Here’s a reminder of what SCC Insight brought you this week: Coverage of the Council’s passage of a ban on winter evictions; We broke the story of Council member Sawant being charged with violations of the city’s ethics code for using city resources to promote her “Tax Amazon” ballot initiative; The latest developments in the pending ordinance to expand sanctioned encampments and “tiny home” villages; A deep dive on how much Amazon really pays in income taxes; An update on HB 2907’s authorization for a payroll tax, and Seattle officials’ attempt to prevent being preempted from passing their own; The …
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City launches new data “dashboards”
After largely abandoning for several months the “dashboard” pages initially set up by by Mayor Murray’s administration, today Mayor Jenny Durkan rolled out a new set of pages intented to keep Seattle’s citizens aprised of how their government is doing on its performance goals.
Continue readingWednesday news roundup
Speed limits are going down, while socialism is apparently on the rise. It must be Wednesday.
Continue reading2020 Budget up for final approval tomorrow
With the final version of the 2020 city budget up for final approval tomorrow, there are no last-minute surprises on the agenda.
Continue readingCouncil continues debate on regional governance model for homelessness
This morning, the City Council had another hearing to discuss the proposed regional governance structure to respond to the homelessness crisis that was developed by representatives of Seattle and King County.
Continue readingNotes from today’s Council meetings
Here’s what the Council was up to today.
Continue readingTuesday news roundup
One week to the election! VOTE.
Continue readingTime off for bad behavior
I’m taking a few days off for vacation with the family. SCC Insight will return next week with a fresh new set of long-winded and poorly reasoned posts. I encourage you all to enjoy the brief respite.
Continue readingRobart issues written order on compliance with consent decree, but leaves big questions unanswered
As he promised last week, this afternoon Judge James Robart issued his written ruling finding that the City of Seattle has fallen partially out of compliance with the 2012 Consent Decree on biased policing practices. In so doing, he clarified some questions raised by his bench ruling last week, but left other important ones unanswered.
Continue readingMosqueda drafts “respectful workplace” resolution
For the last couple of weeks, Council member Teresa Mosqueda has been circulating a draft resolution “supporting a safe and responsive workplace” within the city government’s Legislative Department. It’s meant to set expectations not only for how Legislative Department employees treat other city employees and constituents, but also for how constituents should treat the department’s employees.
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