Speaker 2: Agenda item for Council Bill 119111. Establishing a spending fund for proposed use of the proceeds generated from the payroll expense tax authorized by the ordinance introduced at Council Bill 1198 ten. Establishing an oversight committee and adding a new Section 3.35 100 of the code. The committee recommends the bill passes in that order with council members must gather Herbert Gonzalez Suarez Lewis Morales to want and shop in favor and council member Peterson mistakes.
Speaker 0: Thank you so much, Madam Clerk. Casimir Mosquitoes. Chair of the committee. You are recognized in order to address this item.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Council President. So, council colleagues, we have in front of us. I just want to make sure I wasn't frozen. We have in front of us legislation that includes the categories of spending. And this is critical for us to be able to pass today so that we can coupled this revenue proposal with the tax package that we just passed. We will also have the opportunity to invest or to talk more about investments in the upcoming Wednesday, a meeting not this Wednesday, but the following Wednesday, to talk more about the specifics in terms of what additional allocations you'd like to see. It was not possible for us to know exactly which amendments to advance without knowing the universe of dollars from this conversation. And we wanted to make sure we got that completely right. So now we have feedback from all of you. Your amendments are included. This allows for us to pass this category spend plan to coupled with the tax proposal and to then work in greater detail, much like we've done with other levies in the past, for example, the Families in Education Levy. We followed it up with very detailed spending plan to complement the categories of spending. Again, I want to thank you for her work to amend this bill so that we could have these categories here. And I will also take a quick minute to add to the thank you that I just said a moment ago we would not be in a position to have money to spend without the ongoing feedback that we got from the robust individuals that I listed before who were part of a very broad coalition, and that includes folks at Expedia and Ethan Stoll. I want to thank the business leaders who have been helping to provide feedback on the tax proposal so that we do have not only the vote that just happened to ensure that there is progressive revenue, but also make sure that we have the ability to invest in critical programs like supporting small businesses which will reinvest into larger business. Taking a minute to thank those businesses that include Expedia Civic Ventures, Matthew Leong, Budget Policy Center and BFD, and all those folks that provided a lot of feedback. And thanks again to Richard and Steven for the ongoing feedback of, as we talked about, various ways to raise sufficient funds to get money into the hands of those who are hurting, including needing housing and food assistance and small business assistance and investments in the long run. So I was remiss in not mentioning them before and wanted to say that, and that is my closing comment.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilor Mosquito. Are there any other comments on the bill? Okay. Looks like there are no other comments on the bill. I'm excited about this approach. Councilmember, I thank you so much for putting it forward. I know that you and I and our teams had conversations about structuring this ordinance in this way to allow for more thoughtful conversation around specific potential spending. So I really appreciate this, the structure in this direction. Thank you so much for that. With that being said, colleagues, I'm going to ask that the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill.
Speaker 1: Her bold. I. Suarez.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 1: Lewis.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 1: Morales. All right. Let's get to.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 1: Peterson?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: So what.
Speaker 4: I.
Speaker 1: Strauss.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 1: President Gonzalez I eight in favor one opposed.
Speaker 0: Thank you so much, Madam Clerk. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Clerk Please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Colleagues, other business. Is there any other further business to come before the council? Have you seen no other business? Colleagues, this concludes the items of business on today's agenda. Our next city council meeting is Monday, July 13th, 2020 at 2pmi want to congratulate once again Councilmember Mosqueda, her team and of course, most importantly, every single socialite who has been emailing us, calling us and engaging with us about the importance of passing Jumpstart Seattle. I look forward to the coming weeks of conversation around how we are going to allocate and appropriate this funding also through an equitable lens. Really appreciate everybody's hard work today and over the last few weeks to dig into the hard work that lays in front of us over the next several weeks. Thank you again. Budget Chair Mosqueda for your work at our next City Council meeting is Monday, July 13th, 2020 at 2 p.m.. I hope that you all have a very wonderful afternoon and evening. We are adjourned.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you.
AN ORDINANCE establishing a spending plan for proposed use of the proceeds generated from the payroll expense tax authorized by the ordinance introduced as Council Bill 119810 establishing an oversight committee; and adding a new Section 3.35.100 to the Seattle Municipal Code.