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Votes at a glance: Spokane council approves grants, budget adjustments and settlements
Summary
The council approved multiple consent items including grants (traffic safety, participatory budgeting, CHIP), mid‑biennial budget amendments, emergency demolition funding, a settlement of $68,156.90, and several ordinances; most consent items passed unanimously or by strong majorities.
At its meeting, the Spokane City Council approved a package of consent items and several ordinances and resolutions affecting city budgets, grants and administrative thresholds.
Key votes and actions included:
- Mid‑biennial budget modification and emergency demolition funding to address a fire‑damaged building (consent; recorded passage as part of the council’s mid‑biennial actions).
- Acceptance of a Washington Traffic Safety Commission emergency streets grant ($136,000) and a participatory budgeting grant from the state Department of Commerce ($650,000) to support neighborhood participatory budgeting work. The council adopted these grants as consent items.
- Acceptance of funding from the Department of Commerce’s Connecting Housing Infrastructure Program (CHIP) to support housing infrastructure; this item passed on the consent calendar.
- Authorization of one additional operations manager position for the Spokane United 911 network (consent; discussed as time‑sensitive/emergency in the budget modification).
- An approved settlement of claims by Kimberly Haygood on behalf of 6th in Washington LLC in the amount of $68,156.90 (resolution approved by council).
- An ordinance to expand designated festival streets to make it easier to close certain streets for events (passed on first reading/action as presented in the record).
Most consent agenda items were approved unanimously (7–0) or with strong majorities; a small number of items were deferred for later reading or discussion. Several first readings and deferrals were noted on items including off‑premises alcohol controls and mobile vending rules.
Council members emphasized the safety rationale behind the emergency demolition funding and highlighted the participatory budgeting and housing infrastructure grants as investments in neighborhoods. The council recorded votes as part of the consent calendar and individual ordinance actions during the meeting.
