CITY OF SEATTLE

ORDINANCE __________________

COUNCIL BILL __________________

AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 126955, which adopted the 2024 Budget, including the 2024-2029 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2024-2029 CIP; adding CIP Projects; imposing a proviso; creating positions; modifying positions; abrogating positions; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The appropriations for the following items in the 2024 Adopted Budget are reduced from the funds shown below:

Section 2. Consistent with RCW 35.32A.050, unexpended appropriations from Section 1 of this ordinance are reappropriated as follows:

Section 3. In order to pay for necessary costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred in 2024, but for which insufficient appropriations were made due to causes that could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of making the 2024 Budget, appropriations for the following items in the 2024 Budget, which are backed by revenues, are increased from the funds shown, as follows:

Section 4. The appropriations for the following items in the 2024 Adopted Budget are modified, as follows:

Section 5. The NSC Expansion (MC-CL-XF9220), Denny Substation Tenant Improvements (MC-CL-XF9235), Ross - Governors (MC-CL-XS6562), Solar Microgrid for Resilience (MC-CL-XF9238), and Sound Transit - City Light System Upgrades (MC-CL-ZT8475) projects in Seattle City Light are established in the 2024-2029 Adopted Capital Improvement Program, as described in Attachment A to this ordinance.

Section 6. Appropriations in the 2024 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2024-2029 Adopted Capital Improvement Program are reduced as follows:

Allocation modifications for the Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle City Light, and Seattle Public Utilities in this section shall operate for the purposes of increasing or decreasing the base for the limit imposed by subsection 4(c) of Ordinance 126955.

Section 7. Consistent with RCW 35.32A.050, unexpended appropriations and project allocations in the 2024-2029 Adopted Capital Improvement Program from Section 6 of this ordinance are reappropriated and reallocated as follows:

Allocation modifications for Seattle Public Utilities in this section shall operate for the purposes of increasing or decreasing the base for the limit imposed by subsection 4(c) of Ordinance 126955.

Section 8. Appropriations in the 2024 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2024-2029 Adopted Capital Improvement Program, which are backed by revenues, are modified as follows:

Allocation modifications for the Seattle Department of Transportation in this section shall operate for the purposes of increasing or decreasing the base for the limit imposed by subsection 4(c) of Ordinance 126955.

Section 9. Appropriations in the 2024 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2024-2029 Adopted Capital Improvement Program are modified as follows:

Allocation modifications for the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle City Light in this section shall operate for the purposes of increasing or decreasing the base for the limit imposed by subsection 4(c) of Ordinance 126955.

Section 10. The following positions are created in the following departments:

The Directors of the relevant departments are authorized to fill these positions subject to Seattle Municipal Code Title 4, the City’s Personnel Rules, and applicable employment laws.

Section 11. The following positions are transferred:

Section 12. The following positions are abrogated:

Section 13. This ordinance imposes a proviso as follows:

“Notwithstanding the provisions of Seattle Municipal Code Section 5.38.055, of the appropriations in the 2024 budget for the Department of Education and Early Learning’s K-12 Programs Budget Summary Level (BO-EE-IL200), $10,000,000 of JumpStart Payroll Expense Tax Fund funds are appropriated solely to provide and raise awareness of critical mental health services and student safety interventions, such as proactive mental health screening, telehealth therapy, and in-person therapy for Seattle students, and may not be used for any other purpose.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Seattle Municipal Code Section 5.38.050, of the appropriations in the 2024 budget for the Department of Education and Early Learning’s K-12 Programs Budget Summary Level (BO-EE-IL200), $2,250,000 of JumpStart Payroll Expense Tax Fund funds are appropriated solely to expand educational supports for Seattle students, including providing restorative practices through community-based partners and investing in safe community spaces and enriching activities, and may not be used for any other purpose.”

The Council intends the $2.25 million to be used on a one-time basis for violence prevention activities. Further, the Council requests the Department of Education and Early Learning to collaborate with other City of Seattle departments, including, but not limited to, the Human Services Department and Seattle Parks and Recreation, to find investment opportunities that can be deployed quickly and efficiently. The departments should focus on expanding successful current investments that can benefit from additional funding and leveraging community-based organizations that possess connections to Seattle youth and that are equipped to provide services to address the youth mental health and violence crisis.

Section 14. The following existing appropriations in the 2024 Budget shall carry forward to subsequent fiscal years until they are exhausted or abandoned by ordinance:

These carried forward appropriations are appropriated solely for an independent, consultant-led evaluation of the Crisis Care Responders program and may be spent for no other purpose.

Section 15. Of the $800,000 appropriated in item 2.14 of this ordinance, $400,000 may only be spent to expand recruitment of women officers to achieve the 30x30 goal of having recruitment classes that include 30 percent of women in the Seattle Police Department, and may be spent for no other purpose. The Council requests that Seattle Police Department provide a status update on the recruitment plan by October 7, 2024, to the Chair of the Select Budget Committee.

Section 16. The City Council requests that the Seattle Police Department provide data on spending and performance metrics, as well as qualitative information on its Recruitment and Retention Program by September 24, 2024, to the Council President, that includes, at a minimum:

A. Use of hiring incentives;

B. Technology initiatives that expedite the recruitment and hiring process such as automated case management;

C. Use of outside background services; and

D. Advertising and marketing services. The advertising and marketing information should include a month-by-month breakout of spending and specific information on purchased advertisements, by medium and program where applicable.

Section 17. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken after its passage and prior to its effective date is ratified and confirmed.

Section 18. This ordinance shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Sections 1.04.020 and 1.04.070.

Passed by the City Council the ________ day of _________________________, 2024, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this ________ day of _________________________, 2024.

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President ____________ of the City Council

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Bruce A. Harrell, Mayor

Filed by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2024.

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Scheereen Dedman, City Clerk

(Seal)