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Chair Strauss unveils balancing package focused on housing, food assistance and reserves
Summary
Chair Dan Strauss introduced a balancing package supported broadly by council members and the mayor that directs new and reallocated funds toward affordable housing, emergency food assistance, public-safety responses and reserves, while preserving a mix of onetime and ongoing spending to protect fiscal sustainability.
Chair Dan Strauss, chair of the Select Budget Committee, presented a balancing package at the Nov. 5 committee meeting that he said aims to invest “in a safer, more affordable Seattle for working families.” The package, assembled with mayoral support and input from all council members, includes both onetime and ongoing elements to fund housing, food assistance, crisis response and city services.
Strauss said the package accounts for an immediate response to a federal lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments. “Instead of standing by, we took immediate action and approved $4,000,000 per month in emergency funding for food banks and meal programs,” Strauss said, and he noted the package includes $4,000,000 of that spending and…
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