Here is the resolution to be voted on Monday Jan.6, 2020 by the Seattle City Council which will set up the Committee Structure, Committee Chairs and Committee members for 2020.

Updating the Tree Protection Ordinance will be through the Land Use & Neighborhoods Committee

They will meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at 9:30 a.m.

Chair Dan Strauss

Vice-Chair Teresa Mosqueda

Member  Debra Juarez 

Member  Andrew Lewis 

Member Alex Pedersen

Alternate Lorena González

Committees will now have 5 members and an alternate, rather than 3 members and an alternate.

Voting an ordinance out of committee or making amendments in committee will now require 3 votes to pass.

Passage of an ordinance by the full City Council will require 5 votes.

6 votes of the full Council would be needed to override a Mayoral veto.

Here is the link to the Seattle Urban Forestry Commission’s draft Tree and Urban Forest Protection Ordinance.

Quickly send Seattle’s Mayor and the Seattle City Council an email supporting the Urban Forestry Commission’s by going to www.DontClearcutSeattle.org.