUND BALANCE. YOU CAN SEE THAT WE ENDED 2018 WITH A POSITIVE FUND BALANCE OF OVER $30 MILLION. THEN, IN 2019, THE PANDEMIC ARRIVED AND SDOT AND THE CITY'S REVENUE BASE BEGAN TO

SEVERELY DECLINE. SDOT ALSO FACED THE WEST SEATTLE BRIDGE EMERGENCY IN 2020, AND DURING THIS PERIOD, WE EXPERIENCED SOARING COSTS IN OUR CAPITAL PROJECT DELIVERY, INCLUDING FOR CONCRETE. IN ADDITION

TO SCALING BACK OUR SERVICES TO REDUCE SPEND, DEFERRING OR EVEN CANCELING SOME CAPITAL PROJECTS AND SELLING BONDS AND SECURING FEDERAL FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE WEST SEATTLE BRIDGE REPAIR PROJECT, WE HAD

TO DRAW DOWN OUR FUND BALANCES AND RESERVES BETWEEN 2019 AND 2021. THE ORANGE BARS. FORTUNATELY, SOME OF OUR REVENUES BEGAN TO REBOUND, AND THROUGH CAREFUL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, WE WERE ABLE TO BUILD

A FUND BALANCE BACK UP. IN 2022, INCLUDING CASH AND RESERVES, AND WE MAINTAIN THAT THROUGH 2024. SO WE WERE BACK TO BLUE POSITIVE IN 2025. EXPENDITURE BUDGETS WERE STRUCTURED WITH PLANNED SPENDING OF

RESERVES IN THE ADOPTED BUDGET, BUT THIS COMPOUNDED WITH LOWER THAN EXPECTED REVENUE COLLECTIONS, RESULTED IN OUR FUND BALANCE DROPPING TO $2 MILLION BY YEAR END THESE CIRCUMSTANCES CONTINUE FOR 2026.

THE DOUBLE BARS ON THE RIGHT FOR 26 THROUGH 28 SHOW WHAT WE PROJECT. OUR FUND BALANCE WILL BE IF WE TAKE NO INTERVENTION VERSUS WHAT WE PROJECT AS A RESULT OF THE BUDGET CHANGES WE'RE PROPOSING.

RECENT ADOPTED BUDGETS MEAN THAT WITHOUT ACTION, WE WOULD FIND OURSELVES AT THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS CHART IN ORANGE, IN ACTION WOULD RESULT IN A WORSENING DEFICIT FOR THE FUND THAT COULD NOT BE OFFSET

BY OTHER TRANSPORTATION FUNDING SOURCES. THESE PROJECTIONS ARE BASED ON OUR CURRENT FINANCIAL STATE IN 2026, ALONG WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF OUR BASELINE BUDGET FOR 27 AND 28, UNCHANGED AND CURRENT

REVENUE FORECASTS WITHOUT INTERVENTION, YOU SEE A DRASTIC CHANGE IN OUR ABILITY TO KEEP THE TRANSPORTATION FUND AND THEREFORE THE DEPARTMENT FINANCIALLY SOLVENT. TODAY, WE'RE PROPOSING ACTIONS TO

BALANCE OUR BUDGET AND IMMEDIATELY BEGIN TO BUILD BACK RESERVES OVER TIME. AND BY 2028, TO GET TO THE HEALTHY RESERVE LEVELS, WE SHOULD BE MAINTAINING THIS POSITIVE TRAJECTORY IS SHOWN IN THE BLUE

BARS ON THE RIGHT. DOING THIS MEANS TAKING SOME OF OUR REVENUES NOW AND PLACING THEM INTO OUR DEPLETED RESERVE FUND TO BRING GREATER STABILITY, TO START DURING UNCERTAIN ECONOMIC TIMES. THESE ACTIONS,

WHILE DIFFICULT, ARE NECESSARY AND RESPONSIBLE AND DEMONSTRATE TO THE PUBLIC THAT WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT SOUND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES. OUR PROPOSED BUDGET CHALLENGES ADDRESS THE

TRANSPORTATION FUNDS FISCAL CHALLENGES HEAD ON AND SETS THE FUND ON A PATH TO SUSTAINABLE, BALANCED BUDGETS. HEALTHY CASH AVAILABILITY AND PRUDENT RESERVE LEVELS. THIS REPRESENTS GOOD GOVERNANCE AND

SOUND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. AGAIN, THE LIGHT BLUE BARS ON THE FAR RIGHT SHOW OUR GRADUAL RETURN TO FINANCIAL STABILITY, AS PROPOSED IN OUR YEAR END SUPPLEMENTAL AND THE UPCOMING PROPOSED BUDGET. WE

NOW SHIFT WITH THIS CHART THAT SHOWS HOW WE KEEP THOSE CRITICAL RESERVES FUNDED BASED ON RESOURCES AND EXPENSES EACH YEAR. AS A REMINDER, THIS IS JUST IN THE PRIMARY TRANSPORTATION FUND AND DOES NOT

REFLECT RESOURCES LIKE THE TRANSPORTATION LEVY, WHICH HAS A SEPARATE FUND. THIS LINE GRAPH ILLUSTRATES WHERE WE HAVE BEEN AND WHERE WE WANT TO GO. AS WITH ANY ORGANIZATION, HOUSEHOLD OR BUSINESS, WE

WANT OUR EXPENSES TO BE LESS THAN OUR AVAILABLE RESOURCES. IN THIS GRAPH, OUR EXPENSES ARE SHOWN IN ORANGE AND RESOURCES IN BLUE. WE ALWAYS STRIVE TO HAVE THE ORANGE LINE ABOVE THE BLUE, AND YOU CAN

AGAIN SEE THAT CONFLUENCE OF UNPRECEDENTED EVENTS THAT STARTED IN 2019 AND 2020 AND TOOK US OFF COURSE. WHEN THE ORANGE LINE MEETS OR CROSSES ABOVE THE BLUE LINE, OUR EXPENSES HAVE EXCEEDED RESOURCES

AND THE RESERVES ARE TAPPED. THE ADMINISTRATION AND SDOT BELIEVE IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE TWO LINES DON'T CROSS UNLESS THERE IS A TRUE EMERGENCY OR ECONOMIC EVENT LIKE WE HAD EARLIER THIS DECADE. I

ALSO WANT TO FOCUS OUR ATTENTION ON THE STEEP DECLINE IN THE DASHED BLUE LINE, WHICH REPRESENTS THE BUDGET PROPOSAL WE'RE DELIVERING TODAY. OUR REVENUES WERE ON AN UPWARD TRAJECTORY FROM 2025 INTO

2026. WE REBOUNDED, BUT NOW WE ARE AGAIN AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT WITH OUR FUNDING STREAMS DECLINING AND OVERSUBSCRIBED, WE FIND OURSELVES PIVOTING MID-CYCLE FOR THE CURRENT YEAR AND PLANNING SPENDING

REDUCTIONS IN THE NEXT BUDGET CYCLE. THE SCALE OF THE DROP IN RESOURCES WITHIN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND THAT IS NOW PROJECTED FOR 2027 IS EXTREME. WE ARE PREPARING FOR RESOURCES TO NOT ONLY GO BELOW

THE PRIOR YEAR, BUT TO GO BELOW RESOURCE LEVELS IN 2018. JUST AS A SIDE NOTE, THE FIGURES THAT THESE LINES ARE DERIVED FROM ARE NOMINAL DOLLARS, AND THEY DON'T ACCOUNT FOR INFLATION. SO THE DOTTED

LINE SHOW OUR CURRENT TRAJECTORY FOR RESOURCE AVAILABILITY THIS YEAR AND IN THE UPCOMING BIENNIUM, AND IN THE ORANGE DOTTED LINE, OUR EFFORTS TO REALIGN EXPENDITURES WITH AVAILABLE RESOURCES AND ALLOW

FOR THE BUILDUP OF RESERVES TO WEATHER FUTURE CHALLENGES OR ADDRESS OPPORTUNITIES. THE BUDGET PROPOSALS THAT ARE BEFORE YOU ACHIEVE THIS GOAL. AS WE'VE SAID, REBALANCING EFFORTS ARE NECESSARY NOW AND

IN THE COMING TWO YEARS, WITH A FOCUS ON THE GENERAL FUND AND THE TRANSPORTATION FUND. AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING FOR EACH YEAR. WITH THIS SLIDE. WE'RE SHIFTING OUR

PRESENTATION TO SPENDING REDUCTIONS TO CLOSE OUT THIS YEAR. OUR STARTING POINT FOR GETTING INTO BALANCE. NOTE THAT WE ARE STARTING FROM THE 2026 REVISED BUDGET, WHICH INCLUDES ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSFERS

AND CHANGES ENACTED IN THE Q ONE AND Q2 SUPPLEMENTALS, ACCOUNTING FOR A 2022 MILLION. EXCUSE ME, 2220. ALL RIGHT, LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN. A 20 $2 MILLION IN INCREASES OVER THE 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET.

HOWEVER, OUR PROPOSED 2026 YEAR END SUPPLEMENTAL REDUCES OUR CURRENT BUDGET BY $178 MILLION, INCLUDING $115 MILLION OF TIMING CHANGES FOR CAPITAL PROJECT DELIVERY, PRIMARILY FOR LEVY PROJECTS TO PUT

THE BUDGET APPROPRIATION INTO THE RIGHT YEAR, AND INCLUDES EXTENSIVE ADJUSTMENTS IN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND TOTALING $56.7 MILLION. THE PRIMARY STRATEGIES WE ARE EMPLOYING ARE, AS I INDICATED,

ABANDONING CAPITAL CARRY FORWARD FOR SELECT PROJECTS, FUNDING REALIGNMENTS TO FOCUS ON LEVY DELIVERABLES OR SHIFT TO AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERA FUNDING FOR ELIGIBLE SAFETY PROJECTS AND RETAINING

SERVICES, AND REDUCING SPENDING IN VARIOUS PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS. THE PIE CHART ON THE RIGHT SHOWS YOU THE REDUCTION LEVELS IN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND FOR EACH OF THOSE PRIMARY CATEGORIES. WE ARE

TAPPING SOME LEVY FUNDING EARLIER IN PROGRAMS THAT HAVE A MIX OF LEVY AND LOCAL FUNDING, ALLOWING THOSE PROGRAMS TO RETAIN STAFF SKILL AND KNOW HOW WHILE DELIVERING LEVY PRIORITIES. IN 26 IN FUTURE

YEARS, THEIR FUNDING MIXES WILL SHIFT BACK TO THE TRANSPORTATION FUND STARTING IN 29 TO ENSURE THE LEVY KEEPS BALANCED ON ITS INTERNAL PRIORITY FUNDING CATEGORIES. NOTABLE PROJECT REDUCTIONS AS YOU'LL

SEE, INCLUDE EMERGENCY SERVICES SIGNAL MAJOR MAINTENANCE AND BRIDGE REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT. I'LL JUST SPEND A FEW WORDS ON EACH FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES. THIS LINE ITEM IS MOSTLY USED BY SDOT TO

RESPOND TO INCLEMENT WEATHER EVENTS LIKE SNOW AND ICE, URBAN FLOODING, AND WINDSTORMS. AS I'M SURE YOU ALL KNOW, DUE TO A MILD WINTER TO START 2026 AND THE PROJECTED MILD WINTER FOR THE REMAINDER OF

THE YEAR. SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS ON EMERGENCY SERVICE SERVICES LABOR PROJECTS IS ANTICIPATED SIGNAL MAJOR MAINTENANCE. THIS SAVINGS IS ACHIEVED BY DEFERRING WORK ON SEVERAL PROJECTS IN 2026 AND PUSHING

THEM INTO 2027. THESE AREN'T NEW SIGNALS, BUT REGULAR MAINTENANCE AND UPGRADES AT A FEW DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THE CITY. BRIDGE REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT. THIS REDUCTION AFFECTS CONTINGENCY SET

ASIDES FOR ONE BRIDGE REPAIR PROJECT AND SELECT AREA WORK. CONTINGENCIES ARE NOT ZEROED OUT, BUT REDUCED. WHAT ENGINEERS SEE AS AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL BASED ON THE SPECIFIC PROJECTS. GOOD WE NOW SHIFT

FROM THE 26 YEAR END SUPPLEMENTAL TO 2728 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR BALANCING PURPOSES. WE HAVE ASSUMED THE CHANGES INCLUDED IN OUR 26 YEAR END SUPPLEMENTAL PROPOSAL ARE APPROVED. THE TABLE SHOWS REDUCTIONS

ONLY AND DOES NOT REFLECT SOME OF THE REVENUE PROPOSALS, AS THOUGHT IS ALSO ADVANCING, WHICH WILL REVIEW IN A FEW MINUTES. THE TABLE SHOWS REDUCTION TOTALS BY THE MAJOR FUNDS THAT SUPPORT SDOT

PORTFOLIO. AS WE CAN SEE, REDUCTIONS ARE STILL NECESSARY ACROSS SEVERAL KEY FUNDS IN 27 AND 28 TO ALIGN WITH REVENUE TRENDS IN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND AND TO SUPPORT GOALS OF BUILDING UP FUND BALANCES

FOR FUTURE RESILIENCE. FOR EXAMPLE, RIGHT AND VEHICLE LICENSE FEE SUPPORTED PROGRAMS HAVE REDUCTION TARGETS FOLLOWING THE AUGUST REVENUE FORECAST FORECAST SHOWN HERE. WE ARE ALSO, AS DIRECTOR BRADY

MENTIONED, PARTICIPATING IN GENERAL FUND REDUCTIONS THAT ARE HAPPENING ACROSS CITY DEPARTMENTS. WE'LL SHARE EXAMPLES OF SOME OF OUR PROPOSED REDUCTIONS IN JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES. BUT FIRST, I WANT

TO EMPHASIZE AGAIN THAT THE TRANSPORTATION LEVY PASSED BY VOTERS IN 2024 IS A PROPERTY TAX WITH STABLE FUNDING, SO IT DOES NOT HAVE ANY PROGRAM LEVEL REDUCTIONS. ALTHOUGH THE BUDGET DOES REFLECT

TIMING CHANGES TO ALIGN WITH UPDATED PROJECT DELIVERY SCHEDULES. OVERALL, THIS BUDGET SUPPORTS SUSTAINABLE SPENDING LEVELS BY ADJUSTING BUDGETS THROUGH REDUCTIONS, ADDING REVENUES, AND THROUGH

LEGISLATIVE MEANS AND ALLOCATED PROJECT. ALLOCATING PROJECTED REVENUE INCREASES AS WELL THROUGH NEW REVENUES FROM THE KING COUNTY TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT. IT'S A BALANCED BUDGET THAT STARTS BUILDING

UP OUR RESERVES AGAIN, WHILE ALSO ALIGNING LEVY BUDGETS WITH PLANNED PROJECT SPENDING TIMELINES. THIS SLIDE SHOWS HOW DECISIONS PROPOSED ON PRIOR SLIDES AFFECT DOT'S WORKFORCE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE

THAT THESE FUNDING CHANGES AND SPENDING REDUCTIONS DO AFFECT SDOT STAFFING LEVELS. IN 27 AND 289 POSITION REDUCTIONS ARE PROPOSED. WE FOCUSED ON POSITIONS THAT HAVE REMAINED UNFILLED DUE TO SAVINGS

TARGETS AND DO NOT REPRESENT A DIRECT CHANGE IN SERVICE LEVEL. WE WANT TO PUT THESE REDUCTIONS IN PERSPECTIVE FOR SDOT AS A WHOLE. OUR TOTAL BUDGET REDUCTIONS FOR THE BIENNIUM EQUAL APPROXIMATELY 4%

OF THE COMBINED 2728 BUDGETS, TOTALING $47.9 MILLION OVER THE TWO YEARS. AS DIRECTOR BRADY MENTIONED IN HER INTRODUCTION, OUR PROPOSAL AIMS TO MAKE BROAD, SHALLOW REDUCTIONS THROUGHOUT OUR PORTFOLIO

INSTEAD OF DEEP REDUCTIONS THAT SEVERELY DISRUPT SERVICE OR PROJECT DELIVERY. THAT MEANS THAT NEARLY HALF 48% OF SCOTT'S BUDGET PROGRAMS ARE TAKING CUTS, REFLECTING THE STRATEGIC APPROACH UNDERLYING

THESE CHANGES. SO WITH A 4% REDUCTION, S DOT REMAINS WELL FUNDED. OVERALL, BUT REAL IMPACTS WILL BE FELT IN ALMOST HALF OF OUR PROGRAMS THROUGH INCREASED SERVICE WAIT TIMES AND DEFERRED PROJECT

SCHEDULES, DUE PRIMARILY TO THE REDUCTIONS IN OUR FLEXIBLE FUNDING SOURCES IN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND. WE'VE LISTED A FEW EXAMPLES HERE FROM BOTH OUR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES AND OUR

CAPITAL PROJECT PORTFOLIOS, WITH FULL DETAILS INCLUDED IN OUR BUDGET CHANGE SUBMITTALS. IN OPERATIONS, AS AN EXAMPLE 23% REDUCTION IN OUR STREET SERVICE MAINTENANCE BUDGET MEANS LONGER SERVICE

INTERVALS AND A 10% REDUCTION IN OUR POTHOLE REPAIR BUDGET COULD IMPACT THE 72 HOUR RESPONSE STANDARD. WE AIM FOR IN CAPITAL. AS AN EXAMPLE, WE ARE REDUCING OUR ARTERIAL MAJOR MAINTENANCE BY 24%,

WHICH ALIGNS TO HISTORIC BUDGET LEVELS, INCLUDING IN 2024 AND A 20% REDUCTION IN OUR STRUCTURES. MAJOR MAINTENANCE WILL BE MANAGED BY DEFERRED PROJECT DELIVERY SCHEDULES, MOVING TIMING INTO 27. WE NOW

SHIFT TO THE REVENUE SIDE OF THE EQUATION. OUR BALANCING STRATEGY DOES ASSUME SOME ADDITIONAL REVENUES FOR SDOT COMING FROM EXPANSION OF THE TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERA SYSTEM AND KING COUNTY'S NEW INCREASE

IN ITS TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT, DISTRICT SALES TAX. FIRST, LET'S TALK ABOUT TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERAS. AUTOMATED TRAFFIC CAMERAS ARE AN IMPORTANT AND EFFECTIVE SAFETY TOOL FOR OUR COMMUNITY. AS YOU KNOW

SCHOOL ZONES REMAIN OUR PRIMARY DEPLOYMENT AS DOT AND SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT COMPLETED EXPANSION OF 37 SCHOOL SPEED ZONE CAMERAS AT 19 LOCATIONS CITYWIDE, WHICH BECAME ACTIVE IN NOVEMBER OF LAST

YEAR AND WILL BE FULLY OPERATIONAL IN THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR. THESE CAMERAS ALSO PROVIDE REVENUES BEYOND THE COST OF MAINTENANCE AND ENFORCEMENT, HELPING TO FUND OTHER TRANSPORTATION SAFETY PROGRAMS

THROUGHOUT THE SAFETY, THE CITY. NEXT, THE NEW KING COUNTY TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT REVENUES. THE KING COUNTY TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT APPROVED AN ADDITIONAL. 1% SALES TAX FOR TEN YEARS AND ALL CITIES

IN THE COUNTY COLLECTIVELY RECEIVE 12.5% OF THOSE TAX REVENUES. AFTER ADMINISTRATIVE FEES. THESE REVENUES ARE MEANT TO SUPPORT TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. SEATTLE SHARE IS A PERCENTAGE OF THAT 12.5%,

WHICH YIELDS ONGOING FLEXIBLE NEW REVENUES FOR SDOT, WITH $4.7 MILLION ANTICIPATED IN 27 AND IN 28, WE SEND THANKS TO THE ELECTED LEADERSHIP WHO ADVOCATED FOR A FAIR SHARE OF THIS COUNTYWIDE TAX BEING

PAID BY SEATTLEITES. COMING BACK TO THE CITY OF SEATTLE, WE KNOW A LOT OF WORK WENT INTO THAT REQUEST. AND BECAUSE OF THAT EFFORT, WE CAN DO MORE WORK IN SEATTLE'S PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. THESE REVENUES

MAY VARY YEAR TO YEAR, AS OUR SHARE WILL BE AFFECTED BY ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND RELATIVE POPULATION GROWTH OF KING COUNTY CITIES IN 27 AND 28. WE'VE DESIGNATED THESE FUNDS FOR URBAN FORESTRY AND BRIDGE

AND STRUCTURES MAINTENANCE WORK TO STAVE OFF WHAT WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE BEEN PAINFUL BUDGETARY REDUCTIONS NOW I NEED TO FIND THE REST OF MY NOTES THEY DID NOT PRINT OUT. SO I'M GOING TO SWITCH TO MY

ONLINE VERSION IF YOU'LL BEAR WITH ME. -- AS CHRIS IS FINDING HER NOTES, I'LL JUST SAY THAT SDOT WAS WAITING IN THE WINGS SINCE <u>ABOUT 10:30 A.M. THIS MORNIN%. </u> SO THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US

ALL DAY. -- OUR PLEASURE. OKAY, THANK GOODNESS FOR ONLINE. ALL RIGHT. OUR PROPOSED BUDGET LEGISLATION AS DOT'S PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO INCLUDES THREE PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS A COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX

RATE INCREASE, COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX REVENUES ARE COLLECTED FROM PARKING IN PAID LOTS AND GARAGES. THE TAX IS AN IMPORTANT AND FLEXIBLE REVENUE SOURCE FOR SDOT FUNDING. MANY BASIC TRANSPORTATION

SERVICES, INCLUDING VISION ZERO EMERGENCY SERVICES, SIGNAL MAINTENANCE, MAINTENANCE ON BRIDGES AND OTHER ROADWAY STRUCTURES. URBAN FORESTRY, FIELD OPERATIONS AND DEBT SERVICE ON OUR BONDS. AS OTHER

REVENUES HAVE LAGGED, THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX REVENUE TO SDOT HAS INCREASED. THE CITY LAST INCREASED THIS TAX RATE IN JULY 20th 22 TO 14.5%. WE PROPOSE RAISING THE TAX TO 17%, SO

ADDITIONAL REVENUES CAN PROVIDE US WITH MORE GROWTH IN ONE OF THE TWO FULLY FLEXIBLE FUNDING STREAMS WE HAVE, AND WE CAN USE THOSE FUNDS FOR CORE SERVICES WHILE ALSO SUPPORTING THE CITY'S GOALS TO

REDUCE CONGESTION AND ENCOURAGE MULTI-MODAL AND TRANSIT RIDERSHIP. THIS TRANSLATES TO SOMEONE PAYING $0.50 MORE ON A BASE $20 PARKING FEE, FROM A TOTAL OF $22.90 CURRENTLY TO $23.40, WITHOUT THIS RATE

UPDATE, SDOT WOULD NEED TO IDENTIFY AN ADDITIONAL $9 MILLION IN ANNUAL PROGRAM REDUCTIONS FROM THE TRANSPORTATION FUND THROUGH CUTS TO CIP PROJECTS AND MAINTENANCE INCREASING STREET USE RATES PER THE

MUNICIPAL CODE, STREET USE OPERATIONS ARE TO BE FUNDED WITH PERMIT AND INSPECTION AND REVIEW FEES. THE IDEA HERE IS THAT PRIVATE SECTOR USE OF PUBLIC SPACE SHOULDN'T BE PAID BY GENERAL TAXPAYERS,

SINCE THE BENEFITS AREN'T BROADLY SHARED BY ALL. CURRENTLY, STREET USE PERMIT AND INSPECTION OPERATING COSTS EXCEED REVENUES BY POLICY DESIGN. THE PROPOSAL INCREASES THE COST RECOVERY PERCENTAGE FROM

THOSE SERVICES FROM ABOUT 70% FEE FUNDED AS IT IS NOW, TO ABOUT 80% FEE FUNDED INCREASES TO PERMIT FEES. BEYOND THE COMMERCIAL PRICE INDEX. LAST, EXCUSE ME, THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX LAST TOOK PLACE

DEPENDING UPON THE PARTICULAR FEE IN 20 16, 17, 18, 19 OR 22, MEANING SOME OF THESE FEES HAVE NOT BEEN ADJUSTED BEYOND CPI SINCE 2016 AND SO ON WITHOUT FULL COST RECOVERY, THIS WORK HAS TRADITIONALLY

BEEN SUBSIDIZED THROUGH STREET USE AND OCCUPATION FEES, WHICH ARE COLLECTED FROM LONG TERM OR TEMPORARY PRIVATE USE OF THE RIGHT OF WAY. FOR EXAMPLE, LANE CLOSURES FOR CONSTRUCTION, WHICH CAN ALSO BE

USED TO FUND OTHER TRANSPORTATION PRIORITIES. SHIFTING PERMIT COSTS TO THE PRIVATE APPLICANTS WHO BENEFIT DIRECTLY FROM THEIR STREET USE PERMITS IS CONSIDERED, IS CONSISTENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT'S

EQUITY GOALS. OUR PROPOSAL WOULD INCREASE PERMIT FEES BY ROUGHLY 30% AND PER OUR STAFF, REIMBURSEMENT, BY ROUGHLY 5%. AT THE SAME TIME. EXCUSE ME, THE STREET USE DIVISION HAS STARTED PROCESS

IMPROVEMENT WORK TO FIND EFFICIENCIES, REDUCE COSTS AND CONTINUE WORKING TO TURN PERMITS AROUND AS FAST AS POSSIBLE TO REDUCE FUNDING FOR THIS PART OF SDOT WOULD ASSUMEDLY RESULT IN LONGER PERMIT

TIMES AND FRUSTRATION FROM THE DEVELOPER AND SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY WHO WE SERVE. WE CAME TO THIS PROPOSAL AFTER SERIOUS INTERNAL DISCUSSIONS AROUND THE TRADE OFFS OF INCREASING FEES VERSUS HAVING

OTHER PROGRAMS THAT SUBSIDIZE THESE SERVICES VERSUS REDUCE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO PERMIT FEES. ADJUSTING RATES WILL PREVENT AN INCREASED DRAIN OF SDOT RESOURCES AWAY FROM OTHER TRANSPORTATION

SERVICES. AND FINALLY, IN INTERFUND LOAN FOR THE TRANSPORTATION FUND, CITY POLICY REQUIRES FUNDS TO NOT MAINTAIN A NEGATIVE CASH STATUS FOR MORE THAN 90 DAYS. THE TRANSPORTATION FUND HAS BEEN IN A

NEGATIVE BALANCE FOR THE BETTER PART OF LAST YEAR OF THE LAST YEAR. THIS LOAN WILL ALLOW US TO COMPLY WITH CITY POLICY WHILE ADDRESSING THE ISSUES, CREATING THE NEGATIVE CASH BALANCE. THE LOAN ITSELF

IS HANDLED THROUGH CASH TRANSFER AND DOES NOT HAVE A BUDGETARY IMPACT, BUT THE INTEREST PAYMENTS WILL BE PART OF THE BUDGET AND THIS WILL THIS IS SHOWN IN OUR FINANCIAL PLANS. I WANT TO THANK YOU VERY

MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION, FOR PUTTING UP WITH MY SLIGHT BIT OF NERVOUSNESS, BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A WHILE. AS I SAID, AND AS I'VE WALKED THROUGH WHAT IS A DIFFICULT STORYLINE AND COMPLEX INFORMATION, I'M

NOW GOING TO HAND THE PRESENTATION BACK TO DIRECTOR BRADY TO SHARE SOME OF THE IMPORTANT POLICY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMITMENTS SDOT AND OUR PROPOSED BUDGET ACTIONS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT. THANK YOU

VERY MUCH. -- IN RECENT MONTHS, WE'VE SEEN AN UPTICK IN FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES FROM TRAFFIC CRASHES. I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT STREET SAFETY AND VISION ZERO, AS A PROGRAM REMAIN FULLY FUNDED IN

THIS BUDGET. WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS PROGRAM IS TO SEATTLE CITIZENS. OUR MAYOR AND OUR COUNCILMEMBERS. I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER 2026-05 WAS SIGNED BY MAYOR WILSON ON AUGUST 21st.

THE EXECUTIVE ORDER REAFFIRMS S DOT'S FOCUS ON ESTABLISHED, EFFECTIVE VISION ZERO POLICIES AND ARE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH. IT OUTLINES DIRECTIVES TO EXPEDITE SAFETY PROJECTS, INSTALL SPEED REDUCING

CAMERAS AND ARTERIALS, AND PUSH A LEGISLATIVE AGENDA THAT WOULD EMPOWER SDOT THROUGH BOLDER STATE LAWS AND POLICIES. I KNOW COUNCILMEMBER SAKA HAS PROPOSED COMPLEMENTARY LEGISLATION FOCUSED ON VISION

ZERO AS WELL. THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER. OUR VISION ZERO RELATED FUNDING LEVELS ARE MAINTAINED ABOVE THE 2026 TO 2031 ADOPTED CIP AND RESULT IN A $42.4 MILLION BUDGET FOR THE THREE YEARS NEXT SLIDE. WE

WANT TO AGAIN THANK CITY COUNCIL FOR SUPPORTING AND RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SEATTLE TRANSIT MEASURE. THIS BUDGET ASSUMES CONTINUANCE OF THIS FUNDING. WITH IT, WE WILL CONTINUE TO FUND

SEATTLE FOCUSED BUS SERVICE FROM METRO, INCLUDING NEW INVESTMENTS IN SOUTH LAKE UNION AND LAKE CITY AND THE FREE ORCA PASS PROGRAM WOULD ALSO CONTINUE, AS WELL AS FUNDING FOR SDOT STREETCAR

OPERATIONS. SOUND TRANSIT THREE SUPPORT AND TARGETED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TO RELIEVE BUS CONGESTION NEXT SLIDE. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS WE TALK ABOUT BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS AND THE REDUCTIONS TO

SPECIFIC PROGRAMS, WE DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THE REST OF OUR WORK. HERE WE OUTLINE KEY PRIORITIES AS SDOT IS IMPLEMENTING BASED ON WHAT VOTERS SUPPORTED AND THE DIRECTION SET BY PAST AND PRESENT CITY

COUNCILS AND EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIONS. WE ALSO WANT TO NOTE THAT TODAY'S UPDATES ABOUT REDUCTIONS, LIMITED RESERVES AND UNCERTAIN FUNDING MAKE OUR OVERALL POSITION TO HANDLE NEW REQUESTS LESS

FLEXIBLE. NEW PRIORITIES, PROJECTS, PROGRAMS, AND POLICIES THAT ARE UNFUNDED CAN PRESENT A ZERO SUM GAME IN THIS FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENT. SO AS WE ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITIES, BUSINESSES AND OUR ELECTED

LEADERSHIP, FOLKS ARE LIKELY TO HEAR EVEN MORE FROM SDOT ABOUT TRADE OFFS. OUTLINED ON THIS SLIDE IS A SAMPLING OF RECENT WORK WE SEE AS ALIGNED WITH SHARED PRIORITIES. BETTER TRANSIT SERVICE THROUGH

BETTER BUS STREETS, RIDER SAFETY AND RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT OF THE SEATTLE TRANSIT MEASURE. SIDEWALKS AND ACCESSIBILITY PROJECTS ARE GETTING A MAJOR INFLUX OF SPENDING THANKS TO THE 2024

TRANSPORTATION LEVY. IT PROVIDES FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND NEW SIDEWALKS, WALKWAYS, AND CURB RAMPS THAT PROVIDE CRITICAL ACCESS. FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND CHILDREN, STREET AND BRIDGE

PRESERVATION REMAINS ONE OF OUR HIGHEST SPENDING AREAS, AND THE KEY TO KEEPING OUR OVERALL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FUNCTIONAL AND WELL MAINTAINED. WE DO THAT WITH MAJOR PAVING PROJECTS BRIDGE, BRIDGE,

REHABILITATION AND SMART INTERVENTIONS ALONG THE WAY. TRAFFIC SAFETY AND VISION ZERO ARE ULTIMATELY OUR TOP PRIORITY AND SHOW UP IN EVERY PROGRAM AND PROJECT THAT WE DELIVER THIS SCHOOL YEAR, FAMILIES

ARE SEEING A SURGE OF PROJECTS, INCLUDING NEW TRAFFIC SIGNALS, NEIGHBORHOOD AND ARTERIAL TRAFFIC, CALMING CROSSWALKS, AND INVENTIVE WAYS TO ADDRESS LONG STANDING TROUBLE SPOTS. MAJOR PROJECTS ARE

PROCEEDING. OUR PROJECTS ARE RESHAPING SEATTLE WITH A FOCUS ON IMPROVING TRANSPORTATION, ACCESS AND BUSINESS DISTRICTS. THE RAPIDRIDE J LINE PROJECTS AND EASTLAKE AND THE U. DISTRICT ARE JUST OVER

HALF WAY OVER THE HALFWAY COMPLETION MARK. THE ROUTE 40 CORRIDOR PROJECT IN WESTLAKE, FREMONT AND BALLARD IS A MONTH AWAY FROM A RIBBON CUTTING PROJECTS TO SUPPORT WALKING, BIKING AND BUS ACCESS TO

SOUND TRANSIT'S NEW PINEHURST STATION ARE UNDERWAY, BY THE WAY, THAT IS OPENING THIS WEDNESDAY, SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL SEE YOU ALL OUT THERE AND JOIN US IN CELEBRATION WITH SOUND TRANSIT. AND WE'VE

LAUNCHED MAJOR SAFETY AND MAINTENANCE PROJECTS TO INVEST IN THE RESHAPING OF AURORA AVENUE, RAINIER AVENUE, BEACON AVENUE AND 14th AVENUE AND SOUTH PARK. NEXT AS WE CLOSE, WE WANT TO UNDERSCORE THAT

OUR BUDGET APPROACH IS GROUNDED IN MAKING SURE OUR PLANS MATCH OUR RESOURCES, NOT JUST FOR THIS YEAR, BUT FOR THE LONG RUN. OVERALL, WE'RE THANKFUL FOR OUR DIVERSIFIED FUNDING MODEL, AND THE PUBLIC IS

EXPERIENCING THOSE INVESTMENTS FIRSTHAND. FOR FLEXIBLE FUNDING SHORTFALL AND NEED FOR ADEQUATE RESERVES. WE BELIEVE IN THIS APPROACH. IT AIMS TO INSTITUTE CUTS BROADLY, NOT DEEPLY. NO SINGLE PROGRAM

OR CONSTITUENCY WILL SEE THEIR VISION UNFUNDED. WE MANAGE TO BALANCE A SUSTAINABLE AND A SUSTAINABLE WAY. WE'VE COMPLETED OUR WORK CLOSELY WITH CBO DIRECTOR ALY PENNUCCI AND HER TEAM WITH THE MAYOR'S

OFFICE AND HERE TODAY WITH CITY COUNCIL. WE APPRECIATE THESE PARTNERSHIPS AND SUPPORT AS WE NAVIGATE A CHALLENGING FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENT TOGETHER. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. EVEN WITH THE REAL

CONSTRAINTS, WE REMAIN FOCUSED ON DELIVERING A SAFE, RELIABLE AND WELL MAINTAINED TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FOR OUR CITY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, YOUR ENGAGEMENT, AND YOUR CONTINUED

SUPPORT. -- THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE FROM DIRECTOR PENNUCCI NOTHING FURTHER. RIGHT NOW I WILL GET INTO MY COMMENTS, BUT AND I'LL SHARE SHORT ONES FROM A BUDGET PERSPECTIVE, BUT I'LL LET COUNCILMEMBER

SAKA IS THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE OVERSEEING THIS DEPARTMENT. YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR, AND THANK YOU. ACTING DIRECTOR BRADY AND THE ENTIRE SDOT TEAM FOR YOUR WORK IN DEVELOPING THIS

PROPOSAL UNDER EXCEPTIONALLY CHALLENGING FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS. AND I KNOW A LOT OF WORK WENT WENT INTO THIS. I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL THE ENTIRE SDOT TEAM, FROM THE PLANNERS TO THE EXECUTORS, AND

NOTING THAT MR. RODNEY MAXEY FROM THE SDOT TEAM IS IN THE BACKGROUND. APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR TEAM AND THEIR LEADERSHIP AND ALL THE TERRIFIC WORK YOU ALL DO IN THE DEPARTMENT. AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO

THIS PROPOSED BUDGET, IT'S ALSO A NATURAL OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK BACK AS WELL. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK BACK AT THIS PAST YEAR, A FEW COOL THINGS TO CELEBRATE FROM THE DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING A VERY WELL

PLANNED, ORGANIZED AND ULTIMATELY EXECUTED SEAHAWKS SUPER BOWL VICTORY PARADE AND -- AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S AN EVENT. THAT CHAMPIONSHIP CITIES DO REGULARLY FOR VARIOUS MAJOR, YOU KNOW, CHAMPIONSHIPS.

WON. IT WAS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE EXCITED TO, TO HOST OUR OWN HERE. IN CONNECTION WITH THE LOMBARDI TROPHY TROPHY CELEBRATION FOR THE SEAHAWKS. BUT THAT'S KIND OF THAT'S KIND OF A EVENT THAT'S HELD ACROSS

MAJOR CITIES IN THE COUNTRY. SO WE STILL DID GREAT. FOR THAT. BUT THE BIGGEST SORT OF MARQUEE EVENT WAS FIFA. AS YOU ALLUDED TO. ACTING DIRECTOR. FIFA WORLD CUP WELL RUN, WELL PLANNED AND AGAIN WELL

IMPLEMENTED STRATEGY NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. RENOWNED AND RECOGNIZED AND WE'RE EITHER THE TOP OR THE TOP 2 OR 3 RANKINGS ON ACROSS MULTIPLE DIFFERENT RANKING SETS. AND A HUGE REASON FOR THAT

WAS BECAUSE OF OUR WORLD CLASS TRANSIT AND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS. AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TRANSIT, SDOT MANAGES AND OWNS DOESN'T NECESSARILY OPERATE, BUT TO TRANSIT AGENCIES THEMSELVES. SEATTLE

MONORAIL AND THE STREETCAR. AND OF COURSE, A HUGE FACTOR FOR OUR SUCCESS WAS THE WATERFRONT, WHICH WE KNOW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT AND THE OFFICE OF THE WATERFRONT. AND SO KUDOS THERE.

AND IN FACT, TODAY, FROM THERE WAS AN ARTICLE IN TODAY'S SEATTLE TIMES FROM JEAN BOURQUE SHOWING THAT THE OXFORD ECONOMICS GLOBAL CITIES INDEX SHOWED SEATTLE IS RANKED NUMBER FOUR CITY GLOBALLY BASED

OFF OF A VARIETY OF FACTORS, INCLUDING GOVERNANCE. I SHOULD SAY. BUT IN ANY EVENT, A LOT TO LOT TO BE PROUD OF, A LOT TO CELEBRATE, AND ALSO A LOT TO CONSIDER AS WE HEAD INTO NEXT YEAR'S PROPOSED

BUDGET AND BEYOND. SO, AND ALSO JUST REMIND THAT TRANSPORTATION SAFETY REMAINS MY HIGHEST PRIORITY AS CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE THAT OVERSEES YOUR DEPARTMENT. AT THE SAME TIME, SAFETY COMMITMENTS

ONLY MATTER IF SDOT HAS THE STABLE FUNDING, STAFFING, ENGINEERING CAPACITY AND MAINTENANCE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO DELIVER THEM, NOTING THAT IN MY OWN COUNCIL DISTRICT, FOR EXAMPLE, IN DISTRICT ONE,

RESIDENTS ARE ALREADY ASKING FOR SAFER STREETS, BETTER PAVEMENT, PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT, RELIABLE BRIDGES AND ROADWAY MAINTENANCE, AND LONGER OVERDUE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG CORRIDORS LIKE ROXBURY AND

FAUNTLEROY. THE TRANSPORTATION FUND SHORTFALL, THEREFORE, RAISES CONCERNS THAT GO BEYOND BALANCING COLUMNS ON A SPREADSHEET COUNCIL NEEDS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHICH SERVICES AND PROJECTS RESIDENTS

WILL ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE AS DELAYED, REDUCED OR EVEN LESS VISIBLE, AND WHETHER THE PROPOSED TAX INCREASES. THERE ARE SOME HERE FEES OR SHIFT FUND SHIFTS AND BORROWING MECHANISMS PROVIDE A SUSTAINABLE

SOLUTION FINALLY, I'LL NOTE THAT WE ALSO NEED A TRANSPARENT ACCOUNTING OF WHAT THIS BUDGET FUNDS FOR THE MAYOR'S RECENT VISION ZERO EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT THAT WAS MENTIONED AND VERSUS WHAT WAS ALREADY

PLANNED. ET-CETERA AND AGAINST THIS BACKDROP, I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. SO WE'VE HEARD THAT THE TRANSPORTATION FUND SUPPORTS ROUGHLY 42% OF DOT'S BUDGET. CAN YOU PLEASE CONFIRM THE CORRECT PERCENTAGE OR

DENOMINATOR AND QUANTIFY THE UNDERLYING 2027 AND 2028 FUNDING GAP? BEFORE THE PROPOSED REVENUE INCREASES AND RELATED QUESTION IF THE COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX OR STREET USE REVENUES UNDERPERFORM AGAIN,

WHICH SPECIFIC REVENUES OR EXCUSE ME, WHICH SPECIFIC SERVICES OR PROJECTS WOULD LIKELY BE REDUCED FIRST? -- COMMITTEE TABLE. -- COUNCILMEMBER, WOULD YOU PLEASE RESTATE YOUR FIRST QUESTION CONCERNING

THE TRANSPORTATION FUND RELATIVE TO THE BUDGET AS A WHOLE? -- ABSOLUTELY. 42% FIGURE. SO WE'VE HEARD THAT THE TRANSPORTATION FUND SUPPORTS ROUGHLY 42% OF S DOT'S BUDGET. CAN YOU PLEASE CONFIRM THE

CORRECT NUMBER, THE DENOMINATOR, AND QUANTIFY THE UNDERLYING 2027 AND 2028 FUNDING GAP BEFORE THE ASSOCIATED PROPOSED REVENUE INCREASES THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT IN YOUR PRESENTATION -- ALL RIGHT. SO KYLE

IS GOING TO PULL UP HIS MAGIC SPREADSHEET. AND I JUST WANT TO REITERATE, I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE ASKING TO IDENTIFY THE NUMBER, THE AMOUNT OF THE TRANSPORTATION FUND THAT IS IN THE 2728 BASELINE BUDGET

RELATIVE TO THE WHOLE BUDGET FOR THE DEPARTMENT. SO PRIOR TO ANY PROPOSED REDUCTIONS THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING FOR THE CURRENT YEAR AND FOR THE UPCOMING BIENNIUM, WHAT WOULD BE THE PERCENTAGE OF THE

TRANSPORTATION FUND CONTRIBUTION TO S DOT'S WHOLE BUDGET? -- YEAH. -- AND WE CAN GET BACK TO YOUR OFFICE WITH THE SPECIFICS ON IT. IN GENERAL, THE 42% WAS LOOKING AT 2026. THIS YEAR'S REVISED BUDGET.

SO THAT INCLUDES ALL OF THE CHANGES THAT YOU'VE MADE AS A COUNCIL TO THE BUDGET, INCLUDING THE CARRY FORWARD FROM THE PRIOR YEAR. SO THE OVERALL BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR WAS A LITTLE OVER $1 BILLION. ONCE

YOU'VE INCLUDED ALL THOSE CARRY FORWARDS, THE ADOPTED BUDGET WAS AROUND 600 MILLION. SO THOSE RATIOS HOLD PRETTY CLOSELY FOR STILL ABOUT 42% OF THAT ADOPTED BUDGET. BUT WE CAN GET THE SPECIFICS FOR

EACH YEAR AND BREAK THAT OUT TO YOU IN A FOLLOW UP. SO DOES THAT GET AT THE QUESTION YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? -- YEAH. IS IT. -- GOOD FOR NOW? WOULD APPRECIATE MORE FOLLOW UP. -- YEAH. AND THE

TRANSPORTATION FUND. THE OTHER THING ABOUT IT, IT INCLUDES GRANTS THAT WE'VE WON FOR PROJECTS WITH FEDERAL, STATE GRANTS, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS. SO THEY OFTEN END UP FALLING IN THAT CARRY FORWARD

CATEGORY. THERE ARE OFTEN LARGE PROJECTS WHERE YOU WE APPLY FOR THEM AND WIN THEM WHILE WE'RE IN DESIGN, AND THEN THE MONEY'S FOR CONSTRUCTION. SO THAT MIGHT LAG FOR A YEAR OR TWO, BUT WE CAN BREAK

THAT OUT FOR YOU. AND THEN THE SECOND QUESTION, I'VE BROUGHT US BACK TO THIS SLIDE WHERE WE SHOW THE REDUCTIONS WE ARE PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION FUND IN THIS CASE, ABOUT 20,000,000 IN 27. AND I GOT TO

MOVE THAT OUT OF THE WAY, 21,000,000 IN 28. IF WE DID NOT INCREASE THE THE RATE OF THE CP T TAX, THEN THAT NUMBER WOULD BE ANOTHER 9 MILLION HIGHER. WE WOULD NEED TO GO FIND ANOTHER 9 MILLION IN

PROJECTS TO REDUCE. AND AGAIN, IT'S IN YOUR MOST FLEXIBLE SOURCES. SO WE WE CAN'T TOUCH A LEVY PROJECT. THOSE ARE FUNDED BY LEVY. WE'D HAVE TO BE LOOKING AT THE THINGS LIKE DAY TO DAY MAINTENANCE, DAY

TO DAY PAVING SPECIFIC CIP PROGRAMS. WE OFTEN LOOK THERE. SO WE WOULDN'T BE CANCELING A PROJECT THAT'S ALREADY IN DESIGN IN FLIGHT, AND PROMISED WE CAN GET BACK WITH YOUR OFFICE ON MORE SPECIFICS

ABOUT WHAT THOSE WOULD LOOK LIKE IN THAT, YOU KNOW, HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION AND THEN ALSO THE STREET USE FEES. I OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT AMOUNT. I THINK WE'RE ON THE ORDER OF 4

TO $5 MILLION OF ADDITIONAL FEES. WE CAN DOUBLE CHECK THAT AND GET BACK. -- I BELIEVE THAT BALLPARK IS CORRECT. AND BOTH THE $9 MILLION THAT KYLE REFERRED TO FOR COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX AND THE STREET

USE PROPOSED ADDITIONAL STREET USE FEE REVENUE. OUR ANNUAL AMOUNTS. -- GOT IT. THANK YOU. ON THE ADDRESSING THE SHORTFALL PART OF THAT, I'LL JUST POINT YOU TO SLIDE TEN. SOME OF THE. THE REDUCTION

SPOTLIGHT SLIDE THOSE ITEMS THERE ALONG WITH I THINK SOME OF THE ITEMS LISTED ON A PRIOR SLIDE. IN ANY EVENT, THE SIGNALS, THE THE, THE MAINTENANCE AND THE OTHER SORT OF BUCKET ON THE. THAT WAS LISTED

ON THE PRIOR SLIDE ON THIS SLIDE TEN. IT NOTES THAT THE 72 HOUR POTHOLE RESPONSE STANDARD MIGHT BE IMPACTED BY A 10% REDUCTION IN. AND THAT LINE ITEM. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT. AND OF COURSE, WHEN YOU

SAID POTHOLE REPAIR, MY EAR NATURALLY PERKED UP. COLLEAGUES. BUT IN ANY EVENT, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT 72 HOUR RESPONSE STANDARD WAS A SPECIFIC COMMITMENT THAT WE MADE IN THE 2024 TRANSPORTATION

LEVY. SO WHY WOULD THAT BE IMPACTED BY THE PROPOSED REDUCTIONS? SO WHY OR HOW? I GUESS. -- WELL, SO JUST OBVIOUSLY THE POTHOLE REPAIR IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF AN SDOT PROGRAM TAKING A REDUCTION

NECESSARY TO REBALANCE THE TRANSPORTATION FUND. ALL THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THAT SLIDE BEFORE THIS ONE TOOK A 4% OVERALL REDUCTION THAT WAS REQUIRED TO KEEP US BUDGET IN BALANCE. AND WE

KNOW THEY'RE ALL VALUED BY SEATTLE TAXPAYERS. RIGHT NOW WE'RE HITTING ABOUT 90% OF POTHOLE REPAIRS WITHIN 72 HOURS. SO THE CUT WE'RE SHOWING HERE MIGHT BRING US CLOSER TO THE 80% LEVY COMMITMENT.

THAT'S THAT'S WHAT WE HAD COMMITTED TO IN THE LEVY. AND THAT JUST, YOU KNOW, SOLELY DEPENDENT ON THE SCOPE AND THE NUMBER OF POTHOLE REPAIRS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED. BUT WE ARE CURRENTLY, AS OF RIGHT

NOW, WE'RE HITTING ABOUT 90% OF POTHOLES AT THIS AT THAT 72 HOUR LEVEL. -- GOT IT. YES. NO, THAT MAKES SENSE. -- PERFORMING. -- YES. SO THE MINIMUM FLOOR SET FORTH IN THE LEVY WAS 80% OF REPORTED

POTHOLES WITHIN 72 HOURS. AND YOU KNOW, CURRENTLY OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, THE DEPARTMENT HAS PERFORMING ABOVE THAT MINIMUM THRESHOLD. MOST RECENTLY 90%. SO YOU'RE SAYING IT COULD GO BACK CLOSER

TO 80% UNDER. OKAY. -- I'LL JUST ADD THAT THE LEVY IS NOT THE ONLY FUNDING SOURCE FOR THAT PROGRAM. IT IT SUPPLEMENTS OUR BASE FUNDING, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING IS IN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND.

-- GOT IT. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE PROPOSED REDUCTIONS OF APPROXIMATELY 2.4 MILLION FROM STRATEGIC PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, 3.1 MILLION FROM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE AND 14.2 MILLION FROM CAPITAL

INFRASTRUCTURE. JUST CURIOUS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHICH SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS, PROJECTS OR DELIVERY SCHEDULES WILL RESIDENTS ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE AS AS EITHER DELAYED OR DIMINISHED, INCLUDING ON THE HIGH

INJURY NETWORK? IF REVENUE SUDDENLY IMPROVES FOR ANY NUMBER OF REASONS, WHAT WOULD SDOT RECOMMEND RESTORING FIRST? -- THAT'S A TRICK QUESTION. I'M JUST KIDDING. THE MAJORITY OF THE CAPITAL CHANGES, SO

THE BUDGET CHANGES ON THE CAPITAL SIDE REALLY ARE ABOUT REALIGNING CAPITAL PROJECT DELIVERY. THERE ARE, IN TERMS OF THE TIMING, THERE ARE NO CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT ARE IN OUR PORTFOLIO, ESPECIALLY

THOSE THAT RELATE TO THE HIGH INJURY NETWORK OR TO ANY POLICY AREA THAT WE KNOW THAT THIS BODY AND THE MAYOR AND THE COMMUNITY ARE INTERESTED IN. SO REALLY, IT'S ABOUT PUTTING THE BUDGET

APPROPRIATIONS ON THE CAPITAL SIDE INTO THE YEAR WHERE THE CORRECT YEAR OR YEARS WHERE THE PROJECT WILL BE DELIVERED ON THE OPERATING SIDE. AS WE'VE INDICATED, THERE'S A VARIETY OF SERVICE AREAS IN

OUR BUDGET THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE PROPOSED REDUCTIONS. HOWEVER, WE BY DISTRIBUTING THE REDUCTIONS ACROSS THE PORTFOLIO IN THE MANNER THAT WE HAVE, THIS 48% THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THE SLIDE

THAT IS STILL UP. WE SOUGHT TO REDUCE THE SEVERITY OF REDUCTIONS IN ANY ONE GIVEN AREA SO THAT WE CAN MANAGE SERVICE EXPECTATIONS WITH OUT TOO MUCH OF A NOTICEABLE IMPACT TO THE COMMUNITY. HOWEVER,

IMPACTS WILL OCCUR. I, I CAN'T PRETEND TO SAY THAT THERE WON'T BE SERVICE SLOWDOWNS. THERE MAY BE. AND REALLY ON THE SERVICE SIDE, IT'S IT'S FALLING PREDOMINANTLY ON OUR MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS BECAUSE

THAT'S WHERE OUR FLEXIBLE FUNDING SOURCES REALLY, YOU KNOW, HELP TO TARGET THE DEPARTMENT ON THE ON SIDE, PRIMARILY IN MAINTENANCE. WE CAN CERTAINLY GIVE YOU A FULL LIST OF ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT

WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE PROPOSED REDUCTIONS. I BELIEVE THAT YOUR STAFF HAVE THAT AS PART OF THE SUBMITTAL, BUT WE COULD CERTAINLY PROVIDE ADDITIONAL MATERIAL TO GUIDE YOU TO THAT INFORMATION IN A

CLEAR AND CONCISE WAY. I COULD I MEAN, WE COULD GO THROUGH AND LIST ALL OF THE PROJECTS, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT WOULD BE NOT KNOWING THE OTHER QUESTIONS THAT YOU OR YOUR COLLEAGUES HAVE, IF THAT

WOULD BE THE BEST USE OF OUR TIME RIGHT NOW, IT'S UP TO YOU. -- SO THANK YOU. DO YOU FOLLOW UP OFFLINE WITH THAT? BECAUSE WE HAVE THE CIP BUDGET. BUT YEAH, DO FOLLOW UP LINE TO SUPPLEMENT THE LET'S

SEE, THE I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE ASSUMPTIONS FOR SOME OF THE REVENUE, SPECIFICALLY, WHAT ASSUMPTIONS UNDERPIN THE PROJECTED REVENUE RECOVERY FOR THE AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERAS, THE

SEATTLE TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT AND COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX. ACTUALLY, THOSE ARE THREE KIND OF BUCKETS. LET'S FOCUS IN ON JUST THE AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERAS. SO WHAT WHAT SPECIFIC

ASSUMPTIONS UNDERPIN THE PROJECTED REVENUE RECOVERY FOR THE AUTOMATED TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERAS ARE, ARE THESE WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE THESE ARE AS LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE ASSUMPTIONS? AND WHAT AGAIN,

WHAT WENT INTO THOSE. -- COUNCILMEMBER SAKA WILL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU VIA THE SHAREPOINT SITE. THOSE REVENUES ARE PROJECTED BY MY FORECASTING TEAM AND THE OFFICE, AND WE'RE NOT PREPARED TO GIVE YOU ALL

THE DETAILS. BUT WHAT I WOULD SAY IS, IN GENERAL, WE ARE TRYING TO BE SOMEWHAT CONSERVATIVE. AS FOR THE NEW CAMERAS THAT WE DON'T YET HAVE AS MUCH IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCE ON, AND WILL MONITOR THAT

CLOSELY, BUT WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH MORE DETAILS. -- YES. CURIOUS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THAT IN PARTICULAR, BECAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IT MAKES CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT CERTAIN REVENUE RECEIVED

FROM THAT FROM THOSE CAMERAS. AND WE'VE KNOWN THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS STRUGGLED TO DEPLOY THOSE FOR ANY NUMBER OF REASONS, DESPITE PRIOR FUNDING FROM THE COUNCIL AND SPANNING MULTIPLE YEARS NOW. AND

SO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE APPROPRIATE. WE HAVE REALISTIC ASSUMPTIONS BAKED INTO THE. THE PROJECTIONS THERE FOR THE REVENUE LET'S SEE HERE. LET'S TALK ABOUT RIGHT FOR A MOMENT. SO GIVEN THE

RIGHT SHORTFALL AND THIS THIS MIGHT PERTAIN TO SOME OF THE FOLLOW UP. BUT AT LEAST AT A HIGH, HIGH LEVEL. WHAT KIND OF CATEGORY OF OF CAPITAL MAINTENANCE PROJECTS ARE THE MOST AT RISK GIVEN THAT REACH

SHORTFALL AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT CRITERIA GUIDED THOSE THOSE DECISIONS? -- SO THE SHORTFALL WAS FROM THE AUGUST FORECAST. AND GIVEN THE LATE DATE OF IT, WE LOOKED AT THE THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE

ALREADY FUNDED BY. RIGHT. AND THEY SHARED SHALLOW CUTS ACROSS ABOUT TEN PROGRAMS. WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH THE SPECIFICS ON THOSE, BUT THESE ARE CAPITAL PROJECTS, RIGHT? HAS TO BE SPENT ON ON CAPITAL. IT

CAN EITHER, IN OUR CASE, TRANSPORTATION IS HOW IT'S ELIGIBLE. SO CAPITAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. THIS DID NOT AFFECT ANY MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS PROGRAMS. -- GOT IT. AND FINALLY I'LL I'LL ASK SOME

OTHER QUESTIONS THAT I'LL SAY FOR THE SHARE SITE. BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT FUNDING FOR THE DISTRICT PROJECT FUND PROJECTS THAT WERE ALREADY IN THE PIPELINE HAVE NOT BEEN PROPOSED TO BE TO BE CUT. AND SO

DISTRICT PROJECT FUND IS A CRITICAL TRAFFIC SAFETY INITIATIVE. ONE OF IT ESTABLISHES A NEW PROGRAM, NEW MECHANISM TO FUND NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE KIND OF TRAFFIC SAFETY PROJECTS WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS TO

SUPPLEMENT OTHER PROGRAMS, WHETHER IT'S SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS, NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATED SAFETY FUND. THERE'S ALMOST A DOZEN OR MORE OF THOSE KIND OF SAFETY PROGRAMS. SO THIS IS JUST ANOTHER ONE THAT WE

ESTABLISHED IN THIS COUNCIL. IS, IS THERE FUNDING IN THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET TO ALLOW THIS PROGRAM TO CONTINUE? BASICALLY MEANING THAT COUNCILMEMBERS WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO FUND ADDITIONAL

TRAFFIC SAFETY TREATMENTS FOR THE DISTRICTS IN 27 AND BEYOND. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET CONTAINS THE CONTINUATION OF THE EXISTING FUNDING THAT WAS IDENTIFIED IN THE

25 AND 2026 BUDGET. AS I'M SURE MANY OF YOU ARE AWARE, A LOT OF THOSE PROJECTS WERE CAME TO SDOT EARLIER THIS YEAR AND ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DESIGN AND ENGINEERING. A FEW ARE ACTUALLY BEGINNING IN

DELIVERY, AND SO THOSE PROJECTS WILL CONTINUE INTO INTO 2027, AND THE FUNDS WILL FOLLOW THEM. THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET AND PROPOSED BUDGET DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY NEW FUNDING ALLOCATIONS FOR THE

COUNCIL DISTRICT FUND, BEYOND WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY APPROPRIATED OUT OF THE STREET USE FUND BY THIS COUNCIL. -- THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING. THERE. -- EXCUSE ME. THERE IS $4 MILLION IN THE TRANSPORTATION

LEVY THAT MATCHED THE $10 MILLION THAT WAS APPROPRIATED OUT OF STREET USE FOR THE TOTAL AMOUNT. AND I BELIEVE THAT THE LEVY PROPOSAL THAT WAS PASSED BY VOTERS HAD A JUST THE ONE TIME $4 MILLION

ALLOCATION. -- AND COUNCILMEMBER, I SEE DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. -- YEAH, AND I DON'T I MAYBE JUST REPEATING SOME OF WHAT CHRIS JUST SAID, BUT IT WAS THERE WAS ONE TIME FUNDS IDENTIFIED PRIMARILY FROM FUND

BALANCE TO, TO FUND THAT. AND SO THERE WAS NOT AN ONGOING FUND SOURCE IDENTIFIED WHEN THAT WAS CREATED -- COUNCILMEMBER, YOU STILL HAVE THE FLOOR. -- YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THE EXPLANATION. THERE. NO

FURTHER QUESTIONS. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. I'VE GOT COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE FOLLOWED BY. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. HOLLINGSWORTH. BUT I WILL JUST TAKE A MOMENT HERE TO SHARE THE INFORMATION THAT

YOU'RE PRESENTING TO US. I I'M GLAD THAT YOU ARE PRESENTING IT TO US. THE DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. I AM GRATEFUL FOR YOUR STRICT ADHERENCE TO TRANSPARENCY AND THE REASON THAT I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT IS

COUNCILMEMBERS. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. WHAT WE ARE SEEING RIGHT NOW IS NOT STANDARD AND REQUIRES A FIX. I SAY THAT BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN AWARE THAT SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT WITH S DOT'S FINANCES FOR YEARS, I

HAVE CONTINUED AND I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS SEEING UNTIL WE HAD DIRECTOR PENNUCCI HERE, PULLING THE CURTAIN BACK A BIT. AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WE WERE DOING

CHANGES TO BALLARD AVENUE TO MEET THE NEW STREET CAFE REQUIREMENTS, AND WE PROVIDED A LITTLE BIT OF LIKE $250,000. MAYBE IT WAS $500,000. AND I WAS TOLD THAT THE MEETINGS THAT I HAD WITH SDOT STAFF

WOULD BE BILLED TO THAT ACCOUNT. AND SO BY THE TIME WE GOT TO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WORK THAT WE HAD BEEN MEETING ON, THERE WAS SUPPOSEDLY NO MONEY LEFT THAT WAS THAT WAS A FIRST FLAG, BECAUSE THAT'S

NOT HOW THIS WORKS. I'M NOT. IF YOU WANT TO BILL ME FOR THE HOURS THAT I'M MEETING WITH STAFF TO TALK ABOUT A PROJECT THAT WE'RE PARTNERING ON, THAT'S NOT THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS. I THEN FROM THERE,

WE PASSED AN INTERFUND LOAN TO SUPPORT THE DEPARTMENT DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC. IT WAS A ONE YEAR INTERFUND LOAN THAT WE GOT TO THE END OF THAT YEAR. $0 HAD BEEN REPAID. IT WAS ALMOST TO A POINT OF

THE DEPARTMENT HAD EITHER FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT OR NOT ATTENDED TO IT. AND WE EXTENDED THAT LOAN FOR ANOTHER YEAR WITH A REPAYMENT SCHEDULE. AND THEN THIS YEAR COMING TO THIS YEAR, I WAS CHECKING IN

ABOUT GREENWAY GREENWAYS FUNDING IN THE DISTRICT. AND I WAS TOLD THAT THE PROJECT ON SIXTH AVENUE FROM 58th TO 70th ISH, WAS THE ONLY GREENWAYS FUNDING THAT WE HAD IN THE DISTRICT FOR THE ENTIRE TERM

OF THE LEVY. THAT'S EIGHT YEARS THAT THAT DOESN'T SQUARE WITH MY UNDERSTANDING OF. AND MAYBE THERE'S OTHER PRIORITIES. AND THAT'S. AND THAT'S FINE. BUT WHAT THIS TELLS ME, AND I'VE BEEN VERY CLEAR

SINCE 2020, THE GOAL IS TO GET THAT GREENWAY ALL THE WAY UP TO HOLMAN ROAD. RIGHT. AND THERE'S OTHER THERE'S OTHER GREENWAY PRIORITIES IN THE DISTRICT. SO THOSE THREE THINGS REALLY ARE ALARM BELLS FOR

ME. LIKE FOR FIRE ALARM BELLS WHICH IS WHY, COLLEAGUES, I JUST I'M STEPPING OUT OF THE NORM. I USUALLY SPEAK LAST. I JUST WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS IS NOT STANDARD. AND I

APPRECIATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN WHICH YOU ARE PRESENTING THIS INFORMATION BECAUSE THE MOMENTS THAT I'VE JUST EXPLAINED OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW YEARS HAS CHALLENGED ME IN UNDERSTANDING HOW THE

DEPARTMENT IS DOING THEIR WORK IN VERY CRITICAL WAYS. I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS ANOTHER INTERFUND LOAN THAT IS BEING PROPOSED AS A WAY TO BALANCE YOUR BUDGET. I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW A TEN YEAR

INTERFUND LOAN IS NOT GOING TO WORK. JUST WHEN I LOOK AT THE SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK, WE'VE HAD FIVE DIRECTORS AT SDOT. AND SO AGAIN, THIS IS NOT COMING DOWN ON ANY SDOT EMPLOYEE. THIS IS NOT COMING DOWN

ON ANY ONE PERSON IN THE DEPARTMENT. BUT WHAT THE THEME OF THIS BUDGET HAS BEEN IS MOMENTUM, GAIN OR MOMENTUM LOSS, LEADERSHIP CHURN OR LEADERSHIP STABILITY. WE JUST HAD HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT IN

HERE WHO HAS HAD STABLE LEADERSHIP AND COUNCILMEMBER SAKA SAID IT'S THE BEST PRESENTATION HE'S EVER SEEN. SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO TAKE WORDS OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, SIR. YOU CAN CLARIFY IN A MINUTE, BUT I,

I JUST SHARE THAT BECAUSE A TEN YEAR INTERFUND LOAN FROM HERE IS ANOTHER 5 TO 6 DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS. AND WHO IS GOING TO KNOW AT THE END OF THAT TERM WHETHER IT STARTED TO BE REPAID? I KNOW THAT WITH

DIRECTOR PENNUCCI THAT WE'VE GOT BETTER SAFEGUARDS, AT LEAST PROPOSED IN THIS, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS. SO I'M NOT HERE IN THIS IN THIS MOMENT OF SPEECHIFYING, PUTTING BLAME AT ANYONE'S FEET. I'M

NOT HERE SAYING ANYONE DID ANYTHING RIGHT OR WRONG, ALTHOUGH THIS IS THE ONLY DEPARTMENT THAT IN MY ANNUAL REVIEW WITH THE STATE AUDITOR, SDOT IS THE ONLY DEPARTMENT THAT I'VE REPORTED CONCERN WITH IN

THOSE AUDITS, AND THAT WAS DUE TO THE INTERFUND LOAN LACK OF REPAYMENT. AND SO I'M NOT HERE TO BLAME OR CAST SHAME OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I'M HERE JUST TO RECOGNIZE THAT THIS MOMENT IS DIFFERENT THAN

IN ALL OTHER PRESENTATIONS, AND ESPECIALLY FOR COUNCILMEMBERS WHO THIS IS THEIR FIRST, SECOND, OR EVEN THIRD OR FOURTH BUDGET. IN ALL OF MY TIME, THIS ONE STILL STANDS OUT LIKE LIKE OTHERS DON'T. AND

SO SORRY FOR GOING ON LONG WITH THAT. I SEE COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH. -- THANK YOU CHAIR. JUST QUICKLY TO THAT. THAT'S WHY I AND MY TEAM SAY WHAT WOULD ALY PENNUCCI DO

AND TWO, YOU BRING UP SDOT DIRECTORS. IT SOUNDS LIKE POLICE CHIEFS OR YOU KNOW, MAYORS. HOW MANY MAYORS LAST TIME? TWO TIME MAYOR. THIS GOVERNANCE ISSUE IS SINCE YOU RAISED IT. IT IS AN ISSUE FOR OUR

CITY. THE CONSTANT CHURN OF SDOT DIRECTORS, POLICE CHIEFS, MAYORS, ALL THE ABOVE. IT'S NOT HELPFUL TO OUR TO OUR CITY. THANK YOU CHAIR. SO, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT TRANSPORTATION, I STILL USE MY THREE

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES PUBLIC SAFETY, PORT, MARITIME, AND OF COURSE, MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE SEVEN CONSTITUENTS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND PUBLIC SAFETY. I DO WANT TO SAY FIRST, BECAUSE I'VE HAD REPORTERS

SAY, WELL, YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT. NO. AND OUR SYSTEM WITH COMMITTEES, TRAFFIC, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS WITH MY COLLEAGUE, WHO I SERVE WITH ON THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, AND PUBLIC SAFETY LOOKS AT THOSE

OTHER AREAS. BUT I DO BELIEVE TRANSPORTATION, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS PUBLIC SAFETY FOR THOSE REPORTERS WHO DIDN'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT. STARTING OFF WITH VISION ZERO, ALL MY DISTRICT PROJECTS, BY THE

WAY, ARE ALL BASED ON VISION ZERO, AND WE SHOULD KEEP THEM BECAUSE WE HAVE A DIFFERENT LOOK INTO THE DISTRICTS THAN SDOT IN TERMS OF OUTREACH. AND, YOU KNOW, THE THINGS WE HEAR, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT

TO HAVE THIS ESSENTIALLY A DOUBLE CHECK OR AUGMENT. AND I THINK IT'S HELPFUL TO THE DISTRICTS. AND I THINK IT WILL BE MOVING FORWARD TOO. SO THAT THAT IS A, YOU KNOW, A KEY PIECE THAT'S SO IMPORTANT

FOR US. AND WE'VE SEEN THE BENEFITS IN OUR DISTRICT. PUBLIC SAFETY TOO. I NOTED, YOU KNOW, IN THE BRIEFING BRIDGE REHAB AND REPLACEMENT PHASE TWO. CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE? LIKE, FOR

EXAMPLE, MAGNOLIA BRIDGE IN THE LEVY, I BELIEVE IT WAS LEVY'S TRANSPORTATION PLAN. YOU KNOW, WE HAD A MAGNOLIA BRIDGE SPECIFICALLY LISTED IN THERE, AND I SEEM TO BE EARLY YEARS THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE

LOOKED AT. AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A FIRST RESPONDER EMERGENCY ACCESS ROAD THAT RUNS FROM THE MARINA OR WEST MARINA PLACE UP THROUGH WHAT LOOKS TO BE AN ALLEY, WHICH

TECHNICALLY IS WEST GALER TO 32nd STREET IN MAGNOLIA TO CONNECT LOWER MAGNOLIA. IN THE EVENT THAT THE BRIDGE JOB DROPS, BECAUSE IT COULD HAPPEN ANY TIME. AND THAT IS DEFINITELY A PUBLIC SAFETY THREAT.

BUT IT'S ALSO TRANSPORTATION. CAN YOU SPEAK TO MAGNOLIA BRIDGE AND THE IN THE POINTS ABOUT SEISMIC RETROFITS AND AND THE EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDER PIECE -- COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE

REDUCTIONS THAT ARE PROPOSED IN THE BRIDGE BRIDGE REHAB AND REPLACEMENT PHASE THREE AS PART OF OUR YEAR END SUPPLEMENTAL. IS THAT CORRECT? -- WELL, YEAH, AS LISTED IN THE BRIEFING. -- PARDON. -- AS

YOU AS YOU NOTED IN THE BRIEFING. YES. AND SPECIFICALLY, I OBVIOUSLY I CARE ABOUT YOU CAN USE MAGNOLIA BRIDGE AS A CASE STUDY OR AN EXAMPLE. -- THE MAGNOLIA BRIDGE IS UNAFFECTED BY THOSE PROPOSALS,

PRIMARILY, AS I INDICATED IT HAD TO DO WITH REDUCING PROGRAM CONTINGENCY. AND AT THIS TIME, WHAT WE'RE CONTEMPLATING IS BECAUSE WE ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF COMPLETING THE FOURTH AVENUE SOUTH OVER

CARGO RAILROAD, BRIDGE REHAB PROJECT THAT CLOSE, THAT CLOSE OUT. EXCUSE ME, FINAL CLOSEOUT COSTS MAY INCREASE PRESSURE ON STRUCTURES, MAJOR MAINTENANCE CIP, BUT WE FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE

APPROPRIATELY ACCOUNTED FOR ALL CONTINGENCIES. BUT THE MAGNOLIA BRIDGE IS, IS I UNDERSTAND IT'S NOT AFFECTED. -- WE ARE ADVANCING THE SEISMIC REPAIRS FOR MAGNOLIA RIGHT NOW ON THE ACCESS ROAD. WE'LL

HAVE TO GO BACK AND DOUBLE CHECK THAT COUNCILMEMBER WILL, WILL WILL GET YOU MORE DETAIL ON WHERE THAT PROJECT IS. -- OKAY. -- STATUS. -- THAT WOULD BE VERY IMPORTANT. I'M JUST GOING TO TAKE THE

OPPORTUNITY. IN THE BRIEFING WAS MENTIONED, THE AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERAS ONCE AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE CAN HAVE THE VARIOUS PIECES OF IT, BUT THE SEATTLE MUNICIPAL COURT CAN'T DO ITS PIECE. THEN

WE'RE IN TROUBLE. SO I'M TAKING THE OPPORTUNITY TO FOOT STOMP ON THAT AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GOOD LONG TERM AND NOT BEING NOT TO PUT THEM IN A SITUATION THAT WE HAVE, LIKE WITH SDCI, THAT'S

RELATED TO, YOU KNOW, THE THE VARIOUS REVENUES COMING IN. AND THE LAST THING I KNOW FROM A PUBLIC SAFETY PERSPECTIVE, AND THIS KIND OF GOES TO THE QUESTIONS OR WORRIES MIGHT BE A BETTER WAY OF SAYING

RELATED TO UNIFIED CARE TEAM. EVERY TIME WE SEE A LITTLE THING LIKE, OH, THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE TWO FTT, TWO FTE WITH UCTO, BUT THEY'RE NOT THERE. AND THEN WE WONDER WHY IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE

BACKSLIDING A BIT, PARTICULARLY OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS. THESE ARE THESE ARE THE REASONS WHY WE NOTE THAT. SO I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THE FACT THAT AND, YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT 2FTS WHICH ARE

SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT THE UNIFIED CARE TEAM, HAVEN'T BEEN FILLED. AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A DECISION THAT'S BEEN MADE. AND MY NEXT PRIORITY AREA, PORT MARITIME. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE INVOLVED, OR

AT LEAST YOU. THE EAST MARGINAL WAY PROJECT. I THINK THAT'S GREAT. AND I'VE BEEN ALONG THERE MANY TIMES CHECKING IT OUT, GOING PAST THE COAST GUARD STATION AND SO FORTH. AND I THINK IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND

I THINK IT'S GREAT FOR THE PORT AND FOR OUR THOSE TRANSPORTATION NEEDS. I WOULD ADD, CAN YOU GIVE AN UPDATE TO WHERE WE ARE WITH THE FREIGHT PROGRAM? YOU KNOW, I'M THINKING ABOUT THE HEAVY HAUL

NETWORK. YOU KNOW, THE TRUCK STREETS, ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS THAT REALLY WILL ALLOW SOTO, DUWAMISH OR BEN MIC. THOSE ARE MARITIME INDUSTRIAL AREAS TO REALLY FUNCTION PROPERLY. SO AS COUNCIL CHAIR

STRAUSS SAYS, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE THAT 15 MINUTE CITY, WE HAVE TO HAVE THE LOGISTICS. AND IT'S ALL ABOUT LOGISTICS BECAUSE OTHERWISE IF THE GROCERY STORES CAN'T GET THEIR SHELVES RESTOCKED, IT'S JUST

ANOTHER FORM OF A FOOD DESERT, GROCERY DESERT. CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE FREIGHT PROGRAM COMING UP, PARTICULARLY THOSE AREAS? -- COUNCILMEMBER, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY, ARE YOU ASKING US TO SPEAK TO ANY

POTENTIAL REDUCTIONS TO THE FREIGHT PROGRAM OR MORE ON UPCOMING SERVICES AND DELIVERABLES FROM THE PROGRAM? -- YES, BASICALLY, THE STATUS OVERALL, THE PROGRAM TO INCLUDE. IS THERE ANY EXPECTATION THAT

THERE'D BE A REDUCTION ON THAT AREA, GIVEN HOW IT'S IMPORTANT FOR OUR OED PARTNERS OUT THERE -- THERE ARE REDUCTIONS PROPOSED FOR THE FREIGHT SPOT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM THOSE ARE EXPECTED TO RESULT IN

THE DEFERRAL OF TWO DERELICT RAIL REMOVAL PROJECTS. WE CAN GET BACK TO YOU ON THE SPECIFICS OF THAT, AND THEN ALSO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE OVERALL PROGRAM. -- YES, I'D LIKE TO GET, YOU KNOW, FOLLOW

UP IN TERMS OF THE IMPACTS. THANK YOU AGAIN, WE HAVE TO ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR LONG TERM, WE HAVE TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE A VIABLE PORT 100 YEARS FROM NOW. AND WE'RE SEEING THAT RIGHT NOW. EVERYBODY

TALKS ABOUT TECH, BUT THE MARITIME PIECE IS SO IMPORTANT. IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR REVENUE TO BRING IT BACK TO DIRECTOR PENNUCCI SIDE OF THE HOUSE. AND, YOU KNOW, WE CAN CUT OUR NOSE TO SPITE OUR FACE IF

WE WANT. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT FOR THAT AREA, FOR THAT STABILITY THAT IT CAN BRING GRANTED A LITTLE BIT UNSTABLE IN THE ERA OF TRUMP, BUT GENERALLY, HISTORICALLY A VERY STABLE PIECE

FOR US. AND WE HAVE TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE GOOD ON THAT, PARTICULARLY WHEN I SEE THESE OTHER AREAS. YOU'RE SAYING THE REVENUES ARE DOWN, YOU KNOW, RIGHT. AND SO FORTH. THAT'S IMPORTANT TO TO ENSURE THAT

THOSE AREAS THAT WE DO BRING REVENUE AND THAT ARE SUPPORTED IN TERMS OF D7 CONSTITUENTS AND NEIGHBORHOODS PIECE I KNOW AND I'VE NOT SEEN THIS SPECIFICALLY, BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THE MAJOR ARTERIAL

CHANGES, LIKE WITH WESTERN ELLIOTT, THAT AREA, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR BELLTOWN, UPTOWN, INTERBAY AND SO FORTH. AND BY EXTENSION, QUEEN ANNE IS EVERYTHING SET FOR THAT PROJECT. -- THAT PROJECT IS

MOVING FORWARD. YEP. -- OKAY, GOOD. AND ALREADY MENTIONED MAGNOLIA BRIDGE. I JUST WANT TO GIVE A LITTLE LOVE BECAUSE I DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF EASTLAKE IN MY DISTRICT. I KNOW MOST OF THE RAPID, RAPID

RIDE. JAS AND COUNCIL PRESIDENTS DISTRICT, BUT THAT ALSO IS VERY IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH EASTLAKE. SO THE SOONER THAT SET, TRUST ME, THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD, EVEN THE PARTS THAT

ARE IN D7, BUT PARTICULARLY D3, WILL BE THERE YOU. TWO QUICK POINTS. CHAIR ONE IS ON THE TRANSPORTATION FUND CHALLENGES, YOU KNOW, THE DECLINING REVENUE. AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A DIRECT LINE TO THIS

TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S HAPPENING IN TERMS OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY CHALLENGES AND THE CONDITIONS THAT TIE INTO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF SETTING OURSELVES UP ECONOMICALLY. AND THAT'S IN PARTICULARLY

IN DOWNTOWN, THESE THINGS ARE, ALL CONNECTED IN TERMS OF DECLINING REVENUE AND HOW IT IMPACTS, IN THIS CASE, THE TRANSPORTATION FUNDS CHALLENGES. AND THE LAST THING I'LL SAY, BECAUSE I'M JUST GOING TO

KEEP THIS PIECE TOO, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, IS THE AFFORDABILITY. EARLIER THIS MORNING, I TALKED ABOUT THE FEDERAL PIECE WITH PARTICULARLY WITH INFLATIONARY KIND OF POLICIES AND SO FORTH. BUT

THE STATE AND THE COUNTY WITH PROPERTY TAX, SALES TAX AND PIECES. AND WE HAVE THOSE TOO. BUT THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, UTILITY RATES. BUT THEN THERE'S ALSO STREET USE FEES AND RATES AND PARKING AND

PERMITS, USE FEES. AND EACH DEPARTMENT LOOKS AT IT IN ITSELF. BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO KEEP THE BIGGER PICTURE BECAUSE ALL THESE LITTLE PIECES THAT CAN BE EXPLAINED AWAY IN THE CUMULATIVE CAN BE HAVE A

MAJOR IMPACT ON AFFORDABILITY. AND IN TERMS OF PARTICULARLY IN TERMS OF GOVERNMENT ACTIONS THAT IMPACT AFFORDABILITY. AND I JUST WANTED TO TO HIGHLIGHT THAT. THANK YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU.

COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE DOES THE COMMITTEE TABLE HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE AT THIS TIME? NOTHING. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. FOLLOWED BY COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU FOR FOR BEING HERE AND

ACTING DIRECTOR. BRADY ALL, ALL YOUR WORK. I WILL SAY THIS, I'VE BEEN VERY IMPRESSED WITH A LOT OF THE WORK THAT THE SMALL PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN GOING AROUND THE. I KNOW PERSONALLY MY DISTRICT, BUT

JUST ALL OVER SEATTLE, YOU KNOW, SIDEWALKS. THERE'S BEEN FLASHING BEACONS IN PLACES, YOU KNOW, STOP SIGNS THAT HAVE POPPED UP THAT I KNOW THAT HAVE KIND OF BEEN ON THAT MAINTENANCE LIST AND THOSE

PROJECTS AND THE CREWS THAT HAVE BEEN OUT THERE FILLING POTHOLES AND JUST LIKE RESTORING, YOU KNOW, JUST THE BULBS THAT ARE ON THE CORNERS, THE BUMP OUTS AND JUST CREATING LIKE SAFER, SAFER STREETS.

I'VE, I'VE SEEN AN IMPROVEMENT IN THAT RESPONSE AND THEN ALSO EXECUTION. SO JUST BIG THANK YOU FOR, FOR THAT PIECE. THE ONE AREA OF IMPROVEMENT AND I, AND I'VE VOICED THIS CONCERN FOR THE LAST TWO AND

A HALF YEARS ARE A LOT OF THE MAJOR PROJECTS THAT ARE JUST CRIPPLING SMALL BUSINESSES AND NEIGHBORHOODS, PARTICULARLY THE J LINE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, EASTLAKE IS JUST GETTING HAMMERED RIGHT NOW. AND

THEN OBVIOUSLY YOU ALL KNOW ABOUT THE SIGNS THAT POPPED UP THAT SAID STOP, KILL SMALL BUSINESSES THAT HAS BEEN CIRCLING THE INTERNET, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, NOT SOMETHING I LIKE TO SEE ON THE INTERNET,

OBVIOUSLY. BUT, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT NECESSARILY. YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED. AND THERE'S ALWAYS TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. AND ANY TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION IS GOING TO BE PAINFUL. BUT TO REACH A PART

WHERE BUSINESSES OR PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO PUT THESE SIGNS UP BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT BEING HEARD, IS TROUBLING. AND SO, YOU KNOW, AN IMPROVEMENT ON COMMUNICATION AND JUST, JUST OUTSIDE THINKING

OUT THE BOX, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PROJECTS IN OUR DISTRICT J LINE WITH EASTLAKE WE ALSO HAVE THE BIG PIKE PINE PIECE, WHICH IS SPU. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THEY COORDINATE WITH SDOT TO DO STREET CLOSURES. AND

THEN WE HAVE THE MARINA PROJECT AND AYE. THAT IS SEATTLE PARKS DEPARTMENT WHO HAS TO COORDINATE WITH SEATTLE CITY LIGHT AND SDOT AND ALL THESE PEOPLE. SO THERE'S ALL THESE PIECES IN PLACE. AND THE ONE

THING THAT REMAINS CONSISTENT WITH BUSINESSES AND AND I HEARD IT DURING THE G LINE CONSTRUCTION ARE JUST COMMUNICATION EFFORTS AND THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. ONE EXAMPLE IS IN EASTLAKE. MY THOUGHT

WOULD HAVE BEEN, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS PROJECT. WE GOT TO SHUT DOWN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE INCREDIBLE IMPACTS. WHAT ARE SOME UPGRADES THAT WE CAN ASK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR?

CAN WE PARTNER WITH OED ON SOME THINGS? AND WE HAD A BUDGET AMENDMENT LAST YEAR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. THANK YOU. THE BUDGET CHAIR, AS WELL, THAT GOT VOTED ON, THAT PUT MONEY A SMALL AMOUNT IN OED

OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR EASTLAKE. BUT THOSE ARE LIKE AFTER THE FACTS. AND AS A COUNCILMEMBER, IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT TO HELP JUGGLE A LOT OF THE IMPACTS FROM NEIGHBORHOODS WHEN CITY

DEPARTMENTS ARE EXECUTING STUFF WITHOUT US KNOWING. AND IT'S JUST DIFFICULT. AND SO THE COMMUNICATION REALLY HAS TO BE THERE WHEN DISRUPTION HAS HAPPENED, BECAUSE WE'RE ABLE TO HELP WITH A LOT OF THE

COMMUNICATION TO THE DISTRICT. AND SO THAT'S MY ONLY FEEDBACK, LIKE THE BUDGET IS THE BUDGET. OKAY? WHEN I SEE STUFF LIKE, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE LESS POTENTIAL, A POTHOLE, YOU KNOW, IMPROVEMENTS,

IT MIGHT, YOU KNOW, DO THE HOURS MIGHT BE LONGER THAN 72 HOURS OR WE'LL HAVE LESS RESPONSES TO CERTAIN THINGS. OKAY. BUT COMMUNICATION WE CAN ALL CONTROL. AND THAT'S BEEN MY PAIN POINT FOR NOT JUST AS

SDOT, BUT FOR PARKS FOR SEATTLE PUBLIC UTILITIES. ANYTHING THAT'S FRONT FACING. AND I JUST THINK THERE CAN BE A WAY BETTER JOB FOR COMMUNICATION WITH SDOT DEDICATED IN THIS BUDGET TO DO SOME TYPE OF

OUTREACH POINT PERSONS, PEOPLE THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, REALLY ENGAGED AND EMBEDDED IN THE COMMUNITY. SO THEY'RE TAKING A LOT OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE HEAT WHEN IT COMES TO PROJECTS. OKAY. SO THAT'S, THAT'S

MY THING. AND HERE'S THE THING, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A, A LEGISLATIVE PIECE WHERE ALL THE DEPARTMENTS, LIKE BELLEVUE IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE ALL THE DEPARTMENTS HAVE A CHECKLIST WHEN THEY'RE

DOING THESE MASSIVE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TO BE ABLE TO CHECK THE BOX ON THINGS THAT THEY HAVE TO DO. SO WE'RE NOT IN THESE THESE REALLY PAINFUL ISSUES WHEN IT COMES TO PROJECTS. ANOTHER PRIME EXAMPLE

IS WHEN SDOT WANTED TO RANDOMLY DO SOME MAJOR CONSTRUCTION IN PIKE PINE DURING CHRISTMAS, AND JUST NO FORWARD THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THIS IMPACT BUSINESSES? HOW DOES IT IMPACT THE

COMMUNITY, HOW LONG IT'S GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, JUST THOSE THINGS. THEY JUST NEED TO BE HANDLED A LOT BETTER THAN WHAT I'VE SEEN BEFORE. FOR MAJOR PROJECTS, THE SMALL PROJECTS ARE DIFFERENT. THEY'RE

WEEKEND STUFF, BUT STUFF THAT'S GOING TO BE CLOSED DOWN FOR A MONTH AND FOR YEARS, I THINK JUST NEEDS TO HAVE A BETTER ATTENTION TO DETAIL. THANK YOU CHAIR STRAUSS. -- THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT,

DOES THE COMMITTEE TABLE HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE AT THIS TIME? -- IT SHOULD BE. -- CAN I JUST QUICKLY RESPOND AND JUST SAY COUNCILMEMBER HOLLINGSWORTH? I COMPLETELY AGREE, AND THANK YOU FOR

HIGHLIGHTING THAT AS A MAJOR CONCERN. SOME OF OUR MAJOR PROJECTS, I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, COMING FROM A PLACE OF CAPITAL PROJECT DELIVERY MYSELF, I THINK THERE ARE SOME WAYS THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY LOOK

TO MITIGATE SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION IMPACTS THAT WE'RE SEEING OUT THERE, ESPECIALLY ON PROJECTS LIKE JAILS AND SOME OF THESE BIGGER PROJECTS WHERE WE CAN START LOOKING MORE AT SEQUENCING AND REALLY

HAVE A SIT DOWN CONVERSATION AROUND HOW WE HOW WE PLAN TO BUILD THOSE PROJECTS OVER THE YEARS SO THAT WE'RE MINIMIZING THE OVERALL IMPACT. I WILL SAY, YOU KNOW, CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION IS HARD,

ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE ARE UNDERGROUND UTILITIES AND UNKNOWNS INVOLVED. YOU KNOW, BUT I THINK THERE ARE SOME WAYS THAT WE SHOULD, WE CAN AND SHOULD IMPROVE OUR CONSTRUCTION COMMUNICATIONS. AND ALSO

JUST TAKING A LOOK AT OUR OVERALL SEQUENCING AND TRYING TO MITIGATE THOSE IMPACTS. THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING THAT AS A CONCERN. -- THANK YOU. ACTING DIRECTOR. CAN I HAVE ONE MORE WORD, CHAIR? --

TOTALLY. YOU GOT THE FLOOR UNTIL YOU'RE DONE. -- THANK YOU. OKAY. SO IF OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS AT SPUS DOT PARKS, SEATTLE CITY LIGHT STARTED TREATING SMALL BUSINESSES LIKE THE LIQUOR AND CANNABIS STORE.

CANNABIS BOARD DOES FOR RETAIL STORES, BECAUSE THE RETAIL STORES COLLECT ALL THE REVENUE FOR THE STATE FOR CANNABIS, AND THEY TREAT THOSE STORES LIKE THEY'RE TAX REVENUE PIECES. AND I LOOK AT EVERY

SMALL BUSINESS AS THEY CREATE JOBS, THEY CREATE TAXES, THEY GENERATE, THEY CREATE PUBLIC SAFETY, THEY GENERATE ALL THESE DIFFERENT PIECES THAT ARE ESSENTIAL TO OUR CITY. IF OUR CITY DEPARTMENT STARTED

TREATING THOSE BUSINESSES LIKE THEY ARE ESSENTIAL TO OUR CITY, AND CONSTRUCTION IS DEFINITELY HARD, I GET IT, BUT THERE'S NO REASON WHY I SHOULD BE THINKING AFTER THE FACT. SENDING A LETTER TO SENATOR

MURRAY ASKING HER FOR MONEY, FOR HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESSES IN EASTLAKE BECAUSE THEY'RE DYING. THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE FRONT END OF THE CONVERSATION AS THEY'RE DELIVERING A CHECK TO US FROM THE

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. FOR J LINE AND THINKING ABOUT, HEY, HOW DOES THIS IMPACT OUR SMALL BUSINESS? CAN WE GET A NEW PARK AT EASTLAKE? CAN WE FOR AT ROGERS FIELD THAT HASN'T BEEN RENOVATED IN LIKE 40 OR

50 YEARS? THAT SAME FIELD I PLAYED ON AS A KID IS STILL NEEDING HELP. YOU KNOW, THINKING ABOUT, OH, DO THEY NEED A NEW WALL OR A PAINT JOB? ARE THERE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO UPLIFT THE NEIGHBORHOOD?

SO IT'S LIKE THAT PAINFUL CONSTRUCTION PROCESS AND PROJECT. WE CAN HAVE IMPROVEMENT AND ENHANCEMENT ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SO IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE A CORRIDOR, BUT IT FEELS LIKE WE ACTUALLY BEAUTIFIED

THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE G LINE. THE SIDEWALKS ARE STILL THE SAME WIDTH AS THEY WERE BEFORE THE PROJECT STARTED AND AFTER, AND EVERYONE'S LIKE, OH, BUT WE GOT BRAND NEW WATER MAIN. LIKE, OKAY, THAT'S,

THAT'S WONDERFUL. BUT JUST THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE'S NO REASON WHY THE HOSPITAL FOR SWEDISH IS COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO DO A LEFT TURN ON MADISON TO GET TO THEIR BRAND

NEW EMERGENCY ROOM THAT THEY'RE GOING TO PUT ON FIRST HILL, WHICH IS A MAJOR HOSPITAL, BECAUSE WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE THE BUS LINE RAN AT A CERTAIN TIME, AND THERE WAS JUST NO COORDINATION

WITH SOME OF THESE HOSPITALS AND SIGNAGE. THESE ARE JUST PRIME EXAMPLES WHERE I JUST FEEL LIKE WE'VE BEEN SO STUCK WITHIN OUR OWN WAYS AND NOT THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. AND SO IT MAKES THAT

CONSTRUCTION IMPACT A LOT HARDER. I'LL STOP THERE. I'LL FOLLOW UP OFFLINE, BUT I WANTED TO BRING THESE TO SCOTT'S ATTENTION BECAUSE AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET REDUCTIONS, THESE ISSUES ARE GOING TO

CONTINUE TO PERMEATE IN OUR COMMUNITY. REGARDING THE IMPACTS OF CONSTRUCTION, ESPECIALLY IF OUR BUDGETS LOWER. ARE WE DROPPING COMMUNICATION BUDGET FOR PEOPLE LIKE, YOU KNOW, JUST MAKING SURE WE'RE

STAYING ON TOP OF THINGS. SO THAT'S IT. THANK YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. AND IF I RECALL, THE G LINE EMERGENCY ROOM CONVERSATION, SDOT RESPONSE WAS PEOPLE TRYING TO GET TO THE

EMERGENCY ROOM CAN TAKE A RIGHT, A RIGHT, A RIGHT, GO STRAIGHT TO GET TO THE NEW E.R. IS THAT CORRECT? -- THAT WAS BEFORE MY TIME, SO I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT THE RESPONSE WAS, BUT WE WILL DEFINITELY

LOOK INTO IT. -- SO FOR SOMEBODY GOING TO THE E.R., GOING THERE DIRECTLY IS IMPORTANT. INSTEAD OF HAVING TO TAKE FOUR RIGHTS AROUND THE CORNER, I CAN ALSO SAY THAT I HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE WHEN I

FIRST CAME INTO OFFICE. THE BURKE-GILMAN TRAIL MISSING LINK WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION FROM THE LOCKS TO 24th BUSINESSES ASKED FOR A BRIEF PAUSE DURING THANKSGIVING FOR THEIR COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY, AND THAT

CONSTRUCTION WAS NOT RESTARTED UNTIL MID JANUARY, WHEN WE DID THE WALKING TOUR, A SENIOR PERSON AT THE DEPARTMENT TOLD ME. IT WAS JUST EASIER FOR US TO PAUSE UNTIL JANUARY RATHER THAN RESTARTING IN

DECEMBER AND THEN GETTING IT DONE IN JANUARY. THESE TYPES OF ANSWERS SHOW ME THAT SMALL BUSINESSES ARE NOT IN THE THOUGHT PROCESS DURING THESE CONSTRUCTION MOMENTS, AND SO JUST NEEDING TO HIGHLIGHT

THIS, I SEE WE'VE GOT COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA AND COUNCILMEMBER RINCK. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. I JUST HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS LAST YEAR'S BUDGET, I PUT MONEY IN THE BUDGET

TO DO SOME TRAFFIC MITIGATION ALONG SAND POINT WAY. AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE THAT. AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THERE'S SOME CONVERSATIONS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN WITH WASHDOT. I HAVE NO IDEA IF THOSE

CONVERSATIONS HAVE TAKEN PLACE OR NOT, BUT HERE IT IS A YEAR LATER, AND CONSTITUENTS ALONG THAT CORRIDOR ARE SO CONCERNED, AND THEY WERE SO PLEASED TO HAVE THIS INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET LAST YEAR. AND

THEN, OF COURSE, WHEN THERE'S NO MOVEMENT, THEY START TO FEEL LIKE WE'RE ALL LYING TO THEM. SO THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. I NEED TO UNDERSTAND, IS THIS MOVING FORWARD? IS IT NOT? AND WHY NOT? AND THEN

THIS GOES BACK TO THAT OUTREACH OR LACK THEREOF THAT HAPPENS. OUT OF STATE TWO CONSTITUENTS. IT'S JUST REALLY HARD TO GET CONSTITUENTS INFORMATION FROM SDOT. AND THAT IS REALLY DIFFICULT BECAUSE THEY

START I MEAN, THEY JUST THEN HAVE A HARD TIME TRUSTING THE DEPARTMENT. AND THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR ANY OF US. AND YOU ALL AS WELL. SO I'M GOING TO DO A PLUS ONE TO COUNCIL PRESIDENTS PIECE ABOUT DOING THE

OUTREACH TO CONSTITUENTS AND TO SMALL BUSINESSES. WHEN SDOT IS DOING CONSTRUCTION, AND THEN WHEN THEY'RE NOT DOING THE WORK THAT CONSTITUENTS THINK THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. SO NEED INFORMATION ABOUT

IN PARTICULAR SAND POINT WAY IN THE TRAFFIC MITIGATION. WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, I'M GOING TO DO A PLUS ONE TO MY COLLEAGUE, COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE ON THE U. C T TEAM. THIS IS THE SECOND DEPARTMENT WHERE I

SEE WE'RE CUTTING POSITIONS FROM UCT. I UNDERSTAND THEIR VACANCY PIECE OF IT, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY'RE VACANT. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT IMPACTS THIS WILL HAVE ON THIS PARTICULAR REDUCTION. THEN ON

PAGE 11 THERE'S 37 SCHOOL SPEED ZONE CAMERAS AT 19 LOCATIONS. WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHERE THOSE ARE BECAUSE IF, AGAIN, THIS GOES BACK TO COMMUNICATION, BACK TO THE CONSTITUENTS, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER

WHERE THOSE ARE. AND THEN I WILL ASK ABOUT AN ISSUE THAT IS HAS REALLY BUBBLED UP. AND THAT IS TRANSIT SAFETY AROUND THE SOUND TRANSIT STATION. SO I KNOW MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILMEMBER SAKA AND CHAIR OF

OUR TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE HAS BROUGHT UP TRANSIT SAFETY ON THE METRO BUSSES, ET CETERA. AND I KNOW THAT PART OF THE LEVY WE PUT, I BELIEVE, FUNDING, SO I'LL LET HIM TALK ABOUT THAT AT THE END

THERE. BUT I DO WANT TO RAISE THIS ISSUE ABOUT THE ACTIVITY THAT WE'RE SEEING AROUND THE SOUND TRANSIT STATIONS ON THE RIGHT OF WAY. SO I UNDERSTAND THAT SOUND TRANSIT IS ON DECK. IF IT'S HAPPENING ON

THEIR GROUNDS. BUT IF IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE TRANSIT, SOUND TRANSIT STATIONS ON THE RIGHT OF WAY, THAT IS STOPPED. AND SO WE'RE SEEING THIS BOTH IN MY DISTRICT. I KNOW I'M SEEING IT IN

THE U. DISTRICT AND ROOSEVELT, WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF ACTIVITY, THERE'S A LOT OF FENTANYL USE. AND I'VE BEEN TALKING TO VARIOUS FOLKS ABOUT TRYING TO ADDRESS THIS, BUT I DO SEE AS NOT HAVING A PART OF

THIS. AND SO I WANT TO KNOW HOW WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER WITH SOUND TRANSIT TO SOLVE FOR THIS, BECAUSE IT'S HEATING UP. AND I, I WANT US TO BE WORKING ON THIS BEFORE IT REALLY GETS TO A LEVEL WHERE IT

WILL BE HARD FOR US TO ADDRESS. AND AGAIN, WE WANT PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CARS AND TAKING LIGHT RAIL AND BUSSES FOR THAT TO HAPPEN, WE NEED TO PROVIDE SAFETY. SO REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT. DIRECTOR

BRADY SO I'LL SAY THAT IN TERMS OF THE LIGHT RAIL STATIONS, THAT IS REALLY IMPERATIVE. I WILL SAY ON THE DISTRICT FUND, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. I'M I'M DISAPPOINTED TO HEAR THAT IT'S NOT CONTINUING

BECAUSE THERE ARE VERY FEW AREAS WITHIN S DOT'S BUDGET WHERE CONSTITUENTS, IF THEY NEED A PROJECT, WHETHER THAT BE A ROUNDABOUT FOR TRAFFIC MITIGATION OR A POTHOLE OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE, THEY'RE

VERY FEW AREAS WE CAN POINT TO TO TRY TO HELP THEM. AND I REALLY APPRECIATE COUNCILMEMBER SAKA LEADERSHIP ON THIS FUND BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WOULD ALLOW US TO BE ABLE TO DO A PROJECT, MAYBE ONE, MAYBE

TWO IN THE DISTRICT. AND NOW WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT ABILITY. AND TOWARD THAT END, SOME OF THESE PROJECTS ARE TAKING A REALLY LONG TIME. SO TO HAVE MORE COMMUNICATION WITH CONSTITUENTS ON WHY

THEY'RE TAKING SO LONG TO DO, I PUT IN A ROUNDABOUT WITH THAT FUND, BUT WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR THAT TO HAPPEN. AND AGAIN, HERE IT IS OVER A YEAR LATER. AND THAT PARTICULAR THE CONSTITUENTS IN THAT

AREA HAVE BEEN WAITING TEN YEARS FOR SOME RESPONSE. TEN YEARS AND AGAIN, THIS IS TRAFFIC MITIGATION. IT GOES TO THE VISION ZERO PRIORITY. AND HERE IT IS TEN YEARS LATER HASN'T HAPPENED. SO WANT TO

KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN FOR THOSE CONSTITUENTS. THERE HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS. BUT CHAIR, I'LL PUT THEM IN THE TRACKER SO THAT WE CAN MOVE ON TO OTHER FOLKS. THANK YOU. -- COUNCILMEMBER

BARRETT. I'M GOING TO LET THE COMMITTEE TABLE HAVE A MOMENT. IF YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING TO FOLLOW UP AFTER THEY GO, IT'S YOUR FLOOR IS STILL YOURS. COMMITTEE TABLE. -- OKAY, THAT WAS A LOT. I PROBABLY

AREN'T I'M PROBABLY NOT GOING TO ANSWER ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS HERE, BUT COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA WILL DEFINITELY ANSWER THOSE BEHIND BEHIND THE SCENES HERE FOR YOU ON THE SAND POINT WAY WORK. I KNOW THAT

WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED SOME TRAFFIC CALMING INTERVENTIONS THERE IN BOTH THE D4 AND D5 SEGMENTS OVER THE LAST YEAR, AND WE HAVE RECENTLY SHARED WITH YOUR OFFICE. WE HAVE COMING UPCOMING ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC

CALMING ELEMENTS THAT WILL BE INSTALLED IN THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS. BEYOND THAT, I HAVE A LONG LIST OF OTHER IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE ARE MAKING IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AND INTO 2027. I'M HAPPY TO SIT WITH

YOU AND HAVE MY STAFF SIT WITH YOU AND WALK YOU THROUGH THOSE. -- THAT WOULD BE GREAT BECAUSE MORE RECENTLY I INQUIRED ABOUT IN FRONT OF SAND POINT WAY IN FRONT OF MAGNUSON PARK, AND THERE WAS NO

INFORMATION GIVEN FROM MASSDOT ON UPDATES. SO THANK YOU. -- AND I KNOW WE HAVE A CAMERA PLAN FOR THAT LOCATION AS WELL. TRANSIT SAFETY AROUND SOUND TRANSIT STATIONS. TOTALLY HEAR YOU ON THAT. YOU

KNOW, THAT IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SDOT SPD AND SOUND TRANSIT. AND I KNOW WE'RE WORKING REALLY HARD TOGETHER AS AS WELL AS WITH METRO, TO ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT SOME OF OUR TRAFFIC OR OUR BUS SAFETY AND

TRAFFIC SAFETY ISSUES. SO MORE DISCUSSION ON THAT. I DEFINITELY HEAR YOU ON THAT. AND WE ARE REALLY FOCUSED ON THAT AS WELL. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OTHER QUESTIONS WERE. -- I CAN TAKE A COUPLE OF THEM.

OKAY. ALTHOUGH I WAS TRYING TO DO ACTIVE LISTENING AND. SO I WAS WRITING EVERYTHING DOWN SINCE BOTH YOU AND COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE AND I THINK MAYBE EVEN COUNCILMEMBER SAKA BROUGHT UP THE UCT POSITIONS,

I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT WE KNEW THAT THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND RESOURCES WOULD BE VERY TIGHT IN 2026. THAT WAS APPARENT WITH THE REVENUE FORECASTS THAT WERE COMING THROUGH LAST YEAR. IT WAS

APPARENT WHEN WE HAD THE APRIL FORECAST, AND IT'S BEEN CONSISTENT AS DOT'S GENERAL FUND ALLOCATION HAS REDUCED OVER TIME. IF YOU LOOK AT THE ACTUAL DOLLARS, YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THAT BECAUSE WE'VE ALSO

RECEIVED GENERAL FUND FOR VERY PARTICULAR PURPOSES. AND MEANWHILE, OTHER AREAS THAT TRADITIONALLY HISTORICALLY RECEIVED GENERAL FUND, AGAIN, PRIMARILY IN OUR BASIC OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE HAVE

SLOWLY LIKE THOSE AMOUNTS OF INVESTMENTS HAVE DECREASED YEAR OVER YEAR OVER YEAR. WE, MEANING RELATIVELY SPEAKING, GENERAL FUND IS VERY TIGHT IN SDOT. AND WE KNEW THAT WE NEEDED TO HAVE A SAVINGS PLAN

FOR 2026, NOT JUST ON THE GENERAL FUND SIDE, BUT FOR THE TRANSPORTATION FUND AS WELL. AND THOSE TWO POSITIONS IN UCT ARE FUNDED BY GENERAL FUND. THEY HAD NOT YET BEEN FILLED BY THE TIME THAT THE APRIL

FORECAST CAME OUT, AND IT MADE SENSE TO US BECAUSE WE LOOKED AT POSITION VACANCIES THROUGHOUT THE DEPARTMENT TO HOLD ON, FILLING NOT JUST THOSE BUT OTHERS. WE HAVE A GOOD NUMBER OF VACANT POSITIONS

CURRENTLY IN OUR DEPARTMENT, AND THAT IS INTENTIONAL BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT WE WERE IN A DIFFICULT FINANCIAL POSITION WITH THE MAJORITY OF OUR REVENUES, AND SO WE HELD THEM VACANT. AND NOW, AS WE

CONTINUE INTO LOOKING AT GENERAL FUND REDUCTIONS IN 27 AND 28, THOSE TWO POSITIONS ARE THAT ARE STILL VACANT, ARE PROPOSED FOR ABROGATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE COULDN'T RECREATE THEM OR REFUND THEM IN

FUTURE YEARS, AS THE PROGRAM CONTINUES TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AND AS THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL GROW THAT PROGRAM AND THE SERVICES THAT IT PROVIDES. -- THANK YOU. CHRIS. I THINK THE BOTTOM LINE IS

HERE, AND THIS IS MORE FOR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE IN GENERAL, IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UCT TEAM AND BEING ABLE TO DO THAT WORK EVERY DAY. WE GET EMAILS FROM CONSTITUENTS ABOUT ENCAMPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE

CITY, AND WITHOUT THAT TEAM, WE'RE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT WORK. AND I'M GOING TO POINT OUT THAT ONE REALLY VALUABLE PIECE THAT SO MANY VALUABLE PIECES TO THAT TEAM. BUT THE OUTREACH COMPONENT OF THAT

TEAM, WHEN THEY GO OUT TO CLEAR AN ENCAMPMENT, THEY PROVIDE SERVICES. THEY DON'T JUST GO, THEY TAKE TIME, AND THEY TALK TO ALL THE FOLKS THAT ARE AT THAT ENCAMPMENT. THAT IS SO IMPORTANT. SO WHEN I

HEAR ABOUT ALL THESE POSITIONS BEING CUT, WHILE THEY MAY BE VACANT, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE THERE. THINGS THAT WE NEED AND AND IF WE NEED MORE FOLKS TO DO THE OUTREACH AND TO HELP FOLKS ALONG, THAT

IS IMPORTANT. SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT JUST AN SDOT ISSUE BECAUSE THE UCT TEAM ISN'T INTER-DEPARTMENTAL TEAM, BUT IT'S MORE FOR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO KNOW THAT THIS I, WE I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE UCT

TEAM AND NOT FUNDING THAT IN A WAY THAT WE'RE ABLE TO ADDRESS WHAT OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE EXPERIENCING IN ALL THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND WHAT OUR FOLKS WHO ARE UNHOUSED NEED. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR

ADDRESSING THAT, CHRIS. AND I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH THE OTHER PIECES, PLEASE. -- AND I'LL ALSO SPEAK TO THE COUNCIL DISTRICT FUND BRIEFLY. YES -- DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. -- THANK YOU. JUST ON THE UNIFIED CARE

TEAM, I'LL JUST YOU'RE GOING TO GET SO TIRED OF ME, BUT I'M GOING TO KEEP HITTING. HITTING THE SAME SAME DRUM ONE, THE OUTREACH POSITIONS THAT ARE IN THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT ARE NOT ELIMINATED

IN THIS BUDGET PROPOSAL. AND AGAIN, I WILL SAY THERE WERE PROPOSED EXPANSIONS AND POSITIONS BEING ADDED WITHOUT A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO FUND THEM. SO I HEAR YOU ON A NEED AND DESIRE FOR MORE AND CONTINUE

TO JUST REITERATE THAT WE WOULD NEED A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO MAINTAIN THAT AND REALLY APPRECIATE SCOTT'S WORK THIS YEAR TO TO MOVE CAUTIOUSLY, KNOWING THAT WE WERE IN A TIGHT BUDGET SITUATION. -- AND I

WILL JUST SAY, ALI, THAT I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU KEEP I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. YOU KEEP SAYING THESE VACANCIES WERE BASICALLY NOT, NOT NEEDED, QUOTE, UNQUOTE. AND WHAT I'M

SAYING IS WE'RE EXPERIENCING MORE ON THE GROUND WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS IN TERMS OF THESE ENCAMPMENTS AND -- NOT THESE ENCAMPMENTS. NOT GETTING ADDRESSED. TIMELY. AND SO I WONDER IF WE'RE MAKING ALL

THESE CUTS TO THE UC T TEAM, WHETHER THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT. SO WHETHER THESE PARTICULAR POSITIONS WERE HELPFUL OR WERE WERE BEING UTILIZED OR NOT, SOMETHING IS HAPPENING BECAUSE WE HAVE

MORE ENCAMPMENTS SEEING ON THE GROUND THAT ARE TAKING LONGER TO ADDRESS. THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO KEEP US MOVING BECAUSE WE ARE AT 317,

AND I'M GOING TO PUT A HARD STOP TO START AT FOUR BECAUSE WE HAVE ANOTHER DEPARTMENT WHO HAS BEEN PATIENTLY WAITING WITH THAT. I'VE GOT COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, FOLLOWED BY COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. -- THANK

YOU, CHAIR STRAUSS. I WANT TO START BEFORE GETTING INTO QUESTIONS. I JUST WANT TO START WITH A LITTLE BIT OF GRATITUDE BECAUSE I'VE APPRECIATED USDOT'S FOCUS ON VISION ZERO EFFORTS, AND I WANT TO TAKE

THIS MOMENT AGAIN TO COMMEND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP ON ADVANCING VISION ZERO EFFORTS. IT'S TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT FOR SO MANY REASONS, AND I'M GLAD WE'VE HAD OPPORTUNITY AS WELL IN

THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE TO TAKE UP DISCUSSIONS ON THE VISION ZERO PROGRAM AND HOW WE CAN FURTHER BOLSTER THAT WORK. SO I WANTED TO RECOGNIZE THAT AS WELL AS RECOGNIZE AND TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO

CELEBRATE S DOT'S FOCUS ON GREATER TRANSIT ACCESS, AS WELL AS IMPROVING SPEED AND RELIABILITY FOR RIDERS. SO NOTABLY ADDING THOSE BUSTLING LANES TO DENNY WAY TO SPEED UP THE ROUTE EIGHT. AND SINCE THE

ADDITION OF THOSE BUS LANES, WE'VE CERTAINLY SEEN IMMEDIATE IMPACTS. BUSSES ON TIME, MORE FREQUENCY FROM KING COUNTY METRO OVERALL, IMPROVED TRAFFIC FLOW FOR THOSE DRIVING AS WELL. SO LOOKING FORWARD

TO WHAT COMES NEXT AND EXCITED TO PUT MORE RED PAINT ON OUR ROADS. WITH THAT NOTE, DIGGING INTO SOME QUESTIONS AND YOU'VE COVERED MANY OF MY QUESTIONS JUST WITH THE PRESENTATION, PARTICULARLY IN

RECOGNITION OF THE SUDDEN DEFICIT OF 113 MILLION AND A LITTLE BIT HOW HE GOT THERE. I APPRECIATE APPRECIATED YOU UNPACKING THAT. AND TO DEAL WITH THIS STEEP DEFICIT, I'M NOTING ON SLIDE SIX, THE GRAPH

SHOWS THE TRANSPORTATION FUND BEING CUT IN HALF BETWEEN 2026 AND 2027. SEEMS LIKE A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE. I'M WONDERING IF YOU CAN SPEAK TO HOW THIS WILL IMPACT OUR ABILITY TO MEET JUST OUR CITY'S

TRANSPORTATION NEEDS, AND HOW THE AVERAGE SEATTLE RESIDENT WILL FEEL THIS IMPACT. -- SO THERE'S A LITTLE MORE NUANCE TO THIS ONE THAT WE COULD FOLLOW UP WITH DETAIL. THE ALL OF THE PRIOR YEARS UP TO

2025, THAT IS THE ACTUAL SPEND, ACTUAL REVENUE DATA COMING OUT OF THOSE YEARS. SO WHEN YOU MOVE INTO 26, THAT INCLUDES OUR BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS, INCLUDING THOSE CARRYFORWARDS. SO THOSE ARE CAPITAL

PROJECTS THAT HAVE THE MONEY SET ASIDE, OR MAYBE THEY'VE THEY'VE RECEIVED A GRANT, THEY HAVE A REVENUE BUDGET THAT GOES ALONG WITH THEM. AND YOU'VE REAPPROPRIATED THAT IN THE CARRY FORWARD PROCESS,

THAT USUALLY HAPPENS EARLY IN THE YEAR. SO THAT REPRESENTS A BUMP THERE TO THE FUND. SO WE COULD FOLLOW UP WITH SOMETHING THAT THAT MAPS THAT OUT FOR YOU. AND, AND ALSO COMPARES TO THE ANNUAL NEW

BUDGET APPROPRIATION. SO OUR NEW BUDGET APPROPRIATION IS ABOUT, AT OUR NORMAL LEVEL, MAYBE 10% LOWER 4% OVERALL OVER THE TWO YEARS. SO THAT'S THE CHANGE. THE CARRY FORWARD IS SOMETHING WE CAN BREAK

OUT FOR. YOU. IT DOES MAKE THIS DROP LOOK A LITTLE BIT STEEPER, BUT WE DID THINK IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SHOW, IN THEORY WHAT'S BEEN APPROPRIATED. THE MAXIMUM WE'RE ALLOWED TO SPEND UNDER WHAT WHAT'S BEEN

ADOPTED IN THE BUDGET IS THAT NUMBER. THERE DEFINITELY HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS INTERNALLY HOW BEST TO SHOW IT. BUT WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH YOU WITH THAT DETAIL THAT BREAKS IT OUT MORE. -- WE EVEN

HAVE A NIFTY LITTLE BAR CHART THAT WE CAN PULL OUT AND SEND YOUR WAY. -- I LOVE A CHART. -- THANK YOU. I'D APPRECIATE THAT ADDITIONAL FOLLOW UP. I APPRECIATE ALSO THE EXPLANATION HERE AND

UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE'S A BIT MORE NUANCE TO THIS. AND THAT'S JUST TO THE FIRST PART OF THE QUESTION. I'M WONDERING, SPEAKING MORE JUST TO IMPACT TO OUR RESIDENTS. -- I WOULD JUST A QUICK ANSWER TO

THAT. I THINK I THINK WHAT YOU'VE HEARD IS GENERALLY WE TRY TO KIND OF GIVE A TAKE A HAIRCUT ACROSS 48 OF OUR PROGRAMS SO THAT WE WEREN'T CUT DEEPLY, CUTTING ANYONE IN ANY, ANY ONE AREA. BUT WHAT THAT

MEANS, AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE, THE WORK THAT WE HAVE HAVE REDUCED FUNDING FOR IS MAINTENANCE. AND SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS GENERALLY A LITTLE BIT LONGER RESPONSE TIMES FOR CERTAIN CERTAIN AREAS. AND

THAT'S UNFORTUNATE. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE FUNDING THAT IT TAKES TO, TO COVER ALL OF THOSE MAINTENANCE ITEMS RIGHT NOW. IN GOOD NEWS, WE DO HAVE THE TRANSPORTATION FUND TASK FORCE,

WHICH CHAIR SAKA HAS BEEN WORKING WITH US ON. WE JUST KICKED OFF A BIG MEETING WITH THE FIRST MEETING WITH THAT GROUP, REALLY TO HONE IN AND FOCUS IN ON OUR MAINTENANCE NEEDS AND OUR OF OUR ASSETS

OVER TIME, AND REALLY TRY TO TACKLE THAT, THAT QUESTION TOGETHER. SO REALLY ENCOURAGED AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THAT GROUP AND WITH YOU ALL ON SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME POTENTIAL CREATIVE

FUNDING SOURCES TO HELP SOLVE THIS, THIS GAP. -- CERTAINLY VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE WORK OF THAT WORK GROUP AS WELL. AND THANK YOU FOR UNPACKING A LITTLE BIT MORE. WHAT IMPACTS WILL MEAN FOR RESIDENTS.

I'M GOING TO SHIFT GEARS A LITTLE BIT AND TALK ABOUT AURORA AVE, PARTICULARLY. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE STATE HAS ALLOCATED $50 MILLION TOWARDS REDESIGN OF MOST AURORA AVE IN SEATTLE. HOWEVER,

THAT FUNDING IS POTENTIALLY IN QUESTION AS THE STATE IS ALSO GRAPPLING WITH THEIR OWN BUDGET DEFICIT AND SEEING MINIMAL PROGRESS FROM THE CITY ON AURORA. SO I'M ASKING THIS JUST BECAUSE I KNOW I HEAR

FROM RESIDENTS A REAL HUNGER TO GET US MOVING ON ADVANCING MAJOR CHANGES TO AURORA FOR SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, FOR BETTER LIVABILITY, FOR SO MANY REASONS. AND SO I'M WONDERING WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO JUST

START MOVING ON THIS. WHY IS THIS PROJECT TAKING SO LONG, AND CAN YOU PROVIDE MORE BACKGROUND AS TO WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE.? -- SO I WILL REMIND COUNCIL, I'VE BEEN HERE FOR NINE MONTHS IN THIS

PARTICULAR SEAT, BUT I HAVE SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME WITH THE DESIGN TEAM AND THE PLANNING TEAM, ASKING QUESTIONS AROUND AURORA AND SPECIFICALLY TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE REALLY

FOCUSED IN ON WHAT AREAS TO TO UTILIZE THAT FUNDING ON. I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE ISSUE, FRANKLY, IS THAT THERE ARE SO MANY IMPROVEMENTS TO BE HAD ALONG AURORA THAT THE CITY HAS NOT HONED IN ON ANY

ONE PARTICULAR LOCATION, AND WE HAVE STAKEHOLDERS WHO ARE LOOKING ALL ACROSS THE BOARD AT ALL SEVEN MILES OF IMPROVEMENTS, AND WE DON'T HAVE MONEY THAT'S GOING TO STRETCH THAT FAR. SO ONE OF THE THE

KEY STRATEGIES THAT WE'RE WE'RE TAKING RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE WANT TO WORK WITH THE TEAM, WITH OUR PLANNING TEAM, AND WITH THE STATE AND WITH WASHDOT SPECIFICALLY, WHO OWN THE RIGHT OF WAY TO REALLY

HONE IN ON THE LOCATION, YOU KNOW, SOME SOME KEY LOCATIONS WHERE WE CAN PROVIDE SOME TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE. THERE AND EFFORTS TO BE ABLE TO PILOT SOMETHING THAT WE COULD EXTEND THE ENTIRE CORRIDOR

AT SOME POINT WHEN WE GET ADDITIONAL FUNDING, WE ALSO HAVE SEATTLE PUBLIC UTILITIES HAS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THEY HAVE SET ASIDE FOR DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AT THE NORTH END OF AURORA, SO

NORTH OF GREEN LAKE, AND I'M LOOKING AT PARTNERING WITH DIRECTOR LEE AND SPU ON UTILIZATION OF, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE SPU FUNDING, ALONG WITH THE STATE FUNDING AND SOME S DOT LEVY FUNDING AS WELL, SO

THAT WE CAN GET THE BIGGEST BANG FOR OUR BUCK ON AURORA. BUT I AGREE, YOU KNOW, WE WE COULD WE CAN DELIVER FASTER AND WE CAN BE MORE EFFICIENT ON AURORA AND WE WILL BE. -- THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR

THAT RESPONSE. DIRECTOR BRADY. I APPRECIATE THAT AND UNDERSTAND THERE'S A LOT OF COOKS IN THE KITCHEN ON THE PROJECT, A LOT OF REQUIRED ENTITIES THAT WE NEED TO WORK WITH IN ORDER TO SEE PROGRESS, AND

WE WANT TO SEE PROGRESS. AND SO I APPRECIATE THAT RESPONSE AND LOOK FORWARD TO A FOLLOW UP. AND MY LAST QUESTION, AND HOPEFULLY IT'S A BRIEF ANSWER. THANK YOU, CHAIR, FOR ALLOWING ME THE TIME. I'M

WONDERING IF YOU CAN ELABORATE MORE ON THE COLLISION EVALUATION PROGRAM, WHAT IT DOES AND WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT. WITH AN INCREASE IN FUNDING. -- THAT IS A PROGRAM THAT IS RUN BY OUR CHIEF TRAFFIC

ENGINEER, WHO IS ALSO OUR CHIEF SAFETY OFFICER. AND I KNOW THAT WE ARE ROLLING OUT NEW POLICIES THAT ALLOW US TO MORE RAPIDLY CONSIDER POTENTIAL DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CHANGES, WHERE COLLISIONS

INVOLVING AND CRASHES INVOLVING VULNERABLE PEOPLE HAVE RESULTED IN DEATH OR SEVERE INJURY. I KNOW THAT WE CAN PROVIDE TO YOU AND TO THE REST OF THE COUNCIL A THOROUGH DESCRIPTION OF THAT POSITION OR

EXCUSE ME, THAT PROGRAM I, I DON'T BELIEVE WE'RE READY TO DO THAT AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER, AT THE TABLE. -- UNDERSTOOD. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FOLLOW UP ON THAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TIME. THANK

YOU CHAIR. -- THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER RINCK COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, FOLLOWED BY COUNCILMEMBER LIN. -- ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR. AND AGAIN, MY APPRECIATION TO THE TEAM FOR BEING WITH US ALL

DAY. I APPRECIATE YOU ALL. I WANT TO START WITH SOME QUESTIONS AROUND STREET USE FEES. SO IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, I THINK I'M ON PAGE 424. AND I THIS MAY BE FOLLOW UP. SO JUST BEAR WITH ME HERE. BUT I

APPRECIATE THE THE COMMENTARY ON THE SLIDE DECK IN TERMS OF THE INCREASE IN THE STREET USE FEES. AND SO WHAT I SEE HERE IS A 5% INCREASE IN HOURLY RATE FOR REVIEW AND INSPECTION, AND THEN A 30%

INCREASE TO PERMIT ISSUANCE, RENEWAL AND MODIFICATION FEES. AND I JUST WANTED TO ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS HERE. SO DO WE ANTICIPATE THAT THIS WILL ADD CAPACITY IN TERMS OF REVIEWERS INSIDE THE

DEPARTMENT WITH THIS FEE INCREASE. -- THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER. THAT IS NOT THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE WITH THESE PROPOSALS. IT IS INSTEAD TO GET US INCHING CLOSER TO BETTER COST RECOVERY BY POLICY. WE

CURRENTLY HAVE HAD A 70% COST RECOVERY APPROACH TO THE WAY THAT WE SET THOSE FEES, AND WE ARE REALIZING THAT WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO DO THAT. AND SO THESE GET US TO AN 80% COST RECOVERY FOR THE

EXISTING PROGRAM AND THE EXISTING STAFF. HOWEVER, AS I NOTED EARLIER, WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUAL BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT SERVICE PORTFOLIO AND IN DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN, BOTH WITH

EXISTING STAFF AND POTENTIALLY NEW. IF WE CAN BRING THEM ON TO IMPROVE REVIEW TIME AND PERMIT ISSUANCE. -- THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING. THAT'S THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL. AND IT'S HELPFUL TO COMPARE THAT 80%

THAT I HEARD YOU MENTION IN YOUR SLIDES WITH WHAT I'M SEEING HERE. AND I THINK SOMETHING I'M CURIOUS ABOUT AS I'M READING THIS ONE, I JUST WANT TO FIRST CLARIFY SOMETHING. SO I THINK THIS SAYS THESE

FEES WERE LAST ADJUSTED BEYOND THE CPI IN 2018. SO THAT'S NOT REFERENCING. IT'S BEEN SINCE 2018 SINCE THEY'VE BEEN ADJUSTED. IT'S JUST THAT IT'S BEEN SINCE 2018 SINCE WE WENT BEYOND CPI FOR THAT

ADJUSTMENT. IS THAT CORRECT? -- THAT IS CORRECT. ALTHOUGH I'D LIKE TO CLARIFY THAT THAT STATEMENT IN THE BUDGET BOOK IS A BIT OF A GENERALIZATION. AS I SAID EARLIER, SOME OF THE FEES THAT WE'RE

PROPOSING TO INCREASE NOW WERE LAST INCREASED BEYOND CPI IN 2016, SOME IN 2017, SOME IN 2018, SOME IN 2019, AND THEN A SMALLER SUBSET IN 2020. SO THERE'S IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE HAVE DONE A

WHOLESALE, AT LEAST NOT IN MY TIME WITH THE DEPARTMENT, WHICH HAS BEEN SINCE THE FALL OF 2018, A WHOLESALE LOOK AT TRYING TO RAISE OUR COST RECOVERY RATES FOR THE SERVICE PORTFOLIO ACROSS THE BOARD.

-- THAT'S VERY HELPFUL. THANK YOU. AND THAT'S LIKE THE PERFECT LEEWAY INTO WHERE I'M HEADING WITH THIS, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND SORT OF THERE'S BEEN THIS TIERED OR STRUCTURED,

YOU KNOW, YOU SAID 2016, 17, 18, 19. I GUESS WHAT I'M CURIOUS ABOUT AND SOMETHING I CARE ABOUT IS THE PREDICTABILITY HERE. AND SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET TOWARDS IS SORT OF HOW DOES THE DEPARTMENT

THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE AFTER THIS PROPOSED INCREASE? RIGHT. SO AS YOU'VE STATED, THIS PROPOSED INCREASE WOULD BRING US TO 80% COST RECOVERY. IS THERE WORK HAPPENING TO SORT OF DETERMINE AND CREATE A

PREDICTABLE SCALE? WE'RE GOING TO WANT TO REVISIT THIS AGAIN IN TWO YEARS TO GET TO 85%. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT SORT OF FORWARD FACING APPROACH. AND IF

I MAY, CHAIR, I SEE DIRECTOR PENNUCCI WANTING TO RESPOND. THERE. -- THANK YOU. I THINK THOSE ARE I LOVE THIS LINE OF QUESTIONING, ALTHOUGH I PROBABLY WILL GIVE YOU A NOT A FULLY SATISFYING ANSWER, BUT

I DO KNOW THIS IS NOT A PRIORITY JUST FOR SDOT, BUT IT IS A PRIORITY FOR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. THE WORK OF A INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM CONTINUES IN THIS AREA AND IS ONE OF A FEW DEPARTMENTS WHERE WE BOTH

WANT TO LOOK AT COST RECOVERY LONG TERM, BUT HOW WE ACHIEVE MORE EFFICIENCY. SO IN A PERFECT WORLD, WE WOULD FIGURE OUT THE THROUGHPUT ISSUE ON SOME OF THESE PERMIT THINGS WITHIN EXISTING RESOURCES.

IF THERE ARE TOOLS WE CAN USE TO GET THOSE PERMITS OUT THE DOOR FASTER, PERHAPS WE DON'T HAVE TO GROW AND WE CAN BRING OUR COSTS DOWN A LITTLE BIT. THAT WOULD BE THE IDEAL SITUATION. SO I JUST WANTED

TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THERE IS AN ONGOING BODY OF WORK SDOT PERMITS, IN PARTICULAR AROUND DEVELOPMENT, ARE ONE OF THE KEY FOCUS AREAS TO WORK ON IMPROVEMENTS. AND I KNOW DIRECTOR BRADY AND HER TEAM ARE

VERY COMMITTED TO THIS. AND THEN ALSO THE WORK, AT LEAST IN THE HOUSING PERMITTING, THE HOUSING OMBUD WILL HELP COORDINATE WHERE WE'RE FINDING STICKING POINTS WITH SOME OF THESE TYPES OF PERMITS

MOVING FORWARD. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. DIRECTOR PENNUCCI AND I WILL JUST TAKE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY. I APPRECIATE YOU MENTIONING THE HOUSING OMBUDSMAN, AND I KNOW WE'RE WE HAVE OH, COMING IN

TOMORROW, BUT I REALLY THINK THAT'S A FANTASTIC AD AND LEADERSHIP FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ON HAVING THAT THERE TO HELP OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMUNITY NAVIGATE THE PERMITTING PROCESS. SO THANKS FOR

THAT MENTION, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE WORK OF THE. I THINK IT'S IN THE IT WHERE THIS IS HAPPENING. AND THANK YOU FOR FORESHADOWING BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS SOMETHING WE HEAR A LOT ABOUT, AND I

KNOW IT'S A SHARED CONCERN TO CREATE THAT PREDICTABILITY FOR FOLKS AS WE WORK ON THE COST RECOVERY. ZOOMING OUT A LITTLE BIT, SOMETHING I HEARD DURING THE PRESENTATION AND, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE,

THE BALANCE OF THE, THE FUND, THAT WAS THE FOCUS OF A LOT OF THE PRESENTATION TODAY WAS THAT IT'S OUR TYPICAL CITY PRACTICE TO NOT ALLOW A NEGATIVE BALANCE TO RUN BEYOND 60 DAYS. DIRECTOR PENNUCCI --

YEAH, AND THERE ARE TWO THINGS GOING ON IN THIS BUDGET. SO THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD POINT OF CLARIFICATION. THERE IS THE CASH BALANCE OF A FUND. AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT THAT POLICY IS TALKING ABOUT, IS WE

DON'T WE HAVE FINANCIAL POLICIES IN PLACE THAT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE A NEGATIVE CASH BALANCE FOR MORE THAN 60 DAYS. THAT'S WHAT THE INTERFUND 90, EXCUSE ME, 90 DAYS. THAT'S WHAT THE INTERFUND LOAN WILL

HELP ADDRESS IS THE CASH FLOW ISSUE. AND THEN THERE ARE THE BUDGET ISSUES. AND SO PART OF WHAT THE WAY, THE WAY THESE TWO ISSUES COME TOGETHER AND WHY YOU SEE IN THE PROPOSAL A RESERVE BEING BUILT UP

IS THAT WE NEED TO BUDGET TO BUILD UP A RESERVE SO THAT SDOT HAS A HEALTHIER CASH LIKE THAT ALSO HELPS ADDRESS THEIR CASH BALANCE SO THEY CAN CASH FLOW THEIR THEIR SPENDING THROUGH THROUGHOUT THE

YEAR. SO THAT'S WHERE THOSE TWO THINGS KIND OF COME TOGETHER. -- THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. WHICH THEN LEADS INTO MY, MY NEXT QUESTION. YOU KNOW, AND THANK YOU FOR UPDATING. I'M SORRY, 90 DAYS,

NOT 60 DAYS. WHAT I WAS WHAT I WAS WANTING TO GET AT WAS I HEARD THAT AND THEN I ALSO BELIEVE I HEARD COMMENTARY THAT THIS HAS BEEN BUILDING FOR THE BETTER PART OF A YEAR. AND SO JUST IN TERMS OF THIS

MOST RECENT SORT OF FORECAST AND OUTLOOK ON THIS FUND, WHAT I'M CURIOUS TO HEAR MORE OF IS HOW WE IDENTIFIED THIS, HOW YOU IDENTIFIED THIS. AND AND OBVIOUSLY, WE HAVE THE WORK THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE

PROPOSED REDUCTIONS. AND THEN THE PROPOSAL TO BUILD UP THAT RESERVE. SO I CERTAINLY SEE THAT AS A LARGE PART OF PREVENTION. BUT JUST IN TERMS OF MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S A. HOW DO I WANT TO SAY THIS,

A SHORTER WINDOW ON ON CATCHING THESE KINDS OF LAPSES. WHAT WHAT WORK IS HAPPENING TO ENSURE THAT. OR PLEASE TELL ME IF THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG IN MY PREAMBLE. -- SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF WORK

HAPPENING. A BIG PART OF THE EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT WAS ISSUED NOW A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, IS LOOKING AT MAKING SURE WE HAVE STRONG SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS IN PLACE THAT ARE CITY WIDE

TO BE REALLY MONITORING OUR CASH BALANCES, OUR FUND BALANCES AND THAT SORT OF THING. I WOULD SAY WITH THE TRANSPORTATION FUND, THIS HAS BEEN BUILDING FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THERE HAVE BEEN BUDGETS

ADOPTED, LIKE THE GENERAL FUND, THAT WERE PROJECTING A DEFICIT IN THE OUT YEARS. IT WASN'T AS ACUTE, AND I WILL SAY, AS A CITY, WE HAVE BEEN HYPER FOCUSED ON THE GENERAL FUND DEFICIT, AND THERE'S BEEN

LESS, I WOULD SAY, PUBLIC CONVERSATION ABOUT THE PROJECTED DEFICIT IN THE TRANSPORTATION FUND THAT WAS NOT IDEAL, BUT WAS PRESENT IN THE THE FINANCIAL PLAN THAT WAS PART OF THE ADOPTED BUDGET LAST

YEAR. AND THEN THE COMBINATION OF ACTUAL EXPENSES, ACTUAL REVENUES, AND THE AUTOMATIC CARRY FORWARD IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET KIND OF ALL CAME TO A HEAD. WE STARTED WORKING ON THIS VERY EARLY IN THE YEAR.

I'M LOOKING FOR MY, MY SOME OF MY TEAMS BEHIND AND WITH DIRECTOR DIVELY ACTING DIRECTOR BRADY, MYSELF AND OUR TEAMS. SO I WOULD SAY LIKE, WE IDENTIFIED IT VERY EARLY ON AND HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE

BEST PATH FORWARD. AND IT'S BEEN CHALLENGING BECAUSE IT HASN'T BEEN AS MANY YEARS IN THE MAKING OF SOME OF THE BUDGET STRATEGIES WITH THE GENERAL FUND THAT MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR

YEARS -- I MIGHT JUST ADD A LITTLE BIT TO THAT, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. THE TRANSPORTATION FUND IS UNIQUE FOR US. IT IS, AS I SAID BEFORE, OUR LARGEST FUND. IT'S WHERE MOST OF OUR

FUND SOURCES ARE. IT ALSO SERVES AS THE REPOSITORY INITIALLY FOR ALL OF THE COSTS OF THE DEPARTMENT. SO ALL OF PAYROLL, ALL OF OUR CENTRAL COSTS, MANUAL COSTS THAT WE PAY EVERY EXPENSE THAT SDOT PAYS

OUT IS DONE THROUGH INITIALLY HITS THE TRANSPORTATION FUND. ULTIMATELY, THOSE COSTS ARE DISTRIBUTED. IF THEY NEED TO GO OUTSIDE OF THE TRANSPORTATION FUND, THEY GO TO THE FUND THAT THEY BELONG TO.

LIKE THE SEATTLE TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT FUND, THE TRANSPORTATION LEVY FUND, ET CETERA.. AND SO IT BECOMES A BIT OF A KIND OF DAILY CHALLENGE WHEN PAYROLL IS HITTING EVERY TWO WEEKS. AND ALL

OF OUR OTHER EXPENSES ARE COMING TO THE TRANSPORTATION FUND FIRST BEFORE DISTRIBUTING OUT TO KEEP OUR CASH RESERVES IN A POSITIVE STATE. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE TAKING VERY SERIOUSLY. WE VERY

MUCH APPRECIATE THE PARTNERSHIP WITH DIRECTOR DIVELY AND DIRECTOR PENNUCCI AND THEIR TEAMS, AND WE DO HAVE AN INTER-DEPARTMENTAL TEAM THAT HAS BEEN ACTIVE FOR SOME TIME, EXPLORING ALL OF THE MORE

SYSTEMIC ISSUES THAT ARE GOING ON FOR THE TRANSPORTATION FUND. AND SO WE WILL BE ADDRESSING THOSE AS WELL AS LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME OF THE BUDGETARY REMEDIES THAT THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND THE YEAR END

SUPPLEMENTAL PUT FORWARD. -- THANK YOU FOR THAT. I APPRECIATE THAT, AND I THANKS FOR THE CORRECTION. IN TERMS OF IT'S BEEN BUILDING FOR SEVERAL YEARS, NOT JUST THE BETTER PART OF THE YEAR. I

APPRECIATE THAT, DIRECTOR PENNUCCI AND WE'LL JUST SAY, I THINK I KNOW THIS IS A HARD SHIP TO TURN WITH THE PROPOSAL THAT THAT YOU'RE PUTTING FORWARD AND SOME OF THE CHALLENGING REDUCTIONS. BUT I DO

APPRECIATE THE FOCUS ON WRITING THAT AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WAYS TO CORRECT IT FOR THE THE LONG HAUL. I DO WANT TO HEAR MORE IN TERMS OF ANY OF THE PRACTICES THAT ARE BEING PUT IN PLACE ON THAT SORT

OF PREVENTION SIDE, AND THAT'S SOMETHING I CAN USE. WE CAN USE SHAREPOINT TO DO THAT FOLLOW UP. AND AND I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND THE EXPLANATION IN TERMS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THAT FUND. AND I WANT

TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, IN FUTURE BUDGET YEARS, WHETHER WE ARE SO LUCKY TO HAVE THE LEADERSHIP AT THIS TABLE OR DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP THAT WE ARE SORT OF GETTING AT WHATEVER THAT CORE PIECE IS

THAT'S CONTRIBUTED TO THIS HAPPENING. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. OKAY. TREES. SO I WANTED THERE WAS A COMMENT THAT YOU MADE EARLIER IN YOUR PRESENTATION, AND IT JUST WAS A LITTLE BIT UNCLEAR TO ME. AND I,

WHAT I HEARD WAS IN 27 AND 28, YOU WERE MAKING SPECIFIC DEDICATED REVENUE TO URBAN FORESTRY. AND CAN I GET YOU TO JUST SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THAT. -- THAT REVENUE IS COMING FROM THE ADDITIONAL

SALES TAX THAT WILL BE COMING TO SEATTLE FROM THE KING COUNTY TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT THAT SO MANY OF YOU HELPED TO BRING TO SEATTLE. THE COMMENT WAS MADE IN REFERENCE TO, WE'RE USING THAT FUNDING IN

27 AND 28 TO. I SPECIFICALLY SAID TO STAVE OFF WHAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE VERY SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS TO URBAN FORESTRY AND TO ONE OTHER PROGRAM. THAT IS BECAUSE, AS WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AS WE

APPROACHED OUR BUDGETARY. THE NECESSARY BUDGETARY REDUCTIONS THAT WE SEE WE NEED TO MAKE, WE LOOKED ACROSS OUR PORTFOLIO AT THOSE PROGRAMS THAT ARE HAVE FUNDING SOURCES SUCH AS URBAN FORESTRY, THAT

ARE HEAVILY SUPPORTED BY OUR MORE FLEXIBLE FUNDING SOURCES, COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX, THE GENERAL FUND, AND SO ON THAT ARE HEAVILY CONSTRAINED. AND SO IN SORT OF OUR INITIAL ROUNDS OF PLANNING, URBAN

FORESTRY FIELD OPERATIONS ALSO RECEIVED A SIGNIFICANT OR RECEIVED A REDUCTION IN THEIR BUDGET IS WHAT WE WERE PLANNING. AND THEN WHEN WE RECEIVED THAT GREAT PHONE CALL THAT TOLD US, GUESS WHAT, $4.7

MILLION IN 27 AND 28 IS WHAT WE'VE CALCULATED FOR YOU. S DOT WE IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT WHERE WE COULD PUT THAT FUNDING, AND WE ESSENTIALLY BOUGHT BACK OUR OWN REDUCTIONS THAT WE WERE

THINKING WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT FORWARD FOR URBAN FORESTRY FIELD OPERATIONS. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. AND I'LL JUST TAKE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER LIN FOR HIS

LEADERSHIP. AS YOU SPOKE ABOUT THE ABILITY FOR THE CITY TO LOBBY AND ADVOCATE, I THINK YOU WERE JUST A REALLY INCREDIBLE VOICE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF AN EQUITABLE FUND

SHARE. I KNOW MANY OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS WEIGHED IN, BUT YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THAT REALLY STUCK WITH ME. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. COUNCILMEMBER LIN. AND IT'S GREAT TO GET TO HEAR THE IMPACT OF THAT. AND

THANK YOU TO STOP FOR PRIORITIZING OUR URBAN FORESTRY. WE ALL SHARE THIS GOAL OF GROWING IN A LIVABLE WAY. SO I APPRECIATE THE DECISION TO PRIORITIZE THAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU,

COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. BEFORE JUMPING TO COUNCILMEMBER LIN, I WANT TO ADD A LITTLE BIT. YOU HAD A REALLY GOOD QUESTION OF HOW DIDN'T WE CATCH THIS SOONER WHEN WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO CATCH OTHER THINGS

SOONER? PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG HERE. THE TRANSPORTATION FUND IS A. YOU HAVE DIRECT DEPOSIT FROM TAXES AND FROM FEES, IS THAT CORRECT? -- ON THE STREET USE AND COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX? YES. GAS

TAX. YES. BUT THERE ARE. -- HANG ON. THANK YOU. YES. -- SO THEY HAVE DIRECT DEPOSIT OF TAX REVENUE AND THEY ARE PAYING THEIR PAYROLL AND ALL OF THEIR OTHER PROJECTS. AND THEY ARE GENERATING INTEREST

OFF OF ALL OF THIS MONEY THAT THEY ARE THEN USING IN THEIR PROJECTS AGAIN. SO IT WAS ORIGINALLY SET UP. IT WAS A WAY OF SAYING, LOOK, IT'S TAKING IN OTHER REVENUES. WE EITHER GET TAX REVENUE INTO THE

GENERAL FUND ACCOUNT OR INTO THE JUMPSTART ACCOUNT, AND THEN IT IS REDISTRIBUTED FROM EITHER FINANCE GENERAL OR FROM JUMPSTART INTO THEIR APPROPRIATE PLACES. THE TRANSPORTATION FUND ACTS IN A VERY

SIMILAR WAY. IT ACTS AS THEIR GENERAL FUND. AND SO WITH AND THEY'RE MAKING INTEREST AND IT REDUCES OVERSIGHT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE AS MUCH INSIGHT AS WE DO WHEN WE LOOK THROUGH THE REST OF THE BUDGET

BOOK. SO I'M JUST HIGHLIGHTING FOR YOU THAT IT WAS SET UP AS A WAY TO MAKE IT EASIER TO JUST, RATHER THAN US HAVING TO MOVE THE GAS TAX AND COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX INTO THEIR APPROPRIATE ACCOUNTS. WE

JUST PUT IT INTO THIS ONE. TRANSPORTATION GENERAL FUND. SO THAT'S ALSO CREATED A MORE DIFFICULT WAY OF PROVIDING OVERSIGHT. WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO GO ON TO COUNCILMEMBER LIN COUNCILMEMBER LIN.

YOU'VE GOT THE FLOOR. -- THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU TO THE PRESENTERS AND THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. AND JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS TO ALL THE COLLEAGUES WHO FOUGHT BEHIND THE SCENES FOR SOME OF

THAT FUNDING. COUNCILMEMBER RINCK FOR HELPING WITH THAT LETTER THAT WE ALL SIGNED. COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. AYE. KNOW THAT WE CHATTED AND I KNOW THE MAYOR'S OFFICE WAS ALSO VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN FIGHTING

FOR THAT, AND VERY GLAD TO HEAR HOW THAT MONEY IS GOING TO BE SPENT. YOU KNOW, REITERATE COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER'S POINT ABOUT TREE CANOPY IS IS SO ESSENTIAL, ESPECIALLY IN SOUTH SEATTLE. SEATTLE. ALSO

OTHER PARTS OF THE DISTRICT OF OUR CITY THAT ARE LACKING IN TREE CANOPY PLACES LIKE SOUTH PARK AND SO ON. AND JUST, YOU KNOW, OUR IN TERMS OF WHERE THE TREES EXIST IN OUR CITY NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTIAL

NUMBER ONE, NUMBER TWO, RIGHT OF WAY. AND WE HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO TO, TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO, TO SUPPORT THAT TREE CANOPY WENT ON A WONDERFUL WALK RECENTLY TO LEARN THE THERE'S SOMEONE

NAMED TAHA WHO DOES AND HAS DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB OF DOCUMENTING THE HISTORY OF TREES, URBAN TREES AND. IT'S WONDERFUL WALK AND THERE'S JUST SO MUCH MORE TO DO THERE. ALSO EXCITED. THANK YOU FOR THE

GETTING CREATIVE WITH THE COMMERCIAL PARKING TAX REVENUES AND IT SOUNDS LIKE SOME OF THAT WILL ALSO SUPPORT THIS TREE CANOPY, WHICH I THINK IS GREAT. AND ALSO JUST WANT TO GIVE SOME FEEDBACK THAT FROM

AT LEAST THE, THE CONSTITUENTS I HEAR FROM ARE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE TRAFFIC CAMERAS JUST BECAUSE, ESPECIALLY AROUND SCHOOLS, JUST BECAUSE OF THE VERY UNSAFE CONDITIONS AND WANTING TO. AND THE ONE

SORT OF CAVEAT TO THAT IS I'VE HEARD THAT THE, THE AMOUNTS OF THE FINES ARE NOT AS IMPORTANT. THAT ACTUALLY COULD BE LOWER AND STILL BE EFFECTIVE. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M STILL INTERESTED IN

EXPLORING. BUT I'LL ONE KIND OF QUESTION IS, IS WHEN HEARING ABOUT THE KING COUNTY, WHEN THEY WERE DOING THEIR SALES TAX, IT WAS CLEAR AS PART OF THAT DISCUSSION THAT TRANSPORTATION FUNDING, I MEAN,

THIS IS NOTHING NEW, OBVIOUSLY, IS IS A REGIONAL ISSUE, STATEWIDE ISSUE AS PART OF THE TASK FORCE, ANY ANYTHING YOU CAN PROVIDE IN TERMS OF UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE SESSION THAT YOU ANTICIPATE MIGHT BE

COMING ANY OTHER EARLY INDICATIONS OF THINGS THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT AS A MORE RELIABLE FUND SOURCE FOR TRANSPORTATION? -- YOU HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT THAT. -- I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GET BACK TO

YOU ON THAT ONE. COUNCILMEMBER LIN THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE QUESTION. -- YEAH, OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL. CHAIR. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER LIN RECORD TIME THREE MINUTES. NO ONE'S COUNTING. I'M

COUNTING MYSELF. NO ONE ELSE. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER'S OLD HAND. NEW HAND. I'LL COME BACK TO COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER IN A MINUTE IF SHE NEEDS TO. I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF, AND THEN I'M GOING TO PASS IT OVER TO

COUNCILMEMBER SAKA FOR CLOSING US OUT AND OUR SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK. I LOVE ALL CITY EMPLOYEES, AND I KNOW THAT. AND BECAUSE LITERALLY I CAN'T GET ANYTHING DONE WITHOUT OUR CITY EMPLOYEES, THE FOLKS

THAT ARE FILLING THE POTHOLES, THE FOLKS THAT ARE FIXING ALL OF OUR ADA RAMPS WHO I SEE ON A REGULAR BASIS. I LITERALLY SAW THEM ON THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR IN AUGUST, WORKING ON A SUNDAY NOTHING

MORE SAID. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO DOES OUR WORK. AS I'M LOOKING AT OUR SEVEN YEAR LOOK BACK FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT, YOU HAVE HAD A 98% CHANGE IN LABOR COSTS AND A 39% INCREASE IN STAFF SO IT WENT FROM

$103 MILLION OF LABOR COSTS TO $204 MILLION, RISING FROM 932 EMPLOYEES TO 1291. THESE ARE JUST FACTS. I'M JUST GOING TO LAY THAT OUT THERE ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I'VE HAD SITTING THROUGH THIS

CONVERSATION THAT I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET THROUGH IN THREE MINUTES TO LEAVE COUNCILMEMBER SAKA SOME TIME, IS IT IS I AM BEING CHALLENGED WITH THE AMOUNT OF DOLLARS THAT ARE GETTING ONTO OUR STREETS

COMPARED TO THE AMOUNT OF DOLLARS THAT WE ARE SPENDING IN THE DEPARTMENT AND I'VE BEEN CHALLENGED ABOUT THAT THIS THIS WHOLE TIME. SO I'M GOING TO JUST ASK A COUPLE GENERAL QUESTIONS. DO YOU PROVIDE

STREET CALMING MEASURES ON RESIDENTIAL STREETS, NON-ARTERIAL STREETS? -- I THOUGHT WE DID. AND YES, WE HAVE IT ON GOOD AUTHORITY THAT WE DO. -- THEN HOW HAVE ALL OF MY REQUESTS FOR SIX YEARS BEEN

DENIED? -- I WAS GOING TO SAY WE DO, BUT THEY ARE LIMITED BECAUSE WE REALLY TRY TO FOCUS IN ON OUR HIGH, HIGH IMPACT COLLISION STREETS FIRST, WHICH WHICH ARE FOR THE MOST PART, ARTERIALS. SO IN TERMS

OF YOU ASK ABOUT PRIORITY, WE'RE PRIORITIZING THOSE, THOSE REALLY HIGH COLLISION LOCATIONS, WHICH ARE TYPICALLY ARTERIALS OVER RESIDENTIAL STREETS. -- SO WE HAVE SPACES FOR 24th AVENUE. THIS YEAR, IT

WAS PRIORITIZED AS A STREET FOR PROJECTS. BUT THIS THE CORNERS THAT WERE PRIORITIZED FOR THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SAFETY INCREASES WERE THE SAFEST ON THE STREETS. MEANWHILE, I HAVE THE NEIGHBORS ASKING

FOR SPEED HUMPS ON THEIR SIDE STREETS, ON THEIR RESIDENTIAL STREETS, AND THE DEPARTMENT STATES TO ME THAT THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE. WE HAVE REQUESTED TRAFFIC CIRCLES. THIS, THE DEPARTMENT STATES TO ME

THAT THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE. I AM 100% WITH YOU. DON'T SPEND MONEY ON STREETS IN MY DISTRICT THAT NOBODY'S BEING KILLED AT, AND SPEND THAT MONEY ON THE STREETS WHERE PEOPLE ARE DYING. JUST VERY

DIRECTLY. RIGHT. BUT WHAT I'M HEARING FROM YOU IS THAT YOU DO NOT. AND WHAT IS YOUR PREFERRED TERMINOLOGY, ROUNDABOUT OR TRAFFIC CIRCLE? -- I'M GOING TO DEFER TO MY SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS FOR THAT. WE

CAN GET BACK TO YOU ON IT. -- NO, SORRY. THIS IS A DIRECT QUESTION OF I DON'T I, I FIND PEOPLE TO TRY TO GET OUT OF THIS QUESTION ON A REGULAR BASIS BY USING LIKE, WE DIDN'T USE THE TERMINOLOGY

CORRECTLY. SO WHATEVER THE ROUND THING IS IN A RESIDENTIAL STREET INTERSECTION, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO CALL THAT? -- OH, TRAFFIC CIRCLES IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS. -- YEAH. -- RESIDENTIAL TRAFFIC CIRCLE.

DOES SDOT DO THIS PROJECT ANY LONGER THESE DAYS? -- I BELIEVE WE DO. -- THEN HOW HAVE ALL OF MY REQUESTS BEEN DENIED OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS, TO THE POINT WHERE I'VE HAD TO USE THE COUNCIL DISTRICT

FUNDS TO GET THE ONLY TWO IN. -- COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? I'LL HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AND ASK. I'LL ASK THE TEAM. -- AND FOR THE GENERAL VIEWING PUBLIC, I HAVE ASKED ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS IN PRIVATE,

MULTIPLE TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST TWO MONTHS, AND SO THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO BE GOTCHA, BECAUSE I NEVER WANT TO GET THERE'S NEVER ANY GOTCHA OR CATCH YOU OFF GUARD ON THE DAIS WITH ME. LET'S

ROLL IN. SO I JUST WANT TO CHECK IN ON THIS. SO JUST TO ROUND THAT ALL OUT, I HAVE MANY REQUESTS FROM MANY PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICT TO SLOW DOWN RESIDENTIAL SPEED, RESIDENTIAL STREET SPEEDS. THE

DEPARTMENT IS UNRESPONSIVE. I AM MORE THAN HAPPY OF PUTTING IN VISION ZERO. ANY PLACE WHERE PEOPLE ARE DYING. THE ONE PLACE THAT PEOPLE THAT A PERSON HAS DIED RECENTLY ON 24th AVENUE. NO SAFETY

IMPROVEMENTS WERE SCHEDULED FOR THAT PLACE, BUT THE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS WERE IN THE INTERSECTIONS THAT ARE ALREADY THE MOST SAFE. AND FOR THE INTERSECTIONS THAT ARE THE HIGHEST CROSSING, THEY HAVE NO

SAFETY IMPROVEMENT, THAT NO CROSSING IMPROVEMENTS SCHEDULED. SO THIS IS WHERE NOT ONLY AM I BEING CHALLENGED BY HOW ARE WE SPENDING OUR MONEY, I'M BEING CHALLENGED BY HOW ARE WE DOING OUR WORK? MOVING

ON. AND I JUST AND THE REASON I ASK YOU THOSE QUESTIONS IS BECAUSE RESIDENTS HAMMER ME ALL THE TIME OF, WHY CAN'T WE GET A TRAFFIC ROUNDABOUT CIRCLE, WHATEVER IT IS ON THE RESIDENTIAL STREET, WHY

CAN'T WE GET. WHY ARE WE GETTING SPEED HUMPS ON ALL THESE OTHER STREETS? WHY CAN'T WE GET SPEED HUMPS ON ON THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS? I UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE FOCUSING ON PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM DYING,

BUT WHAT THESE RESIDENTS ARE SHARING WITH ME IS THAT WHEN CARS GET HIT AND THEY'RE TOPPLED OVER, WHEN TEENAGERS ARE SPEEDING THROUGH STREETS NEAR COMMUNITY CENTERS AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THAT THEY

ARE ALSO IN FEAR OF REALLY DANGEROUS THINGS HAPPENING THERE AS WELL. STREET USE FEES. ARE YOU INCREASING THE FEES TO SMALL BUSINESSES FOR THE USE OF THINGS LIKE STREET CAFES OR RETAIL SPACE IN THE

RIGHT OF WAY? -- I WILL HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT OUR ATTACHMENT A TO THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION, BUT I BELIEVE THAT, GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE 30% RATE INCREASE THAT WE REFER TO ON STREET PERMITTING IS

ACROSS THE BOARD. I DON'T RECALL OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH REGARD TO PUBLIC USE AND OCCUPANCY. HOWEVER. -- OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT. BECAUSE WHEN WE RESTRUCTURED THESE FEES IN 2020,

IT IS BECAUSE THE FEES WERE SO PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE FOR THE RESTAURATEURS THAT THAT IS WHY WE WERE NOT SEEING UPTAKE. THE RULES WERE PROHIBITIVELY RESTRICTIVE ON WHERE THEY COULD PLACE THEIR

OUTDOOR SEATING. THESE TWO THINGS IN COMBINATION IS WHY PEOPLE DID NOT TAKE THIS PROGRAM UP AT GREATER RATE. WE HAVE MADE THESE CHANGES TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF OUR SMALLEST BUSINESSES. OUR OWNER OPERATED

BUSINESSES THAT HAVE VERY SLIM MARGINS. AND SO I'M VERY WORRIED ABOUT THIS. WE'VE GOT SOME. SEATTLE TRANSPORTATION MEASURE QUESTIONS IN HERE. THIRD LEVY REALIGNMENT ON THE THIRD AVENUE REVITALIZATION

ON PAGE 430. CAN YOU SHARE WITH ME WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? DID GREG SPOTTS, CULTURE CONNECTOR NOT WORK? -- WELL, THE CENTER CITY STREETCAR SEGMENT, AS YOU KNOW, COUNCIL REMOVED THAT FROM OUR BUDGET. AND

CIP A YEAR OR TWO AGO. THIRD AVENUE I HAVE TO MY COMPUTER IS FROZEN, SO I CAN'T PULL UP PAGE, WHICH IN THE BUDGET. -- FOR 3430. -- AS MUCH TIME AS YOU WANT. -- WE HAVE A LONG BUDGET HERE. WE ARE. YOU

ARE REFERRING TO LEVY REALIGNMENT IN THIRD AVE, REVITALIZATION, $1 MILLION. I BELIEVE. YES. SO IN THIS CASE, THIS FUNDING IS MOVING OUT OF THAT PARTICULAR MASTER PROJECT. THE TECHNICAL TERM THAT WE

USE AND HOW WE ACTUALLY SET OUR BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS. BESIDES, WITHIN EVERY BSL. AND IT'S MOVING INTO THE NEW CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION AND MOBILITY DIVISION TO SUPPORT WORK IN THE DOWNTOWN. AND IT'S

IT IS STAYING WITHIN THE INTENT OF THE ORIGINAL APPROPRIATION TO THE TO THE FIRST MASTER PROJECT. SO WE SHOULD. -- SO WE SHOULD TAKE THIS AS YOU BELIEVE, THAT THIRD AVENUE IS IN THE STATE, THAT IT

SHOULD BE AT THIS TIME. WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE INVESTING IN THEIR. FURTHER. -- KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT IT'S GOING TO. IT'S BEING REALIGNED INTO A DIFFERENT PART OF OUR BUDGET. OUT OF ONE MASTER

PROJECT AND INTO ANOTHER TO CONTINUE THE WORK. -- I SEE DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. -- THIS IS A. A PLAINER LANGUAGE. WE'RE TRANSFERRING HOW THIS GETS PAID IN THE BUDGET. SO WHILE IT LOOKS LIKE A REDUCTION, IT

IS KIND OF A TECHNICAL BUDGET CHANGE. -- I HEAR YOU. MY FOCUS IS ON MAKING THIRD AVENUE A BETTER PLACE TO CATCH THE BUS, TO WALK, TO DO BUSINESS. AND MY CONCERN IS THAT YOU ARE TAKING MONEY THAT WAS

DEDICATED TO MAKING THIRD AVENUE A BETTER PLACE REGIONALLY AND PUTTING IT IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY BUDGET. I'M GOING TO HAVE TO KEEP US TICKING RIGHT NOW. SOME OF THESE YOU CAN RESPOND TO ON THE

SHAREPOINT AS WELL. MAGNOLIA BRIDGE ON PAGE 445, $33,000 WAS SPENT LAST YEAR, AND THERE WAS 424,000 FOR THE 26 BUDGET. HOW WAS THIS MONEY SPENT? IS THIS THE SEISMIC WORK THAT YOU DISCUSSED? IS THERE

ANY ADDITIONAL WORK? WAS THAT SEISMIC WORK SOLELY ON THE BRIDGE THAT WHEN WE PASSED THE LEVY, I BELIEVE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE WAS TALKING ABOUT, THAT EMERGENCY ACCESS AS THE

EMERGENCY ACCESS JUST NOT BEEN FOLLOWED UP ON. AND ARE ALL FUNDS SPENT AT THIS TIME? -- COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS, WE WILL NEED TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT. -- OKAY. LOOKING AT PAGE 447,

NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENTS WITHIN YOUR MOBILITY CAPITAL, IT SAYS THE PURPOSE OF NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENTS PROGRAM IS TO PLAN AND FORECAST THE NEEDS OF SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOODS, INCLUDING CORRIDOR

PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PLANS, SPOT IMPROVEMENT, TRAVEL FORECASTING ALSO CONSTRUCTS MINOR IMPROVEMENT IN NEIGHBORHOODS. BASED ON THESE ASSESSMENTS. BUT AS WE'VE ALREADY GONE OVER, THE

DEPARTMENT IS NOT PUTTING FORWARD WITH TRAFFIC CIRCLES OR TRAFFIC ROUNDABOUTS HOWEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT. YOU'RE NOT PUTTING FORWARD SPEED REDUCTION DEVICES ON RESIDENTIAL STREETS. CAN YOU TELL ME

WHAT THIS PROGRAM DOES -- WHAT THE PROGRAM DOES OR HOW IT'S REPRESENTED IN OUR PROPOSED BUDGET? -- WHAT DO THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THINGS WORK FOR SEATTLEITES DO? -- I AM NOT INTIMATELY, INTIMATELY

FAMILIAR WITH THIS. THE INS AND OUTS OF THIS PROGRAM, AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO FOLLOW UP WITH YOU WITH A WRITTEN RESPONSE. -- OKAY. PAGE 449. WE STILL HAVE WATERFRONT AND CIVIC PROJECTS

ALLOCATED WITHIN THE BUDGET, WITH 21 FTE, AND NEXT YEAR SPENDING $13 MILLION. THE FOLLOWING YEAR, 13.5 THIS YEAR, 9.6. CAN YOU SHARE WITH ME I, I LOVE THE WATERFRONT. I'LL SPEND LOTS OF MONEY ON THE

WATERFRONT. I THOUGHT SDOT WAS OUT OF THE WATERFRONT BUSINESS. IS THAT NOT. -- THE CASE? WE ARE IN CLOSE OUT ON A LOT OF OUR CONTRACTS, SO WE WILL BE SPENDING SOME OF THAT MONEY ON THE CLOSE OUT. YOU

KNOW, PAYING OFF FINAL CHANGE ORDERS, COMPLETION OF ALL THE DOCUMENTATION, ALL OF THAT. WE ALSO HAVE ONE PARTICULAR PROJECT THAT IS IN THE COURT SYSTEM RIGHT NOW. SO WE ANTICIPATE A SETTLEMENT THERE

OR SOME SORT OF PAYMENT, A PAYOUT FOR THAT AS WELL. SO MAINTAINING FUNDING IN THAT IN THAT BUCKET OF FUNDS TO COVER THOSE THOSE EXPENSES. -- AND THAT REQUIRES 21 FTE -- WELL, WE HAVE ACTUALLY

TRANSFERRED A LOT OF THOSE FOLKS INTO OUT OF THE WATERFRONT PROGRAM AND INTO THE STREET THREE PROGRAM. SO I'VE RESTRUCTURED THE SOUND TRANSIT SUPPORT STAFF WITHIN SDOT. AND SO WHEN I TALKED ABOUT

BARBARA LEE EARLIER, HANDLING WATERFRONT, SHE ALSO HAS BEEN TRANSITIONED ALONG WITH HER TEAM INTO LEADING AND SUPPORTING THE SOUND TRANSIT'S PROJECT DELIVERY WORK, THE PERMITTING WORK. AND SO WE HAVE

A SOLID STRUCTURE IN PLACE TO SUPPORT STREET THREE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DECADES. -- SO THESE 2150 YEAR MISREPRESENTED IN THE BUDGET. -- WE HAVE NOT UPDATED THE NAME OF THE MASTER PROJECT IN THE

BUDGET. SO IT IS WE THE THE PROGRAM ITSELF INTERNALLY, WE REFER TO. IT'S A LOT OF WORDS. OFFICE OF WATERFRONT AND CIVIC PROJECTS AND SOUND TRANSIT, THREE PROGRAMS. -- THAT'S RIGHT. -- SO THE BUDGET

HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED AT THIS TIME. -- THE BUDGET HAS BEEN UPDATED. THE SOUND TRANSIT THREE MASTER PROJECTS DO ROLL UP UNDER THAT, BUT WE CAN'T RENAME THE THE B, S L, SO S DOT DASH BOTR 16,000

WATERFRONT CIVIC PROJECTS. IF WE WANT TO MAKE THAT AMENDMENT WITH COUNCIL, WE COULD PUT THAT ON THERE. YOU. IT TAKES AN ACT OF COUNCIL TO TO CHANGE THE BSL SO WE COULD DO THAT. BUT THE MASTER PROJECTS

IN THERE DO REFLECT WHEN YOUR STAFF GOES AND LOOKS AT THEM, THEY REFLECT THE SOUND TRANSIT. THREE PROJECTS IN THERE AS WELL. -- OKAY. THANK YOU. I'M ASKING THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT STAFFING BECAUSE OUT

OF ALL NINE OF US, WE HAVE ABOUT 31 FTE. THAT'S NOT INCLUDING CENTRAL STAFF AND A LOT OF OTHER FOLKS. AND SO WHAT I'M SEEING IS THAT YOU'VE GOT A TEAM THAT IS ALMOST AS LARGE AS CITY COUNCIL, THAT IS

DOING WORK, AND IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT THEY'RE DOING. I'M GOING TO JUST KEEP ON TICKING, BECAUSE I PROMISED ROB I'D BE DONE TEN MINUTES AGO. OPERATION ENGINEERING, OPERATION SUPPORT. WE'RE NOW ON PAGE

FOUR. 50 STRUCTURES, ENGINEERING STRUCTURES. MAINTENANCE. IS THIS YOUR ENTIRE BRIDGE TEAM OR DO WE HAVE OTHER FOLKS WORKING ON BRIDGES, OR DO THESE EMPLOYEES WORK ON THINGS OTHER THAN BRIDGES? --

BRIDGES PRIMARILY ALSO RETAINING WALLS AND STAIRWAYS AND SEAWALLS. -- AND AREAS. -- AND AREAS. -- OKAY. AND THEN WE'RE COMING BACK TO THE MOBILITY, THE NEIGHBORHOODS. YOU SAID THAT YOU WOULD GET BACK

TO ME TRANSIT OPERATIONS. THIS IS TO IMPLEMENT STM. IS THAT CORRECT? -- YES. THE PROPOSED BUDGET ASSUMES THE PASSAGE OR THE RENEWAL, THE PASSAGE OF NOVEMBER'S STM MEASURE. -- AND I HAD RECEIVED

PROMISES DURING THIS LAST ROUND OF STM BECAUSE THE METRO CYCLE IS THEY HAD TO MAKE THEIR DECISIONS BY JULY FOR ANY SPRINGTIME CHANGES. DO WE KNOW. HAS THE 17. THE ONLY DIRECT BUS TO BALLARD FROM

DOWNTOWN OR LIGHT RAIL? IS THIS GOING TO SEE INCREASES BEYOND THE TWO ADDITIONAL ROUTES IN THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON THAT METRO PROMISED? -- I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH METRO'S PLANNED ROUTE SCHEDULE FOR

2027, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE ASKING. WE CAN CERTAINLY FOLLOW UP WITH YOU. -- IT WAS A CITY SIDE PROMISE THAT WE WOULD INCREASE THAT AMOUNT. -- OF FUNDING. -- WITH THE STM. -- THAT'S CORRECT. -- YES.

SO, I MEAN, IT IS OUR INTENT TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT EVERY ELEMENT OF THE STM PROPOSAL. IF IT PASSES IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR KING COUNTY PARTNERS. -- YES. -- AND MY PROBLEM WAS THOSE PROMISES MADE

HAD TO BE DELIVERED LAST JULY. SO IF WE DON'T KNOW IF THOSE PROMISES MADE WERE DELIVERED OR NOT. -- THEN WE WILL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU. CERTAINLY. -- COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. AYE. WILL IN HERE. WELL, I'VE GOT

TWO MORE ROUTE 40 ONLY BECAUSE YOU BROUGHT IT UP. IS IT GOING TO BE A FREIGHT AND BUS LANE, OR HAVE YOU KICKED FREIGHT OFF -- ROUTE 40 AS IT IS CONSTRUCTED RIGHT NOW, IS A TRANSIT TRANSIT ONLY LANE.

-- OKAY. SO WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE ADDING FREIGHT IN LIKE AS ORIGINALLY ADVERTISED -- WELL, LET ME GO BACK AND CHECK ON THAT. THERE MIGHT BE PART OF THAT ROUTE THAT MIGHT BE DEDICATED TOWARD FREIGHT,

BUT I'D HAVE TO I HAVE TO CONFIRM. -- OKAY. AND JUDGMENT AND CLAIMS 8 MILLION LAST YEAR, 9 MILLION THIS YEAR, 14 MILLION NEXT YEAR, 15 MILLION THE FOLLOWING YEAR. YOU'VE RECEIVED YOU'VE HEARD A LOT OF

WHAT I'VE HAD TO SAY TODAY. IT'S FEEDBACK THAT I'VE PROVIDED TIME AND TIME AGAIN. FOR INSTANCE, THIS YEAR SDOT HAS ASPHALTED A SECTION WHERE THE WATER MAIN NEEDS TO BE RE REDONE. AND IT GOT RE

ASPHALTED BEFORE THE WATER MAIN WAS DONE. MEANWHILE, A MILE AWAY, LESS THAN A MILE AWAY, THERE'S A WORSE SECTION OF ASPHALT THAT WAS OVERLOOKED. THERE WAS ANOTHER SECTION AT GOLDEN GARDENS WHERE

ASPHALT WAS REPAVED WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE SPRING. THAT ERODES THE ASPHALT ON A REALLY REGULAR BASIS. THESE ARE THESE TYPES OF CONVERSATIONS THAT I'M CHALLENGED BY. YOU KNOW, NOT BREAKING EXECUTIVE

EXECUTIVE SESSION PRIVILEGE, WHICH IS WHY I'M TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROJECTS. BUT ANYONE WHO'S BEEN IN EXECUTIVE SESSION KNOWS THAT I HAVE THESE SAME CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROJECTS THAT WE ARE

GETTING, THAT SEATTLEITES ARE GETTING HURT ON. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS THERE A FOCUSED STRUCTURE THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS IMPLEMENTING RIGHT NOW TO REDUCE OUR JUDGMENT AND CLAIMS? --

YES, I WILL SAY THAT OUR JUDGMENT AND CLAIMS ALLOCATION IS WE ARE PART OF A CITY WIDE FORMULA. I'M SURE YOU'RE FAMILIAR CHAIR STRAUSS, ON HOW THE CITY BUDGET OFFICE AND CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE

DETERMINE FUTURE YEAR JUDGMENT AND CLAIM ALLOCATIONS FOR DEPARTMENTS. AS DOT CERTAINLY IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST. WE HAVE SAT IN SEVERAL EXECUTIVE SESSIONS TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE CASES COMING

BEFORE US IN THE PAST, AND WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING ON RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE DEPARTMENT, BOTH ON A. WHAT WE WHAT I LIKE TO CALL, BECAUSE MY TEAM IS THE ONE THAT DOES THIS LOSS PREVENTION

EXERCISE WHERE WE REVIEW EVERY OCCURRENCE THAT COMES THROUGH IN A CLAIM, EVEN IF IT DOESN'T BECOME LITIGATION, TO LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE RIGHT OF WAY, WHETHER IT'S A ROAD DEFECT, IT'S DESIGN

AND ENGINEERING, IT'S CONSTRUCTION, ET CETERA. AND THEN WE'RE ALSO, OF COURSE, AS WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, LOOKING AT OUR HIGH INJURY NETWORK AND TAKING A MORE PROACTIVE APPROACH AT CERTAIN CRASH SITES

THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND REALLY RETHINKING HOW THERE MAY BE SIMILARITIES WITH, LET'S SAY IT IS A DESIGN SITUATION THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PART OF THE EVENT THAT OCCURRED WHERE THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES EXIST

ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY. AND TAKING A PROACTIVE LOOK AT THOSE. SO WE ARE VERY COMMITTED TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT MIGHT BE BROADLY CALLED RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, MORE ACCELERATED, MORE FREQUENT WITH A JUST

A GREATER FOCUS THROUGHOUT BY MANY TEAMS IN THE DEPARTMENT. AND IT'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT REDUCING THE FINANCIAL LIABILITY THAT COMES WITH THE JUDGMENT AND CLAIMS COST ALLOCATION, BUT RATHER MAKING SURE

THAT OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN EXPERIENCE A RIGHT OF WAY WITHOUT PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. -- LET ME BE MORE BLUNT, IS THAT THE DESIGN OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SDOT IS PUTTING ON OUR

STREET IS DANGEROUS FOR SOME PEOPLE ON OUR STREET. AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE WHEN EXTERNALITIES SUCH AS WET LEAVES, GARBAGE CANS, A CAR THAT'S PARKED TOO CLOSE, OR A BIKE THAT'S RIDING TOO FAST, WHEN

THESE ELEMENTS ARE DESIGNED WITHOUT REAL WORLD IMPLEMENTATION TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, DANGEROUS SITUATIONS ARE CREATED ON OUR STREETS WHERE SEATTLEITES GET HURT. AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A HIGH JUDGMENT IN

CLAIMS. MY ASK HAS BEEN THAT WE NEED TO BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT HOW WE DESIGN, AND THAT WHEN WE AS THE CITY, WHEN WE. I'M BRINGING. I'M NO FARTHER AWAY FROM THE CITY THAN YOU ARE WHEN WE. AS THE CITY,

MAKE A MISTAKE IN DESIGN, HOW DO WE ADJUST THAT IN THE FUTURE? AND THAT'S LIKE, THAT'S MY CONCERN ABOUT THE JUDGMENT AND CLAIMS IS THAT WE ARE DESIGNING THINGS THAT ARE NOT SAFE, AND WE'RE NOT MAKING

THAT CHANGE. ONCE IT IS BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION. I SEE DIRECTOR PENNUCCI TO TAKE US HOME. -- YEAH. I JUST WANT TO LIKE, NOTE THAT. THANK YOU CHRIS, BUT THIS IS KIND OF FAR AFIELD FROM THE, THE, THE

BUDGET CONVERSATION TODAY. SO JUST WANT TO GIVE OUR. I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE AT THE TABLE TO HAVE ALL OF THIS CONVERSATION. I WILL SAY THAT RISK MANAGEMENT IS SOMETHING THAT IS HIGH ON

MY LIST. AND DIRECTOR DIVE LIST, INCLUDING IDENTIFYING AREAS WHERE WE SEE CONDITION, CONSISTENT ISSUES AND WORKING WITH DEPARTMENTS TO LOOK AT A NUMBER OF THINGS, INCLUDING HOW WE DEPLOY RESOURCES OR

DESIGN STREETS AND THAT THAT SORT OF THING. BUT I DON'T THINK THAT OUR FINANCE AND BUDGET TEAM ARE NECESSARILY THE THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO BE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION WITH IN A BUDGET PRESENTATION. --

SAVE FOR THIRD AVENUE. ALL OF THIS I BROUGHT UP MORE THAN TWICE IN PRIVATE MEETINGS IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS WITH THAT COUNCILMEMBER SAKA AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE. 20 MINUTES LATER, THAT'S MY FAULT.

TAKE US HOME. -- ALL GOOD. THANK YOU, CHAIR, AND THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO CLOSE BY SAYING THANK YOU TO THE DEPARTMENT. I APPRECIATE THE OVERVIEW AND AND THE WORK THAT WENT INTO IT. ALL THE WORK THAT

YOU ALL DO AND YOUR RESPECTIVE TEAMS DO EVERY DAY. AND I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM WHO ASKED VERY THOUGHTFUL AND, AND PROBING QUESTIONS. AND I HEARD I HEARD A LOT OF GREAT

QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM THE DEPARTMENT IN RESPONSE. AND I THINK ONE OF THE THEMES THAT I HEARD FROM MY COLLEAGUES AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. PERTAINS TO THIS NOTION OF RESPONSIVENESS AND

THE NEED, FRANKLY, THE IMPERATIVE FOR. FOR THE DEPARTMENT TO, TO, TO DO THE WORK, TO BE AS RESPONSIVE AS IT CAN. AND BY THE WAY, THIS ISN'T A A CHALLENGE BORNE SOLELY BY THE SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION. ALL THE 30 PLUS CITY DEPARTMENTS, YOU KNOW, HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TO DO THIS EVERY DAY. BUT I, I DID HEAR SOME CONCERN AROUND, YOU KNOW, OUR LEVEL OF RESPONSIVENESS, WHETHER, YOU

KNOW, IN THE CONTEXT OF BEING RESPONSIVE TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND BEING PROACTIVE AND, AND BEING COMMUNICATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE WITH THEM AND FACTORING THEIR, THEIR INPUT INTO CERTAIN PLANNING

DECISIONS, OUR RESPONSIVENESS TO, TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ABLE TO PRIORITIZE THE VARIOUS COMPETING NEEDS AND PROJECTS ACROSS FROM A CITYWIDE PERSPECTIVE. I DON'T I DIDN'T HEAR ANY ONE PERSON DISAGREE WITH

THE NOTION THAT WE SHALL WE SHOULD AS A CITY, AS A POLICY MATTER, PRIORITIZE SAFETY PROJECTS ON THE ON THE HIGH INJURY NETWORK. BLESS YOU. THAT SAID, THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE WE SHOULDN'T COMPLETELY AVOID

PRIORITIZING SAFETY PROJECTS IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS AND OUR OWN IN OUR OWN, YOU KNOW, WHERE PEOPLE LIVE AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS. AND SO ONE AVENUE TO DO THAT IS, IS THE COUNCIL DISTRICT FUND. AND, AND

AGAIN, IT SUPPLEMENTS OTHER SAFETY PROJECTS AND FUNDS. AND, YOU KNOW, I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO SEE, YOU KNOW, CONTINUED FUNDING FOR THAT AND MAYBE EVEN AT A SLIGHTLY LOWER AMOUNT, BUT, BUT EXPAND IT TO

ALL NINE COUNCILMEMBERS OFFICES BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE A UNIQUE. WE SAW SOME INTEREST IN, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE CITYWIDE COLLEAGUES ON THIS. AND THEY HAVE A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE INTO THIS AS WELL. AND AND

THE DEPARTMENT'S VIEWS AND ADDRESSING THESE VARIOUS SAFETY PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS FROM THE DEPARTMENT'S PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW, RESPECT THAT. AND, AND WE ALL HAVE OUR OWN UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AS WELL ON

THAT. AND SO WHEN WE BRING THOSE THINGS TOGETHER, I THINK TO ADDRESS THE RESPONSIVENESS ISSUE, IT HELPS WITH RESPONSIVENESS AND SO IN ANY EVENT, BUT I, BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK HERE AND JUST

ECHOING THE THEMES OF TRANSPORTATION, SAFETY, TRANSIT SAFETY, THE IMPORTANCE OF BRIDGES, AND MAINTAINING OUR BRIDGES. ACCESSIBILITY CAPITAL AND NEW SIDEWALKS. INTENTIONALLY DIDN'T ASK QUESTIONS AROUND

SOME OF THOSE THINGS, BUT WE'LL BE FOLLOWING UP OFFLINE WITH YOU ALL. POTHOLE REPAIR. POTHOLE REPAIR IS A AN ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE. AND I THINK, WELL, I KNOW THAT'S WHAT THE PUBLIC RIGHTFULLY

EXPECTS US AS A LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO, TO, TO FOCUS OUR INVESTMENTS ON AT -- LEAST AS A STARTING PLACE AND THEN SORT OF BRANCH OFF FROM THERE. AND I DO WORRY THAT, AND I, I'M NOT CONCERNED THAT WE'RE

GOING TO DEVIATE FROM OUR 80% OF REPORTED POTHOLES WITHIN 72 HOURS. VOTER COMMITMENT. BUT IF WE'RE ALREADY PERFORMING TODAY AT A ESSENTIALLY A 90% RATE, IT'S ONE THING TO GO FROM 90% TO 85% OF

REPORTED POTHOLES. THAT'S ONE LEVEL OF CONCERN, BUT AYE. BUT I AM CONCERNED IF WE IF WE ALLOW THE THE PROPOSAL TO, TO EFFECTIVELY MAKE US HOVER RIGHT AT THE 80% THRESHOLD. AND WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN,

BECAUSE IT WOULD DEFINITELY TAKE. I THINK MORE RESIDENTS WOULD WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT AND SEE THAT IMPACT EVERY DAY. SO IN ANY EVENT, IMPORTANT SERVICE. I DIDN'T MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT THE UNIFIED CARE

TEAM INTENTIONALLY. SO, BUT THAT'S IN THIS PARTICULAR BRIEFING. BUT I BUT I DO SUPPORT THE COMMENTS EXPRESSED BY MY COLLEAGUES WHO DID CHOOSE TO, TO MENTION THAT. FINALLY, I'LL JUST SHARE. SO A LOT OF

CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES. AND, YOU KNOW, ALSO A LOT TO BE PROUD OF AND A LOT TO CELEBRATE TOO. AND I WANT TO CLOSE CLOSE BY EMPHASIZING OR CLOSE ON A MORE POSITIVE AND OPTIMISTIC NOTE, ECHOING

SOME OF THE COMMENTS FROM MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILMEMBER RINCK EARLIER, NOTING THE, THE THE MAYOR'S EXECUTIVE ORDER AND THE INVESTMENTS IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET TO ADDRESS VISION ZERO AND TRAFFIC SAFETY AND

BRING TO LIFE HER EXECUTIVE ORDER. BY THE WAY, I'LL HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT OFFLINE. BUT BUT THAT'S A GREAT THING THAT THAT I SEE A LOT OF ALIGNMENT FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AND ACROSS MANY OF US

HERE AT THIS DAIS. AND THAT'S SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE. AND I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY APPLAUD AND THANK THE MAYOR FOR HER LEADERSHIP IN THAT, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S TERRIFIC. AND. MORE WORK TO DO, MORE

WORK TO TO GO HERE. AND ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE SHARED LEADERSHIP BY ON THE KING COUNTY TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT FUNDS. THAT WAS, FRANKLY, ALL OF US, BUT THREE PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR OUTSIDE OF, WELL, TWO

PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR OUTSIDE OF MY ME AND MY OFFICE REALLY LED THE CHARGE ON THAT. AND I REALLY WANT TO THANK THEM. AND THAT IS COUNCILMEMBER RINCK. AND AND FOR ORGANIZING THE LETTER. AND YOU SPENT A

LOT OF TIME OUTSIDE OF THAT AND DOING ALL KINDS OF STUFF. AND THEN ALSO COUNCILMEMBER LIN DID A LOT. TIM AND I WERE ON CONSTANT SPEED DIAL WITH EACH OTHER THAT VERY CRITICAL LAST WEEK OF THE KING

COUNTY COUNCIL VOTE. WE I KNOW I CANCELED A LOT OF MEETINGS TO CALL, MAKE DIRECT CALLS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY VOTING INSTEAD OF CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM. AND I THINK COUNCILMEMBER

LIN DID THE SAME. BUT SEEING SOME GOOD RESULTS WITH THAT, AT LEAST AS IT RELATES TO THIS PROPOSED BUDGET. IN TERMS OF THE THE FORESTRY BUDGET AND, AND THE AND THE LIKE. SO THANK YOU AGAIN. LOOK

FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH YOU AHEAD TO BRING TO LIFE TO SOME OF SOME OF THESE IDEAS. THANK YOU CHAIR. -- THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. WE ARE NOW GOING TO TRANSFER INTO THE NEXT ITEM. AND IF THE

CLERK CAN READ ITEM NUMBER TWO AND THREE INTO THE RECORD SO WE CAN COVER OUR PREVIOUS BASE AND OUR UPCOMING BASE, AND Y'ALL JUST START COMING UP NOW, PLEASE -- ALL RIGHT, THAT WAS AGENDA ITEM TWO.

SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION. NEXT IS AGENDA ITEM THREE, OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION. -- THANK YOU. AS WE'RE MAKING THIS TRANSITION,

I'M JUST GOING TO ASK MY QUESTIONS NOW. SO THEY GO IN SHAREPOINT, WHICH IS WHAT IS THE CURRENT FUNDING ON OUR SECURITY ASSESSMENTS AND OUR WINDOW REPLACEMENT FUND, AS WELL AS AMBASSADORS? I CAN SEE

THAT THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MIGHT NOT BE HEARING THESE QUESTIONS. SO WE WILL MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW UP ON GENTLEMEN. COME, COME, COME NOW, NOW, NOW. -- NO. -- JUST -- THANK YOU FOR BEING

PATIENT AND WAITING FOR US WITH 43 MINUTES UNTIL 5 P.M.. AS I SAID, THE QUESTIONS I'M GOING TO BE ASKING OVER SHAREPOINT SO I DON'T DO ANY MORE TALKING TODAY ARE ABOUT THE SECURITY REPLACEMENT

PROGRAM. THE SECURITY PROGRAM, WINDOW BROKEN WINDOW REPLACEMENT PROGRAM, AND THE AMBASSADORS. THAT'S ALL THE TALKING I'M GOING TO DO FOR THIS ONE TODAY. WITH THAT, ARE YOU READY? AND PLEASE JUMP IN.

-- YES WE ARE. THANK YOU. WELL THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR HAVING US TODAY TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSED 2027 BUDGET. COUNCILMEMBER DAN STRAUSS BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR RIVERA COUNCILMEMBER

RIVERA. FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS IMPORTANT WORK TO SET UP OUR CITIES FOR SUCCESS AND TO ALL COUNCILMEMBERS FOR YOUR GREAT WORK AND LEADERSHIP AND IN SUPPORTING OUR OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. I ALSO

WANT TO THANK OUR FINANCE TEAM UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR. OUR DIRECTOR, REGIS, FOR HIS LEADERSHIP FOR SUPPORTING ALL THIS GREAT WORK. THANK YOU, JOE, AND TO ALL MY TEAM, BECAUSE WE ARE HERE TODAY

BECAUSE THEY DO AN AMAZING JOB EVERY DAY TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS IN OUR COMMUNITY. WITH THAT, I WANT TO FOCUS ON OUR OFFICE, FOCUS ON LEADING PROJECTS AND MAKING INVESTMENTS THAT OPEN US FOR

SUCCESS, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, REDUCE RACIAL WEALTH GAP AND ENCOURAGE INNOVATION AND GROWTH CONSISTENT WITH THE FUTURE OF THE SEATTLE ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK ADOPTED TO THE CITY. POLICY RESOLUTION 320993

BALANCE SUPPORTING OUR LOCAL ECONOMY. COMPETING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. ADVANCING CITY PRIORITIES, AFFORDABILITY, ECONOMY, ECONOMIC AND. THIS IS A OED IN ACTION. SO SOME OF THE PHOTOS THAT WE WOULD

LIKE TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU OF HOW WE SHOW UP IN THE COMMUNITY. AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE A VERY FACE COMMUNITY AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE JUST SHOW UP AND SUPPORT COMMUNITY, SMALL BUSINESSES A

BUSINESS CLIMATE ASSESSMENT SEAWALL SEATTLE GROWTH MODEL DELIVER. HOWEVER, THE CURRENT MODEL LASTS MUCH LONGER. THE PATH FORWARD IS TO RETAIN OR RECOVERY. WE NEED TO KEEP OUR COMPANIES AND INDUSTRIES,

AND WE HAVE TO RECONFIGURE THEM ACROSS, ENCOURAGE COLLABORATION AND GROWTH. MIDSIZE BUSINESSES COMPETITIVENESS AND AFFORDABILITY ARE LINKED. THE COST SQUEEZE LARGE BUSINESSES, SMALL BUSINESSES,

MIDSIZE BUSINESSES AND THEN ALSO SQUEEZE FAMILIES. AN ACTIVE STRATEGY IS REQUIRED. AND THAT'S MY COMMITMENT AS DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO CREATE A STRATEGIC PLANNING, TO KIND OF

REALLY SUPPORT ALL THIS WORK WHAT THESE MOMENT CALLS FOR MAKING CHOICES, DIVERSIFY OUR ECONOMY ACROSS INDUSTRIES AND BUSINESS SIZES, WORKING KEY INDUSTRIES, PILLARS OF FUTURE OF SEATTLE ECONOMIC

FRAMEWORK, ACTIVELY PARTNERING, THINKING CREATIVELY AND ABOUT CITY ASSETS EXAMINE WHAT DRIVES ECONOMIC PROBLEMS. LOOKING TO LISTEN FOR ACCURATE SIGNS OF PROBLEMS. TAKE PROCESSES PERSIST ACTIONS TO

UNLOCK SOLUTIONS. DEPLOY TOOLS WITH FOCUS OF OUTCOMES. POLICY LIKE SUCH AS STREAMLINED PERMITTING. CONTINUE WORKING ON TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS. THE SEATTLE RESTORE AND

PARTNERSHIPS SUCH AS SEATTLE CLIMATE INNOVATION HUB AND AI HOUSE. PRIORITIES FOR OED 2027 BUDGET. I MAINTAIN A FLEXIBILITY TO EXECUTE THE BUILDING RESILIENT SEATTLE ECONOMY. PARTNER WITH THE RESILIENT

SEATTLE ECONOMY TASK FORCE TO REVIEW RECENT BUSINESS CLIMATE. IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION ACROSS BUSINESS, LABOR, COMMUNITY AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS. GROW AND RETAIN INDUSTRY INNOVATION AND

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES WITH STRONG WAGES AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPLORE ADDITIONAL WAYS TO DEPLOY FLEXIBLE CAPITAL FUNDING. MAKE IT EASIER TO OPEN, OPERATE AND GROW BUSINESS IN SEATTLE. DELIVER A

HIGH IMPACT PROGRAM SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESS WHILE MAINTAIN OPERATIONAL CAPACITY AND STAFFING FOR THESE PROGRAMS STRENGTHEN NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICTS TO REDUCE VACANCIES AND SUPPORT ACTIVITIES.

BUSINESS MIX AND MAINTAIN A PROACTIVE APPROACH FOR SPECIAL EVENTS. OFFICE. ALIGN WITH THE SPECIAL EVENTS VISION WITH THAT, I WILL PASS IT TO DIRECTOR OF FINANCE JOE REGIS. -- GREAT. THANK YOU ALL FOR

HAVING US TODAY. -- IT'S MY ONE TIME PER YEAR I GET TO SEE YOU ALL. SO ALWAYS GREAT. OVER THE REMAINING FEW SLIDES, I'LL WALK THROUGH THE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES THAT SHAPED OED 2027 BUDGET PROPOSAL. SO

ON THIS SLIDE YOU'LL SEE HERE A HIGH LEVEL SUMMARY OF OUR PROPOSED BUDGET. OVERALL, THAT BUDGET DECREASES BY ABOUT $11.7 MILLION COMPARED TO 2026, DROPPING FROM $40 MILLION IN 2026 TO ABOUT $29

MILLION IN 2027, WHICH IS A 29% REDUCTION FROM LAST YEAR'S ADOPTED. WHILE THAT IS SIGNIFICANT, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT'S DRIVEN ALMOST ENTIRELY BY A TECHNICAL ADJUSTMENT TO REMOVE $12 MILLION IN

ONE TIME FUNDING THAT WAS ADDED IN THE 26 BUDGET TO ADDRESS SOME SPECIFIC ONE TIME NEEDS THAT WE'LL GET INTO IN MORE DETAIL IN THE NEXT SLIDE. WHILE THOSE ONE TIME ADS ARE EXPIRING IN 2027, IT'S

IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT OUR BASELINE BUDGET FOR CORE PROGRAM FUNDING IS FULLY MAINTAINED. SO TAKEAWAY IS EFFECTIVELY THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY REDUCTION TO OUR BASELINE PROGRAMS. IN THE 2728 PROPOSED

YOU'LL ALSO SEE HERE THAT OUR PROPOSAL INCLUDES ELIMINATION OF TWO POSITIONS, WHICH BRINGS OUR FTE COUNT FROM 63 CURRENTLY TO 61 FULL TIME EQUIVALENTS IN 2027. THAT WILL BE COVERED IN MORE DETAIL IN

OUR LAST SLIDE. SLIDES DETAILING THAT REMOVAL. THE ONE TIME FUNDING ADDED IN THE BUDGET THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER IN 2026, AND THIS REALLY IS THAT MAJOR DRIVER BEHIND THE CHANGE IN OUR 2027 PROPOSAL.

SO IN TOTAL, THIS IS REMOVING $12 MILLION IN THOSE ONE TIME RESOURCES, WHICH YOU CAN SEE IS PRETTY EVENLY SPLIT BETWEEN GENERAL FUND AND JUMP THESE ARE INVESTMENTS THAT ARE INTENDED FOR SHORT TERM,

VERY PROJECT SPECIFIC NEEDS THAT AREN'T GOING TO BE RENEWED IN 2027. THIS SLIDE ITSELF CALLS OUT THE MARITIME INNOVATION CENTER INNOVATION CENTER AS ONE EXAMPLE, BUT ANOTHER GOOD ONE WOULD BE SAIL

FUNDING THAT WAS ADDED AS A ONE TIME ADD IN 2026. ANOTHER EVEN BETTER EXAMPLE IS THE BACK TO BUSINESS PROGRAM. SO WE'RE MAINTAINING THAT CORE FUNDING, OUR BASELINE FUNDING ONGOING. BUT THE

AMPLIFICATION THAT WAS ADDED SPECIFICALLY FOR 2026 IS SUNSETTING INTO 2027. THIS SLIDE IS HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRAMMATIC ADDITIONS IN OUR PROPOSED BUDGET. SO WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS A TRANSFER OF FUNDING

FOR SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORTS IN THE DUWAMISH VALLEY TO OED FROM THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT. THIS IS KIND OF A BROADER CITYWIDE ALIGNMENT TO SHIFT WORK WITH DEPARTMENTAL EXPERTISE BY

CONSOLIDATING, IN THIS CASE, SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT UNDER OED THAT FUNDING ITSELF CURRENTLY SUPPORTING ABOUT 70 SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH THINGS LIKE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, MARKETING HELP, NAVIGATION OF

PUBLIC HEALTH REQUIREMENTS, AND IN THIS CASE, ALSO CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING OED GRANT PROGRAMS LIKE BACK TO BUSINESS. SO THIS IS SORT OF A NATURAL FIT WITHIN THE CITY FOR THAT LINE OF WORK. AND WE'LL

CONTINUE TO PARTNER WITH OSE TO ENSURE THAT WORK IS ADVANCING THE ORIGINAL GOALS OF THAT DUWAMISH VALLEY ACTION PLAN. NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS IS OUR LAST SLIDE AND UNFORTUNATELY REFLECTS THE ABROGATION OF

TWO POSITIONS IN 2027. ONE IS THE VACANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST POSITION ON OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TEAM. AND THE OTHER IS A STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO POSITION ON OUR PERMIT TEAM, WHICH IS CURRENTLY

FILLED. I'LL JUST SAY AT A HIGH LEVEL, THOSE REDUCTIONS ARE ALIGNING OUR STAFFING STRUCTURE WITH THE WAY OUR PROGRAMS ARE EVOLVING AND TRYING TO AVOID DUPLICATIVE WORK AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN 2027 AND

28. AND WE'RE NOT ANTICIPATING ANY SIGNIFICANT SERVICE REDUCTIONS DUE TO THOSE ABROGATIONS THAT CONCLUDES OUR SLIDES. SO WE'LL OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. -- THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE

FROM DIRECTOR PENNUCCI COUNCILMEMBER RINCK IS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE OVERSEEING THIS DEPARTMENT. YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. -- THANK YOU. CHAIR STRAUSS COLLEAGUES, IN MY ROLE AS CHAIR OVER HUMAN SERVICES,

LABOR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, I HAVE THE TREMENDOUS HONOR TO WORK WITH DIRECTOR YARCE OVER OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ESPECIALLY AS HE AND HIS TEAM ARE TAKING ON THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES FACING

OUR LOCAL BUSINESS COMMUNITY, REALLY WORKING TOWARDS REVITALIZING OUR LOCAL ECONOMY. AND I'VE REALLY APPRECIATED THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE HE AND HIS TEAM IN COMMITTEE THIS YEAR. I WANT TO TAKE THIS

OPPORTUNITY TO THANK HE AND HIS TEAM ALSO FOR JUST BEING A CHAMPION FOR SMALL BUSINESSES, PARTICULARLY IN OUR PARTNERSHIP ON THE COMMERCIAL LEASE TRANSPARENCY LEGISLATION WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON STILL

CURRENTLY IN COMMITTEE. AND I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT JUST A FEW WAYS THAT OED HAS DELIVERED FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND TO DATE, AND NOTE THAT THESE PROGRAMS ARE ONGOING IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET. SO STREAMLINING

CITY PERMITS, PARDON ME, STREAMLINING CITY PERMITS AND PROCESSES TO MAKE THINGS EASIER. THE EXPANSION OF THE SMALL BUSINESS HANDBOOK TO SEVEN LANGUAGES ENGLISH, SPANISH, CHINESE, VIETNAMESE, SOMALI,

TAGALOG, KOREAN AND AMHARIC. THE EXPANSION OF BACK TO BUSINESS, IN PARTICULAR THE STORE FRONT REPAIR FUND, ACCOUNTING, BUSINESS AND CONSULTING PROGRAM, ALSO KNOWN AS THE ABC PROGRAM. AND OF COURSE,

SEATTLE RESTORED. AND I'LL TAKE THIS MOMENT TO MOURN PAN DE SILVA LEAVING THE BUILDING. I MISS YOU, AND WHEREVER YOU ARE, I HOPE YOU'RE DOING GREAT. THE CULMINATION OF OED WORK THIS YEAR IN THE

DEVELOPMENT OF THEN, THE REPORT THAT WAS JUST RELEASED, SEAWALL BUILDING, A RESILIENT SEATTLE ECONOMY REPORT AND THE INITIAL ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE EXECUTIVE ON ITS RECOMMENDATIONS. SO LOOKING FORWARD

TO THE YEAR AHEAD, THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WILL BE LEADING THAT TASK FORCE TO SUPPORT THIS RESILIENT SEATTLE ECONOMY TASK FORCE AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES FUND AND THE INVESTMENTS IN OUR

BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM ARE CRITICAL TO ENSURING THE LONG TERM VIABILITY OF OUR LOCAL ECONOMY. SO MORE IMPORTANTLY, TO WORKING ACROSS LIVABILITY FOR EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS OUR REGION. SO WITH THAT, I DO

WANT TO NOTE IN THE BUDGET, AS WAS DISCUSSED IN THE OVERVIEW PRESENTATION, THERE IS A REMOVING OF A SERIES OF ONE TIME SUPPORTS FOR A NUMBER OF HIGH PRIORITY AREAS, PARTICULARLY IN LITTLE SAIGON AND

LAKE CITY. I WANT TO NOTE THAT BUDGET ACTIONS LAST YEAR TO SECURE A SALE FUNDING HAS ENABLED THE COMMUNITY TO INVEST UP TO 300 000 IN SMALL BUSINESS AND BUSINESS DISTRICT REVITALIZATION, UP TO 400 000

FOR SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS IN LAKE CITY, UP TO 600,000 IN COMMUNITY BUILDING AND PUBLIC ACTIVATION PROJECTS, AND IN LITTLE SAIGON, THIS FUND WAS ABLE TO FUND NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH STAFF TO SUPPORT

SERVICE NAVIGATION, MOBILE OVERDOSE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION TEAMS, COMMUNITY ACTIVATIONS TO SUPPORT OUR NEIGHBORS IN LITTLE SAIGON, AND ACTIVATIONS TO SUPPORT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES. SO WITH THAT IN

MIND, I'M WONDERING IF WE CAN WALK THROUGH A LITTLE BIT THE DECISION FOR THE BEHIND THE CHANGES FOR FUNDING THESE PROGRAMS, AND PARTICULARLY HOW OED WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT JUST LITTLE SAIGON AND

LAKE CITY NEIGHBORHOODS MOVING FORWARD -- WE'D LIKE TO GET INTO THE OVERALL DECISION BEHIND THE REMOVAL OF THE ONE TIME ITEMS. FIRST OF CBO, HAS ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD ON THAT OR. -- I YOU KNOW,

IT'S JUST THE SAME THING I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL, WELL, NOT ALL WEEK, BUT IT FEELS LIKE WE'VE BEEN HERE ALL WEEK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LIKE DEEPLY UNSUSTAINABLE BUDGETING,

LIKE A $12 MILLION AMOUNT OF ONE TIME ADS IS REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT. AND SO I, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS THE, THE, IT'S NOT REALLY A DECISION. IT IS A TECHNICAL EXERCISE THAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL THE ONE TIME

ADS GET AUTOMATICALLY BACKED OUT. IT SHOWS UP IN THE BUDGET BOOK AS A REDUCTION. BUT THAT IS LIKE WE START THE BUDGET PROCESS BY RESETTING DEPARTMENTS BACK TO THEIR BASE. I'LL ALSO JUST FLAG ON THE

SALE FUNDING. SOME OF THAT WORK HAS BEEN UNDER DEVELOPMENT ALL YEAR, AND EXPECT SOME OF THAT TO CARRY FORWARD INTO 2027, AS ALL WILL BE EXPENDED, INCLUDING. COUNCILMEMBER LIN ADDED SOME ADDITIONAL

FUNDING IN THE MIDYEAR SUPPLEMENTAL THAT WAS ADDED WITH AN INTENTION. I BELIEVE, AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, COUNCILMEMBER TO STRETCH OVER LIKE AN 18 MONTH PERIOD, BUT IT'S AN AREA WILL BE CONTINUING

TO LOOK AT. -- AS I MENTIONED EARLIER AS WELL, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS THAT CONTINUE JUST WITHOUT THE AMPLIFICATION. SO AGAIN, BACK TO BUSINESS. BACK TO THAT EXAMPLE, I THINK IS A GOOD ONE. WE

HAVE CORE FUNDING THAT'S MAINTAINED GOING FORWARD. THE GENERAL SPLIT OF THE APPROACH OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE MAINTAINED AS WELL, BETWEEN SECURITY AND THE OTHER, LIKE STOREFRONT REPAIR GRANTS. SO WE ARE

HOPING TO DO THE SAME OR MAINTAIN SERVICES WITH WITHOUT JUST THAT ONE TIME AMPLIFICATION SALE IS ANOTHER GREAT EXAMPLE. WE'RE NOT ABLE TO BE AS SPECIFIC, BUT THE EFFORTS TO STILL MAINTAIN AND

STABILIZE. -- UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU FOR UNPACKING. JUST THE TECHNICAL PIECE OF THAT. OF COURSE, IT'S A CHANGE SO WORTH BRINGING UP IN THIS DISCUSSION, PARTICULARLY WITH THE DEPARTMENT. IS THERE

ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO EXPAND TO? I'M HEARING THAT FUTURE WORK WON'T BE AS PLACE SPECIFIC, BUT I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE THE DEPARTMENT CAN SPEAK TO RELATED TO JUST WORK IN LITTLE

SAIGON OR LAKE CITY. -- WELL -- OUR COMMITMENT IS TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AS WE ARE INVESTING ON THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE AND LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY. AND THAT'S

HOW WE ARE WORKING TOWARDS THAT COMMITMENT TO THOSE TWO SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOODS. -- SO THANK YOU. AND WHEN WE'RE TAKING A LOOK AT THE RESILIENT SEATTLE ECONOMY TASK FORCE, I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT MAKING

IT EASIER TO OPEN, OPERATE, AND GROW A BUSINESS IN SEATTLE. SO ARE THE BUDGET INVESTMENTS IN PROGRAMS LIKE THE ONE WE'VE SEEN WITH SDCI FOR SMALL BUSINESS BUSINESS PERMITTING ASSISTANCE? HOW IS THAT

WORK PROCEEDING AND HOW. WHAT IS KIND OF THE HOW DOES THIS BUDGET SUPPORT THOSE INVESTMENTS? -- I THINK THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. SO DEFINITELY IS WORKING REALLY WELL. THAT PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE

WITH SDCI AND AND THEN THE BUDGET IS TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING US. WE'VE BEEN SHARING IS THE BASELINE OF OUR WORK. SO THAT WORK WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN SUPPORT BECAUSE OUR COMMITMENT IS TO CONTINUE HAVING

THAT STREAMLINING, MAKE IT FASTER. THIS IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT, AS WE ARE PUTTING TOGETHER, THE TASK FORCE IS IDENTIFYING HOW DO WE STREAMLINE EVEN BEYOND OF THAT SPECIFIC

APPROACH THAT WE HAVE TODAY. SO MY COMMITMENT IS REALLY MAKING SURE THAT IS FASTER, EASIER FOR NOT ONLY SMALL BUSINESSES, BUT ALSO MIDSIZE BUSINESSES. AS WE ARE GOING INTO THAT DIRECTION OF GROWING

OUR ECONOMY AND THE DIVERSIFICATION -- THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND BUILDING ON SOME OF THE PROGRAMS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT, I'M WONDERING IF WE COULD GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR MEASURES OF SUCCESS RIGHT

NOW FOR THE BACK TO BUSINESS PROGRAM. I'D LOVE TO KNOW HOW MANY GRANTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED SO FAR. IF WE COULD GET THE NUMBER OF SEPTET IMPROVEMENTS THROUGH THE SECURITY FUND GRANTS IN PARTICULAR, I KNOW

GETTING THAT THESE GRANTS OUT REALLY MAKES AN IMPACT FOR BUSINESSES VACANCIES AND SUPPORTING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES THAT KEEP OUR CITY THRIVING. -- YEAH. I MEAN, WE ACTUALLY HAVE UP TO DATE AS OF LAST

FRIDAY NUMBERS ON THOSE. SO CURRENTLY WE'VE DONE ABOUT 350 DIRECT TOWARDS BUSINESSES FOR THE REPAIRS, 65 FOR THE SECURITY UPGRADES AS WELL. THAT PROGRAM IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE LARGELY FULLY SPENT

THIS YEAR. SO WE DON'T ANTICIPATE MUCH CARRY FORWARD. THERE'S SOME DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL, BUT THAT FUNDING IS ANTICIPATED TO BE ALMOST FULLY EXPENDED WITH ABOUT. CURRENTLY, WE'RE

PROJECTING ABOUT LESS THAN $130,000 OF THE ORIGINAL $3.3 MILLION BEING SPENT THIS YEAR. -- THANK YOU FOR THAT UPDATE. AND MY LAST QUESTION FOR NOW IS, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS WITH THE LIFE AT NIGHT

STRATEGY TO REDUCING OPERATING BARRIERS FOR NIGHTTIME BUSINESSES AND WORKERS, AND WHAT SUSTAINED OR EXPANDED INVESTMENTS ARE TO SUPPORT THIS ARE REFLECTED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET. -- I DON'T. -- I

DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER FOR THAT QUESTION, BUT WE WILL FOLLOW UP WITH THE SPECIFIC ANSWER. -- THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT. -- I WOULD JUST NOTE AGAIN THAT ALL OF OUR CORE PROGRAMING BASELINE HAD BEEN

MAINTAINED, AND I THINK WE'RE STILL DECIDING HOW THAT'S GOING TO BE ALLOCATED OUT INTO 2027. BUT WE'LL LOVE TO GET BACK WITH SPECIFICS ON HOW WE ANTICIPATE THAT WORK PLAN BEING FLESHED OUT IN 2027. --

GREAT. WOULD LOVE TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION. REVITALIZING OUR NIGHTLIFE SCENE AND SUPPORTING THOSE BUSINESSES IS SO IMPORTANT. -- AND I WILL JUST SAY THAT IS PART OF OUR CREATIVE ECONOMY AND OUR

COMMITMENT. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE PILLARS OF THE WORK WILL CONTINUE. WE JUST NEED TO GIVE YOU MORE SPECIFICS ON HOW THAT WILL CONTINUE FORWARD FOR 2027. -- GREAT. I APPRECIATE THAT, DIRECTOR. THANK

YOU. THANK YOU, CHAIR, I APPRECIATE IT. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER, WE HAVE COUNCILMEMBER LIN FOLLOWED BY COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA AND COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. -- THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU

TO OUR PRESENTERS. FOLLOWING UP ON COUNCILMEMBER RINGS QUESTION ABOUT THE SALE. FUND, LITTLE SAIGON FUNDING. YOU KNOW, I THINK SMALL BUSINESSES ARE STRUGGLING ACROSS THE CITY, BUT CERTAIN AREAS IN

PARTICULAR ARE BEING HIT HARDER. YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF HAD A SIMILAR DIALOG EARLIER ABOUT IMPACTS TO SMALL BUSINESSES FROM TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. YOU KNOW, IN THIS CASE, IT'S AN IMPACT TO SMALL

BUSINESSES BECAUSE OF OUR FAILURE TO MEET THE MENTAL HEALTH AND OTHER NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY, WHICH RESULTING IN STREET DISORDER. AND, BUT, YOU KNOW, IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS, IT'S BEEN GOING ON A

DECADE NOW, YOU KNOW, TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS, OFTENTIMES SOMETIMES THEY CAN GO THAT LONG, BUT USUALLY THEY DON'T GO QUITE THAT LONG. IN ANY CASE, I JUST, YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE FUNDS HAVE BEEN

CRITICAL, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET OUR DO BETTER ON THE PUBLIC SAFETY SIDE OF THINGS. BUT IN THE MEANTIME, YOU KNOW, THE SALE FUNDS, THE, THE BACK TO BUSINESS FUND, ANOTHER FUND THAT

HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL IS ONLY IN SEATTLE FOR SOME OF OUR SMALL BUSINESSES. SO JUST, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF PRIORITIZING WHATEVER RESOURCES WE HAVE, I UNDERSTAND THE BUDGET ENVIRONMENT WE'RE IN. I JUST

THINK WE HAVE TO BE VERY MINDFUL OF, OF, YOU KNOW, HOW THESE IMPACTS TO, TO SMALL BUSINESSES ARE NOT FELT EQUALLY AROUND THE CITY AND THAT WE NEED TO PRIORITIZE WHAT WE HAVE TO THOSE MOST IMPACTED. SO

MORE OF A COMMENT THAN A QUESTION. I DO HAVE A QUESTION ON PAGE TWO. 19 OF THE BUDGET. IT SAYS SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IS BEING REDUCED FROM APPROXIMATELY 9.3 MILLION TO ABOUT 2.6. COULD YOU I'M

NOT SURE IF YOU COULD YOU CAN DO THIS OFFLINE. DESCRIBE WHAT THAT'S WHAT THAT REDUCTION IS. IS THAT PART OF THE ONE TIME FUNDING OR IS THAT SOMETHING DIFFERENT? -- YES, YES. IT'S SPECIFICALLY LOOKING

AT THE IMPACTS OF OF SALE. AGAIN, THE AMPLIFICATION BACK TO BUSINESS, ET CETERA.. ONCE THOSE ONE TIME FUNDS ARE EXPIRED, IT KIND OF RESETS US TO THE BASELINE. SO IT LOOKS LIKE A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT

DROP OFF. IT'S PART OF THAT 30%, $12 MILLION THAT WE'RE OKAY. -- SO. -- THAT'S. -- THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER LIN, RECORD TIME AGAIN. COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. FOLLOWED BY.

COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, AND I SO APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP AND JUST THE WORK OF OED IN GENERAL, PARTICULARLY AS REGARDS, YOU KNOW, THE IMPACTS THAT SO

MANY OF OUR SMALL BUSINESSES ACROSS THE CITY. AND I KNOW FOR SURE IN THE D FOUR HAVE HAD A LOT OF PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES. AND, AND, YOU KNOW, NEEDING STOREFRONT REPAIR MULTIPLE TIMES, WHICH IS REALLY

TAKES, TAKES A TOLL ON BUSINESSES AND, AND OF COURSE, IMPACTS THEIR INSURANCE AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. SO REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK OED HAS DONE. AND I KNOW THAT YOU UNDERSTAND HAVING BEEN A

SMALL BUSINESS OWNER YOURSELF, THAT THE IMPACTS I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT THE 11 MILLION REDUCTION, 3 MILLION FOR THE STABILIZE, ACTIVATE AND INVEST LOCALLY FUND. I JUST WANT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT

THESE THINGS DID. DID 2.6 MILLION FOR THE DOWNTOWN ACTIVATION PLAN, 2.5 MILLION FOR THE BACK TO BUSINESS FUND, 1.7 MILLION FOR INCENTIVE SORRY, INITIATIVES RELATED TO GROCERY STORE AND FOOD ACCESS.

700,000 FOR THE KEY INDUSTRIES AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. 500,000 FOR THE WATERFRONT SHUTTLE. INCIDENTALLY, I KNOW THAT IS VERY WELL USED ON OUR NEW WATERFRONT 400 FOR CASE MANAGEMENT. I.T. PROJECT

300,000 FOR ENHANCED CLEANING AND NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICTS, AND 200 200,000 FOR SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORTS. THE FOOD DEP INITIATIVE AND 50,000 FOR THE BUSINESS DISTRICT SUPPORT ON CAPITOL HILL.

AND SO CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THOSE AND HOW WILL WE POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THESE SUPPORTS IF WE'RE CUTTING THIS FUNDING AND WHAT THE PLAN IS.? -- THAT WAS A PRETTY DETAILED QUESTION,

COUNCILMEMBER. SO I THINK SOME OF THAT WILL BE FOLLOWED UP WITH ONLINE. AND I THINK SOME OF THE INFORMATION IS ALREADY IN THE Q, Q AND A, I WILL SAY THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS ONE TIME

EXPANSION. SO ONE, NO ONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED WHEN ONE TIME ADS ARE NOT SUSTAINED IN THE BUDGET. I KNOW YOU'RE TIRED OF ME SAYING IT, BUT THAT IS LIKE, YOU SHOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF SOMETHING WAS

ADDED ONE TIME THAT IT IS NOT MADE ONGOING. WE DID THAT IN SOME PLACES, BUT IT WASN'T. IT WAS DIFFICULT AND WASN'T EVERYWHERE. AND THEN MOST OF THESE PROGRAMS HAVE BASE BUDGETS THAT ARE ARE SUSTAINED.

AND SO I THINK WHAT IS IMPORTANT IN THE FOLLOW UP IS THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THAT. I WILL ALSO SAY, WITH THE INCREASE IN FUNDING THAT'S GONE TO THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OVER THE

YEARS, THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL. I, I MY WORDS PROGRAMS CREATED THAT ARE HARD TO DISTINGUISH FROM EACH OTHER IN SOME CASES THAT ARE SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESSES IN DIFFERENT WAYS. SO I THINK PART OF THE

WORK THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS DOING AS THEY REFOCUS IS REALLY THINKING ABOUT HOW DO WE BEST DEPLOY THESE RESOURCES AND SERVE, SERVE SMALL BUSINESSES AND OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY GENERALLY IN THE MOST

EFFICIENT WAY, WHICH MIGHT MEAN INSTEAD OF HAVING ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, MAYBE FIVE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY WEALTH AREAS OF INVESTMENT, CONSOLIDATING THAT AND ALLOWING BUSINESSES TO

APPLY FOR THE FUNDING THEY NEED, DEPENDING ON WHAT THEIR SPECIFIC SITUATION IS. -- THANK YOU. DIRECTOR. I UNDERSTAND WHAT ONE TIME AD MEANS. I ALSO KNOW THAT THE SITUATION POST COVID, THAT SMALL

BUSINESSES HAVE ENCOUNTERED IS THE REASON WHY WE DID THE ONE TIME ADS, BECAUSE WHAT SMALL BUSINESSES ENCOUNTERED POST COVID WAS NOT WHAT WAS HAPPENING PRE-COVID. SO WHILE I UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS

ABOUT THE ONE TIME ADS, THEY ARE IMPORTANT TO OUR SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY. AND I WANT TO KNOW, GIVEN THAT WE'RE STILL IN A SITUATION WHERE SMALL BUSINESSES ARE HAVING THESE HUGE IMPACTS. AS I SAID

EARLIER, SOME OF OUR SMALL BUSINESSES HAVE HAD TO TAP INTO THE STOREFRONT REPAIR PROGRAM MULTIPLE TIMES BECAUSE WE ARE NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC SAFETY TO A LEVEL WHERE WE CAN RESPOND SO THAT THEY

DON'T HAVE TO COME REACH OUT TO THE CITY AND ASK FOR, HEY, MY DOOR GOT BROKEN AGAIN, OR MY WINDOW AND I CAN'T AFFORD TO FIX THAT ON MY OWN AGAIN. FOR THE HOWEVER MANY TIME THEY CAN COME. I THINK UP TO

THREE TIMES TO THE CITY. BUT THEY'VE. THEY SOME OF THESE BUSINESSES HAVE HAD MUCH MORE THAN THREE TIMES TO HAVE TO REPAIR. SO THAT'S COMING OUT OF POCKET FOR THEM. SO I WANT TO KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO

BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THESE SMALL BUSINESSES. SINCE WE ARE TAKING THIS FUNDING AWAY. -- WELL, AS WE ARE MENTIONING, THE BASELINE OF THESE PROGRAMS WILL CONTINUE AND WE WILL USE A STREAMLINING PROCESS

ON HOW WE WILL SERVE THESE BUSINESSES. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU. THE BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN IMPACTED. IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME AS WE ARE BUILDING OR DIVERSIFICATION OF OUR ECONOMY,

AND WE BRING MORE MID-SIZED BUSINESSES, WE ARE BRINGING MORE ACTIVITIES, MORE VIBRANCY, THE COMMITMENT OF OUR BUDGET IS THAT WE WILL CONTINUE SERVING BUSINESSES BECAUSE THE BASELINE ARE COVERED. IT'S

JUST NOT AS IT WAS AT ONE TIME. EXTENSION OF THE FUNDING, BUT THE COMMITMENT IS TO CONTINUE SERVING THOSE BUSINESSES WITH THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE. -- YEAH. -- THANK YOU, DIRECTOR, BUT I, I

GUESS I WANT MORE INFORMATION ON, FOR INSTANCE, THE 300 FOR ENHANCED CLEANING AND NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE BISI HAVE A BIA IN THE DISTRICT THAT'S RELYING ON THIS FUNDING. I KNOW THERE ARE OTHER BISI KNOW

THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS OF THOSE ARE RELYING ON THIS FUNDING. SO ARE YOU GOING TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT WITH THE BASELINE BUDGET? IS THAT IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN? -- THAT'S THE INTENTION. THAT'S THE

INTENTION THAT WE HAVE, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO SUPPORT, AND THEN MAKING SURE THAT THOSE ORGANIZATIONS ARE LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE AS THEY WAS ONE TIME INVESTMENT. THAT WAS THE CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD WITH

THAT ONE TIME INVESTMENT THAT WHAT WAS THE SUSTAINABILITY FOR THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO CONTINUE HAVING THE WORK? THAT WAS PREVIOUS MY TIME, BUT MY COMMITMENT GOING FORWARD IS REALLY HELPING THOSE

ORGANIZATIONS TO BE LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AND WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE CITY TO HELP THEM TO BE LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE IN THAT WAY? IT'S JUST TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF OUR SMALL

BUSINESS, WHICH 100% AGREE WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. COUNCILMEMBER, BUT ALSO LIKE, WHAT IS THE LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY FOR THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO BE THRIVING INTO THE WORK THAT THEY DO. -- AND THINGS

LIKE THE DOWNTOWN ACTIVATION PLAN, BECAUSE WE'RE WE STILL HAVE HUGE VACANCY RATES DOWNTOWN, WHICH MEANS WE'RE SEEING, YOU KNOW, WE CONTINUE TO SEE THE SAME ISSUES, WHICH WAS THE REASON WHY WE PUT, YOU

KNOW, THE, THE DOWNTOWN ACTIVATION PLAN DOLLARS INTO THE BUDGET. SO JUST IF YOU WOULD MOVING FORWARD AND IN THE TRACKER AD, HOW YOU'RE GOING TO ADDRESS EACH OF THESE PROGRAMS I'M READING FROM THE

BUDGET BOOK, BY THE WAY, AND THE BUDGET BOOK HAS. THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE BEING FUNDED WITH THE 11 MILLION. SO I WANTED TO, FOR THE RECORD, STATE, WHAT THESE THINGS WERE THAT WE'RE LOSING.

MAYBE OR MAYBE YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO BACKFILL IT WITH BASELINE BUDGET. SO YOU'LL LET US KNOW WHICH OF THESE YOU'RE ABLE TO DO. THANK YOU DIRECTOR. AND THEN THE LAST THING I WILL POINT OUT IS HAVE

CONCERNS ABOUT THIS VACANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST POSITION, BECAUSE I KNOW THESE FOLKS ARE THE ONES THAT WORK DIRECTLY WITH THE BUSINESSES ON THE GROUND. AND SO I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THIS

POSITION HAS BEEN VACANT, BUT I KNOW THAT WE, AGAIN, SMALL BUSINESSES ACROSS THE CITY REALLY RELY ON THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST. SO ARE YOU ABLE TO TAKE UP THE WORK OF THIS POSITION WITH THE

OTHER FOLKS THAT ARE WILL STILL BE THERE? -- YES. WHEN WE WERE MAKING THESE DECISIONS, WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS. SO WE WERE DOING A REALLY GOOD. ASSESSMENT OF WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE

HAVE IN OUR DEPARTMENT TO STREAMLINING DUPLICATION. AND WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE BEING ABLE TO DO OUR WORK BASED ON THAT ASSESSMENT. SO THAT'S MY ALSO COMMITMENT OF WHAT WE ARE MAKING. THESE

RECOMMENDATIONS AND THESE DECISIONS IS THE WORK WILL CONTINUE AND WE WILL JUST BE MORE EFFICIENT AND STREAMLINING THE PROCESSES FOR OUR DEPARTMENTS, SPECIFICALLY FOR THE BACON AND THE ONE THAT WAS

ALREADY THE ONE THAT THE OTHER POSITION THAT WAS ELIMINATED, WE ALSO KIND OF RESTRUCTURING AND KIND OF LIKE ON THE IT WAS UNDER UTILIZED, AND THEN IT WOULD BE ON THE INITIATIVES OF A NEW POSITION THAT

WE'RE HIRING FOR. -- THANK YOU, DIRECTOR, AND SORRY, ONE LAST QUESTION. THE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES LOOKS LIKE WAS ALSO ONE TIME IT WAS 4.2 MILLION AND IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE IT WAS PART OF THE 11 MILLION.

UNLESS I'M WRONG. SO WHAT DO WE FOR GOING THERE? WHAT WAS I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES WAS FUNDING. -- AND THOSE WERE LARGELY A LOT OF THE DOLLARS AS WELL. SO THAT ACTUALLY WAS PART OF

THAT $11.7 MILLION. WAS. YEAH. -- OKAY. -- THANK YOU. AND WE ARE MAINTAINING SOME FUNDS WITHIN THERE AS WELL FOR LIBERTY PROJECTS, SOME OTHER KEY PROGRAMS. -- THANK YOU. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, CHAIR.

-- THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. -- THANK YOU CHAIR. WELCOME. DIRECTOR YARCE, AND APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. AND AND OF COURSE, MR. REGIS AS WELL. AND DIRECTOR PENNUCCI STILL

HOLDING STRONG AT 446 IN THE AFTERNOON. AND ALONG WITH MR. CHA, OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL STAFF. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS YOU HIGHLIGHTED IN YOUR BRIEFING, AFFORDABILITY. WE TEND TO DEFAULT TO

AFFORDABILITY FOR YOUR AVERAGE PERSON, INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUENT. CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE AFFORDABILITY CHALLENGES WITHIN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY -- YES. SO SO ONE, AS WE LAUNCH OF OUR EXECUTIVE ORDER, ONE

OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE SEE IN THE REPORT, THE SEAWALL, THE SEATTLE RESILIENT ECONOMY, IS HOW DO WE CREATE MORE PREDICTABILITY? HOW DO WE CREATE MORE STREAMLINING PROCESSES FOR THOSE BUSINESSES TO

BE MORE AFFORDABLE? IN TERMS OF HOW DO THEY CHOOSE TO BE IN SEATTLE? AND THAT WAY, HOW WE ARE SENDING A MESSAGE THAT THEY ARE WELCOME TO BE HERE. THAT IS ONE PIECE THAT WE ARE WORKING WITH THE TASK

FORCE, AS WELL AS WE ARE CONVENING, AND WE'RE ABOUT TO LAUNCH THAT. AS I MENTIONED IN MY EARLY PRESENTATION, AFFORDABILITY IS SQUEEZING FAMILIES. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, ALSO SQUEEZING BUSINESSES, SMALL

BUSINESSES AND ALL SIZE BUSINESSES. SO THAT'S HOW WE'RE DEFINING HOW WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT FASTER FOR BUSINESSES. AND ALSO, WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY IN OUR CITY TO ATTRACT AND

MAKE IT MORE INCENTIVES HERE IN SEATTLE. -- THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE INCLUDING IT BECAUSE I THINK WE NEED TO RAISE THE LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING OF BUSINESS AFFORDABILITY, TOO, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT

REALLY IS THOUGHT OF FIRST. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO PUSH IT OVER A NUMBER OF MONTHS IN TERMS OF WHAT WE WERE DOING WITH DIFFERENT THINGS THAT LEGISLATIVELY THAT WE'VE DONE RELATED TO TRANSIT MEASURE OR

ANYTHING ELSE IN TERMS OF THE IMPACTS ON BUSINESS, JUST FOR CONSIDERATION. YOU KNOW, I DID VOTE, BUT TO RAISE THE AWARENESS AND MAKE SURE THAT IT'S CONSIDERED AND ACCOUNTED FOR, I THINK IS SUPER

IMPORTANT. QUICK CURIOSITY QUESTION, BY THE WAY, SEAWALL, WHAT DROVE SEAWALL TO BE THE NAME OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE ASSESSMENT. -- THAT WAS THE DECISION THAT THE ECONOMIST RYAN DONAHOE WANTS TO KIND OF

CREATE THAT CONCEPT OF SEAWALL, THE RESILIENT ECONOMY OF THE SEAWALL. SO HOW THE SEAWALL IS VERY STRONG AND HOW IT'S CREATED. THE SEAWALL WAS CREATED. IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THIS HOW A SEAWALL WAS

BUILT. THAT'S KIND OF THE CONCEPT OF HOW WE'RE BUILDING A MORE RESILIENT ECONOMY WITH THE MULTIPLE ELEMENTS OF WHAT SEAWALL IS. SO THAT WAS KIND OF LIKE THE BEHIND THE SCENES. HE MIGHT PROBABLY

ARTICULATE IT BETTER THAN ME BECAUSE HE'S THE ONE WHO, WHO KIND OF REALLY IDENTIFY WITH THAT KIND OF BRANDING. -- I LIKE IT. IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE IT INVOKES CERTAIN THINGS, BUT OBVIOUSLY IN THE

BUSINESS WORLD, WE ALSO HAVE TO BROADEN AND EXPAND AS WELL. IN ADDITION TO PROTECT AND SO FORTH. SO I JUST FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT JUST JUST A GENERAL QUESTION, WHICH IS A GREAT LEAD IN TO THE IDEA

OF DIVERSITY OF, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA OF ENSURING A BROADENED ECONOMIC BASE, RESILIENT BASE. EVERYBODY THINKS WE'RE TECH, WHICH IS REALLY FAR FROM THE TRUTH BECAUSE, WELL, A, THERE'S DIFFERENT

TYPES OF TECH. BIOTECH IS HUGE HERE. NOBODY REALLY TALKS ABOUT THAT EITHER. BUT WE ARE ALSO A MARITIME PLACE AND WE'RE THE ECONOMIC HUB WITH EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH THAT. AND I THINK THAT'S

IMPORTANT. AS SOMEBODY WHO REPRESENTS DOWNTOWN IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, CAN YOU SPEAK TO, SINCE IT IS ONE OF MY PRIORITIES, STRATEGIC PRIORITIES, THE MARITIME PIECE AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING, YOU

MENTIONED IN THERE, YOU KNOW, THE THE MARITIME INNOVATION HUB AND SOME OF THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE ON MARITIME. CAN YOU SPEAK TO YOUR INTERACTION WITH THAT COMMUNITY AS AN EXAMPLE? -- YEAH, THANK

YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. AS PART OF THAT, THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ECONOMY, MARITIME IS ONE OF THE INDUSTRIES THAT WE IDENTIFY AS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BLUE ECONOMY AND HOW MUCH CONTRIBUTED TO A

REGION. SO YES, WE ARE PRIORITIZING AND THAT'S PART OF THE TASK FORCE. AND THE TASK FORCE HAS REPRESENTATION IN THAT INDUSTRY THAT WILL HELP US TO KIND OF ON FEBRUARY 2027, THAT WILL GIVE US OUR FIRST

RECOMMENDATIONS OF WHAT THEY FIND OUT. AND THEN BY JUNE 2027, THEY WILL GIVE US A FULL RECOMMENDATIONS ON WHAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO DIVERSIFY OUR ECONOMY. AND MARITIME IS ONE OF THEM, BUT

ALSO CLEAN TECH MANUFACTURE. AND WE REALLY WANT TO EMPHASIZE. AND THEN HOW DO WE BUILD THOSE INDUSTRIES? AND WHEN WE SAY MIDSIZE BUSINESS COMPANIES, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 50 TO 250 EMPLOYEES, WHICH

ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THAT'S CONSIDERED A SMALL BUSINESS AS WELL. SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE WE JUST NEED TO KIND OF FIND THE SWEET SPOT ON HOW WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING THOSE THAT

MIDSIZE COMPANIES -- THANK YOU. AND I JUST NOTE ALL THESE THINGS ARE SUPER IMPORTANT. ADDRESSING THE UNDERLYING PUBLIC SAFETY PIECES, BECAUSE THAT GOES TO, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE SHIFT IN PROPERTY TAXES

OFF TO THE RESIDENTS BECAUSE THE, YOU KNOW, THE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE IN DOWNTOWN, FOR EXAMPLE, IS, IS COLLAPSED, NOT COLLAPSED, MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT TOO STRONG, BUT SEVERELY IMPACTED. AND THEN YOU

THROW IN, RIGHT. AND SOME OF THESE OTHER PIECES, WE'RE NOT GETTING THE REVENUE AND WE'RE, WE'RE BASICALLY PRESENTED WITH A, A BUDGET. THIS IS THE, YOU KNOW, THE DESIGN OF OUR, OUR CBO DIRECTOR, WHERE,

YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE, IF WE'RE LOOKING TO ADD LIKE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, IT'S BASICALLY WE'RE IN A. ROB. PETER TO PAY PAUL BECAUSE THESE REVENUE PIECES ARE NOT GOING TO INCREASE OVERNIGHT TO GIVE US

DIFFERENT THINGS. SO UNLESS THE, THE, THE, THE FORECAST COMES IN BEAUTIFULLY AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS, WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A VERY DIFFICULT STATE, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE IN THAT. ROB PETER TO PAY

PAUL SITUATION. AND IF ONCE YOU'RE ROBBING PETER, THAT'S GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, A VERY DIFFICULT BUDGET PIECE. I'M SAYING THIS IN A VERY GENERIC WAY, AND IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT FOR US AS A

COUNCILMEMBERS. AND WITH SOME POTENTIAL NO VOTES BECAUSE OF THAT SIMPLE FACT. SO ANYWAYS, THANK YOU, CHAIR. -- THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, FOLLOWED BY COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

THAT, CHAIR. AND AS ALWAYS, I APPRECIATE YOU. DIRECTOR YARCE. AND I JUST I'M GOING TO BE REALLY BRIEF WITH MY MY QUESTIONS I WANTED TO ASK. I KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, THAT THESE REDUCTIONS ARE REMOVING ONE

TIME ITEMS AND OBVIOUSLY THEY WERE FUNDED AS ONE TIME ITEMS. SO BUT I WANT TO JUST ASK IN TERMS OF THE SALE FUND, WILL WE STILL BE ABLE TO GET THE REPORT BACK IN TERMS OF THE ORIGINAL OF THE

EXPENDITURES THERE? ONE, YOU KNOW, EARLIER THIS YEAR, I GOT THE CHANCE TO SIT DOWN WITH SOME OF THE SMALL BUSINESSES IN LAKE CITY TO JUST BE A PART OF THE CONVERSATION. DIRECTOR YARCE, YOU WERE THERE,

I THINK PRIOR TO EVEN BEING CONFIRMED. AND, AND CERTAINLY I THINK WE GOT TO HEAR A LOT OF THINGS FROM, FROM FOLKS IN TERMS OF GAPS IN THE COMMUNITY AND GAPS IN THE BUSINESSES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND

EVEN THOUGH WE WON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO CARRY OVER AND CONTINUE THESE ONE TIME ADS PERMANENTLY INTO THE FUTURE, I'M CURIOUS TO SEE IF THERE'S THINGS WE NEED TO LEARN FROM THOSE ONE TIME INVESTMENTS

THAT MAYBE WE, YOU KNOW, WE PUT INTO OTHER RESOURCES, OR IF WE HAVE THE ABILITY IN FUTURE YEARS TO CONTINUE INVESTING. OKAY, THAT WAS A LONG QUESTION. -- A SHORT ANSWER, WONDERFUL QUESTION. AND WE ARE

ACTUALLY ON THE PROCESS TO DO PRESENTATIONS TO COUNCILMEMBERS ABOUT WHERE WE ARE WITH SALE. SO HOW THOSE INVESTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE AND THE AND THEN WORKING WITH MAYOR'S OFFICE AND ALSO COUNCILMEMBER

LIAISON. SO STAY TUNED BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO COME AND PRESENT OF WHAT ARE THOSE INVESTMENTS? HOW WE'RE DEPLOYING THE FUNDS, WHAT ARE WE'RE ASKING FOR THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO ACHIEVE AND WHAT ARE THE,

THE DATA THAT WE ARE REQUESTING FOR THOSE INVESTMENTS IN THAT WAY, WE NOT ONLY LEARN, BUT ALSO HOW DO WE SUPPORT THESE ORGANIZATIONS TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE LONG TERM? BECAUSE THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THE

MAIN VISION AND THE MAIN GOAL AND LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY AND HELPING THEM TO KIND OF CONTINUE THE WORK FORWARD, EVEN IF THE CITY IS NOT MAKING AN INVESTMENT. SO THAT'S PART OF THE THIS DEPLOY

SPECIFICALLY WITH LAKE CITY, WE JUST FINISHED ALL THAT, BUT ALSO WITH CITY. SO STAY TUNED BECAUSE WE WILL COME SOON TO PRESENT TO COUNCILMEMBERS ABOUT THIS SPECIFIC INVESTMENT. -- THANK YOU. I LOOK

FORWARD TO THAT. AND I THINK THIS IS ALREADY KIND OF ENCOMPASSED IN WHAT YOU WERE SAYING DIRECTORY, BUT TO THE EXTENT, IF I REMEMBER WHAT I HEARD FROM FOLKS, SOME OF THE THINGS WERE SORT OF FINANCIAL

AND SOME WERE NONFINANCIAL CHANGES THAT I THINK SOME OF THE BUSINESSES WERE HOPING THE CITY COULD ADDRESS. OR MAYBE I SHOULDN'T SAY THEIR NONFINANCIAL, BUT THERE ARE THINGS LIKE OUR SIGN CODE, RIGHT.

AND OTHER THINGS THAT IMPACT THE ABILITY FOR THOSE BUSINESSES TO OPERATE WITH EASE AND TO NAVIGATE THE CITY. SO AS YOU PLAN THAT REPORT BACK, I HOPE WE GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR BOTH ABOUT THE

FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS, BUT ALSO SOME OF THE CHANGES JUST IN OUR EXISTING BUSINESS PRACTICES OR ENGAGEMENT THAT WE CAN DO TO CONTINUE MAKING IT EASIER TO OPERATE A SMALL BUSINESS HERE IN THE CITY.

ANOTHER QUESTION I JUST WANTED TO ASK, AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU CAN JUST SHARE WITH US, AND THIS IS A I'D LOVE TO LEARN MORE JUST ABOUT HOW THE BUDGET AND REFLECTS THE EXECUTIVE ORDER RECENTLY IN

TERMS OF THE ABILITY FOR US TO TRY TO ATTRACT A DIVERSE SET OF BUSINESSES, SMALL MIDSIZE BUSINESSES, AND WHERE THERE ARE, YOU CAN SORT OF FORESEE THAT FUTURE WORK. AGAIN, KNOWING YOU'RE DOING THIS

WITHIN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES. BUT I DO THINK THAT REPORT THAT RECENTLY CAME OUT OF OED AND THE EXECUTIVE ORDER FEEL LIKE REALLY IMPORTANT STEPS FORWARD IN TERMS OF TRYING TO HAVE THE KIND OF ECONOMY

WE WANT TO HAVE FOR THE LONG TERM. SO IF THERE'S ANY BRIGHT SPOTS THAT YOU CAN POINT OUT FOR US, I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. -- YEAH, THAT WILL WILL BE CONCENTRATED ON KEY INDUSTRIES. SO YOU SEE

THE LINE OF KEY INDUSTRIES AS THE WORD THAT IS GOING TO BE KIND OF LIFTING THIS, THIS REPORT AND THE EXECUTIVE ORDER, OF COURSE, WILL BE A SMALL NAVIGATION DEPARTMENT AND THE BUILDING WEALTH, AS WELL

AS WE ARE BUILDING THE FINANCE ELEMENT OF THIS REPORT. BUT YEAH, IT'S MOSTLY CONCENTRATED ON KEY INDUSTRIES. AND THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THE PURPOSE OF HOW DO WE LEVERAGE OUR WORK FROM THAT SPECIFIC

DEPARTMENT UNDER DIVISION, UNDER MY DEPARTMENT. -- THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU CHAIR. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. -- THANK YOU, CHAIR THANK YOU, DIRECTOR ARTS, FOR THE

OVERVIEW OF THE PRESENTATION TODAY AND, AND YES, ANOTHER VERY DIFFICULT CHALLENGING BUDGET OR PREPARED UNDER CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES, RATHER. AND SPEAKING OF WHICH, I JUST WANT TO GET A LITTLE MORE

CLARITY AROUND THE BACK TO BUSINESS PROGRAM AND THE PROPOSED REDUCTIONS THERE. FIRST OFF, I'LL NOTE THAT MY MANY OF MY CONSTITUENTS HAVE HAVE LEVERAGED THAT PROGRAM, INCLUDING THE EXPANSION TO MORE

THAN JUST THE REACTIVE SIDE OF THINGS. THE ORIGINAL, I THINK, WAS IT BROKEN WINDOWS PROGRAM OR STOREFRONT REPAIR FROM THE ORIGINAL? THE ORIGINAL STOREFRONT REPAIR FUND WAS JUST REALLY FOR A LIMITED

CLASS OF, OF, OF REPAIRS. AFTER CRIME OR DAMAGE HAS, HAS OCCURRED TO A BUSINESS. THE MOST CANONICAL EXAMPLE THERE IS LIKE REPAIRING A BROKEN STOREFRONT, BUT I THINK LAST YEAR, OR MAYBE IT WAS, IT WAS

END OF 24 EXPANDED THAT TO INCLUDE PROACTIVE MEASURES, INCLUDING, YOU KNOW, SECURITY EQUIPMENT, HARDENED DOORS, HARDENED FACILITIES, SECURITY CAMERA EQUIPMENT, POTENTIALLY JUST WHATEVER TO, TO BETTER

MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE TO BE REACTIVE. AND SO THAT'S WHAT THE BACK TO BUSINESS PROGRAM. EFFECTIVELY HELPS ACCOMPLISH AND SOLVE. AND MANY OF MY CONSTITUENTS IN DISTRICT ONE, SMALL BUSINESSES, SMALL

BUSINESSES RATHER HAVE RELIED HEAVILY ON THAT VITAL PROGRAMING TO HELP OFFSET SOME OF THE COSTS IN CONNECTION WITH SECURITY CRIME ISSUES AT THEIR STORE. YOU KNOW, WHETHER THAT'S IN THE ALASKA

JUNCTION, SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE ALASKA JUNCTION RESTAURANT ROW, ALONG ELK, I, BUT THROUGHOUT DISTRICT ONE AND AGAIN, SMALL BUSINESSES HAVE COME TO RELY ON THAT AND REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. AND EVEN

THE ONES THAT HAVE NOT RELIED ON THAT OR LEVERAGED THAT PROGRAM HAVE ALWAYS APPRECIATED THAT IT EXISTS. AND SO JUST REALLY WANT TO START BY THANKING THE YOU AND THE TEAM THAT HAVE ADMINISTERED AND

WILL CONTINUE TO ADMINISTER. I HOPE THAT PROGRAM ON A GOING FORWARD, BECAUSE I KNOW MY OFFICE HAS WORKED CLOSELY WITH WITH THE THE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, AFTER A PARTICULAR CRIME OR

INCIDENT HAPPENED AT A SMALL BUSINESS IN DISTRICT ONE TO TO SUPPORT THEM, AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT THAT WENT INTO THAT. AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO INVEST IN THOSE

KIND OF THINGS AT APPROPRIATE LEVELS. BUT I LIKE IS THE PROGRAM IS THE PROPOSAL TO RETIRE AND CUT THE PROGRAM ENTIRELY GOING FORWARD, OR INSTEAD REDUCE IT AT SPECIFIED LEVELS? THE SPECIFICALLY $2.5

MILLION, AS INDICATED ON PAGE 213 OF THE OF THE BUDGET. -- DIRECTOR PENNUCCI. -- THE PROPOSAL. THE PROPOSED. -- BUDGET MAINTAINS THE ONGOING FUNDING THAT WAS IN THE BUDGET LAST YEAR. IT ISN'T REALLY A

CUT WHEN YOU DON'T CARRY FOR LIKE WHEN YOU DON'T MAKE ONGOING THE ONE TIME REDUCTION. SO I JUST WANT TO BE REALLY CLEAR FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC, THIS IS A TECHNICAL ADJUSTMENT TO RESET THE BUDGET TO

THE BASE. IT IS NOT A CUT BECAUSE THERE WAS ONLY ONE TIME FUNDING ADDED. SO AGAIN, NO ONE SHOULD EXPECT SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED IT TO BE MADE ON GOING WITHOUT A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO PAY FOR IT. I WOULD

ALSO JUST NOTE AND AND ALSO JUST MORE FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC. WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW DID THIS BUDGET GET BALANCED WHEN WE AND WHEN I TALKED ABOUT OVER $40 MILLION IN GENERAL FUND REDUCTIONS

AND ALL OTHER CHANGES TO JUMPSTART THAT NUMBER DID NOT INCLUDE THESE ONE TIME REDUCTIONS, BECAUSE IT'S NOT ACTUALLY A REDUCTION. IT IS JUST RESETTING THE BUDGET TO THE BASE BASED ON WHAT WAS ADOPTED

LAST LAST YEAR. I'LL LET THE I'LL LET THE OED FOLKS ANSWER ON SORT OF WHAT IS LEFT IN IN THE BASE, BUT THE PROGRAM STILL EXISTS. IT IS JUST NOT. IT IS SET BACK TO THE ONGOING FUNDING THAT HAS BEEN IN

THE BUDGET. -- WHICH IS AT WHAT AMOUNT? -- $100,000 FOR THE ONGOING PROGRAM. -- SO $800,000, THE NEW BASELINE. SO CUTTING THAT FROM THE 250 OR $2.5 MILLION FROM THE THE AMOUNT THAT WAS PUT IN THERE

LAST YEAR. AND BUSINESSES HAVE COME TO RELY ON. SO TOTALING $3.3 MILLION. SO BASICALLY JUST PRESERVING, AGAIN, $800,000 OF THAT. HOW HAVE ASSUMING THAT FIGURE THAT PROPOSED FIGURE AND A NEW BASELINE

STANDS, HOW HAVE YOU ALL THOUGHT ABOUT PRIORITIZING? CAN'T HAVE THIS. OR MAYBE WE CAN. CURIOUS TO HEAR HOW YOU THINK SO, BUT THAT EXPANDED BACK TO BUSINESS PROGRAM. HOW ARE YOU ALL THINKING ABOUT

ADMINISTERING THAT MUCH MORE LIMITED SET OF RESOURCES CITYWIDE? -- WELL, AS WE'VE BEEN SHARING IS KIND OF LIKE WITH THE STRATEGY OF WHAT ARE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS OF PRIORITY? WHAT ARE THE NEEDS FIRST

PLACE AND HOW WE'RE RESPONDING WITH THE LIMITED RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE AT THAT POINT. SO AGAIN, IT WAS A ONE TIME EXPANSION, AND NOW WE HAVE THIS. THE BASELINE WILL CONTINUE, WILL CONTINUE SUPPORTING

THOSE BUSINESSES AND IT'S JUST PRIORITIZING WHAT ARE THE NEEDS THE MOST NEEDS IN OUR CITY TO RESPOND TO THOSE BUSINESSES WHO ARE STRUGGLING THE MOST? -- THANK YOU. I IF THAT IF THAT LEVEL HOLDS, I DO

THINK THE SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY IS OWED MORE CLARITY IN TERMS OF OBJECTIVE EVALUATION CRITERIA. YOU USED TO SPEND EVEN LESS, SIGNIFICANTLY LESS RESOURCES AND HOW THOSE DECISIONS WOULD WOULD BE

MADE. I THINK, AT A BARE MINIMUM THAT THAT WOULD THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. BUT I APPRECIATE THE INITIAL COMMENTS HERE. -- THANK YOU. I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH MORE DETAILS ON STRATEGY, IF THAT'S WHAT I'M

HEARING. -- THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. I'M GOING TO SEND IT OVER TO COUNCILMEMBER RINCK TO TAKE US HOME. I'M JUST GOING TO PAY YOU THE COMPLIMENTS THAT ARE DUE. HAVING SEEN YOU IN PUBLIC MEETING

WITH BUSINESSES. OUT OF ALL THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS THAT HAVE COME ON BOARD IN THE LAST NINE MONTHS, YOU'RE THE ONE THAT DIDN'T NEED ANY GROUND TO HAVE A LEARNING CURVE. I SEE YOU RUNNING. I SEE YOU

WORKING ON BEHALF OF SEATTLEITES. THAT'S WHAT WE LOVE TO SEE. ON BEHALF OF DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS AND DEPARTMENTS. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR YARCE, FOR BEING REALLY GOOD AT YOUR JOB. COUNCILMEMBER RINCK TAKE

US HOME. -- THANK YOU. CHAIR STRAUSS. THANK YOU DIRECTOR. YARCE. MR. REGIS. DIRECTOR PENNUCCI AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL STAFF. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. THANKS FOR ALL THE WORK INTO THIS

PRESENTATION. FOR OED ONGOING EFFORTS TO BUILD A RESILIENT ECONOMY. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR CONTINUED WORK AND YOUR PARTNERSHIP. THAT'S ALL I HAVE, CHAIR. THANK YOU. -- THANK YOU. DIRECTOR PENNUCCI.

ANY LAST WORDS FOR THE DAY? I'M JUST GOING TO BRING US UP. WE'VE GOT OFFICE OF HOUSING AT 931 TOMORROW MORNING, FOLLOWED BY SDCI OPCD. YES, THERE ARE ONLY THREE DEPARTMENTS ON THE AGENDA FOR TOMORROW,

JUST LIKE TODAY. BUT LORD HELP ME. I HOPE WE'RE NOT HERE TILL 505 BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A LIGHT RAIL STATION OPENING AT 445. THAT SOUND TRANSIT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT. -- TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH YOU ON

BUILDING A RESILIENT ECONOMY. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP. -- WELL DONE. WELL DONE. WITH THAT. IF THERE'S NO FURTHER BUSINESS, THE SEPTEMBER 28th, 2026 SELECT BUDGET COMMITTEE WILL COME TO A

CLOSE. I SHOULD PULL UP MY SCRIPT. SO I SAY THIS CORRECTLY, SEEING AS WE HAVE NO FURTHER BUSINESS, WE ARE ADJOURNED. -- [MUSIC]