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CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
AN ORDINANCE authorizing, in 2016, acceptance of funding from non-City sources; authorizing the heads of the Executive Department, Department of Neighborhoods, Department of Parks and Recreation, Human Services Department, Seattle City Light, Seattle
Department of Transportation, Seattle Police Department, Seattle Information Technology Department, and Seattle Public Utilities to accept specified grants and private funding and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements; and ratifying
and confirming certain prior acts.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Mayor or the Mayor’s designee, the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods, the Superintendent of Parks and Recreation, the Director of the Human Services Department, the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Seattle
City Light, the Director of Transportation, the Chief of Police, and the Director of Seattle Public Utilities are authorized to accept the following non-City funding from the grantors listed below, and to execute, deliver, and perform, on behalf of The
City of Seattle, agreements for the purposes described below. The funds, when received, shall be deposited in the receiving fund identified below to support, or as reimbursement for, the corresponding appropriations set forth in the ordinance introduced
as Council Bill 118671.
Item |
Department |
Grantor |
Purpose |
Amount |
Fund |
1.1 |
Executive |
National Endowment for the Arts |
Seattle is one of three cities invited to co-develop and participate in the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) pilot Songwriting Challenge. The Office of Arts & Culture will work with the partner to provide project
management and fiscal control for the Challenge in Seattle/King County as well as collaborate and exchange ideas with other cities, NEA and national partners; create a system which will reach a diverse pool of youth in both formal and informal
music/music theatre learning environments; and provide support for potential Challenge applicants through workshops and/or other educational experiences and resources. |
$ 15,000 |
Arts Account (00140) |
1.2 |
Executive |
The Seattle Foundation |
The Creative Advantage program in ARTS will partner with the Seattle Public Schools to manage a series of trainings for Media Arts and Technology Integration. The series will build teacher capacity to integrate digital
literacy into their content areas, providing skills and teaching strategies in video and audio production, graphic design, and computer animation. |
$ 31,000 |
Arts Account (00140) |
1.3 |
Department of Neighborhoods (DON) |
King Conservation District |
The grant will fund compost and tool purchases among other activities in the P-Patch community gardens which are consistent with the mission of King Conservation District, a special purpose district organized and existing
under authority of Chapter 89.08 RCW that engages in activities and programs to conserve natural resources, including soil and water, which activities are declared to protect and promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the state of
Washington. |
$ 16,000 |
General Subfund (00100) |
1.4 |
Department of Neighborhoods (DON) |
Living Cities |
This grant will support the City’s participation in the City Accelerator cohort and will provide funding to pilot leading innovations in local government, focusing on outreach and engagement efforts. The project
will focus on internal mechanisms, making modifications to and essentially building a new practice of how we conduct outreach and engagement. |
$ 79,000 |
General Subfund (00100) |
1.5 |
Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) |
King County |
This grant supports the Virgil Flaim Park Skatespot Development project (K730182) and will be used to develop a skatespot, relocate the basketball court, and make related improvements to the park located in Lake
City. |
$ 75,000 |
2008 Parks Levy Fund (33860) |
1.6 |
Human Services Department (HSD) |
Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention |
The grant will provide funding to pay for training to youth-serving providers throughout Seattle in trauma-informed practice and suicide prevention. |
$ 278,000 |
Human Services Operating Fund (16200) |
1.7 |
Executive |
The Bloomberg Family Foundation, Inc. |
The total grant, now in its second of three planned years, will total over $2,500,000. The grant will continue to fund an in-house innovation consultancy team working on City priorities, using an “Innovation
Delivery” approach, supporting agency leaders and staff through a data-driven process to assess problems, generate responsive new interventions, develop partnerships, and deliver measurable results. |
$ 887,128 |
General Subfund (00100) |
1.8 |
Executive |
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) |
This is an amendment to an existing grant which supports consultant services for permitting, acquisition, and installation of a Navigational Buoy System to warn of approaching aircraft |
$ 41,617 |
General Subfund (00100) |
1.9 |
Executive |
Washington State University Energy Program |
This grant supports OSE’s home energy efficiency program, Community Power Works, by providing state Department of Commerce funds to offer home upgrade incentives. |
$ 500,000 |
General Subfund (00100) |
1.10 |
Seattle City Light (SCL) |
South Central Washington Resource and Development Council |
This grant will allow City Light to expand its work to assess wildfire risk near the Skagit Project and increase preparedness. |
$ 12,500 |
City Light Fund (41000) |
1.11 |
Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) |
Community Transit and Washington State Department of Transportation |
This item accepts two grants related to Downtown Seattle Transit Coordination. These grants support a multi-agency effort to address system changes that result from changes to bus operations in the Downtown Seattle
Transit Tunnel, the expansion of Sound Transit Link Light Rail, the opening of the SR 99 Bored Tunnel Project, the Central Waterfront Project and other private and public projects in the downtown region. |
$ 100,000 |
Transportation Operating Fund (10310) |
1.12 |
Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) |
Washington Safe Routes to School Program |
This grant creates safer, accessible walking routes at several locations by Rainier View Elementary. The project targets intersection crossing improvements on two arterials on the walking route to school, which will
include curb ramps and curb extensions. |
$ 420,000 |
Transportation Operating Fund (10310) |
1.13 |
Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) |
Washington Traffic Safety Commission |
This grant will provide funds to implement Pedestrian Safety Zones in historically underrepresented communities to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries with a data-driven approach. |
$ 45,000 |
Transportation Operating Fund (10310) |
1.14 |
Seattle Police Department (SPD) |
Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs |
The grant funds will be used to create a Crime Gun Task Force, increase capacity for ballistic analysis, improve data-driven analysis of firearm and gang crime and support victim intervention strategies |
$ 146,840 |
General Subfund (00100) |
1.15 |
Seattle Police Department (SPD) |
Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs |
This agreement funds the Washington State Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. |
$ 858,000 |
General Subfund (00100) |
1.16 |
Seattle Police Department (SPD) |
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance |
This grant funds law enforcement programs in Seattle and surrounding jurisdictions. |
$ 604,936 |
General Subfund (00100) |
1.17 |
Seattle Police Department (SPD) |
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance |
This grant supports planning and implementation of strategies to address challenges posed by reentry after incarceration. |
$ 997,210 |
General Subfund (00100) |
1.18 |
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) |
King County Flood Control District |
These funds will be used to replace a failed outfall at the west end of NW 120th Street. This project will also install a storm drain pipe and repair roadside ditches to increase flooding service levels in the
right-of-way and on private properties. |
$1,064,383 |
Drainage and Waste-water Fund (44010) |
1.19 |
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) |
King County Flood Control District |
This will allow SPU to design and permit a project that would remove four undersized driveway culverts and replace them with 12-foot arch culverts, and widen the stream channel in order to increase flood service levels
along private and public property that runs adjacent to Longfellow Creek. |
$ 200,000 |
Drainage and Waste-water Fund (44010) |
Total |
$6,371,614 |
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Unspent funds so appropriated shall carry forward to subsequent fiscal years until they are exhausted or abandoned by ordinance.
Section 2. The Chief Technology Officer and the Director of Seattle Public Utilities are authorized to accept the following non-City funding from the grantors listed below, and to execute, deliver, and perform, on behalf of The City of
Seattle, agreements for the purposes described below.
Item |
Department |
Grantor |
Purpose |
Amount |
Fund |
2.1 |
Cable Television Franchise Subfund (CBLFEE) |
Comcast |
The legislation approving the Comcast agreement already provided for the acceptance of $50,000, but the total ended up being $100,000. Therefore, the $150,000 captures both the remaining 2015 contribution and the full
2016 contribution. The contribution, along with internet and cable services provided to community organizations, will enhance the City’s effort to reduce the digital divide for disadvantaged residents consistent with the goals of the Digital
Equity Initiative. |
$ 150,000 |
Cable Television Franchise Subfund (00160) |
2.2 |
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) |
King County Flood Control District |
Funds received are to reimburse SPU for design, permitting, and construction costs incurred in 2015 for storm drainage improvements near Licton Springs Park in northwest Seattle. Improvements included inlet modifications
on Woodlawn Ave N to increase capacity and reduce frequency of clogging, and adding capacity to the drainage system along Woodlawn Ave N between N 95th St and N 92nd St. |
$ 829,723 |
Drainage and Waste-water Fund (44010) |
Total |
$979,723 |
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Section 3. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken prior to its effective date is hereby ratified and confirmed.
Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section
1.04.020.
Passed by the City Council the ____ day of ________________________, 2016, and
signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this
_____ day of ___________________, 2016.
____________________________________
President __________ of the City Council
Approved by me this ____ day of _____________________, 2016.
____________________________________
Edward B. Murray, Mayor
Filed by me this ____ day of __________________________, 2016.
____________________________________
Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk
(Seal)
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