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-Welcome to City Inside/Out.
I’m your host Brian Callanan.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson
took office just over three months ago,
but she's launched several proposals
that could have impacts for years to come.
-I Katie Wilson, swear...
-Mayor Katie Wilson says she's making
progress on a campaign promise to add a thousand
homeless shelter spaces in her first year.
-We are moving faster than ever before.
-Her multimillion dollar plan to add tiny homes
and other shelter
options has raised plenty of support
and plenty of questions, too.
-What is included for that cost?
-Fire, fire. Fire dispatch.
-Plus, Mayor Wilson has paused the expansion
of surveillance cameras
in Seattle
amid concerns over
the federal immigration crackdown.
And she's wrestling
with a looming $140 million city deficit.
-So you can expect to hear a lot more
about budgets and revenue in the months ahead.
-And that's not all
Seattle's 58th mayor is trying
to tackle early in her first term.
-Didn't expect to be the sports mayor,
you know? -Yeah, I know!
Assessing Mayor Katie Wilson's first 100 days,
next on City Inside/Out.
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-Thanks once again for joining us here on City
Inside/Out on the Seattle Channel.
Brian Callanan here with you.
And I am with Seattle's 58th mayor Katie Wilson.
Mayor Wilson, great to have you here.
-Great to be here, Brian. -All right, here we go.
I wanted to talk about this. We’re
right at this mile stone
of your first 100 days in office here.
I know you set a lot of goals
during your campaign.
We'll get into those during the show here.
But just to start,
what have the last three plus months been like?
Are you where you wanted to be?
Any surprises at this point?
What do you got?
-Yeah, I mean, it's been a whirlwind.
And you know, mostly in a good way.
But yeah, I mean, we're hitting the ground
running on a lot of the big priorities
that I came in with,
notably shelter expansion,
which I'm sure that we'll talk about.
But yeah,
I mean, a lot of focus, too, has just really been
on building a stellar team that's going to lay
a great foundation for the next four years.
So that's, you know,
staffing in the mayor's office
and working with our department directors and
and I'm really excited.
I think, you know, the vibe is good.
Anything that surprises. -Suprises, yeah.
-I didn't expect to be the sports mayor.
-Yeah, I know.
Could.
Could you actually have a Super Bowl,
Mariners win the World Series,
and the Sonics come back during your.
-And we got the World Cup coming.
-Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, right.
-It's pretty exciting.
And I've actually had a lot of fun
going to some of the games.
I was actually at the
Mariners game earlier this week
where we beat the Yankees.
-Heck yeah.
-So I'm really having a lot of fun with that.
-Okay. All right. Thank you for that.
I do want to get into this
this issue of homelessness that you thought it...
that you brought up here.
You made a promise on the campaign trail
to establish a thousand new shelter units
in the first year of your term; 4000
over the four years of your term.
You've recently submitted some legislation
to the city council to go down this path.
I know you'd really like to stand up
500 units by June in time for the World Cup.
Tell us about that legislation.
Give us the big picture
about how you'd like it to work.
-Yeah.
So we are aiming for 500
units in the first half of this year
and the legislation
that we transmitted to
council is kind of part of the picture
of what we need for this to work.
Some of it is unlocking some funding,
some of it is increasing the size of
the, you know,
the number of tiny house houses
that can be in in a village, right,
in a way
that would allow us to take a few of the
successful sites
that already exist.. -And build on them.
-Yes, and then the other piece is really
it's a little bit
more technical,
but it's really
about allowing the city to kind of
sign the contracts and kind of centralize
the process of preparing sites
as opposed to kind of farming
that out to service providers.
-Yeah, so it can go a little more quickly
in making that happen to
the permit process can be cleared.
Is that what it is? -Yeah. -Okay.
I do want to talk about the way
this might be paid for
and some of the challenges with it.
You're pulling together $17.5 million
dollars in
funds from the city budget,
from different sources to pay for these 500 units.
Council staff had some issues with this,
and I wanted to read a few
blips from their report here.
One quote,
The report also said
Stated goal, I should say.
I just want to make sure I ask those big questions.
How many units
are you actually going
to have on line in two months
and how will you pay for those ongoing costs?
-Yeah, I mean, you know,
we've set a big, ambitious goal, you know,
500 a thousand this year, 4000 my first term.
Right.
And I think the point here is to really get
get us all moving in the same direction
with urgency and kind of recognizing
the scale of the challenge
that we are trying to address.
And also, just to be clear,
I mean, we're putting big numbers
out in terms of units,
but I really don't think that like
the number of shelter units
is the most important metric.
What I really want to do is dramatically decrease
unsheltered homelessness in our city,
because we know that the
the number of people
who are sleeping unsheltered on our streets
without a home and without even shelter
is astronomical. Thousands of people.
Our rates are much higher
than even our peers cities
across the country. -In terms of homelessness.
-Yeah, absolutely.
And so
we're really look at looking
at tackling that problem at scale
and and we're
doing the things we need to get there.
So like, will we meet our mark?
I hope so.
But I think we're moving in the right direction.
And, you know, we're going to be soon,
you know, discussing some specific sites
with the public and with the council.
And so I'm really hopeful
that we're headed in a good direction and,
you know, lots of great partners and
but we're also seeking
philanthropic support.
So some of this will
probably be privately funded.
I think the really important thing is that
we know that
we don't just need like a bed
or even just a tiny house, but a lot of folks
coming out of homelessness,
especially if they have complex
needs related to a substance
use disorder or mental illness,
need a lot of support.
And so we're being very intentional,
especially in these first sites
that we're standing up
to make sure that we have
those wraparound services on site
that we know that a lot of people
are going to need to be successful there.
So we're putting a lot of energy into that as well.
And we also know that,
you know, the one time kind of capital startup
costs is one thing, but it is very important
to have that ongoing funding for operations.
So as my team is really
looking to the city budget and preparing for this
fall's budget process, we're going to be working
very hard to make sure that we
that we have those ongoing
operating funds in the budget.
-Got it.
Now, in terms
of how the council's been wrestling with this,
I've been trying to track it
over the past couple of weeks.
I think there's definitely support going on there.
They want this to be successful too,
and to do that,
you really do need that buy in
from neighborhoods, etc.
It feels like a balance to me
between the speed that you'd like to go
and making sure people are vetting this.
Do you sense that balance there
or that struggle there I guess. -Absolutely.
And I think that's exactly it.
It's like we know that we need to move
with urgency and at scale.
And that's going to mean
like everyone pulling together. Right.
And and we also know that, you know, people
welcoming a shelter
or tiny house village in their neighborhood
also want to make sure that they know
that it's going to be well
run and that, you know, it's not going to have
big negative impacts on the neighborhood.
And so we're sensitive to that.
And, you know, making sure
to do the kind of outreach that we need to do.
And most importantly,
just having really good plans in place
both for those onsite
services and for public safety
and make sure that we're
prepared to really remain in constant communication
with residents, with businesses,
with others
in the neighborhoods so that
so that we can make sure that this is successful.
-Can you touch briefly on the role of the King
County Regional Homelessness
Authority might play here?
Because as I see it, some of the funding
might end up using for
this project is money that was originally
earmarked for the KCRHA?
Do I have that right?
-So the funding that we have now identified in
the city budget is not KCRHA funding,
that’s funding within Seattle's budget
and we're really at least for these initial sites
and we're kind of doing it in-house at the city.
And at the same time, I'm now a new board
member of the King County
Regional Homelessness Authority.
So obviously there's
a larger conversation
there around
the authority's
role and, you know, working...
-Should the city be doing this, should that KCRHA
be doing this? That's the question.
-And I think those conversations are ongoing.
Okay. All right. Thank you for that.
I know we'll
hear more about that in the months upcoming.
I want to move on to another big issue
in terms of an early part of your term,
surveillance cameras.
You held a town hall on this recently.
You can watch it right here
on the Seattle Channel if you'd like.
You've put a pause on the
expansion of this program,
an expansion the city
council approved last year.
But you're not going to shut down the 62 cameras
the city’s currently using.
I remember you telling me on the campaign trail
you had a lot of concerns
about how these cameras could be used
to potentially target immigrants
in our community or women looking for
reproductive health services.
Has your stance shifted on surveillance cameras?
How would you describe that?
So I still have all
of those concerns that I expressed
during the campaign around the ways
that our
surveillance could be misused if it
falls into the hands of the federal government.
And really, that's why we're doing this
pause on the expansion, pending an audit,
which will take a few months,
basically, of the city’s and data sharing storage
kind of security practices.
So we're really trying to do that due
diligence to figure out
like what are the vulnerabilities
in the system,
what are the risks that we're taking
and what can we do to mitigate those risks.
And actually, we are shutting one camera off.
So there's one particular camera
which is near a facility that offers
reproductive and gender affirming care.
And so we are,
you know, taking the precaution of shutting
that camera off, also pending this audit.
And to be clear, you know, SPD
and the Real-Time Crime Center,
they were actually masking that area.
But we just want to make absolutely sure
that we're not collecting
sensitive data that could be misused.
-Okay.
I know a lot of people
who supported
your campaign might be saying,
wait a minute,
I thought we were getting rid of these cameras.
What do you tell them?
-I mean, well, first,
to be clear, like I never said,
I'm going to shut off all that.
So I expressed concerns about the expansion.
And I think this is just
really a legitimately complicated issue
with really strong
feelings on both sides and real considerations
on both sides. Right.
And so, you know, these cameras,
from what I've seen and I think,
you know,
just to note the other thing
that's going on, because the cameras themselves
that are in place is a pilot, Right.
And the cameras are currently on North Aurora,
kind of downtown business district,
in the Chinatown International District.
They only started operating
basically in spring of last year.
So this is a fairly new program
and there's an evaluation going on this year,
which will give us a better idea
of how those cameras are being used
and what kind of, you know,
public benefit basically we are getting from them.
From what I have seen through my visit,
my staff visits to the real time crime
center and conversations with SPD,
they are legitimately useful in solving crimes.
Right.
Including serious crimes like homicides. Right.
And there's real value in that,
right, both for victims, victims families
and just the broader community. Right.
We live in a rule based society, right?
There's value in solving crimes.
And so I think that can't be discounted.
And and then on the other side,
there are legitimate concerns
about privacy and about, you know, data security and all that.
-I want to talk
about what's next with these cameras.
So you administration
is going through
an audit of this technology
with help from the New York
University's Policing Project,
an organization that helps with police
accountability and transparency.
Councilmember Bob Kettle
put out a statement about that, specifically
with expansion of cameras in the Stadium District.
He said, in part
I know that Councilmember
Kettle supports the audit.
He has said that,
but he's really pushing to get these stadium
cameras up and going and running by June 1st.
Is that going to happen?
So and to be clear, just for the for context,
so the expansion that the council approved
last year would place
cameras in three additional neighborhoods.
The Stadium District is one of those three.
The Central District near Garfield
was another of those.
And then the Capitol Hill nightlife district.
-Right. -So that's what we've put on pause.
We're making a partial exception
to that pause
in the sense
that we are going to move forward
with installing the 20 cameras
that were slated for the Stadium District
because of the World Cup coming,
but not turn them on
unless there is a credible threat.
So that is our position at the moment.
And we're working with SPD to figure out kind of
what is that threshold that a credible threat.
And so we are installing them
because there is
this big mega event with lots of,
you know, complexity to it.
And so we want to be prepared
to use those cameras if it feels warranted.
At the same time,
I would just caution against like
getting too hung up on this
because the fact is
there is going to be
a lot of like safety and security protocol
and actors kind of in the vicinity
for that event. -Okay.
-I mean, first of all, if you just think
about the stadium area,
there are tons of cameras around the stadium area
and there's this whole area
that's being basically pedestrianized
around Pioneer Square for the event. -Right.
-There's going to be, you know,
car proof barriers
and there's going to be lots of law enforcement,
both our own law enforcement,
other law enforcement coming
in, federal agents as well.
So, you know,
like we are not like there's no
there is no moment at which we felt like
we needed these cameras
for any kind of basic safety and security.
So, like,
I you know,
I just don't want to get too hung up
on, like,
the importance of these cameras
in the context of that event.
-Thank you for breaking that down.
One of the biggest concerns about cameras
is that federal
immigration officials could obtain that footage
from Seattle, as they have in other cities.
Use that video to target immigrants.
I know you're talking a lot about Trump proofing
Seattle on the campaign trail.
Has Seattle been successful
in Trump proofing itself?
I know the cameras are just part of that.
-Yeah, I mean, and to be clear,
SPD does not share footage
from the cameras with federal agencies.
Right.
And, you know,
some of just to address
some of the concern, for example around flock
ALPR cameras
that have been used in other cities
was that
there was like an automatic setting
on those cameras
where data was shared
automatically with other agencies,
including federal agencies.
That is not the case with this.
So here
we have... -ALPR, automated license plate readers.
Keep going. -It gets very complicated, but the
main point is that
there we are not sharing data
with federal authorities from these cameras and
we would know if a request came in
for that data and,
you know, if,
if and when there is some kind of
like really stepped up ICE activity
like, for example, we saw in Minneapolis,
we will shut those cameras down. Right.
So just to be clear, this is not data
sharing is not something that is happening.
-Okay. Thank you for that.
I want to talk city budget with you, if I could.
You've inherited a budget with a $140
million deficit, which I know you know very well.
You've asked city departments
to look at a 5 to 10% reduction
in their budgets as a start. Beyond that,
talk to me
about how you're approaching approaching
the budget season this year.
How do you get the city back in the black?
-Yeah, I mean,
this is a really challenging issue
and it's you know, the city has had
this structural budget
deficit for years now, right?
So this is not like a surprise.
This is not a new problem. -Right.
-And I mean, basically,
this is like the city facing
a lot of the same cost pressures
that individuals and families are, right.
Inflation, everything's getting more expensive
and and then some specific
city issues like the fact that our,
you know, property tax does not increase
with inflation.
It's actually capped at a 1% increase.
And so this creates a structural problem
in our general fund specifically.
And so the approach of the previous
administration was really kind of
duct tape like pledging things
together, one time fixes.
And so we're in a position
where we do have this ongoing;
we don't know exactly what the magnitude is,
but at least like $150 million a year deficit.
We don't want to make $150
million dollars a year in cuts
like that would be pretty devastating.
So we have US departments
to model five and 10% cuts,
but we are looking at
our options in terms of new revenue
to not have to make those cuts.
And I'm not going to give a lot of detail here
about what those options are,
because that's just something
that my team is working on internally.
But we definitely don't want to be having
to present an austerity budget to the council.
I will say that at the same time,
we are also taking a very close
look at all the ways that
the city is spending money.
And I do think that it's important to prioritize.
And if there are programs that aren't working
the way we want them to work,
I think we can't be afraid to shift
money to things that are working. -Thanks.
I wanted to go down that path of revenue
and where it's coming from,
because you mentioned recently
at the Downtown Seattle Association's
State of the City event
that it's not ideal
for Seattle's
tax environment to be wildly out of step
with neighboring jurisdictions.
The DSA brought this up.
Downtown Seattle has lost
37,000 jobs over the past five years.
Downtown Bellevue has had 12 12% job growth.
There's taxes on big businesses.
I know that's a big part of the reason
why the budget for the city of Seattle
actually stayed the way it does.
You know, the Jumpstart tax,
because you introduced it as a as just a member
of the public several years ago.
But I wanted to get to that question of
how can you convince businesses
not to move jobs elsewhere if this
concept of taxing big businesses, taxing
the rich is still
very much in front of them and on the table?
-I think there's a couple of things to say here.
So one is, as we're looking at progressive
revenue options, we're
definitely looking at ones where we are, you know,
asking the wealthiest individuals and
corporations to pay more.
But we want to do that in a way
that is not changing Seattle's
business environment for companies
that are operating here and creating a deeper
incentive to, for example, move to Bellevue.
So we're like sensitive to that as we're
looking at progressive revenue options,
I would say. Now,
I you know, I have never I'm not taking increases
in JumpStart off the table
because we're going to have to
make some hard decisions. So I think
that's a conversation that we'll have.
But I definitely would much prefer to be
looking at revenue options that are not
creating more of a differential
between our business environment and Bellevue.
But the other thing that I'll say
is that like,
yeah, businesses
care about taxes, of course,
but they care about a lot of other things too.
And I think when you talk to business
owners about what makes Seattle
a good environment
to operate on versus other cities,
there are other things that matter a lot.
And I would say that homelessness
and public safety matter a lot.
It matters to the companies, it matters
to their workforce, of course. Right.
And so that's one area where I think there's
really strong alignment between my administration
and the business community and frankly,
just the general public of wanting to see progress.
And so we're really leaning into that
and really partnering
with the business community
on making progress
on the homelessness crisis
and on really figuring out
how can we address
some of these public safety issues
that are impacting downtown,
but also other neighborhoods
in a way that makes it a hard place to do business?
So I think that's an area where we can make
a lot of progress.
And then, you know, Seattle's got a lot
going for us, too.
I mean, we're like,
it was just like beautiful,
you know,
natural beauty, just like
lots of great arts and culture, right?
So there's a lot of reasons why
companies would want to operate here.
And I think if we can make some improvements
on some of those key areas, then, you know, so
I could get in.
Taxes are important,
but they're not the only thing. -I guess the
the overall question I'm trying to get to is
do you think Seattle
has become unfriendly to business in some way?
-No. -Okay. All right.
That's what you're hearing from businesses or
what are you hearing from businesses
you're talking to? -I mean, again,
I think I'm hearing and I'm hearing that they
they care a lot about making progress
on the homelessness crisis and on public safety.
And I think,
you know, I mean, different
businesses are different. Right?
But I think that
there's a lot
of businesses, large and small,
that are really deeply
invested in this city and in this community
that want the city to be successful,
that love being here.
And and I think that they want
a lot of what all of us want is just for Seattle
to be a great place
to live, work and raise a family. -Got it.
There's another budget issue
I really wanted to talk to you about Seattle's
C.A.R.E. teams, Community Assisted
Response and Engagement.
These are the civilian 911
alternative response teams
that can respond
to person down calls, calls
that don't necessarily
need an armed police officer.
So recently, CARE Chief
Amy Barden said that the contract
the city negotiated before you were in office
with the Seattle Police Officer's
Guild has prevented CARE teams essentially
from doing their job, she said.
The 24 responders
who are out there right now are only fulfilling
28% of their capacity.
She doesn't want to waste their expertise,
doesn't want to waste money here.
I know you've been a big supporter
of 911 alternatives.
How do you resolve the situation with CARE?
Does the SPOG contract need to be renegotiated?
What's going on?
-Yeah, I mean, obviously the contracts not ideal,
but I really think
and you know, in conversations
where the Chief Bardin and Chief Barnes,
I think we're making a lot of progress.
Basically we can, you know,
respecting the contract.
I think we can really still
use CARE to its fullest.
So we're working on creative ways to do that.
And part of that is that, you know,
the contract is really focused
on what happens with 911 calls.
But if there are other routes
where it could be proactive potentially.
Exactly right.
You know, we're looking at,
you know,
a partnership
with the libraries and just,
you know, ways that I mean, there's
no shortage of work out there, right?
There's no shortage, unfortunately.
There's no shortage of crises on our streets.
Right.
And so it's really just being creative
about how we utilize these,
like skilled workers to go out there
and provide that care
and get people into stable situations.
And so I'm confident that we can do that.
And it's unfortunate
that we have
the restrictions that we have
in that contract, and we will be working on
that as we go toward the next cycle of negotiations
with SPOG.
But but in the meantime,
I don't think that we're going to have a problem
utilizing that team. -Okay. Thank you.
I wanted to mention
something back in February,
the city council
approved the transfer of
$115 million towards a social housing program.
I wanted to talk about this
because this was a very important
part of your campaign,
your support of that
new funding mechanism for it was a big reason
why you got into this race for mayor.
What impact
is this investment going to have
when it comes to affordable housing?
And when might Seattle see
some of these units come online?
-Yeah, I'm very excited about this.
I mean, I think there was a lot
of excitement when we saw that the
the revenue coming in from from this new tax
was significantly higher than anyone projected.
And so that means that the new social
housing developer,
you know,
has the money that it
needs to begin acquiring and developing property.
And I don't want to I know they're there
working on a lot of things behind the scenes.
So I don't want to like
make some kind of public announcement,
but I think we're very optimistic that they're
they'll be able to make
their first really significant
property acquisition this year.
So that will see units beginning to open up.
And, you know, my understanding
of their strategy
is that they're both looking at
an acquisition strategy
where they would buy existing buildings
and turn that into social housing.
And also they're looking
at development and developments
specifically of family sized units.
And we know that that is just a huge
kind of gap in our housing or
-There’s a lack of those for sure...
-That there's a huge lack of a family-size units of,
you know, two, three, four bedroom apartments.
And so I think they're really well
positioned to begin
to begin to fill that gap in a way
that is is affordable for families.
And I think
just to just go back to
when you were asking me
about what businesses care about,
I think it's also really important
to realize
that the affordability crisis
that workers are facing is an issue
for their employers, right?
Like as an employer, how are you going to,
you know, recruit
and retain a great workforce
if the people working for
you can't afford to live in this city?
So I think it's really important
to emphasize that kind of area of common ground.
And because I think there's a lot
on both the housing crisis that, you know,
child care, like all these aspects
of the affordability crisis,
I think that's also
kind of concerns that are broadly shared,
including with the business community.
And so I'm really hopeful
that, you know,
even if there were some differences of opinion
about how to fund the social housing developer,
hopefully we'll be able to have
a partnership in really building out
this non-market housing sector.
-This feels like just one piece
of the much larger
affordability issue that I know
I was talking to you about this
on the campaign trail, too.
Do you feel like
you've delivered on
some of the things you wanted to come,
wanted to do there
when you were
campaigning in terms of bringing more
affordability to Seattle? What can you say?
-So we're you know, we're 100 days in.
So give me a little time. -Alright...
Right, right, right, right.
-But yeah, I mean, we are we are working on
a number of strategies around the housing crisis.
And part of
that is obviously social housing and the city
really working
closely with the social housing developers
so that we're beginning to expand that,
you know,
permanently affordable, publicly owned mixed
income housing that we all want to see.
But there's other things, too, right?
And part of this is also recognizing
that a lot of that
that part of the housing crisis that we now face
comes from the fact that as Seattle's
been growing over the last ten or 20 years,
we really haven't added housing supply to match.
And that partly has to do with our land
use and zoning rules and how hard we make it
to permit new development and all of that.
So that's another whole area that we're tackling.
And I actually just made
an announcement earlier this week
that we're going to be accelerating
the next couple of phases of Seattle's
Comprehensive Plan
and aiming to go bigger on things like allowing,
you know, multistory building,
you know,
within a walking distance of frequent
transit corridors and things like that.
And so
that's another piece
of this and continuing and stepping up the work
internally on our permitting
processes to try to make sure that
it doesn't take, you know, two years
to begin to develop something.
So there's a lot there as well.
Renter protections is another aspect of this.
And we did
put out a survey to renters,
which we have like 9000 respondents,
which is like really cool,
but that's informing legislation
that we're now developing around
regulating or banning various
rental quote unquote junk fees
or these kind of fees that you're hit with
as a renter that you don't really know
until you read the fine print of your lease,
and some of which is really not clear
that you're getting anything for that.
So there's a lot of
kind of dimensions on which we're tackling
the housing crisis.
-Need to do the 30-second version with you,
if I can.
What's the latest on the Sonics
returning to Seattle? Everyone wants to know.
-I don't want to jinx anything,
but I think it's looking good.
-Okay. Okay. That's a good sign.
-I mean, I think, you know, people probably know.
So the
where we're at in
the stage right now
is that
the NBA has announced
that they would like to expand into into Seattle.
And so right now, what's happening
is basically the question is,
can an ownership group come together
and, you know, cobble together the
who knows
how many billion dollars
is going to be required to fund the team?
-I guess I would say if your term
this first year encompasses
a Seahawks Super Bowl win,
the World Cup, Mariners winning a World Series
and the Sonics returning to Seattle,
do you just automatically get mayor of the year?
How does that work?
-I think I've become mayor for life at that point. -Okay,
We'll see how that goes.
-Let me try for one more question here.
I wanted to ask
about something
that you were talking about
during your State of the City,
perhaps setting up an intra
governmental soccer game before the World Cup.
What's going on?
-Yeah, no, I am going to be inviting
elected officials
around our region to come play soccer.
And we'll see how many people are interested.
Right. Maybe it's one game.
Maybe it's a little tournament.
But I just really think that a lot of people,
maybe people who can't afford a World Cup ticket
would like to come and watch for free
their elected officials
embarrass themselves on the soccer field.
-I got to say, I did ask Councilmember
Hollingsworth and Foster
when they were on the show recently
if they were up for playing the game.
They said no dice.
I mean... -What?! -I know
is this a situation
where maybe
hire on Megan Rapinoe as an
advisor for a few days or what's the plan?
-I mean, I want to be clear that
this is going to be fun.
Okay. So like, you're not expected to be good.
And I think it'll
be more fun if we're not that good.
So I, you know, open invitation.
All the elected officials,
I'm sure, as we're watching this.
Yeah. Come on, Come play ball. It's gonna be fun.
-I can't wait for that. And we will be right back.
What are people saying
online about Mayor Wilson's
policies at the 100 day mark?
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Mayor Wilson, Thank you.
-Thank you, Brian. -All right.
And we will see you next time on City Inside/Out.
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