Councilmember Debora Juarez (District 5, North Seattle), Chair of the Select Committee on the Library Levy, passed the library levy out of committee yesterday with her Council colleagues in a 7-0 vote. The library levy will go before the Full Council on Monday, April 22 during its regularly-scheduled meeting. “Since 1890, the Seattle Public Library...
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April 11, 2019January 6, 2023News Releases
Councilmember Juarez Statement on Sound Transit Board Nomination
Councilmember Debora Juarez (District 5, North Seattle), Chair of the Council’s Civic Assets, Public Development and Native Communities Committee, issued the following statement after King County Executive Dow Constantine nominated Juarez to serve on the Sound Transit board: “I am proud to be nominated to serve on the Sound Transit board. I plan on working...
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January 28, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Juarez, Juarez, News Releases
Councilmember Juarez and Mayor Durkan Celebrate Formation of Waterfront LID
Councilmember Debora Juarez (District 5, North Seattle), Chair of the Civic Development, Public Assets and Native Communities Committee, and the Seattle City Council approved by a 8-0 vote a package of legislation establishing the Waterfront Local Improvement District (LID). The package of legislation included an ordinance establishing the formation of the Waterfront LID, an operations...
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December 4, 2018January 6, 2023Councilmember Harrell, Councilmember Juarez, Harrell, Juarez, News Releases
Councilmember Juarez, President Harrell Celebrate Approval of NHL Expansion Team in Seattle
Councilmember Debora Juarez (District 5, North Seattle) and Council President Bruce Harrell (District 2 South Seattle), Co-Chairs of the Select Committee on Civic Arenas, issued the following statements after the NHL Board of Governors approved an expansion in Seattle, which will bring a hockey team in 2021. The team will play in the soon-to-be renovated...
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September 24, 2018January 6, 2023Councilmember Harrell, Councilmember Juarez, Harrell, Juarez, News Releases
Council Votes to Approve OVG’s Plans to Renovate Arena
ArenaCo. arrangement ‘unprecedented’, uses no public funding The Seattle City Council approved final transactions documents by a vote of 8-0 to fully renovate the Arena at Seattle Center and formally approve Oak View Group’s (OVG) plan to privately finance. Taken together, the two ordinances – CB 119344 which revises use of the admissions tax;...
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May 14, 2018January 6, 2023Bagshaw, Councilmember Bagshaw, Councilmember Harrell, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Juarez, Councilmember Mosqueda, Harrell, Johnson, Juarez, Mosqueda, News Releases
Seattle Council Passes Tax on Business to Help Address Homelessness
Following more than five months of deliberation, the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance related to taxation, intended to help address homelessness. The amended proposal establishes an annual tax of $275 per full time employee on the City’s largest businesses, those with revenues of more than $20 million (about 3% of all businesses). The measure...
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April 30, 2018January 6, 2023Councilmember Juarez, Juarez, News Releases
Councilmember Juarez Recognizes National Day of Awareness for Missing Native American Women and Girls
Councilmember Debora Juarez (District 5, North Seattle), Chair of the Council’s Civic Assets, Public Development and Native Communities Committee, and her Seattle City Council colleagues proclaim May 5 as the Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native American Women and Girls in the City of Seattle. The council recognized the National Day of Awareness...
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April 27, 2018January 6, 2023Councilmember Juarez, Juarez, News Releases
Councilmember Juarez’s Statement on Trump Administration’s Medicaid Work Rules for Native Americans
‘Morally appalling, deliberately misleading’ Councilmember Debora Juarez (District 5, North Seattle), Chair of the Council’s Civic Assets, Public Development and Native Communities Committee, issued the following statement after a story published by Politico April 22 said the Trump administration contends tribes are a “…race rather than separate governments,” and exempting them from Medicaid work...
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April 4, 2018January 6, 2023Councilmember Juarez, Gonzalez, News Releases
Councilmember González, Search Committee Nominate Seattle’s First Inspector General for Public Safety
Councilmember M. Lorena González (Position 9, Citywide), along with members of the Office of Inspector General Search Committee, announced the nomination of Lisa A. Judge to be the City of Seattle’s first Inspector General for Public Safety (IG). The Office of the Inspector General for Public Safety (OIG) was created by the full Council in...
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January 16, 2018January 6, 2023Bagshaw, Gonzalez, Harrell, Herbold, Johnson, Juarez, Mosqueda, Obrien, Sawant
City Council’s Statement on ICE Targeting Immigrant Rights Activist Maru Mora-Villalpando
New Americans Committee Chair M. Lorena Gonzalez and Vice Chair Teresa Mosqueda issued the following statement jointly with all nine members of the Seattle City Council in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s initiation of deportation proceedings against immigrant rights activist, Maru Mora-Villalpando: “We, members of the Seattle City Council, are angered that Seattle’s office of Immigration...