WEBVTT 00:00:09.008 --> 00:00:11.010 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:33% Good morning. 00:00:11.010 --> 00:00:12.712 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% I'm your host Lenny Orlov with 00:00:12.779 --> 00:00:16.950 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% Seattle Human Services. Today's virtual Civic 00:00:17.016 --> 00:00:19.953 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% coffee hour is presented in partnership with the Seattle 00:00:20.019 --> 00:00:22.789 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% Public Library as a way to encourage 00:00:22.856 --> 00:00:27.026 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% civic engagement among older adults in Seattle 00:00:27.327 --> 00:00:30.930 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% Today, on the Civic coffee hour, we will hear from Seattle 00:00:30.997 --> 00:00:34.634 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% Mayor Jenny Durkan following the mayor's 00:00:34.701 --> 00:00:38.371 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% remarks Anthony Derrick, Digital Advisor in the mayor's office 00:00:38.438 --> 00:00:41.641 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% will collect some of the questions from the online 00:00:41.708 --> 00:00:43.810 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% Q&A and present them to Mayor Durkan. 00:00:44.778 --> 00:00:48.748 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% We will conclude with additional resources and upcoming events. 00:00:50.083 --> 00:00:51.151 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:33% To introduce. 00:00:51.751 --> 00:00:55.488 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% Mayor Durkan Let me welcome Jason 00:00:55.555 --> 00:00:58.558 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:63% Johnson, interim director 00:00:58.625 --> 00:01:01.227 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:65% of Seattle Human Services. 00:01:01.828 --> 00:01:02.862 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:15% Jason. 00:01:03.830 --> 00:01:06.900 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% Welcome to the show. Please remember to mute 00:01:06.966 --> 00:01:10.236 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% your microphone you are alive on the 00:01:10.303 --> 00:01:10.837 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:45% Civic coffee hour. 00:01:12.238 --> 00:01:15.375 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:55% Great Lenny, thank you 00:01:15.442 --> 00:01:18.778 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% so much and special thanks to the Age 00:01:18.845 --> 00:01:21.981 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% friendly Seattle team for making today's coffee 00:01:22.048 --> 00:01:25.251 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% hour possible. Good morning and thanks to all of 00:01:25.318 --> 00:01:28.888 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% you for joining us today. My name is Jason Johnson and I have the 00:01:28.955 --> 00:01:31.991 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% great honor to serve as director of the Human Services Department 00:01:32.058 --> 00:01:35.962 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% for the city of Seattle. It's truly my pleasure to 00:01:36.029 --> 00:01:39.399 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% join you today. The Human Services Department mission is to connect people 00:01:39.466 --> 00:01:42.635 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% with resources and solutions during times of need so 00:01:42.702 --> 00:01:43.703 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% that we all can live. 00:01:43.770 --> 00:01:47.140 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% Learn, work and take part in a strong, healthy 00:01:47.207 --> 00:01:48.408 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:58% safe driving community. 00:01:49.108 --> 00:01:52.145 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% It is wonderful to work everyday 00:01:52.212 --> 00:01:55.715 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:95% with a dedicated team of human service professionals 00:01:55.782 --> 00:01:59.652 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% and also in close partnership with the mayor who is 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.189 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% has a strong commitment to human 00:02:03.256 --> 00:02:05.258 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% Services and the human service department's goals. 00:02:05.859 --> 00:02:09.062 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% The Civic happy hours. One way that the 00:02:09.128 --> 00:02:12.398 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% Human Services Department helps to connect people 00:02:12.465 --> 00:02:15.735 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% have grown each month and thanks to modern 00:02:15.802 --> 00:02:19.272 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% technology, this virtual format has allowed us 00:02:19.339 --> 00:02:22.942 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% to offer not only closed captioning in English, but 00:02:23.009 --> 00:02:26.112 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% viewers as Lenny stated, have a choice of 00:02:26.179 --> 00:02:29.849 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% six additional languages before we get started. I 00:02:29.916 --> 00:02:32.952 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% wanted to just offer a special thanks to 00:02:33.019 --> 00:02:36.322 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% Seattle Public Library for partnering with 00:02:36.389 --> 00:02:37.624 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% the Human Services Department and the age friendly Seattle team. 00:02:37.690 --> 00:02:40.727 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% This year on programs that help older 00:02:40.793 --> 00:02:43.930 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% people learn about city programs and services 00:02:43.997 --> 00:02:47.066 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% The library always has been a place people could count on 00:02:47.133 --> 00:02:50.370 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% to get answers to questions, including phone, email 00:02:50.436 --> 00:02:53.840 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:105% and online chat with a librarian which are especially 00:02:53.907 --> 00:02:56.109 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% critical these days. While library branches are closed. 00:02:56.976 --> 00:03:00.280 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% Library books and materials are available through 00:03:00.346 --> 00:03:04.117 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% curbside service and the library offers amazing online 00:03:04.183 --> 00:03:07.320 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% resources, including upcoming classes on Medicare 00:03:07.387 --> 00:03:11.391 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% You can visit spl.org 00:03:11.457 --> 00:03:14.794 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% For more information and thank you again to the 00:03:14.861 --> 00:03:15.962 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% Seattle Public Library for your partnership. 00:03:16.829 --> 00:03:20.233 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% And now it's my pleasure to introduce 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:23.937 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% today's special guest Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan 00:03:24.003 --> 00:03:27.140 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% I'm honored to work closely with Mayor Durkan. A true 00:03:27.206 --> 00:03:30.209 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% human service champion on important issues across 00:03:30.276 --> 00:03:33.279 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% our city that helped to prepare youth for 00:03:33.346 --> 00:03:36.816 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% success, support, affordability, and livability address 00:03:36.883 --> 00:03:39.919 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% homelessness, promote public health, community safety 00:03:39.986 --> 00:03:42.922 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% and promote healthy aging through 00:03:42.989 --> 00:03:45.358 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% through support services for seniors and people living with disabilities. 00:03:45.959 --> 00:03:49.128 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% I'm especially grateful for her leadership 00:03:49.195 --> 00:03:52.265 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% in increasing and targeting investments through the 00:03:52.332 --> 00:03:55.368 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% Human Services Department that help change racial disparities 00:03:55.435 --> 00:03:58.371 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% in Seattle and support and lift up 00:03:58.438 --> 00:04:01.708 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% black indigenous and people of color across our city 00:04:01.774 --> 00:04:02.075 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:38% and the region. 00:04:02.809 --> 00:04:05.845 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% Mayor Durkan was elected the 56 mayor 00:04:05.912 --> 00:04:08.881 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:45% of Seattle in 2017 00:04:08.948 --> 00:04:12.352 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% becoming the city's first female mayor in nearly a 00:04:12.418 --> 00:04:16.422 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:103% century, and only its second openly LGBTQ elected 00:04:16.489 --> 00:04:19.592 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% mayor. If we were all able to applaud, I would ask for 00:04:19.659 --> 00:04:23.429 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% you to do that now. Please join me and 00:04:23.496 --> 00:04:24.263 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:73% welcoming Mayor Jenny Durkan. 00:04:25.999 --> 00:04:32.105 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% And mayor, my apologies, you're muted. 00:04:31.004 --> 00:04:34.574 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% People been trying to mute me all week. 00:04:34.641 --> 00:04:38.111 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% So thank you, Jason for the introduction thanks to the 00:04:38.177 --> 00:04:42.115 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% e team, I really am very pleased to be 00:04:42.181 --> 00:04:45.218 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% here. I'm very sorry that this is virtual I 00:04:45.284 --> 00:04:48.488 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% I think one of the hardest thing about this 00:04:48.554 --> 00:04:52.792 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% pandemic is the way that it has for so many of us into 00:04:52.859 --> 00:04:55.962 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% isolation. An broken apart. Some of those really important 00:04:56.029 --> 00:04:59.399 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% civic bonds and human bonds we have with one another 00:04:59.465 --> 00:05:02.702 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% that I am drinking my coffee with you, but 00:05:02.769 --> 00:05:04.671 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% cannot wait until we can actually. 00:05:04.737 --> 00:05:08.474 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% Meet in the same room 00:05:08.541 --> 00:05:11.611 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% together. I really want to thank you to Jason and your team for 00:05:11.678 --> 00:05:15.148 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% all the work you've been doing, not just in the three years that 00:05:15.214 --> 00:05:18.317 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% I've been mayor. But during this pandemic and 00:05:18.384 --> 00:05:21.087 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% over the last many months it has been. 00:05:21.788 --> 00:05:24.791 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% Truly the most difficult time our city has 00:05:24.857 --> 00:05:28.094 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% ever faced. We are in the midst of Global 00:05:28.161 --> 00:05:31.698 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% al pandemic. We were one of the first in the nation to enter 00:05:31.764 --> 00:05:34.867 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% it. We had not only no help from our federal government 00:05:34.934 --> 00:05:37.904 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% but they seem to be working against our ability 00:05:37.970 --> 00:05:41.874 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% to fight the pandemic and we took 00:05:41.941 --> 00:05:44.911 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% k some bold steps early on to stop the spread 00:05:44.977 --> 00:05:48.047 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% of the virus because the only thing we could do to stop 00:05:48.114 --> 00:05:51.084 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% the spread of the virus was to make sure we didn't have contact 00:05:51.150 --> 00:05:51.751 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:43% with one another. 00:05:51.818 --> 00:05:54.754 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:58% But with that came some 00:05:54.821 --> 00:05:57.857 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% significant problems and issues. The first was it has 00:05:57.924 --> 00:06:01.094 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% created more and more isolation for people, particularly for those 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:01.427 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:40% who are seniors. 00:06:01.994 --> 00:06:05.098 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% The second is it showed us right 00:06:05.164 --> 00:06:08.234 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% away that by shutting down our economy, the 00:06:08.301 --> 00:06:12.071 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% that there was huge economic devastation for 00:06:12.138 --> 00:06:15.374 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% people. Both the health impacts and the 00:06:15.441 --> 00:06:17.009 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% economic impacts of the pandemic. 00:06:17.543 --> 00:06:20.813 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% Have landed very disproportionately 00:06:20.880 --> 00:06:23.483 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% on our communities of color and on our seniors. 00:06:24.016 --> 00:06:26.986 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% We have seen that the 00:06:27.053 --> 00:06:30.022 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% people who suffered in the earliest days were 00:06:30.089 --> 00:06:32.358 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% disproportionately those who were seniors and aging. 00:06:32.925 --> 00:06:35.895 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% But as the pandemic continued, we saw 00:06:35.962 --> 00:06:39.465 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% that it's skewed, so that are Latin X community in our black 00:06:39.532 --> 00:06:42.502 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% community have been disproportionately impacted by the health 00:06:42.568 --> 00:06:42.835 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:20% impacts. 00:06:43.770 --> 00:06:47.106 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% That's true of the economic impacts as 00:06:47.173 --> 00:06:50.176 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% well because we are a city that already had such disparity 00:06:50.243 --> 00:06:53.246 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% in our access to economic opportunity 00:06:53.312 --> 00:06:57.216 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% and the jobs where people could work from home. 00:06:57.283 --> 00:07:00.586 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% We saw 55,000 people immediately 00:07:00.653 --> 00:07:03.890 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% leave the center core, but many people couldn't work from home 00:07:03.956 --> 00:07:07.093 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% because the jobs they had required them to show up others 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:10.663 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% s were essential workers and in those groups of people 00:07:10.730 --> 00:07:14.033 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% they were disproportionately people of color and people who 00:07:14.100 --> 00:07:17.570 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% were service workers or who are not having the 00:07:17.637 --> 00:07:18.404 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% same economic prosperity in our city. 00:07:19.005 --> 00:07:22.408 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:65% So in this backdrop we saw 00:07:22.475 --> 00:07:25.711 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% immediately the disparities we saw before the 00:07:25.778 --> 00:07:28.948 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% pandemic were even more stark and against that 00:07:29.015 --> 00:07:32.151 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% t backdrop we then saw George Floyd murder 00:07:32.218 --> 00:07:35.688 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% in Minnesota, which ignited a civil 00:07:35.755 --> 00:07:36.489 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% rights and racial reckoning in our country. 00:07:37.056 --> 00:07:40.293 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% That we are in the midst of, and it is called me 00:07:40.359 --> 00:07:44.163 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% as mayor Ann our whole city to really acknowledge and recognize. 00:07:44.730 --> 00:07:47.934 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:63% The existence of systemic 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.070 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% racism and its impact on each of the institutions that 00:07:51.137 --> 00:07:54.407 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% we have, whether it's policing or 00:07:54.473 --> 00:07:57.443 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% education access to all opportunity and so 00:07:57.510 --> 00:08:01.681 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% so in the last months we have had to change 00:08:01.747 --> 00:08:06.319 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% how we govern. Most of Seattle workers were working from 00:08:06.385 --> 00:08:09.722 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% home, many who could not work from home 00:08:09.789 --> 00:08:14.160 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% were in the field, but we're vulnerable, were home on covid 00:08:14.227 --> 00:08:17.663 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% relief. And so we have changed how we had 00:08:17.730 --> 00:08:19.665 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% our operating. We learn very quickly that the programs we had in place that we thought would. 00:08:19.732 --> 00:08:21.734 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% Build the resilience for our community. 00:08:22.468 --> 00:08:25.404 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% Had not anticipated a crisis of this magnitude 00:08:25.471 --> 00:08:28.774 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% or type. For example, we had regularly 00:08:28.841 --> 00:08:30.610 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:25% supported. 00:08:30.676 --> 00:08:33.813 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:63% Our seniors and those who 00:08:33.880 --> 00:08:37.750 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:78% were approaching older age like 00:08:37.817 --> 00:08:40.887 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% myself with a whole range of programs, but many of those 00:08:40.953 --> 00:08:44.457 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% programs required people coming together. Whether is it senior centers or 00:08:44.524 --> 00:08:47.760 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% programming itself, suddenly those gatherings couldn't happen, but 00:08:47.827 --> 00:08:50.930 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% they weren't just gatherings. For many people, it was the sole 00:08:50.997 --> 00:08:54.667 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% meal that they could have, so we suddenly had to stand up the ability 00:08:54.734 --> 00:08:57.670 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% to deliver meals to people at their homes 00:08:57.737 --> 00:09:01.374 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% to make sure that school children who couldn't go to school. 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.911 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% Also didn't miss their meals and that their families 00:09:04.977 --> 00:09:08.080 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% had access to childcare so that their parents, if they had 00:09:08.147 --> 00:09:11.484 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% to work, could work. The work of government changed 00:09:11.550 --> 00:09:14.520 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% almost overnight. We now are providing 00:09:14.587 --> 00:09:17.757 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% grocery vouchers to almost 14,000 families 00:09:17.823 --> 00:09:20.826 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% in the city of Seattle, but we have city workers who have 00:09:20.893 --> 00:09:24.130 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% helped man food banks. We've had to change the 00:09:24.196 --> 00:09:27.166 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% whole way we deliver services to get us through this 00:09:27.233 --> 00:09:30.336 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% pandemic because your lives have changed. How you 00:09:30.403 --> 00:09:32.672 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% interact with one another your daily lives. 00:09:32.738 --> 00:09:36.342 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% Your access to everything from medical 00:09:36.409 --> 00:09:39.445 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% appointments to meetings with families. Everyone's lives have changed 00:09:39.512 --> 00:09:40.379 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% in the last nine months. 00:09:40.947 --> 00:09:44.617 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% We will come out of this. It will take some 00:09:44.684 --> 00:09:48.721 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% time. Best estimates are we will be living with pandemic restrictions 00:09:48.788 --> 00:09:52.091 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% at least through the middle next year, if not through all of next 00:09:52.158 --> 00:09:55.461 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% year. That requires us as a society to take 00:09:55.528 --> 00:09:58.898 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% a lot of steps that we had an anticipated not just to get through it. 00:09:59.699 --> 00:10:02.702 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% But as we get through it and prepare to come 00:10:02.768 --> 00:10:05.771 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% out of it to make sure when we come out of it, we 00:10:05.838 --> 00:10:08.908 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% really change structurally those systems that were 00:10:08.975 --> 00:10:12.511 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% inequitable so that we can come back stronger 00:10:12.578 --> 00:10:15.815 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% more just and more equitable it will take 00:10:15.881 --> 00:10:20.019 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% work from all of us. It is been really 00:10:20.086 --> 00:10:24.623 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% devastating to so many families in so many people. A record number of people 00:10:24.690 --> 00:10:28.761 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% are out of work. Small businesses have closed, people have lost loved 00:10:28.828 --> 00:10:30.396 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:68% ones, and people have seen. 00:10:30.463 --> 00:10:33.599 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:45% The impacts of the 00:10:33.666 --> 00:10:37.903 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% racial disparities in such a deep and personal way that is caused pain and trauma 00:10:37.970 --> 00:10:39.739 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% not just in our city but across the country. 00:10:40.306 --> 00:10:43.476 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:35% And in the end 00:10:43.542 --> 00:10:46.645 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% in about a week and a half, we go to the polls an we 00:10:46.712 --> 00:10:49.448 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% elect a president and the national. 00:10:50.149 --> 00:10:53.252 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:68% President matters for us in 00:10:53.319 --> 00:10:56.789 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% Seattle. Yesterday we had a file a lawsuit because this 00:10:56.856 --> 00:11:00.493 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:100% president labeled our city and anarchist jurisdiction. Ann has 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:04.463 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% threatened and taken actions to take away all our federal 00:11:04.530 --> 00:11:07.833 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% funding. That would be everything from programs that age 00:11:07.900 --> 00:11:11.737 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% friendly Seattle relies on to the covid relief funding to 00:11:11.804 --> 00:11:15.007 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% transportation dollars. We will fight it. I think we 00:11:15.074 --> 00:11:18.444 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% will prevail, but it just shows that in this challenging 00:11:18.511 --> 00:11:20.112 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% time that we must come together. 00:11:20.179 --> 00:11:23.416 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% To really look forward to not just the city we are 00:11:23.482 --> 00:11:26.719 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% today, but the city that we must become as we come out 00:11:26.786 --> 00:11:26.986 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:23% of Kovid. 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:30.923 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% Thank you very much for taking the time. I'm gonna take a sip 00:11:30.990 --> 00:11:31.557 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:43% on my coffee now. 00:11:34.093 --> 00:11:37.029 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% Thank you, Mayor Air. This is Anthony 00:11:37.096 --> 00:11:41.100 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% Derrick I'm matters digital advisor and I'll be moderating today's Q and 00:11:41.167 --> 00:11:44.470 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% So thanks again, mayor. For those really wonderful opening 00:11:44.537 --> 00:11:47.706 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% remarks as a reminder to everyone who's joining us this morning, if you 00:11:47.773 --> 00:11:51.077 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% have a question, please go ahead and enter it into the Q&A. We've 00:11:51.143 --> 00:11:54.280 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% got only a few. At this point, we'd love to see more and it 00:11:54.346 --> 00:11:57.416 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% t would be really great if you could put your name so we can address 00:11:57.483 --> 00:12:00.986 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% you by name. So the first question we have this morning 00:12:01.053 --> 00:12:04.356 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% is about the city's budget due to the 00:12:04.423 --> 00:12:05.991 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:58% COVID-19 crisis, mayor. 00:12:06.592 --> 00:12:09.562 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% From Teresa, she would like to know how 00:12:09.628 --> 00:12:12.832 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:105% are you going to balance priorities in the upcoming 00:12:12.898 --> 00:12:15.801 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% budget due to the shortfalls that we've seen with COVID-19. 00:12:21.841 --> 00:12:24.777 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% And mayor, don't forget to take yourself off mute. 00:12:27.813 --> 00:12:30.916 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:63% Thank you Teresa for that 00:12:30.983 --> 00:12:34.587 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% question, under the way the city charter works, I was required to deliver my 00:12:34.653 --> 00:12:35.754 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:68% budget about two weeks ago. 00:12:36.322 --> 00:12:39.592 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% Under our, they'll state law our 00:12:39.658 --> 00:12:42.695 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% r budget has to be balanced. We can only spend 00:12:42.761 --> 00:12:46.332 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% the amounts that we project that we will take in revenues next 00:12:46.398 --> 00:12:49.635 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% year and so right now we're in the midst of deciding what the 00:12:49.702 --> 00:12:53.038 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% budget will be for 2021 because of 00:12:53.105 --> 00:12:56.242 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% the covid crisis, we had the unusual circumstance 00:12:56.308 --> 00:12:59.845 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% that we for 2020 no longer had a 00:12:59.912 --> 00:13:03.349 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% balanced budget, and we're required to do so 00:13:03.415 --> 00:13:07.052 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% We lost about 300 million dollars 00:13:07.119 --> 00:13:08.120 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% between 2 and 300 million dollars in revenues to the city. 00:13:08.187 --> 00:13:12.525 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% For 2020, so we had to go back 00:13:12.591 --> 00:13:16.162 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% and make up that gap. The good news was at the 00:13:16.228 --> 00:13:19.231 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% outset of the pandemic, because we were one of the first 00:13:19.298 --> 00:13:22.334 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% in it. We were able to see immediately the huge 00:13:22.401 --> 00:13:25.604 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% economic consequences that we thought it would have. So we took some steps 00:13:25.671 --> 00:13:29.241 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:50% right away to freeze 00:13:29.308 --> 00:13:32.378 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% hiring, reduce expenses, and we're able to make up 00:13:32.444 --> 00:13:35.714 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% many millions of dollars. In that way. We also 00:13:35.781 --> 00:13:39.018 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% were able to get through our delegation. 00:13:39.084 --> 00:13:42.087 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% The first law that passed for covid relief 00:13:42.154 --> 00:13:45.491 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% we were able to insert into that cities of a certain 00:13:45.558 --> 00:13:48.761 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% size would get direct aid. It would not have to go through 00:13:48.827 --> 00:13:51.830 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% the state or the counties and we in 00:13:51.897 --> 00:13:55.201 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% the city of Seattle were one of a handful of 00:13:55.267 --> 00:13:58.971 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% cities in the country, so we were able to get immediate covid relief 00:13:59.038 --> 00:14:02.007 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% to help us. Whether some of the deficits for 00:14:02.074 --> 00:14:05.311 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% the great programming that's so necessary during this 00:14:05.377 --> 00:14:08.814 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% time. So as we're looking forward to next year, we have a 00:14:08.881 --> 00:14:09.081 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% deficits of the same. 00:14:09.148 --> 00:14:12.218 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:73% Amount and going in my values 00:14:12.284 --> 00:14:15.321 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% and principles were clear. Number one is the essential covid 00:14:15.387 --> 00:14:18.624 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% relief. We were giving to people and small 00:14:18.691 --> 00:14:22.061 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% businesses and individuals. We would try to continue and 00:14:22.127 --> 00:14:25.097 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% not cut that programs. It's more important 00:14:25.164 --> 00:14:28.234 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% than ever to be able to provide some of those safety net 00:14:28.300 --> 00:14:31.303 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% t programs and programs that give housing 00:14:31.370 --> 00:14:34.373 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% stability. Food stability in the like. Second, I wanted to 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:37.576 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% make sure that we recognize that what 00:14:37.643 --> 00:14:40.446 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% that I believe. True community safety. 00:14:40.512 --> 00:14:43.549 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% Comes not from police it 00:14:43.616 --> 00:14:46.652 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% t comes from having strong, resilient and vibrant 00:14:46.719 --> 00:14:49.722 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% communities in our communities of color in 00:14:49.788 --> 00:14:53.592 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% Seattle have been not just left behind but left 00:14:53.659 --> 00:14:56.895 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% t out and purposely by some of the 00:14:56.962 --> 00:14:58.330 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% institutions that have been designed for over generations. 00:14:58.897 --> 00:15:02.101 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% We know that we need, for example, invest 00:15:02.167 --> 00:15:05.337 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% more in health care, access to employment access 00:15:05.404 --> 00:15:08.440 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% s to affordable housing, access to education, justice and 00:15:08.507 --> 00:15:11.610 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% d by every one of those metrics are community 00:15:11.677 --> 00:15:14.780 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:105% of color, particularly our black community indigenous community 00:15:14.847 --> 00:15:18.651 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% false have fallen behind, and so I 00:15:18.717 --> 00:15:21.854 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% pledged that we would spend at least 100 million dollars in 00:15:21.920 --> 00:15:25.924 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% investments like that. But those investments would be guided by community 00:15:25.991 --> 00:15:29.795 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% and so announced a community task force made up of leaders 00:15:29.862 --> 00:15:30.696 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% from throughout the city of Seattle from. 00:15:30.763 --> 00:15:33.832 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% Organizations and individuals very 00:15:33.899 --> 00:15:37.069 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% tide to the communities of color in the black community, and 00:15:37.136 --> 00:15:41.307 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% indigenous community. They will be doing the community engagement 00:15:41.373 --> 00:15:44.310 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% to work with community on determining what are 00:15:44.376 --> 00:15:47.613 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% the priorities for those investments 00:15:47.680 --> 00:15:50.616 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% I also have asked a variety of options so that we can make 00:15:50.683 --> 00:15:53.886 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% that kind of investment on a long term basis. Over 10 00:15:53.952 --> 00:15:57.122 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% years at least, and I think it is through that kind 00:15:57.189 --> 00:16:00.459 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% of budgeting that we're in a down cycle. It is the time 00:16:00.526 --> 00:16:01.093 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:43% now to invest in. 00:16:01.160 --> 00:16:04.196 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% Equity, because otherwise when we come out 00:16:04.263 --> 00:16:07.366 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% of this kovid economic crisis, and 00:16:07.433 --> 00:16:10.602 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% health crisis, it will take years to 00:16:10.669 --> 00:16:13.872 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% recover and it will take even longer if we don't build those 00:16:13.939 --> 00:16:18.510 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% building blocks now. So we're investing things also like green and healthy 00:16:18.577 --> 00:16:21.880 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% streets. I believe coming out of this week and come back better for 00:16:21.947 --> 00:16:25.184 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% the climate. So we're dinner. Age of priorities 00:16:25.250 --> 00:16:28.554 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% to number one. Investing people #2 to 00:16:28.620 --> 00:16:30.489 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% position is a city to be more green and more accountable. 00:16:33.659 --> 00:16:36.595 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% Thank you, mayor our next question 00:16:36.662 --> 00:16:39.798 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% n today comes from Joe and Joe asks 00:16:39.865 --> 00:16:42.868 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% how is the city planning to provide services previously provided 00:16:42.935 --> 00:16:46.872 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% by the transition team and the navigation 00:16:46.939 --> 00:16:50.275 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% team. Joe notes that the need is not gone away and asks 00:16:50.342 --> 00:16:53.612 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% what do you think we can do at this point to 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:53.979 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:45% address this need? 00:16:55.047 --> 00:16:58.117 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% So Joe, thank you for the question, it's a 00:16:58.183 --> 00:17:01.320 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% great question. I may have a better answer next 00:17:01.387 --> 00:17:04.823 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% week because we've been having ongoing discussions 00:17:04.890 --> 00:17:08.260 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% and negotiations with the City Council on what we could do 00:17:08.327 --> 00:17:11.463 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% to replace these resources. I think it's 00:17:11.530 --> 00:17:14.733 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% well known now that one of my disagreements with the budget, that city 00:17:14.800 --> 00:17:17.903 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% Council passed was their elimination of the 00:17:17.970 --> 00:17:21.340 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% navigation team, including the team at the Human Services 00:17:21.407 --> 00:17:24.977 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% Department, that captain property, and 00:17:25.043 --> 00:17:26.178 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:63% did outreach in the like. 00:17:26.245 --> 00:17:29.448 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% We have not just the need continues 00:17:29.515 --> 00:17:32.651 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% but the need is growing and we have to have the 00:17:32.718 --> 00:17:37.523 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% resources to deal with these issues. The huge impacts 00:17:37.589 --> 00:17:40.826 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% that some of the encampments have on the people living in the encampments as 00:17:40.893 --> 00:17:44.129 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% well as the impacts on community. So we've been working 00:17:44.196 --> 00:17:47.166 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% with council. We're hopeful that council will agree to the 00:17:47.232 --> 00:17:50.302 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% to the compromise we proposed before, which 00:17:50.369 --> 00:17:53.572 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:55% is to continue to fund 00:17:53.639 --> 00:17:56.542 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:105% people in the Human Services Department to oversee. 00:17:56.608 --> 00:18:00.212 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% Increased outreach to those encampments 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.482 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% We will still be working within discussing with them 00:18:03.549 --> 00:18:06.852 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% how we increase the amount of shelter capacity available to bring more 00:18:06.919 --> 00:18:10.289 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% people inside, and what we can do to accelerate 00:18:10.355 --> 00:18:13.325 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:103% the building of housing itself, including permanent 00:18:13.392 --> 00:18:16.562 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% supportive housing. Really excited that we have a project coming in 00:18:16.628 --> 00:18:19.932 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% line that will be one of the one of the problems we've had 00:18:19.998 --> 00:18:23.402 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% is that each individual unit of affordable housing 00:18:23.469 --> 00:18:26.772 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% cost around 300 twenty $5000 to build 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:27.940 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% And if it's permanent supportive housing. 00:18:28.006 --> 00:18:31.043 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:63% As much as $20,000 a year 00:18:31.109 --> 00:18:34.213 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% for services and maintenance, it takes about 2 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:37.382 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% wo to three years to build. We can't scale 00:18:37.449 --> 00:18:40.552 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% that as a city to meet the demand, so we have our first project coming 00:18:40.619 --> 00:18:44.256 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% in line is using new building techniques to bring it 00:18:44.323 --> 00:18:47.726 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% on less expensive, Leanne more quickly and 00:18:47.793 --> 00:18:51.129 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% we're looking at all options across the region 00:18:51.196 --> 00:18:51.663 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% to see how we can bring more people inside. 00:18:54.166 --> 00:18:57.336 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% Thank you mayor, and thank you Joe for that 00:18:57.402 --> 00:19:00.672 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% question. Our next question is from an anonymous anonymous 00:19:00.739 --> 00:19:03.709 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% question Asker and they would like 00:19:03.775 --> 00:19:07.412 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% to know what assistance is available for paying property taxes 00:19:07.479 --> 00:19:10.849 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% And they note that with the rise 00:19:10.916 --> 00:19:14.520 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% of property, property values and stagnant incomes, they want to 00:19:14.586 --> 00:19:17.422 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% have income requirements been updated, or what other assistance could be available. 00:19:17.990 --> 00:19:21.193 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% So that's a good question. Then it was one that 00:19:21.260 --> 00:19:24.830 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% had come in earlier this 00:19:24.897 --> 00:19:27.866 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% month because of when property taxes or do as you 00:19:27.933 --> 00:19:31.236 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% property taxes themselves, or lefty 00:19:31.303 --> 00:19:34.806 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% at the County level by the assessor in the County 00:19:34.873 --> 00:19:37.876 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% government and controlled by the state. But we've been 00:19:37.943 --> 00:19:41.580 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% working with them to see if there's programs they delayed 00:19:41.647 --> 00:19:44.683 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% the payment of the March payments that were due, and I think there's 00:19:44.750 --> 00:19:48.120 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% ongoing discussions for the October payments. And when they are due. 00:19:48.186 --> 00:19:51.823 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% That would have to be centered at the 00:19:51.890 --> 00:19:55.260 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% County. To my knowledge, there's not yet been a fund created 00:19:55.327 --> 00:19:58.463 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% for payment of property taxes. The governor is working 00:19:58.530 --> 00:20:01.533 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% on a program for mortgage payment, but the issue and 00:20:01.600 --> 00:20:04.736 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% property tax is a very good one. If you could email 00:20:04.803 --> 00:20:07.940 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% us at Jenny.Durkan@seattle.gov 00:20:08.006 --> 00:20:11.043 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% remind us will get more information on and send 00:20:11.109 --> 00:20:11.410 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:38% you a response. 00:20:13.579 --> 00:20:16.748 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% Thank you very much, mayor. Our next question also from 00:20:16.815 --> 00:20:20.552 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% m an anonymous question Asker Mayer with 00:20:20.619 --> 00:20:23.622 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:100% the creation of a regional authority for homelessness in our 00:20:23.689 --> 00:20:26.658 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% in our region, how can we better track and share 00:20:26.725 --> 00:20:29.528 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:98% progress to a stated goal regarding our homelessness crisis in our region? 00:20:30.228 --> 00:20:33.398 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:25% So that is 00:20:33.465 --> 00:20:36.902 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% that question goes to the core of I think why regional homeless authorities 00:20:36.969 --> 00:20:40.172 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% so important. I think all of us on this 00:20:40.238 --> 00:20:43.241 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% call node that the issues that 00:20:43.308 --> 00:20:46.578 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% have related to people living on house don't stop at any 00:20:46.645 --> 00:20:49.881 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% city border. We have more and more people who fallen into homelessness 00:20:49.948 --> 00:20:52.985 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% despite the fact that we are spending 00:20:53.051 --> 00:20:56.321 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% this year alone twice as much as last year. And I almost 00:20:56.388 --> 00:20:59.691 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% doubled the spending on that before we had 00:20:59.758 --> 00:21:02.928 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% some successes before the pandemic. We were moving more 00:21:02.995 --> 00:21:05.197 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% people in the long term housing then before we had shifted our shelter. 00:21:05.263 --> 00:21:08.367 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% System from mats on the floor to 00:21:08.433 --> 00:21:12.104 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% enhance shelters that really provided more support 00:21:12.170 --> 00:21:15.173 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% Services. Available 24/7 and things like that 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.210 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% But it is very uneven we have seen 00:21:18.276 --> 00:21:21.980 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% n that the city of Seattle is shouldering most of the 00:21:22.047 --> 00:21:25.484 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% burden financial burden and services 00:21:25.550 --> 00:21:27.819 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:55% burden in King County. 00:21:27.886 --> 00:21:30.889 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% Only about 50% based on some of the 00:21:30.956 --> 00:21:34.359 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% data we've seen of the people that city of Seattle 00:21:34.426 --> 00:21:37.362 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% serves. People experiencing homelessness actually living in Seattle 00:21:37.429 --> 00:21:40.699 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% when they became homeless. A number of those is 00:21:40.766 --> 00:21:44.436 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% significant. Portion were living in city. Other cities in King County in 00:21:44.503 --> 00:21:47.673 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% Washington state. So we have to track as a 00:21:47.739 --> 00:21:51.176 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% region and as a state we need a system that requires 00:21:51.243 --> 00:21:54.579 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% every city under the growth management 00:21:54.646 --> 00:21:57.616 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% act or other tools not only to have density but to 00:21:57.683 --> 00:21:59.117 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% o ensure that they have adequate affordable housing. 00:21:59.184 --> 00:22:02.254 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% In their communities an adequate services 00:22:02.320 --> 00:22:05.323 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% s for people experiencing homelessness so that people can be 00:22:05.390 --> 00:22:08.660 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% served in the communities that they live, and this will 00:22:08.727 --> 00:22:12.297 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:105% only happen, I believe, through a regional authority into greater 00:22:12.364 --> 00:22:16.168 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% reater accountability at the state level and tracking one of 00:22:16.234 --> 00:22:19.538 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% the things that we will be doing in the new regional authority is 00:22:19.604 --> 00:22:23.909 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% they will be adopting a strategic plan. The public will have input into 00:22:23.975 --> 00:22:27.646 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% that does exactly what you said. What are our 00:22:27.713 --> 00:22:30.348 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% goals and how do we track them? How do we hold not just the. 00:22:30.415 --> 00:22:30.916 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:13% Yeah. 00:22:31.583 --> 00:22:34.653 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% The system accountable, but how do we make 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:38.523 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% sure that each part of that system is delivering on what it 00:22:38.590 --> 00:22:41.593 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% needs to do to really deal with this very, very 00:22:41.660 --> 00:22:44.296 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:40% difficult issue? 00:22:41.660 --> 00:22:44.296 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:00% 00:22:44.296 --> 00:22:47.766 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% Thank you mayor. So our next question another 00:22:47.833 --> 00:22:51.503 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% r anonymous question early on in the Cove in 00:22:51.570 --> 00:22:54.506 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% 9 pandemic we were lucky enough to 00:22:54.573 --> 00:22:57.709 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% experience another crisis that was a bit closer to home. So this 00:22:57.776 --> 00:23:01.379 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% is an open ended question mayor. But what are we going to do about the West Seattle bridge? 00:23:02.514 --> 00:23:05.650 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% So I was in West Seattle 00:23:05.717 --> 00:23:09.688 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% last Friday an in Georgetown, in South 00:23:09.755 --> 00:23:12.958 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% Park talking to people. Personally, I've been spending a lot of time trying to 00:23:13.024 --> 00:23:16.027 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% talk to those communities, but most of it's been virtual 00:23:16.094 --> 00:23:18.130 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:105% on. I was able to break out of the virtual boundaries. 00:23:18.697 --> 00:23:22.100 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% The impacts of the West Seattle Bridge cannot 00:23:22.167 --> 00:23:25.303 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% be overstated on those communities for 00:23:25.370 --> 00:23:28.406 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% West Seattle. It is. It is really hurt 00:23:28.473 --> 00:23:31.710 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% duals and businesses. It is cut mobility to 00:23:31.777 --> 00:23:34.913 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% o essential things. Doctors appointments, let alone 00:23:34.980 --> 00:23:37.983 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% where people work for the communities of 00:23:38.049 --> 00:23:41.319 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% South Park. It has created other issues they have 00:23:41.386 --> 00:23:44.356 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% e more traffic going through their neighborhoods and communities which 00:23:44.422 --> 00:23:47.425 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% h is increased their already large environmental burden 00:23:47.492 --> 00:23:51.730 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% an Georgetown and so to have similar types of experience in terms of 00:23:51.797 --> 00:23:52.130 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% traffic patterns and. 00:23:52.197 --> 00:23:55.500 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:68% Impacts on the community so 00:23:55.567 --> 00:23:58.603 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% o we want to deal with each of these. I will not tell you 00:23:58.670 --> 00:24:02.541 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% that you're going to have a solution in the West Seattle Bridge this 00:24:02.607 --> 00:24:05.577 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% year or next year under any of the alternatives, but we 00:24:05.644 --> 00:24:08.647 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% are pushing forward in my instructions is Seattle Department 00:24:08.713 --> 00:24:12.017 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:105% t of Transportation was number one to take whatever steps 00:24:12.083 --> 00:24:15.453 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% we needed to do to make sure that as we evaluated whether 00:24:15.520 --> 00:24:19.391 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% we needed to replace a repair that we didn't exclude either of those 00:24:19.457 --> 00:24:22.794 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% options and move forward on both? So right 00:24:22.861 --> 00:24:23.762 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% now we're showing up the bridge which. 00:24:23.829 --> 00:24:26.765 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% Is required on whatever option we do we 00:24:26.832 --> 00:24:29.801 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% have to shore it up. If we repair it and we have 00:24:29.868 --> 00:24:33.572 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% to shore it up if we're going to replace it. Because otherwise it could 00:24:33.638 --> 00:24:37.442 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% collapse, making the replacement of much more difficult 00:24:37.509 --> 00:24:41.146 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% problem. We had a new alternative which engineers 00:24:41.213 --> 00:24:44.182 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% proposed recently on a rapid replacement that 00:24:44.249 --> 00:24:47.485 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% we're evaluating, but there will be more input by 00:24:47.552 --> 00:24:51.089 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% the community this week and next week on to what 00:24:51.156 --> 00:24:52.991 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% the cost benefit analysis shows there was. 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:57.996 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% Three questions, what would it cost? How 00:24:58.063 --> 00:25:01.032 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% long would it take? How long would it last? Because 00:25:01.099 --> 00:25:04.336 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% we don't want to have a remedy that only last two 00:25:04.402 --> 00:25:08.273 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% years and then West Seattle's cutoff again. So it is an 00:25:08.340 --> 00:25:11.376 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% urgent urgent problem and we are going to 00:25:11.443 --> 00:25:14.779 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% hopefully get a solution. I'll say one last thing about it 00:25:14.846 --> 00:25:18.216 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% is we found a lawsuit yesterday against the 00:25:18.283 --> 00:25:21.319 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% Trump administration and Department of Justice because they have 00:25:21.386 --> 00:25:24.923 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% created what they call an anarchist jurisdiction 00:25:24.990 --> 00:25:26.858 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:78% list to Denias Federal funding. 00:25:26.925 --> 00:25:30.195 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% And to take federal funding back that would 00:25:30.262 --> 00:25:33.231 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% d include transportation dollars that might help on the West Seattle Bridge, An 00:25:33.298 --> 00:25:36.568 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% Sound Transit. So we one reason that we 00:25:36.635 --> 00:25:39.671 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% felt it was urgent to take that action, which I think we will 00:25:39.738 --> 00:25:43.074 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% prevail on, was to make sure that we don't fall 00:25:43.141 --> 00:25:46.478 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% behind on so many of the critical things we need to do and get the 00:25:46.544 --> 00:25:49.714 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% federal funding that isn't a gift 00:25:49.781 --> 00:25:53.084 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% to us. It's been appropriated by Congress and its taxpayer 00:25:53.151 --> 00:25:53.518 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% dollars that people in Seattle paid. 00:25:54.719 --> 00:25:57.789 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:55% Mayor you mentioned in 00:25:57.856 --> 00:26:00.825 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% your answer to that question about the isolating impacts of 00:26:00.892 --> 00:26:03.862 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% the West Seattle Bridge being down, we have a question 00:26:03.929 --> 00:26:07.198 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% from John who is in HD staff person and 00:26:07.265 --> 00:26:11.970 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% his question is or he notes, that the pandemics 00:26:12.037 --> 00:26:15.206 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% dragging on really is creating a social isolation 00:26:15.273 --> 00:26:18.343 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% problem, especially for older adults. So what are your thoughts 00:26:18.410 --> 00:26:21.846 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% How can we work together to promote social connectivity, especially for our aging population? 00:26:22.347 --> 00:26:25.583 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% That is such a great question, and I think we're getting better 00:26:25.650 --> 00:26:27.085 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:15% at it. 00:26:27.152 --> 00:26:31.122 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% Look, I think when the pandemic hit everybody. 00:26:31.189 --> 00:26:34.359 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:50% I went to shelter in 00:26:34.426 --> 00:26:37.462 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% place and there was both a lot of fear and 00:26:37.529 --> 00:26:40.899 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% trepidation about what we could do. We didn't know as much about the virus communication 00:26:40.966 --> 00:26:43.935 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% and we didn't have platforms like this setup or ways to 00:26:44.002 --> 00:26:47.238 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% check in on each other. I think the virus is 00:26:47.305 --> 00:26:50.342 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% still is dangerous. Do not listen to anything else that is still as dangerous 00:26:50.408 --> 00:26:53.712 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% and we have to be very careful from Seattle 00:26:53.778 --> 00:26:57.082 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% has through all the work we've done, whether it is people 00:26:57.148 --> 00:27:00.251 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% masking up or being socially distant. So being 00:27:00.318 --> 00:27:01.453 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:58% isolated or setting up. 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:04.756 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:68% Our testing sites. We're we 00:27:04.823 --> 00:27:08.526 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% have some of the lowest rates of any large city in 00:27:08.593 --> 00:27:12.430 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:98% America, but it also is having huge and devastating impacts 00:27:12.497 --> 00:27:15.533 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% One of the impacts that right now I think that 00:27:15.600 --> 00:27:19.170 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% has been underappreciated that our government is going to be working with 00:27:19.237 --> 00:27:22.240 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% the state an hopefully the federal government on is 00:27:22.307 --> 00:27:25.243 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% those mental health impacts that we're seeing across 00:27:25.310 --> 00:27:28.313 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% the board, particularly for our aging 00:27:28.380 --> 00:27:31.783 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% population. But for everyone else, I recently talked to. 00:27:31.850 --> 00:27:34.819 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% The number of the companies in 00:27:34.886 --> 00:27:37.856 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% Seattle large and small. An ask them about what their 00:27:37.922 --> 00:27:42.193 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% concerns were in the next year, an 00:27:42.260 --> 00:27:45.530 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% surprisingly all of 'em have business concerns. All the more worried about whether they 00:27:45.597 --> 00:27:48.566 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% will continue to employ the people that they have and how their employees will 00:27:48.633 --> 00:27:51.636 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% make it through it. But to a person 00:27:51.703 --> 00:27:55.206 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% they are worried about the mental health impacts that 00:27:55.273 --> 00:27:58.376 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% this isolation has had on everyone 00:27:58.443 --> 00:28:01.546 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% An I think it is even more so on 00:28:01.613 --> 00:28:04.582 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% our senior an aging population, so it's one of the things that 00:28:04.649 --> 00:28:05.583 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% Jason and I have talked about. 00:28:05.650 --> 00:28:08.653 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% And how we in the city of Seattle can 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:11.956 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% start again, reconfiguring. Frankly again, we gotta 00:28:12.023 --> 00:28:15.093 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% learn from community. So you all have ideas on things you wish you 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:18.196 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% had over these last five 00:28:18.263 --> 00:28:21.599 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% months. Whether it's from your community or your government, away to check 00:28:21.666 --> 00:28:25.003 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% in on friends away, to check in on your church, whatever it is 00:28:25.070 --> 00:28:28.840 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% that would make you feel more connected, because unfortunately will be living 00:28:28.907 --> 00:28:31.976 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% with this for awhile longer. We would love to 00:28:32.043 --> 00:28:35.480 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% hear your ideas and be able to empower your 00:28:35.547 --> 00:28:36.448 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% ideas, because if you're feeling it. 00:28:36.514 --> 00:28:39.784 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% I can guarantee you many, many people 00:28:39.851 --> 00:28:43.021 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% are feeling the same thing, so I think if we work 00:28:43.088 --> 00:28:46.224 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% together and really try to reconnect ourselves, we 00:28:46.291 --> 00:28:49.394 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% can deal with some of those issues of isolation 00:28:49.461 --> 00:28:52.430 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% But it has to be super intentional because we're going 00:28:52.497 --> 00:28:54.199 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% into winter and winter's already hard in Seattle. 00:28:56.167 --> 00:28:59.370 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% Mayor with that question, it seemed as though there May 00:28:59.437 --> 00:29:02.907 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% be some thought about this already, but a question from 00:29:02.974 --> 00:29:06.744 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% Brent. What would you like to see? Age friendly Seattle focus on in 2021? 00:29:07.779 --> 00:29:10.882 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:58% So I think age friendly 00:29:10.949 --> 00:29:12.984 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% Seattle can continue to help us on. 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:17.188 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% What we do in this pandemic, for the question that 00:29:17.255 --> 00:29:20.492 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% was just asked and what are those things now that we know are 00:29:20.558 --> 00:29:23.661 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% more of a rhythm, have been the hardest to deal with 00:29:23.728 --> 00:29:26.698 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% and what are some of the fix we can get to people, whether it's for 00:29:26.764 --> 00:29:30.034 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% food security or social interactions 00:29:30.101 --> 00:29:33.338 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% medical appointments? What are those things we can do through 00:29:33.404 --> 00:29:36.474 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% this pandemic to really get people 00:29:36.541 --> 00:29:40.044 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% through it, but also the issues we had 00:29:40.111 --> 00:29:43.348 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% related to age friendly Seattle didn't disappear 00:29:43.414 --> 00:29:44.916 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% with the pandemic, they only got more aggravated. 00:29:44.983 --> 00:29:48.052 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% So what are the things we also need to do the building blocks 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:51.556 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% s we have to build so that as we come out of 00:29:51.623 --> 00:29:54.626 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% Covid, we actually are better than when we went into it 00:29:54.692 --> 00:29:58.096 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% And I think that is one of the 00:29:58.163 --> 00:30:01.533 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% true opportunities we have here. This has been the most challenging thing that's happened. 00:30:02.233 --> 00:30:06.137 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% To every individual in every organization. 00:30:06.204 --> 00:30:09.841 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% Ann, but with that comes 00:30:09.908 --> 00:30:13.912 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% huge opportunity to really reset how we do a lot of 00:30:13.978 --> 00:30:17.015 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% things and to really focus on what matters and 00:30:17.081 --> 00:30:19.350 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% what we've seen through this pandemic is. 00:30:19.918 --> 00:30:22.987 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:63% People of have really had 00:30:23.054 --> 00:30:25.990 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% to focus on what was most important to them at what mattered 00:30:26.057 --> 00:30:26.758 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:48% most in their life. 00:30:27.292 --> 00:30:30.261 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% And I think if we take those lessons and 00:30:30.328 --> 00:30:32.263 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% amplify them, we can come out of this better and stronger. 00:30:34.732 --> 00:30:37.835 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% Thank you, mayor. We're shifting focus 00:30:37.902 --> 00:30:41.873 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% here just a little bit with our next question, anonymous question Asker 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:45.043 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% is the city able to convert unused public property 00:30:45.109 --> 00:30:48.279 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% into housing? If it's mixed market rate and 00:30:48.346 --> 00:30:51.449 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% low income, would it not be self supporting? 00:30:51.950 --> 00:30:55.687 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% The answer is Yes an we are it's 00:30:55.753 --> 00:30:58.890 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% s actually one of the really exciting things that we had started to 00:30:58.957 --> 00:31:02.727 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% move the needle on before the pandemic come and our office of 00:31:02.794 --> 00:31:07.098 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% housing is continuing to move that needle 00:31:07.165 --> 00:31:10.468 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% I worked with representative Frank Chopp who 00:31:10.535 --> 00:31:13.938 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% has a deep, deep history and affordable housing. Ann was 00:31:14.005 --> 00:31:16.941 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% speaker the house at the time to pass a law 00:31:17.008 --> 00:31:20.378 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% that allowed the city to use it. Sir, Plus 00:31:20.445 --> 00:31:23.481 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% properties for affordable housing and before that 00:31:23.548 --> 00:31:24.415 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% the law required us to actually. 00:31:24.716 --> 00:31:27.819 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% From the city to use for affordable housing 00:31:27.885 --> 00:31:31.256 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% which is counter intuitive and so we have a number of 00:31:31.322 --> 00:31:34.892 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% a number of projects underway where we are using Sir Plus 00:31:34.959 --> 00:31:38.096 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% property or property that the city owned. Four affordable housing 00:31:38.162 --> 00:31:41.299 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% an actually using them in some cases for 00:31:41.366 --> 00:31:45.336 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% not just affordable housing rentals, but home ownership opportunities 00:31:45.403 --> 00:31:48.606 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% in units that will be permanently affordable we're doing 00:31:48.673 --> 00:31:52.043 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% g that in North Seattle. We're going to be doing that 00:31:52.110 --> 00:31:55.246 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% in the area around Discovery Park, we 00:31:55.313 --> 00:31:55.780 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% also have some projects coming along. 00:31:55.847 --> 00:31:58.850 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% In South Seattle yesterday also is 00:31:58.916 --> 00:32:01.953 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% very proud as a board member of Sound Transit we've been 00:32:02.020 --> 00:32:05.056 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% n working for about a year and a half to get sound 00:32:05.123 --> 00:32:08.293 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% Transit to give us there Sir plus property in 00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:11.663 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% n around their station so we could use it or affordable housing 00:32:11.729 --> 00:32:15.033 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% And yesterday the Sound Transit board authorized 00:32:15.099 --> 00:32:18.069 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% that transfer so we will have new parcels in South 00:32:18.136 --> 00:32:21.272 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% Seattle that we've already slotted into build those 00:32:21.339 --> 00:32:25.009 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:103% kind of affordable housing opportunities, including some that will be 00:32:25.076 --> 00:32:27.245 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:93% permanently affordable home ownership opportunities. 00:32:27.312 --> 00:32:30.415 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% So I think it's a really exciting program and one that 00:32:30.481 --> 00:32:33.584 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% we're going to be looking for more opportunities to do just that 00:32:33.651 --> 00:32:36.788 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% to put our land to work to address 1 00:32:36.854 --> 00:32:37.855 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% of the biggest issues we have. 00:32:39.624 --> 00:32:43.594 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% Great Speaking of exciting programs 00:32:43.661 --> 00:32:46.764 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% and really revolutionary ideas, we have a question from an 00:32:46.831 --> 00:32:50.201 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% anonymous Asker to talk more about our safe and healthy 00:32:50.268 --> 00:32:53.204 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% streets program and how we're thinking about making that 00:32:53.271 --> 00:32:56.674 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% and what you think it could do to benefit older persons an people 00:32:56.741 --> 00:32:57.342 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:68% e living with disabilities. 00:32:58.109 --> 00:33:01.145 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% So I think this is also one of the 00:33:01.212 --> 00:33:04.782 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:78% Silver Linings for the pandemic 00:33:04.849 --> 00:33:08.019 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% because people were staying home and we had 00:33:08.086 --> 00:33:11.322 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% so fewer people on the streets. It allowed us to turn those 00:33:11.389 --> 00:33:14.559 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% streets into places that could be open for people 00:33:14.625 --> 00:33:15.727 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% to socially distance but get outside. 00:33:16.294 --> 00:33:19.364 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% When we first started it 00:33:19.430 --> 00:33:22.433 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% had been. I'm really one of the fortune things I'm 00:33:22.500 --> 00:33:25.603 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% able to do is I had been elected right before the pandemic hit 00:33:25.670 --> 00:33:28.940 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% to the governing board. For the mayor. See 40 00:33:29.006 --> 00:33:32.076 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% conference, which is a global conference of Mayors on the 00:33:32.143 --> 00:33:35.413 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% issue of climate change an in that 00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:39.117 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% t once kovid hit. I was also then elected to the 00:33:39.183 --> 00:33:42.153 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% covid relief group for the global work of 00:33:42.220 --> 00:33:45.289 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% mayors. I was able to talk to Mayor Hidalgo and some of the 00:33:45.356 --> 00:33:48.426 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% other mayors who designed what they called the 10 00:33:48.493 --> 00:33:48.626 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:30% minute city. 00:33:48.693 --> 00:33:51.696 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% How do you design A city that people can get 00:33:51.763 --> 00:33:54.999 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% what they need within 10 minutes of walking or biking from 00:33:55.066 --> 00:33:58.169 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% their home? And this kind of future that we have for 00:33:58.236 --> 00:34:01.205 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% a mixed mobility and to reduce our 00:34:01.272 --> 00:34:04.642 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% reliance on vehicles so our sales Department 00:34:04.709 --> 00:34:08.012 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% of Transportation are really my hat off to Sam, Zimbabwe 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:11.048 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:70% and his team and to a person 00:34:11.115 --> 00:34:14.652 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% named Elliot who's on my staff who I said 00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:18.222 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% let's do it. Let's ourselves open as many streets as 00:34:18.289 --> 00:34:21.292 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% possible and get people the ability to go 00:34:21.359 --> 00:34:21.959 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% go out to walk to bike to feel safe. 00:34:22.026 --> 00:34:25.963 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:50% Anet has been hugely 00:34:26.030 --> 00:34:29.133 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% successful. Our second phase was to then take back some of our sidewalks 00:34:29.200 --> 00:34:32.470 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% and streets to allow restaurants to operate because 00:34:32.537 --> 00:34:35.840 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% being outside is so much safer in the time of Kovid and that 00:34:35.907 --> 00:34:38.876 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% too has been very successful. It's going to be tricky are here in the rain 00:34:38.943 --> 00:34:43.448 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% so I think we want to hang on to as many of those healthy streets 00:34:43.514 --> 00:34:47.418 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% as possible and really be thinking about how we build that into our 00:34:47.485 --> 00:34:50.488 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% city going forward. Because I do believe 00:34:50.555 --> 00:34:52.056 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% for all of us, but particularly for. 00:34:52.123 --> 00:34:55.426 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% The age friendly agenda that we have having 00:34:55.493 --> 00:34:58.529 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:68% that kind of open space and 00:34:58.596 --> 00:35:01.799 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% capability to have mobility that is 00:35:01.866 --> 00:35:04.836 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% safe is really important. There is a 00:35:04.902 --> 00:35:08.206 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% challenge and that is that there, particularly when we 00:35:08.272 --> 00:35:11.409 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% have restaurants on sidewalks that creates 00:35:11.476 --> 00:35:14.445 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:95% mobility issues for people living with disabilities and 00:35:14.512 --> 00:35:17.949 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% so we. One reason for the Open Streets is to also give place 00:35:18.015 --> 00:35:21.552 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% an access for those and also be able to use the sidewalk spaces 00:35:21.619 --> 00:35:22.353 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:48% for restaurants so. 00:35:22.420 --> 00:35:25.356 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% We're balancing those things together, but I think it's 00:35:25.423 --> 00:35:28.426 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% if you haven't been out in your neighborhood 00:35:28.493 --> 00:35:31.496 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% and walking on some of your open streets 00:35:31.562 --> 00:35:34.665 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% do it. It's really you see people out, but 00:35:34.732 --> 00:35:38.402 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% you feel safe 'cause your distance you. Hopefully wearing your mask 00:35:38.469 --> 00:35:42.773 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% every time. And even in these wintery days, there's always 00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:45.476 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% those brakes where the rain stops and it's good to get outside. 00:35:47.345 --> 00:35:50.281 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:63% Great thank you mayor and 00:35:50.348 --> 00:35:53.985 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% so far on today's call we've had some questions about homelessness 00:35:54.051 --> 00:35:57.588 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% about our infrastructure, about what we're going to 00:35:57.655 --> 00:36:00.691 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% do to help get more of our community inside. But now 00:36:00.758 --> 00:36:03.694 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% we're going to really tough question from Sarah Pickleball is a 00:36:03.761 --> 00:36:07.131 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% wonderful sport for seniors, in spite of being the 00:36:07.198 --> 00:36:12.003 align:middle line:74% position:50% size:125% birth of pickled birthplace of Pickleball. Seattle has no dedicated courts and limited spaces to play mayor 00:36:12.069 --> 00:36:15.039 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% How can we get more pickleball in 00:36:15.106 --> 00:36:18.709 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% Seattle? That is the first time in three years? Anyone's asked me about 00:36:18.776 --> 00:36:19.744 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:58% pickle ball. I love it. 00:36:19.810 --> 00:36:22.780 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% I will talk to our parks people. I will tell 00:36:22.847 --> 00:36:26.017 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% you I'm not good at pickle ball. I hit it too far and 00:36:26.083 --> 00:36:29.053 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% too hard, which probably is not a surprise to anybody and 00:36:29.120 --> 00:36:32.290 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% have a hard time staying in the court but 00:36:32.356 --> 00:36:35.426 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:73% t it is a great game. An it's 00:36:35.493 --> 00:36:38.629 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% let's find out about it whether we can have some pop up. Pickleball courts. 00:36:40.598 --> 00:36:43.834 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% Great thank you mayor we 00:36:43.901 --> 00:36:46.904 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% e are reaching the end of the questions we have published today so I'm 00:36:46.971 --> 00:36:50.041 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% m going to encourage more people to send. We have about 5 to 10 00:36:50.107 --> 00:36:53.277 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% more minutes to ask a few more 00:36:53.344 --> 00:36:56.480 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% questions. I see another one popping up. Thank you so much for submitting 00:36:56.547 --> 00:36:59.550 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% that mayor. This question is from an anonymous Asker, What do you 00:36:59.617 --> 00:37:02.653 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% think it will take for folks to regain trust in 00:37:02.720 --> 00:37:05.723 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% government at every level? The local, state, and 00:37:05.790 --> 00:37:06.257 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:73% specially the national level? 00:37:08.225 --> 00:37:10.294 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:20% I think. 00:37:10.861 --> 00:37:14.665 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% I think it's going to be hard. 00:37:14.732 --> 00:37:19.070 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% First, I think the national government 00:37:19.136 --> 00:37:21.439 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% that regaining trust. 00:37:21.706 --> 00:37:25.176 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% Means that you have a government that actually working for the 00:37:25.242 --> 00:37:28.646 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% people and we haven't seen that in the last four years, I think 00:37:28.713 --> 00:37:31.716 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% in my personal view, and so I think that having 00:37:31.782 --> 00:37:35.086 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:105% a government that is focused not on sowing division baton bringing people 00:37:35.152 --> 00:37:38.689 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% e in, uniting us on our common aspiration xar common 00:37:38.756 --> 00:37:42.326 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% n dreams in our common goals for our country, is what 00:37:42.393 --> 00:37:46.464 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% needs to happen at the local level. I think that trust is 00:37:46.530 --> 00:37:49.800 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% built in a number of ways, but I 00:37:49.867 --> 00:37:50.167 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% think one of the things that is. 00:37:50.868 --> 00:37:53.838 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% Always causes distrust is when people 00:37:53.904 --> 00:37:57.475 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% view their government as separate from themselves 00:37:57.541 --> 00:38:00.511 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% rather than an extension of themselves 00:38:00.578 --> 00:38:01.712 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% and the Democratic will. 00:38:02.279 --> 00:38:05.316 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% I think that we will never be in a place in 00:38:05.383 --> 00:38:08.686 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:75% this region for period of time 00:38:08.753 --> 00:38:12.223 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% that any of the problems and challenges we have will be 00:38:12.289 --> 00:38:12.356 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:50% fixed by government. 00:38:13.057 --> 00:38:16.093 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% It's going to take all of us and it's going to take 00:38:16.160 --> 00:38:19.263 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% individual action and for us to have trust in government, we have to have trust in 00:38:19.330 --> 00:38:22.700 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% each other and trust in our abilities to work together to 00:38:22.767 --> 00:38:26.003 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% solve big challenges. And one of the 00:38:26.070 --> 00:38:29.774 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% things that's been very difficult. I think, particularly over the last four years 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:33.277 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% is that trust in each other that trust to come 00:38:33.344 --> 00:38:36.547 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% together to address those mutual challenges has 00:38:36.614 --> 00:38:40.851 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% been greatly diminished because of the hard, divisive lines that have been drawn 00:38:40.918 --> 00:38:43.621 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% I think that we've done pretty well in Seattle on that front. 00:38:43.688 --> 00:38:46.657 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% Where we have tackled big problems 00:38:46.724 --> 00:38:49.994 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% but the last year it's been more difficult and so I 00:38:50.061 --> 00:38:53.764 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% think that we have to get back to a place 00:38:53.831 --> 00:38:57.201 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% where one government has to reflect and listen 00:38:57.268 --> 00:39:00.404 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% to the community and the values that it serves 00:39:00.471 --> 00:39:03.574 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:50% And two it really is 00:39:03.641 --> 00:39:06.610 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:100% s not something separate from the people ultimately 00:39:06.677 --> 00:39:09.914 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% y the most good that's done in any community 00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:12.983 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% I believe comes from the community. Ann is done by the community 00:39:13.050 --> 00:39:15.753 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% and then it is that shared work together. 00:39:15.820 --> 00:39:18.756 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:78% It really moves society forward 00:39:18.823 --> 00:39:21.959 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% so I think that trust gets restored when we can 00:39:22.026 --> 00:39:25.162 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% start. I think again to be in rooms together to build 00:39:25.229 --> 00:39:29.033 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% trust together and to find those things that there really 00:39:29.100 --> 00:39:32.103 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% is common aspiration's to meet the 00:39:32.169 --> 00:39:32.536 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:45% common challenges. 00:39:35.139 --> 00:39:38.375 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% Thank you mayor question 00:39:38.442 --> 00:39:41.846 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% from an anonymous question Asker 00:39:41.912 --> 00:39:45.116 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% r feels sometimes feels like aging population is left out of city 00:39:45.182 --> 00:39:48.452 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% planning. The example that they give is 00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:51.822 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% S dot and a focus on bike lanes. You can 00:39:51.889 --> 00:39:55.192 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% reply directly to that mayor, but I think it would be nice for 00:39:55.259 --> 00:39:58.195 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% to hear more generally on what you think 00:39:58.262 --> 00:40:01.599 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% the city can do to make the aging population feel as though it is 00:40:01.665 --> 00:40:04.602 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% brought into these conversations and that we are 00:40:04.668 --> 00:40:05.369 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% looking out for them when we make decisions. 00:40:06.504 --> 00:40:11.408 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% So I think that it is true to a certain extent an. 00:40:12.042 --> 00:40:15.179 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% It was, I think, a difficult thing 00:40:15.246 --> 00:40:17.148 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% for city is city grew so rapidly. 00:40:17.948 --> 00:40:20.985 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% An much of the growth and much of 00:40:21.051 --> 00:40:24.722 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% the planning was done to serve the 00:40:24.789 --> 00:40:28.492 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% folks who were adding to the growth. So it was the people 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:31.929 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% moving here for the new jobs in the new companies that were being created and 00:40:31.996 --> 00:40:35.199 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% it was stimulating all this growth. But at the 00:40:35.266 --> 00:40:38.502 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% same time, the population the aging population have been living here 00:40:38.569 --> 00:40:41.705 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:70% who moved here had different 00:40:41.772 --> 00:40:44.875 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% needs. Everything from mobility to services and 00:40:44.942 --> 00:40:48.345 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% so working with Jason's team, we've been really trying to focus 00:40:48.412 --> 00:40:48.813 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% on what are those things that we. 00:40:48.879 --> 00:40:52.183 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% No, were problems take the issue 00:40:52.249 --> 00:40:55.452 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% of mobility. We spend a lot of time and 00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:59.123 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% money working on building out more 00:40:59.190 --> 00:41:02.126 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% transit an we before the pandemic had done 00:41:02.193 --> 00:41:05.663 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% a really remarkable job in our city in our region 00:41:05.729 --> 00:41:08.666 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% n we were the only large cities in America where 00:41:08.732 --> 00:41:10.167 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% transit use was increasing, not decreasing. 00:41:10.968 --> 00:41:14.371 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% But that transit isn't always friendly to the 00:41:14.438 --> 00:41:17.541 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:93% aging population, both because of the Accessibility of buses where 00:41:17.608 --> 00:41:20.711 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% the routes were. Whether you could get to the routes and it 00:41:20.778 --> 00:41:23.781 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% t was one of the reasons why we started the pilots that we called 00:41:23.848 --> 00:41:27.084 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% Villa where we were. People could get that last mile 00:41:27.151 --> 00:41:30.187 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% and actually have like a shuttle bus come pick them up and take them to either 00:41:30.254 --> 00:41:34.291 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% medical appointments or to transit hubs 00:41:34.358 --> 00:41:37.795 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% We need to continue to look at how we do 00:41:37.862 --> 00:41:41.232 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% that. We also did a thing where we looked at each of our senior centers 00:41:41.298 --> 00:41:42.166 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:58% in the city of Seattle. 00:41:42.233 --> 00:41:45.603 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% And look at it through the lens of the aging 00:41:45.669 --> 00:41:48.739 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% population that may be traveling to and from those senior centers 00:41:48.806 --> 00:41:51.842 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% And what were the obstacles whether it 00:41:51.909 --> 00:41:54.979 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% t was crosswalk signs that didn't give 00:41:55.045 --> 00:41:58.082 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% people enough time to get across the street, and so it 00:41:58.148 --> 00:42:01.719 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% was dangerous whether it was making sure that 00:42:01.785 --> 00:42:04.655 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% there was ramp so people had Accessibility. If they had limited mobility. 00:42:05.289 --> 00:42:08.525 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% We also know that from what's happened in the pandemic, that 00:42:08.592 --> 00:42:11.929 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% the services we have for an aging population aren't 00:42:11.996 --> 00:42:16.267 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% meeting what we need. Well have a lot of great programs 00:42:16.333 --> 00:42:19.370 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% It is they are not always accessible to people with different 00:42:19.436 --> 00:42:22.640 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% languages or different abilities, and they haven't really 00:42:22.706 --> 00:42:25.809 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% been informed by the population itself. So again, it's a time 00:42:25.876 --> 00:42:28.812 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% where we need to learn more as we are an 00:42:28.879 --> 00:42:32.283 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% aging population. I'm an aging population and what are the things 00:42:32.349 --> 00:42:35.319 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% that we know we need today and are going to be needing 00:42:35.386 --> 00:42:36.587 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% in the next 20 years, particularly as. 00:42:36.654 --> 00:42:39.890 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% Are Boomer generation 00:42:39.957 --> 00:42:42.960 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% ages and how do we prepare for that in a way that allows 00:42:43.027 --> 00:42:46.297 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% people to have access to this great city and to 00:42:46.363 --> 00:42:49.300 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% the great programming an events in the city once 00:42:49.366 --> 00:42:50.734 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% e we can finally get out of our zoom calls? 00:42:53.337 --> 00:42:56.707 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% That's Great Mayor Ann. And Speaking of plans 00:42:56.774 --> 00:43:00.077 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% and the needs of community, we have another question from an 00:43:00.144 --> 00:43:03.147 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% anonymous question Asker who wants to hear a little bit more about your 00:43:03.213 --> 00:43:06.550 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% plans and your views to reimagine the Seattle 00:43:06.617 --> 00:43:09.787 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% Police Department. They mentioned that 00:43:09.853 --> 00:43:13.090 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% the call, of course, is to cut police funding by 50%, but they want 00:43:13.157 --> 00:43:16.160 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% to know how we balance that demand and work to keep people safe. 00:43:17.561 --> 00:43:20.631 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% So thanks for that question and I think this is 00:43:20.698 --> 00:43:23.901 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% a question that we will be having some 00:43:23.968 --> 00:43:27.204 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% deep discussions in the coming months throughout the city 00:43:27.271 --> 00:43:30.274 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% of Seattle will be setting up coffee 00:43:30.341 --> 00:43:33.377 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% hours in town halls to get people's input on 00:43:33.444 --> 00:43:37.348 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% exactly those questions so we know where 00:43:37.414 --> 00:43:38.048 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% everyone in Seattle is on some of these issues. 00:43:38.649 --> 00:43:41.785 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:73% My view and the vision that I 00:43:41.852 --> 00:43:45.122 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% have now after listening to people but also having worked in and 00:43:45.189 --> 00:43:48.792 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% d around the criminal legal system and 00:43:48.859 --> 00:43:51.962 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% community organizations for over 40 00:43:52.029 --> 00:43:55.065 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:70% years is that we can we need 00:43:55.132 --> 00:43:58.168 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% to reimagine what policing does policing has 00:43:58.235 --> 00:44:02.272 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% s changed over the last 10 and 20 years were now police 00:44:02.339 --> 00:44:05.609 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% are called to address many situations 00:44:05.676 --> 00:44:08.579 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% in many events. That before would have been handled differently. 00:44:08.645 --> 00:44:12.216 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% By our society, and I think if you 00:44:12.282 --> 00:44:15.252 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% put police officers at one table and community members in 00:44:15.319 --> 00:44:18.689 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% another table and said, what are three things that police 00:44:18.756 --> 00:44:21.825 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% do today that you'd rather have somebody else do or would be better 00:44:21.892 --> 00:44:25.062 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% to have somebody else do those lists 00:44:25.129 --> 00:44:28.332 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% s would be very similar. Give you 00:44:28.399 --> 00:44:31.602 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% an example mental health crisis an people in 00:44:31.668 --> 00:44:35.672 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% n substance disorder crisis. It is a 00:44:35.739 --> 00:44:38.942 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% growing issue in every city in America 00:44:39.009 --> 00:44:42.012 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% We went from a promise in the 1980s from the institutionalization. 00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.749 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% People who had mental health or other 00:44:45.816 --> 00:44:49.053 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% challenges to promise of community based services 00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.156 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% Those community based services never really materialized it 00:44:52.222 --> 00:44:55.559 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:78% t is scaled to meet the need of 00:44:55.626 --> 00:44:58.762 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% people and so today. For example last year 00:44:58.829 --> 00:45:02.199 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% the Seattle Police Department responded 00:45:02.266 --> 00:45:06.103 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:65% almost 17,000 Crisis calls 00:45:06.170 --> 00:45:09.740 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% 17,000 times. Police officers were, guns were 00:45:09.807 --> 00:45:12.409 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% responding to people who were in crisis. Mental health crisis. 00:45:12.476 --> 00:45:15.412 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% Substance abuse crisis we've done 00:45:15.479 --> 00:45:18.582 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% a lot of work at the Seattle Police Department to equip them to 00:45:18.649 --> 00:45:22.286 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% deal with those calls. Crisis intervention, training, connections 00:45:22.352 --> 00:45:25.489 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% with social workers at every precinct more 00:45:25.556 --> 00:45:28.959 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% e crisis intervention specialist, and as a result, those 00:45:29.026 --> 00:45:31.995 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% calls. Unlike when I investigated the Seattle 00:45:32.062 --> 00:45:35.099 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% Police Department, is US attorney resulted in 00:45:35.165 --> 00:45:36.166 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:58% a minimal use of force. 00:45:36.667 --> 00:45:39.870 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% But it still left the police with very few 00:45:39.937 --> 00:45:43.073 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% options, because once the police intervene, they have a choice 00:45:43.140 --> 00:45:46.276 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% of either taking that person in crisis if they've committed a crime 00:45:46.343 --> 00:45:49.746 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:65% to jail, where there is no 00:45:49.813 --> 00:45:54.017 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% treatment, or if they have not committed a crime, may be to Harborview 00:45:54.084 --> 00:45:57.187 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% Hospital where there is limited ability to have treatment we 00:45:57.254 --> 00:46:01.391 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% e need a different system to deal with those 00:46:01.458 --> 00:46:04.428 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% issues. Seattle can't do that alone that 00:46:04.495 --> 00:46:07.397 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% t has got to be state and federally supported, and it has to be regional. 00:46:07.464 --> 00:46:10.467 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% So that we have a different system in 00:46:10.534 --> 00:46:13.504 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% place so that if someone is in crisis we can respond to that 00:46:13.570 --> 00:46:16.607 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% person. Better yet have the resources to 00:46:16.673 --> 00:46:19.977 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% support that person, so they're not in crisis 00:46:20.043 --> 00:46:23.280 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% on our downtown streets, we started a pilot called 00:46:23.347 --> 00:46:26.483 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% health one because when I came in one of the things I looked at 00:46:26.550 --> 00:46:29.520 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% is, where are police responding today where our top calls 00:46:29.586 --> 00:46:32.189 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% so we can evaluate? How do we better tool or Police Department? 00:46:32.823 --> 00:46:35.792 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:45% I will admit I was 00:46:35.859 --> 00:46:39.029 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% surprised the top five places where police were 00:46:39.096 --> 00:46:42.065 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% called. The majority of them were shelters. Some of our 00:46:42.132 --> 00:46:45.502 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% larger shelters that the police were responding and 00:46:45.569 --> 00:46:48.872 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% fire responding because people were in crisis 00:46:48.939 --> 00:46:52.075 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% and committing sometimes acts of violence it 00:46:52.142 --> 00:46:55.345 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% t makes no sense to have. That is the front response 00:46:55.412 --> 00:46:58.448 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% So we created a program called health one 00:46:58.515 --> 00:47:01.652 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% which is a trained medic and a social worker 00:47:01.718 --> 00:47:05.022 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% Kind of like medic one was for heart 00:47:05.088 --> 00:47:05.589 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% attacks. We thought this could be. 00:47:05.656 --> 00:47:09.293 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% The solution for some of the low acuity 00:47:09.359 --> 00:47:12.663 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% calls an instead of police responding to one of those 00:47:12.729 --> 00:47:15.933 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% calls. Health one can respond. They can take the time instead of just either 00:47:15.999 --> 00:47:19.203 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% taking someone to jail or the hospital they can find out what 00:47:19.269 --> 00:47:22.439 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% they need. Are they offer medications? Do they need their medications do 00:47:22.506 --> 00:47:26.109 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% o they have a caseworker? They need is their family. Do they need to go to the 00:47:26.176 --> 00:47:29.313 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% hospital? It's been enormously successful and 00:47:29.379 --> 00:47:32.482 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% we're now, hopefully, if my budgets adopted, we will scale that program to 00:47:32.549 --> 00:47:35.652 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% add more, but it also 00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:37.254 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% takes resources, time and training. 00:47:37.321 --> 00:47:40.390 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% And so, as we re imagine policing we have 00:47:40.457 --> 00:47:43.760 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% e to have something to fill those vacuums 00:47:43.827 --> 00:47:47.064 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% and build those community based solutions the other 00:47:47.130 --> 00:47:51.235 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% r thing we have to do is we have to go upstream because the true 00:47:51.301 --> 00:47:54.705 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% solution for community safety is healthy and 00:47:54.771 --> 00:47:57.841 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% resilient communities to invest in things like affordable housing 00:47:57.908 --> 00:48:01.111 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% access to healthcare, childcare, pre 00:48:01.178 --> 00:48:04.681 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:98% K true educational justice and economic opportunity 00:48:04.748 --> 00:48:07.417 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% If a community is healthy and the need for police is less. 00:48:07.484 --> 00:48:10.420 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% So we have to work on every front we have to 00:48:10.487 --> 00:48:13.890 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% re imagine what the police are doing and how they do it. We have to build 00:48:13.957 --> 00:48:17.060 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% a community based response and we have to invest in those 00:48:17.127 --> 00:48:20.230 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% communities have been left behind particular black, indigenous and 00:48:20.297 --> 00:48:23.500 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% people of color communities and if we do that overtime 00:48:23.567 --> 00:48:25.335 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% I think we can see significant changes. 00:48:26.737 --> 00:48:30.274 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:73% Thank you very much, mayor we 00:48:30.340 --> 00:48:33.410 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% are reaching the end of our time here with Q&A 00:48:33.477 --> 00:48:36.580 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% So I want to say thank you mayor, I want to say thank you to everybody who submitted 00:48:36.647 --> 00:48:39.716 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% a question. We have lots of really great questions that 00:48:39.783 --> 00:48:43.353 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% just came into the chat and it's unfortunate that we 00:48:43.420 --> 00:48:46.590 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% can't get to the mall. But I think the best thing to do at this point would be 00:48:46.657 --> 00:48:50.160 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% to put a pin in it. Mayor if you want to say anything else about 00:48:50.227 --> 00:48:53.196 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% our plan for reopening, leave with 00:48:53.263 --> 00:48:56.867 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% some thoughts on what you envision the city to look like in the 00:48:56.933 --> 00:48:59.569 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% future, as we as we come out of this COVID-19 crisis. 00:49:01.104 --> 00:49:02.139 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:08% So. 00:49:02.806 --> 00:49:05.776 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% I it's let me tell you a little bit 00:49:05.842 --> 00:49:10.180 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% about what my vision was before the pandemic hit, because it's still 00:49:10.247 --> 00:49:13.550 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% guides what my vision is. Though it is going to be more 00:49:13.617 --> 00:49:16.853 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% challenging for us. When I came in as mayor in 00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:20.157 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% some ways, Seattle was the envy of all of America we 00:49:20.223 --> 00:49:23.760 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% e had some of the highest number 00:49:23.827 --> 00:49:26.997 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% of technology jobs. Some of the greatest companies in the world were 00:49:27.064 --> 00:49:30.634 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% founded here and started here and thrived here we had 00:49:30.701 --> 00:49:33.337 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% we were the fastest growing city in America with the hyest. 00:49:33.403 --> 00:49:36.973 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% Wages paid, and almost any city in America 00:49:37.040 --> 00:49:40.177 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% but two at the same time that prosperity was 00:49:40.243 --> 00:49:43.280 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% s not being shared. We were in the midst of 00:49:43.347 --> 00:49:46.516 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% what I described in is a time that was more transformative 00:49:46.583 --> 00:49:50.153 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:103% than the Industrial Revolution. Where the 00:49:50.220 --> 00:49:53.557 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% technology and innovation economy was quickly displacing 00:49:53.623 --> 00:49:56.727 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% the other economy without having the ladders and 00:49:56.793 --> 00:50:00.097 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% access from the prior economy to the new 00:50:00.163 --> 00:50:03.467 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:100% economy an clearly the people being left 00:50:03.533 --> 00:50:05.202 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% behind where the mostly our communities of color. 00:50:05.268 --> 00:50:08.372 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% And you could almost draw a line North to South 00:50:08.438 --> 00:50:11.608 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:55% in Seattle and see the 00:50:11.675 --> 00:50:14.811 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% stark differences. So we worked really hard to say. How do we build 00:50:14.878 --> 00:50:18.215 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% that Bridge to the new economy? It's one reason why having 00:50:18.281 --> 00:50:21.551 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% free college was so important to me as mayor and instituting 00:50:21.618 --> 00:50:25.055 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% that program so that every kid in Seattle would have 00:50:25.122 --> 00:50:29.292 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% that opportunity to get a leg up and then to pair that 00:50:29.359 --> 00:50:32.896 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:93% with internships and jobs paid for so 00:50:32.963 --> 00:50:36.099 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% that people had access. But that is only if you graduate from college 00:50:36.166 --> 00:50:39.603 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% so we also had a worked. How do we help the Seattle 00:50:39.669 --> 00:50:40.237 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% public schools to really close the. 00:50:40.303 --> 00:50:43.340 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% The gap, particularly for students of color 00:50:43.407 --> 00:50:46.410 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:108% and how do we get Quality Pre K so kids are showing 00:50:46.476 --> 00:50:47.711 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:85% up ready to learn in kindergarten? 00:50:48.245 --> 00:50:52.215 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% We started those programs as well as announcing 00:50:52.282 --> 00:50:55.385 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% unprecedented amounts of affordable housing. 1.5 00:50:55.452 --> 00:50:58.688 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% billion dollars in affordable housing. I've had the great honor to announce 00:50:58.755 --> 00:51:02.058 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% his being mayor and new investments and 00:51:02.125 --> 00:51:05.362 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% things like Africatown, the Ethiopian Community Center 00:51:05.429 --> 00:51:08.765 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% the Filipino Community Center, trying to build that 00:51:08.832 --> 00:51:08.865 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% community resilience. 00:51:09.399 --> 00:51:12.436 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:53% But then the pandemic 00:51:12.502 --> 00:51:16.206 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% hit and what it showed just even more starkly 00:51:16.273 --> 00:51:17.507 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:60% where those disparities? 00:51:18.041 --> 00:51:21.178 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:78% And I think that it is made our 00:51:21.244 --> 00:51:25.081 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% obligation even greater to move and 00:51:25.148 --> 00:51:28.952 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% to acknowledge the roots of those disparities, the systemic 00:51:29.019 --> 00:51:31.988 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:118% racism over generations that the solutions have 00:51:32.055 --> 00:51:35.258 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% to be community based and that we have 00:51:35.325 --> 00:51:38.295 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% to intentionally and purposely really open 00:51:38.361 --> 00:51:41.965 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% up that opportunity and promise so that Seattle continues 00:51:42.032 --> 00:51:45.936 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:80% to be an innovative city, a city 00:51:46.002 --> 00:51:48.972 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% with a great diversity, an immigrant and refugee population. 00:51:49.039 --> 00:51:52.809 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:73% A city that is growing in new 00:51:52.876 --> 00:51:55.846 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:90% an open and welcoming a city that is 00:51:55.912 --> 00:51:59.716 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% the hub to great innovation, where the innovation is an art 00:51:59.783 --> 00:52:00.016 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:35% or technology. 00:52:00.517 --> 00:52:03.520 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:78% But that will only happen if we 00:52:03.587 --> 00:52:06.690 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:105% can make it inclusive and it's going to be 00:52:06.756 --> 00:52:10.260 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% hard coming out of this. Pandemic is going to be really 00:52:10.327 --> 00:52:13.630 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% hard for every city in America, including the city of 00:52:13.697 --> 00:52:16.766 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:103% Seattle. We will be in some kind of kovid restrictions 00:52:16.833 --> 00:52:20.036 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% probably through next year, our largest 00:52:20.103 --> 00:52:23.440 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:123% employers have already said that they will not be returning to 00:52:23.507 --> 00:52:26.476 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:120% our downtown through at least the middle of next 00:52:26.543 --> 00:52:29.813 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:83% year, some even longer. So all of 00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:33.149 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:113% those people who are coming into our city and providing the 00:52:33.216 --> 00:52:33.683 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:33% backdrop for. 00:52:33.750 --> 00:52:36.720 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% Restaurants and small businesses in our brick and 00:52:36.786 --> 00:52:37.254 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:45% mortar businesses. 00:52:37.821 --> 00:52:40.991 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% They're not there anymore, and so we've 00:52:41.057 --> 00:52:44.828 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:98% got a plan. We have to have a plan that 00:52:44.895 --> 00:52:48.565 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% is just and equitable, but it is very intentional 00:52:48.632 --> 00:52:51.868 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% because every city, not just in America, but every 00:52:51.935 --> 00:52:55.272 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% city across the Globe is going to be coming out of covid about 00:52:55.338 --> 00:52:58.475 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:115% the same time and every one of 'em is going to have the 00:52:58.542 --> 00:53:02.546 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:125% same aspiration's that we have in Seattle and that is to build 00:53:02.612 --> 00:53:07.150 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:110% back in economy to make sure that people are unemployed, that small businesses can 00:53:07.217 --> 00:53:08.385 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% thrive. The communities of color lifted up. 00:53:08.451 --> 00:53:11.521 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% And in many ways we are going to be very we're 00:53:11.588 --> 00:53:14.591 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:108% e going to be competing for those jobs that 00:53:14.658 --> 00:53:17.627 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% are the jobs of the future and that will help us keep 00:53:17.694 --> 00:53:20.864 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:88% the jobs of the present. And so the 00:53:20.931 --> 00:53:24.034 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% only way we can do it as if we have those shared aspirations and 00:53:24.100 --> 00:53:27.404 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% work together because it will be challenging an it 00:53:27.470 --> 00:53:30.974 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% will take it will take grit. But this city is 00:53:31.041 --> 00:53:32.409 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:125% done it before. And I believe we will do it again. 00:53:34.511 --> 00:53:38.281 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:23% Thank you 00:53:38.348 --> 00:53:41.518 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:118% mayor, and that concludes our Q&A portion, so I will 00:53:41.585 --> 00:53:44.154 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:113% hand it back over to Lenny to close this out. 00:53:45.422 --> 00:53:48.091 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:25% Thank you. 00:53:48.825 --> 00:53:52.562 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:73% Derek, thank you Mayor Durkan 00:53:52.629 --> 00:53:56.232 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:123% for stopping by the coffee hour. We hope that you 00:53:56.299 --> 00:53:59.302 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% will visit with us again, hopefully when we've 00:53:59.369 --> 00:54:02.606 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:115% reopened and it would be an in person. Kind of 00:54:02.672 --> 00:54:04.641 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:110% a meeting with real coffee and maybe Donuts. 00:54:05.408 --> 00:54:09.012 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:43% Thank you also to 00:54:09.079 --> 00:54:12.182 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:70% everyone who joined us today 00:54:12.248 --> 00:54:15.652 align:middle line:79% position:50% size:120% We appreciate you having a virtual Cup of coffee with 00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:20.256 align:middle line:85% position:50% size:95% us. 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