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CORRESPONDENCE TO THE COUNCIL Table of Contents June 16, 2021 (noon) – June 23, 2021 (noon) For full Council Correspondence, please follow this link: https://burienwa.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/45791 DATE NAME TOPIC FOLLOW-UP 06.16.21 Irene Danysh Renter Protections 06.16.21 Lynne Cobb DESC 06.16.21 Marian Gillis DESC 06.16.21 Mary Anne deVry Renter Protections 06.17.21 Natalia Fialkoff DESC 06.17.21 David Gould DESC 06.17.21 Julie Codd DESC 06.18.21 Susie Phillipsen DESC 06.18.21 Joe Fitzgibbon DESC 06.18.21 Hoa Nguyen DESC 06.19.21 Gwendolyn Benedict DESC 06.20.21 Steve Glass DESC 06.20.21 Kathy Hazen DESC 06.20.21 Robin Moore DESC 06.20.21 Samantha Paulin DESC 06.21.21 Ross Smith DESC 06.21.21 Chrissie and Chris Drape DESC 06.21.21 Michael O'Neill DESC 06.21.21 Dr. C.Edgar (1) DESC 06.21.21 Jade Selle DESC 06.21.21 Lori Wright DESC 06.21.21 Brian Hewitt DESC 06.21.21 Terri Hewitt DESC 06.21.21 Sonni and Jevon Simerly DESC 06.21.21 Susan and Tom Lane DESC 06.21.21 Liz Jenkins DESC 06.21.21 Kenneth Jenkins DESC 06.21.21 Rev. Lina Thompson DESC 06.21.21 Debi Wagner DESC 06.21.21 Jeppa Hall Renter Protections 06.21.21 Jeppa Hall DESC 06.21.21 Dr. C.Edgar (2) DESC 06.21.21 Aaron Weholt Seahurst Park 06.21.21 Gretchen Longridge DESC 06.21.21 Cesar Linares DESC 06.21.21 Stephanie Mora DESC 06.21.21 Kevin Swanson DESC 06.22.21 Annie Phillips Indian Trail 06.22.21 Patricia Howitz DESC Correspondence to the Council 06.16.21 – 06.23.21 Heather Dumlao From: Irene Danysh <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 12:09 PM To: Public - Council Inbox; Public - City Clerk Subject: CTTC - Please Prevent Evictions in Burien Due to Pandemic Crisis CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the City of Burien. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and have verified the contents are safe. Dear Council Members, Thank you in advance for passing an emergency policy to protect Burien renters who could face eviction if our landlords fail to work with them to access the $145 million that King County has in Covid‐19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program funding. I'm concerned that evictions have been impacting our communities of color more than any other group ‐ these communities are already suffering from job loss and their children are the hardest hit when families must move from the schools their children attend. Up till now 72% of evictions in Burien have been of community of color residents. The money is there to assist people ‐ landlords need incentive to access this money. The incentive will be the policies you create. Thank you again for your work to keep our families safe and housed, and our children having the best chance for a bright future. Sincerely, Irene Danysh 1 Heather Dumlao From: Lynne Cobb <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 5:46 PM To: Public - Council Inbox Subject: CTTC - DESC project CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the City of Burien. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and have verified the contents are safe. I heartily support the DESC project for supportive housing and urge you to vote yes next week. We can all talk and argue endlessly about the best way to prevent homelessness, but here is a way that we can make a difference right here in Burien, where we know there are folks losing their housing regularly. Please vote yes on the project. Lynne A. Cobb, CPA, CMA Treasurer, Mary's Place 456 SW 121st St, Seattle, WA 98146 Burien Resident 2 Heather Dumlao From: marian gillis <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 7:05 PM To: Public - Council Inbox Subject: CTTC - DESC CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the City of Burien. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and have verified the contents are safe. I wish to weigh in as a YES. This is an experienced developer who knows how to do this. We should grab this investment opportunity now, rather than have an amateur, next year! I am a homeowner, who can see their proposed site from my balcony. I look forward to enjoying the 152nd St Burien Business's this summer....before long the people on the street talking to themself will have somewhere to go, DESC will build a caring Home with Services. Please, vote Yes. Marian Gillis 15100 6th Ave SW Burien, WA 98166 ‐‐ "Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there". -The poet, Rumi "Those that wear the hoods; do not make the policies" -Raoul Peck, filmmaker 3 Heather Dumlao From: Mary Anne deVry <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:32 PM To: Public - Council Inbox Subject: CTTC - Urgent support for renter protections CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the City of Burien. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and have verified the contents are safe. Dear Burien City Councilmembers I’m writing to urge you to enact a local eviction moratorium and other protections to prevent a wave of evictions after June 30. There are many rental assistance programs available to landlords and renters, but it will take months for this money to be distributed, and your action is essential to keep people safe and housed in the meantime. So many renters in Burien and across King County are struggling with rental debt due to the COVID‐19 pandemic and need time to get back on their feet. Burien had an eviction crisis prior to the pandemic and Black renters, who make up 8% of Burien’s population but were represented in 39% of the eviction filings, have been disproportionately impacted. In general, the vast majority of Burien’s total eviction filings were against people of color (72%) and these are the same communities that have been impacted the most by the pandemic. I support the protections proposed by the Stay Housed Stay Healthy coalition and ask you to act with urgency in passing them. Sincerely, Mary Anne deVry 14234 6 Ave SW, Burien (206-790-3631) 4 Heather Dumlao From: Natalia Fialkoff <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:39 AM To: Public - Council Inbox Subject: CTTC - DESC CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the City of Burien. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and have verified the contents are safe. Please support DESC. As a business owner, I fully support this. Getting our citizens into permanent housing can only help the downtown core. Leaving them on the street creates a health hazard for us all. If we want to bring new growth to our cities and help our business thrive we must do our part to create a safe livable environment for all of our businesses. Natalia Fialkoff Puget Sound Tutoring Sent from my iPhone 5 Heather Dumlao From: David Gould <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:21 PM To: Public - Council Inbox Subject: CTTC - Proposed DESC Project in Burien CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the City of Burien. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and have verified the contents are safe. Hello, City Council. I am a home owner living in downtown Burien (Burien Town Square), within a few blocks of the proposed DESC location. While sympathetic to the issue, I don’t think downtown Burien is the place for this sort of facility given the fragility of our local business environment. There are already several vacancies and many small businesses are struggling to survive. Downtown Burien is a walkable neighborhood and when homeless or homeless‐like people are sleeping or hanging out on the sidewalks, people stop walking and stop going to restaurants, bars, bakeries, and parks. My condo complex and nearby apartment buildings have had several break‐ins over the last several months as well as other property damage. A 95‐unit DESC complex is not likely to be a community improvement project. Please locate it elsewhere in an environment that is a better and more suitable fit. Thanks for your consideration. ‐ Dave [email protected] http://www.seanet.com/~daveg @drdavidgould https://www.linkedin.com/in/david‐gould‐156a871/ 206.409.4021 The world is my campus: Digital, mobile, and agile. 6 Heather Dumlao From: Julie Codd <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:13 PM To: Public - Council Inbox Cc: [email protected] Subject: CTTC - DESC Permanent Supportive Housing Attachments: DESC Housing in Burien.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the City of Burien. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and have verified the contents are safe. 8 June 17, 2021 Dear Mayor Jimmy Matta, Deputy Mayor, Krystal Marx and City Council Members, I want to thank you, in advance for voting YES in your support of DESC Permanent Supportive Housing in Burien, Washington. Having lived in Burien for eleven years I've seen an increasing number of people who are living? (barely surviving) on the streets of Burien. Most of us pass them by as if they aren't there and they basically must feel invisible...not even human. Having worked with Chief Seattle Club for ten years I know how much people who are unhoused struggle without the basic needs we take for granted.