Speaker 5: Agenda item five Resolution 318 94 relating to the funding of priority projects in the 2019 three 2024 Bicycle Master Plan and Implementation Plan. Requesting that the Mayor commit to building out the bicycle masterplan, identifying funding for priority bicycle masterplan projects and the mayor's 2020 proposed Budget Committee recommends the resolution be adopted.
Speaker 1: Council Member O'Brien Thank you.
Speaker 6: One more. As we work through with these exciting issues, this go back a little brief history here back in March. Well, traditionally, about this time each year, the executive presents an implementation plan for all the motor plans, including the bike master plan. But this time last year, that was delayed because of some of the work around the Seattle levy and an ongoing interest to further engage with various stakeholders. And so we did not have an implementation plan until March of this year. At the time that information came out, there was a lot of concern among various community members that the implementation plan had missed the mark. And I really want to say I appreciate that both the mayor's office and the Department of Transportation heard those comments and took them to heart. And to me, they went out and very quickly turned around and did a I believe it had five community meetings to get stakeholder input on hearing those concerns and came back in June with a revised implementation plan that attempted to address the concerns they heard in those community meetings. And I thought they did a really good job. They were very responsive. But the reality was that even then at that point, the fiscal reality of some of the challenges around the Seattle levy was such that there are some projects that really need to be built in the next few years that are not currently in the implementation plan. But the fiscal reality being what it is and I'm looking at the chair of our budget process was about to start. Is that the only way to build those projects with the current budget would be to cancel other projects that are also important. So instead of fighting over a small pie, why don't we figure out how to make the pie a little bit bigger? And so what this resolution does is it really focuses on a couple of priority areas where we where there are currently some gaps in the network or in the region and asks that the mayor's office and the department find ways to prioritize and budget those projects. So specifically, the current implementation plan, one of its major shortcomings is that at the end of the Seattle levy, if all we built is what's in the plan right now, there will not be a connection from southeast Seattle to downtown. And if after this billion dollar levy is completed, we still are lacking a safe connection for residents who live in southeast Seattle to connect to downtown, that will have been a failure. So this calls on specifically names out some projects, three of them on Beacon Avenue South, a connection from Georgetown to downtown, connection on Martin Luther King Jr. Way that we want to find funding for and ask the mayor to find funding for. Now, the great thing is that the budget is to be presented to us in just over a couple of weeks. And so hopefully there's an opportunity to do that. And we're talking about some other revenue sources that may come up, including a sale of the Mercer mega block, which hopefully we'll be approving in the next few weeks, too. And of course, when the budget comes to the council, we'll have opportunities to find transportation dollars and dedicate those to them in addition to southeast Seattle. It also talks about a couple of pieces of infrastructure in downtown that are important pieces of the network to make sure we have a safe downtown to a to a bike lane on Fourth Avenue and also protected bike lane on Alaskan way between Virginia Street and the Elliott Bay Trail. With that, I believe my colleagues have a couple of amendments, have a couple projects that are very consistent with those two. This one of those was presented this morning. I believe one will require suspension of the rules because it came in a little after the deadline.
Speaker 1: So the customer back show that will take second will require a suspension of rules because remember, Herbold has a First Amendment and will address first comes from Herbold.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. I move to amend resolution 31894 Section two by adding a new subsection H entitled Georgetown South Park Trail as presented on Amendment 1/2.
Speaker 1: Can been moved in second act to add a section H Georgetown South Park Trail. Any comments or questions on that comes from Herbert? When I speak to a little more.
Speaker 5: I would thank you. I just want to give a little bit of background on this particular project. Under Council President Harrell's leadership in the budget for 2018 and in response to community requests from both of our districts in Georgetown and South Park. The council added 600,000 to the budget in 2018. For the outreach, planning and early design of the Project Starts Project website notes that the final design and construction are currently under funded, and I met with the MAX Coalition a couple of weeks ago. I received some support for this being a priority project and just want to say that South Park is called out in the recitals of the bill. So I think it's important that we follow up with action as it relates to important projects to the South Park community.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Councilmember Herbold, and thanks for your work on this. Any other questions? We'll just take or vote on the amendment. All those in favor as have been seconded. Yes, all those in favor of the amendment as described by Councilmember her will please vote i. I opposed. The ayes have it. So that amendment passes. Thank you, Councilmember Herbold and leave to consider Councilman back shows amendment. We're going to have to suspend the rules because of the timing and if there's no objection will suspend the rules to understand council members back Charles amendment because we're back to the floor.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. So do you want me to formally request that we suspend the rules now or have you just. I just. Okay, very good. So I would like to move to amend this resolution 31894 Section two by adding a new subsection, which will be I since Councilmember Herbert's amendment passed to add Vine Street and thence parenthetical Second Avenue to Thomas Street. And the reasoning behind this is similar to what we were speaking about, about making the connections we have in our proposed amendment in front of us on what is item F, a two way protected bike lane on Fourth Avenue and its main to Vine Street. And then it just ends. And as part of our nodal map, our north downtown mobility action plan, we had specified a connection up Vine Street and Taylor to connect with Thomas Street. And thanks to a number of people, I saw Gordon Philadelphia here earlier that we had a design charrette on Thomas earlier this summer that would connect Thomas Street, both on the east side, in the west side of Seattle Center. And what this proposal will do is to add about seven blocks and whether it's a greenway or whether it's a separated bike lane. But to make sure that bicycle riders coming down Fourth Avenue will have a safe and separated bike lane, but then can can continue on Vine and Taylor to Thomas. And it's just on one of these safe connections. And I want to acknowledge, I think Katie Wilson has left, but the point that she was raising about Fourth Avenue is really critical as somebody who rides her bike a lot going down Fourth Avenue when it just and it becomes a very unsafe situation, particularly with all the construction going on downtown. So my goal here is to be able to connect Fourth Avenue all the way to the east side of Seattle Center and by adding the subsection I, Vine Street, Second Avenue to Thomas Street, we can accomplish that.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Kasper Back to any questions or comments on Councilmember Bag Shaw's amendment. Okay, we'll call this amendment number two. Okay. It's been moved. Is amendment number two has been described and moved and seconded by Councilman Beck. So any further questions or comments, all those in favor of amendment number two say I, I opposed the ayes have it. So amendment number two is passed. Now we have an amended resolution 31894 it councilmember O'Brien was like standing closing remarks.
Speaker 6: Good to go.
Speaker 1: Okay. Any other remarks on the base? Legislation as amended? We're good. Okay. Those in favor of adopting the resolution as amended. Please vote i. I those opposed vote no. The motion carries the resolutions adopted, and the chair will sign it. All right. It's great. Thank you. Please read the report of the Housing, Health, Energy and Workers Rights Committee.
A RESOLUTION relating to the funding of priority projects in the 2019-2024 Bicycle Master Plan Implementation Plan; requesting that the Mayor commit to building out the Bicycle Master Plan and identify funding for priority Bicycle Master Plan projects in the Mayor’s 2020 Proposed Budget.