Ahead of this year’s budget deliberations, the Seattle City Council is releasing a new tool, the Seattle Budget Dashboard, to make it easier to understand this year’s budget adjustments. It’s the newest of three tools we are updating this year to make the budget process more accessible and transparent. The Budget Process: An Adjustment Year...
The Seattle City Council passed legislation today that will help increase the number of electric vehicle charging stations in Seattle. The legislation was sponsored by Councilmember Sara Nelson and passed unanimously. While there are already public charging ports in Seattle, many more are needed to keep up with demand as the use of EVs skyrockets....
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and Councilmember Dan Strauss signed a proclamation today declaring August 14, 2023 to be Ballard FC Day. Members of the team stopped by Seattle City Hall today to celebrate winning the USL League 2 National Champions in just their second season. Ballard FC beat the Lionsbridge Football Club 2-1 with a...
The Seattle City Council voted to approve a grant to help SIFF re-open the historic Cinerama theater and provide public benefit programming there. Councilmember Andrew J. Lewis secured the funding as part of the Midyear Supplemental Budget. The $950,000 in funding will help SIFF re-open the Cinerama later this year. King County roughly matched the...
Note: This article is an adaption of a Seattle City Council Central Staff Memo. The full memo is available on Legistar. The Seattle City Council, responding to an ongoing staffing crisis, passed a resolution today expressing the Council’s commitment to wage equity for nonprofit human services worker. The resolution was sponsored by Councilmember Lisa Herbold....
The Seattle City Council unanimously approved an ordinance today putting the 2023 Housing Levy renewal on the ballot this November. The legislation, sponsored by Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda, affirms Mayor Bruce Harrell’s proposal made public earlier this year. The mayor signed the bill immediately following the Council meeting. If approved by voters, the seven-year levy would...
Seattle City Councilmember Andrew J. Lewis got a special inside look at the Cinerama for the first time since the SIFF bought the property, three years after it shut down operations. In this first-of-its-kind video version of his podcast All Policy is Local, Councilmember Lewis talks with SIFF Executive Director Tom Mara about the acquisition...
The Seattle City Council passed a resolution today establishing the city’s support for a plan to demolish and rebuild Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center through a private-public partnership. The City of Seattle and Seattle Public Schools (SPS), which owns the stadium, are working together on the project. The legislation was sponsored by Council President Debora Juarez....
The new Seattle Social Housing Developer Board, which will oversee the work to bringing affordable social housing to Seattle, will meet for the first time Tuesday, May 23. This comes after Initiative 135 was approved by voters in February creating the Seattle Social Housing Developer. The 13-member board was appointed last month. Since this is...
The Seattle City Council unanimously passed legislation (6-0) today to protect firefighters and EMTs when they are responding to emergencies. The legislation closes a loophole that excluded them from the same protections given to many other city employees, including police officers. The legislation was sponsored by Councilmember Lisa Herbold (District 1 – West Seattle) and...