Speaker 0: Thank you so much. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please fix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Well, the clerk please read item three into the record.
Speaker 1: Agenda item three Council Bill 120094 An ordinance related to the City's Response to the COVID 19 crisis. Amending Ordinance 126237, which adopted the 2021 budget, changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels and from various funds in the budget, imposing provisos and ratifying, confirming certain prior acts all by a three quarter vote of the City Council . The committee recommends Bill pass as amended.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Madam Chair. House Members. You are the Chair of this committee, so I'm going to hand it back over to you to provide the committee report.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. And I will be brief here and just noting that this is an important carry through so that we can adopt and implement the Seattle rescue plan specifically for the cash assistance, which is critical here. And I want to just say thanks if I did it quite well. So I think I am inadvertently left off and my thank you to my staff in the last go around who has been clerking all of these meetings for the majority of the last two months. And thank you very much to all of you for your consideration of this legislation. This is the trailer bill to the bill we just voted on.
Speaker 0: Thank you so much, Governor Mosqueda. I also wanted to just briefly address the cash assistance fund bill. So this obviously is designed to promote the good work that has been done by the city and the Office of Immigrant Refugee Affairs in particular, which reports to my committee to make this cash assistance possible. We needed to rely on some of the good work and lessons that we learned from direct cash assistance programs that we have run through the Office of Immigrant Refugee Affairs. This $25 million fund is being modeled after an incredibly successful city of Seattle and O'Hara led program to quickly deploy cash assistance awards of 1000 to $3000 to immigrant families who were unable to access federal support despite the disproportionate impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on immigrant and refugee families. They did this by working with community to ensure that there was strong language, access and prioritizing those people that are the hardest to reach. OIRA is taken on the charge of administering this $25 million fund and to expand the eligibility criteria to serve not only immigrants and refugees, but also bipoc families, artists and other folks who have been most impacted by the pandemic. I am confident, though, that OIRA, although small, is very mighty and that they will have the ability and expertize to scale up and build on their success to help our constituents, and that they will center equity while lowering access barriers to help those who have been most impacted. I'm excited by the opportunity to provide direct financial assistance to the individuals and families who have the greatest need for support, allowing them to share in the strong recovery that we hope the city and the region is about to experience. So huge thanks to OIRA and their contracted partner organizations in making sure we get these funds to the most deserving folks. So that being said, are there any additional comments on the bill? All right. Hearing that, will the court please call the roll on the passage of the bill?
Speaker 1: Moralez. Yes.
Speaker 3: Macheda and.
Speaker 0: Petersen.
Speaker 4: I.
Speaker 1: Want.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: Strauss What's.
Speaker 1: Turbo s? Suarez, I. Luis.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: And Council President Gonzalez, I am in favor and unopposed.
Speaker 0: The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Well the clerk please read item four into the record.
AN ORDINANCE related to the City’s response to the COVID-19 crisis; amending Ordinance 126237, which adopted the 2021 Budget; changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; imposing provisos; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts, all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.