This afternoon, the City Council received a long briefing from King County Public Health and several city department heads on the status of the COVID-19 response in Seattle. It then went into an extended executive session with its attorneys, followed by a public session in which it modified the Mayor’s declaration of emergency and issued a resolution with requests and expectations for the Mayor in how she exercised her emergency powers.
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Durkan declares civil emergency due to winter storm
This morning, Mayor Durkan signed an order declaring a civil emergency due to the arriving winter storm.
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