CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to appropriations for the Human Services Department; approving a spending plan; amending Ordinance 126237, which adopted the 2021 Budget; lifting a proviso; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
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WHEREAS, The City of Seattle’s 2021 Adopted Budget appropriated $12 million for community-led efforts to scale up organizations to increase public safety through technical support, capacity building, and expansion of capacity; and
WHEREAS, The City of Seattle’s 2021 Adopted Budget included a proviso on $10 million in the Human Services Department related to the scaling up of community-led organizations whose work increases public safety; and
WHEREAS, the proviso in Council Budget Action HSD-008-A-003 specifies that, “Of the appropriations in the 2021 budget for the Human Services Department’s (HSD’s) Supporting Safe Communities (HSD-BO-HS-H40000) Budget Summary Level, $10 million is appropriated solely for community-led efforts to scale up organizations to increase public safety through technical support, capacity building, and expansion of capacity (including HSD’s associated administrative costs) and may be spent for no other purpose, notwithstanding powers provided to the Mayor by Section 3 of the Proclamation of Civil Emergency dated March 3, 2020. These funds are intended to support the Council’s re-imagining of community safety work. Furthermore, none of the $10 million so appropriated may be spent until the City Council approves by ordinance a proposed spending plan organized within the Intercept Model framework submitted by HSD to the Public Safety and Human Services committee and the City Council Central Staff Director."; and
WHEREAS, the Human Services Department submitted the described spending plan to the City Council in conjunction with this ordinance, in accordance with HSD-008-A-003; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council approves the Community Safety Capacity Building RFP Spending Plan, Attachment 1 to this ordinance.
Section 2. The restrictions imposed by the following budget proviso, which limits spending on the following item, are removed because the conditions set forth in the proviso have been satisfied and they are no longer restrictions for any purpose, including those set forth in subsection 1(b) of Ordinance 126237:
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Department |
2021 CBA |
Proviso |
Budget Summary Level |
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2.1 |
Human Services Department |
HSD-008-A-003 |
"Of the appropriations in the 2021 budget for the Human Service Department’s (HSD’s) Supporting Safe Communities (HSD-BO-HS-H4000) Budget Summary Level, $10 million is appropriated solely for community-led efforts to scale up organizations to increase public safety through technical support, capacity building, and expansion of capacity (including HSD’s associated administrative costs) and may be spent for no other purpose, notwithstanding powers provided to the Mayor by Section 3 of the Proclamation of Civil Emergency dated March 3, 2020. These funds are intended to support the Council’s re-imagining of community safety work. Furthermore, none of the $10 million so appropriated may be spent until the City Council approves by ordinance a proposed spending plan organized within the Intercept Model framework submitted by HSD to the Public Safety and Human Services committee and the City Council Central Staff Director." |
HSD - BO-HS-H4000 - Supporting Safe Communities |
Section 3. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken after its passage and prior to its effective date is ratified and confirmed.
Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section 1.04.020.
Passed by the City Council the ________ day of _________________________, 2021, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this _____ day of _________________________, 2021.
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President ____________ of the City Council
Approved / returned unsigned / vetoed this ________ day of _________________, 2021.
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Jenny A. Durkan, Mayor
Filed by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2021.
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Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk
(Seal)
Attachments:
Attachment 1 - Community Safety Capacity Building RFP Spending Plan