The Regional Food Policy Council (RFPC) is housed at the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), the principal regional planning entity covering King, Snohomish, Pierce, and Kitsap Counties. I led the effort to create the RFPC, and now serve as its Chair. The RFPC first met in September 2010, and we have now completed our second [...]
Press Releases
The latest press releases from Seattle City Councilmembers.
Seattle City Council requests City Attorney present SPD monitor candidate to court
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The Seattle City Council passed Resolution 31414 this afternoon, continuing the City’s progress in meeting the terms of the consent decree agreed to in August with the United States Department of Justice. The resolution (adopted 8-1) provides guidance to City Attorney Pete Holmes in filing the City’s recommendation for a consent decree monitor, a condition required to be met by Fri., Oct. 26.
Seattle City Council passes ordinance to create Community Police Commission
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Through Council’s independent authority to establish the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreement’s Community Police Commission (CPC) by ordinance, the Seattle City Council voted today (9-0) to formally create the Commission (Council Bill 117608).
Share your budget priorities with the Seattle City Council
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The Seattle City Council invites members of the community to participate in its final public hearing on the 2013-2014 City budget.
A Light Rail Community at the Capitol Hill Station
Linking transportation choices and land use decisions is the best way to make our communities work and our investments in transportation infrastructure pay off. And it is how we make growth management effective and protect our farms, forests, and wilderness areas. The Capitol Hill light rail station offers an extraordinary opportunity to realize that vision, [...]
Joint statement by City Councilmembers Sally J. Clark, Bruce Harrell, Tim Burgess and Nick Licata with City Attorney Pete Holmes on selection process of the Seattle Police Department Monitor
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City Attorney Pete Holmes, City Council President Sally J. Clark, and Councilmembers Bruce Harrell, Nick Licata and Tim Burgess issued the following statement on the selection process of the Seattle Police Department Monitor:...
Belltown Community Center Finally
On a cheerful, sunny Friday evening this September, the Belltown Community Center opened its doors at 415 Bell Street. It was great to see several hundred residents touring the rooms, enjoying music in the alley behind the Center and food donated by Belltown restaurants, and finally feeling the love of City government for one [...]
Councilmember O’Brien responds to yellow pages opt-out ruling
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Earlier today a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel of three justices ruled that Seattle’s yellow pages opt-out system violates the free speech of yellow pages publishers. Read the ruling here. Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien, sponsor of Seattle’s opt-out ordinance, disagrees with the ruling.
Councilmembers Clark and Licata statement in support of public financing of campaigns in Seattle
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Seattle City Council President Sally J. Clark and Councilmember Nick Licata issued the following statement in support of public financing of campaigns in Seattle:
Council takes steps to strengthen trust and participation in local democracy
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Today the Seattle City Council moved to strengthen Seattle’s local democracy and increase civic trust and participation by reforming Seattle’s campaign finance laws. Council Bill 117548 (approved with a 7-2 vote) imposes two new rules for candidates running for local office by prohibiting candidates from rolling over surplus campaign funds from one campaign to the next, and by creating a fundraising window for all candidates seeking local office.
Councilmembers Burgess and McDermott to discuss arena votes
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King County Councilmember Joe McDermott and Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess, chairs of the two Council’s finance and budget committees, will be available to speak with members of the media following the City Council’s vote on the arena project.
See It, Send It… Do something
The recent launch of the See It, Send It campaign by the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau Street Scene Task Force has generated a new run of debate over Seattle’s attitudes and responses to disorder Downtown. “Disorder” takes many forms depending upon your threshold. So far the campaign has forwarded eight (as of this afternoon) [...]