This afternoon Mayor Durkan, Council President Gonzalez, and Council Budget Chair Mosqueda announced a draft plan for how to spend $128 million in federal COVID relief funding that the city expects to receive this year.
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City, state get win in court on eviction moratoria
This morning, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge J. Richard Creatura published a ruling in favor of the City of Seattle and the State of Washington, and denying a request for a preliminary injunction blocking the city and state moratoria on residential evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue readingNotes from today’s Council meeting
This week the City Council meeting switched from Skype to a good old-fashioned conference call, featuring automated announcements every time someone entered or dropped the call and plenty of background chatter as the Council members called in from home. And yet they still managed to get a few things done.
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