Action Summary of the Seattle City Council
Full Council Meeting
Monday, November 25, 2013
No Absences.
FULL COUNCIL:
1. Resolution 31488 (PDF Version) ADOPTED AS AMENDED (9-0)
Conveying the City of Seattle’s comments on the scope of the supplemental environmental impact statement for the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority’s update to its Long-Range Plan.
SPECIAL BUDGET COMMITTEE:
2. Council Bill 117965 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Authorizing, in 2013, acceptance of funding from non-City sources; authorizing the heads of the Executive Department, Seattle Police Department, Seattle Fire Department, Department of Planning and Development, the Human Services Department, and the Department of Transportation to accept specified grants and private funding and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
3. Council Bill 117966 PASSED (9-0)
Related to the 2013 Budget; amending Ordinance 124058, which adopted the 2013 Budget, including the 2013-2018 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2013- 2018 CIP; creating positions, including exempt positions; abrogating positions; making cash transfers between various City funds; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
4. Clerk File 313293 FILED (9-0)
2014 Proposed Budget.
5. Clerk File 313294 FILED (9-0)
2014-2019 Proposed Capital Improvement Program.
6. Council Bill 117938 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the electric system of The City of Seattle; authorizing the issuance and sale of municipal light and power revenue bonds for the purposes of providing funds for certain additions and betterments to and extensions of the existing municipal light and power plant and system of the City, paying the costs of issuance of those bonds and providing for the reserve fund requirement; providing for the terms, conditions, covenants and manner of sale of those bonds; describing the lien of those bonds; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
7. Council Bill 117937 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the electric system of The City of Seattle; amending Ordinance 121941, as amended by Ordinance 122838, to conform Ordinance 121941 to reflect changes recently made by the City to update its standard form of bond ordinances ; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
8. Council Bill 117942 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the municipal water system of The City of Seattle; adopting a system or plan of additions or betterments to and extensions of the existing municipal water system; authorizing the issuance and sale of water system revenue bonds, in one or more series, for the purposes of paying part of the cost of carrying out that system or plan, providing for the reserve requirement and paying the costs of issuance of the bonds; providing for certain terms, conditions, covenants and the manner of sale of the bonds; describing the lien of the bonds; creating certain accounts of the City relating to the bonds; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
9. Council Bill 117941 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the water system of The City of Seattle; amending Ordinance 121939 to conform Ordinance 121939 to reflect changes recently made by the City to update its standard form of bond ordinance; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
10. Council Bill 117939 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the drainage and wastewater system of The City of Seattle; adopting a system or plan of additions and betterments to and extensions of the existing drainage and wastewater system; authorizing the issuance and sale of drain age and wastewater revenue bonds, in one or more series, for the purposes of paying part of the cost of carrying out that system or plan, providing for the reserve requirement, and paying the costs of issuance of the bonds; providing for certain terms, conditions, covenants and the manner of sale of the bonds; describing the lien of the bonds; creating certain accounts o f the City relating to the bonds; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
11. Council Bill 117940 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the drainage and wastewater system of The City of Seattle; amending Ordinance 121938, as amended by Ordinance 122209 and Ordinance 122637, to conform Ordinance 121938 to reflect changes recently made by the City to update its standard form of bond ordinance; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
12. Council Bill 117944 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to contracting indebtedness; authorizing and providing for the issuance and sale of limited tax general obligation bonds to pay all or part of the costs of various elements of the City’s capital improvement program and other City purposes approved by ordinance, to refinance certain outstanding bonds of the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority and the Seattle Chinatown-International District Preservation and Development Authority, to carry out certain improvements to Benaroya Hall, and to pay the costs of issuance of the bonds; providing for certain terms, conditions and covenants and the manner of sale of the bonds; creating a bond fund; amending Ordinance 122553, Ordinance 123156, Ordinance 123480, Ordinance 123751 and Ordinance 124053; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
13. Council Bill 117946 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to contracting indebtedness; amending Ordinance 121651, as amended by Ordinance 122286, to conform Ordinance 121651 to reflect changes recently made by the City to update its standard form of general obligation bond ordinance s; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
14. Council Bill 117945 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the Building and Construction Codes, Subtitle VI Fire Code; amending Seattle Municipal Code Section 22 .602.090 to revise Seattle Fire Department confidence test documentation filing fees.
15. Council Bill 117947 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the Department of Parks and Recreation; establishing the 2014 fee schedule for the use of park properties and other park and recreation facilities and services; superseding previous park and recreation fee schedules; and a mending Section 18.28.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
16. Council Bill 117948 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the financing of the Waterfront Improvement Program; amending Ordinance 123761 to increase the amount of an interfund loan to be used for this capital program.
17. Council Bill 117949 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Related to the school camera revenue financial policies; amending Section 5.81.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code to use forecasted revenues in the proposed budget year for planning purposes rather than prior year’s revenues.
18. Council Bill 117950 (PDF Version) PASSED (6-0) (disqualified: Councilmember Harrell, O’Brien, and Rasmussen)
Related to fees and charges for permits and activities of the Department of Planning and Development; amending Seattle Municipal Code Chapter 22.900A, Administration and Enforcement; and adding a new Chapter 22.900H, Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance Program Fees.
19. Council Bill 117953 (PDF Version) PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the Pacific Place Garage; authorizing the loan of funds from the City’s Consolidated (Residual) Cash Pool, or its participating funds, to the Downtown Parking Garage Fund; superseding Ordinance 124123; and providing for re payment.
20. Clerk File 313295 FILED (9-0)
City Council Changes to the 2014 Proposed Budget and the 2014-2019 Proposed Capital Improvement Program.
21. Council Bill 117955 PASSED (9-0)
Adopting a budget, including a capital improvement program and position modifications, for The City of Seattle for 2014; creating positions exempt from civil service; all by a two-thirds vote of the City Council.
22. Council Bill 117958 PASSED (9-0)
Relating to the levy of property taxes; fixing the rates and/or amounts of taxes to be levied, and levying the same upon all taxable property, both real and personal, in The City of Seattle, to finance the departments and activities of City government and to provide for the general obligation bond interest and redemption requirements for the year beginning on the first day of January 2014; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
23. Council Bill 117957 PASSED (9-0)
Authorizing the levy of regular property taxes by The City of Seattle for collection in 2014, representing a decrease below the regular property taxes levied for collection in 2013; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.