WHEREAS, the City of Seattle was designated as a federal urban Enterprise Community in 1995; and

WHEREAS, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced a second round of applications for a federal Empowerment Zone application; and

WHEREAS, under the federal criteria, several communities within the City of Seattle and the White Center community in unincorporated King County are eligible for designation; and

WHEREAS, under the federal criteria there are also "developable sites" in the City of Seattle, the City of Renton and in King County eligible for designation; and

WHEREAS, the federal government will provide grant support as well as special program considerations for communities designated as federal Empowerment Zones; and

WHEREAS, the cities of Seattle and Renton, in partnership with Metropolitan King County, are in the process of preparing an application, in conjunction with private corporations, nonprofit organizations and community members, that furthers regional growth management, housing affordability and economic development activities which will benefit citizens of Seattle, Renton and King County; and

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE, THE MAYOR CONCURRING, THAT:

Section 1. The Seattle City Council hereby approves the Empowerment Zone Framework attached to this Resolution as Attachment 1 and incorporated by reference herein. This Framework forms the basis for the Metropolitan Seattle Empowerment Zone application.

Section 2. The areas shown on the map attached to this Resolution as Attachment 2 and incorporated by reference herein are designated as the Nominated Area for the Metropolitan Seattle Empowerment Zone application.

Section 3. The Mayor and the Director of the Office for Economic Development ("the Director") are hereby authorized to prepare and submit an application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in partnership with the City of Renton and Metropolitan King County, for designation under the Empowerment Zone Program. The application must be consistent with the Empowerment Zone Framework attached as Attachment 1 and must include the Nominated Area as, authorized in Section 2. The Mayor and Director are further authorized to make, for and on behalf of the City of Seattle, all assurances, certifications, and representations required in connection with the application.

ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Seattle the _____ day of_____________, 1998, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its adoption this __________day of_____________, 1998. ______________________________________ President _________of the City Council

Filed by me this __________ day of _________________, 1998. ______________________________________ City Clerk

THE MAYOR CONCURRING: ________________________ Paul Schell, Mayor Attachments Attachment 1 Empowerment Zone Framework Attachment 2 Empowerment Zone Nominated Area

ATTACHMENT 1

EMPOWERMENT ZONE FRAMEWORK

APPLICATION VISION / GOALS PROGRAM / PROJECT SELECTION PROCESS EMPOWERMENT ZONE GRANT ALLOCATION PROPOSED GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE

METROPOLITAN SEATTLE EMPOWERMENT ZONE: A REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP CITY OF SEATTLE CITY OF RENTON METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY

"The challenge ahead for us is to ensure that all of our citizens cross that bridge into the 21st century."

Paraphrase of Vice President Al Gore

White House Conference on Empowerment Zones

July 15, 1998

"Huge increase in working homeless caused by rise in housing cost here"

"In the first five months of this year, King County's main homelessness-information line received 3,866 calls from homeless families a 40 percent increase over the same period last year. In 1997, the number of employed people staying at city shelters nearly doubled. They now constitute 20 percent of the overall shelter population."

The Seattle Times

July 28, 1998

" Study shows Washington's economy is nation's best, tops for entrepreneurs"

"Washington's economy is the best in the United States and earned the top ranking for entrepreneurial growth, according to an independent study.

The study by the Corporation for Enterprise Development gives Washington straight A's in three key measurement areas: economic performance, business vitality and development capacity."

Press Release Office of the Governor

July 24, 1998

"Economic success certainly has its pros and cons; the strength of local companies is a plus. But a big minus is being ranked by the Sierra Club as one of the most 'sprawl threatened U.S. cities.'"

Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution

OVERVIEW

While the national media focus attention on Puget Sound's growing economy and quality of life, the partners in the Metropolitan Seattle Empowerment Zone the City of Seattle, the City of Renton, and Metropolitan King County know well that there is a less publicized side to life in America's "most livable city." A large number of citizens still cannot access meaningful employment in the nation's "best economy." One third of the household within the EZ community have income below the poverty level and unemployment is currently estimated at 10% or approximately 3 times the city average and twice the national average. Many of our neighborhoods do not have the range of housing and commercial services options enjoyed by other communities. The rising cost of living for the Puget Sound area with its rising housing costs coupled with stagnant income growth created even greater economic pressure on low-income residents.

While most economic news in the region emphasizes technology growth, much of the area's employment is provided by basic industries that manufacture and move goods and provide services to the international trade sector. For those technology sectors showing employment promise, there is a growing gap between current Empowerment Zone residents and the future knowledge-based economy. This, in turn, has fueled an in-migration of skilled labor to fill those needs exacerbating growth pressures.

Seattle is also an international gateway and has experienced tremendous growth in immigration, creating new large communities of Eastern European, Southeast Asian and African families that challenge existing education and human service networks. Last, regional growth is affecting our environmental quality of life, increasing congestion and sprawl, dramatically increasing housing prices leading to affordable housing gaps, and leading to a potential designation of salmon as an endangered species within an urban area.

How can a region fashion a 21st century economy that competes in the whirl of cutting edge global markets, yet doesn't leave behind its poorest households and neighborhoods? That is the focus of the Metropolitan Seattle Empowerment Zone Strategy as it capitalizes on the resourcefulness, ingenuity and commitment of citizens, corporate leaders and elected officials to become a national model for economic development which is economically and environmentally sustainable while reaching deeper to find comprehensive solutions to urban poverty.

Since 1990, Washington State and King County have been working to implement a local, regional, and statewide Growth Management Act which embraces the principles of "smart growth" and sustainable development -which reflects our belief that we can promote economic vitality alongside community health -and which has, at its core, the absolute conviction that all of our residents, urban and suburban, deserve and can achieve the high quality of life that this region can provide. Recent citizen supported initiatives to invest time and energy in neighborhood planning activities, to invest in regional transit, to expand school facilities and invest in libraries show a commitment to funding solutions to congestion problems and education needs. The partnership expressed in the Metropolitan Seattle Empowerment Zone application represents the optimistic belief of local governments and citizenry that the region's problems can be solved that the growing economy can provide economic opportunity for all citizens and that its environmental quality can be maintained. The application affirms existing partnerships and creates new collaborations to utilize the technology innovations of the region to improve service and program delivery, improve the mobility of citizens and businesses, improve teaching methods and link to better, more sustainable employment opportunities

EMPOWERMENT ZONE VISION STATEMENT

A regional alliance continues to flourish among the City of Seattle, King County, and the City of Renton and is helping to transform distressed communities into vital, livable neighborhoods. Through collaborative partnerships with citizens, community-based organizations, the private sector, the federal government, the State of Washington, local governments, and school districts, Metropolitan Seattle residents have ready access to livable wage jobs, businesses easily find and keep skilled and job-ready workers, nonprofits deliver targeted, comprehensive support services that bolster self-sufficiency, local governments use incentives and flexible responses to support and build on the area's economic vitality, and communities are energized, cohesive, and safe places to live and work. The result is a developed urban core which grows within its means by maximizing its economic, human and neighborhood assets.

This vision is based on our belief that all of our stakeholders add unique value to the process of building and maintaining economic and community well-being and that problems can be solved only if all of the interested parties are actively involved in forging solutions and creating new opportunities. Thus, we value highly our region's diverse partners as assets in economic, human, and neighborhood development. Our vision is based on our unique strengths: the region's future-oriented high tech global economy; our long-standing commitment to quality of life; our record of innovative collaborative partnerships; and our strong culture of grassroots citizen participation. We want to use these strengths to ensure that those residents who have not yet connected to the region's strong economy and quality of life are fully able to do so and that all of our citizens will be ready to participate in the global economy of the 21st century.

Seattle stands on the edge of a powerful opportunity in 1998: the opportunity to use its vibrant economy as a tool to enfold all of its residents into the high quality of life that makes this region stand out. With so many of our people still living in poverty in the midst of economic growth, it is obvious that a booming economy itself is not enough, that it is our responsibility to draw our low income residents fully into the complex web of social, economic, and geographic connections that make up a healthy region. Economic opportunity alone is not enough; sustainable community development alone is not enough; community partnerships alone are not enough to revitalize our low income neighborhoods. Lessons learned from Seattle's Enterprise Community program and from the beginnings of true systems reform through the Seattle/King County Jobs Initiatives have shown us that all of these strategies must be inextricably intertwined for residents to participate fully in our economy, and it is this intertwined system of linkages we seek to build in this application.

Invigorating Regional Quality of Life Through Local Cooperation

The City of Seattle, the City of Renton, and King County are taking their traditional collaborative, community-based problemsolving habits to another level by creating the regional partnership that underlies this application. The seeds of this partnership have already been sown through local initiatives in economic and workforce development and environmental sustainability which are founded upon collaboration that reaches across both traditional agency and geographic boundaries. The Seattle and King County Jobs Initiatives cooperate in areas of mutual interest such as regional labor market analysis, long-term links with employers, training/education efforts, and advocating for improvements in welfare reform policies. In a parallel venture, the local, county, nonprofit, private, and state funders of employment/training services have formed a Coordinated Funders Group to ensure that their multiple funding streams, service delivery systems, and support services such as transportation and housing are well coordinated and managed, consistent with a common strategic vision that focuses on long-term job retention and upward earnings mobility. Seattle and King County also collaborate on homeless and housing services, public health policies and programs, assistance to manufacturing/industrial firms, and freight mobility. Area school districts have long partnered through the Cities In Schools Program to identify improvements to educational quality and to increase the involvement of parents, communities and corporate partners in school-based solutions. Enterprise Community funding helped to create several innovative Seattle/King County systemic approaches to environmental cleanup and brownfields redevelopment, including an environmental extension service that provides technical assistance to area businesses to overcome environmental barriers to startup, retention, or expansion.

The City of Seattle and its surrounding areas in King County are interconnected parts of a larger regional economy, and economic health in one part feeds the next---or starves it. In addition to the neighborhoods with high levels of poverty within Seattle, poverty has been spreading further to the suburban areas south of the city proper; 68% of King County welfare recipients now live outside of the city limits. Water and air quality, traffic, public civility and safety, education, the arts---all of these quality of life factors spill over governmental lines and require regional action to maximize benefits and minimize costs to citizens. Growth management, a critical issue in the Pacific Northwest, by definition requires regional cooperation in promoting economic growth in tandem with open and green space and vibrant neighborhood cores in all communities. Seattle, Renton, and King County are forming a regional governance structure that will help to streamline cooperative agreements across agency and government lines and generate opportunities for additional collaborations. These partnerships among local governments and corporations, nonprofit organizations, and citizens will continue to identify areas of mutual concern and guide investments towards solutions that continually improve resident choices, neighborhoods, and the ability of nonprofit organizations to develop projects and deliver services.

STRATEGIC VISION FOR CHANGE

This application flows from a strategic vision for change which centers on three priority areas in the region: economic development, human development, and neighborhood development.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Strengthen the Duwamish Manufacturing and Industrial Center and other Seattle, Renton and King County employment centers as a place to do business.

The Metropolitan Seattle Empowerment Zone will work to retain the region's industrial job base by maintaining a healthy business and regulatory climate that values industrial lands and facilitates industrial growth and redevelopment of brownfields sites. At the same time, investments will be made to improve the impact of industrial practices on the region's environmental quality through surface improvements that minimize drainage and surface run-off problems in the Duwamish River, Elliott Bay and Lake Washington; reduce traffic congestion through mobility improvements using technology to coordinate signal flows throughout the region, and work closely with industry associations and individual businesses to adopt more environmentally sensitive production processes and materials.

The Duwamish Manufacturing and Industrial Center and the developable sites in Renton and King County will continue to provide livable wage jobs in major regional growth sectors, including manufacturing, transportation, and wholesale distribution. Alliances with business leaders, local governments, labor, training entities and agencies will ensure that economic opportunities can be filled by Empowerment Zone residents. Through the Seattle/King County Jobs Initiatives, the region is already working with employers to design just-in-time training that precisely fits employer needs, and is working with residents to provide them with training, child care, transportation, job retention help, housing, and other comprehensive support services through case management so that they can get and keep those livable wage jobs.

The region will build on the environmental regulatory reforms initiated through the Enterprise Community process and confirmed with a recent Brownfields Showcase designation by expanding its aggressive "brownfields" redevelopment strategy which reclaims and redevelops existing industrial land for future employment opportunities. This strategy includes initiatives to increase community involvement in brownfields decision-making and to work with low income communities in identifying and addressing environmental hazards. In addition, transportation of freight, employers and workers will be improved through a series of coordinated projects improving bus, truck, and rail access to and throughout major industrial areas. This is a critical feature of the EZ's economic development strategy, since it affects the economic health of the area at all levels, from individual workers to regional trade and distribution to the region's ability to serve as a gateway for international trade.

This economic development strategy also targets existing neighborhood commercial centers, promoting business and commercial development that brings employment closer to residents while providing needed goods and services to the community, and retaining trade dollars that would otherwise leak out into other non-EZ areas. This includes supporting light rail and mixed use town centers as well as business district revitalization and physical

improvements to neighborhood cores, combining to form a comprehensive approach to promoting livable communities in the region.

Partnerships with area universities and industry organizations will increase the opportunities for academic/industrial collaborations that lead to commercialization of new technologies, the next generation of corporations, and the diffusion of cutting-edge technology to the area's small and medium size firms. These partnerships will continue to generate new ideas and products for the world in addition to increasing the production levels of basic industries minimizing physical sprawl, and will establish linked employment and training efforts early in company and technology sector development to target EZ residents.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Link residents to livable wage jobs and self-employment opportunities in those employment centers through the Seattle/King County Jobs Initiative system.

The EZ will build on the early systems reforms that are the foundation of the Seattle and King County Jobs Initiatives to help people and families now living in poverty to reach economic sustainability by connecting to the training and services that help them get and keep livable wage jobs with medical and other benefits. These systems reforms allow us to take a broad strategic approach to job linkages for residents and employers rather than the fragmented and uncoordinated efforts of the past, and are guided by four core principles: focus on livable wage jobs; a dual customer focus on both job seekers and employers; long term job retention and upward mobility; and integration of human services. This EZ strategy will expand its capacity to target livable wage jobs in Seattle and King County commercial and industrial areas and make the links necessary between residents and employers through a targeted sector, customized training approach. The targeted sector focus ensures that residents will be training for jobs that are currently in demand and which employers need help in filling. The dual customer approach residents and employers ensures that needs are being met on both ends simultaneously.

A network of community-based organizations and regional education and training providers will work together to deliver comprehensive case management services, providing links to affordable housing, child care, health care, transportation (including an innovative partnership with the courts to regain lost drivers licenses needed for work), financial management tools, "soft" skills training (punctuality, teamwork), structured support such as the current Men of Color Support Group in SJI, education and training that provide them with employer-requested skills and that connect them to actual job openings, and job retention support for up to two years. This completely integrated and strategic approach to human development is the underpinning of a livable community, one that is thriving economically through transforming its own residents into highly educated and skilled workers.

The network of service providers and the role of information technology and program/systems reform will be enhanced through our partnership with local foundations to provide technology technical assistance to nonprofit organizations. State of the art hardware and software consulting will be made available to organizations to improve the quality of information provided through their efforts, and to integrate that information with other organizations, allowing for cross-agency program collaborations. The technology support will link multiple organizations allowing for decentralized information services in each community through multiple organization doors. The active use of technology to identify program benefits and problems will allow for a greater degree of risk taking in implementing program in the Metropolitan Seattle Empowerment Zone. Program adjustments will occur faster as performance information is reviewed and analyzed. The region's commitment to active performance measures will ensure program and community accountability.

NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Invest in critical neighborhood development activities needed to strengthen neighborhoods, existing small business services and families seeking livable-wage employment.

The Metropolitan Seattle EZ will advance a high community quality of life that supports both neighborhood and regional needs through "smart growth" initiatives, which maximize development opportunities within urban areas while retaining regional opportunities for open space, rural preservation and focused growth. These "smart growth" initiatives utilize a grassroots citizen planning process to identify strategic actions for increasing affordable housing, expanding and improving the quality of libraries and schools as community centers, identifying key neighborhood transit enhancements, supporting industrial redevelopment and infrastructure improvements, and expanding retail services into comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategies that are now ready to be implemented. As EZ neighborhoods improve their quality of life, the result will be an in-migration to neighborhoods where economic prosperity has, in the past, led to a move to suburban locations increasing regional congestion.

Support for commercial/mixed use development, business district revitalization, and a One-Stop Capital Shop will combine to provide an extensive web of opportunities for neighborhood economic development. The partnership between a community-based lending company, Community Capital, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and area financial institutions will expand the use of HUD Section 108 funds to provide needed loan capital for business growth. For some residents with an entrepreneurial nature, the available business assistance and financing programs and microcredit opportunities will allow them to use selfemployment as a means to self-sufficiency. Local schools and libraries will expand their ability to serve as community learning centers providing a wide range of services, including school to work transition for at-risk youth, family literacy, Youthbuild, multilingual/ESL parent education, and increased access to computer technology. Our thriving community-based organizations are critical implementers of strategies for housing and neighborhood development, education, employment and human services, and continued partnerships with community policing maintain public safety in these communities. Investments will be made to enhance the community development infrastructure for nonprofit developers by organizing government and foundations funds to streamline access to land acquisition, project predevelopment, and project development resources. EZ residents and clients of the Seattle / King County Jobs Initiatives will be the clients for housing opportunities that improve the quality of their home environment.

This strategy provides residents with ready access to educational resources to continually improve their personal and economic opportunities while linking to other important housing and neighborhood services. Our region knows more than any other the critical value of education in the knowledge-based economic expansion seen here, and views its cultural diversity and multitude of foreign languages as a value added avenue to the global economy. Through linking this comprehensive neighborhood development approach with the strategically targeted and coordinated economic and human development strategies, the Empowerment Zone will foster greater community awareness of the high wage job opportunities in the region available to those who master basic academic and work skills. Educational resources will be provided geographically in specific neighborhoods through expanding the reach and capacity of public schools and libraries. These facilities will become centers of learning for all members of the family, from children to parents to extended family.

Here is one example of some of the linkages among these three strategies. The Seattle Public School system is targeting information technology for development of a school to work academy. Because of the K-12 approach of SchooltoWork, the presence of information technology is increasing at all levels as whole schools, both students and teachers, are being trained to use it effectively; middle school career pathway awareness activities will include this as a targeted sector; a variety of EZ and other school to work activities will connect high school students to training, skills standards, job shadows and internships; school to work's burgeoning partnerships with local community colleges and employers will link those students to the technical and educational training that leads to livable wage jobs in the information technology sector as well as other sectors which depend on it; technology transfer from the University of Washington will provide opportunities for the most talented students to blast off into myriad pathways of innovation and technology development; and employers remain competitive because they have access to high quality local employees, with connections to support services help with affordable housing, child care, transportation, job retention help, access to health care, peer support.

CONCLUSION

The Empowerment Zone application envisions a future where collaborations occur to identify and fund activities which retain the regional quality of life, enhance economic opportunity, improve mobility, guide positive growth to neighborhood and urban manufacturing and industrial centers, and allow Empowerment Zone residents to have the same life choices of other residents in the regions. Through these investments, the residents of the Empowerment Zone will have a full range of choices available to them and their families rather than the minimal options available today. The quality of life within the Empowerment Zone and outside the Zone are interconnected and as the Puget Sound economy continues its growth, Empowerment Zone residents will benefit in meaningful ways that will enhance the quality of life within their families and their communities, and the region will benefit from growth that is more sustainable, grows within our means and improves our desired environmental integrity.

EMPOWERMENT ZONE GOALS

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Strengthen the Duwamish Manufacturing and Industrial Center and other Seattle and King County employment centers as a place to do business. More specifically:

Strengthen existing commercial neighborhood centers; and

Protect and enhance industrial and commercial areas as livable wage employment generators for EZ residents while improving regional environmental quality; and

Improve transportation of freight, employers, and workers to and from industrial areas and other job centers; and

Collaborate with private, organizational and educational partners to expand the development and commercialization of new technologies to expand the employment base within the EZ area and to create employment opportunities for EZ residents.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Link residents to livable wage jobs and self-employment opportunities in those employment centers through the Seattle/King County Jobs Initiative system. More specifically:

Increase the number of residents who get and keep livable wage jobs in Seattle and King County commercial and industrial areas through the Seattle and King County Jobs Initiatives; and

Expand the services available to assist Seattle and King County Jobs Initiatives clients to get and keep livable wage jobs; and

Enhance the collaboration between human service providers, transportation services, education services and health services with residents supported through the Seattle and King County Jobs Initiatives to support their ability to get and keep livable wage jobs.

NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Invest in critical neighborhood development activities needed to strengthen neighborhoods, existing small business services and families seeking livable-wage employment. More specifically:

Increase the variety and availability of retail goods and services in neighborhood centers; and

Expand small business finance resources, including microcredit resources, and business assistance services and centralize access to these services through a One-Stop-Capital-Shop model; and

Improve access to community education, training, and service facilities; and

Increase affordable housing choices in neighborhoods; and

Improve public safety in neighborhoods and business districts; and

Improve transportation services to enhance mobility within neighborhoods and connect residents to regional transportation services and employment centers.

METROPOLITAN SEATTLE EMPOWERMENT ZONE APPLICATION

CITY OF SEATTLE -CITY OF RENTON -METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY

HOW THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS WILL WORK FOR EZ PROGRAM/PROJECT SELECTION

During the application process, EZ funding can be requested through nomination forms, working groups, developable site plans, corporate and foundation contacts, and identified neighborhood plan priorities. Regardless of the process used for selection, any project and program identified for inclusion must further one of the EZ priority goal areas and must ultimately be included in the final recommendations of the EZ Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee will adopt preliminary budget targets per goal area by September 5th and make final recommendations and program/project funding allocations for the application by September 23rd

Our goal areas are:

Strengthen the Duwamish Manufacturing and Industrial Center and other Seattle and King County employment centers as a place to do business;

Link residents to livable wage jobs and self-employment opportunities in those employment centers through the Seattle/King County Jobs Initiative system;

Invest in critical neighborhood development activities needed to strengthen neighborhoods, existing small business services and families seeking livable-wage employment.

PROJECT / PROGRAM SELECTION PROCESSES

Processes used to solicit project and program concepts include:

PROGRAM/PROJECT PROPOSALS THROUGH NOMINATION FORMS AND REGIONAL WORKING GROUPS

The EZ Advisory Committee members, and involved departmental staff received copies of the nomination form and, except in program areas where other types of community outreach was planned, disseminated it to community groups involved in EZ-type activities (e.g., housing, human services, neighborhood development, etc.). Any of these constituents were able to submit one or more program/project nominations for consideration in the EZ application. All nominations were due Monday, August 24, 1998 and were reviewed by August 28, 1998.

The EZ Advisory Committee also took the lead in forming working groups around specific topic areas of interest. The working groups included both Advisory Committee members and other people interested or having expertise in those areas, as well as representatives from Seattle, Renton, and King County. Working groups were formed around the following regional issues: employment linkage, transportation, freight mobility, business district revitalization, brownfields revitalization, affordable housing, technology, and schools/libraries. Several work groups will do additional outreach to community-based organizations and other groups. These working groups also submitted nominations by August 24.

The EZ Advisory Committee voting members also formed themselves into three Goal Area Review Groups, covering the three EZ priority goal areas of economic development, human development, and neighborhood development. These goal groups are scheduled to meet August 26-28 to make final decisions on how selection criteria will be weighted within each goal group, review all nominations in their goal areas, and provide initial rankings of the nominations that will place them into one of three categories: 1) projects which clearly fit the EZ criteria and goals and need further development; 2) projects which are borderline in qualification and need further work before a definitive decision can be made; and 3) projects which clearly do not fit the EZ criteria and goals and should therefore be removed from further consideration.

The EZ Advisory Committee will met on Monday, August 31 to review and approve/amend the Goal Area Review Groups' recommendations. The recommendations will be communicated directly afterwards to the lead contact for each working group.

Working groups and individuals submitters will then develop the projects, programs, and/or strategies in greater depth. This task will include efforts to integrate the different activities across the EZ region and within each goal area. The fully developed proposals need to be completed by September 15.

The EZ Advisory Committee will begin discussions on funding allocation among the three goal areas and among the jurisdictions by September 4th and approve initial budget targets on September 9, 1998.

PROGRAM/PROJECT PROPOSALS THROUGH DEVELOPABLE SITE PLANS

Each jurisdiction will produce a plan for its developable sites; Chuck Depew will call or email the appropriate representatives to request that these plans be done by September 15, 1998. The plans will then be provided to the Economic and Human Development Goal Area Review Groups, who will make joint recommendations on the integration of the plans with those goals by September 20, 1998. The plans will be reviewed by the Advisory Committee for program/project selection after a budget is established for developable sites, and the final plans will be approved/amended by the Advisory Committee on September 23, 1998.

PROGRAM/PROJECT PROPOSALS THROUGH CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SPONSOR CONTACTS

Officials from the three EZ jurisdictions are meeting with corporations and foundations to discuss ways in which they can participate in creating and implementing the Empowerment Zone Strategic Plan. After each meeting, the officials will provide brief summaries of possible activities to the EZ communications team. The EZ Advisory Committee will receive regular updates on promising ideas from these meetings and will make recommendations on follow-up development of those ideas.

PROGRAM/PROJECT PROPOSALS THROUGH NEIGHBORHOOD PLANS

In Seattle, neighborhood planning committees in EZ areas, the Seattle Neighborhood Planning Office, and the Seattle Strategic Planning Office may identify neighborhood plan projects that meet EZ goals and request that they be considered for inclusion. The EZ Advisory Committee will make final recommendations in response to these requests.

PROGRAM/PROJECT PROPOSALS THROUGHOUT THE LIFE OF THE EZ PROGRAM

This will not be the only opportunity to seek Empowerment Zone funding for projects and programs. If the overall application is approved, there will be further opportunities to apply for a portion of Empowerment Zone funds for projects and programs that are consistent with the goal areas. Funds would be made available on an annual or semi-annual basis through other competitive processes.

Empowerment Zone Grant Allocations

Total Allocation Years 1-3

Administration 6,000,000 $1,800,000

Economic Development Goal Brownfields Loan Fund 4,500,000 1,000,000 Freight Mobility 10,000,000 3.000,000 Biotech / Technology 1,500,000 500,000 Tenant Improvement RLF Developable Site 9,000,000 3,000,000 Sub Total 25,000,000 $7,500,000

Human Development Goal Jobs Initiative 16,500,000 4,948,000 Childcare Assistance 7,330,000 2,190,000 Childcare Facility Pilot 24,000 24,000 Technology Training 800,000 400,000 for Teachers High School Career 1,216,000 770,000 Academies Middle School Career 500,000 0 Pathways CBO Capacity Development 660,000 660,000 Human Development 2,970,000 0 Opportunity Fund Sub Total 30,000,000 $9,000,000

Neighborhood Development Goal

Neighborhood Opportunity 3,000,000 $0 Fund Neighborhood Business 3,500,000 $1,000,000 District Law Enforcement 1,500,000 $900,000 Problem Solving SBA Capital Shop* 2,500,000 $1,000,000 Arterial Opportunity 2,000,000 $500,000 Fund

Community-Based Development Support Land Acquisition (WCDLF/ 2,000,000 $1,000,000 LISC Empowerment Fund) Homeownership 5,000,000 $1,500,000 Down Payment Assistance Multi-Family 4,000,000 $2,000,000 Mixed Income Support Commercial Development 2,000,000 $1,000,000 Program Transit Oriented 2,600,000 $0 Development Transit Service and 1,000,000 $0 Demand Mgmt.

Schools & Library Enhancements White Center Library 1,000,000 $441,000 Refugee Services* Seattle Public Libraries 3,000,000 $250,000 Neighborhood Services Community Schools 4,000,000 $1,009,000 Powerful Schools White Center Educational 3,000,000 $1,200,000 Center* Sub Total 39,100,000 $11,800,000

TOTAL 100,100,000 $30,100,000

* Site Specific Allocation

PROPOSED GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE

The Executive and EZ Advisory Committee recommendation is to establish an independent nonprofit organization, initially called the regional Empowerment Zone Board, to manage and administer the Empowerment Zone grant. The general structure of the organization is shown on the following page. The organization would have a Board numbering between 15-25 members and a small staff (2-5 people) to manage the program.

It is understood that much of the implementation of the Empowerment Zone program will be done by existing community-based organizations and governmental units in order to reduce any duplicative functions with the EZ staff. The nonprofit will have the final programmatic, performance and fiduciary responsibility to the federal government. The EZ grant and its funds would go directly to the organization rather than through a governmental entity.

The Executive Board would consist of the Mayor of Seattle, the Mayor of Renton and the King County Executive as well as approximately 12 17 representatives of citizens, community, business, and education stakeholders. Of the representative positions, 66% would be appointed by the City of Seattle and 33% would be appointed by King County and Renton. Nominations for representative positions would be made by the respective Executives with confirmation by respective Councils. Executive Boardmembers that are appointed for the City of Seattle will be jointly appointed by the Mayor and City Council and confirmed by the City Council.

The nonprofit would be freestanding with broad authority to manage the EZ grant as needed to ensure program performance and financial responsibilities. The organization would set policy, oversee program and project implementation, hire staff and authorize contracts for services. In the start up phase of the organization, some financial management functions could be contracted to government units.

It is recognized that many to the specific policy, procedural and contractual responsibilities of the organization will be further developed after the grant award. Once awarded, the jurisdictions will work with the Advisory Committee, and other stakeholders as needed, to establish the by-laws and incorporation needs of the new organization. This will ensure a smoother transition to the creation of the new entity in a manner which expedites its start in order to begin implementation of the program.