This is the second year the city has spent heavily to support providers of publicly financed affordable housing who are struggling to financially stay above water.
Katie Wilson wants a mayor's office that reaches out proactively, that has open lines to grassroots organizations and that builds political support from the ground up.
The City Council moved to adopt the city’s nearly $9 billion budget for next year, signing off on the main tenets of outgoing Mayor Bruce Harrell’s plan.
Prompted by a reporter, who asked Monday about Katie Wilson’s election, the president made what appears to be his first acknowledgment of the city’s incoming mayor.
The bill was pushed by Council President Sara Nelson, who waded into a heated fight to get it passed. Now that she is leaving office, the future of the bill is unclear.
Harrell aspired to be the first two-term mayor in Seattle in decades, but fell short in the closest mayoral race this century. He waited a day to concede.
Katie Wilson, a progressive challenger to the incumbent mayor, is benefiting from the leftward trend of voters who send or drop ballots close to or on election day.
If there’s a problem with your ballot, your vote can still be counted. The deadline is 4:30 p.m. Nov. 24. And this election, it might matter more than in most.
The race is still a long way from being over. With Thursday’s release of more than 36,000 ballots, Seattle likely has between 100,000 and 110,000 left to count.
Incumbent Harrell’s lead is now down to less than 2 percentage points. Both campaigns expected Wilson to do better in late-counted ballots; the question was by how much.