Speaker 0: Thank you. The bill passes the material signage report of the full council. Please read the report.
Speaker 1: Because the report, the full council agenda item one, resolution 316 19, providing an honorary designation of South Jackson Street from 27 south to 23rd Avenue South. S Ernestine Anderson Way.
Speaker 0: The council member o'brien.
Speaker 2: Thank you. So this is coming directly to full council. This ordinance would direct to the Seattle Department of Transportation to manufacture, install and maintain honourary signs at the intersections of South Jackson Street and 20th Avenue, South South Jackson Street and 20th Place, south South Jackson Street and 22nd Avenue, South and South Jackson Street and 23rd Avenue South . Each will reflect the Ernestine Anderson Way honorary designation. Racine Anderson was a legendary American jazz and blues singer from Seattle Center Area and graduate of Garfield High School and Ernestine Anderson Place, a senior affordable housing complex, was constructed in 2012 on South Jackson Street between 20th Avenue South and 20th place south. So this designation will occur adjacent to that housing complex. I did not have an honor to hear Ernestine Anderson perform. She passed away at the age of 87 earlier this year. But her legacy certainly is impressive. One anecdote I read in her obituary talked about how she was born in Houston and moved to Seattle in high school , and her father came to Seattle looking for work, but also because he wanted to be on the West Coast. And Seattle is like a sleepy town where he could get his daughter away from the music scene. Little did he know that Garfield in the Central District at that time was just emerging, and she played a significant role in that. And her overlap with Quincy Jones and Ray Charles and other folks who were in the music scene in Seattle at that time were impressive. This is a great a great chance to honor one of the leaders in our community for so long and look forward to voting yes on this bill.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Rodney, for the comments. Alex, say a few words. No one else would. Casper and Brian, thank you for describing Ms.. Anderson's background. And many people have been around Seattle for decades and many are recent arrivals. And I just think it's critically important when we celebrate this kind of history is, as you described, she recorded over 37 albums in her lifetime and she was really celebrated as a jazz artists throughout the world when she attended Garfield High School. That's where she met Quincy Jones. And you have to talk publicly about Quincy was a classmate of my mother and father's at Garfield. High school. And so I've had the opportunity to sort of over the years, interface with Miss Anderson's family. And her daughter Yvonne was attending school with myself. She's part of some great history in Seattle with groups such as Bumps Blackwell and Buddy Catlett and, of course, Quincy Jones. And those folks, if you go to the Safeway on 23rd and in Madison, you'll see a picture of a group called Bumps Blackwell. That many folks. It was just one of the best jazz groups around. And Quincy Jones is in that picture. And my father is a saxophone player sitting right next to Quincy Jones. So it's quite extraordinary what talent has come out of this city. Quincy Jones described Ernestine his voice as, quote, honey at dusk, and he said that the world got a taste of her honey. And she performed in the Monterey Jazz Festivals at Carnegie Hall in the White House during the first inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower at the Kennedy Center. She toured Europe and had many concerts in London and New York. So again, quite a local treasure. In 1999, the Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Brian Lenker published a book I think many of you have heard of. It's called I Dream a World. And in that book, she he describes 75 women, African-American women who really changed America, Coretta Scott King, Sarah Vaughan, Oprah Winfrey, Rosa Parks and our own Ernestine Anderson is in that book. So, so again, she's quite a legend. And I think as we preserved what's great in this city, I think part of that is actually preserving names like Reverend McKinney and Ernestine Anderson and others. So I'm very happy to support this resolution. You know the comments. Okay. So those in favor of adopting the resolution vote i, i, those opposed vote no. The ayes have it. The motion carries and resolutions adopted and chair Cheryl, sign it. Next agenda item, please.
A RESOLUTION providing an honorary designation of South Jackson Street from 20th Avenue South to 23rd Avenue South as “Ernestine Anderson Way.”