Speaker 1: Council Bill 118764 an ordinance relating to the Technology Matching Fund program making allocations and authorizing implementation of certain technology matching fund projects. In 2016, the committee recommends the bill pass.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. This is a actual exciting bill to support. It authorizes the disbursement of about $320,000 from our Seattle Information Technology to ten community providers whose purpose purposes, I should say, are to increase residents technology access and technology literacy and basically increasing what we call digital equity opportunities. And so the maximum allowed allowable disbursement per project is $50,000. And these grants are one of the most effective and meaningful community investments that we seem to make in this city with respect to technology. And so these grants help people of all ages and of all backgrounds to achieve critical learning skills necessary for them to survive and live and look for jobs in the 21st century. This year's projects are also projected to provide more than 470,000 in community matching resources. So these are matching funds, and sometimes matching funds are in the form of cash or donations of hardware and software and supplies and labor. And so we these investments will reach over 2500 residents serving 580 immigrants and refugees, 1240 seniors and 1100 people with disabilities. And so we're pretty happy that we are able to do this. And I'm just going to mention for three particular investments of the ten El Centro de la Raza will be developing a mobile computer lab with 30 new laptops to deliver ongoing technology training and tutoring for low income youth, engage in new afterschool, drop in program and the Native Girls Code is a will conduct a yearlong club for young native women to gain cultural knowledge and computer coding skills and partners will include the University of Washington Information School Digital Youth Lab and the Washington, NASA's Space Consortium. And one other one I'll mention is the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle. They'll have a summer university for African-American students, and that will provide a six week summer university program for 60 at risk African-American, middle and high school students. And they'll provide academic enrichment and skill building programs through a science, technology, engineering and arts program on a college campus. So there's a lot of fans out there. So so I was very proud to present this to the full council for your consideration. At this time. Please call the roll on the bill if there are no further comments.
Speaker 3: No, I.
Speaker 0: Herbold, I. Johnson O'Brien. All right. Sergeant Bagshaw. Burgess. Hi. President Harrell. All right. Eight in favor. Nine opposed.
Speaker 2: The bill passes, and the chair will gladly sign it. Please read the next report.
AN ORDINANCE relating to the Technology Matching Fund Program; making allocations and authorizing implementation of certain Technology Matching Fund projects in 2016; providing that 2016 appropriations for the Technology Matching Fund from the Cable Television Franchise Subfund and from the Information Technology Fund shall automatically carry forward into the 2017 fiscal year; allowing that any unspent funds from an individual project may be applied to another project that meets the goals of the Digital Equity Initiative; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.