Speaker 5: The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Right. Adoption of other resolutions. Will the clerk please read into the record items two and three.
Speaker 2: For adoption of the resolutions agenda items two and three Resolution 319 22 Related Committee Structure, Membership Meeting Times and Duties of Standing Committees of the City Seattle City Council for 2020 and 2021. A Superseding Resolution 31883 Resolution 319 23 relating to Seattle City Council Member Participation for 2020 and 2021 on King County Committees, Regional Committee, State Committees and City of Seattle Committees and Superseding Resolution 31885.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Adam Kirk. So Resolution 3192 and Resolution 319823. Establish the committee structure and membership meeting times and duties of the Standing Committees for Seattle City Council for 2020 and 2021. It also establishes each of our participation on external committees, those being regional committees, state committees and other City of Seattle committees. For the next two years, I'm going to go ahead and move to adopt item two and then look for a second. And then once that occurs, if any of my colleagues would like to give remarks about the resolution and your committee assignment, I will go ahead and call on my colleagues for that purpose. So I will move to adopt Resolution 31922. Kate's been moved in second. Is there any of my colleagues who would like to provide any remarks or comments? Councilmember grumbled.
Speaker 4: I primarily just want to thank you and your staff for the hard work that you've done in putting together this, this resolution and our committee responsibilities and also shepherding a what will be a bit of a culture change with the establishment of new quorum rules, a higher level of participation required for committees to meet. I think the new structure will have significant demands of all of us, and I'm confident under your leadership that we will rise to the occasion. And I'm really excited about about your leadership and about the new committee structure and having a chance to to work with my colleagues and work on the issues most important to them.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Councilmember Herbold, any other comments from a salon?
Speaker 1: Thank you, President Gonzalez. I intend to vote yes on this resolution, of course. And just wanted to share with members of the public that I will be chairing the Sustainability and Renter's Rights Committee, which will hold a regularly scheduled meeting on the fourth Tuesday of every month. And the issues that we will be discussing, of course, will be related to rent control, economic eviction protections, 180 days notice for rent increases, portable background checks for renters. And most urgently upcoming legislation, of course, is something that has already been introduced in the council from my office, which is the moratorium propose moratorium on winter evictions to make sure that our renting families are safe from the element in the harshest months of the year. And we will also be discussing upcoming legislation to contradict what the outgoing City Council last year already made a commitment to, which is a Green New Deal for our city. And I just wanted to make a clarification quickly. At the council briefing this morning, I announced, unfortunately, mistakenly, that my first committee will be meeting on the 20th of this month. I just remember I'm actually personally not available on that day, so we will have to revise that date and I'll make sure my staff reach out to all your offices as soon as possible. Great.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Councilman. Isn't any any other of my colleagues want to make any remarks at this point? Okay. See, none. I want to really appreciate and thank each of you for your engagement, both personally with me over many, many weeks and with my staff on talking through what would what each of your individual priorities are for the next two years. That input, I hope you see reflected in this final resolution. It's always a bit of an art, not quite a science to to pull together committee structures and committee assignments and really have appreciated and had appreciated the opportunity to engage with many of you over many weeks to take your individual input for my thinking that to be able to distill it into what I think is, is a consensus resolution before us that really does hopefully reflect not only the priorities that each of you will have in working through some of the issues that your committees will be responsible for, but also in helping us establish a different culture here at the City Council that really allows for many of the difficult policy issues to be worked through effectively and openly, in a transparent way through our new committee structure, which will now require five members and one alternate. And it will also require that at least three council members who are members of the committee attend the committee hearing in order for the committee to be able to do its business again. A bit of a culture shift for us, but it also puts some responsibility on us as chairs to ensure that we have the bodies in in the chairs to be able to inspire confidence among the public that we are taking the policy work seriously. That is our duty here at the legislative branch and that will and that we're doing that in good faith. So I really look forward to to seeing the plan executed. And again, really have appreciated your all cooperation and willingness and transparency and having conversations with me as I thought through what the committee structure could be for this year. So thank you all so much for your commitment to that. So this this resolution has been moved and has been adopted. So those in favor adopting the resolution vote i. I any opposed the motion carries and the resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Okay. We're going to move on to resolution 31923. I moved to adopt resolution 31923 case, been moved and seconded that the resolution be adopted. Are there any comments? So, folks, this is the resolution that relates to each of our participation for the 20 2021 for the 2020 and 20, 21 years on King County committees, regional committees, state committees and City of Seattle committees. Again, this is in large part related to our City Council Committee obligations and duties, but also has a flavor of interest that folks have in serving in other regional issues and regional committees that we get to have representation on. By virtue of being Seattle City Council member. So again, I appreciate your willingness to serve on these committees as part of our ongoing obligations as City Council members to represent our city specific interest in these regional and statewide efforts. So it has been moved and seconded that we adopt resolution 31923 those in favor of adopting the resolution vote i. I any opposed? None oppose. The motion carries in. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Okay. The Council will now discuss and consider one motion to suspend the council rules before we consider item four on the agenda. The Council rules require that the Council adopt by resolution a monthly rotation for the position of Council President Pro Tem in order of seniority and requesting that this Council rule be suspended to allow consideration of
A RESOLUTION relating to committee structure, membership, meeting times, and duties of the standing committees of the Seattle City Council for 2020 and 2021; and superseding Resolution 31883.