>>> Were joined by the council
mmbers in their is nothing in
the minutes of October 28 the
meeting will be approved.
We have a presentation in the
short briefing.
I will dispense with the
presence report and there's
nothing for but this afternoon
for the technology committee.
I'll turn it over to the budget
share.
>> Just as a reminder, that is
a $20 fine.
We have no votes tomorrow day
while we have the first
discussion around form C. We
will have the opportunity to
cosponsor if you want in a week
from today is we have our final
balancing package in front of
this and at that point a week
from today we will be voting on
the entire package.
If you have anything you want
me to know about please come
down to my office.
I will be meeting with the
staff today to get the update on
how we will pay for the new
requests. That's it for this
week.
We are getting real close.
Form C next Tuesday, we vote
the Monday before thinks giving
God done.
Thank you for all of your hard
work.
>> Good morning.
There are three press related
items.
Canceled 11 9615 which is an
ordinance that would approve.
The file and click file ran for
339 is initial filing of the
subdivision at 1417 E. Howe
Street..
>> Thank you so much.
No items on the full Council
agenda from him civil-rights
utilities and arts committee
nor do we have any meetings
this week.
I do have original committee to
attend this week on Thursday.
I will be attending the
watershed resource inventory
area otherwise known as why
right nine.
That is coming up this week.
Wednesday I will be attending
the commission for people with
disabilities inclusion Jubilee
and receiving the commission's
public-policy award.
On Friday I will be attending
the chefs without Borders event
, on Saturday I'm excited to
participate in the Highland
Park improvement center 100
anniversary. It is a completely
DIY community center.
It received no funding from the
city of Seattle.
No assistance in its programming
and has been around 100 years.
It is a fantastic community
anchor.
Tonight I will be attending the
South Park neighborhood
Association meeting where
they've invited the Seattle
police department to join the
community to discuss the
ramifications in the
investigation of a murder last
weekend. We think they have a
suspect in custody. It is a sad
affair.
The target of the shooting was
mistaken.
The target was the next house
and the fellow a long time
community member, father of
three.
He was murdered in his home.
The house in question is a house
that people have had concerns
about in this community for
years and we are hoping to hear
more from the SPD about this
investigation and how to
address the fact that the house
was a target, it is a safety
issue for everybody.
That's it for me.
>> Good morning anybody.
Now that I am a big soccer fan,
go sounders.
Our coach deserves a lot of
credit.
He comes from D5.
He learned to play soccer with
the Lake City Hawks.
Go sounders, 35.
I am shameless.
Earlier this year the city tee.
Council signed into a law and
order it's with a Waterfront
LID which is a key component
of the waterfront Seattle
program. This funding plan will
create 20 acres of improved
park space for all of Seattle
to enjoy and reconnect with the
C. Improvements include
sidewalk and street access, year
round activities, dedicated
maintenance and security as
well as additional concession
and retail offerings.
Today we will hear more about
the next phase of the project.
A big thank you to Eric
McConaughey for guiding us to
the next phase.
Thank you Council President for
your leadership and assistance
for leading this piece of
legislation during a busy
budget season.
That way it will remain on
schedule.
Our next civil develop asset
meeting will be on December 4.
More details to come.
I understand the folks are here
and what does the presentation.
I look for to that.
Thank you.
>> Sustainability and
hesitation committee has
nothing on this afternoon's
agenda nor do we have a meeting
this week.
>> Thank you, good morning.
There is no meeting of the
committee due to ongoing budget
proceedings.
We have one item on this
afternoon's agenda and it
appears on the introduction and
referral calendar and that is
my proposal legislation that
would limit for own influence
foreign influence in future
elections.
I emailed these out but wanted
to make sure you all have them
here as well.
This is a memorandum and you
know how much I love
infographics.
I also included an infographics
for you to get a high-level
view of the various components
of this legislation which I'm
referring to as a clean
campaign act.
This does appear on today's
introduction and referral
calendar.
The memorandum on page 4. I'm
sorry the pages do not have
numbers on them.
I apologize for that.
On the fourth page there is an
dissipated legislative timeline
. Today it will appear on the
introduction and referral
calendar and it lays out other
milestones in terms of
legislative process including
executive sessions and special
committee hearings.
It is my hope that we will be
able to have this in front of
the full city Council for a
final vote on January 13 and
will have committee work
completed by January 7 of 2020.
The last passage of the memo
includes a high-level view of
the various modifications and
the minutes that would be made
to the existing municipal code
in order to continue to protect
Seattle's democracy.
One of the things I think is
really important is that we had
the Washington state public
disclosure commission and
Seattle ethics commission take
a look at the draft ordinance
before I asked for it to be
placed on the introduction
referral calendar.
We have received a very
positive endorsement from both
of those entities at the state
and city level.
We feel very good about where
we are at in terms of the
various components of the
legislation.
On December 11 which will be
the first committee hearing we
will focus on ringing in a
national and local panel of
subject matter experts.
This can be a rather confusing
and complex subject when we are
dealing with campaign finance
reform laws that are both at
the state level and federal
level.
And they have been in contact
with the councilmember who
shepherded a similar set of
legislative campaign-finance
reform pieces in Saint
Petersburg Florida.
We're hoping she will be able
to join us at the table to tell
us how their legislative
process went and they recently
went through an election where
this ordinance was in place.
Will have an opportunity to
speak to her from their
perspective as being the first
city in the country to pass a
similar type of legislation.
Will also have some academic
experts in constitutional law
and other national experts who
will walk us through the
various components of this
proposed legislation and why
they believe Seattle is poised
to be the next and largest city
to pass a package of legislation
similar to this.
Looking forward to shepherding
that conversation through my
committee.
I really appreciate the Council
President's grace and allowing
me to put it to my committee
and looking forward to again
having the conversation and
continuing to engage with
stakeholders around the
potential impact of this
legislation on future political
activity.
If the clean campaign's act is
passed by the full Council I
expect it will go into effect
starting in 2021 so that will
give the Seattle ethics and
election committee an
opportunity to adjust to the
new regulatory framework and
everyone else to adjust to it
as well.
Happy to answer any questions
about it but I feel really
strongly about this potential
legislative action and really
proud that I sit on the city
Council who I think shares a
lot of the same values as it
relates to protecting our
democracy in the future.
>> Great conversation, great
body of work.
I look forward to seeing it as
a councilmember and a resident.
>> One last thing.
It is not legislative related
but important to me.
To may many of you may have
heard a lot of buzz about
deferred action childhood
rivals act that was passed by
Executive Order by Obama.
This is being argued today in
the U.S. Supreme Court.
It has been a long journey to
get back to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Impacts millions and thousands
of people across the country.
Many DACA holders here in our
own great city.
There will be a rally that will
be happening today led by youth
leaders.
It is called the home is here
rally.
I'm excited to join this as part
of a nationwide organizing
effort.
Making sure these voices
continue to be lifted up.
I want to appreciate and thank
the Washington dream coalition,
21 progress, faith action
network and many other
organizations including the
Teamsters who are pulling this
together and sponsoring it
today.
I think this was on the books
for quite some time, long
before the sounders were
planning a parade in downtown.
I think folks will make an
effort to work their way over
to Stand in Solidarity with our
DACA recipients and the
immigrant community.
The rally will start at about
2:30 p.m.
in front of the U.S. Federal
District Court at seventh and
Stewart.
I'm excited to join them in
this moment of solidarity and
as a representative of the
Seattle city Council.
I hope that we will see some of
you there if you have time.
It is immediately after the
full Council meeting.
>> Let's keep going through the
agenda.
Company, come forward here
we'll start with the LID
presentation.
I think she did an excellent job
of introducing the man unless
you want to say anything else
should we just proceed with
introductions?
I read in.
>> I am the Council central
staff.
>> I am Dori Costa .
>> Marshall Foster .
>> I am Alena Johnson and I am
in finance.
>> Good morning Council
members.
Thank you for having us back.
We are glad to be here.
This briefing is really to
frame up for you the next step
in the local improvement
district process.
We will walk you through two
pieces of legislation related
to that.
Quickly to reground everyone
where we are can't you see on
the screen the waterfront
Seattle program as a whole. I'm
excited to tell you we are well
into construction of the first
major elements of the
waterfront program at this point
with construction on Columbia
Street, Alaskan Way and at your
62. There is a lot of action
underway today on the
waterfront.
The legislation in front of you
is a really critical next step
to ensure we lock in place the
final funding elements to
complete both the public
infrastructure, roads for
utilities and the like but also
to get these great park
amenities to serve the downtown
as well as the city and region
as a whole.
I will turn it over to Dori.
>> To kind of round everyone
caught what you see in front of
you on slide three is the
boundary of the waterfront LID
area that was formed in January
by counsel action.
It stretches from the way in
the north down to Massachusetts
Street. Next slide. That
boundary was decided on
following our preliminary
special benefits study which
was completed in 2017. After
that was completed the Council
passed resolution 31812 which
was our intent to form
resolution.
It showed the city had intent
to move forward with a LID.
Public hearings on the proposed
LID and preliminary assessment
rolls were held in the summer
of 2018 . In late 2018 we
presented counsel with a
proposed ordinance for LID
formation along with two
companion ordinations, protest
waiver ordinance authorizing us
into a protest waiver agreement
and an operating and
maintenance ordinance.
Is raw past by the Council in
January.
They really formed the LID and
allowed us to start moving
forward with construction of
the LID funded improvements.
This year we have been working
on the final special benefits
study and the proposed final
assessment role, that was
completed earlier this month.
Last week in fact.
We are here today to talk about
two ordinances related to the
LID.
Sorry resolution and an
ordinance.
My apologies.
Today we will talk about the
ordinance of the resolution.
Sorry I'm nervous.
We continue the process as
Marshall said implementing the
LID by initiating the
confirmation of the
assessments.
We will review a LID code
change ordinance and the final
assessment resolution.
First up is the LID code
change revisions.
The LID state law has been
around since before the
founding of the state.
It is actually a process that
has been around for a long
time.
It changes over the years and
this code revision updates the
municipal code to better align
with the code of Washington to
confirm the assessments.
One of the things we will do is
provide the hearing examiner
with more time to prepare his
findings and recommendations
from the hearings on the public
assessment.
The final assessment role.
The current code allows only 20
days for the hearing examiner
to prepare his findings. That
may have been enough time when
we would do smaller sidewalk
LID but this has over 6000
properties, that is a small
amount of time.
Make sure he has the time to do
a well-crafted recommendation
and findings.
It also modernizes the clerks
process of notifying poverty
owners of the hearing results
following the conclusion of the
hearings.
Allows for her to post the
assessment role. It also removes
a section of the code that
specifies outdated dates for
property.
Outdated costs for property.
Those costs from what I
understand were put into the
code in 1985 and have not been
updated so we've stricken them.
>> These code revisions will
actually, they are not for
future LID's exclusively ,
there also to help inform the
final process steps of this LID
?
>> Yes
>> It sounds like the kinds of
changes you're talking about
are the kinds of changes that
would be necessary to have a
better final end product.
Is there any questions or
problems with changing the rules
midstream given that we have
several years worth of process
underway for the LID?
>> We have not heard anything
from the city attorney for the
LID attorneys that we work with
that would indicate that there
would be any legal problem with
that.
These changes do not violate
anything in state law. They are
the original code and it is
actually stricter than state law
and provided deadlines that
were not in the state law.
For my understanding these do
not create any problems.
They also do not change any of
the opportunities for public
hearing or for people to have
the comments made or appeal
comments or any of those things.
That does not change at all.
>> Is going to add this part of
the process for the waterfront
LID, we have not gotten there
yet.
The changes that we have
described are for a part of the
process we have not gone
through yet.
From that point of view whether
it happened now or previously
does not affect something we've
already been through.
>> Thank you.
>> The resolution is actually
the step that starts the final
assessment role confirmation.
It says the date of the public
hearing on the proposed
assessment role and declares
that the hearing will be held
before a hearing examiner. The
public hearing date is Tuesday,
February 4 and the assessment
role hearing property owners
will be given an opportunity to
object to their individual
assessments. They must file
objections in writing before
the hearing date. That has not
changed.
During the hearing the examiner
will allow all property owners
to make comments and present
testimony and information about
why they don't agree with their
assessments.
It also authorizes the city
clerk to notify property owners
of their final a proposed
assessment amounts and of the
public hearings. There will be
mailings to all of the property
owners.
>> With the calendar date for
that when they can anticipating
assessments?
>> We are planning to send the
notices by next month.
And the hearing will not be
until February.
We will also have a posted, the
requirements are that it is
posted at least two times in
the city's newspaper of record
or five times in a community
newspaper of record. It will be
in the paper.
>> Will people if they don't
challenge their assessment,
will they expect that
assessment to come in with
their property tax in April or
is it separate?
>> It will not come this year.
There will be once the process
of confirming the final
assessment role is done which
hopefully will happen later
this year, there will be a
period for prepayment.
>>
>> 2020, I apologize.
Next year during 2020 hopefully
counsel will finish approving
the final assessment role and
notices will go out to property
owners notifying them of the
early payment period.
They can make the payment in
one lump sum following that at
some future point there will
actually be the assessments if
they choose to pay overtime
will appear with the property
tax.
>> What your best guess of what
a Bill will show up in district
7 mailboxes?
>> The city will send a bill
for that 30 day prepayment
period after the roll is
confirmed.
Right now we think that is
sometime in the summer should
everything go according to
plan.
Next summer, 2020.
>> Expected in terms of when it
is due?
People that want to just pay it
off, more or less is it third-
quarter or fourth-quarter of
2020?
>> Probably around the third
quarter.
>> I wanted to go through with
the upcoming steps are as we've
talked about in the past.
The LID process is pretty
strictly defined in state law.
We do this notice resolution to
send out the notice of the
final assessment role, the
hearing notice and proposed
final assessment amounts in
December over January.
Hopefully December.
We will also post to those so
people can find them on the
Internet.
In February we will have the
public hearing before the
examiner. Hopefully depending
on the amount of time that the
hearings take the hearing
examiner's report will be filed
and property owners who filed
the objection will be notified
of the hearing examiner's
recommendations.
Those will also be provided to
city Council and filed with the
clerk.
In the spring of 2020 property
owners can decide whether to
file appeals of the hearing
examiner's recommendation, if
they do file appeals the clerk
will notify the city Council
and city Council will set a date
for the city Council or
committee of the city Council
to have a hearing on those
pills.
>> Let's put up on that.
Last time we actually made the
decision to hire a hearing
examiner to do this piece which
I am inclined to do again
because we had for hearings
separate from city Council so
there were no allegations of
people being lobbied so the
examiner did a really good job.
He did report in August hearing
what the concerns were and the
FAQ that came out and am
probably inclined to do that
again.
That is another option for
someone who is neutral and
familiar with this.
>> Good idea.
>> I do not believe that is
allowed.
>> I did not know that.
>> The first public hearing yes
but in the code it does state
that if you do it with the
hearing examiner there needs to
be an opportunity to appeal
directly or some kind of
process.
Our code states that it is a
public hearing form so what
that looks like we have not
determined yet. We will work
with you to do that.
>> It's not like we did last
time?
>> This is actually the true
judicial period where you will
be sitting at some point as
with the state law calls it a
board of equalization to
determine what the final
assessment is and that is the
whole reason this is a
quasijudicial process.
>> My follow-up with that.
For my colleagues that are not
here to they go through line by
line for the people that are
challenging each one of them
that they have to review every
one of the complaints?
>> I will jump in.
To clarify, for sure in
February of next year the
hearing examiner will hold that
hearing.
Later on the appeals would come
to counsel.
My understanding is that any
person who appeals will get the
chance to be heard at Council,
that appeal would be taken up
by counsel.
>> My expectation is there
could be hundreds of appeals.
If that is the case that is a
lot of times the councilmembers
will be dedicated to this.
>> It sounds like we are
legally required to do so.
>> I will fall back on the we
will work with you on that.
>> Make sure we have the timing
so is on people's calendars.
>> Before you move on from that
I want to make sure it is
pretty clear in my own head
that between now and this we get
, usually only deal with the
quasijudicial issues it's
within land use and zoning and
we usually get a notice from
counsel central staff about when
the communication in the context
of the proceeding.
Give us a sense about what that
process looks like and what our
obligations are either now or
in the future as it relates to
medications and proceedings.
>> The council's role say that
the date that the hearing
examiner files his decision
recommendations on the final
assessment role is when the
process starts for the final
assessment role.
You will recall that with the
resolution it is showing the
intent to form the LID counsel
picked for credential regions
pick the day of the first
hearing in the summer as it in
the process started.
We are in that process now and
with regard to the rules it
means that counsel cannot have
expert take medication.
You cannot talk outside about
these meetings and these
things.
It could be inadvertent.
You're at the grocery store and
someone asks about the idea and
you say that you did not mean
to disclose.
That sort of thing happens
every now and then it is part
of making sure counsel can
still participate in there's
not a question about the
decision.
>> Is fairly embarrassing for
me having been engaged in this
project, I have received an
email from to come yesterday,
multiple emails about budget
stuff and was encouraging us to
support the hearing examiner
and what about waterfront.
I was foolish and responding to
her, I had not seen your notice
at the time.
Was not talking about any
special assessments, just we
have done this.
>> I have not read it because
of the subject line.
For the rest of us here about
the contents.
Of the correspondence can we
get some Cleary about whether
that is appropriate?
>> I think it's okay to say she
sent an email and the council
member responded and we can
take a moment to formally
disclose that free take a vote
at the next council meeting and
we will have an opportunity for
folks to hear that and if they
have a rebuttal they can that.
If that's all right?
>> Absolutely.
>> I apologize to all of you for
putting us in the situation.
As long as we can formally go
over at another point I am
happy to do that.
Thank you.
>> That hearing on appeals will
happen hopefully in the spring
of this year.
When the nose comes out that
there are appeals, counsel will
set the hearing date for those
appeals.
That will work with the Council
President and the appropriate
chairperson to make sure those
get set.
We will work with the central
staff and I want to think Eric
and the counsel central stuff
for being so helpful moving
this forward.
If everything goes well in the
summer we hope that city
Council will consider and
confirm the final assessment
role, that is our timing for
right now.
Of course that will depend on
the volume of appeals, where we
are legally with those pills
and we will work with you
carefully.
>> Just curious, process wise
and maybe if we can get a taste
substance wise but if not
that's okay.
How does the final assessment
role relates to sorry the final
special benefits study relate
to the preliminary special
benefits study.
>> The area of the study is
basically the same.
The original study area was
larger.
We used to that to define, help
define the boundary get
property owners and counsel
preliminary information about
what the appraiser felt the
value and benefit could be
within the area.
The special benefits study was
done within this area of the
LID . The appraiser looked at
each property and developed
their assessment of what the
special benefit, increase in
property value due to the
improvements that are being
funded by it would be.
They develop that special
benefit for each property and
collated it into the assessment
role and because in our
formation ordinance we specified
a On the amount of the LID that
would go for project cost
using that And as we talked
about the formation ordinance
and other legislation, we add
on top of that the financing
and the guarantee fund amount
so the total assessment amount
for this LID is the 160+ the
financing which is $175.5
million.
Proportionally it is shared
amongst all of the properties
based on the special benefit
that they received.
That there estimated to receive
by this appraiser.
That is with the property owners
will be presenting their
arguments about why this
assessment should be lower and
why they should not have an
assessment.
>> How to set 160 and 175.5
relate to with the preliminary
study was.
Is in the ballpark?
>> The original study looked at
a $200 million LID and as part
is the settlement agreement we
lowered that amount to 160+ the
cost of financing.
The original study looked at
200 million.
>> It was more than 200 the
first time.
>> The special benefit was over
400.
>> We cut in half to 200 then
we went down to 160.
>> I will look over and asked
her if there's anything else
you'd like to add.
>> The preliminary study, the
total was 414.
Those pulmonary assessments
total to 200.
Then there was an agreement
that happened of making it 160+
financing.
We found the financing which
includes guaranty fund deposit
to help the interest rate be
reasonable for people who pay
overtime to be 14 million for
the guaranty fund and another
million five for the cost of
issuing these bonds.
There quite where in different.
We have total assessment role
of 175.5 million and the final
study found the special benefit
to be 447 million.
It is a little bit higher and
the total assessment role is a
little bit lower.
It is a more detailed study.
As you might have seen, the
city has some property in the
LID and some of our
assessments went up and
somewhat down.
Some people might have
assessments that go up some
might have some that go down.
It depends on what the
appraiser saw after taking a
much closer look.
>> Thank you.
>> Are wrapping up?
>> We are done with ours unless
there any more questions?
>> Because of our budget
schedule this is the committee
discussion if you well.
We are scheduled to vote on the
resolution and ordinance on
November 18, next Monday.
If you have any questions
between now and then, I think
we all know we will have a lot
of new staff and councilmembers
so the rules for what is
quasijudicial and how one
should act, we have to be
sensitive of that.
It applies to staff as well.
You have a lot of new bodies on
the floor.
We all good?
Thank you very much.
Exciting presentation.
We will see everyone at 2:00
this afternoon.