The Shoreline City Council held a regular meeting on Monday, April 14, 2025, at 7:00 PM in the Council Chamber. The meeting included a proclamation, consent calendar approvals, appointments, a public hearing on the Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP), and action items regarding CDBG funds and a franchise extension. Councilmember Annette Ademasu joined remotely at 7:04 PM and was excused earlier for personal reasons. Councilmember Keith Scully left at 8:11 PM.
I'd like to call to order the Shoreline City Council regular meeting for Monday, April 14th, 2025 to order. Will you please join me in the flag salute? Which is the religious justice problem. Will the clerk please call the roll? Mayor Roberts. Here. Councilmember Ramsdall. Present. Councilmember Robertson. Here. Councilmember Adamasu. Councilmember Povey. Councilmember Scully. Present. The Deputy Mayor as well. Yeah. Deputy Mayor Morton. Deputy Mayor, do you have a motion? Do you have a motion? I move to excuse Councilmember Adamasu for personal reasons. Thank you. Second. Second. Any objections to excusing Councilmember Adamasu for personal reasons. Without objection, that uh a motion is adopted. I'll be uh here for a minute, a few minutes. Uh tonight, I first would like to proclaim the month of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the City of Shoreline. Uh and I'd like to invite the director of the executive director of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, uh Kate Key Clug to the podium to accept the proclamation. Whereas in the United States, over fifty-three percent of women and over 29% of men report experiencing contact sexual violence in their lifetime. And whereas only an estimated 28% of rape and sexual assaults are reported to law enforcement officials, which is among the most underreported crime. And whereas more than one in four non-Hispanic black women in the United States were raped in their lifetime, one in three Hispanic women reported unwanted sexual contact in their lifetime, and more than four and five American Indian and Alaskan Native women have experienced violence in their lifetime. Whereas 47% of all transgender people have been sexually assaulted at some point in their lives. Now, therefore, I, Christopher Roberts, mayor of the City of Shoreline, on behalf of the Shoreline City Council, do hereby proclaim the month of April as sexual assault awareness month in the city of Shoreline, and join advocates and commun and communities throughout King County in taking action to prevent sexual violence by standing with survivors. Together, we commit to a safer future for all children, young people, adults, and families in our community. Okay, good. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Roberts, and thank you, uh, Council members for having me here today. As the mayor mentioned, my name is uh Kate Krug Garvey, and I am the CEO of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, a nonprofit that serves this city and all communities throughout King County. I'm here to accept the Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month Proclamation on behalf of our organization. And I just want to thank you all for being part of the solution to end sexual violence. First, to all the survivors in our community, I want to say you are not alone. Sexual assault is common. Half of women and one third of men have experienced sexual assault in their lifetime. People from marginalized communities due to disability, race, or ethnicity, or their gender or sexual identities, to name a few, are at even greater risk. Chances are that you know someone who has been sexually abused. The trauma of sexual assault is something that can affect survivors' mental, physical, and behavioral health. Their ability to form healthy relationships, remain in school or in the workplace, or do so much more. But recovery from sexual trauma is possible as long as they have support. KSARC has assisted 4300 individual survivors and their family members in the last year alone. Almost half of those case our clients are teens and children.