The Seattle City Council’s transportation committee is hearing a presentation Tuesday morning on the Council District Fund, an apportionment that could provide each area of the city a small pool of funding for street and sidewalk projects.
There is $7 million — $1 million for each of Seattle’s Council Districts including District 3 covering Capitol Hill and the Central Area — in the pot for both 2025 and 2026.
According to the presentation (PDF), the money is intended to fund “neighborhood-scale traffic safety improvements and other district priorities at the direction of the City Council.”
“Any unspent funding automatically carries forward to future years,” the presentation notes.
The program also has an uncertain future with “no secured funding identified for 2027 or beyond.”
Before the program can kick into motion, the council will need to establish “operational procedures” for how projects will be selected and evaluated for feasibility.
With $1 million on the line, council members have some incentive to sort out the procedures but it seems unlikely the process will be a blank check for each district.
In the meantime, projects like the finally about to be installed crossing at Harvard and E Olive Way wait.
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