Seattle City Council Introduction and Referral Calendar
April 15, 2013
BY BURGESS
1. C.B. 117755
AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof.
Committee referral: Full Council
BY O’BRIEN
2. C.B. 117756
AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; amending Seattle Municipal Code Chapter 21.49.081 to include BPA transmission costs in the automatic BPA cost adjustment rate pass-through.
Committee referral: Energy and Environment
BY GODDEN
3. C.B. 117757
AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to execute a Second Amended and Restated Declining Block Water Supply Agreement between the City of Seattle and Cascade Water Alliance.
Committee referral: Libraries, Utilities, and Center
BY BAGSHAW
4. C.B. 117758
AN ORDINANCE relating to the Bell Street Park Boulevard Development Project and the 2008 Parks and Green Space Levy; reallocating funding from the Neighborhood Park Acquisition Subcategory to the Neighborhood Parks and Playgrounds Development Subcategory of the 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy; increasing appropriations to the Department of Parks and Recreation in the 2013 Adopted Budget; and amending the 2013-2018 Adopted Capital Improvement Program; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a three-fourths vote of the City Council.
Committee referral: Parks and Neighborhoods
BY BURGESS
5. C.B. 117759
AN ORDINANCE relating to the 2013 Budget; carrying forward certain unexpended appropriations and funds for non- capital purposes from the 2012 budget of various departments; ratifying and confirming certain prior acts, all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
Committee referral: Government Performance and Finance
BY BURGESS
6. C.B. 117760
AN ORDINANCE amending the 2012 Adopted Budget, including the 2012-2017 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and from various funds in the Budget; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2012-2017 CIP; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
Committee referral: Government Performance and Finance
BY BAGSHAW
7. C.B. 117761
AN ORDINANCE related to Structured Teen Programming; lifting a budget proviso imposed on the Department of Parks and Recreation’s Recreation Facilities and Programs Budget Control Level in 2013 for structured teen programming and amending Ordinance 124058, which adopted the 2013 budget.
Committee referral: Parks and Neighborhoods
BY O’BRIEN
8. C.B. 117762
AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; amending Seattle Municipal Code Chapter 21.49.040 to simplify the eligibility verification process for residential rate assistance.
Committee referral: Energy and Environment
BY HARRELL
9. C.B. 117763
AN ORDINANCE relating to youth employment and mentoring programs; changing appropriations to the Department of Neighborhoods, Department of Parks and Recreation and Human Services Department; and removing a proviso in Ordinance 124058.
Committee referral: Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Technology
BY CONLIN, O’BRIEN
10. Res. 31443
A RESOLUTION stating the City of Seattle’s opposition to any action by the Food and Drug Administration to approve genetically engineered salmon.
Committee referral: Full Council
BY BURGESS
11. Res. 31444
A RESOLUTION calling for a thorough review and update of Seattle’s incentive zoning and other affordable housing programs and policies focused on creating affordable Workforce Housing by establishing an Expert Advisory Team that will advise and make recommendations to the City Council.
Committee referral: South Lake Union
BY LICATA; CO-SPONSOR CONLIN
12. Res. 31400
A RESOLUTION declaring the City of Seattle will promote and encourage the development of buildings that achieve the highest level of environmental sustainability by creating a Sustainable Building Advisory Board to guide the City Council and the Department of Planning and Development in determining the qualification standards and design that projects must meet that would participate in the City’s Living Building and Seattle Deep Green Pilot Programs, or any programs that replace them. The City Council also directs the Department of Planning and Development to make improvements to the City’s Living Building and Seattle Deep Green Pilot Programs, and requests the Executive submit legislation implementing improvements to or replacing the existing programs.
Committee referral: Planning, Land Use, and Sustainability (Originally referred to Full Council on 7/30/12.)
BY HARRELL
13. C.F. 312964
Appointment of Roslyn Kagy as member, Seattle Women’s Commission, for a term of confirmation to July 1, 2014.
Committee referral: Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Technology