FOR THANK YOU ALL. WOULD YOU WELCOME TWENTY TWENTY FOUR WOULD YOU PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
MISS PFISTER, AS YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL COUNCIL PRESIDENT WILKERSON PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER BINGOL HERE COUNCIL MEMBERS UPON COUNCIL MEMBER DILLON YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER KLETZKY PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER CATHCART PRESENT LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT. >> THANK YOU. WE ARE SO HONORED TONIGHT TO HAVE OUR MAYOR JOINING US
AND SHE WILL BE COMING TO US WITH THE PROCLAMATION AND A SALUTATION WELCOME MAYOR BROWN . THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT WILKERSON AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. GREAT TO SEE YOU ALL HERE. >> WHICH ONE WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO START WITH? LET’S START WITH THE MLK SHOWING. >> OK, IT’S A GREAT HONOR FOR
ME TO DO THIS AND HE SAID MANY THINGS AND THE WORDS JUST GET MORE PROPHETIC EVERY YEAR WHEREAS DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BELIEVED THAT TRUE PEACE REQUIRES NOT ONLY THE ABSENCE OF WAR BUT THE POWERFUL PRESENCE OF JUSTICE AND THAT VIOLENCE BRINGS ONLY TEMPORARY VICTORIES VIOLENCE BY CREATING
MANY MORE SOCIAL PROBLEMS THAN IT SOLVES NEVER BRINGS PERMANENT PEACE. >> AND WHEREAS DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AWAKENED THE HEARTS OF AMERICANS BY CALLING FOR TRUE EQUALITY AND INTEGRITY AMONG CITIZENS BY PROMOTING A SENSE OF JUSTICE THAT MOVES BEYOND RACISM AND BY ENCOURAGING A NATIONAL REALIZATION THAT INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT
TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE AND WHEREAS THE CITIZENS OF SPOKANE SHOULD CONTINUE TO LIVE BY DR. KING’S PRINCIPLES, ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY THAT ALL CITIZENS MUST WORK TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON CAUSE OF BETTERING HUMANKIND AS A UNITED BODY AND SERVING OUR COMMUNITY IN POSITIVE WAYS. >> NOW THEREFORE I LISA BROWN,
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE FIRST TIME I’VE DONE THIS VERY EMOTIONAL ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF SPOKANE. >> DO HEREBY PROCLAIM JANUARY 15TH TWENTY TWENTY FOUR AS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. OBSERVANCE DAY IN SPOKANE AND INVITE CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE IN A DAY ON NOT A DAY OFF TO CELEBRATE THE CIVIL
RIGHTS LEADERS LIFE AND LEGACY. >> THANK YOU. IF YOU STAY RIGHT THERE, MAYOR, WE’RE GOING TO HAVE FRIDA GANDHI, THE DIRECTOR OF THE MLK CENTER COME DOWN AND THE REVEREND AMOS AKESSON, PRESIDENT OF THE BLACK MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE TO COME TO SEE THE PROCLAMATION . OH ,ONE OF Y’ALL GO FIRST. >> ALL RIGHT.
FIRST I’M JUST HERE TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS PROCLAMATION AND THEN SUNDAY WE ARE HAVING AN AFTERNOON SERVICE AT HOLY TEMPLE AT THREE P.M. IT’S LOCATED 08 WITH INDIANA. COME ON, ENJOY. COME OUT AND CELEBRATE AND COME OUT AND HAVE WAS JUST HAVE A GOOD TIME.
THEY HAD AND I MEAN LET’S TALK ABOUT MONDAY. SO MONDAY JANUARY 15TH IS WE’RE HAVING THE RALLY MARCH AND RESOURCE FAIR AT THE CONVENTION CENTER STARTING AT 10:00 A.M. MIGHT BE A LITTLE COLD. JUST PUT ON SEVERAL LAYERS AND STILL JOIN US ANYWAY WE WILL START THE RALLY KICK THE
RALLY OFF AT TEN. THERE WILL BE SEVERAL DIFFERENT SPEAKERS THERE. WE WILL GIVE OUT THE FIRST IN BUSH COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD. YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT WHO ARE BUSH WAS WHAT HE MEANT TO THIS COMMUNITY. WE WILL ALSO BE GETTING OUT THE FIRST HAPPY WATKINS SCHOLARSHIP TO THE INDIVIDUAL IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO YOU’LL MEET THAT YOUNG PERSON ON MONDAY AS WELL AND THE RESOURCE WILL BE MADE UP OF ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY THAT YOU CAN SERVE OR VOLUNTEER WITH MLK DOES A LOT OF WORK. PEOPLE CAN VOLUNTEER WITH US BUT THERE’S ALSO OTHER GREAT AMAZING ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS COMMUNITY WHO COULD USE PEOPLE
TO VOLUNTEER AND SERVE WITH THEM AS WELL SO YOU CAN COME MEET THEM AND SEE HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED WITH THOSE ORGANIZATION AS WELL. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> AND I JUST HAVE ONE MORE THE COUNCILWOMAN BETSY WILKERSON WILL BE BRINGING THE MESSAGE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT
THREE P.M. AND I NEED TO CLARIFY ONE OTHER THING. >> I AM THE OUTGOING PRESIDENT OF THE SPOKANE MINISTERS FELLOWSHIP. >> THERE IS A NEW REGIME BUT I AM STILL WORKING ON BOARD. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR COUNCIL. I’M HERE AMERICANS. I WILL BE TELLING YOU THAT MY
WORK WILL BE WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR TALENTS COMING OUT OF THE BOOK OF LUKE? >> SO PLEASE JOIN US NEXT SUNDAY. >> WELL IT’S ALSO AN HONOR TO BRING WITH ME TONIGHT A PROCLAMATION PREVIOUSLY SIGNED BY MAYOR WOODWARD DECLARING DECEMBER TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY THREE AS JACK GARITY DE
AND THEN I AM READING TONIGHT AND ADDITIONAL CITY OF SPOKANE A SALUTATION AND THIS IS ALSO A PLEASURE AND HONOR BECAUSE I KNEW FORMER MAYOR GARRETTI AND HE LIKE MANY OTHERS HAD A VERY POSITIVE IMPACT ON ME. AND AS BREEAN BROWN SAYS, WHO YOU ARE IS HOW YOU LEAD AND HE
WAS A GREAT LEADER BECAUSE HE WAS ALSO A GREAT MAN. SO WHEREAS JACK GARRITY MADE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT AS A HARD WORKING, TALENTED, WELL RESPECTED AND DEDICATED COMMUNITY MEMBER OF SPOKANE DURING HIS EXTINGUISHED LIFE AND CAREER AND WHEREAS JACK GARRITY SERVED THE SPOKANE COMMUNITY IN MANY CAPACITIES AND MADE COUNTLESS
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY OF SPOKANE MOST NOTABLY SERVING AS THE MAYOR OF SPOKANE FROM NINETEEN NINETY FOUR TO NINETEEN NINETY SEVEN. >> AND WHEREAS MAYOR GARRETT’S IMPACT ON OUR CITY IS PROFOUND AND INCLUDES LEADING THE CREATION OF THE CITY’S NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL SYSTEM AND CHAMPIONING OUR SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIPS PARTICULARLY WITH LIMERICK.
>> IN ADDITION, HIS WORK FOSTERS A PUBLIC PRIVATE RELATIONSHIP TO REVIVE DOWNTOWN SPOKANE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF RIVER PARK SQUARE AND HIS ROLE THAT HE HAD IN OUR EXPO SEVENTY FOUR CELEBRATION NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO NOW. THEREFORE I LISA BROWN, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS
OF SPOKANE DO HEREBY SALUTE JACK GARRITY IN HONOR OF HIS LEGACY OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO THE CITY OF SPOKANE . >> THANK YOU, MAYOR, SO MUCH FOR JOINING US AND WE ARE HOPING THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST TIME WE SEE YOU. >> CERTAINLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> ALL RIGHT.
WE HAVE APPLAUDED AND CLAPPED AND NOW WE’RE MOVING INTO THE LEGISLATIVE PORTION OF OUR MEETING TO MAINTAIN DECORUM THERE WILL BE NO DEMONSTRATIONS, BANNERS, SIGNS, APPLAUSE, PROFANITY, VULGAR LANGUAGE OR PERSONAL INSULTS FOR OPEN FORUM YOU WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO ADDRESS ISSUE DIRECT ALL YOUR COMMENTS TO ME
AND FIRST UP IS JUSTICE FOR AND AFTER THAT DAVE M AND THEN AFTER THAT DEBBIE NO BACK. >> SO IF YOU PREPARE YOURSELVES PLEASE. HELLO MY NAME IS JUSTICE FOR ALL SPOKANE CITY RESIDENT OCTOBER NINETY PASS A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT OF ISRAEL THEN THE FOLLOWING COUNCIL MEETING COUNCIL
PRESIDENT LORI KINNEAR BEGAN TO SILENCE DAVID BROOKSBANK COMMENTS REFERENCING COUNCIL PEOPLE BY NAME. >> THERE WAS A REINTERPRETATION OF A RULE SAYING THAT COUNCIL MEMBER X COULD NOT SAY THIS ON A R SAID THIS ON A PREVIOUS DATE THAT WAS CONSIDERED AGAINST THE RULES ON NOVEMBER SIX I READ
THE TRANSCRIPT OF DAVID BEING SILENCED AND FOR MEMBERS ON THIS COUNCIL WALKED OUT. >> I HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT THIS PODIUM AND OPEN FORUM AS BEING USED AS A PLACE OF DISMISSAL. >> PEOPLE COME WITH ISSUES THEY CARE ABOUT IN A CITY THEY LOVE AND THEY ARE OFTEN DISMISSED HERE AT THIS PODIUM .
THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE BACK CHANNELS THAT OTHER PEOPLE IN THE CITY HAVE. THESE ARE PEOPLE SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE WHEN THEY COME UP TO THIS PODIUM. I STAND BY THEM AND I CONDEMN THIS COUNCIL’S CIA APPROACH TO
THE VIOLATIONS OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES CIVIL LIBERTIES BECAUSE AFTER NOVEMBER 6TH THAT ROLE IMMEDIATELY WAS CHANGED. >> THAT RULE WAS NOT UPHELD BECAUSE IT WAS NOT A RULE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN UPHELD. >> IT WAS A VIOLATION OF OUR FREE SPEECH. >> AND NOW I KNOW THAT THIS
COUNCIL IS TRYING TO CHANGE THE RULES AND CHANGE OUR ABILITY TO VOICE OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES THERE, TRYING TO MAKE IT SO ON ONE DAY A MONTH. AND IF YOU HAVE SPOKEN THAT PREVIOUS MONTH THAT YOU WILL YOU CAN ONLY SPEAK FOR TWO MINUTES ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH.
THAT’S THE NEW OPEN FORUM RULES. THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN THAT AS WELL AS LIMITING THE LEGISLATIVE ITEMS, CITY COUNCIL USED TO WANT ME TO BRING PEOPLE TO COUNCIL BUT WHEN YOU ASK US TO USE OUR VOICE YOU ASK US TO USE OUR VOICE UNTIL YOU REALIZE THAT OTHER PEOPLE HEAR IT.
OUR PARTICIPATION IS NOT A PROBLEM. YOUR REACTION TO OUR PARTICIPATION IS THANK YOU. DAVIAN IS CALLING IN. GO AHEAD DAVE UNMUTED. OK, THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL IN SPOKANE WE ALL BELONG TO THERE’S A BIG ASTERISK I ACTUALLY DON’T WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR OPINION FIND YOUR NAME
UNACCEPTABLE LIKE YOU OR FOLLOW. IT’S ALWAYS GOOD COUNCIL TIME TO CHANGE THE RESOLUTION TWENTY TWENTY FOUR ZERO ZERO THREE OPPOSING TO RESTRICT OPEN FORMS AND FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT FROM BEING EXPOSED AT A WEEKLY COUNCIL. THE PROPOSED ACTION BY OUR CITY COUNCIL IS UNACCEPTABLE AND MUST BE REJECTED, THE
COUNCIL SHOWN TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE NOT ONLY IS NOT FOLLOWED BUT NOW MUST BE SHUT DOWN. SHOULD THE COUNCIL ADOPTED THE RESOLUTION TO RESTRICT THE PUBLIC FROM VOICING THEIR CONCERNS OPINIONS OPPOSING FAVOR OR SIMPLY THE ABILITY TO ADDRESS THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS AT WEEKLY OPEN FORUM
IS NOT WELCOME AND WILL NOT BE FAVORABLE TO PUBLIC PERCEPTION . JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE ALLOWED TO DOESN’T MAKE IT RIGHT. THE COUNCIL SHOULD INSTEAD EXPAND THE OPEN FORUM. MAYBE YOU SHOULD ELIMINATE OR MOVE THE STUFF THAT TAKES UP NEARLY THE FIRST HALF HOUR OF EVERY MEETING I.E. POETRY
AT THE PODIUM, PHOTO OP SALUTATIONS AND SO ON TO THE VERY END ONCE A MONTH. INSTEAD WE NEED MORE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, NOT LESS. WE DESERVE BETTER FROM OUR COUNCIL RESPECT RESPECT IS A TWO WAY STREET IS NOT A BETTER WAY UNCLOAKED COUNTY COUNCIL HAVE A GOOD EVENING.
>> THANK NEXT DAY WE KNOW THAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT ONE PERSON AND COUNCIL MEMBERS I DEBBIE NOVAC MOTHER OF DAVID NOVAK YESTERDAY WITH HIS FIVE YEAR ANGEL BURSARY BUT I’M HERE TO SPEAK TO YOU TONIGHT ABOUT A MURDER OF A MAN CHRISTOPHER SCOTT SMITH. MR. SMITH WAS SHOT FIVE TIMES
WHILE HANDCUFFED ON SEPTEMBER 2ND OF TWENTY TWENTY THREE AND I AM SHOCKED THAT THIS COMMUNITY THE CITY IS NOT PURSUING THIS VOIDABLE MURDER OF ONE OF ITS CITIZENS. I HAVE SEEN VIDEOS OF MR. SMITH’S DEATH WHAT THESE VIDEOS SHOW IS A BAIL BONDSMAN SHOOTING ANOTHER MAN FIVE TIMES WHILE HE IS HANDCUFFED
AND ON THE GROUND. AT LEAST TWO OF THOSE SHOTS ARE IN THE MAN’S BACK AND WENT TO THE BACK OF HIS HEAD. THIS HAPPENED DURING THE DAY AT THE INTERSECTION OF ASTRONOMIC MEMORY. IT’S A VERY HARD VIDEO TO WATCH. THE SPOKESMAN DID AN ARTICLE IN REGARDS TO THIS MURDER ON
NOVEMBER TWENTY SECOND I HAD EXPECTED OUTRAGE BY THE PUBLIC IN THE SPOKANE PEOPLE IN GENERAL. WHY ARE PEOPLE WHY IS HIS COUNCIL NOT THROWING A FIT ABOUT THIS? WE ALL KNOW THAT BAIL BONDSMEN HAVE A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH POLICE AND I KNOW THAT MR. SMITH’S FAMILY IS WAITING FOR
ANSWERS AND RIGHTLY SO LOTS OF QUESTIONS AS TO WHY IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE A PERSON CAN BE SHOT WHILE ON THE GROUND AND HANDCUFFED JUSTICE SHOULD NOT JUST BE FOR THE ONES THAT CAN AFFORD IT. JUSTICE IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR EVERYONE. SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION I QUOTE INVESTIGATORS DID NOT BELIEVE
THEIR FINDINGS MET THE THRESHOLD FOR PROBABLE CAUSE. THE PROSECUTOR PRESSES NO CHARGES. THIS MAN WAS ON THE GROUND AND HANDCUFFED WHEN HE WAS SHOT. I HAVE TO ASK OF THIS COUNCIL PICK UP THE PHONE, SEND AN EMAIL, START ASKING QUESTIONS AND FOLLOW UP ON THIS ONE. PLEASE DO SOMETHING. THERE IS SOMETHING GRAVELY
WRONG WITH WHAT HAPPENED AND WITH WHAT DIDN’T HAPPEN TO SAVE THIS MAN’S LIFE. THANK YOU. THIS FAMILY DESERVES BETTER. >> THANK YOU. >> NEXT THAT WE HAVE ERIC LOWE TO BE THE AND WILL HEALING’S . GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS CRICHLOW AND I’M A STAY AT HOME DAD RESIDING IN
SPOKANE VALLEY. I’M HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK ABOUT COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS AND LEADERSHIP. I WAS AMUSED TO READ COUNCIL MEMBER BINGO’S COMMENTS LAST WEEK IN RANGE REGARDING ALLEGED SNUBS TO FOR COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS IN PARTICULAR HE SEEMED UPSET BECAUSE HE WASN’T APPOINTED TO THE STATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
I WAS AMUSED BECAUSE HE WAS A NO SHOW TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION TRANSPORTATION SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING. I PRESENTED TO YOU LAST WEEK. THIS COMMITTEE INCLUDES REPRESENTATIVES FROM WATCHDOG AS RTC STEET AND MULTIPLE CITIZEN COMMITTEES. MR. BINGOL IS THE CITY COUNCIL LIAISON TO THIS GROUP AND A TOP CITY TOP LISTED CITY
CONTACT FOR THE COMMITTEE ON ITS WEBSITE. >> I’M INTERESTED FROM HEARING AND HEARING WHY HE WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND SUCH A SEEMINGLY VITAL COMMITTEE THE VERY WEEK HE’S MAKING THESE COMPLAINTS IN RANGE. I AGREE WITH MR. BINGEL REGARDING THE IMPACT OF TRANSPORTATION POLICY IN HIS DISTRICT DISTRICT ONE IS
THE PRIMARY DISTRICT OF THE CITY. MINE IS THE HOME THE NORTH SPOKANE CORRIDOR AND ITS ROADS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR SEVENTY OF PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES IN TWENTY TWENTY THREE. >> IS THE COUNCIL MEMBER AWARE COUNCIL MEMBER AWARE THAT ONE OF THOSE PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES WAS AT THE CORNER OF RIVERSIDE
AND WALL I DIDN’T SEE A MENTION OF IT IN THE RANGE ARTICLE BUT THAT’S THE INTERSECTION OF THE PLAZA AND THAT SHARES WITH THIS DOWNTOWN POLICE PRECINCT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE HELPED THE APPOINTMENT ARGUMENT PROBABLY ALSO WOULD HAVE HELPED THE APPOINTMENT ARGUMENT IF HE HAD BROUGHT UP THE FATALITIES AT
THE CORNER OF 4TH AND MAPLE IN TWENTY TWENTY THREE TWO FATALITIES ON ONE CORNER SEEMS MULTIPLE FATALITIES ON THE ONLY ROUTE SERVING THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE SOUTH HILL ARE OUT WITH LENGTHY HEADWAYS DESPITE THE HIGH POPULATION DENSITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD BE OF SOME NO LOOK, I UNDERSTAND
HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO STAND IN OPEN FORUM AS A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC AND THROW IDEAS AT THE WALL UNTIL THEY STICK. I’VE BEEN DOING IT HERE FOR MONTHS. THE JURY’S STILL OUT AS TO WHETHER IT’S THANK YOU HAD ANY IMPACT. >> THANK YOU TO PETER . HELLO COUNCIL MEMBERS.
>> HELLO BETTY WILKISON COUNCIL PRESIDENT TO BE THE GREAT INTERVIEW ONCE AGAIN. >> DID YOU PRONOUNCE YOUR LAST NAME FOR US PLEASE? MY NAME IS TAVITA FARKAS YANQUI AND MANY OF YOU KNOW ME FROM MY MYSELF AND MY RELATIVES. I AM OF PACIFIC ISLANDER DESCENT AND I STILL SEE THE
JOHN MONAHAN STATUE UP AND I DO APPLAUD YOU FOR PASSING ORDINANCE SEE THIRTY SIX FAUROT TO TO TAKE DOWN THE MONAHAN’S STATUE. THIS MOVE WAS OBLIVIOUS TO WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW I’M HERE TO CALL OUT ALL OF YOU FOR PASSING THE ORDINANCE TO CITY. UH TO CITY OWNED LAND BUT ALSO
PASSING ANOTHER ORDINANCE JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO FOR THE BACKING OF THE IDF AND THE STATE AND THE PUPPET STATE OF ISRAEL. IT IS ULTIMATELY HYPOCRITICAL TO SEE THAT THERE IS A LARGE GROUP OF YOUNG ADULTS AND YOUTH HERE CALLING ALL OF YOU OUT OUT FOR WEEKS NOW
AND WEEKS TO MONTHS NOW. PLEASE TAKE TIME TO LISTEN TO US AS WE ARE YOUR FUTURE. THANK YOU. I WANT TO MAKE A POINT OF ORDER BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE A COUNCIL MEETING LAST WEEK AND WE DO NOT HAVE A COUNCIL MEETING NEXT WEEK THAT
PEOPLE ARE AN OPEN FORUM ARE SPEAKING ABOUT ITEMS THAT’S NOT COMING UP TILL THE 22ND OF JANUARY DUE TO THESE HIS COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT. I AM ALLOWING THAT MR GOOD EVENING COUNCIL PRESIDENT WILKERSON, CONGRATULATIONS. >> THANK YOU. UM, WELL MY NAME IS WILLIAM HEALING’S. I AM A VETERAN.
I’M WITH THE SPOKANE GOP. I’M A PRECINCT CAPTAIN REPRESENT DOWNTOWN. THIS IS MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND SOMETHING I NOTICED THE LAST SINCE OCTOBER I LIVED DOWN HERE. ALL I HEAR ABOUT IS PALESTINE ,ANOTHER COUNTRY AND MORE PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. WELL, WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT IS JUST RIGHT
OUTSIDE THE DOOR BEHIND THE LIBRARY BEHIND YEAH. ON THE MENORAH STREET BRIDGE THERE’S PEOPLE DOING DRUGS STILL OUT IN THE OPEN. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT NORMAL PEOPLE. I WALK OUT MY APARTMENT THERE’S STILL PEOPLE SLEEPING ON THE SIDEWALK. I MEAN IT’S DISGUSTING AND I GO AND I MAKE A REPORT
UPSTAIRS AT THREE ONE ONE AND THERE’S THERE’S A LONG LIST OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT BEHIND THE LIBRARY. SO WHAT’S GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT THAT? I MEAN LAST SUMMER I TALKED TO AN LAPD OFFICER, A SERGEANT HE TOLD ME HE GETS CALLED THERE THREE TO FIVE TIMES A DAY, PROBABLY EVEN MORE.
>> THERE’S ASSAULTS PEOPLE ARE GETTING ASSAULTED THERE. YOU WALK OUT THE BACK RIGHT NOW. I DARE YOU TO AFTER CITY COUNCIL WALK BACK THERE. THERE’S PEOPLE OUT THERE DOING DRUGS, VERY SUSPICIOUS PEOPLE. YOU GUYS WOULDN’T EVEN DARE TO GO BACK THERE BUT THAT’S WHAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH.
SO I HOPE YOU GUYS INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON STUFF THAT DOESN’T MATTER WITH OUR CITY, YOU START FOCUSING ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS THANKS TO HEALING’S WE HAVE ZACK WARFARE AND THEN MIKE GLEASON . HELLO MY NAME IS ZACHARY MCGUCKEN. >> I USE HIM PRONOUNS SORRY MUNSIE I SEE HIM PRONOUNS
AND I’M A MEMBER OF THE PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION AND I’M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE CHANGES TO OPEN FORM THAT ARE GOING TO BE VOTED ON ON THE 22ND. >> I KNOW YOU ALL KNOW HOW WE’VE HAD THIS MOVEMENT AND PRESENCE IN COUNCIL FOR PALESTINE FOR THE LAST COUPLE
MONTHS AFTER THE RACIST RESOLUTION THAT SUPPORTED THE APARTHEID STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE REALITY IS THAT THESE MOVES ARE A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS OUR MOVEMENT. >> THE TACTICS USED BY PEOPLE FIGHTING FOR LIBERATION IS ALWAYS PRESCRIBED BY THE PEOPLE IN POWER. >> IT’S WHAT WE’RE DOING IS
WHAT WE HAVE TO DO TO ACHIEVE THE POLITICAL GOAL. IF WE HAVE A SPACE THAT PEOPLE CAN LIST THAT WHERE WE CAN BE LISTENED TO AND HAVE THE OUTCOME THAT THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE VOCALIZED THEY WANT WE WOULD USE THAT SPACE. >> BUT WHEN IT’S WHEN WE COME
HERE AND WE’RE NOT LISTEN TO THAT WE HAVE TO BE MORE DISRUPTIVE THAT WE HAVE TO USE OTHER TACTICS IF IF THIS SYSTEM WORKED IN THE WAY THAT WE ARE TAUGHT IT WORKS, THIS WOULD BE VIEWED AS A SUCCESS BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE COME AND ENGAGED WITH COUNCIL AND HAVE THEN BEEN PUT ON
DRAFTING COMMITTEES AND GOT A RESOLUTION THAT HAS YET TO BE VOTED ON. >> BUT RATHER THAN VIEWING AS A SUCCESS IT’S BEEN SUPPRESSED AND THERE’S ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE THE CAPABILITY OF CREATING THIS PUBLIC INTERFACE WITH COUNCIL IN THE FUTURE. AND SO I THINK THAT SHOWS HOW FUNDAMENTALLY UNDEMOCRATIC
THIS INSTITUTION IS AND HOW THE WAY THAT YOU ALL ARE BEHAVING IS FUNDAMENTALLY OPPOSED TO THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OUT IN THE STREETS. >> THANK YOU WARPER . >> OH AND HONEY WCHTER IMASU BE OKEKE CHEESEY MAHTO WHEN YOU CHIGNON WHEN VIRGINIA ONKALO WHEN YOU’RE IN VIRGINIA
OK BUT PULL YOUR MAIMANA HAOMA IF THAT BE A DO ATTARDI YOU KNOW WAMMO ACTUALLY ARHOOLIE WAMMO NOT REAL SALAMO MY NAME IS WARB I HAVE MANY OTHER NAMES WITH ALL DUE RESPECT I FIND IT RIDICULOUS THAT YOU GIVE US A TIME LIMIT TO SPEAK WHEN YOU’RE ON INDIGENOUS LAND
YOUR MODEL WHAT THIS CONSTITUTION OF DEMOCRACY IS BASED ON IS FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THE THE FIVE NATIONS IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY US COUNCIL HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY EACH ONE OF YOU TO FOCUS AND SUPPORT VULNERABLE POPULATIONS AND COMMUNITIES SPECIFICALLY OUTSIDE IN SPOKANE AND IN THIS AREA. >> WHY ARE PROGRAMS AND COMMUNITIES THAT ARE IN
NEED PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING HARMED, PEOPLE THAT ARE AT RISK, LOW INCOME AND HARM REDUCTION FACILITIES DON’T HAVE WARMING SHELTERS DON’T HAVE FOOD. IT’S MIDDLE OF WINTER. THEY’RE BEING UNDERFUNDED AND UNDERSTAFFED AND WE’RE GIVING MORE MONEY TO THE POLICE. I THINK WE’RE GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION COMING FROM AN INDIGENOUS PERSON.
I’M MORE RISK THAN ANY OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC IN THIS ROOM TO NOT ONLY EXPERIENCE POLICE VIOLENCE BUT BRUTALITY, RACISM AND POVERTY SPECIFICALLY COMING FROM A RESERVATION. >> I THINK WE NEED TO DO BETTER AND COME TOGETHER AS HUMAN BEINGS, AS PEOPLE AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER. BUT I THINK THE WAY THAT YOU
GUYS ARE GOING ABOUT IT IS TAKING AWAY DEMOCRATIC LIBERTIES AND IT’S NOT SUPPORTING US. WE THE PEOPLE MY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HERE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO SPEAK WHEN THEY WANT TO SPEAK. I HAVE A RIGHT TO STAND UP WHEN I WANT TO STAND UP
AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK, HOW I WANT TO SPEAK AND PUT MY HAND ON MY HEART. >> THANK WHERE IT IS. >> SO I THINK YOU’RE GOING THE WRONG WAY. MAKE LISA THANK OH HERE WE GO TWO THOUSAND TWENTY FOUR. >> I FIRMLY BELIEVE IT’LL BE A
HUGE MISTAKE TO COMPROMISE YOUR POSITION ON ISRAEL FACT THE U.S., CANADA, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, THE UK AND THE EUROPEAN LEAGUE HAVE ALL DECLARED HAMAS TO BE A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT HAMAS RUNS THE GAZA STRIP AND ABOUT TWO MILLION OF THE OF THE PALESTINIANS LIVE THERE. >> HAMAS GOVERNMENT RUNS IT IN
THE HAMAS CHARTER ARTICLE TWO IT STATES THE ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT IS CHARACTERIZED BY ITS DEEP UNDERSTANDING AND ITS COMPLETE EMBRACE OF ALL ISLAMIC CONCEPTS OF ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE INCLUDING THE SPREAD OF ISLAM. I GET THIS AND THE SCIENCE OF THE OCCULT THAT’S VOODOO AND WITCHCRAFT AND THE
CONVERSION OF ISLAM LISTED IN THE FOREWORD OF THE HAMAS CHARTER ISRAEL WILL EXIST AND WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST UNDER ISLAM AND UNTIL ISLAM OBLITERATES IT COMPLETE ANNIHILATION RIGHT THERE IN THE HAMAS CHARTER FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE DEMOCRACIES WEBSITE QUOTE THE GAZA BRANCH OF THE PALESTINIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH IS RUN BY
HAMAS. THE CASUALTIES WE’VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT ARE COMING FROM THE GAZA MINISTRY OF HEALTH. THE MINISTRY DOESN’T DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CIVILIANS AND COMBATANTS IN ITS COUNT. IT’S A CALL ITS CASUALTY FIGURES ALSO DO NOT IDENTIFY THE CIRCUMCISER CHANCES OF THE DEATH MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY TERRORISTS FROM CIVILIANS WHO DIED IN THE
INITIAL ASSAULT OR DURING THE ISRAELI DEFENSIVE OPERATION THAT FOLLOWED GAZA MINISTRY OF HEALTH CONTROLLED BY HAMAS. >> HAMAS STILL HAS ON THEIR WEBSITE THAT ISRAEL MISSILE STRUCK THE AL LEE HOSPITAL KILLING FIVE HUNDRED PALESTINIANS, U.S. INTEL SAYS ONE HUNDRED TO THREE HUNDRED EUROPEAN OFFICIAL SAYS ONE HUNDRED. THE EXPLOSION IS BELIEVED TO
BE FROM A HAMAS MISSILE THAT EXPLODED AND NOT AN ISRAELI MISSILE. >> GAZA’S LARGEST HOSPITAL IS RUN BY HAMAS HAMAS COMMAND CENTER IN IT. THANKS. THANK YOU. THANKS. WE HAVE CAR BOATNER, MELISSA BEDFORD AND DAN DEBOIS . >> FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY I’M APPALLED BY YOUR
RESTRICTION OF FREE SPEECH ATTEMPT. >> IT’S JUST SO UNNECESSARY AND SO DISAPPOINTING AND WELL THE POET LOUISE GLUCK SAID THAT WE EXPERIENCE A WORLD ONCE AS A CHILD THE REST IS JUST MEMORY. >> I REMEMBER LEARNING AS A CHILD ABOUT ONE OF MANY TRAVELING RABBIS IN PALESTINE
AND HE WAS BORN UNDER ROMAN OCCUPATION ROMAN EMPIRE OCCUPATION OF HIS NATIVE PALESTINE. >> HE WAS EXECUTED BY THE EMPIRE WITH THE COOPERATION OF LOCAL RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL AUTHORITIES BECAUSE HE ATTRACTED TOO MANY FOLLOWERS TO HIS BELIEFS AND THREATENED THEIR AUTHORITY. >> I LEARNED THAT JESUS OF NAZARETH TAUGHT THAT
WHATEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST OF MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS YOU DO TO ME SURELY YOU CAN SEE THAT THE LEAST OF YOUR HUMAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN PALESTINE ARE THE PALESTINIANS SURELY YOU CAN SEE THAT WILL YOU SIDE WITH THEM OR WITH THOSE WHO WANT TO ANNIHILATE
THEM IF THERE IS AND IF THERE IS A GOD TO ACCOUNT TO AND IF YOU SIDE WITH THOSE WHO ARE COMMITTING GENOCIDE THEN I GUESS I KNOW WHERE I’LL SEE YOUR SOUL AND MAYBE MINE TOO. >> THANK YOU MELISSA BIDDEFORD . >> GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL PRESIDENT WILKERSON AND COUNCIL MEMBERS BINGEL
CATHCART, DYLAN KLETZKY AND ZAPPONE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU TONIGHT. MY NAME IS MELISSA BEDFORD AND I AM A SPOKANE RESIDENT AND I’M HERE TO SHARE MY SUPPORT FOR LILY NAVARETTE DAY FOR THE OPEN CITY COUNCIL SEAT IN DISTRICT TWO.
>> NOW I COULD LIST OFF ALL OF LILY’S QUALIFICATIONS AND HER EXPERIENCE IS SHOWING SHE WAS THAT TO ME. >> OH SORRY THAT SHE IS MORE THAN QUALIFIED FOR THE POSITION BUT I FEEL LIKE THAT’S WHAT APPLICATIONS RESUMES AND INTERVIEWS ARE FOR WHAT I AM GOING TO SPEAK ON IS THE
CHANCE FOR THIS AND THIS APPOINTMENT TO BE A MOMENT IN THE LEGACY OF THE SPOKANE CITY COUNCIL HOW THIS CITY COUNCIL HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ONCE AGAIN MAKE HISTORY. EARLIER TODAY I SENT A LETTER OF SUPPORT TO ALL OF YOU AND IT HAS BEEN SIGNED BY OVER ONE HUNDRED COMMUNITY MEMBERS,
BUSINESS OWNERS AND LOCAL LEADERS ALL SHOWING SUPPORT FOR MISS VARIETY AND THE LETTER I NOT ONLY HIGHLIGHT THE IMPACT SHE HAS MADE IN SPOKANE, OUR REGION AND THE STATE OF WASHINGTON THROUGH HER ADVOCACY WORK AND COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS BUT HOW HER APPOINTMENT WOULD BRING A NEW AND NEEDED VOICE
TO THE CITY COUNCIL THAT’S NOT HERE AT THE MOMENT AND MAKE HISTORY BY APPOINTING THE FIRST IMMIGRANT AND LATINA TO THE CITY COUNCIL IN THE LAST TEN YEARS SPOKANE HAS MADE OTHER HISTORY ON THE CITY COUNCIL MOST RECENTLY ELECTING ITS FIRST BLACK FEMALE COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND THERE ARE CERTAINLY OTHER EXAMPLES ON
THIS COUNCIL AND TO FOLLOW THE OPEN FORUM DECORUM I HAD TO TOSS IN A RHYME THERE I I’M ONLY GOING TO MENTION CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT WILKERSON’S HISTORY AND SO YOU’RE BEING ELECTED AS COUNCIL PRESIDENT HAS MADE SUCH AN IMPACT ON OUR COMMUNITY AND HAS SHOWN PEOPLE THAT THEY CAN ACHIEVE
GREATNESS BECAUSE THEY CAN SEE THEMSELVES IN YOU AND SO MYSELF BEING A LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY I KNOW WHEN I’VE BEEN ON PANELS SPEAKING TO YOUTH PARTICULARLY FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, I HAVE STUDENTS OF ASIAN DESCENT COME UP TO ME AND SHARE THAT THEY SAW SOMEONE LIKE ME, SOMEONE
LIKE THEMSELVES IN A POSITION WHEN THEY’D NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE AND IT MEANT SO MUCH. >> AND EVEN LAST NIGHT WHEN ALI WONG WELL YES, I’M BRINGING UP THE GOLDEN GLOBE VOTES WHEN ALI WONG WON ALSO IT MATTERED SO I HOPE YOU JOIN ME IN SUPPORTING MILLI CITY COUNCIL THEN .
GOOD EVENING. IT’S THE END OF BOYS SPOKANE COUNTY RESIDENT. >> I WANTED TO SPEAK ADAMANTLY IN OPPOSITION TO PROPOSITION TWENTY TWENTY FOUR DASH ZERO THREE AND I WANT TO QUOTE SOME FIGURES FROM THE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU STUDY THIS BOOK AND HAS TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND CITIZENS NINETY SIX THOUSAND HOUSEHOLDS IF THE
COUNCIL MEETS FOUR TIMES A MONTH AND I SAY THAT IF BECAUSE MANY TIMES ARE NOT ABLE TO GET TO MEET THAT PUTS IT GIVES THE CITIZENS ABOUT 60 CHANCES A MONTH TO SPEAK. >> THAT’S TWO POINT SIX CITIZENS PER 100000 RESIDENTS WITH THE PROPOSED RULE CHANGES THAT DROPS TO ONE POINT SEVEN
CITIZENS FOR EVERY 100000 PER MONTH. NOT VERY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE WHO VOTE CAN ALSO HAVE THESE IF THESE RULES ARE ADOPTED, SOMEONE LIKE ME THAT COMES FREQUENTLY IS LIKELY TO BE SPEAKING PROBABLY EVERY THIRD MONTH AGAIN IS THIS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE AS A CASUAL
OBSERVER AND NOW A REGULAR PARTICIPANT IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR CHANGES I WOULD CONSIDER ACTUALLY GOING THE OTHER DIRECTION. >> I’M FRUSTRATED EVERY TIME I COME AT SO MANY CITIZENS WANT TO SPEAK THEY DON’T GET A CHANCE TO SPEAK BECAUSE THERE’S LIMITED TIME AND LIMITED SPOTS. >> IF I’M NOT HERE AT FIVE
AND I GET TO SPEAK. SO YOU CAN’T SAY THERE’S A LACK OF INTEREST TO TALK SIMPLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF TIME SLOTS FOR EACH MEETING. I UNDERSTAND YOU NEED TO GET WORK DONE AND AT TIMES THE CITIZENS YOU REPRESENT GET IN THE WAY OF WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.
BUT LET’S REMEMBER IT’S NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. >> IT’S ABOUT WHAT WE DESIRE DONE ON OUR BEHALF. >> AND FINALLY AT A TIME WHEN DISTRESS FOR EACH OTHER CITIZENS TO GOVERNMENT IS AT ITS HIGHEST, WHY WOULD YOU LIMIT VOICE AND REPRESENTATION ? >> THESE ARE ACTIONS THAT
CREATE FOSTER AND BOLSTER MISTRUST. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH MITZI GERN AND THEN ELIZABETH FLETT . >> GOOD EVENING PRESIDENT WILKERSON AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS BETSY GUERIN. I’M A FIRST GENERATION LATINA AND A SPOKANE COMMUNITY MEMBER IN DISTRICT TWO. I’M HERE TO SUPPORT THE
APPOINTMENT OF LILLY NEVADA TO DISTRICT TO THE DISTRICT SEAT . I FIRST MET LILLY IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN WHILE SHE WAS TABLING AT A PLANNED PARENTHOOD EVENT. >> SINCE THEN I’VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO WORK ALONGSIDE HER. THE THING ABOUT LILLY IS THAT SHE LOVES TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY AND SHE LOVES THIS COMMUNITY.
SPOKANE HAS BEEN HER HOME SINCE SHE WAS 11 AND EMIGRATED FROM MEXICO CITY AS SOMEONE WHO ALSO MOVED TO THE US AS A CHILD, I KNOW FIRSTHAND HOW SCARY AND ISOLATING THE EXPERIENCE IS. I KNOW IF I HAD AN EXAMPLE OF SOMEBODY WHO WENT THROUGH WHAT I WENT THROUGH AND LOOK
LIKE ME AND SO MANY OTHER WASHINGTONIANS IN A POSITION OF INFLUENCE, IT WOULD HAVE HELPED ME SEE HOW THIS NEW COUNTRY COULD BE A NEW HOME FOR ME. >> LILY HAS LED VARIOUS MOVEMENTS NOT ONLY BETTER THE SPOKANE COMMUNITY BUT TO BETTER WASHINGTONIAN RESIDENTS. LILY’S WORK INCLUDES FARM WORKER OUTREACH AND IMMIGRATION REFORM.
IN 2020 SHE LED A TEAM AND CLINIC TO VISIT RURAL PARTS OF WASHINGTON TO DELIVER MUTUAL AID TO FARM WORKERS. SINCE I’VE WORKED IN ONLY HER PASSION IS TO SERVE HER COMMUNITY ORIGINAL. SHE WAS APPOINTED BY JAY INSLEE AS A HISPANIC COMMISSIONER FOR EASTERN WASHINGTON. I AM CONFIDENT SHE WILL MAKE SPOKANE.
SHE WILL MAKE SPOKANE AND AMAZING SHE WILL BRING AN AMAZING VOICE TO THE SPOKANE CITY COUNCIL AND WILL MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE FOR ALL. >> THANK YOU ELIZABETH FLAT AND THEN SARAH DIX . HI. I’VE I’M NERVOUS. I’M ELIZABETH AND I I’VE BEEN I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE MY
KIDS, MY GRANDKIDS AND EVERYBODY AND I’M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE PLACE OF TRUTH WHICH IS A PEDESTRIAN PLAZA BACK BEHIND THE BUILDING AND IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE WELL, IT’S A PLACE WHERE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS CAN REMEMBER REFLECT ON THE HERITAGE, CULTURE AND HISTORY OF OUR COMMUNITY, RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATE TYPE TRIBAL
SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ART OF SMOKER MARTIEN. HE DID BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK BUT IT’S JUST TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS AND IT’S TRASHED. IT IS GOUGED. IT’S SPRAYED. IT’S GRAFFITI AND IT’S RANCID. THE SMELL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE ENOUGH TO GET PAST DARK IT’S LIKE IT FILLS UP WITH ALL
THESE LITTLE TEENAGE YOUNG 20 HOODLUMS SCARY. I. I WOULD FEAR FOR I’M DOWN IN THERE AND I SEE PEOPLE COUPLES WALKING TO GO DOWN THERE AND THEY TURN AROUND AND THEY WALK OUT AND HEAR I’M DOWN THERE WITH MY CAMERA AROUND MY NECK AND IT’S IT’S HORRIFYING
AND IT’S LIKE YOU TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO TREAT YOU HOW TO TREAT YOUR PROPERTY AND WHAT ARE WE TEACHING THEM? IT NEEDS A COMMITTEE SOMEBODY PEOPLE US BUT WE WOULD SAVE MONEY TO HAVE IT WATCHED AND YOU KNOW, STOP THEM. UM, WELL I’M I’M JUST SO UPSET AND THAT’S LIKE IN TWENTY
TWENTY THREE SPOKANE MAKES THE BIGGEST LEAP OF ANY CITY IN AMERICA FOR LIVE EVENTS MORE ADDING TO THEM AND EVERYTHING ELSE. AND HOW MANY OF THOSE VISITORS DRIVE OUT OF THAT PARKING PARKING LOT DOWN INTO THE SPOKANE FALLS BOULEVARD BETWEEN THE LIBRARY WHERE THEY’RE ALL PACKED UP THERE
IT’S HOMELESS BUT THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THOSE HOMELESS THAT ARE DANGEROUS AND THEY’RE DANGEROUS TO THE HOMELESS TOO. AND THEY GOT TO SEE ALL THE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES AND DO YOU THINK THEY’RE GOING TO WANT TO COME HANG OUT IN OUR DOWNTOWN AND OUR CITY?
WHO’S UP KEEPING IT AND WHO’S MONITORING? THANK YOU, ELIZABETH. THANK YOU. YOU DID GREAT . HI EVERYONE. GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL PRESIDENT WILKERSON AND COUNCIL MEMBERS MY NAME IS SARAH DIXIT. I AM A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT ONE BUT WE KNOW IN SPOKANE THAT OUR DISTRICTS ARE CLOSELY
TIED TO ONE ANOTHER WHICH IS WHY I AM PROVIDING COMMENT ON THE OPEN DISTRICT TO SEAT. I REALLY BELIEVE THAT REALLY EVERYTHING WOULD BE A HUGE ASSET TO OUR CITY DUE TO HER COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, HER LIVED EXPERIENCE AND HER TENACITY. IF YOU HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH LILY YOU KNOW
SHE IS A FIRECRACKER IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE. SHE DOES THE RIGHT THING EVEN WHEN THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO HARM HER OWN CAREER AND AMBITIONS. WHEN SHE AND I WORKED ON THE SAME TEAM TOGETHER SHE ALWAYS PUSHED OUR DEPARTMENT TO DO MORE TO MEET THE COMMUNITY WHERE THEY ARE AT FOR THREE
SUMMERS SHE WOULD HUSTLE ALL OVER CENTRAL EASTERN WASHINGTON TO PROVIDE CARE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE OFTEN FORGOTTEN . SHE SACRIFICED TIME WITH HER FAMILY, HER FRIENDS AND EVEN HERSELF. BUT IF YOU WERE TO ASK HER IF SHE WOULD DO IT ALL AGAIN, I KNOW SHE WOULD BECAUSE CARING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE
MARGINALIZED IN SOCIETY AND WHO STRUGGLE FOR A BETTER LIFE IS WHAT MATTERS MOST TO HER. WHEN I THINK OF FOLKS WHO SERVE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT I KNOW Y’ALL DON’T DO IT FOR THE GLAMOR OR THE PAYCHECK YOU REALLY HAVE TO CHOOSE TO DO IT BECAUSE YOU DEEPLY CARE FOR
OUR COMMUNITY AND EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN REGARDLESS OF WHO THEY ARE REALLY HAS MADE SPOKANE HER HOME SINCE SHE IMMIGRATED HERE OVER THIRTY YEARS AGO AND SHE HAS MADE SO MANY PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY CAN MAKE IT THEIR HOME TO MYSELF INCLUDED. SHE HAS MADE SURE PEOPLE FEEL SAFE USING TRANSIT IF THEY’RE
UNDOCUMENTED WITH HER EFFORTS ON THE INTER-MODAL STATION ORDINANCE IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN SHE RALLIED PEOPLE TOGETHER IN SUPPORT OF OUR STUDENTS ON DUKKHA AND SHE HAS SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS MAKING SURE THAT DECISIONS IN SPOKANE THAT ARE ABOUT US AREN’T MADE WITHOUT US. PLEASE APPOINT EVERYTHING TO ENSURE SPOKANE ITES HAVE BETTER REPRESENTATION ON
COUNCIL. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES OPEN FORUM MISS FOSTER IF YOU WOULD BE PREPARED TO RECONSIDER THE PLEASE REPORTS CONTRACTS AND CLAIMS PREAPPROVAL TO PURCHASE EXCUSE ME NO ONE PREAPPROVAL TO PURCHASE SEVERAL PIECES OF BICYCLE MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT FOR THE STREETS DEPARTMENT FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
NO TO PREAPPROVAL TO PURCHASE THREE USED UNDERCOVER VEHICLES FOR THE SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO COPS TEAM NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS NUMBER THREE PURCHASE FROM THE DOUGLAS COUNTY WASHINGTON SHERIFF’S OFFICE OF A USE TWENTY EIGHTEEN DODGE CHARGER POLICE VEHICLE FOR THE SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENT EIGHT THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY SIX DOLLARS INCLUDING TAX NO
FOR GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE WASHINGTON MILITARY DEPARTMENT IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ACCEPTING THE STATE AND LOCAL CYBERSECURITY GRANT PROGRAM AWARD FOR INSTALLATION OF NETWORK FIREWALLS THROUGH THE INTERAGENCY FIREWALL INITIATIVE SEVENTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS NUMBER FIVE CONTRACT WITH STRUCTURED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS INC. CLACKAMAS, OREGON FOR THE PURCHASE OF CAPACITY NODES
WITH SUPPORT TWO YEARS OF COHESIVE DATA PROTECTION PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FROM DECEMBER 11, 2003 THROUGH DECEMBER 11 TWENTY TWENTY SIX TWO HUNDRED FIFTY NINE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR DOLLARS TWENTY SIX CENTS PLUS TAX NUMBER SIX GRANT AGREEMENT WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SPOKANE TO FIND HOME BUYER ACQUISITION COST OF THE
EXISTING SHARED EQUITY PROGRAM ADMINISTERED UNDER CITY CONTRACT NO OPAH TWENTY TWENTY ONE DASH ZERO ZERO NINE FOUR TWO MILLION DOLLARS NO.7 SEVEN LITTLE BIT OF INLAND ASPHALT COMPANY SPOKANE VALLEY WASHINGTON FOR THE TWENTY WASHINGTON MONROE LINCOLN GRINDIN OVERLAYS PROJECT FOUR MILLION NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS EXCUSE ME FOUR MILLION NINE HUNDRED
SEVENTY THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CORNER NINETY SEVEN THOUSAND NINETY SEVEN DOLLARS WHICH IS TEN PERCENT OF THE CONTRACT PRICE WILL BE SET ASIDE VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS NUMBER EIGHT LITTLE BIT OF SHAMROCK PAVING INC. SPOKANE FOR THE HAVEN ST. GRINDIN OVERLAY PROJECT ONE MILLION SIX HUNDRED NINETY
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ADMINISTRATIVE RESERVE OF ONE HUNDRED SIXTY NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS WHICH IS TEN PERCENT OF THE CONTRACT PRICE WILL BE SET ASIDE. HILLIARD NEIGHBORHOOD NUMBER NINE LITTLE BIT OF NW GRADING INC. SPOKANE THE MARSHALL ROAD TRANSMISSION MAIN PHASE TWO PROJECT TWO MILLION FIVE SEVENTEEN THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED THIRTY ONE DOLLARS 90 CENTS IN ADMINISTRATIVE RESERVE OF TWO HUNDRED FIFTY ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY THREE DOLLARS 19 CENTS WHICH IS TEN PERCENT. THE CONTRACT PRICE WILL BE SET ASIDE GREENVIEW FOR NEIGHBORHOOD NUMBER TEN LITTLE BIT OF EXCAVATING INC. DAVENPORT WASHINGTON FOR THE MARSHALL ROAD TRANSMISSION
MADE PHASE THREE PROJECT THREE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED FORTY SIX THOUSAND FOURTEEN DOLLARS PLUS TAX AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESERVE OF THREE HUNDRED FORTY FOUR THOUSAND SIX THIRTY ONE DOLLARS FORTY CENTS PLUS TAX WHICH IS TEN PERCENT OF THE CONTRACT PRICE WILL BE SET ASIDE LATER. HANGMEN NEIGHBORHOOD NUMBER ELEVEN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE
SPOKANE COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE TO EXCHANGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST CASES INCLUDING FELONY CONFLICT CASES SENT TO THE CITY FROM JANUARY ONE TWENTY TWENTY THREE THROUGH DECEMBER THIRTY ONE TWENTY TWENTY FOUR FIFTY THOUSAND REVENUE NUMBER TWELVE CONTRACT WITH SAGI INTERNATIONAL INC. SUMMERSET NEW JERSEY FOR MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT SOFTWARE AND SUPPORT SELECTED THROUGH
SOURCE WHILE CONTRACT NUMBER ZERO EIGHT ONE FOUR ONE NINE SAGI FROM JANUARY ONE TWENTY TWENTY FOUR THROUGH DECEMBER THIRTY ONE TWENTY TWENTY SIX ONE MILLION FORTY FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE DOLLARS FIVE CENTS ANNUALLY NUMBER THREE THIRTEEN REPORT OF THE MAYOR PENDING CLAIMS OF PAYMENTS OF PREVIOUSLY OBLIGATIONS INCLUDING THOSE OF PARKS
AND LIBRARY THROUGH DECEMBER EIGHT TWENTY TWENTY THREE TOTAL ELEVEN MILLION FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY ONE DOLLARS SEVENTY NINE CENTS WITH PARKS LIBRARY CLAIMS APPROVE OF THE RESPECTIVE BOARDS OR THEME PARKS AND LIBRARY TOTAL TEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED FORTY ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FORTY THREE DOLLARS THIRTY SEVEN CENTS B CLAIMS AND PAYMENTS
OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED OBLIGATIONS INCLUDING THOSE OF PARKS A LIBRARY EXCUSE ME THROUGH DECEMBER 15 TWENTY TWENTY THREE TOTAL NINE MILLION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY NINE FIFTY ONE CENTS WITH PARKS AND LIBRARY CLAIMS APPROVE OF THE RESPECTIVE BOARDS WARRANTS EXCLUDING PARKS AND LIBRARY TOTAL EIGHT MILLION NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY
THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX DOLLARS SEVEN CENTS C CLAIMS AND PAYMENTS APPROVED SEPARATE OBLIGATIONS ROSA PARKS AND LIBRARY THROUGH DECEMBER TWENTY SECOND TWENTY TWENTY THREE TOTAL SEVEN MILLION TOTAL SIXTY TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY SEVEN DOLLARS FORTY ONE CENTS WITH PARKS AND LIBRARY CLAIMS APPROVE THE RESPECTIVE BOARDS WARRANTS EXCLUDING PARKS
AND LIBRARY TOTALS SIX MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY THREE DOLLARS SIXTY SEVEN CENTS D CLAIMS OF PAYMENTS OF PREVIOUSLY PROVED OBLIGATIONS INCLUDING PARKS AND LIBRARY THROUGH DECEMBER TWENTY NINE TWENTY TWENTY THREE TOTAL SIXTY MILLION SIX UNDER SIXTEEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SIXTY TWO DOLLARS SEVENTY THREE CENTS WITH PARKS
LIBRARY CLAIMS APPROVED OF THE RESPECTIVE BOARDS WARRANTS EXCLUDING PARKS AND LIBRARY TOTAL SIXTY MILLION TWENTY THOUSAND FIFTY SEVEN DOLLARS TEN CENTS E PROCLAIMS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED OBLIGATIONS THROUGH DECEMBER NINE TWENTY TWENTY THREE EIGHT MILLION NINE HUNDRED FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE DOLLARS TWENTY TWO CENTS PAYROLL CLAIMS A PREVIOUSLY APPROVED OBLIGATION
THROUGH DECEMBER TWENTY THREE TWENTY TWENTY THREE NINE MILLION THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY TWO CENTS ITEM NUMBER FOURTEEN CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FOR NOVEMBER TWENTY NOVEMBER TWENTY SEVEN NOVEMBER THIRTY STUDY SESSION NOVEMBER THIRTY SPECIAL MEETING DECEMBER FOUR DECEMBER 14 STUDY SESSION IN DECEMBER 14 SPECIAL MEETING TWENTY TWENTY THREE. >> THANK YOU.
WE WILL NOW HAVE TESTIMONY ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. FIRST UP IS JUSTICE FOR LOW AND WILLIAM HEALING’S HELLO MY NAME IS BOOK JUSTICE FOR ALL SPOKANE’S CITY RESIDENT SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS USED RIGHT BELONGS TO THAT CITY COUNCIL NOMINEES. >> THIS REPORT CAME OUT ON TWENTY TWENTY ONE WHICH SHOULD
HAVE BEEN A VERY KIND OF DRASTIC REPORT TO HERE THAT YOU KNOW WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO OUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS THEY ARE BEING INTIMIDATED BY THE POLICE. SO IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS THAT SPOKANE CITY COUNCIL HAS GIVEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR TO THE SAME POLICE DEPARTMENT
AND EVEN AS SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS LEAKED INFORMATION AND PLAYED THREATS AND POLITICS AGAINST MEMBERS OF THIS CURRENT AND FORMER CURRENT AND FORMER CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT DOESN’T SEEM TO MATTER BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT IT SEEMS WE ALWAYS PASS WHATEVER POLICE BUDGET THEY ASK FOR OVER THE YEARS I
HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST THIS BLANK CHECK GIVEN TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ASKED FOR AT THE VERY LEAST CAN WE HAVE SOME DATA FOR THE GADGETS AND TOYS INCLUDING THEIR DEPLOYMENT AND USE YET THIS IS SOMETHING THAT’S NEVER BEEN COLLECTED. >> UNDERCOVER POLICE VEHICLES ARE ON TODAY’S CONSENT AGENDA FOR NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
>> THE ETHICS OF UNDERCOVER COVER POLICE VEHICLES IS NOT SOMETHING I WILL TALK ABOUT BUT THERE’S A WHOLE ETHICAL COMPLAINT ABOUT WHY YOU SHOULDN’T BE USING UNDERCOVER POLICE VEHICLES. >> I’M NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I THINK THERE’S BIGGER THINGS THAT WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT LIKE WHAT THE
CITY COUNCIL’S RESPONSIBILITY IS AND THERE’S ANOTHER NINE K4 ANOTHER VEHICLE THEY’RE PURCHASING FROM THE SPOKANE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT. THIS IS ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WHEN IN AUGUST 2022 WE GAVE THEM THREE MILLION DOLLARS TO UPGRADE THEIR FLEET AS WELL AS IN MARCH 2022 TWO POINT FOUR MILLION DOLLARS TO UPGRADE THEIR FLEET.
>> AND THIS LAST YEAR THIS CITY OR CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE MAYOR’S BUDGET INCREASING THE POLICE BUDGET BY SEVENTEEN PERCENT OR TWELVE ABOUT TWELVE DOLLARS MILLION INCREASE. >> SO WHEN IT COMES TO THE AGING FLEET AND THE SO-CALLED NEED FOR OVERTIME HOURS WHEN CALLS ARE NOT BEING ANSWERED,
THE PUBLIC I’M WONDERING WHEN THIS COUNCIL WILL DEMAND DATA AND RESULTS BECAUSE THIS BUDGET IS THE LARGEST BUDGET THE POLICE HAS EVER HAD EIGHT EIGHTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. WE SEE THE RESULTS OF WHAT HAPPENS FROM WHAT THE CITY COUNCIL PASSES AND OTHER MATTERS. WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE
GENTLEMAN IN THE PARK IN SPOKANE VALLEY WHEN THIS COUNCIL PASSED THE PARKS AFTER DARK ORDINANCE NOT ALLOWING PEOPLE I KNOW IT’S NOT A POINT . >> YEAH, IT’S NOT COMPLETELY AFTER YOU GET THE POINT WE SEE THE VIOLENCE THAT HAPPENS. >> WE SEE THE TOYS, THEY GET DEPLOYED, WE SEE THE VIDEOS WE
SEE CONSTANTLY ARE OUR CIVILIAN POPULATION BEING HARASSED WHILE THEY TINKER AROUND WITH NEW TACTICS THAT THEY’VE NEVER USED BEFORE. >> THEY SMOKE BUILDINGS WITH RESIDENTS INSIDE THEM JUST SO THEY CAN REMOVE ONE PERSON WHO’S COMPLYING AND OTHER JUST REALLY WILD THINGS AT THE SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENT DOES PLEASE ASK FOR DATA.
>> PLEASE GET SOMETHING BACK. PLEASE STOP ALLOWING US POLICE DEPARTMENT TO USE YOU AS AN OPEN CHECKBOOK WHEN YOU’VE ALREADY GIVE THEM SO MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. >> THANK YOU JAMES. ERIC . >> MY NAME IS LOW AND I’M A STAY AT HOME DAD RESIDING IN
SPOKANE VALLEY. I’M HERE TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF THE PURCHASE OF BICYCLE AND MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT. FOR MANY PEOPLE LIFE ON A BICYCLE IS A YEAR-ROUND ENDEAVOR OR THEY’D LIKE IT TO BE SPOKANE’S BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE IS SEVERELY NEGLECTED AND PREVENTS MANY FROM CYCLING AT THIS VERY AT THIS MOMENT THE RIVERSIDE
PROTECTED LANES ARE LITTERED WITH LEAVES AND TRASH. THOSE HAZARDS ARE DANGEROUS ENOUGH BUT WHEN COMBINED WITH RAIN OR SNOW IT MAKES FOR A SITUATION WHERE MANY IF NOT MOST CYCLISTS DON’T FEEL SAFE RIDING. SPEAKING OF LITTER, THE RIVERSIDE LANES ARE FREQUENTLY LITTERED WITH CARS. EVERY TIME I TRAVEL THAT
STREET THERE ARE MULTIPLE CARS ENCROACHING ON THE BIKE LANE. IN FACT, I’D WAGER MOST CARS PARKED ON THAT STREET AT THIS VERY MOMENT ARE FULLY UTILIZING THE BUFFER THAT USED TO BE POPULATED BY POSTS. >> I UNDERSTAND I DON’T WANT MY CAR GETTING SIDESWIPED EITHER BUT WHEN WE HAVE A
VEHICLE PROTECTED BIKE LANE WITHOUT A BUFFER BETWEEN THE VEHICLE AND THE BIKE LANE IT ACTUALLY CAN INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF GETTING DOORED WHICH IS WHEN SOMEONE IN A VEHICLE OPENS A CAR DOOR WITHOUT LOOKING AND A BICYCLE GOES FROM TWENTY TO ZERO INSTANTLY GETTING DOORED IS JUST AS SCARY.
A PROSPECT IS GETTING HIT BY A CAR AND IT’S MORE LIKELY ONE A VEHICLE PROTECTED BIKE LANE LIKE RIVERSIDE THEN A MORE TRADITIONAL SHARE OF BIKE LANES WHERE BIKES AND MOTOR VEHICLE SHARE THE LANE. THE REASON FOR THIS, LIKE I SAID, IS BECAUSE THEY DON’T PEOPLE EXITING DON’T LOOK WHEN
THEY LEAVE THEIR CARS AND WHEN YOU’RE FUNNELED INTO THAT SMALL BIKE LANE YOU HAVE NOWHERE TO DODGE WHEN THAT DOOR COMES OPEN THEN THERE ARE THE TIMES WHERE A VEHICLE BLOCKS AN ENTIRELY LIKE THE FORKLIFT I DOCUMENTED BEHIND THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE FOR AN ENTIRE WEEKEND IN DECEMBER. SPOKANE NEEDS REAL PROTECTED PEDESTRIAN CYCLE
INFRASTRUCTURE BOLLARDS JERSEY BARRIERS, CONCRETE PLANTERS RACE CAR CROSSWALKS THERE’S ALL KINDS OF GREAT INFRASTRUCTURE WE COULD INSTALL TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY. THE KEY IS TO ACTUALLY INSTALL SOMETHING MORE SUBSTANTIAL THAN PAINT AND A FLEX POST. I UNDERSTAND TRAFFIC CALMING FUNDS ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED AND THEY’RE EVEN MORE LIMITED AFTER THE COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY
APPROVED THE TRANSFER OF TRAFFIC CALMING FUNDS TO PAY FOR FOR TRAFFIC POLICE ONE PEDESTRIAN DEATH AT TWENTY TWENTY THREE WHICH I MENTIONED EARLIER WAS AT THE INTERSECTION OF RIVERSIDE AND WHILE ANOTHER PEDESTRIAN DEATH WAS AT RIVERSIDE AND DIVISION LESS THAN A BLOCK FROM FIRE STATION ONE THAT WAS ONE OF FOUR PEDESTRIAN DEATHS
IN TWENTY TWENTY THREE ON DIVISION PAINT AND FLEX POSTS DO NOT WORK BUSINESSES USUAL ISN’T WORKING. >> IT’S TIME FOR US TO MAKE A CHANGE. THANK YOU TO HUMANS. GOOD EVENING AGAIN. MY NAME IS WILL HULING AND I LIVE DOWNTOWN. I’M GOING TO BE SPEAKING ON ORDINANCE ON TWENTY TWENTY
FOUR ZERO ZERO THREE ABOUT BICYCLE LANE MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT SO I’M A I RIDE YEAR ROUND LIKE YEAR ROUND I LIVE DOWNTOWN. >> I SOLD MY CAR SO I COULD YOU KNOW I CAN’T AFFORD THREE FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS SO THIS MEANS A LOT TO ME BUT I FIND
IT KIND OF A WASTE OF MONEY HONESTLY BECAUSE HOW THE BICYCLE LANES ARE DESIGNED CURRENTLY I MEAN IF IT SNOWS FIRST OFF THEY’RE NOT GOING TO BE PEOPLE PARKING CARS. THEY’RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHERE TO PARK. I MEAN I DON’T KNOW IF YOU
GUYS EVER TRIED TO PARK WHEN IT’S SNOWY OUT YOU KNOW, DOWNTOWN BASICALLY THE BIKE LANE AND THEN JUST TO THINK THAT THEY’RE GOING TO SPEND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS THAT’S A LOT OF MONEY. THAT’S HALF A MILLION DOLLARS . SO I’M I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ABOUT THIS.
I’M KIND OF AGAINST IT HONESTLY. AND THE OTHER THING I WANT TO SPEAK OUT ON IS TWENTY TWENTY FOUR ZERO ZERO ZERO FOR I I’M DON’T AGREE WITH THAT EITHER. I SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT BUT I DON’T SEE WHY THEY NEED NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR LIKE USED UNDERCOVER VEHICLES.
NOW I UNDERSTAND SUPPOSE THESE VEHICLES HAVE TO BE UNDER A CERTAIN MILEAGE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THAT I MEAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN THAT OUT THERE TO ME BUT TO ME WHY DON’T YOU USE AND I SPOKE ABOUT THIS BEFORE PROBABLY A FEW MONTHS AGO I MENTIONED THAT THERE IS A DODGE CHALLENGER ROLLING
AROUND AND IT LOOKS LIKE A POLICE CAR SPEED USE THAT AS A RECRUITING TOOL TO RECRUIT PEOPLE SO THEY I TALKED TO THE OFFICER. HE SAID THAT THEY GOT THAT CAR FROM A DRUG SEIZURE. OK, THERE’S YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GET BUSTED WITH DRUGS, SEIZE THEIR CARS.
SO I MEAN IF THEY CAN USE IT FOR THAT, WHY CAN’T THEY DO THAT? WHY DO WE GOT SPEND NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ON THREE USED UNDERCOVER VEHICLES? I MEAN SO I’M YEAH, I’M IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT BUT THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. WAR BEER MIKE GLEASON AND THEN
MAKE FLATMAN YOU MY NAME IS BARBARA WHEN I WALK AROUND CHENEY IN SPOKANE I DON’T KNOW THE VEHICLE WHAT I SEE THROUGH MY EYES IS A LOT OF SUFFERING AND I SEE A LOT OF PAIN. I SEE THOSE THAT ARE INVOLVED WITH DRUG BUT DRUG ADDICTION, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, THOSE WHO
DON’T HAVE ADEQUATE HOUSING DON’T HAVE ADEQUATE SHELTER, FOOD AND OUR INDIGENOUS WAY WINNERS FOR REFLECTION AND RENEWAL. IT’S A TIME FOR YOU TO DELVE DEEPER INTO YOURSELF FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE WINTER AT A TIME OF SURVIVAL IN USUALLY DURING THE WINTER ME AND MY MOTHER WE WOULD USUALLY STARVE
DURING THE WINTER. >> THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING THROUGH THAT RIGHT NOW. >> I DON’T THINK SPENDING EXTRA MONEY AND FUNDING ON INCREASING THE POLICE BUDGET AND HELPING A SPEEDY IS WHERE WE REALLY NEED TO PUT OUR PRIORITIES. I THINK WE NEED TO CONSIDER AND PUT OUR PRIORITIES INTO
THE PEOPLE AS WE SAY IN SWEAT FOR THE PEOPLE CREATED FOR THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. >> POLICE BUDGET ALREADY HAS ENOUGH SUPPORT AND WE’RE NOT GETTING TO THE ROOT ISSUES WHICH ARE HOMELESSNESS, INADEQUATE HOUSING, ACCESS EQUITY SUPPORTING OUR PEOPLE, A DRUG ADDICT, A DRUG USER.
>> THESE PEOPLE GET INVOLVED WITH THESE KIND OF THINGS IF THEY HAVE ACCESS TO THESE THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE, PEOPLE ONLY GET INVOLVED IN THESE TYPE OF THINGS WHEN THEY DON’T HAVE ACCESS, WHEN IT’S THEIR ONLY OPTION, WHEN THEY NEED TO MAKE RENT, WHEN THEY NEED TO FOCUS ON MONEY.
>> OUR PRIORITIES ARE FOCUSED ON MONEY INSTEAD OF THE PEOPLE AND I THINK THAT’S OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM IF WE DON’T FOCUS ON THESE TYPE OF THINGS, THESE PROBLEMS ARE ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE AND WORSE AND WORSE. >> AND I DON’T THINK SENDING MONEY TO SUPPORT A GENOCIDE OF MORE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ON
TOP OF THE GENOCIDE THAT’S ALREADY BEEN PERPETUATED SINCE COLONIZATION BEGAN. TURTLE ISLAND IS GOING TO HELP THAT EITHER OVER 20000 PALESTINIANS MARTYRS HAVE BEEN MURDERED, MUTILATED AND KILLED AND WE’VE SUPPORTED THAT BY SUPPORTING ISRAEL. I DON’T THINK THAT’S GOING TO HELP US EITHER. WE AS HUMAN BEINGS NEED TO
COME TOGETHER AND STAND TOGETHER BUT WE NEED TO DO IT IN AN EQUITABLE WAY AND TRY AND REALLY HEAR EACH OTHER. >> THANK YOU. PLEASE LET ME BE SPECIFIC AGAIN. WE ARE COMMENTING ON THE AGENDA ITEMS THAT WILL BE VOTED ON SO PLEASE LIMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO THE AGENDA ITEMS
BEFORE US MAKE GLEASON MIGIRO FLATMAN AND THEN ZAMILI I SEE MIKE IN THE ROOM UH MEGAS ONLINE. GO AHEAD MCGREGOR UNMUTED. >> THANK YOU AS WE HEARD EARLIER TONIGHT MARCH TWENTY TWENTY TWO CITY COUNCIL APPROVED TWO POINT FOUR MILLION FOR POLICE VEHICLES AUGUST TWENTY EIGHTEEN TO COUNCIL AUTHORIZED THREE POINT
ONE MILLION FOR POLICE VEHICLES. >> TONIGHT THERE’S ANOTHER NINETY THOUSAND PLUS NINE THOUSAND REQUESTED FOR PREAPPROVAL OF POLICE VEHICLE. >> SPOKANE COULD USE THOSE MILLIONS TO HUMANELY HOUSE THE HUMANS TRYING NOT TO FREEZE TO DEATH TONIGHT. RIGHT NOW DURING BOTH THE WIND AND WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY AS WELL AS ILLNESS OUTBREAKS,
THERE ARE HUNDREDS IF THOUSANDS OF HUMAN BEINGS FIGHTING HYPOTHERMIA THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH SHELTER BEDS TO HOUSE EVERYONE AND THERE’S NO WARMING CENTERS INSTEAD OF FUNDING AND LINE OF MACHINES WE WILL BE PROVIDING WARMING CENTERS, HOT FOOD BLANKETS, APPROPRIATE GEAR AND SAVING PEOPLE’S LIVES AND LIMBS. WE NEED TO STOP SPENDING MONEY
FOR A POLICE STATE. THESE VEHICLES ARE ARRIVING AHEAD OF ALREADY PURCHASED BUT DELAYED VEHICLES. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FELLOW HUMANS FROM HAZARDOUS AND INHUMANE CONDITIONS. THERE’S NO RUNNING WATER STILL IN THE SHELTER WAREHOUSE WHICH IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A TERRIBLE DIARRHEAL OUTBREAK THAT IS NOT HUMANE. ITEM ELEVEN IS AN UPDATED
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDERS TO EXCHANGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST CASES. THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST LISTED ON PAGE 230 STEM FROM QUOTE EACH OFFICE HAVING LIMITED RESOURCE TO CONTRACT WITH PRIVATE COUNCIL FOR INDIGENT CONFLICT CASES INDIGENT MEANING POOR THE RULES STIPULATING THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CASES PUBLIC
DEFENDERS CAN WORK SEEMED TO BE THE MAJORITY OF WHAT MAKES UP THIS MEMORANDUM. SO THE CITY AND THE COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDERS OFFICES ARE BUMPING AGAINST THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED CASELOAD BECAUSE THEY’RE OVERWORKED AND THEY’RE BUMPING UP AGAINST THIS CASELOAD ENOUGH TO WARRANT NEEDING AN UNDERSTANDING TO SWAT CASES WITH EACH OTHER.
PART OF THIS DELUGE OF CASES COMES FROM THE FACT THAT SPOKANE COUNTY PROSECUTOR LARRY WILL TRACK RECORD OF OVERCHARGING EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING. SUCH OVERCHARGING INCLUDES SPENDING THOUSANDS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO PROSECUTE A CHILD WHO STOLE TEN DOLLARS FROM ANOTHER KID IN HIS GROUP HOME TEN DOLLARS HIS PUBLIC DEFENDER TOLD THE INLANDER IN
TWENTY SEVENTEEN QUOTE WE OFFERED TO PAY THE TEN DOLLARS BACK AGAIN AND DO COMMUNITY SERVICE THAT WOULD HAVE BENEFITED THE COMMUNITY MORE THAN A TRIAL THAT COST ALL THIS TIME AND EFFORT. NOT REALLY SURE WHAT THE POINT OF IT IS. I’M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT THE
POINT OF IT IS EITHER IN IS MEMBRANE OF UNDERSTANDING IS A SYMPTOM OF HASKELL’S DISEASE OF OVERCHARGING THOSE HE DEEMS NOT FIT FOR HE I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE POINT OF THIS OVERCHARGING IS. >> HOW DOES THIS MAKE OUR COMMUNITY BETTER? THANK YOU FOR YOUR CALL FAMILY .
>> MY NAME IS SAM SPOKANE RESIDENT. I’M HERE TO ADDRESS A NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ARE GOING THAT’S GOING TO BE SPENT FOR UNDERCOVER POLICE VEHICLES. >> I DON’T I DON’T THINK THAT IS NECESSARY AND I THINK THAT WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT HOW THAT ONLY PERPETUATES OPPRESSION IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
POLICE ARE ONLY THERE TO PROTECT PROPERTY, NOT PEOPLE. POLICE TERRORIZE BLACK PEOPLE ,INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, OTHER BROWN PEOPLE. WE DON’T NEED TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON THE POLICE. THEY ARE OPPRESSIVE ENOUGH. >> WE DON’T NEED TO EQUIP THEM TO BE MORE OPPRESSIVE. >> WE SHOULD BE SPENDING MONEY
AND I’M GOING TO REITERATE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING UP HERE. >> WE NEED TO HELP OPPRESSED PEOPLE THAT’S HOUSELESS PEOPLE . IT’S PEOPLE THAT ARE SUFFERING UNDER OUR CAPITALIST ABLEST WHITE SUPREMACIST COUNTRY. IT’S IMPERA THAT WE LISTEN TO THOSE PEOPLE AND CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT CONGRESS AND I’M
ADDRESSING YOU AND I SAY THE LAST TIME I GOT UP HERE AND I TALKED ABOUT HOW WE SHOULD ABOLISH THE POLICE, THE RESPONSES FROM CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE THAT SAFETY, PUBLIC SAFETY IS A PRIORITY. >> WHY ARE WE WHAT PUBLIC SAFETY DOES NOT EQUAL MORE POLICING IN OUR COMMUNITIES?
THAT IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE AND IT IS YOUR JOB TO LISTEN TO US AND IT WAS ITERATED THAT THAT’S SOMETHING THAT YOU CONSTANTLY HEAR FROM PEOPLE OUT IN THE PUBLIC BUT YOU DON’T ADDRESS THE THINGS THAT ARE SAID RIGHT HERE. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTING US. >> SO LISTEN TO US.
WE DON’T WANT MORE MONEY SPENT ON POLICE. >> THANK YOU. YOU CALL YOUR CHILD’S SCOTT WARD AND MELIKA FLETCHER . >> MY NAME IS COREY CHILDS. I’M FROM THE HILLIER NEIGHBORHOOD AND DISTRICT ONE SPEAKING ON THE NINETY THOUSAND PROPOSED SPEEDY UNDERCOVER VEHICLES. I HAD ALSO SPOKE ON THE POLICE
BUDGET THAT HAD BEEN PASSED BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS TWICE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS I’VE SEEN CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS SAY VERBATIM THERE WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH MONEY THAT’S QUOTED DIRECTLY, DIRECTLY FROM BINGEL IN THE RANGE ARTICLE WITH THE HEADLINE WE ARE IN A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS RIGHT NOW AND I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO DIE
ADDRESSING THE HOUSING CRISIS HERE IN SPOKANE. I ALSO SAW THIS EXACT SENTIMENT EXPRESSED BY WILKERSON THE HOMELESS COALITION ON THE 4TH OF JANUARY EIGHTY FIVE MILLION A TWELVE MILLION DOLLAR INCREASE WAS THE BUDGET APPROVED FOR THE POLICE TWENTY TWENTY FOUR WHICH WAS THE LARGEST BUDGET IN SPOKANE. IN ADDITION TO THAT BUDGET
THIS IS THE SECOND ITEM VOTING TO GIVE THE POLICE EVEN MORE MONEY, THE FIRST BEING TO GET EVERY MEMBER OF THE SPDR CUSTOM FITTED GAS MASK. >> I WANT TO KNOW WHY THEY’RE SEEMINGLY ENDLESS MONEY TO SPEND TO SEND TO THE POLICE AND WHY THE MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL ARE SO WILLING TO
SPEND IT TO SEND IT. >> BUT THERE WILL QUOTE UNQUOTE NEVER BE ENOUGH WHEN IT COMES TO THE HOUSING CRISIS. I WONDER HOW MANY UN HOUSE PEOPLE NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO CARE FOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SCOB HI I’M SCOTT WARD. I’M HERE TO ALSO TALK ABOUT THE VEHICLES, THE UNDERCOVER
VEHICLES THAT ARE CHARGED THAT NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND THEN THE DODGE CHARGER THAT ALMOST ANOTHER NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS TWENTY TWENTY THREE WAS THE DEADLIEST YEAR IN U.S. HISTORY FOR CITIZENS KILLED BY POLICE OFFICERS IN THE UNITED STATES OVER TWELVE HUNDRED CITIZENS LOST THEIR LIVES AT THE HANDS OF THE
POLICE EVERY SINGLE YEAR SINCE TWENTY TWENTY SINCE THE UPRISING AROUND THE RACIST KILLING OF GEORGE FOID POLICE KILLINGS HAVE GONE UP EVERY SINGLE YEAR AND THERE IS A SEEMS TO BE A COMPETITION BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ON WHO CAN PAY THE WHO CAN GIVE MORE MONEY TO THE POLICE.
MEANWHILE WE HAVE AS PEOPLE HAVE TALKED ABOUT WE HAVE MASSIVE ISSUES OF HOMELESSNESS AND ADDICTION THAT AREN’T BEING SOLVED BY ANY OF THIS IF IF POLICE SPENDING TO SOLVE THESE ISSUES WE WOULD HAVE THEM SOLVED BECAUSE WE SPENT FAR MORE ON POLICING THAN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD.
NEW YORK CITY ITSELF SPENDS MORE ON THEIR POLICE DEPARTMENT THAN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY OF NORTH KOREA SPENDS ON THEIR MILITARY. >> SO IF THIS STUFF WORKED THEN IT WOULD BE WORKING BY NINETY THOUSAND. SO BASICALLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS HERE FOR NEW VEHICLES. >> HOW MANY HOW MANY HOMES
COULD THAT HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD BE HOUSED FOR THAT DON’T HAVE A HOUSE RIGHT NOW LIKE PROBABLY LIKE TWELVE PEOPLE COULD BE HOUSED FOR A YEAR AND SOMEWHAT DECENT HOUSING FOR THAT MONEY. >> TWELVE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE FREEZING OUT IN THE STREETS HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD GET DRUG ADDICTION REHAB
TREATMENT FOR THAT MONEY AND WE HAVE ALREADY A BLOATED POLICE BUDGET HERE. >> I MEAN THERE IS LIKE A PRO LIKE A RALLY, A SIGN WAVING RALLY. >> THE OTHER DAY AT THE CORNER UP ON DIVISION AND WHEREVER THERE’S LIKE SEVEN PEOPLE THEY’RE WAVING SIGNS. >> THERE IS JUST AS MANY
OFFICERS THERE FOR SEVEN PEOPLE WAVING SIGNS A WASTE OF MONEY, A WASTE. >> I WAS IN PORT ANGELES OVER OVER THE NEW YEAR AND I WAS AT ONE OF THEIR PALESTINE PROTESTS THERE. NOT A SINGLE COP WAS THERE. >> WOW. AMAZING CONSIDERING WHAT WE FACE HERE IN SPOKANE FOR EVERY
ONE OF OUR RALLIES IS JUST A MASSIVE DISPROPORTIONATE RESPONSE. >> OK, SO IT’S NOT PROGRESSIVE TO GIVE MORE MONEY TO THE POLICE. >> YOU CAN’T CALL YOURSELF PROGRESSIVE. IT IS RACIST BECAUSE THAT MONEY IS GOING TO FUND A MACHINE THAT HARMS BLACK BROWN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. >> OK, SO SO YOU CANNOT
PRETEND TO BE PROGRESSIVE AND CONTINUE TO THROW MORE MONEY AT THE POLICE. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MALIK FLETCHER . HELLO CITY COUNCIL. MY NAME IS MALIK FLETCHER. I’M A RESIDENT OF SPOKANE AND I’VE LIVED HERE MY ENTIRE LIFE. UM, I HAD A WHOLE SPEECH DEDICATED TO THE RESOLUTION
TWENTY TWENTY FOUR TRIPLE OH THREE BUT SINCE THAT’S BEEN TAKEN OFF THE AGENDA I WILL BE PICKING OFF JUSTICE AND EVERYBODY THAT’S BEEN STANDING AGAINST THE NINETY THOUSAND DOLLAR BUDGET AND NINE THOUSAND DOLLAR BUDGET FOR THE POLICE AND I’LL EXPLAIN MY REASONS. >> THE POLICE BUDGET IN SPOKANE IS ALREADY EXTREMELY
BLOATED TO AN UNREASONABLE PROPORTION AND WHERE WE CAN BE SENDING THIS MONEY TO SOCIAL PROGRAMS THAT WOULD HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING OUT ON THE STREETS STARVING COLD WITH NO WARMTH. >> WE ARE SENDING IT TO THE POLICE WHO ARE ACTIVELY HARMING THE COMMUNITIES IN SPOKANE. UM, SO I WANT TO ASK EVERY
SINGLE ONE OF YOU TO COMPLETELY RETHINK YOUR DECISION ON THESE BUDGETS BECAUSE IT’S NOT LOGICAL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NICHOLAS BOMADERRY HERE AGAIN ALL IDEA SORRY. >> UM I’M DOING OBVIOUSLY YOU KNOW WE WEREN’T UH COUNCIL MEMBER UH KLETZKY AND MYSELF WE’RE NOT HERE FOR THIS UM
BUDGET THAT PASSED LAST YEAR BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THIS IS NOT NEW FUNDING RIGHT . THIS IS NOT COMING OUT OF THE YEAH. THIS PASSED ON FROM TWENTY TWENTY THREE. >> DO WE KNOW THOUGH WHAT THESE UNDERCOVER VEHICLES I MEAN THE PLAN WITH THEM, HOW THEY’RE USED, HOW DOES THIS
FIT INTO OPERATIONS? WE DO NOT I DO NOT SPECIFICALLY KNOW MR. GITTINGS WAS HERE TODAY AT BRIEFING AND WENT OVER IT AND THAT DID NOT COME UP UH IN HIS BRIEFING NOR WAS IT ASKED WHICH I WILL EARN. >> YEAH I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT UP IN MORE BRIEFING BUT
I’LL JUST ADD THAT I DID ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE IN THE PROCESS OF HAVING THEM BROUGHT UP AND ASKED WHY DO THEY NEED TO COME UP SO QUICKLY INSTEAD OF CAN GO THROUGH REGULAR COMMITTEE PROCESS BUT ALL THEY CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS ARE PART OF THE FULL BUDGET FOR THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT THE NEXT YEAR. THIS IS NOTHING IN ADDITION TO THE CURRENT BUDGET PLAN WE ARE STILL ORDERING MORE CARS. WE NEED MORE CARS. THESE ONES WERE ACTUALLY I’M A VERY FRUGAL PERSON AND THEY CONSIDER THESE TO BE GOOD DEALS ON CARS THAT WERE NEEDED AT THIS TIME AND WE EVEN SAID
A DODGE CHARGER. WHY DO YOU NEED A DODGE CHARGER? UH, BUT EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR AN ALREADY OUTFITTED CAR THAT HAD REASONABLE MILES WAS ACTUALLY A GOOD DEAL. AND SO THAT IS WHY I CHOSE TO SUPPORT THIS EVEN THOUGH I’VE BEEN VERY CRITICAL AND OF POLICE VEHICLES AS COUNCIL MEMBER BEING ON CATHCART
AND MOCKERS ARE WELL AWARE, I ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT EVERY VEHICLE PURCHASE AND SO UM I HAVE A LOT OF SCRUTINY AND I THOUGHT THESE ONES WERE WORTH IT. >> YEAH, THE COMMENTARY HERE, YOU KNOW ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE ADVANCE OF PLEASE INDICATE BY SAYING OF THE
AGENDA I I YOU KNOW I’M SORRY WHAT WERE WE APPROVING THE PRINCE PYNSENT THE AGENDA. >> YES I HE KNOWS ANY OF US THAT IS APPROVED GOING ONTO RESOLUTIONS AND FINAL READINGS PLEASE RESOLUTION TWENTY TWENTY FOUR DASH ONE RESOLUTION AND COMPANION BUDGET FUNDING AGREEMENT FOR USE OF FUNDS FROM TRAFFIC
CALMING MEASURES FUND FOR LABOR AND ACQUISITION OF EQUIPMENT DEDICATED TO CLEANING AND PLOWING THE BIKE LANES NINE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. WE HAVE WON PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON THAT MR LO. OK THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON RESOLUTION THE TOPIC. >> YES UM ON THE TRAFFIC CALMING RESOLUTION HERE I’M
GOING TO BE SUPPORTING US TONIGHT BUT I AM A LITTLE FRUSTRATED AT OUR DECISION AND THE FUNDS THAT IT’S IT’S COMING FROM WE AS A COUNCIL HAVE FOUGHT PRETTY TOOTH AND NAIL TO KEEP TRAFFIC CALMING FUNDS GOING TOWARDS TRAFFIC CALMING PROJECTS. >> THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION OVER WHETHER OR
NOT WE SHOULD BE FUNDING TRAFFIC OFFICERS AND THERE WAS REALLY GOOD REASON TO HAVE THOSE DISCUSSIONS AND I DON’T WANT TO DIMINISH THAT AT ALL BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY GOOD QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED. WE NEEDED TO GET CONCESSIONS FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO LET US KNOW THAT THOSE DOLLARS
ARE GOING TO BE USED IN THAT WAY. >> WE I HEAR ABOUT THAT FROM MY NEIGHBORHOODS ALL THE TIME. I HAVEN’T ONCE HEARD FROM MY NEIGHBORHOODS ABOUT TRAFFIC CALMING BEING USED FOR BIKE LANES. I THINK THIS EQUIPMENT THAT WE’RE BUYING IS GOING TO BE GREAT AND I THINK THAT WE
SHOULD BE MAINTAINING THOSE SPACES. >> I DON’T KNOW THAT THESE ARE THE DOLLARS THAT WE SHOULD BE USING THEM ON BUT I DO SUPPORT USING THOSE DOLLARS FOR THESE KINDS OF PROJECTS AND SO FOR ME THE FRUSTRATION COMES IN THIS VOTE NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT WE’RE DOING IT ON BUT IT FEELS
AS IF THIS HAS BEEN AN INCONSISTENT STANCE FOR US. AND SO WHILE I THINK THIS WILL DO A LOT OF GOOD, I WAS A LITTLE FRUSTRATED BASED ON WHERE THOSE DOLLARS ARE COMING FROM MY CAR. >> YEAH, I DO SUPPORT THIS AND I HAVE SUPPORTED IT. I’M ON THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE
BUT IN TALKING WITH CALIFORNIA BIGELOW I MEAN HE’S MADE SOME REALLY GOOD POINTS I THINK ABOUT JUST YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS TRULY THE BEST SOURCE AND WHATNOT. >> AND SO ONE OF THE BIG THINGS I JUST THINK WE HAVE TO DO IS COME UP WITH A BETTER
WAY TO MAINTAIN ALL OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE OVERALL. AND SO A BIG THRUST OF MINE HAS BEEN YOU KNOW, WHEN WE MOVE A PROJECT FORWARD, CAN WE SET ASIDE FIVE TO 10 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL PROJECT COST SO THAT WE HAVE THAT SORT OF IN THE KITTY SO THAT WE HAVE A
WAY TO MAINTAIN AND WHETHER IT’S PLOWING AND MAINTENANCE THAT WAY OR OTHER FORMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE. >> BUT I THINK THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT WHEN WE INVEST SIGNIFICANT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS WE HAVE TO SHOW THE COMMUNITY WE ARE MAINTAINING THOSE AND THAT WE CARE ABOUT THOSE. OTHERWISE IT’S GOING TO BE SO
MUCH HARDER TO CONTINUE TO INVEST IN THOSE TYPES OF PROJECTS. SO I’M GOING TO SUPPORT THIS TONIGHT BUT I THINK KATHRYN BIGELOW HAS MADE SOME GOOD POINTS AND THERE’S GOT TO BE A BETTER DIRECTION I THINK AS WE MOVE FORWARD FOR MAINTENANCE. >> ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER KLETZKY, THANK YOU.
WELL, I AGREE WITH TWO OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS COMMENTS AND I JUST RAN FOR OFFICE SO A DOORBELL THE HECK OUT OF MY DISTRICT AND MAINTENANCE OF SIDEWALKS. UM, WE’RE SWEEPING AND SHOVELING DID COME UP AND ALSO BIKE LANE SOME OF MY DISTRICT DOESN’T HAVE SIDEWALKS AND SO IF THOSE EDGES ARE NOT MAINTAINED
EITHER FROM SNOW OR THIS, THIS VEHICLE WILL ALSO HAVE SWEEPING CAPABILITIES. IT SHOVES PEOPLE OUT INTO THE STREET WALKING. AND SO I DID HEAR ABOUT THAT QUITE A BIT, ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHERN ASPECT OF MY DISTRICT. SO I THINK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MY DISTRICT THIS IS TRAFFIC COMING BUT I
LOVE THAT THEY’RE THINKING ABOUT PROTECTING THAT NAME BECAUSE I ALSO HEARD A LOT ABOUT THAT. >> SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH COUNCIL MEMBERS. YEAH, I’M VERY EXCITED TO SUPPORT THIS AND GLAD THIS IS FINALLY COMING UP FOR A VOTE. I KNOW WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR A LONG TIME.
I WISH WE COULD HAVE VOTED ON IT BACK IN JULY BUT THAT’S OK. >> WE’LL HAVE IT FOR NEXT WINTER. UM, I ACTUALLY DISAGREE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER DINGELL’S INTERPRETATION OF TRAFFIC COMING HERE AND I THINK THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY VERY IN LINE WITH THE PURPOSE OF THE TRAFFIC COMING FUNDS WHICH IS
TO MAKE OUR STREETS MORE WALKABLE, LIVABLE PEDESTRIAN BIKE FRIENDLY. WE WANT TO ACTIVATE OUR STREETS WITH PEOPLE AND BIKE LANES DO THAT. I ALSO THINK IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE HERE THAT THE MONEY THAT’S GOING TO BE USED FOR THE MAINTENANCE IS NOT JUST TO MAINTAIN BIKE LANES, IT’S TO MAINTAIN ALL
TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAMS AND BEING AN HISTORIC INTERVENTION. SO WE’VE ALL SEEN ONE CAR BOMB THAT WENT IN AND IT’S BEEN RUINED OR THE STREET LIGHTS THE LIGHT BULBS GO OUT ON THEM OR INSIDE THE CAMERA’S LIGHT BULBS GO OUT ON THEM AND SCHOOL FLASHING ZONES ALL OF THOSE ARE PART OF THE
TRAFFIC COMING. THAT’S WHAT THIS FUNDING GOES TOWARDS. IT’S NOT JUST THE VEHICLES AND IT’S VERY IN LINE WITH THE POLICE AGREEMENT THAT WE HAD MODELED VERY SIMILARLY WHERE THEY’LL BE GIVING US REPORTS ON WHAT THEY’RE USING IT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS ACTUALLY USING IT TOWARDS THAT THING.
I THINK THAT WAS THE GREATEST FRUSTRATION WITH POLICE IS THAT THEY MIGHT NOT USE IT FOR ACTUAL TRAFFIC CALMING PURPOSES. EVEN THE FIRST REPORT WE GOT HALF OF ALL THE SHIFTS STARTED AT SIX A.M. WHICH I DON’T THINK WAS THE INTENT OF THE TRAFFIC COMING FUNDIS TO SLOW
CARS AT SIX IN THE MORNING AND I’VE NEVER HEARD COMPLAINTS ABOUT THAT. >> SO I THINK THAT’S PART OF THIS IS THAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE WHAT THEY’RE USING IT ON TO MAKE SURE THAT IT’S DIRECTED TOWARDS MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING INTERVENTIONS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. DO UM THANK YOU ALL.
>> I’LL JUST SAY WE’RE INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND MAINTENANCE ACROSS THE BOARD. THAT’S WHAT’S BEEN LACKING THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN THAT DIRECTION. SO I AM IN SUPPORT OF THIS ALL THOSE PLEASE VOTE GREAT. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH MISS RESOLUTION TWENTY TWENTY FOUR DASH FOR APPROVING THE
APPOINTMENT OF AARON WHUT AS THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING FOR THE CITY OF SPOKANE COUNCIL PRESIDENT. >> YEAH CAN WE TAKE OVER. YEAH I THINK YOU READ ALL THREE RESOLUTION TWENTY TWENTY FOUR DASH FIVE APPROVING THE APPOINTMENT MICHAEL PICOLO AS THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR THE CITY OF SPOKANE AND RESOLUTION
TWENTY TWENTY FOUR DASH SIX I’LL READ IT IN ITS ENTIRETY. A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE APPOINTMENT OF DON KINDRED’S, THE DIRECTOR OF NEIGHBORHOODS HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF SPOKANE WHEREAS SECTION TWENTY FOUR OF THE CITY CHARTER PROVIDES THE MAYOR SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO APPOINT DEPARTMENT HEAD
SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND WHEREAS SECTION TWO POINT FOURTEEN F OF THE CITY COUNCIL RULES OF PROCEDURE STATES THAT APPROVAL OF APPOINTMENT OF DEPARTMENT HEAD SHALL BE BY RESOLUTION DURING THE CITY COUNCIL’S LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND WHEREAS AFTER FULL CONSIDERATION MAYOR LISA BROWN IS APPOINTED DIONCOUNDA AS THE
DIRECTOR OF NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF SPOKANE NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY SPOKANE THAT HEREBY APPROVES THE APPOINTMENT OF JOHN KANDER AS THE DIRECTOR NEIGHBORHOODS HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF SPOKANE COUNTY COUNCIL COMMENTARY ANYBODY
SIGNED UP TO BE SIGNED IT ONCE ONE WE HAVE ONE SIGNED UP MR. HULING STILL HERE. I’M SURE HE IS. I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE NOTICED THE NEW MONITOR IN THE SHOW’S GALLERY SO YOU CAN BE OUTSIDE AND STILL BE PART OF THE MEETING . NO, IT’S ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU. >> YOU KNOW THE COUNCIL COMMENTARY PREPARED ABOUT ALL RIGHT. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ORDINANCE C THIRTY SIX FOR TWENTY ONE VACATING CONKLIN STREET SOUTH OF THE SOUTH LINE OF EIGHTH AVENUE AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN THE ORDINANCE FIRST READING JULY THIRTY ONE TWENTY TWENTY THREE .
MR. BROWN MR. BROWN, DO YOU WANT TO COME DOWN AND JUST UH QUICKLY JUST BRIEFLY JUST GIVE US WHAT’S GOING ON . GOOD EVENING. WE HAD THE HEARING ON THIS VACATION BACK IN JULY OF JULY 30 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY THREE SINCE THAT TIME THE CONCERT ACTUALLY FULFILLED THE
CONDITIONS OF THE VACATION WE RESERVED FOR THESE THIRTY FEET OF CAMPING FOR VISITOR AND THEN THEY ACTUALLY POSTED THE BOND IN THERE TO ACTUALLY DO SOME OF THE CLOSURE WORK AS PART OF THE VACATION. SO WE’LL DO THAT AS PART OF CONSTRUCTION WHEN THEY BUILD A NEW COMPLEX AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
SO RIGHT NOW THEY FULFILL THE CONDITIONS OF THE VACATION. >> WE’RE READY FOR THE FINAL READING IN THE COUNCIL COMINTERN PREPARED ABOUT THANK YOU, MR. KING. >> WE CONTINUE ON. DON’T GOING VERY FAR MISS BROWN ORDINANCE C THIRTY SIX POINT SEVENTY SEVEN RELATING TO THE GRANT ACCEPTANCE PROCESS, THE WOMEN IN SPOKANE
MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION SEVEN POINT NINETEEN POINT 010 OF TITLE SEVEN POINT NINETEEN OF THE SPOKANE MUNICIPAL CODE . SO THIS WAS A PROCESS WE PUT IN PLACE OF HOW WE ACCEPT GRANTS THAT IT DOESN’T HAVE TO COME BEFORE COUNCIL TO PUT THE APPLICATION IN BUT ONCE THE FUNDS ARE RECEIVED IT WILL
COME BEFORE COUNCIL EXTREME LYONS’S AND WHEN WE NEED TO PIVOT AND ACT QUICKLY IT ALLOWS US TO DO THAT. >> YOU KNOW THE COUNCIL COMMENTARY PREPARED ABOUT THANK YOU AS MR. FIRST READING ORDINANCE C THIRTY SIX FOUR TWENTY TWO VACATING THE ALLEY BETWEEN FOURTH AVENUE AND FIFTH AVENUE FROM THE EAST
LANE OF WASHINGTON STREET TO THE WEST TO BERNARD STREET ORIGINAL FIRST READING HELD JULY THIRTY ONE TWENTY TWENTY THREE FURTHER ACTION IS DEFERRED IN THE FIRST READING ORDINANCE SHALL GIVE US THE READER’S DIGEST VERSION AND A STAYCATION. WE ALSO READ THE HEARING ON JULY 31ST TWENTY TWENTY THREE THAT VACATION WAS ALSO
APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS ON YOUR BASICALLY ONE OF THE CONDITIONS THAT WE DID HAVE IS WAS RESERVED FOR THE FULL LENGTH OF THAT ALLEY FOR VISTA, COMCAST AND CENTURYLINK AND SO THEY’RE GOING TO BUILD THE ACTUAL STRUCTURE ACROSS THE EAST HALF OF THAT ALLEY. >> SO WE REALLY WANT TO WORK
WITH THE UTILITY PURVEYORS TO FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH THAT EASEMENT COULD ACTUALLY BE RELEASED WHEN IT WAS APPROVED THAT JULY 31ST WE HAD AN EASEMENT FOR THE FULL LENGTH OF IT. WE NOW HAVE TO GO BACK AND DO A NEW FIRST READING OF THE ORDINANCE SINCE WE’VE ACTUALLY BEEN ABLE TO REDUCE THESE
LENGTH BY HALF. >> SO WE NEED TO DO A NEW FIRST READING OF THE ORDINANCE SO THAT’S WHAT WE’RE HERE TO DO NOW THEY WILL BE COMING BACK AFTER WE GET DONE WITH THIS TO ACTUALLY DO A FINAL READING ONCE THEY’VE COMPLETED THE CONDITIONS OF THAT VACATION. SO RIGHT NOW WE’RE JUST DOING
A NEW FIRST READING OF THE ORDINANCE. >> SO ANY QUESTIONS? NO, THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE SOME PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON THIS EVELYN HEMEN, JOHN PAICE AND THEN JOHN ALTOR UM AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT. SOME INDIVIDUALS TRAVELED OF OUR WAYS TO TALK ABOUT THE SHORT TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE SO
I SLOTTED SOME IN HERE IN CASE YOU ALL WANT TO TAKE THAT TESTIMONY SINCE THEY MADE THE TRIP WE WILL. >> WE WILL BUT I WILL SUSPEND THE RULES. I WILL TAKE A SUSPENSION. >> THE RULES TO HEAR TESTIMONY ARE NOT AN AGENDA ITEM. I DID SUSPEND THE RULES
EARLIER TO ALLOW IT DOING OPEN FORUM. SO I WILL CONTINUE THAT. I WILL MAKE THAT MOTION I GUESS THEN IT IS ONE ITEM I JUST WORRY ABOUT PRECEDENT THAT SETS FOR SUSPENDING THE RULES FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA. I JUST WORRY ABOUT THAT FOR THE FULL YEAR I GET EARLIER
WEEK YEAH EARLIER WE DEFERRED THAT THAT ITEM AND SO IT’S ON ANOTHER AGENDA THAT UNFORTUNATELY WAS NOT WAS NOT UPDATED BUT SECOND THE MOTION STILL ON THE FLOOR. THEY TRAVELED HERE AND SHOULD BE ABLE TO SUSPEND THE RULES TO ALLOW THAT IT’S BEEN MOVED. >> IT’S BEEN SECOND ONLY TO
CAN I JUST MAKE A COMMENT ON THAT BECAUSE EARLIER WE DID FOR THE OPEN FORUM WHERE IT MAKES SENSE THAT IT WOULD BE FAIR THAT WE ALSO ALLOWED THIS TESTIMONY HERE I AM IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT WITH YOU, COUNCILOR BINGEL. SO IT HAS BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED ALL THOSE IN
FAVOR I IDENTIFIED BY SAYING I I ANY DOUBT THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> I MAKE THE MOTION TO ALLOW TESTIMONY ON THE SHORT TERM RENTAL EVEN THOUGH IT’S ON FUTURE AGENDA NOT ON THE SECOND ALL THOSE IN FAVOR INDICATE BY SAYING I AND HE KNOWS SO-CALLED SO WE’LL HAVE
JOHN COME UP AND THEN WE’LL HAVE OUR TWO GUESTS THAT TRAVEL WILL COME DOWN. I ACTUALLY HAVE MORE OF A QUESTION ON THAT REMOVAL OF THE EQUITY BETWEEN 4TH AND 5TH AS A MEMBER OF WESTMINSTER CHURCH WE HAVE USED IT ALL THE WAY IS A MUCH EASIER WAY FOR IT TO BE
REMOVED AND PROBABLY ALSO INCLUDES THE APARTMENT ON FIFTH AND FOURTH AVENUE AS WELL CLOSING IT OFF. YOU’RE ASKING PEOPLE TO WATCH HISTORY WHICH HAS A DOWN PLUS THERE’S NO PARKING AND OF THE THESE OLD PARKING BEFORE THE AVENUE RESIDENCE AND ONLY SALVIO ABOUT THE FIFTH AVENUE ALSO PRESENTS PROBLEMS WITH
CARS PARK WHERE TRASH COULD BE PICKED UP. SO MY QUESTION IS I HOPE YOU FIGURE OUT A WAY FOR WESTMINSTER CHURCH IN THE CURRENT RESIDENCE IN FOURTH AND FIFTH AVENUE TO GET THEIR TRASH REMOVED. >> THANK YOU. YOU MUST BE TO THAT QUICKLY. THAT WAS ONE OF THE CONDITIONS
OF VACATION WAS TO FIGURE OUT TRASH REMOVAL. SO THEY ARE STILL THAT NEEDS TO BE FINALIZED BEFORE WE DO THE FINAL READING AND I THINK THEY HAVE A IN AGREEMENT PRETTY MUCH IN PLACE ALREADY TO ACCOMPLISH THAT. BUT THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT NEEDS TO BE RESOLVED
PRIOR TO THE FINAL READING. >> SO THAT’S GOOD COMMENT. >> THANK YOU, EVELYN HAMMOND AND THEN JOHN PACE. OH YEAH. YEAH YES IT IS. THANK THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE THIS EVENING EVERY THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SPEAK TONIGHT I AM AIRBORNE HEY I’M A NINE ELEVEN TWENTY EIGHT
TWENTY TWO YOU S RIVERTON HERE IN SPOKANE. >> I HAVE A TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT THAT I FULLY FURNISHED AS WELL AS A FULL SIZED KITCHEN WITH WASHER AND DRYER ALL FURNISHED INCLUDING CLOTHES DRYER SOAPS AND CLEANING SUPPLIES EACH PRINTER HAS A TOTALLY STERILIZED APARTMENT INCLUDING ALL BEDDING AND COMFORTERS,
DOORS AND RAILINGS. MY HEART MY APARTMENT IS A SERVICE TO SPOKANE AND TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS THAT HELPED TO FILL IN THE HOSPITAL . S ALSO CONSTRUCTION WORKERS THAT PUT ON EMERGENCY COOLING EMERGENCY ROOFING TO LOWE’S DELIVERY DRIVERS THAT HELP WITH TRANSPORTING GOODS TO YOUR HOUSE AS WELL AS PERSONS
WHO HAVE SURGERY HERE IN SPOKANE I CHARGE EIGHTY DOLLARS A NIGHT FOR UP TO SIX PERSONS AND A FIFTEEN PERCENT DISCOUNT WHICH WOULD MAKE THE FEES SIXTY EIGHT DOLLARS A NIGHT WITH MORE FEES LIKE YOU WANT TO PASS ON US THE TOTAL WILL BE ADDED TO THE GAS
AND IT WILL MAKE UP MUCH HIGHER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE NOW . >> MY FIXED INCOME IS THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH WITH BILLS INCLUDING MORTGAGE UP TO EIGHT HUNDRED ELEVEN DOLLARS. MY RENT IN RENTAL INCOME LAST YEAR WAS SEVEN THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY NINE DOLLARS WHICH REALLY HELPED THE
FINANCIALLY I AM EIGHTY THREE AND I NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET THE EXTREME PERMIT FEE OF TWO THOUSAND IS NOT GOING TO FIT INTO MY BUDGET AS WELL AS THE TWO DOLLARS A DAY FEE FOR HOUSING. I ALREADY GIVE THE CITY OCCUPANCY TAXES FOR AMOUNT OF FIVE DOLLARS A DAY PAID
TRAVIE WE ARE IN A THE AS A SIDE NOTE FOR FOR MY RENTERS AND FOR MYSELF THE CITY NEEDS TO FOLLOW THEIR OWN ORDINANCES. THE SIDEWALK ON RIVERTON THERE’S ONLY ONE SIDEWALK AND IT’S NEVER EVER PLOWED. >> THANK YOU JOHN PAYS TEMPERATURE. THANK YOU MR. I APPRECIATE WE
DID TRAVEL WE USED TO BE HERE FIRST NAME JOHN VIRGINIA JOHN YOU CAN MOVE THAT MICROPHONE AND SPEAK RIGHT INTO MY NAME’S JOHN IN VIRGINIA PLEASE. I’M NOT VIRGINIA BUT SHE’S HERE WITH ME BORN AND RAISED. WE’RE FROM BENTON CITY, WASHINGTON. BY PROSSER BORN AND RAISED IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY WE’RE
THE OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF GINGER’S PLACE LEGALLY LICENSED TAXPAYING AIRBNB OPERATING IN SPOKANE SINCE TWENTY SIXTEEN WHEN THEY FIRST ALLOWED AIRBNB TO COME INTO THE CITY OF SPOKANE AS SHORT TERM RENTAL BUSINESS OWNERS, ENTREPRENEURS AND TAXPAYERS WE ARE HERE TO EXPRESS OUR DISAPPOINTMENT DISSATISFACTION WITH THE COUNCIL FOR ATTEMPTING TO IMPLEMENT
ADDITIONAL TAXES, UNNECESSARY REGULATIONS AND GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY UPON OUR LICENSED AND APPROVED TAXPAYING ENTREPRENEURIAL SHORT TERM RENTAL BUSINESS. THIS PROPOSED LEGISLATION ILL PREPARED AND REEKS OF DEFINITIONS THAT ARE OPINIONATED AND AN AGENDA THAT IS SELF-SERVING TO THE COUNCIL’S DESIRE TO PROVIDE URGENT AND EMERGENCY IMMEDIATE PRESERVATION OF THE PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH OR SAFETY
AND FOR THE IMMEDIATE SUPPORT OF CITY GOVERNMENT. >> WHAT THREAT DOES THE PLATFORM SHORT TERM RENTAL DEFINED AS A LODGING USE THAT IS NOT A HOTEL OR A MOTEL POST THE ABOVE DESCRIBED AGENDA OPINIONATED DEFINITIONS HOW CAN A SHORT TERM RENTAL DEFINITION NOT INCLUDE A HOTEL OR MOTEL?
>> THEY ARE THE BASIS OF THE ACR INDUSTRY IT’S OBVIOUS FROM REVIEWS AND DRAFTS OF PREVIOUSLY UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO IMPLEMENT ORDINANCE CHARLIE THREE SIX FOUR EIGHT TWO OF SPOKANE MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER TEN FIFTY SEVEN THE CITY OF SPOKANE WOULD LIKE TO FINANCE THEIR IMAGINARY SOLUTIONS FOR HOMELESSNESS AND LOW INCOME HOUSING RELIEF
WITH THE TAX ON THE BACKS OF A SMALL SEGMENT OF SMALL SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND ENTREPRENEURS WHO HAVE BEEN ERRONEOUSLY DEFINED AS SHORT TERM OPERATORS OF SHORT TERM RENTALS BECAUSE THEY DON’T INCLUDE HOTELS AND MOTELS THE DEFINITIONS CREATED IN PARAGRAPH FOUR I KNOW THE PUBLIC RULE IN FACT PERFECTLY DEFINE THE BROADER
GROUP OF BUSINESS OWNERS AS A SPOKANE HOTEL MOTEL INDUSTRY WHICH PLATFORM STAR OPERATORS AIRBNB BARBU ARE A SMALL FRACTION OF THE POPULATION AT THIS PROPOSED TAX IS ONLY TO BE LEVIED AGAINST THE PLATFORM STAR POPULATION CENTER. >> THANK YOU VERY LEAST THERE THERE IS A PHONE IN OPTION IF
YOU WANT TO TESTIFY AGAIN SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO TRAVEL. WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU BUT PLEASE KNOW THAT THAT IS AVAILABLE TO YOU SO AND THIS WILL BE PRESENT AGAIN NEXT OCTOBER TWENTY NINTH JANUARY 20TH JANUARY TWENTY NINTH ON FIGURE OUT HOW SRUTTEN CAN YOU ANY FURTHER DETAILS OR CONCERNS.
>> WE’D LOVE TO HEAR THEM SO PLEASE SEND THEM TO THE COUNCIL. YEAH AND AND YOU TYPED SO FEEL FREE TO SEND US AN EMAIL AND YOU CAN EVEN SUBMIT IT TO IF YOU’D LIKE YOU CAN SUBMIT YOUR TESTIMONY TO MY SISTER HERE AND THEN IT’S INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD SO YEAH
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. >> THANK YOU EVERYONE. THAT CONCLUDES OUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR THIS EVENING. PLEASE NOTE TO BE VOTE ON EVERYTHING THAT WE NEEDED TO DO. >> ALL RIGHT. YOU WANT TO VOTE ON SOMETHING IMAGINARY WE MAY DO I DON’T KNOW. I’M JUST HAVING SO MUCH FUN UP HERE. YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THAT
CONCLUDES OUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA TONIGHT. PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE NO COUNCIL MEETING ON 15TH DUE TO THE MLK HOLIDAY. WE WILL SEE YOU BACK ON JANUARY 22ND TONIGHT