Category: this week

The payroll tax comes up for final vote, and the Council digs into the 2020 budget.

More budget talk — and possibly some votes — this week.

Another Budget Wednesday this week.

The Council dives further into its special budget session this week. Plus several bills related to over-policing are working their way through the legislative pipeline.

As I write this on Sunday morning, the political process in Seattle has gone completely off the rails.  Last night there was another exchange of violence between protesters and the Seattle police, and for the first time several City Council members rushed to the scene to intervene, along with some other elected officials representing Seattle. There are multiple calls for Mayor Jenny Durkan to resign over the police response to the protest (though so far there have no public calls for Police Chief Carmen Best to resign), and the Mayor has responded with a statement all but vowing not to …

It’s been an extraordinary past 48 hours in Seattle. We know some, but probably not all, of the effects of it on the Council’s planned activities this week.

It’s a short week for the Council, but still a news-worthy one — especially Wednesday.

A couple of committee meetings are scheduled for this week, though one looks to be very controversial. But there is plenty of new legislation being introduced this week.

What was originally going to be a tense week as deliberations on the proposed payroll tax advanced, has become a quiet one since the deliberations have been suspended.

It looks to be a quiet week in cyberspace City Hall.