SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: CB 119547

• Record No: CB 119547
• Version: 1
• Council Bill No: CB 119547
• Type: Ordinance (Ord)
• Status: Passed
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 7/1/2019
• Ordinance No: Ord 125855
• Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to a Community Service Officer program; amending Ordinance 125724, which adopted the 2019 budget; lifting a proviso; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
• Sponsors: M. Lorena González
• Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Central Staff Memo, 3. Presentation, 4. Signed Ordinance 125855, 5. Affidavit of Publication

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/9/2019	1	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
7/9/2019	1	Mayor	returned
7/9/2019	1	Mayor	Signed
7/5/2019	1	City Clerk	submitted for Mayor's signature
7/1/2019	1	City Council	passed	Pass
6/26/2019	1	Gender Equity, Safe Communities, New Americans, and Education Committee	pass	Pass
6/17/2019	1	City Council	referred
6/13/2019	1	Council President's Office	sent for review
6/11/2019	1	City Clerk	sent for review

CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to a Community Service Officer program; amending Ordinance 125724, which adopted the 2019 budget; lifting a proviso; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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WHEREAS, The City of Seattle's 2019 Adopted Budget included a proviso on funds in the Seattle Police Department (SPD) concerning the implementation of a Community Service Officer (CSO) program; and
WHEREAS, the proviso in Green Sheet 38-5-A-2-2019 restricts the 2019 appropriation for the SPD budget so that no more than $653,000 may be spent on a CSO program until the department submits a report that reflect several deployment considerations, consistent with Council's understanding of the program's racial equity toolkit process and broader community engagement; and
WHEREAS, the Executive's Community Service Officer Inter-Departmental Team (IDT), a work group consisting of staff from SPD the City Council, the Mayor's Office, the Office of Civil Rights, the Human Services Department, the Department of Neighborhoods, the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, the Community Police Commission and the City Budget Office led a thorough, collaborative community engagement process and have documented the community input that contributed to every aspect of the CSO program development; and
WHEREAS, the IDT submitted on April 17, 2019 a Community Service Officer Report to the Chair of the Gender Equity, Safe Communities, New Americans and Education Committee; and
WHEREAS, the IDT and the Seattle Police Department are in the process of implementing the program and expect that full implementation will occur in the fourth quarter of 2019; and
WHEREAS, the Chair of the Gender Equity, Safe Communities, New Americans and Education Committee has expressed an intent to review this legislation and the IDT's response to Green Sheet 38-5-A-2-2019 in the Gender Equity, Safe Communities, New Americans and Educat...