Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell

CouncilMembers Bruce Harrell, Tim Burgess and Sally Clark join host C.R. Douglas for this month’s episode of City Inside/Out: Council Edition. Watch the discussion on the Alaskan Way Viaduct Project, tent city and more.

Today the full Seattle City Council honored the Seattle Section of the National Council of Negro Women. Founded in 1935 by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, this organization has a long history of empowering women, changing communities and lives. She said, “Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.” It was our honor to have representatives in City Hall today.

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Media Advisory issued 3/01/11:

SEATTLE – The Energy, Technology and Civil Rights Committee, chaired by Councilmember Bruce Harrell, will host a discussion of City Light’s continued roll out of LED streetlights and where they will be installed next. The discussion will include an analysis of cost and energy savings and emerging technologies such as adaptive lighting controls which enables the brightness of streetlights to be remotely adjusted based on activity in an area.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 2:00 p.m.

WHERE: Seattle City Hall
600 Fourth Avenue
Council Chambers, Second Floor

WHO: Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell
Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin
Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata
Edward Smalley, Seattle City Light Engineering Manager
Phil West, Seattle City Light Energy Delivery Officer
Tuan Tran, Seattle City Light Energy Delivery Engineering Director
Ahmed Darrat, Seattle Department of Transportation, Transportation Engineer

Joint Press Release issued today (8/02/2010) by the Mayor & Seattle City Council

Technology grants promote access, job skills, education, and civic engagement

SEATTLE – Mayor Mike McGinn and the City Council announced today that 24 Seattle community organizations will receive a total of $300,000 in Technology Matching Fund grants. This money will enable services for more than 15,000 residents throughout the city, build technology skills for employment and healthcare using ESL software to teach English to new residents, as well as teach social media and online civic engagement skills. The grant funds will also increase access for people with disabilities and also provide youth with positive alternatives to violence by teaching new media journalism skills and providing after-school homework help.

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At the Energy, Technology and Civil Rights Committee meetings on January 6th and February 3rd the work programs for both City Light and the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) were approved by the committee. The work programs can be viewed below.

Also, on Monday, February 22, the Council announced our 2010 priorities to a standing room only Council Chambers. The priorities are laid out in three groups with sub-topics. My priorities cover Clean Energy, Access and Transparency and Race and Social Justice. In addition to my three priorities, there are 14 more priorities that will be divided up among my colleagues. You can view Council’s briefly described priorities below:

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This afternoon (12/16/09), I issued a press release calling for a Smart Grid. Below is a post with more information.

System would save people money, modernize City Light’s basic infrastructure and increase reliability and conservation

SEATTLE – In an effort to position City Light on the cutting edge of customer service, Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell has directed the Utility to develop a specific plan for the development of a Smart Grid in 2010. “I want a plan that puts the Full Council and the Executive in a position to make a funding decision for Smart Grid deployment by the middle of 2010,” says Councilmember Harrell. A Smart Grid basically adds two-way communication technology to the existing electrical grid where power and information can flow between the utility and the customer to create a system that operates more efficiently and reliably. It will also result in giving customers more control over their power consumption.

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