This morning, Council members Kshama Sawant and Tammy Morales jointly unveiled their legislation to impose a new payroll tax on businesses in Seattle.
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Council passes expansion of homeless encampment and “tiny home village” permitting
This afternoon, the City Council adopted by a 6-1 vote an ordinance that expands the maximum number of permits for sanctioned homeless encampments and “tiny home villages” that the city may issue, allows those permits to by renewed indefinitely, and streamlines other elements of the permitting process.
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It’s a quiet start to a short workweek, perhaps the proverbial “quiet before the storm” of Mayor Durkan’s State of the City address later today.
Continue readingShow some love for SCC Insight today
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.
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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.
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One week to the election! VOTE.
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