Speaker 0: The bill passed. Sure was. Sign it. Please read the 12th agenda item.
Speaker 4: Agenda item 12, resolution 318 and 82. Expressing concerns for the Northwest testing and training proposal of the United States Department of the Navy for Puget Sound, coastal waters from Northern California through Washington State and for Alaska. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted.
Speaker 0: Customer Brian.
Speaker 2: Thank you. So the Navy is considering additional tests of their sonar and explosive devices in the waters off Puget Sound and up and down the coast. As the bill describes as part of that proposal, they've been required to do a supplemental environmental impact statement. I believe no is actually conducted. And through that, what we've seen is that the work they're proposing to do would have significant impacts on marine mammals who use various methods for navigating and communicating, including the orca population in Puget Sound. We know that the massive amounts of sonar that can potentially be put in water or explosives have had sometimes debilitating and occasionally life threatening impacts on these marine mammals. And this resolution asks the Navy to reconsider their proposal in light of the science and come back with some ideas of how they can conduct their tests in a way that sensitive to the population, particularly highlighting the plight of the orcas in Puget Sound. The reality is that those three pods that make their home in Puget Sound waters and the Greater Salish Sea are on the brink of extinction, and the death of just one or two of them could jeopardize their ability to sustain those populations . Also, we will be sharing this with our federal delegation as my colleagues and others, to highlight this for our federal delegation so that they can have a similar conversation with the Navy to try to adjust their proposal.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember O'Brien. Any other questions or comments on the resolution? Or the orchestra? No. No closing words. Okay. Thank you, customer Brian, for bringing this to everyone's attention. Those in favor of adopting the resolution. Please vote i. I those opposed vote no. The motion carries the resolutions adopted and the chair will sign it. Is there any further business to come before the council? Councilman Gonzalez.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Council President, I need to move to be excused on August 12th, 2018. That's next Monday. As I mentioned during council briefing this morning, I will be leaving on Friday evening to join a multidisciplinary cohort in Copenhagen, Denmark, for an immersion program around sustainability and planning public spaces and will need to be excused. But I do plan, as I mentioned during council briefing, to make accommodations, to have the rules suspended so that I can call in for the the revote on the sweetened beverage tax ordinance.
Speaker 0: Has been moved and second, that Councilwoman Gonzalez be excused on August 12th, but she will participate on at least one agenda item around midnight. As I understand it.
Speaker 4: It'll be midnight. It'll be midnight my time.
Speaker 0: Okay. Any other questions or comments on that before we vote? All those in favor say I. I opposed. The ayes have it. Councilman Gosar, excuse for any other business come for the council. If not, we stand adjourned. And I want to have a great rest of the day.
A RESOLUTION expressing concern with the Northwest testing and training proposal of the United States Department of the Navy for Puget Sound, coastal waters from northern California through Washington State, and for Alaska.