Councilmember Mike O’Brien’s Budget Priorities

Public Safety • A connected Center City bicycle network built out in

the next 2-3 years I also support many measures
• Ensure successful deployment of Community Service Officer
Program • Accelerated investments in sidewalks and pedestrian in the Mayor’s City Budget
pathways, prioritized around schools and transit proposal, including:
• Increase our investment in LEAD
• Identify key next steps in planning for a future of mobility
• Support alternatives to detention by divesting the city from
options: How can we get ahead of massive private investments • Police reform efforts and
punitive systems and reallocating the savings into effective
in scooters and “transit pods,” and create an environment where continued funding for the
community-based solutions
all these options can help us move around the City in a safe and Community Service Officer
sustainable way? Program, which will help
Housing and Homelessness address more
service-oriented needs of
• Prioritize new funding to address the opioid crisis and Equity and Inclusivity those who come into contact
increase on-demand treatment services with police
• Ensure at least $5 million in grant dollars is available to
• Reinvest in community-based organizations advocating to community organizations through the Equitable Development • Increased funding to
address root causes of poverty and creating opportunities for Initiative which is a key strategy for supporting creative, address litter issues from
everyone to prosper unauthorized
community-based approaches to economic development led by
encampments, including
• Allocate resources to provide proactive tenant outreach and communities at risk of displacement
adding a new executive
education to expand reach of current tenant supports and • Ensure that revenues generated by the sweetened beverage tax position to streamline the
services funds increased food access and closing the food security litter collection process from
• Fund a pilot program to help lower income homeowners gap, as well as provide resources for ages 0-5 supports and unauthorized encampments
create more habitable space for family and community in services, consistent with the Community Advisory Board’s and pilot a new program to
their homes, building on our existing Office of Housing Home recommendations reduce trash and litter
Repair Program associated with vehicular
living
Investments in the Future • A commitment to create new
Transit and Transportation community spaces
• Supporting funding for planning and schematic design for a
• Invest in near-term pedestrian and bicycle safety newly renovated Green Lake Community Center • An expansion of our food
improvements to the Ballard Bridge access and nutrition
• Allocating funding to conduct a wage gap study for human
• Ensure that the Move Seattle Levy “reset” invests effectively programs with new
service workers to increase social service program outcomes
in transit, walking, and biking, including: and work towards equitable wages Sweetened Beverage Tax
revenue
• Near-term improvements in key transit corridors, like • Fund the Green Pathways Fellowship Program to develop
emerging leaders of color in the green sector • Continued investment in
Market to 45th, that result in faster and more reliable
transit, walking, biking and
service • Increase staffing to manage tax collections, making sure the city managing congestion
collects all taxes that are owed