Mayor Jenny A. Durkan

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Mayor Jenny Durkan Nominates Saad Bashir to Be Next Chief Technology Officer of the Seattle IT Department, Names Bobby Humes Interim Director at Department of Human Resources, and Reappoints Robert Nellams as Director of Seattle Center
  SEATTLE (January 22, 2019) – Joined by leaders from the search committee, Mayor Jenny A. Durkan announced she will nominate former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the City of Ottawa Saad Bashir to be the next Chief Technology Officer (CTO) [...]
1/22
As Partial Federal Government Shutdown Continues, Mayor Jenny A. Durkan Issues Executive Order to Allow Impacted Federal Employee to Defer Their City of Seattle Utility Payments 
SEATTLE (January 22, 2019) – As furloughed federal workers across the country and across Seattle continue to be hurt by President Donald Trump’s partial shutdown of the federal government, Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan issued a new Executive [...]
1/17
City Releases Updated Capital and Operating Costs for the City Center Connector Streetcar
Mayor Durkan to Work with the City Council, Community Members, Businesses and Transit Partners to Move Forward on this Mobility Project to Connect New Waterfront with City Seattle (January 17, 2019) – Following the conclusion of an engineering [...]
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A good day and a step forward for our region: Microsoft invests $500 million to address housing and homelessness in the Puget Sound
As a region, the crisis of affordability, housing, and homelessness is the central challenge we face. It’s a crisis that threatens the soul of our city. It’s a crisis that is bigger than Seattle, and demands a regional response. It is just not [...]
1/15
Mayor Jenny Durkan Testifies Before the State Legislature on Legislation That Builds on I-940
January 15, 2019 – Today in Olympia, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington and Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan testified before the Washington State Senate’s Law and Justice Committee in support of Senate Bill 5029, which builds [...]
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Mayor Durkan and City Attorney Holmes Commend Court’s Ruling to Remove Citizenship Question from Census
City of Seattle part of a coalition that filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce Department in April Seattle (January 15, 2019) – In an important step for Seattle and immigrant and refugee communities across the country, a federal [...]
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Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Statement on City Attorney’s Decision to Appeal Hotel Workers Initiative to State Supreme Court
SEATTLE (January 9, 2019) –  Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan issued the following statement upon City Attorney Pete Holmes announcement that the City will appeal the ruling issued on December 24 by Division One of the state Court of Appeals that [...]
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Mayor Jenny Durkan Statement on City Council President Bruce Harrell’s Announcement That He Will Not Seek Re-election
Seattle (January 8, 2019) – Mayor Jenny A. Durkan released the below statement following the announcement by Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell that he will not seek re-election in 2019:  “Bruce has been a friend and colleague for over 30 [...]
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Mayor Durkan Announces She Will Transmit Legislation to Advance Seattle’s New “Waterfront for All”
Seattle (January 3, 2019) – Joined by community members at the Seattle waterfront, Mayor Jenny A. Durkan announced today she will transmit legislation to complete funding of Seattle’s new “Waterfront for All” that will include 20 acres of public [...]
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As City of Seattle Prepares for the Viaduct Closure & Start of the Seattle Squeeze, Mayor Durkan Hires Retired Air Force Major General Mike Worden as Seattle’s First-Ever Director of Citywide Mobility Operations Coordination
Seattle (January 3, 2019) – As the City of Seattle prepares for the permanent closure of the Alaskan Way Viaduct beginning January 11, 2019 and the start of the “Seattle Squeeze” – a four-year period when public and private megaprojects in the region [...]