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KING COUNTY COUNCILMEMBER GIRMAY ZAHILAY


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KING COUNTY COUNCILMEMBER GIRMAY ZAHILAY





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Friends and Neighbors,
 
I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy! This is your
friendly neighborhood King County Councilmember, Girmay Zahilay. I wanted to
check in, let you know what my office has been working on, and invite your
input.

By way of introduction, I am your King County Councilmember, not to be confused
with your City of Seattle Councilmember. For those of you who are not familiar
with King County government, and are not sure how it differs from City
government, I made a short King County 101 video explaining the difference
between county and city government here.

I represent King County’s District 2, which includes the University District,
Laurelhurst, Ravenna, Eastlake, Capitol Hill, the Central District, South
Seattle, Allentown, and Skyway. You can find a map of the district here.

My team and I send regular email updates to people who live in our district. If
you know anyone who would like to receive these updates, please be sure to send
them over to our County Council website to sign up for our e-newsletter!

What We’ve Been Working on This Past Year
My office has worked tirelessly this year to address our region’s most pressing
challenges. We championed transformational initiatives like building crisis care
centers to help our neighbors experiencing mental illness and substance use
disorders get off the street and into care. We organized effective public safety
strategies in key neighborhoods like Rainier Beach, Mt. Baker, and the Central
District. We balanced and passed a $15.8 billion budget and secured major
investments in affordable housing, infrastructure, and community centers.
 
In 2023, I will continue to prioritize affordable housing and ending
homelessness, public safety, and helping our economy recover from the pandemic.
We will keep working hard for you and we invite you to partner with us on
building the King County we all want to see. Please fill out my District 2
Community Priorities Survey to help me better serve you:
https://tinyurl.com/district2survey2023  
 
Here are some highlights on things we’ve been working on in our office:

1. Led the effort to build five Crisis Care Centers around King County, places
where people can access life-saving care for mental illness and substance use
disorders

2. Introduced the Missing Middle Housing Motion to lower barriers for
construction of more multi-family housing which will increase housing supply

3. Co-sponsored the Free Youth Fare ordinance, allowing youth 18 and under to
ride transit for free

4. Co-created an Equitable Development Initiative to ensure King County supports
development while preventing displacement of communities

5. Championed and passed Extreme Weather Adaptation legislation to ensure King
County creates indoor options for people to escape extreme heat, cold, and
wildfire smoke

6. Created the Community Safety Ambassadors Program to promote public safety at
and around public transit stations so that everyone is and feels safe while
riding Metro buses

7. Passed a $16.4 billion biennial budget to fund critical services throughout
King County, including major investments in housing, public health, public
transit, and community safety 

8. Championed Skyway Affordable Housing by directing a $5 million investment to
an affordable home ownership and an affordable rental development in the
community

9. Established a $1 million residential road safety program in unincorporated
King County to protect our pedestrians and other road users

10. Organized with local food banks to pass the Food Bank Motion, which supports
food banks and advances food security in our region

11. Supported the Skyway Park Renovation, a $3.9 million project that provided a
new playground, new and enhanced sports fields, improved lighting, and better
ADA accessibility for Skyway Park

12. Supported and co-sponsored the Health through Housing initiative, which
directs the County to buy existing hotels and motels to bring indoors 1,600
chronically unhoused people and provide them housing and supportive services

13. Protected thousands of tenants by passing a suite of historic Tenant
Protections and Just Cause Eviction legislation to increase housing stability
and reduce homelessness during the pandemic

14. Supported legislation proposing a year-round Gun Return Program for
residents to safely surrender unwanted firearms or ammunition

15. Secured $5 million for youth mental health services, prioritizing
school-based services, mental health first aid, and suicide prevention for youth

16. Provided housing to dozens of unhoused Skyway residents by helping to
establish the first Tiny House Village outside Seattle

17. Sponsored and passed the Surplus Land for Community ordinance to ensure King
County makes available unused buildings and land for housing and other community
facilities 

18. Led the funding and creation of a $2 million community-based gun violence
prevention program

19. Co-sponsored and passed Abortion Access Emergency Legislation, investing
$500,000 in the Northwest Abortion Access Fund and prohibiting King County
agencies from cooperating with out-of-state prosecutions of abortion providers
or patients. 

20. Championed Ranked Choice Voting and other voting reform efforts

21. Trained hundreds of new leaders through Build the Bench, an initiative I
started that prepares the next generation of progressive elected leaders

22. Launched the Youth Achievement Center campaign to build a housing and jobs
center for unhoused youth in South Seattle, which led to a $500,000 donation
from the Seahawks


23. Worked with the Council to allocate billions of federal relief dollars to
protect residents from COVID, provide millions in rental assistance, and expand
transit and infrastructure projects around the region

24. Supported small businesses by establishing a $5 million economic development
program in unincorporated King County

25. Passed a proviso to bring King County Department of Parks and Natural
Resources back into the business of establishing and managing community centers,
and to house the future Skyway Community Center

26. Launched a Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Program to allocate $1000 per month
to extremely low income families for one year, and conducted GBI policy analysis
in partnership with the University of Washington

27. Delivered a report on mental health crisis response systems to lay the
groundwork for alternative emergency responders, after leading the charge on
Charter Amendment 6

28. Helped create Participatory Budgeting for unincorporated King County,
leading to the first ever community-voted funds awarded to projects such as
Street Beautification in the Skyway Business District, Hewet Skyway Community
Garden, “Welcome Home” down payment assistance, and more

29. Donated four County vans to local nonprofits to support food delivery,
driving seniors and disabled neighbors, and other vital needs

30. Established the Joint Aircraft Emissions Task Force to advance greenhouse
gas reduction strategies and tactics, for which my team was honored with a
Climate Justice Award from the Beacon Hill Council

31. Organized decision-makers and resources to promote public safety in key
neighborhoods like Mt. Baker, Rainier Beach, and Central District

32. Expanded public transit options for residents of Skyway and other South King
County neighborhoods by helping to secure $6 million for Via on-demand van
service

33. Promoted digital equity by funding internet services for marginalized
communities and initiating a committee report to map King County’s journey
toward public broadband

34. Sponsored and passed a motion committing the County to equity in contracting
and calling on the Governor to repeal laws that prevent equity

35. Advanced the Skyway Resource Center by investing $2 million to build a new
home for the Center at the former US Bank location in Skyway 

36. Organized decision-makers to support refugee resettlement efforts from
Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Ukraine, and other countries experiencing crisis

37. Co-sponsored legislation to move King County elections to even years from
odd years to dramatically increase voter turnout and engagement

38. Held Budget Town Halls to connect with constituents and local community
organizations, and to allow community to directly inform King County’s
multibillion dollar budget 


Please always feel free to reach out to me and my team with any questions or
comments at girmay.zahilay@kingcounty.gov. And as always, for more frequent and
daily updates, you can check out our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages. For
the latest news, resources, and opportunities to engage with your King County
government, follow me on the social media channels of your choice:

Facebook: facebook.com/Councilmember.Girmay
Twitter: @CMGirmayZahilay

Your King County District 2 Team,
Girmay, Rhonda, Graciela, Rosa, Linda, & Fedilla


KING COUNTY COUNCILMEMBER GIRMAY ZAHILAY

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Seattle, WA 98104

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