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And they wonder why there is not enough housing being built?

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Seattle council keeps renterrCOs commission without landlords
July 29, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Seattle City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck, shown speaking at her swearing in, was angry at some council colleagues last week after they
missed a committee meeting vote. (Ivy Ceballo / The Seattle Times)

By David Kroman
Seattle Times staff reporter
The Seattle City Council confirmed 14 members of the cityrCOs renterrCOs commission Tuesday, days after a dustup last week.

The appointment of volunteers to serve on any of the cityrCOs many
advisory commissions is generally pro forma and done with little fanfare
or notice. But controversy over the renterrCOs commission appointments
gave a peek into larger and more thorny debates in City Hall over the
cityrCOs landlord-tenant rules and whose voices are valued within halls of power.

The commission, established in 2017, has operated with just five members
for the last year and a half rCo a third of the 15 itrCOs supposed to have.
In the councilrCOs housing committee last week, council members were
scheduled to remedy that by voting on 14 nominations.

But two of the committeerCOs members, Council President Sara Nelson and Councilmember Rob Saka did not show up, meaning there was no quorum and councilmembers Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Mark Solomon could not vote.

Nelson said sherCOd requested an excused absence the day before. Saka, who
was in the building during the meeting, said he had a personal conflict.

Rinck, though, doubted the explanation, believing it was part of a
larger desire to reshape the makeup of the commission to include
landlords. Former Councilmember Cathy Moore, who recently resigned, had
been working on such an idea and emailed Saka, Nelson and Solomon late
the night before the scheduled meeting suggesting they delay the
appointments.

Nelson said she never saw the email and Moore said she never heard back
from the three. But Rinck, the only renter on the city council, still
viewed the lack of quorum as intentional.

rCLItrCOs hard for me to read this as anything other than intentional suppression of representation, key representation,rCY she said last week.

Both she and Solomon apologized to the nominees whorCOd shown up to City
Hall for wasting their time.

In the aftermath of the committee meeting, Nelson announced the council
would instead take up the nominations in the councilrCOs weekly meeting
with all members, where legislation gets final approval.

David Kroman: 206-464-3196 or dkroman@seattletimes.com. Seattle Times
staff reporter David Kroman covers Seattle City Hall.
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