Speaker 2: Bill passes and the chair of Senate at least read the next agenda.
Speaker 1: Item. Agenda Item nine Council Bill 119 352 Wellington City Department Amending Ordinance 125 493 The committee recommends the bill pass.
Speaker 2: Spring BAGSHAW.
Speaker 8: Thank you very much. This is the supplemental ordinance with summary details. One moment, please. We are still back. I just want to make sure I've got the right materials here in front of me.
Speaker 2: Take your time. There's a lot of material going through, so.
Speaker 8: Thank you. I just don't want to lose all of this. Okay. Thank you. All right. So this is our $17.4 million budget transfer. So, Seattle City Light presented budget change to Art Committee for $17.4 million. This was really associated with their large capital project. And after they had gone through their project planning, they learned that there was an additional growth in our city of about 8000 more advanced meters that were added to the AMI purchase. The whole project was forecasted as being $84.1 million, which was within their budget plus last year. And then as a result, when you do the math that they needed to transfer $17.4 million in 2018, it's not a hit on our general fund. The money will be transferred from within existing resources to cover the budget changes. And we grilled them fairly hard about why did this happen. Many of us read about the failure to add sales tax in the original project. They had an explanation for why that happened. They've also put in procedures to make sure that it doesn't happen again. So with 14.7 million for the meter installation and another 2.7 for systems I.T. and licensing, that brings up the total of the 17.4 million they would like to transfer. And the committee recommends that they be that request be approved.
Speaker 2: Very good. Any comments or questions, Councilman Gonzalez?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Council President. I just wanted to thank the chair of the Finance and Neighborhoods Committee for allowing me an opportunity to be one of the individuals who was grilling the department around some of the additional allocations and appropriations that they were requesting. One of the concerns that I had expressed during committee was around what looked to be and is in fact a shifting of dollars from the city's led streetlight conversions program and also some funding that had been previously allocated to doing some right of way improvements. And my concern that the appropriation that was being suggested that we're about to take action on today would have a disproportionate impact on neighborhoods or communities who had been waiting for the LED conversion to occur in their neighborhoods. Of course, this is an important program for public safety reasons and livability concerns. I just wanted to report to my colleagues that I was able to work with the Seattle City Light Agency to get confirmation that this action that the full council is about to take will not affect the deployment of the led street light conversions and that the contractor who is performing the LED lamp conversions is in fact fully funded within this program through the end of the year. So it I'm comfortable voting in support of this bill at full council today with the reassurance from Seattle City Light that this will not have a disproportionate impact on neighborhoods who've been waiting for this infrastructure to come to their neighborhoods. And with the understanding that and the representation that from that agency that all 2018 planned replacements will be completed in 2019, even with this budget transfer.
Speaker 2: Very good. Any further comments?
Speaker 8: Just that, Councilmember Gonzales, you nailed that. Thank you very much for bringing it up and following it up.
Speaker 2: Okay. No further comments. Please call the rule on the passage of the bill.
Speaker 3: Gonzales. I. Herbold. I. Johnson. Suarez. O'Brien. So on Lakeshore High President Harrell high eight in favor and unopposed.
Speaker 2: Bill passed and chair of the Senate. Please read the next agenda item.
AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department (“City Light”); amending Ordinance 125493, which amended the 2018 Budget (Ordinance 125475), including the 2018-2023 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations within City Light’s Light Fund; revising project allocations for certain capital projects in the CIP; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.