Speaker 1: Thank you. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation? Next grouping agendas, agenda items 30 and 31. Will the clerk please read the short title of items 30 and 31 into the record?
Speaker 0: Agenda items 30 and 31. Accountable 119933. Relating to the Organization of City Government creating an Office of Emergency Management. The committee recommends that the bill passes amended council bill 119949 relating to the Organization of City Government Creating New Community Safety and Communication Center. The committee recommends the bill pass.
Speaker 1: And you, Madam Clerk. All right. Agenda item number 30. Are there any comments on Council Bill 119933? Agenda item 30. Councilmember Herbold, you are recognized. Thank you. Just want to make a couple of very short comments about this, since I think I'm listed as the sponsor on this one. This legislation creates a new department, the Office of Emergency Management, which has been pulled out of the Seattle Police Department. Like other executive department directors, the director of OEM will be nominated by the mayor and confirmed by the City Council, and currently OEM is being run by interim director Laurel Nelson. And I want to thank central staff for their efforts on this particular piece of legislation and the one that follows. I think there were some important technical changes to Council Bill 11 9933 that Lisa was able to catch regarding the statutory authority of the Director of this office to maintain emergency management standards in the city of Seattle . So thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Herbold, for those remarks and for your sponsorship of that item. Are there any additional comments? Hearing none. Will the court please call the roll on the passage of the bill?
Speaker 0: Morales. S Macheda?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 0: Petersen.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 0: So what?
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 0: Strauss.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 0: Herbold. Yes. Suarez. Yes. Lewis.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 0: President Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 0: Nine in favor and unopposed.
Speaker 1: Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please affix my signature to the legislation. Item 31. Are there any comments on Council Bill 119949. Agenda item 31. Councilmember Herbold, you are recognized and then we will hear from Councilmember Peterson. Thank you. I really want to again thank my colleagues on the council for hearing the call of what I see as a work force vision from the 100 or so parking enforcement officers that were an important driving force for this new community safety and communication center. Included in the Community Safety and Communication Center will not only be 911 dispatch as proposed by the mayor, but also the parking enforcement officers. The goal of having those functions transferred by June 1st, 2021, the Pillow's parking enforcement officers would be transferred by June 1st, 2021. And the I'm sorry, the 901 dispatch will be transferred 30 days after the executive receives the necessary what's called a originating agency identifier. And these are access permissions for the 901 communication center or June 1st, 2021, whichever is first. The bill also requests that the executive report by the end of the first quarter on the cost effectiveness and feasibility of providing parking enforcement officers, access to the Seattle departments, car charging stations and additional staff and budget that would be required to support the potential expansion of the parking enforcement officers responsibilities as follows Managing traffic at lighted intersections, red light camera and school zone enforcement response to Non-Injury collisions, response to and reporting on minor thefts and car break ins as well as certain traffic control functions like flagging at at construction sites or at locations associated with major events. Lastly, the director of the Community Safety and Communications Center would be nominated by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council and subject to reappointment and reconfirmation every four years. Obviously, there's still a lot of work between now and June of 2021 to make these transfers happen, and some of that work is being done. I know within the city's interdepartmental team, of which council has been invited to participate. And and I'm really again, I'm excited and inspired by by the vision that was brought to us by a majority bipoc portion of the city of Seattle's work force and is really centered on their desire to hear the call of their community, to identify what functions that are completed by city employees, that that could be completed by city employees that are not sworn officers. So thank you, everybody, for your work on this. Thank you. Councilmember Herbold, Councilmember Peterson, please.
Speaker 3: Thank you, council president. And thank you, Councilmember Herbold, for your leadership on this as our public safety chair. I. So this this legislation does a lot, and I want to be supportive of it. I did just want to state for the record that I also supported the mayor's proposal and which was supported by the state director to have the parking enforcement officers go into the Seattle Department of Transportation. I felt that that's also a valid place for them to be housed. Ultimately, we want to we want to save money and enable these, you know, those who aren't armed to do this type of work and to to become more involved and in managing traffic situations . So I support the overall concept of this shift and will end up supporting this this bill and supporting our public safety chair on this. So thank you.
Speaker 1: You get Councilmember Peterson. Councilmember Mosquito.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Madam President. Colleagues. I'm happy that this was included in the final package, though I do appreciate that Councilmember Herbold read most of the criteria that came along with the move. I will be very interested in following up as we received the reports in advance of that June date to make sure that the questions that we've asked specifically around the infrastructure efficiencies and the efficiencies and cost effectiveness of having various people do flagging, for example, that Councilmember Herbold read our reports that come back to the council.
Speaker 0: And.
Speaker 6: Look forward to working with all of you and the members who are affected by this potential change so that we can have additional collaboration with the frontline workers and the community at large as we think about this, the shift.
Speaker 1: Thank you, customer mosquito. Are there any other comments on council? Bill 119949. Agenda item 31. Harry. No additional comments will occur. Please call the role on the passage of the bill Morales.
Speaker 0: Councilmember Morales.
Speaker 5: Hello? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: You can now.
Speaker 5: Riff. Yes.
Speaker 0: Macheda. Yes. Petersen.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 0: Squads.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 0: Strauss.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 0: Herbold. Yes. Suarez. Yes. Lewis.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 0: Council President Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 0: 9 a.m. favorite unopposed.
Speaker 1: Bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affect my signature to the legislation? Okay. Next grouping items 32 through 34 with a quick please read the short titles of items 32 through 34 into the record.
AN ORDINANCE relating to the organization of City government; creating an Office of Emergency Management; repealing Sections 10.02.045 and 10.020.047 of the Seattle Municipal Code; adding Sections 3.15.040 and 3.15.042 to the Seattle Municipal Code; amending Ordinance 118617; and adopting revised Emergency Management Fund - General Trust Fund Policies.