Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck

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Representing the Seattle City Council Office of Position 8, Citywide - The People’s Office Renter, Latina, Girl on the Bus, Former Waitress. Fighting for a City that works for all of us!

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Happy Dolly Parton Day! The City Council recognizes Sept. 25 as Dolly Parton Day.

On Sept. 22, @councilmember-amr.seattle.gov presented a proclamation marking "9-to-5" (9/25) as Dolly Parton Day in the City of Seattle to honor the late artist and philanthropist for her contributions to the world.

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Seattle City Council votes on our Fair and Transparent Pricing Legislation to ban surveillance pricing tomorrow! Simply put, the price of your groceries should be based on the product, not based on who is buying it.

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I’m proud to sponsor this legislation which will make groceries more affordable for working families in Seattle. Thank you to the Mayor’s Office for your work in drafting legislation with my office, and thank you to Councilmembers Foster and Saka for co-sponsoring this 1st in the nation legislation!

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The Seattle City Council has taken up an ordinance aimed at encouraging fair pricing for groceries by banning algorithmic price discrimination. It’s another piece of Mayor Katie Wilson’s affordability agenda. Story: www.theurbanist.org/seattle-adva...

theurbanist.orgSeattle Advances Ban on Surveillance Pricing, Targeting Grocery GiantsThe Seattle City Council has taken up a trailblazing ordinance aiming to encourage fair pricing for groceries by banning surveillance pricing. It’s another piece of Mayor Katie Wilson’s affordability ...
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Groceries are getting more expensive for everyday Seattleites, while buying, selling, and leveraging our private information to manipulate prices is making big national grocery corporations millions in profits.

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Proposed updates include written agreements between hiring entities & domestic workers; requiring hiring entities to create & retain pay & hour records; retaliation protections for taking paid sick & safe leave/other agreed-upon time off; advance notice of termination; aligning OLS enforcement code.

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Tomorrow at 9:30am my committee (HSLED) will hear proposed amendments to Seattle's historic Domestic Workers Ordinance - updating this policy is crucial in our work to guarantee rights and protections to the people who take care of our homes and families.

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laborstandards.seattle.govSeattle Office of Labor Standards Announces Proposed Amendments to the Domestic Workers Ordinance - The Labor Bulletin BoardThe Office of Labor Standards (OLS) announces proposed amendments to the Seattle Domestic Workers Ordinance. After a series of stakeholder meetings and community feedback, the Domestic Workers Standar...
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Thank you to the Finance, Native Communities & Tribal Governments Committee for unanimously approving my amendment for $300,000 to LGBTQ community organizations to support emergency shelter/housing, food access, employment support and other essential needs. (1/4)

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My office will be presenting Jimothy, the globally famous raccoon and local icon, with a proclamation to declare the summer of 2026 as Jimothy Summer. And we are inviting YOU to bring your art to the proclamation ceremony for a friendly art contest. (1/3)

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Join us next weekend to celebrate our newest local icon Jimothy as we present a proclamation in his honor to commemorate Jimothy Summer. We invite all local artists to bring their Jimothy-themed art for a friendly art competition. Long live, Jimothy!

A poster for an event celebrating Jimothy the raccoon on July 26 at 12:00pm at Bergen Place Park
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Reminder: today at 5pm is the in-person portion of the public hearing on the Seattle Transit Measure (STM) renewal. STM funds a significant portion of Seattle's bus service, and the proposed renewal provides a big increase in our service hours. So be sure to come by City Hall to give public comment!

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I authored this letter to fight for Seattle residents and their tax dollars. In addition to millions that would be directed away from our community, I'm concerned with the precedent this "cap" would set for Seattle. I'm grateful to my colleagues for signing on and hopeful for the path forward.

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In a letter to King County Councilmembers, eight members of the Seattle City Council call a proposed Seattle-only cap on pass-through funding from a new countywide 0.1% sales tax "not acceptable nor equitable" and ask that it be fully dropped at Friday's planned vote.

As King County considers new revenue options for funding roads maintenance in unincorporated King County, a focus on affordability and equity is critical. Passthrough dollars to cities is a good start, but the proposal to cap that funding and restrict how it can be spent is not acceptable nor equitable. We ask that King County Council consider removing the binding cap that solely impacts City of Seattle. Under proposed Amendment 2A, our central staff analysis suggests that cities like Hunts Point, Yarrow Point, Beaux Arts Village, and others would receive a disproportionately high amount of passthrough funding per capita. And the redistribution of Seattle’s sales tax dollars won’t go to the small cities that need this funding most, like Skykomish and Carnation; these dollars will go to medium and large cities such as Redmond, Kirkland, and Sammamish. Meanwhile, Seattle will receive the lowest per capita amount of any city in King County. Further, under this amendment, the total amount Seattle would be eligible for would drop dramatically from approximately $4,812,197 to $1,910,625. Like many cities, the City of Seattle is grappling with a structural budget deficit and increased demand for city services. With this in mind, we have significant concerns with a proposal that will shift our residents’ tax dollars from Seattle to other cities. Seattle voters frequently champion transportation investments at the ballot box, and we do not take that support for granted. Per the authorizing RCW 36.73.020, jurisdictions are able to establish transportation benefit districts to fund transportation improvement projects, and we encourage more jurisdictions to consider establishing their own transportation benefit districts to fund their own services.Seattle residents already pay the highest sales taxes in the country. That is not something to be celebrated, but rather it reflects our deeply regressive tax code and the limited revenue options afforded to jurisdictions to fund our basic services. The poorest Seattleites pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than any of the residents of the county’s richest enclaves. Seattleites have shown we are willing to shoulder our fair share of the burden, but our residents deserve a fair share of the returns. Should a King County roads measure pass, it must include passthrough funding without a cap.
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The Council approved my amendment to the supplemental budget which will add $300K in legal defense for our immigrant neighbors! This funding comes out of underspend from a jail contract. Transferring these funds to this urgent need facing community is a major win!