Category: council briefing

This afternoon’s City Council meeting was a non-event, since there were no bills to vote on, but there was some interesting information shared at this morning’s Council Briefing.

The Council members are spending the week plotting their budget strategies, but a few other things got done too. Here’s what’s up.

After a two-week recess, the Council members had a lot to say today. Here’s what went down.

A couple of notable bills (and a lot of very un-notable ones) passed this afternoon, the last scheduled meeting of the full Council before its two-week recess. Plus the Council has its own counsel.

There wasn’t a ton of non-budget-related stuff in Council Chambers today, but here’s what did happen.

While most of Monday’s meetings were taken up with deliberations on the renewal of the Seattle Transportation Benefit District, there were a few other notable happenings.

The Council decided how to spend payroll tax revenues, and more.

There was plenty of talk — and posturing — today in the ongoing standoff between the Mayor and the City Council over potential cuts to SPD’s budgets. But a few other things happened too.