BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE THAT:
Section 1. Effective immediately and until further notice, the City Council's standing committees, membership and meeting times are as shown below, superseding Resolution 30838.
Standing Committee Committee Members Committee Meeting Days and Times
Culture, Civil Chair: Nick Licata 2nd and 4th Rights, Health and Vice-Chair: Tom Wednesdays Personnel Rasmussen 2 p.m. Member: Jean Godden
Alternate: Bruce Harrell
Energy and Technology Chair: Bruce Harrell 1st and 3rd Vice-Chair: Jean Godden Wednesdays Member: Richard Conlin 2 p.m. Alternate: Richard
McIver
Environment, Chair: Richard Conlin 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Emergency Management Vice-Chair: Richard 2 p.m. and Utilities McIver Member: Tim Burgess Alternate: Sally Clark
Finance and Budget Chair: Jean Godden 1st and 3rd Thursdays Vice-Chair: Nick Licata 9:30 a.m. Member: Sally Clark Alternate: Jan Drago
Housing and Economic Chair: Richard McIver 1st and 3rd Development Vice-Chair: Jan Drago Wednesdays Member: Bruce Harrell 9:30 a.m. Alternate: Nick Licata
Labor Policy Chair: Nick Licata 3rd Friday Vice-Chair: Tom Rasmussen 12 noon Member: Tim Burgess Member: Sally Clark Member: Richard Conlin
Parks and Seattle Chair: Tom Rasmussen 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Center Vice-Chair: Richard 9:30 a.m. Conlin Member: Jan Drago Alternate: Tim Burgess
Planning, Land Use Chair: Sally Clark 2nd and 4th and Neighborhoods Vice-Chair: Tim Burgess Wednesdays Member: Tom Rasmussen 9:30 a.m. Alternate: Jean Godden
Public Safety, Human Chair: Tim Burgess 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Services and Vice-Chair: Bruce 2 p.m. Education Harrell Member: Nick Licata Alternate: Tom Rasmussen
Transportation Chair: Jan Drago 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Vice-Chair: Sally Clark 9:30 a.m. Member: Richard McIver Alternate: Jean Godden
When Monday is an official holiday causing the full City Council meeting to be held on Tuesday, the committees that regularly meet on Tuesdays at either 9:30 a.m. or 2 p.m. will meet on the following Friday at 9:30 a.m. or 2 p.m., respectively.
Section 2. The duties of the standing committees are as follows:
Culture, Civil Rights, Health and Personnel Committee: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to culture, including arts activities, Seattle Public Library, Seattle Community Access Network (SCAN), and Nightlife Advisory
Board; to civil rights issues; to local and regional public health; and to personnel issues, including labor-management relations, collective bargaining agreements, and other issues related to salary rates, hours and other conditions of employment.
Energy and Technology Committee: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to Seattle City Light, including but not limited to City Light finances, energy utility rates, resource matters, regional matters, air pollution
regulations, environmental policies and initiatives, alternative energy sources, and waterway cleanup; and to City information technology planning, implementation, and organization, cable telecommunications services and planning, broadband
telecommunications planning and implementation, Seattle Channel, seattle.gov, and citizen technology literacy and access.
Environment, Emergency Management and Utilities Committee: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to water, drainage, wastewater and solid waste services provided by Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), including SPU
environmental services and utility rates, regional water resources and endangered species recovery plans; to sustainability and the Office of Sustainability and Environment; to the City's energy and environmental policies, stewardship, conservation
programs, and initiatives; to emergency preparedness, management and response; and to regional, state, federal and other governmental matters including charter review, Office of Intergovernmental Relations (OIR), the work priorities of the Office of
Policy and Management (OPM), and rules of the City Council.
Finance and Budget Committee: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to the financial management and policies of the City and its agents, including the biennial operating and capital budgets, levies, taxes, revenue,
audits, and judgments and claims against the City; and to oversight of the City's public works construction projects except as otherwise specified.
Housing and Economic Development Committee: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to housing and economic development policies and programs.
Labor Policy Committee: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to planning or adopting strategies and positions to be taken during the course of collective bargaining, professional negotiations, and grievance or
mediation proceedings, and to reviewing proposals made in the negotiations or proceedings.
Parks and Seattle Center: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to parks, public grounds, recreation, community centers, the Woodland Park Zoo, the Seattle Aquarium, and Seattle Center.
Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to growth and the urban environment, including comprehensive planning, zoning, design, and land use regulations; to neighborhoods,
including neighborhood plan updates and implementation, outreach and citizen involvement, and historic preservation; and to oversight of ethics and elections.
Public Safety, Human Services and Education Committee: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to law enforcement, fire prevention and suppression, emergency medical services, and criminal justice, including coordination
with regional, state and federal law and justice agencies; to human services, homelessness, child care, aging, and disability services; and to education activities within the City's purview, including City Council-School Board relations, and oversight
of the Families and Education Levy and the City's Education Action Agenda.
Transportation Committee: To deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to city-wide and regional transportation and transit policies and planning, street maintenance and rehabilitation, traffic control, and parking policies;
to neighborhood transportation planning; to pedestrian and bicycle programs; to the coordination of transportation issues and the representation of the Council's interests on transportation to King County, Sound Transit, the Puget Sound Regional
Council, the Washington State Department of Transportation and neighborhoods within the City of Seattle; and to the Civic Center construction project.
Section 3. Public Corporations established by the City are assigned to standing committees as shown in Attachment A.
Section 4. Reports of standing committee actions taken prior to the effective date of this resolution may be made to the full Council at any time consistent with Council Rules and Procedures by any of the following: (1) the Councilmember who chaired
or chairs that committee; (2) any Councilmember who was on that committee or who attended that committee's meeting at the time of the action; or (3) any sponsor of the Council Bill or Resolution on which the action was taken.
Adopted by the City Council the ____ day of ____________________, 2008, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its adoption this________ day of ______________________, 2008. _________________________________ President ___________of the
City Council
Filed by me this ____ day of ________________________, 20__. ____________________________________ City Clerk
Attachment A: Assignment of Public Corporations to Committees
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Attachment A: Assignment of Public Corporations to Committees
1. Seattle City Council Public Development Authority (PDA) Guidelines
* The Council requests that the City's nine public corporations submit board minutes and agendas (by e-mail posting), financial reports and other relevant documents to the assigned City Council Committee Chair and other Councilmembers who request them.
If requested by individual Councilmembers, the public corporations will also provide their charters.
* The Council requests PDA representatives to periodically appear before relevant Council committees to update the Council on their activities and share items of mutual interest.
* The Council and Council Committees will be briefed periodically by the Executive on PDA issues at the discretion of the Council President and Committee Chairs.
* Each PDA will be assigned to and reviewed by a Council committee as listed below.
2. Clarification of the Council's Role
The Executive will continue to monitor PDAs and to look after the City's interests with regard to loan guarantees and other financial or legal relationships between the City and a PDA. The Council will review the activities of PDAs as outlined above.
The Council will also confirm or reject PDA board appointments. The Council must avoid attempting to resolve conflicts and mediating disputes that involve PDAs. Instead, such matters may be handled by mediation agencies. In extraordinary
circumstances, the Council has authority to take a more active role in the activities of a PDA.
3. Assignment to Committees
a. Housing and Economic Development Committee: * Burke-Gilman Place Public Development Authority * Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program
b. Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee: * Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority * Historic Seattle Preservation and Development Authority * Pike Place Market
Preservation and Development Authority
c. Public Safety, Human Services and Education Committee: * Seattle Indian Services Commission
d. Culture, Civil Rights, Health and Personnel Committee: * Pacific Hospital Preservation and Development Authority
e. Transportation * Museum Development Authority of Seattle
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