City Council
Council Chamber, City Hall 600 4th Avenue Seattle, WA 98104
Agenda — 27 items
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- A. CALL TO ORDER
- B. ROLL CALL
- C. PRESENTATIONS
- D. PUBLIC COMMENT
- E. ADOPTION OF INTRODUCTION AND REFERRAL CALENDAR:
- 7 August 5, 2025
- F. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA
- G. APPROVAL OF CONSENT CALENDAR
- 10 Journal:
- 1. July 28, 2025
- 2. July 29, 2025
- 13 Bills:
- 3. AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain claims for the week of July 21, 2025, through July 25, 2025, and ordering the payment thereof; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
- H. COMMITTEE REPORTS
- 16 SELECT BUDGET COMMITTEE:
- 1. AN ORDINANCE relating to acceptance of funding from non-City sources; authorizing the Mayor or the Mayor’s designee to accept and authorize the expenditure of specified grants, private funding, and subsidized loans and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements; amending Ordinance 127156, which adopted the 2025 Budget, including the 2025-2030 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2025-2030 CIP; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
- 2. AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 127156, which adopted the 2025 Budget, including the 2025-2030 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2025-2030 CIP; adding CIP Projects; creating positions; modifying positions; abrogating positions; lifting a proviso; creating a new budget control level; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
- 3. AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 127156, which adopted the 2025 Budget, including the 2025-2030 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2025-2030 CIP; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
- 4. AN ORDINANCE relating to the financing of the Human Capital Management System project; amending Ordinance 127131 to increase the amount of an existing interfund loan; creating the 2026 Multipurpose LTGO Bond Fund, and allowing it to be a borrowing fund for the loan; amending Ordinance 127156, which adopted the 2025 Budget, including the 2025-2030 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to the Department of Finance and Administrative Services; revising project allocations and spending plans for certain projects in the 2025-2030 CIP; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
- I. ITEMS REMOVED FROM CONSENT CALENDAR
- J. ADOPTION OF OTHER RESOLUTIONS
- 5. A RESOLUTION designating the monthly President Pro Tem of the City Council of The City of Seattle for 2025; superseding Resolution 32161.
- 6. A RESOLUTION relating to participation, for 2025, on King County Committees, Regional Committees, State Committees, and City of Seattle Committees; and superseding Resolution 32163.
- K. OTHER BUSINESS
- L. ADJOURNMENT
- 29 _____________________________________________________ Phillip Wood-Smith, Deputy City Clerk Signed by me in Open Session, upon approval of the Council, on August 12, 2025. _____________________________________________________ Sara Nelson, Council President of the City Council Attachment: Att 1 - Action 1 of CB 121031