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Good afternoon.

The April 21st meeting of Seattle City Council will come to order.

It is 2 02 p.m.

I am Joy Hollingsworth, your council president.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Councilmember Foster.

Here.

Council Member Waris.

Council Member Kettle.

Here.

Council Member Lynn.

Here.

Council Member Rink.

Present.

Council Member Rivera.

Councilmember Socket.

Council President Hollingsworth.

Here.

Seven present.

Awesome colleagues at this.

Oh, excuse me.

Councilmember Strauss is excused for today.

Um and please uh call Councilmember Rivera's name again for the role.

Council Rivera present.

Thank you.

Eight present.

Awesome.

We have eight present and uh Councilmember Councilmember Strauss is excused today.

Uh colleagues, at this time we're gonna open up the hybrid public comment period.

Public comment is limited to items on today's agenda, the introduction referral calendar, or the council's work plan.

I know we have eight in person.

We might have more uh signing up in chambers.

How many do we have online, Clerk?

Four online.

Four.

So that is twelve.

So we have twelve folks.

Everyone will get two minutes to speak.

Um clerk, will you please read the uh instructions for the public comment?

The public calm period with moderated in the following manner.

Speakers will be called in the order in which they registered.

Speakers will hear a time when 10 seconds are left of their time.

Speakers' mics will be muted if they did not end their comments within the a lot of time to last the call on the next speaker.

The public calm period is now open, and we'll begin with the first speaker on the list.

Awesome.

So we have Joe followed by Paul, then we have Derek, then we have Scott, Patrick, and Kim.

Kim Wilson.

So first up, we have Joe.

Is Joe here?

Welcome, Joe.

And we have Paul followed by uh Derek.

Hi, it it's okay.

The microphone seems to be on.

Can everyone hear me?

We can hear you, Joe.

Well, it's it's a great it's an honor to address the Seattle City Council on a matter of such great importance.

Um I am asking that every single Seattle City Council member and this mayor condemn anti-Semitism.

Uh what we saw last Sunday night in reports of it uh of an anti-Semitic attack on a group of peace of citizens who wanted to hear Miss Israel 2021 to speak about being a medic during the the war in Gaza, having to treat not just Jew Israeli soul Israeli civilians and citizens, but also Gazans was an important speech we all should have heard.

In fact, I came down here today to attend what was supposed to be the University of Washington part of this, and Noah Kokfa had to cancel because of death threats.

So I am asking.

Oh, that's really pleasant.

You clapping for someone being silenced who wasn't hateful, who didn't doesn't hate you and doesn't hate this council, unlike Alex Zimmerman, who just hurled a bunch of hate down at the King County Council.

In fact, that's what I was listening to.

I am asking that every single council member condemn anti-semitism anti-Semitism, as well as Islamophobia, as well as all other forms of hate.

This is a beautiful city because it's so inclusive, and we have a great city council president.

We have a great Seattle storm, we have a great Seattle Seahawks that's gonna win a second Lombardi, and we're gonna have a great city again this year, and a great Seattle police department who deserves a lot better than the way they were treated Sunday night.

And with that, I'll yield a bounce of my time.

Thank you for your public service.

Thank you, Joe.

Next we have Paul uh followed by Derek.

Hi, Mr.

Paul.

Any mic you want, sir.

Welcome.

It's good to see.

That's okay.

I'm also old, so I want to make sure I get this right.

Uh my affiliation is one of the founders of Together for Seattle, something that's been going for about three years.

And uh we are here to really to bring people and organizations together in a variety of joint efforts.

We believe it's important for the citizens to become involved in city issues.

Uh our purpose is to promote connectivity and relationships among organizations that might offer service to Seattle area communities and uh your districts, and where we've been pulling pastors, business people, and individuals together to look at community issues.

Um as an example includes training sessions in different districts with uh led by UGM to talk about the homeless addiction situation and training people that aren't very aware of what's going on.

And uh follow-up activities have included meetings, dinners, including those on the street, tours of treatment facilities, and bringing kind of knowledge about what's happening in the city.

Uh we are also uh seeing community walks, involvement with World Cup prep and doing some city cleanups.

We also are seeing community uh are today.

I'm told that there's a gathering in West Seattle uh in one of the things that we're doing, and that Mayor Wilson's uh community advisor was there.

And we understand that tomorrow you'll be voting on a new director of uh of uh neighborhoods, and we're very interested in getting involved with her uh during uh after she's approved.

Uh we believe that uh building relationships is a key to protective dialogue, including respectful discussion with different points of view.

As you know well on the council, you deal with us every day.

It's our hope that we might explore ways that we can engage with the council in productive exchanges in the future, just getting to know one another.

Seattle, based on what he said, is truly a great city and can be a model for the country.

We can have unity without uniform.

Awesome.

Thank you, Paul.

Next we have Derek, followed by Scott and then Patrick.

Are you sure?

Okay.

Are you Derek?

Yes.

Okay, under said.

Derek, and then uh is there Scott?

Welcome, Scott.

I'm Scott Buzzard with the American Party of Labor.

City Council, your supposed service to the people has been proven weak and baseless yet again.

Your lack of commitment to the city and the working class has never been more apparent.

This weekend, SPD was utilized as a personal escort service for baby killing Zionist filth.

Liar!

SPD escorted individuals who had threatened to rape my mother and sister and kill my family simply because we are peacefully protesting for the people of Gaza and the thousands killed in an act of genocide.

SPD escorted these individuals having an illegally knelt upon a protester's neck.

Scotty officer copper sprayed him.

Scott, positive.

Positive forgotten, Scott, I'm not trying to cut the meeting and body camera turnoffs.

As officer J.

McMullen, can we cut his age number?

I want to hear your public comment.

I'm just gonna ask the crowd to be quiet while you're talking.

Scott, can you hear me?

I want you to do your whole public comment.

I'm just gonna ask the crowd not to respond back so we can hear you.

That's all I'm asking.

Thank you.

This violence to use on Sunday against peaceful protesters, which included children and families, is a symptom of the spinelessness you have shown in taking accountable measures against increased surveillance and security.

SPD has actively trained with Israeli military forces, which you voted to contend you in 2021.

This must be where they learned to degrade a human life through suffocation and chemical irritant.

This must be where they learn to defend child killing soldiers from peaceful protesters through maiming and state approved violence.

You will not ban Israeli back cameras used by the IDF for Palestinian surveillance, and you will not hold your own police department accountable.

What will you do, City Council?

Continue to sit in these laminate podiums with your plastic bureaucrat smiles, take another photo up next week when you forget about the people being viciously attacked in the streets.

The people are tired of imperialist violence making its way home.

We are tired of our taxes defending child killers.

The people are tired of you sleeping on the job.

It's time to wake up, City Council.

Thank you, Scott.

Next we have Patrick followed by Kim.

This reminder when we're just being respectful of all public comments.

So when someone's up there, no matter if we disagree with them or not, we're trying to be respectful.

And I will never cut off your time.

I was trying to help him so we could control folks.

Okay, the outburst.

Okay, is there Patrick?

Is Patrick here?

Patrick, you are up next.

And then we have Kim Wilson, and then we'll jump to online.

And I know some other people signed up, but we'll just go through this and online.

If you hear me, you are up deck after Patrick and Kim Wilson.

Patrick, welcome.

Um, yeah, hi, my name is Patrick McKee.

I live in West Seattle.

Uh, members of the council.

As I hope you all have been hearing about all week, per the Seattle Times, several companies have approached Seattle City Light about building five large-scale data centers with a combined maximum electrical demand of 369 megawatts, roughly one-third of what the city uses on an average day.

At full capacity, these would consume ten times more power than the city's 30 existing data facilities.

On the face of it, this would epitomize irrational capitalism, right?

Adding electrical demand on that scale to a system already struggling to deliver clean electricity citywide to prevent further burning of climate, killing fossil fuels, not to mention what we're learning about the deleterious impacts of artificial general intelligence on human brain function or the industry's own prediction of the displacement already underway of millions of workers.

City Light has said it will study the request, but they've refused to share which companies are involved due to non disclosure agreements.

Someone who probably does know is City Light Review Board's commercial customer representative, Ryan Monson.

Mr.

Monson also happens to be SABE Corporation, Seattle general manager of data centers.

SABI, which does business nationally under the reassuringly with it slogan, cool people doing cool stuff.

Currently has some 1.2 million square feet of facility across several buildings in Seattle.

On a related note, SABE, not alone among Seattle's large corporations, has shown itself very comfortable doing extensive business with ICE.

They are the landlords of the DHS ICE facility at Tequila and have recently signed a lease for expanded ICE offices nearby.

Notwithstanding the damage we've all seen this rogue agency do to our democracy over the past 15 months.

This is decidedly not cool stuff.

So to pull all this together, Seattle certainly needs an immediate moratorium on data centers.

But beyond this, Seattle, a city on record as refusing to cooperate with ICE, needs to look at a moratorium on Trump regime collaborators in positions of leadership in the city at large or in the city's public utilities.

Thank you, Patrick.

Thank you, Patrick.

Um next we have Kim.

And following Kim, we're gonna go online.

We have a Wendy Yim followed by Peter Manning, David Haynes, and then David S, and then we'll come back in person.

Wendy, welcome.

Or excuse me, I'm sorry, Kim.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Try it again.

Speak really close.

Okay.

And you can bring it down.

Thank you.

Um City Council just wanted to say thank you.

I'm part of the group that prays for you weekly by name at Westlake Center.

And I am in the cacao and chocolate industry.

And you might think, well, what does that have to do with Seattle?

Except for the fact that we can't grow cacao, but we do actually host the largest craft chocolate festival in the nation.

And so that's coming up in October.

I just wanted to say thank you for creating a space where people are willing and comfortable coming to visit our city from 30 different nations and gathering tens of thousands of people.

So we just thank you for your service.

Thank you.

I one of my prayers for you as I as I look at each of you as a prayer of thanks for the diversity on the council, and just a prayer that you would continue to model respect for one another and respect for the people in our city.

So thank you.

Thank you so much.

Really appreciate that.

Um next, we're gonna go online.

Wendy Yim, followed by Peter Manning, David Haynes, and then David S.

Wendy Star 6 to unmute yourself.

Welcome.

Hi, I'm Wendy Yim.

Thank you so much for listening.

Um council members, thank you for your time.

I want to let you know that children, residents, and merchants in Madison Valley are in danger.

The low barrier shelter that operates as Bailey Boucher House, run by Virginia Mason, does not adhere to its good neighbor agreements or many contractual obligations.

It overflows at eight times its agreed-upon capacity.

Over the past few years, we've seen violent incidents and involved children and students waiting at the bus stop that's in front of Virginia Mason's Bailey Boucher house.

This is where untreated residents come and go at all hours, openly do drugs, and die of overdose.

Our adult community members have been murdered and raped by people affiliated with Bailey Boucher services.

Virginia Mason has at least three lucrative contracts with the City of Seattle and King County, amounting to millions of dollars in annual funding.

City Council members, I'm pleading that you hold Virginia Mason accountable to their good neighbor agreements and various contract uh requirements at the risk of losing their funding.

Please defund Virginia Mason if they do not comply immediately.

Thank you for taking my comments.

Thank you, Wendy.

Next we have Peter Manning, followed by David Haynes and then David S.

Star 6.

Unmute yourself.

Peter.

Hello, can you hear me?

We can hear you.

Yes, sir.

Hi, my name is Peter Manny.

I'm president of Black Excellence Canada's two issues.

Um I would like the city council to take in consideration that post equity licenses have one live.

The Seattle City, the city city of Seattle, uh, was responsible for the removal of all black owned dispensaries back in 2015.

Uh we would like some help getting those people reestablished in the city of Seattle.

We'd appreciate that very much.

My second thing I like to say, um a large portion of the black community in the South End of Seattle voted for Katie Wilson.

It's come to our knowledge that Katie Wilson doesn't seem to be too friendly towards that of black people.

We are catching when she doesn't even communicate with black staff members in in city council.

She doesn't communicate with black staff members members in her security team or detail around the building.

She just didn't acknowledge this at all.

It and it just seems like this might be an issue with us.

I mean, with me as being a black person, and I've reached out to that administr that administration several times about giving some type of help for black communities.

I'm really concerned because the cameras are not up with in the South End of Seattle and in the central district in certain parts of West Seattle where black skiers go to school at.

Um that is being overlooked, but they're allowing cameras to be put up for FIFA around where predominantly white people will come to watch sporting events.

That's concerning to me.

This is all one Seattle.

This is everybody here, uh, regardless of color deserves protection.

Please uh talk to your mayor about safety for our children.

That's all, and thank you.

Thank you, Peter.

Next we have David Haynes followed by David S.

And then we'll go back to in-person.

Thank you, David Aynes.

You know, if there were surveillance cameras, you might be able to figure out who shot that woman.

And you can tell the city council thinks they've already done enough because there's nothing on the agenda of substance.

So it's if you guys think your messaging has been able to pull the wall over the eyes of enough people into believing that the chief is being honest about how much safer it is when he's just manipulating the crime hot spots.

You know, it's been proven that the environmental design can cause bad behavior.

We see it coming out of hookah lounges that are total toxic charcoal inhaled poisons.

Yet when everything seems to be kind of forsaken and slum-like, run down.

If you take a look, a clear-eyed look at Pioneer Square, you will realize that all of that needs to be torn down and rebuilt 21st century first world quality.

Because and if you take a hardcore look at all of those evil role life pieces of crap that run those businesses that overserve with those evil predatory bartenders that have those wicked sadistic nightclubs who just overserve everybody and then spill all these fucked up people into the streets, left vulnerable to the predators who are hanging around the corner.

Yet when you call the cops, they tell you you gotta keep calling because they don't set their resources proper otherwise.

But it turns out the cops are too afraid to be in Pioneer Square.

And if you call, they make you go out to meet them so that they put a target on your back, endanger you while they'll still protect themselves from even making a concerted effort to deal with all the evil criminals.

They take over Pioneer Square every frickin' flying night.

I swear to Christ, Pioneer Square is the worst place to live in America for me.

It's the worst place I've ever lived, and it is truly a slum from hell that has all this watered down building code violations that are all about to fall over.

You need to tear it all down instead of historically preserving slums from the historic thank you, David.

Next we have David S.

David S.

You will press star six to present to um unmute yourself and go back to in person.

Hi, can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay, uh, my name is David.

I am calling in about an event I attended yesterday.

It was at town hall, uh, where a Jewish organization put on an event.

Uh I was really concerned about this event leading up because a uh one of these influencer I'll say posted the location of it in which there were people responding, threatening Molotov cocktails, violence, as well as people posting anti-Semitic caricatures of Jews ruling the world.

Uh when I went in, there were throat splitting motions.

They called my friend a dirty Jew.

They on the way out, chase Jewish re chase Jewish residents intimidated and film children.

Uh this was at a place um that was called Town Hall.

And this is a place where all ideas are welcome.

There's uh many different ideas that are presented there.

This week was a pro-Israel thing.

Uh next week there is an anti-Israel thing.

That's the idea behind free speech.

But people should not be allowed to harass residents, block cars, and try to shut things down.

And they think they can get away with it, and it's because they can.

This is the result of a policy of trying to let you know, trying to appease a mob that will never let the council do their job.

Yep, I'm also talking about uh Councilmember Krauss and Lorez, who let the uh ceasefire resolution a couple years ago go through even through the protests of uh the greater Jewish community.

We deserve peace as Seattleites, freedom of speech, so do we, so do people who disagree with us.

But anti-Semitism should never be acceptable.

Thank you.

Uh thank you, David.

Uh, we're gonna go back to in person comments.

We have Howard Gale followed by Missy Vett Dinish and then Nathan Wall.

Is Howard Gill here?

There he is.

Hello, Mr.

Gale.

Good afternoon.

Over the next four weeks will occur the anniversaries of three completely unnecessary killings by Seattle police of African Americans who were in severe crisis holding a knife or no weapon in their hands, then shot to death by Seattle police.

Sean Lee Fur killed six years ago with no weapon while holding his infant's son.

Terry Caver killed six years ago, just days before George Floyd while brandishing a knife after being needlessly chased by multiple officers and a canine, grossly violating all SBD de-escalation policies, and Ryan Smith killed seven years ago, just seconds after four police officers broke down his apartment door.

I note these cases because our current accountability system works to make us forget them by labeling these killings, quote, lawful and proper, unquote, and because these and other such killings will be subjected to a King County inquest over the next few months.

In the case of Sean Lee Fur on June 15th, I am confident that inquest juries will find in these cases, as they found in the case of Ioseo Falatogo, also killed by SPD in the inquest last year, that SPD officers actually acted criminally.

If this council has even the slightest curiosity how our accountability system is working or not working, and continues to ignore the city auditor's recommendation from nine years ago for a truly independent audit of our system, I would suggest attending these upcoming inquests.

Finally, I do want to point out in all these killings, what's common is they are people of color in mental health crisis and they have no weapon or a knife.

In 1978, Seattle City Council passed a law preventing police from shooting at any fleeing suspect.

That was common practice.

In the 60s and 70s, numerous people were actually killed running away from trivial uh uh offenses.

Seattle passed that law seven years before the Supreme Court fully outlined that practice in Tennessee v.

Garner.

We have done it before.

We need to do what's done in Japan, Wales, England, Scotland.

We need to stop killing people.

Thank you, Mr.

Gill.

Next we have uh Missy Vant Dinish, followed by Nathan Wall.

Welcome.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Um there was a recent article uh in the Seattle Times about why housing first isn't the answer to Seattle's homelessness crisis.

It's well written in the last paragraph.

Give some good ideas on how to alleviate that situation.

And also there was an editorial.

I you know, I take the Seattle Times.

There's an editorial in the Times about Mayor Wilson's unveils a homelessness plan, but big questions remain.

My concern was is that her pledge to build 500 new shelter units by June with uh 17.5 million in existing funds, works out to 35,000 per unit.

To me, that seems exorbitant, and there's also other solutions that make a lot more affordable, like tough shares are already pre-built, manufactured housing, uh and sometimes even a new RV.

So next time I come and speak, I'll have some more concrete solutions, but again, 35,000 per unit is an awful amount of money to be spent for that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Missy Vett.

Next we have Nathan Wall, um, followed by Did Bennett, did you sign up too as well?

Okay, awesome.

Followed by you, Bennett.

Okay.

Hello.

Um, I'm here today to talk about uh the sound transit expansion um to the West Seattle neighborhood and to the Ballard neighborhood.

So I work in West Seattle.

Um it's very hard to get from district two to district one on the bus.

I'm sure I'm not the only person that's ever experienced that.

Uh I see Eddie smiling at me right now.

So I was concerned that a couple weeks ago somebody came to a council meeting and stated that Sound Transit expansion to West Seattle was going to destroy their business, and that they felt that the council was just pushing it through without asking them.

The thing is, and I hate I I hate to talk down on this person's concerns, but we did vote on this several times.

So this is not a matter of are we gonna do this or not?

We that cannot be the question that we asked.

The question has to be how do we do this?

It's an obligation.

And as Councilmember Saka said, we have to do this.

Like there's just not abandoning this is not an option.

Sound transit expansion will be disruptive.

That is just a fact of life.

But sometimes it's important.

This is an important climate goal.

Um this will help us meet our climate needs, and we can't allow special interests to slow this process down.

So I'm here today to say that we need Sound Transit 3 to be fully implemented from West Seattle to Ballard.

I'd like to see Sound Transit from Tacoma to Everett.

Um we need this to happen.

And so I'm urging the city council to work with the county, the state, and every municipality in the region to see that this project is realized because this is something we have to do.

The voters said yes three times.

So thank you.

Awesome.

Thank thank you.

Nathan, next we have Bennett, followed by Jocelyn.

Welcome, Bennett.

Good afternoon, Council.

I actually uh just signed up with the last second now because I wanted to respond to some of the things that one of the callers said about the protests outside uh town hall two uh two days ago.

An event that if you didn't hear about it from the for the call, you may have heard about already where former IDF solders giving a talk and uh people protesting the Israel's attacks on Gaza gathered outside.

Um I say this as somebody who is sort of an unbiased party because I have been calling out both sides a lot, obviously the appalled by Israel's actions in Gaza, but we know a Tuesday night thing or Sunday night thing where the crowd started chanting like death, death to the IDF, and I was like, no, shut the fuck up.

Sorry, Joy, don't do that.

Um, or you know, nuke Tel Aviv, nuke television, and I'm no, there's like no genocide guys, no civilians, nothing.

So uh coming at it as sort of a reasonably unbiased third party that calls out both sides, but I will say the overwhelming majority of the event was focused on the actions of the state of Israel in Gaza, not anti-Semitism.

And the the fact is that to the extent that when they did veer into the more offensive stuff, you know, it's it's just you know, it's a bad actor in the crowd who starts something.

If three people join in, then you can't really tell, you know, is this the whole crowd, or is this this one guy and his friends getting his friends riled up?

I mean, that is still protected by the first amendment in virtually all cases.

This is unless it's incitement to violence against a specific person in that moment.

It's there's nothing really that the police can or should do, or that the city council can or should do there.

And there were people attendees that they either arrived at the event or left the event, and people would gather around them and sometimes shout and and chant.

But I was wearing a GoPro the whole time.

Sometimes we want my phone, nobody laid a hand on them.

Uh, there was actually far more violence committed by SPD against protesters outside when as the event was wrapping up, they formed a line and started shoving everybody back, and not every officer, but it was often the case that a couple of bad actors that were clearly just using it as a pretext to shove people and get in people's faces, and this is often the case there are other officers didn't call them out.

The people did not deserve to be treated that way.

Thank you.

Thank you, Bennett.

Uh next we have Jocelyn.

Welcome.

Any mic in the middle of the side.

Anyone you want.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, council.

My name is Jocelyn Ford, and I serve as the Chief Advancement Officer at the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle.

I want to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude to the Seattle City Council, and particular to Councilmember Sokka for championing a recognition on behalf of our pastor Robert L.

Manway Sr.

Dr.

Robert O.

Manway Sr.

Excuse me.

Um, whatever I have built, whatever I have contributed to this community has been shaped by what I've learned in his congregation.

He taught me what it means to lead with purpose, to serve with family in mind, and to stay when staying is hard.

Thousands of us carry that formation every day.

In a community like the Central District, where generations of black families have watched this neighborhood shift around them.

Dr.

Manaway remained a constant.

But staying was never enough for him.

He acted.

He provided groundbreaking support to young mothers, families, and men who needed someone to believe in them.

He erected transitional housing programs.

He met this community where it was and lifted it toward where it deserves to be.

His ministry has never been about a platform.

It has been about a people.

Dr.

Robert L.

Manway Sr.

did not just build a church.

He built a legacy into the soil of this community.

So it is only right that this ground now bears his name.

Welcome to Dr.

R.

L.

Manway Senior Way.

Thank you.

Awesome.

Thank you, Jocelyn.

For that.

Do we have any more public comment mentors?

Awesome.

All right.

Is there I'm going to scan the audience real quick?

Is there any more public commenters that want would like to sign up before we close it?

Going once, twice, sold to the grave.

All right.

Thank you all for coming to public comment period for you all, your all engagement when the chocolate here when you came.

The first thing I thought was what's an astronaut's favorite candy bar?

Milky Way.

So I just okay.

Come on.

I thought that was there's Mars.

Sorry, I just all right.

Moving on.

Uh thank you all for all this is a damn joke.

All of uh the public comments that we get on uh not just online too, but just emails and everywhere.

Thank you all, thank you all, thank you all also for coming down uh engaging with us.

Um so now we're going to move into our agenda.

So hearing none, I'm gonna move to adopt the consent calendar.

Madam Council President.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Point of personal privilege member soccer.

If I may, thank you.

Uh I I just want to briefly address uh something.

I I think our job here at this dais is to just sit and listen to the public comment that we hear of all types and of all sorts, but I do want to briefly uh address something that I that I heard um disparaging uh a specific historic neighborhood in my council district, Pioneer Square.

And as the council member who proudly represents Pioneer Square, um uh I I want to apologize to my constituents uh or or allies or visitors of the neighborhood who know that it is not a slum, who know that it is not unsafe and not undangerous inherently um and I also want you to know that your city has your back.

Uh and despite what what some may say or how they may characterize your neighborhood, it is not unsafe, it is not a slum, it is not undangerous or is not in dangerous.

Uh are there opportunities to to make improvements?

Yes, no different than any other neighborhood.

But it is my distinct honor to represent that neighborhood.

And um and I know my council member colleagues are are equally committed to making sure we do right by Pioneer Square.

Um so thank you.

Awesome.

Thank you, Councilmember Saka.

Well said, well said.

We all love Pioneer Square.

Um colleagues, uh, if there's no objection, uh the the introduction referral calendar will be adopted.

Hearing no objection, the introduction referral calendar is adopted.

Hearing no objection, oh, excuse me, the agenda will be adopted.

Is there any objection?

Hearing no objection, the agenda will be adopted.

We're now gonna consider uh the proposed consent calendar.

Items on the consent calendar include the minutes of April 14th, 2026.

Uh City Council, Council Bill 121198, payment of the bills.

Are there any council members that would like to remove any item from today's consent calendar?

Hearing none, I move to adopt the consent calendar.

Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

That was fast today.

So thank you for that.

It's been moved.

Usually I gotta look left and right for a second.

Okay, it's been moved and second to adopt the consent calendar.

Uh will the clerk please call the role on the adoption of the consent calendar.

Councilmember Foster.

Yes.

Council Member Warez.

Aye.

Council Member Kettle.

Aye.

Council Member Lynn.

Yes.

Council Member Rick.

Yes.

Council Member.

Aye.

Council Member Saka.

Aye.

Council President Hong Source Yes.

Eight in favor, none opposed.

Awesome.

Uh it has been, excuse me.

I'm sorry.

The consent calendar has been um are we on the yes, has been uh has been adopted.

Will the clerk please affix my signature to the minutes and legislation uh on the consent calendar on my behalf.

Uh now we're gonna move into our full agenda.

Will the clerk please read item number one into the record?

The report of the Transportation Waterfront and Seattle Center Committee, a resolution providing an honorary designation of South Jackson Street between two 28th Avenue South and 29th Avenue South as Dr.

R.

L.

Manaway Senior Way.

The committee recommends council adopt the resolution.

Awesome.

Councilmember Saka, as chair of the committee, you were recognized to provide the committee report.

Thank you.

Thank you, madam council president.

It is my distinct honor to make a few remarks about this uh proposal before our broader full council here, but uh I also want to defer to the uh to the legislation sponsor um to to make some remarks uh uh about this important piece of legislation that we're we're uh gonna consider as well.

So I I defer to you and you yield my time to you now, madam council president.

Awesome.

Thank thank you, Councilmember Sokka, and thank you for your leadership and the collaborative uh nature.

When I was in committee meeting and um I said this and I want to say it publicly as well when we first brought this to Councilmember Sokka.

The first thing he said anything that's needed, he was uh for it, and um just really appreciate that collaborative that collaborative nature and uh thank you for having this in your committee.

Um also want to thank I believe uh Pastor Manaway's family is here as well, some folks in the back.

Um just want to thank you all for I know this was a a good long process, and so everyone said yes.

Um so I'm glad we could get this over the finish line as well.

I've been impressed, obviously, with Pastor Manaway and his leadership in our community, and um for uh has been the pastor at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church since 1983, so that's over 43 years.

Um over 1,700 members.

And outside of Reverend McKinney, he's the longest serving pastor that we have uh in our in our in our city in our central district and our in our churches, um, and couldn't be more grateful for the foundation that he has set in our community, the leadership that he has brought for our our youth, um, the food access programs that Tabernacle Knuckle provides, the community resources, the staple, the hub.

Um, as we are continuing to build our city um and we are neighborhoods are changing and shifting, words matter, these cultural places matter to folks.

We got people that are driving in from Kent Federal Way to Coma just to come into churches every Sunday in our central districts.

And so to see Reverend Manaway's or excuse me, Pastor Manaway's name uh on the street as well with the the community that he built, I think is really really special.

So really happy that you all are here.

Thank you, Councilmember Saka.

I will pass it off to you and really appreciate your uh partnership on this.

Thank you, madam council president.

Well said.

Uh to to round out from my perspective, I'll just say and say again, it is my distinct honor to be able to uh to speak to this resolution that's sponsored by Council President Hollingsworth.

Um, and that would name a specific portion of South Jackson Street after Dr.

R.

L.

Manaway Sr.

Uh colleagues, the steps committee voted last week overwhelmingly and unanimously uh for all present to uh to recommend that the city council adopt this resolution.

And Dr.

Manaway colleagues, uh to pile on council president's comments, was born in on July 17th, 1958 in Mississippi.

Uh Dr.

Manaway has been a senior pastor of Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church at 28th Avenue South and South Jackson Street in the CD since 19 to your point, 1983.

Um he also oversees, or he also serves rather as president of the North Pacific Baptist Convention, overseeing churches across Washington and Oregon.

Uh Dr.

Manaway has served on civic committees, including the community advisory committee for the 2014 Seattle Police Chief Search Committee, and uh Dr.

Manaway has been married to his wife Jessica since 1981.

The couple have five amazing children, 13 grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.

What a tremendous blessing.

Uh and I think some of them might be here with us today.

But in any event, honored to uh be able to put this forward.

Uh and I encourage, strongly encourage a yes vote, um, and thank you for your collaboration and and sponsorship of this.

Awesome.

Thank you, Councilmember Sokka.

Are there any other comments?

Councilmember Warz.

Thank you.

First of all, thank you, uh Madam President, for bringing this forward, and of course, you, Councilmember Sokka.

Um, we do a lot of street naming, and I'm I did not have the opportunity to meet this gentleman, but I heard a lot about him.

But I wanted to share something that um is very near to us in Indian country.

You know, voluntary institutions that develop character, morality, and values, such as black churches, um, have been the core.

And I just wanted to share that in the 1950s and 60s, it was black churches and leaders like Pastor Manaway that stood with and walked with Native folks in um fighting for their rights.

Um their civil rights, and as some of you remember uh Judge Tanner, when he was just a lawyer and a member of a church, was for free represented the people that Frank's Landing Indian Community, the Nisqually tribe and the Pialub tribe, and we have always locked arms with them, and they have been our brothers and sisters in those struggles in the 50s and 60s.

Um as the gentleman said out here, I guess we're all old and we remember those days.

So um, and I do remember those days.

And so to see someone honored in the way that they should be honored as a man of faith.

And again, as you saw, and as Councilmember Saka shared, we don't always get kind words here.

So when we have moments of light and goodness and kindness, it means a lot.

So with that, I'm really proud to support this street naming for uh Pastor Manaway since 1983.

83.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Wars.

Are there any other comments on the floor?

Awesome.

All right.

Will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of the resolution?

Councilmember Foster.

Yes.

Councilmember Warez?

Aye.

Councilmember Cattle.

Aye.

Councilmember Len.

Yes.

Councilmember Rink?

Yes.

Councilmember Rivera.

Aye.

Councilmember Saka.

Aye.

Council President Hawkshorse.

Yes.

Eight in favor, none opposed.

Awesome.

The resolution is a yay.

Sorry.

The resolution is adopted.

Um great honor.

The resolution is adopted.

The chair will sign it.

Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf?

Um, that was the only item on our agenda today, colleagues.

There's no other items removed from the consent calendar.

There's not a resolution for for introduction or adoption today.

Is there any further business from colleagues to come before the council?

I'll look to the right, look to the left.

Y'all are quiet today.

Okay, awesome.

Um well, we have reached the end of today's agenda.

The next city council meeting is April 28th, that is 2 p.m.

every every Tuesday we are here.

Hearing no further business, thank you all for coming today.

We're adjourned.

Thank you.