Speaker 5: The report of the Full Council Agenda Item one Council Bill 118682 relating to city employment, authorizing the execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the City of Seattle and the Washington State Council of County and City Employees, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Local 21 C and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts introduced on May 16th, 2016.
Speaker 0: Councilmember Burgess.
Speaker 2: Thank you, colleagues. As you know, collective bargaining agreements between the city and our city employees are negotiated following parameters set by the city's Labor Relations Policy Committee. And then once negotiated, those contracts, come directly to the council for approval. That's what this legislation does. This is a contract that affects approximately 150 city employees who are in AFL-CIO Local 21. See, the agreement provides wage increases and benefits consistent with the parameters established by the Council's Labor Relations Committee. It also allows for an implementation of a new tier of our city employees retirement system for those hired January 1st, 2017 and after.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much. Are there any further comments? I'll be with you in just one moment here. Any further comments on counts, Bill? 118682 not I move to pass council bill 11868 to their second. And secondly, are there any further comments? Will the clerk please call the roll?
Speaker 1: JOHNSON Whereas I.
Speaker 3: O'BRIEN All right.
Speaker 1: BEGALA Burgess. Gonzalez, I. HERBOLD hi. President Harrell.
Speaker 0: Hi.
Speaker 1: Eight in favor. Nine opposed.
Speaker 0: The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Porch Before you read. Before you, ma'am. If you don't stop, if you. I'm going to have no choice. Ma'am, if you if you stop, I may give you an opportunity to speak, but if you don't, I'm going to have all of you removed. And I don't think you want that. So you're going to have to calm her down, really. And we want to do it. So I'm going to ask the security to remove all of you. If she does not stop security, we please remove this woman. If she. So if you show some. No, I will not. If she is, she will be quiet and ask for permission. Perhaps we could work something out. But I'm not going to allow people just to come here and speak over our agenda. So the question I have is I'm going to ask to suspend the rules first if I don't have any objection. Okay. May I see a spokesperson first for your organization? Will someone like to engage in some dialog.
Speaker 4: Please? You know, like you wanted to show her some of the jungle here. Oh, that's so nice.
Speaker 0: Okay. Thank you. So. Just a minute, sir. So we did start public comment and we ended that. I'm assuming that you obviously missed the public comment section, but you would like to lend some public comment to the council that a safe assumption that you'd like to. Okay. Well, I will, unless I have some objection. These good folks have come down here to share an opinion with you. This is somewhat unorthodox because we have a set agenda, but we are here to serve. And so if there's no objection, I'd like to extend 3 minutes to these folks since they're an organization to hear from them. Is there any objection from my colleagues in doing that? So we will suspend the rules temporarily. We'll come back to the education report and would ask that one of you speak for 3 minutes and you are all ours. Please just identify yourself and your organization and please start.
Speaker 3: As Andrew Collins. I am a representative of the jungle. I used to live there. We have a list of things we'd like to discuss here. You know, in terms of the list of demands retrospectively, anyway, to the city council, to Seattle City Council, mayor of mayor of Seattle, Eddie Murray. We, the thousand unhoused people of Seattle, demand that the city one stop all the sweeps of the homeless on the streets of Seattle and encampments citywide, especially the jungle, and returned all seized property back to their owners or comprehend or compensate for that loss. To enact a housing first program for all houseless in the city free to stop spending taxpayer money on privatizing homeless issues such as for profit sweeps, contractors and nonprofit tiers for provide 24 hour living areas and the right to rest in unused buildings, public or private in the Seattle area.
Speaker 0: And five spend the $1 million for the for the jungle.
Speaker 3: Fence on revitalizing any neglected public or private property building, such as the unused fire stations, vacant buildings, or the Seattle Times building for those without housing.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much for your comments for your time. Thank you for your comments. We're going to resume resume origin and we appreciate your words. Did anyone want to address anything, too, for these good folks as we before we continue deliberating? If not, thank you very much for your words and appreciate your courtesy in letting us. Yes, sir. Yes, you may go.
Speaker 4: Has been having meetings and they have been organizing and they have a lot of really good ideas about an alternative plan for the jungle. They want the same things the city wants. They want safety, too. We respectfully ask the city council to create a space where people from the jungle could come and be part of the solution . Good.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Could you please leave your name, number and contact information for me?
Speaker 0: Okay. Okay. So. Created this problem. Okay, so I can't get in the habit of just letting people from. I appreciate your work, so thank you very much. You're welcome to have a seat.
Speaker 4: This is not the.
Speaker 0: Answer and neither is speaking off agenda. Neither speaking off agenda. So thank you very much. You may have a seat. We had a resume agenda. The rules are back in place. And please read the report of the Education, Equity and Governance Committee.
AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the execution of a collective bargaining agreement between The City of Seattle and the Washington State Council of County and City Employees AFSCME, AFL-CIO Local 21C; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.