Debora Juarez

The 130th Street Station is a great example of this.

And in this case, we're talking about current council member and also former council member, Deborah Juarez, who represents District 5 where this lands.

So in 2016, she was on the Sound Transit Board and was saying, hey, look, we were once upon a time promised this 130th Street Station.

I want to do everything in my power to guarantee that you put it there to the point where I have a press release drafted.

You know, this was supposed to be opened in 2031.

So there is a little silver lining that it is way earlier than expected.

And I was reading the account from Renee Statton, who is a neighborhood organizer who helped get this on the agenda of Deborah Juarez and other leaders, you know, back 10 years ago or so when they were saying, You know, the plan for SD3 was to say that the Pinehurst station was like a possibility, maybe somewhere in the future.

And these neighbors were like, no, we want it to be for sure funded in this package.

I came here after watching part of a meeting this morning, which was kind of the first look at the police budget.

And they were Bob Kettle, Rob Saka, Maritza Rivera, Deborah Juarez, who is not up for reelection and was not elected.

She was appointed after serving as an elected council member.

They were all fulminating about how horrible it is that this budget only funds 1,250 officers, which is kind of a moving target.

She has since introduced her own proposed gun violence prevention plan that leans more heavily on police alternatives and outreach workers.

We've heard some criticism from your colleagues on the council, particularly Deborah Juarez and Maritza Rivera, to the mayor's gun violence plan.

What was your reaction when you saw that plan?

Council, we've been dedicated to gun violence.

But the thing is, we cannot do public safety without partnering with law enforcement.

So council members Rivera and Deborah Juarez criticized the mayor's plan as essentially nothing

new.

And this resolution is only a non-binding signal of the council's future intentions.

The council passed a non-binding resolution, which recommends hiring a New York-based center that's helped other cities reduce gun violence.

At the vote, council member Deborah Juarez claimed Wilson's approach is not forward-looking.

Can I just be frank here? Expand bike patrols.

So on a Saturday night on Aurora... or Little Saigon, or Belltown, or when there's car racing, Saturday night at midnight, we're going to have extra people on bikes out there, and that's going to

The, there were a couple of things.

First is a lot of people wanted them named the totems and Seattle city council member, Deborah Juarez.

She was, she's a member of the Blackfeet nation and she's the first native American elected to the council.

And she's like totem poles are not indigenous to the local Duwamish and Squamish people.