“When you have a good hand and a plan that’s working, you double down,” said Harrell in a speech Tuesday. “And that’s what this budget proposal does – it doubles down on the priorities that matter for the city and it invests in a better tomorrow for Seattle.”
His proposal is an update to the 2023-2024 budget adopted by the City Council in November 2022, as Seattle operates on a two-year biennial budget. It offers minor adjustments more than wholesale changes and will now go before the Seattle City Council.
Harrell’s proposal includes spending an additional $334 million on affordable-housing construction and operations, a 32% increase over the 2023 budget
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