Speaker 3: Agenda item 34 Resolution 31903 relating to the procurement and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, affirming city sales commitment to avoid procuring goods and services from corporations that purchase leases or edible oil fields in the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plan. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted.
Speaker 1: See? Now, this is where they're glad I move. We move 33 to the beginning.
Speaker 6: See, we are.
Speaker 1: But clearly.
Speaker 2: O'BRIEN There are folks that care immensely about the Arctic and they are still here in our audience. Thank you all. The reality is, if you're an individual fighting to save the Arctic, you have to be in it for the long haul, whether that's a three plus our city. Council meeting are decades of protection work. And unfortunately, despite broad public support across our country, across the political spectrum to protect the North Alaska slope, it continues to be under threat by the have the this administration and the folks that held Congress a year and a half ago when they passed the new budget bill. And so there I can assure you, colleagues, that people around the country and around the world are employing every strategy they can to ensure that that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be protected permanently and offline, not allowed for oil exploration, not just for the sake of this beautiful piece of land and the animals that live up there. But for the people, the Gwich'in, who live on the North Slope and for for probably millennia have depended on subsistence hunting and a livelihood that they still live today. But that livelihood will be in jeopardy if these transactions, potential transactions go forward with this resolution. Does, in addition to stating our opposition to it specifically says that the city shall avoid purchasing goods or services from corporations that purchase leases or develop oil fields in the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge. Should the United States Department of Interior hold a sale of oil and gas leases in the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge ? The attempt here is to make it clear to anyone attempting to do business up there. We will be certainly trying to figure out how to prevent those leases from going forward. But we want to make sure that nobody shows up to buy the land because it is understood that the social license to drill in the Arctic has now been removed by the American people. And I will say that it appears that all major oil companies have started to express a lack of interest in doing business up there. Of course, there are always minor oil companies, the names of which probably none of us have heard of, who may also be interested in doing it. But we want to make sure that they know that if they proceed with that, their product is not welcome in our community. Seattle is taking this action. The hope would be that other jurisdictions up and down the West Coast will join in to send a really clear message to potential people potentially interested in this that it's a really bad idea.
Speaker 1: Very good. We'll stay. Thank you, Councilman O'Brien. Any other questions or comments from our colleagues? Thank you for sticking around. Okay. This is a resolution. So those in favor of adopting the resolution, please vote i, i. Those oppose vote no. The most resolution is adopt and share with silent your troopers. Please read agenda item number 35.
Speaker 3: Agenda item 35 Resolution 318 89. Granting conceptual approval to construct maintain operated below grade private thermal energy exchange system. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted.
A RESOLUTION relating to procurement and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; affirming The City of Seattle’s commitment to avoid procuring goods and services from corporations that purchase leases or develop oil fields in the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain.