City Council
Council Chamber, City Hall 600 4th Avenue Seattle, WA 98104
Agenda — 35 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 October 8, 2024
- F. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA
- G. APPROVAL OF CONSENT CALENDAR
- 10 Journal:
- 1. September 17, 2024
- 2. September 19, 2024
- 3. September 24, 2024
- 14 Bills:
- 4. AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain claims for the week of September 16, 2024, through September 20, 2024, and ordering the payment thereof; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
- 5. AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain claims for the week of September 23, 2024, through September 27, 2024, and ordering the payment thereof; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
- H. COMMITTEE REPORTS
- 18 CITY COUNCIL:
- 1. A RESOLUTION relating to the City Light Department; recording review of and adopting the City Light Department’s wildfire mitigation plan.
- 20 GOVERNANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE:
- 2. AN ORDINANCE related to recruitment and retention of police officers in the Seattle Police Department; making permanent a hiring incentives program in the Seattle Police Department; and amending Ordinance 126654.
- 22 LAND USE COMMITTEE:
- 3. AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle’s construction codes; adopting the Seattle Boiler Code, Building Code, Electrical Code, Energy Code, Existing Building Code, Fuel Gas Code, Mechanical Code, Plumbing Code, and Residential Code and chapters of the Washington Administrative Code by reference, amending certain chapters of those codes, and adopting new chapters for those codes; amending Sections 3.06.030, 5.73.020, 11.60.690, 22.101.010, and 22.502.016 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and repealing Section 1 of Ordinance 126278, Ordinance 126279, Ordinance 126358, and Ordinance 126508.
- 24 PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE:
- 4. AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle’s technical codes; adopting the Seattle Fire Code by adopting chapters of the 2021 International Fire Code by reference, amending certain chapters of the Code, and adopting new chapters for the Code; amending Sections 3.02.125 and 22.600.020 of the Seattle Municipal Code; repealing Section 1 of Ordinance 126283 and Sections 2 and 3 of Ordinance 127037; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
- 5. AN ORDINANCE relating to surveillance technology implementation; authorizing approval of uses and accepting the 2024 surveillance impact report and 2024 executive overview for the Seattle Police Department’s use of Closed-Circuit Television Camera Systems; amending Ordinance 126955, which adopted the 2024 budget; and lifting a proviso.
- 6. AN ORDINANCE relating to surveillance technology implementation; and authorizing approval of uses and accepting the 2024 surveillance impact report and 2024 executive overview for the Seattle Police Department’s use of Real-Time Crime Center software.
- I. ITEMS REMOVED FROM CONSENT CALENDAR
- J. ADOPTION OF OTHER RESOLUTIONS*
- 7. A RESOLUTION expressing the Mayor and City Council’s opposition to Washington State ballot Initiative 2117 concerning carbon tax credit trading.
- K. OTHER BUSINESS
- L. EXECUTIVE SESSION**
- 33 Executive Session on pending, potential, or actual litigation (est. 60 minutes) **Please note that Executive Sessions are closed to the public
- M. ADJOURNMENT
- 35 _____________________________________________________ Emilia M. Sanchez, Deputy City Clerk Signed by me in Open Session, upon approval of the Council, on October 29, 2024. _____________________________________________________ Sara Nelson, Council President of the City Council