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    Legislation approved by the Seattle City Council on June 2, 2014, and filed with the City Clerk

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    Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below.

    Ord. 124490
     C.B. 118098

    AN ORDINANCE relating to employment in Seattle; adding a new Chapter 14.19 to the Seattle Municipal Code; establishing minimum wage and minimum compensation rates for employees performing work in Seattle; and prescribing remedies and enforcement procedures.

    Ord. 124491
     C.B. 118066

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the Department of Parks and Recreation and Seattle Public Utilities; transferring partial jurisdiction of a portion of Seward Park, located beneath and adjacent to the tennis courts and adjacent parking lot, from the Department of Parks and Recreation to Seattle Public Utilities for maintenance, repair and operation of a combined sewer underground storage tank, associated underground pipes and electrical lines, and limited surface ancillary facilities; and superseding certain requirements of Ordinance 118477, which adopted Initiative 42.

    Ord. 124492
     C.B. 118094

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the 2014 Budget; amending Ordinance 124349, which adopted the 2014 Budget, including the 2014- 2019 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; adding new projects; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2014-2019 CIP; creating positions; modifying positions; lifting a proviso; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.

    Ord. 124493
     C.B. 118109

    AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof.

    Res. 31522

    A RESOLUTION of intention to modify the assessment rates and modify the boundaries for the West Seattle Junction Parking and Business Improvement Area.

    Res. 31524

    A RESOLUTION requesting that the Department of Finance and Administrative Services work with the City Council and other appropriate City departments and stakeholders to strengthen implementation of any local minimum wage ordinance.

    Legislation approved by the Seattle City Council on May 27, 2014, and filed with the City Clerk

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    Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below:

    Ord. 124482
     C.B. 118074

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the Waterfront Improvement Program; authorizing the Director of Transportation to acquire, accept, and record both temporary and permanent property rights from abutting property owners located along Alaskan Way and a new Elliott Way, as well as many east-west streets connecting with Alaskan Way and/or Elliott Way, between South King Street and Battery Street, necessary or convenient for the Waterfront Improvement Program, through negotiation or condemnation; placing the conveyed real property under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation and designating the property for transportation, utility, and general municipal purposes; authorizing payment of all other costs associated with acquisition; and ratifying and confirming prior acts.

    Ord. 124483
     C.B. 118077

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the Seattle Center Department; authorizing execution of an agreement with Theatre Puget Sound to manage and operate space in the Seattle Center Armory for use by non-profit arts organizations and individual artists.

    Ord. 124484
     C.B. 118092

    AN ORDINANCE related to Gender Equity; lifting a budget proviso imposed on Finance General’s Reserves Budget Control Level in 2014 for Gender Wage Equity Project; changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels in the Budget; adding new positions and amending Ordinance 124349, which adopted the 2014 budget; all by a two-thirds vote of the City Council.

    Ord. 124485
     C.B. 118100

    AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; providing salary increases effective January 1, 2014 for certain non-represented City employees a nd officers; and ratifying and confirming prior acts.

    Ord. 124486
     C.B. 118101

    AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the execution of memoranda of understanding between the City of Seattle and members of the Coalition of City Unions; and ratifying and confirming prior acts.

    Ord. 124487
     C.B. 118102

    AN ORDINANCE, relating to City employment, to be known as the 2014 Pay Zone Ordinance; adjusting the pay zone structures for the City’s discretionary pay programs for the year 2014; and ratifying and confirming prior acts.

    Ord. 124488
     C.B. 118103

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the 2014 Budget; amending Ordinance 124349, which adopted the 2014 Budget; changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels due to changes in City employment compensation; and ratifying and confirming prior acts; all by a three-fourths vote of the City Council.

    Ord. 124489
     C.B. 118105

    AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof.

    Res. 31523

    A RESOLUTION affirming the City of Seattle’s commitment to gender equity, and the implementation of comprehensive measures to achieve equity at the City of Seattle and throughout our community.

    Legislation approved by the Seattle City Council on May 19, 2014, and filed with the City Clerk

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    Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below:

    Ord. 124475
     C.B. 118052

    AN ORDINANCE related to land use and zoning; repealing Section 23.24.046 and amending Sections 23.22.062, 23.24.045, 23.34.086, 23.44.010, 23.44.012, 23.44.022, 23.84A.004, 23.84A.024, 23.84A.046, and 23.86.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code to adopt permanent development regulations to promote compatible buildings on undersized single- family-zoned lots.

    Ord. 124476
     C.B. 118073

    AN ORDINANCE relating to City-owned property under the jurisdiction of the Office of Housing, located in Ladd’s First Addition to South Seattle, lying east of and immediately adjacent to Airport Way South; transferring jurisdiction of portions of Lots 9-16, Block 7 and portions of Lots 7-12, Block 10 to the Department of Finance and Administrative Services; transferring jurisdiction of portions of Lots 6-10, Block 11, to the Seattle Department of Transportation for street purposes; and laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing a portion of Airport Way South.

    Ord. 124477
     C.B. 118075

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the East Marginal Way Grade Separation Project; authorizing the Director of the Department of Transportation, on behalf of the City of Seattle, to execute a Memorandum of Agreement with the Port of Seattle regarding the design, permitting, construction, financing, transfer, use, and related aspects of the project.

    Ord. 124478
     C.B. 118084

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the Seattle Streetcar; authorizing execution of an amended and restated interlocal agreement with King County for operation and maintenance of the Seattle Streetcar system; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

    Ord. 124479
     C.B. 118095

    AN ORDINANCE authorizing, in 2014, acceptance of funding from non-City sources; authorizing the heads of the Executive Department, Seattle Police Department, Seattle Fire Department, Human Services Department, Department of Parks and Recreation, Department of Planning and Development, and Seattle City Light to accept specified grants and private funding and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

    Ord. 124480
     C.B. 118097

    AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the City of Seattle and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 77 to be effective January 23, 2013 through January 22, 2017; providing payment therefor; and ratifying and confirming prior acts.

    Ord. 124481
     C.B. 118099

    AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof.

    Res. 31520

    A RESOLUTION of intention to modify the boundaries for the Capitol Hill Business Improvement Area.

    Online Seattle Municipal Code has been updated

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    The current online code incorporates ordinances passed through 21 March 2014. The most recent codified ordinance is Ordinance 124443.

    Ordinance # SMC Section(s) affected
    124430 Amended Ch. 25.32
    124431 Amended § 5.30.020
    124441 Amended §§ 6.310.100, 6.310.110, 6.310.120, 6.310.125, 6.310.130, 6.310.150, 6.310.200, 6.310.205, 6.310.230, 6.310.300, 6.310.305, 6.310.320, 6.310.330, 6.310.340, 6.310.400, 6.310.405, 6.310.415, 6.310.420, 6.310.450, 6.310.455, 6.310.465, 6.310.470, 6.310.500, 6.310.530, 6.310.600, 6.310.605, 6.310.610, 6.310.635; added §§ 6.310.260—6.310.275, 6.310.325—6.310.329, 6.310.452, 6.310.540, 6.310.545, 6.310.745, 6.310.750
    124443 Amended §§ 21.33.010, 21.33.030, 21.33.050, 21.33.120

    Archive Find of the Month: Stranded Filipinos, 1899

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    66236The following petition, dated December 18, 1899, was sent to the City Council:

    Gentlemen: Reciting to you the fact that a band of men women and children, known as “Philippinos,” seventeen in number, consisting of nine men, four women and three children, are stranded in our city, absolutely destitute of funds or means of support, owing to their wearing apparel being held by one of the local hotels for debt, their working paraphernalia, consisting of costumes, juggling tools, trapeze fixtures slack wire and other tools of trade being held in a neighboring city, also for debt, leaving them absolutely powerless to help them selves to a livelihood here or means in which to travel, and from the further fact that they are here, not as criminal, vagrants or paupers, but as innocent victims of mis-placed confidence, having been bilked on every hand by schemers, until now they are utterly helpless.  We your petitioners ask that you appropriate a sufficient amount of money for their maintenance until action can be had on the Federal Government, tending to their deportation.

    The document was signed by the president and the secretary of the Charity Organization Society.  A couple of weeks later, on January 2, Council passed an ordinance appropriating $80 “for the payment of the costs of transportation for certain indigent persons natives of the Philippine Islands and now in charge of the Charity Organization of Seattle.”

     

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    Legislation approved by the Seattle City Council on May 12, 2014, and filed with the City Clerk

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    Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below:

    Ord. 124469
     C.B. 118082

    AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending Chapter 23.32 of the Seattle Municipal Code at page 76 of the Official Land Use Map to rezone property located at 1321 N. 45th Street from Lowrise 3 Residential Commercial (LR3 RC) to Neighborhood Commercial 2 Pedestrian with a 40 foot height limit (NC2P-40), and accepting a Property Use and Development Agreement as a condition of rezone approval. (Petition by Lee Wan Properties LLC, C.F. 312670, DPD Project 3014098)

    Ord. 124470
     C.B. 118081

    An ORDINANCE approving an amendment of the Property Use and Development Agreement approved by Ordinance 121961 for property located at 419 N.E. 71st Street.

    Ord. 124472
     C.B. 118078

    AN ORDINANCE related to indigent public defense legal services; authorizing an alternative to the method under Ordinance 122602 for selecting providers of public defense legal services; authorizing an interlocal agreement with King County for public defense legal services; and superseding the provisions of Ordinance 122602, as amended, to the extent it is inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance.

    Ord. 124473
     C.B. 118085

    AN ORDINANCE relating to Hearing Examiner filing fees, amending Section 3.02.125 to add exceptions for cases brought to enforce Chapter 14.17 (Use of Criminal History in Employment Decisions) and Subchapter III of Chapter 4.20 (Whistleblower Protection Code).

    Ord. 124474
     C.B. 118086

    AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof.

    Res. 31521

    A RESOLUTION relating to the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation; authorizing applications for grant funding assistance to the Washington Recreation and Conservation Office for Wildlife and Recreation Program projects as provided in Chapter 79A.15, Revised Code of Washington, and Title 286, Washington Administrative Code; and authorizing applications for grant funding assistance to the Recreation and Conservation Office for Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account projects as provided in Revised Code of Washington 79.105.150 and Title 286, Washington Administrative Code.

    Legislation approved by the Seattle City Council on May 5, 2014, and filed with the City Clerk

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    Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below:

    Ord. 124471
     C.B. 118076

    AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof.

    Res. 31517

    A RESOLUTION establishing the 2014 work program for the Office of Housing.

    Res. 31519

    A RESOLUTION retiring introduced and referred Council Bills, Resolutions, and Clerk Files which have received no further action.

    Archives Find of the Month: Employment Agencies, 1902

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    6397In 1902, a group of ten men sent a letter to the City Council to complain about the conduct of an employment agency called Russell & Russell.

    As the men related the story, they went into the agency on June 2nd and signed up to work as laborers for a Northern Pacific Railroad project. They were told that the work would last until the 4th of July and that they would be provided transportation to the work site, “and on this representation, took the job, paying therefor one dollar each” to the agency for the referral.

    The men found that the job was not as advertised. “Instead of being transported to the work, we were obliged to walk ten miles after leaving the [train] cars. The work lasted, for some of us, a week, and while we were there, men arrived daily from the employment office until the work ceased” – meaning that the agency kept soliciting referral money from workers even though doing so shortened the contract for all.

    The men told the Council that in addition to the dollar fee to the agency, they also ended up paying “return fare and other expenses, which amount to more than the wages received.” They asked for laws that would “properly restrain” agencies from misrepresenting the jobs they are furnishing so as to “prevent the recurrence of conditions similar to the above.”

    The Council’s Labor Committee reported that “the charges made are in the main true,” and recommended that “a new and more stringent ordinance” be enacted to regulate the operation of employment agencies. Indeed, new regulations were passed the following year.

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    See other Archives Finds of the Month here:

    http://seattle.gov/CityArchives/Exhibits/finds.htm

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    http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/

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    Legislation approved by the Seattle City Council on April 28, 2014, and filed with the City Clerk.

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    Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below:

    Ord. 124457
     C.B. 117991

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the regulation of wall signs, amending Sections 23.55.030, 23.55.034, 23.55.036, 23.84A.036 and 23.90.018 of the Seattle Municipal Code; enacting and amending standards for on-premises wall signs in commercial, Seattle Mixed, industrial and downtown zones; clarifying the definition of wall signs and on-premises signs; directing revenue from sign code violations to the Operations Division of the Department of Planning and Development; and establishing increased penalties for certain violations of sign provisions in the Seattle Municipal Code.

    Ord. 124458
     C.B. 118042

    AN ORDINANCE amending the Seattle Comprehensive Plan to incorporate changes proposed as part of the 2013-2014 Comprehensive Plan annual amendment process.

    Ord. 124459
     C.B. 118048

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; accepting statutory warranty deeds to the Failla, Kuo, and Morgan/Wall properties in Snohomish County, Washington, and the Cunningham, Hylback, Kuno, Poeschel, and Stein properties in Skagit County, Washington, and the Burk property in King County, Washington, for salmonid habitat protection purposes; ratifying the grants of Deeds of Right to the State of Washington on the Dow, Hylback, Kuno, Kuo, Miller, Morgan/Wall, and Poeschel properties for salmon recovery and conservation purposes; placing said lands under the jurisdiction of the City Light Department; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

    Ord. 124460
     C.B. 118059

    AN ORDINANCE granting ProLogis, L.P. permission to maintain and operate an existing truck loading access area in Colorado Avenue South, north of Diagonal Avenue South, abutting 4200 East Marginal Way South; for a ten-year term, renewable for two successive ten-year terms; specifying the conditions under which this permit is granted; and providing for the acceptance of the permit and conditions.

    Ord. 124461
     C.B. 118060

    AN ORDINANCE relating to a pedestrian skybridge over and across Post Avenue, south of Seneca Street; amending Ordinance 117590, as amended by Ordinance 121855; updating the insurance and bond requirements; amending the annual fee and other terms and conditions of the permit; renewing the term of the permit to the Colonial Grand Pacific Building Owners; providing for the acceptance of the permit and conditions; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

    Ord. 124462
     C.B. 118061

    AN ORDINANCE relating to grant funds from non-City sources; authorizing the Director of Transportation (Director) to accept specified grants and execute related agreements for and on behalf of the City; amending Ordinance 124349, which adopted the 2014 Budget, including the 2014-2019 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT); adding new projects; revising allocations for certain projects in the 2014-2019 CIP; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

    Ord. 124463
     C.B. 118064

    AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to accept a loan from the Washington State Public Works Board and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

    Ord. 124464
     C.B. 118069

    AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 124349 that adopted the 2014 Budget; correcting errors in fund codes and budget control level codes, names, and purposes; correcting appropriations for various departments; abrogating and modifying positions; and correcting the spending plan for a project in the 2014-2019 Capital Improvement Program.

    Ord. 124465
     C.B. 118071

    AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof.

    Ord. 124466
     C.B. 118072

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the 2014 Budget; carrying forward certain unexpended appropriations and funds for non-capital purposes from the 2013 budget of various departments; ratifying and confirming certain prior acts, all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.

    Ord. 124467
     C.B. 118055

    AN ORDINANCE relating to creation of the Seattle Park District; requesting that a special election be held concurrent with the August 5, 2014 primary election, for submission to the voters residing within the City, a proposition to form the Seattle Park District.

    Ord. 124468
     C.B. 118056

    AN ORDINANCE relating to an interlocal agreement with the Seattle Park District, if formation of the district is approved by the voters within the City; approving the form of an interlocal agreement and authorizing the Mayor to execute such agreement on behalf of the City.

    Legislation approved by the Seattle City Council on April 21, 2014, and filed with the City Clerk

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    Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below:

    Ord. 124454
     C.B. 118058

    AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment commonly referred to as the Fourth Quarter 2013 Employment Ordinance; establishing new titles and/or salaries; designating positions as exempt from Civil Service status; amending Seattle Municipal Code 4.13.010; amending Seattle Municipal Code Sections 4.04.230 F, 4.04.240, 4.04.260; and ratifying and confirming prior acts; and all by a 2/3 vote of the City Council.

    Ord. 124455
     C.B. 118065

    AN ORDINANCE relating to the Department of Parks and Recreation (“DPR”); authorizing the Superintendent to enter into a lease agreement with Cascade Bicycle Club to occupy and use a portion of Building 11 at Warren G. Magnuson Park.

    Ord. 124456
     C.B. 118070

    AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof.

    Res. 31518

    A RESOLUTION extending the ad hoc Construction Careers Advisory Committee established under Resolution 31485, to continue its work to develop a report with recommendations to the Mayor and City Council on strategies to improve access to construction careers for women, people of color and otherwise disadvantaged individuals and in particular those who are also Seattle residents, including recommendations for a targeted hire policy and programming.