Action Summary of the Seattle City Council
Full Council Meeting
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
(Councilmember Licata was excused)
PUBLIC SAFETY, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE:
1. Council Bill 117993 (PDF Version) PASSED (8-0)
Relating to police department command staff hiring, amending Section 4.08.060 of the Seattle Municipal Code to allow for the appointment of individuals from outside the department for sworn positions above the rank of captain.
2. Clerk File 313367 (PDF Version) CONFIRMED (8-0)
Appointment of Jeffrey G. Rice as member, Seattle Fire Code Advisory Board, for a term of confirmation to November 13, 2016.
3. Clerk File 313386 (PDF Version) CONFIRMED (8-0)
Reappointment of Marsha Teresa Mavunkel as member, Seattle Human Rights Commission, for a term of confirmation to July 22, 2015.
4. Clerk File 313387 (PDF Version) CONFIRMED (8-0)
Reappointment of Martin Penner as member, Seattle Human Rights Commission, for a term of confirmation to July 22, 2015.
5. Clerk File 313413 (PDF Version) CONFIRMED (8-0)
Reappointment of Benjamin Bernard Krokower as member, Citizens’ Telecommunication and Technology Advisory Board, f or a term ending January 1, 2016.
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE:
6. Council Bill 117899 (PDF Version) PASSED (8-0)
Vacating a portion of an alley in Block 9, Plat of Holly Park Phase III, on the petition of the Seattle Housing Authority, a Washington public body, corporate and politic (C.F. 306415).
7. Council Bill 118013 (PDF Version) PASSED (8-0)
Accepting for general street purposes 15 deeds conveyed to the City of Seattle by the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (“Sound Transit”) in connection with the Central Link Light Rail Transit Project as agreed to in a Property Acquisition and Transfer Procedures Agreement between the City of Seattle and Sound Transit, dated August 12, 2003 (“Property Transfer Agreement”); laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing portions of the rights-of-way located on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South between South Myrtle Street and South Kenyon Street; placing the real property conveyed by the deeds under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
8. Council Bill 118014 (PDF Version) PASSED (8-0)
Accepting for general street purposes 15 deeds conveyed to the City of Seattle by the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (“Sound Transit”) in connection with the Central Link Light Rail Transit Project as agreed to in a Property Acquisition and Transfer Procedures Agreement between the City of Seattle and Sound Transit, dated August 12, 2003 (“Property Transfer Agreement”); laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing portions of the rights-of-way located on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South between South McClellan Street and South Byron Street, and between Myrtle Street and South Othello Street, and located on Rainier Avenue South between South Myrtle Street and South Othello Street; placing the real property conveyed by the deeds under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation; and ratifying and con firming certain prior acts.
9. Council Bill 118015 (PDF Version) PASSED (8-0)
Accepting for general street purposes 22 deeds conveyed to the City of Seattle by the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (“Sound Transit”) in connection with the Central Link Light Rail Transit Project as agreed to in a Property Acquisition and Transfer Procedures Agreement between the City of Seattle and Sound Transit, dated August 12, 2003 (“Property Transfer Agreement”); laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing portions of the rights-of-way located on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South between South Kenyon Street and South Director Street; accepting a deed conveying to the City of Seattle the rights of Sound Transit under a certain Retaining Wall Easement; placing the real property conveyed by the deeds under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation; and ratifying and confirming certain prior act s.
10. Council Bill 118016 (PDF Version) PASSED (8-0)
Accepting for general street purposes 21 deeds conveyed to the City of Seattle by the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (“Sound Transit”) in connection with the Central Link Light Rail Transit Project as agreed to in a Property Acquisition and Transfer Procedures Agreement between the City of Seattle and Sound Transit, dated August 12, 2003 (“Property Transfer Agreement”); laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing portions of the rights-of-way located on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South between South Chicago Street and South Thistle Street; placing the real property conveyed by the deeds under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
11. Council Bill 118017 (PDF Version) PASSED (8-0)
Accepting for general street purposes 24 deeds and one correction deed, conveyed to the City of Seattle by the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (“Sound Transit”) in connection with the Central Link Light Rail Transit Project as agreed to in a Property Acquisition and Transfer Procedures Agreement between the City of Seattle and Sound Transit, dated August 12, 2003 (“Property Transfer Agreement”); laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing portions of the rights- of-way located on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South between South Alaska Street and South Angeline Street, and between South Trenton Street and the Seattle City Limits; placing the real property conveyed by the deeds under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
12. Council Bill 118018 (PDF Version) PASSED (8-0)
Relating to Sound Transit’s Central Link Light Rail Project; accepting 19 correction deeds conveyed to the City of Seattle by the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (“Sound Transit”); and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
13. Clerk File 313373 (PDF Version) CONFIRMED (8-0)
Reappointment of Katherine Casseday as member, Seattle Freight Advisory Board, for a term of confirmation to December 31, 2015.