Seattle City Council Secure Scheduling Ordinance emails
| Tracking # |
PDR2016-169 |
| Submitted | Sept. 7, 2016 |
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From: Craver, Nancy
Dear Mr. Rodriguez,
Please submit your request to LegPDR@seattle.gov<mailto:LegPDR@seattle.gov>. I am not the public disclosure contact for the city council and I am afraid that if I forward this is will mess up the MuckRock numbering system. Let me know if that is not true, otherwise please re-submit your request.
Nancy Craver
Citywide Public Records Act Program
Communications and Customer Relations
206 684-7029
From: Bernard Rodriguez
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to RCW Ch. 42.56 (Public Records Act), I hereby request the following records:
All emailed public comment, including petitions or organization statements, from those in support and opposition to the proposed Secure Scheduling Ordinance.
For redaction of any kind, please "black out" any relevant sections. Please do not "white out" sections.
Please provide responsive documents in their native format with metadata. For example, if a spreadsheet or email (.eml) file is available, do not print and scan documents.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 5 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Bernard Rodriguez
From: PDR, LEG
Hello Bernard,
I thought I'd suggest that you us the LEGPDR@seattle.gov<mailto:LEGPDR@seattle.gov> email when you have requests for City Council. It'll get things covered most effectively.
Have a good weekend,
Matt
Matthew C. Jaeger
Public Disclosure Officer, Legislative Department
(206) 684-8159
From: PDR, LEG
Mr. Rodriquez,
This is identical to the request you submitted on the 7th of September. We will be responding to that on the 16th and will not be treating this forwarded request as a separate request.
Also, for efficiency, please use the LEGPDR@seattle.gov<mailto:LEGPDR@seattle.gov> when you have a request for City Council.
Best regards,
Matt
Matthew C. Jaeger
Public Disclosure Officer, Legislative Department
(206) 684-8159
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From: PDR, LEG
Dear Mr. Rodriquez,
Thank you for your records request which was received on September 7 and 9 via email. Therein you requested "[all] emailed public comment, including petitions or organization statements, from those in support and opposition to the proposed Secure Scheduling Ordinance."
I have run searches using the following query: 118765 OR "secure schedul*". 118765 is the ordinance number. The asterisk (*) ensures that the search will collect variations of tense and plurality for the word "schedule."
Since you requested public comment I do not anticipate any redactions or exemptions. If there are any, I will, of course, let you know and use black redactions.
We will process and review the search results, and have a status update or installment to you by October 14, 2016.
Best regards,
Matt
Matthew C. Jaeger
Public Disclosure Officer, Legislative Department
(206) 684-8159
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following Public Records request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 7, 2016. You previously indicated that it would be completed on Oct. 14, 2016. I wanted to let you know that I am still interested in the following documents, and to see if that date was still accurate. You had assigned it reference number #PDR2016-169.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following Public Records request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 7, 2016. You had previously indicated that it would be completed on Oct. 14, 2016. I wanted to check on the status of my request, and to see if there was a new estimated completion date. You had assigned it reference number #PDR2016-169.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: PDR, LEG
Dear Mr. Rodriguez,
Here is the installment of records responsive to your request. We ran the searches per the parameters below and then reviewed them. We are asserting no exemptions under the Public Records Act. Please follow this link to download the records: https://transfer.pcloud.com/download.html?code=5ZHWcnZd7Ow4Tk8DWfZrV15ZoScrSamJoEVGzJpmQcX3tYJyNosk.
We consider your request to be satisfied and closed. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.
Best regards,
Matt
Matthew C. Jaeger
Public Disclosure Officer, Legislative Department
(206) 684-8159
From: Bernard Rodriguez
Hi,
Thanks so much for your help with this request! I really appreciate the time you've taken and patience you've exhibited.
Thanks, again!
Sincerely,
Bernard Rodriguez
From: Councilmember Tim Burgess
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“Child poverty is an open sore on the American body politic. It is a moral failure for our nation that one-fifth of our children live in poverty,” so wrote Nicholas Kristof in Sunday’s New York Times (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=2e47b1437b&e=b77561f472) .
Of course, he’s right. It is a disgrace that the “lottery of birth” has such devastating impact on our children, including right here in Seattle (http://seattle.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=3ec583fef1&e=b77561f472) .
There is good news to report, however.
In Seattle, we have strategically assembled a “continuum of care” from birth to age five, implementing a strong series of proven, evidence-based solutions to help our kids have a strong and fair start and to make sure they are ready to thrive when they reach kindergarten. As the City Council prepares to vote on next year’s budget in the coming weeks, I’m asking my colleagues on the Council to strengthen this continuum of care even more.
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Why is this so important?
Because only 40% of children from low-income families entering kindergarten in Seattle Public Schools in 2015 demonstrated readiness in the six most important domains for children age five: social-emotional, physical, language, literacy, mathematics, and cognitive ability. This means 60% of these kids were not ready for kindergarten. In contrast, 67% of their non-low income peers demonstrated readiness in all six domains.
This readiness gap is shocking. Children who arrive at the kindergarten door unprepared to learn are already behind and they face a rough path going forward. That’s why early childhood investments are so important, for kids, for their families and for all of us. Thankfully, we know what to do.
Birth to Two-Year-Olds
The starts during pregnancy and has a powerful impact. Seattle is one of only a few large American cities that fully fund the Nurse Family Partnership (http://seattle.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=fedf4c137a&e=b77561f472) (NFP), a proven home visitation program designed to help parents do the right thing for their newborns through age two. NFP works wonders—better pregnancy outcomes, fewer emergency room visits, fewer incidents of abuse and neglect, greater health and education outcomes, to name a few. NFP helps give our children a strong and fair start.
Two and Three-Year-Olds
Two- and three-year-old toddlers are at a crucial stage of brain development (http://seattle.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=cc86a1a328&e=b77561f472) and the Parent-Child Home Program (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=d0c400bc55&e=b77561f472) (PCHP)—another home visitation program—focuses on literacy and language. PCHP kids are 50% more likely to be ready for kindergarten than their peers who do not participate in PCHP. PCHP kids significantly outperform their peers in Grade 3 reading and math achievement. PCHP helps prepare our children for kindergarten.
I hope we will be able to soon announce that every child living at or below the federal poverty level in Seattle will be able to participate in the PCHP.
Three and Four-Year-Olds
There is strong academic research showing that children who attend at least one year of high-quality preschool before entering kindergarten do much, much better than their peers who do not. Better in terms of social-emotional development, executive function skills related to playing together, following instructions, and focusing their attention on tasks at hand, and better academically once they enter the K-12 school system. This same research even shows better health outcomes and higher earning power as adults.
The Seattle Preschool Program (http://seattle.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=cd68fb8bdd&e=b77561f472) (SPP) is now in its second year and will expand to become universal in future years. High-quality preschool gives our children a stronger start.
Five, Six, and Seven Year-Olds
Research done in Seattle has shown that kids who can’t read at grade level in the 3^rd grade have a much higher dropout rate than kids who can read at grade level. In fact, not reading at grade level in the 3^rd grade is the strongest predictor that a child will not graduate from high school.
The Book Up Literacy Program (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=d86cf46c46&e=b77561f472) is designed to address the “summer literacy slump” where reading ability declines by providing age-appropriate books for children to take home after kindergarten, first and second grade. This program is in eight of Seattle’s highest poverty elementary schools and I’m hoping my colleagues will add additional funds so it can expand to 11 more schools this next spring. Helping our children maintain their reading skills is a key part of making sure they have a strong and fair start.
Family Child Care
Many children from birth to the elementary school years are cared for by family child care providers (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=f15a37ed35&e=b77561f472) , many unlicensed, most home-based. The federal government has pushed hard in recent years to increase child care quality standards (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=e6331b6010&e=b77561f472) , and many cities and states are increasing quality by investing in evidence-based practices that enhance quality of care and better support the family child care workforce. I’m urging my colleagues to review how the city government can boost quality by providing training and ongoing coaching to care providers.
This continuum of care—from pregnancy to the early elementary grades—is designed to help close the opportunity gap for Seattle children, to counter the national disgrace of childhood poverty, and to create the strong and fair start we want for all of our children. Doing this work well is another way Seattle can lead our nation.
Click here (http://seattle.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=ad5ca22381&e=b77561f472) for a graphic summary of these important, life changing programs.
You can follow the Council’s budget deliberations and decisions at www.Seattle.gov/Council.
Councilmember Tim Burgess
Email: tim.burgess (mailto:Tim.Burgess@seattle.gov) @seattle.gov (mailto:mailto:Tim.Burgess@seattle.gov)
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From my blog
Homeless Encampments: A Better Solution (http://seattle.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=50da94cfc5&e=b77561f472)
Homeless Encampments: An Update (http://seattle.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=01df920cfe&e=b77561f472)
N (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=2e8ce6176d&e=b77561f472) orth Precinct: We Listened (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=8b6e6db879&e=b77561f472)
On my desk
Larry Tye: Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Looking for relief from the current presidential campaign ugliness? Take a look back to Robert Kennedy. Tye's book is an excellent reminder of what political leaders can accomplish.
Through the lens
If you have time and interest, you can watch an interview (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=c62c5f1fd6&e=b77561f472) with Councilmembers Mike O'Brien, Bruce Harrell and me discussing homelessness and encampments.
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From: Councilmember Tim Burgess
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Washington State’s tax system is terribly unfair. Our lowest income households pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than do our highest income households. Don’t believe it? Read all about it here (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=cd7b9390c1&e=b77561f472) and here (http://seattle.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=21a2c03db7&e=b77561f472) .
It lacks transparency—do you know what your household pays in total city, county, and state taxes each year? No, you don’t, and I don’t either. Read The Seattle Times’ FYI Guy (http://seattle.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=404512f628&e=b77561f472) to learn precisely why our tax burden is so opaque.
It’s not adequate to fund essential government services, like basic education and early learning opportunities for our children.
It’s not stable. Because of its reliance on sales taxes, governments in Washington State can see huge swings in revenue as the economy moves through its regular ups and downs.
What can we do to improve our tax system?
Tax discussions are difficult because they can be dry and wonky, and many of us are already concerned about affording our own family’s necessities, not to mention funding essential government services. But we need a statewide, robust policy conversation on how to solve the tax mess we have today.
Local economist Dick Conway, a man I know as a thoughtful, pragmatic, and thorough professional, has studied tax policy for decades. He recently updated his study (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=9b5b2d4cfe&e=b77561f472) of taxes in every state. Conway’s analysis looked at five characteristics of taxes: fairness, adequacy, stability, transparency, and economic vitality. His conclusion, as in his earlier work, is that Washington’s tax system “continues to be dysfunctional.” Conway argues that the solution is a flat-rate personal income tax that eliminates the need for other taxes.
This suggestion causes consternation in many people. Personal income tax! We don’t have one, they say, and we don’t need one.
Well, Washington State already has a corporate income tax; we call it the “business and occupation tax.” The tax is based on gross revenues, not net revenues, which means companies pay it even if they don’t make a profit. Large companies don’t object because the rate of the tax is relatively low (ranging from 0.13% to 3.3%, depending on business classification (http://seattle.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=06e55db338&e=b77561f472) ), but it can make things hard for small or new companies.
So, what’s the solution to this overly complicated, politically charged issue? Conway suggests a personal income flat tax of 10.5% annually, a rate that is in the narrow range of what the national, average household state and local tax burden has been, going back to 1970. Had Conway’s plan been in place in 2015, Washington State would have raised $38.3 billion in state and local taxes, about $4 billion more than was collected with the current tax system. That would have covered the estimated shortfall in education funding and left about $2 billion for other needs.
Whether or not Conway’s flat tax idea is the best is irrelevant at this point; we need to have a serious policy conversation about solutions. The outcome should be a tax structure that allows our lower-income neighbors to pay less, our middle-income neighbors to pay about the same, and our highest-income neighbors to pay more while, at the same time, introducing more transparency, more fairness, more stability, and more adequacy.
Seattle Times business columnist Jon Talton thinks we should consider a local income tax (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=9685e5b62e&e=b77561f472) in Seattle to prompt a statewide conversation. Not everyone agrees, including Talton’s bosses, as this editorial (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=d4b5edeadb&e=b77561f472) in yesterday’s Seattle Times shows.
This is a conversation my colleagues and I will jumpstart this afternoon when the Council will likely adopt a policy resolution setting the framework for establishing a city-based income tax. As with many important matters, Seattle can lead the way toward a more fair, just, and sustainable tax system for the people of Washington. That would be good for everyone.
Councilmember Tim Burgess
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From my blog
SPD Found in "Initial Compliance" on Use of Force (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=7cec30daf5&e=b77561f472)
More Taxes: Fair and Effective? (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=abdd1b51a8&e=b77561f472)
Defending the Rule of Law (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=3b87e3828a&e=b77561f472)
On my desk
Ajay Chaudry, Taryn Morrissey, Christina Weiland, Hiro Yoshikawa: Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality (http://seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=11a79978ca7225050bfabf7ad&id=fe344ae05c&e=b77561f472)
Here is a very pragmatic and effective road map that will pay huge dividends for our children. Chaudry, Weiland and Yoshikawa helped me with early policy and design issues for the Seattle Preschool Program. I highly recommend this book for those who want to move the needle and solve our children's opportunity gap.
Through the lens
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