City Council - Regular Meeting

Glad you could be here. So I am proud to be the mayor of a city that stands firmly on its values, dignity, safety, protection, and belonging. Seattle has a long and unwavering commitment to protecting the rights and dignity of all people, including our transgender community. We believe that everyone deserves to live openly and authentically, to be treated with respect, and to feel safe in the city they call home. This is a scary time across our country. Civil rights organizations are tracking more than 500 state level bills that would restrict LGBTQ plus rights, targeting everything from schoo

Thank you, Mayor Wilson. Beautifully said, very well said, and very excited to be here today as we sign this resolution. Now, from time to time, the City Council has raised its voice via resolution to weigh in on ballot measures and express our stand as an elected body on measures to our peers in Olympia. And these actions, to be very clear, are not playing politics. They are an extension of our charter duties of protecting and enhancing the health, safety, environment, and general welfare of the people to allow fair and equitable participation of all persons and to meet the broad needs of a h

That was very well said. And it's an honor and a pleasure to be here today to sign, as the mayor signs these resolutions. I was really proud and pleased to co-sponsor these resolutions with Councilmember Rink. And on the heels of your description of what they do, I want to talk about why. And I want to talk about it a little bit more personally. I love sports. But I'm not really good at playing them. But my mom, being a great mom, made me play basketball in fifth grade. And my fifth grade basketball team won exactly one game. It's OK. Yeah, I'm OK. I'm OK. I'm here today.

But I learned a lot of things. I learned how to lose. I learned how to communicate. I learned what I'm made of. I learned how to get through really tough situations. And I'm glad I had that experience. I don't want to say it was that experience that led me here today to be a Seattle City Council member. But who knows, right? Who knows? I don't know. But what I can say is that every kid deserves the opportunity to be really bad at sports. Every kid deserves the opportunity to play. Every kid deserves the opportunity to have that collegiality, to have those lessons that you learn, to build that

OK. Thank you, council members, for your leadership on these resolutions. Let's sign them.