Speaker 0: The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the court please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Okay. Item two Will the clerk please read item two into the record? Agenda item two Resolution 31999. Agenda and the City Council's priorities to maximize local use of future federal funding to support COVID 19 relief and recovery efforts. The committee recommends that the resolution be adopted as amended. Councilmember Mosqueda This is the item that you were very excited about. So now when I hand it back over to you to finish your remarks and amend, well, we'll take up the resolution. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, counsel. Colleagues, apologies for that. Thank you for letting me preview item number two and to pick up where I left off. As a reminder, this is the resolution that provides that backbone and guiding document for us as we consider future ordinances that allocate funding from the Federal Rescue Plan Act. So I appreciate all of the work that you provided. As a reminder, this includes priority investments that were made in the ACT in the following categories looking at investments grouped into categories such as vaccines and testing, food assistance, homelessness and housing services, including rental assistance, immigrant and refugee support, child care support, small business and worker assistance and workforce recovery. Community well-being. Transportation and revenue replacement and financial resilience. This is the foundation for the future work that our Council will work on, that the city will use as we respond to the crises that we see right now in the streets, a crisis that many small businesses and workers are facing with lack of access to security and the ability to open up shops or get back to work, and how we also invest in the long term when we create a more equitable economy as we look to recover. This resolution was developed with the following four principles in mind. First, I need to be I need to be prioritizing equity, prioritizing investments for those who are most impacted by COVID and the associated economic impacts. Second, coordination ensuring that the investments are coordinated with other entities to address gaps in services or provisions. Third, flexibility, as we heard from our federal partners this morning, who are tracking the development and allocation of funding out to cities and states. We need to be flexible and nimble, prepared to respond as needed both to federal guidance that comes out and also to the ongoing needs that are growing and evolving in our community right now . And fourth, resilience. This allows us to guard against future austerity measures of future uncertainty and position the city to make new investments, such as the resolution that we passed that went along with jumpstart our concrete spend plan that was baked into Resolution 31957. This is our effort to make sure that we are a resilient, more equitable economy in the horizon so that we don't go back to normal, that we actually go back to a much better, more equitable city. The resolution was developed with the following considerations in mind. First, that we have a need to be pivoting the city efforts from acute emergency relief to longer term economic community recovery. The second for potential to leverage other local, state and federal programs and partners. And third, a recognition of the city's capacity constraints that would limit our ability to deliver services if we didn't do it in partnership . A great example is the ongoing work that we're doing with the county where the ordinance just passed and led by Councilmember Lewis to partner with King County. As we think about responding to the crisis that's manifesting in terms of homelessness and growing homelessness. So we will be working through this public outreach process and look forward to working with you as we get word out to the community about how they can engage. Thank you very much, council president. Thank you so much, Councilmember Mosqueda, for that. Any other comments on the resolution? Casmir Peterson, please.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Council President I just wanted to thank the chair of our Finance Committee, Councilwoman Mosqueda, for providing the opportunity to non committee members to provide feedback on the resolution. I was able to make sure the resolution mentioned access to Internet supporting our transportation infrastructure, and I look forward to working collaboratively with the executive to invest these funds in the most effective manner possible. But I really want to thank the inclusiveness from our finance chair.
Speaker 0: Thanks so much, Councilmember Peterson. Any other comments on the resolution? Hearing no other comments. Will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of the resolution.
Speaker 1: Or Alice as Macheda?
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 1: Peterson. Yes. So what? Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Yes. Juarez by Lewis.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 1: President Gonzalez. All right. Nine in favor and unopposed.
Speaker 0: The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read item three into the record? Every part of the Transportation and Utilities Committee and I have three counts above 120008 relating to the City Department authorizing the General Manager and Chief Executive
A RESOLUTION identifying the City Council’s priorities to maximize local use of future federal funding to support COVID-19 relief and recovery efforts.