Cathy Moore

District 5

Cathy Moore

Former councilmember · 2024–2025

Status
Former councilmember
Representation
District 5

Overview and record

Activity at a glance

2015–2026 official records

Cathy Moore received credit for 20 passed matters in 2015–2026, earning 39.2 points—within the available comparison group. The largest single contribution is CB 120943 (2025), worth 6.0 points: Expands and extends property-tax exemptions for converting commercial buildings into housing. The credited record is concentrated in Housing & Homelessness, especially taxes, revenue & debt.

2015–2026 LegisRate points

39.2

Within the available comparison group

0 credited measures originated in an executive department.

How scoring works

Outcome, voting, and attendance describe the record; they do not add to or subtract from the LegisRate score.

Sponsored outcomes 20 passed

87.0% passage rate

Final voting choices 183 in favor

7 opposed · 0 abstained

Full Council attendance 85.5% present or late

65 of 76 records

Sponsorship record7 prime · 3 co-sponsor · 10 unranked · 19 early-recorded

Record details Outcome, voting, attendance, and sponsorship context
Sponsored outcomes3 unsuccessful · 1 pendingPending measures are not included in the passage rate.
Final voting choices190 recorded decisions3.7% opposed · 0.0% abstained · 3 not voting
Votes on contested matters21 recorded choices14 supported · 7 opposed
Attendance detail63 present · 2 late11 excused · 0 unexcused. Excused absences remain visible and are not treated as unexcused.
Sponsorship timing19 early · 1 after committee · 0 after passageFirst appearance in the official sponsor record.
Council-wide voting context93.4% without recorded opposition or abstention2904 of 3109 eligible final tallies; 205 contested.

Only the latest recorded legislative vote per matter is used; a missing structured tally is not counted as an absence.

What the work concerns

Policy-area mix

Share of scored work

Cathy Moore's policy-area mix Hover or focus a policy-area slice for its point total and share of scored work. 39.2 points

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Housing & Homelessness

30.7 points · 78.3%

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By year

Annual work

YearPointsPassedPass rateOriginalCo-sponsoredOpposedAbstainedAttendance
202519.713100.012116.10.089.7
202419.5777.8722.80.083.0
Career total39.22087.019133.70.085.5

Rates are shown only when the relevant official record exists. Vote and attendance measures describe participation; they do not affect points.

Council roles

Committees & positions

Point-by-point audit

Contributing bills

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Expands and extends property-tax exemptions for converting commercial buildings into housing.CB 120943 · Ordinance (Ord) · 2025 · Housing & HomelessnessTaxes, Revenue & Debt +6.0 pts

Official titleAN ORDINANCE relating to the Multifamily Housing Property Tax Exemption Program; allowing partial property tax exemptions for commercial to multifamily housing conversion projects; allowing the property tax exemption period to be extended to 24 years for properties with Multifamily Housing Property Tax Exemption expiring end of 2025; changing the MFTE Program’s sunset date to September 10, 2025; and amending Sections 5.73.010, 5.73.020, 5.73.040, 5.73.050, 5.73.070, 5.73.090, and 5.73.120 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

Taxes, Revenue & Debt

Reach 1: the action serves a defined program, department, or user group rather than every resident directly. Fiscal 2: the largest detected official amount is about $330,300,000. Durability 1: the action changes an ordinary policy, code provision, plan, or limited-duration program. Institutional scope 1: one department or city system is principally responsible for implementation.

Factors [1, 2, 1, 1]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(5 factors + 1 sponsor) × 100%Original sponsor · primary share8 in favor · 0 opposedhousing-funded tax or conversion actionSigned ordinance 127187
Extends Multifamily Housing Property Tax Exemptions scheduled to expire in 2024.CB 120772 · Ordinance (Ord) · 2024 · Housing & HomelessnessTaxes, Revenue & Debt +6.0 pts

Official titleAN ORDINANCE relating to the Multifamily Housing Property Tax Exemption Program; amending Section 5.73.090 and Section 5.73.120 of the Seattle Municipal Code to allow extension of tax exemptions scheduled to expire on December 31, 2024.

Taxes, Revenue & Debt

Reach 1: the action serves a defined program, department, or user group rather than every resident directly. Fiscal 2: the largest detected official amount is about $439,500,000. Durability 1: the action changes an ordinary policy, code provision, plan, or limited-duration program. Institutional scope 1: one department or city system is principally responsible for implementation.

Factors [1, 2, 1, 1]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(5 factors + 1 sponsor) × 100%Original sponsor · primary share9 in favor · 0 opposedaffected service or requested subjectSigned ordinance 127016
Extends the Multifamily Housing Property Tax Exemption program through March 2025.CB 120817 · Ordinance (Ord) · 2024 · Housing & HomelessnessTaxes, Revenue & Debt +4.0 pts

Official titleAN ORDINANCE relating to the Multifamily Housing Property Tax Exemption Program; amending Section 5.73.120 of the Seattle Municipal Code to extend the program’s sunset date to March 31, 2025.

Taxes, Revenue & Debt

Reach 1: the action serves a defined program, department, or user group rather than every resident directly. Fiscal 0: no appropriation, revenue change, or specific expenditure is identified. Durability 1: the action changes an ordinary policy, code provision, plan, or limited-duration program. Institutional scope 1: one department or city system is principally responsible for implementation.

Factors [1, 0, 1, 1]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(3 factors + 1 sponsor) × 100%Original sponsor · primary share9 in favor · 0 opposedaffected service or requested subjectSigned ordinance 127084
Requests a joint report on using rental registration for proactive eviction prevention.SLI SDCI-003S-A · Statement of Legislative Intent · 2025 · Housing & HomelessnessTenant Protections +3.0 pts

Official titleRequest that SDCI, in consultation with HSD, report on utilization of RRIO for proactive eviction prevention

Tenant Protections

Reach 0: the adopted action is an internal report, study, analysis, or plan request. Fiscal 0: the SLI does not itself appropriate or authorize the background program amounts it discusses. Durability 0: the request calls for a one-time report, study, analysis, or plan. Institutional scope 2: the requested work explicitly requires cross-department coordination.

Factors [0, 0, 0, 2]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(2 factors + 1 sponsor) × 100%Original sponsor · unranked shareaffected service or requested subjectAdopted SLI page 26
Prohibits landlords from using shared algorithms to set residential rents in Seattle.CB 121000 · Ordinance (Ord) · 2025 · Housing & Homelessness +3.0 pts

Official titleAN ORDINANCE relating to prohibiting algorithmic rent fixing; and adding a new Chapter 7.34 to the Seattle Municipal Code.

Reach 1: the action serves a defined program, department, or user group rather than every resident directly. Fiscal 0: no appropriation, revenue change, or specific expenditure is identified. Durability 2: the measure creates a lasting regulatory, charter, or voter-approved structure. Institutional scope 1: one department or city system is principally responsible for implementation.

Factors [1, 0, 2, 1]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(4 factors + 1 sponsor) × 60%Original sponsor · primary share7 in favor · 0 opposedaffected service or requested subjectSigned ordinance 127241
Adopts 2024–2026 Seattle Housing Levy plans, funding policies, and administrative authority.CB 120804 · Ordinance (Ord) · 2024 · Housing & HomelessnessAffordable Housing +3.0 pts

Official titleAN ORDINANCE relating to housing for low-income households; adopting the 2023 Seattle Housing Levy Administrative and Financial Plan for program years 2024-2026; adopting Housing Funding Policies for the 2023 Seattle Housing Levy and other fund sources; authorizing actions by the Director of Housing regarding past and future housing loans and contracts; creating two funds for Housing Levy revenues; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

Affordable Housing

Reach 1: the direct beneficiaries are a defined population, place, or multi-neighborhood area. Fiscal 0: no appropriation, revenue change, or specific expenditure is identified. Durability 0: the action is transactional, technical, advisory, or one-time. Institutional scope 1: one department or city system is principally responsible for implementation.

Factors [1, 0, 0, 1]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(2 factors + 1 sponsor) × 100%Original sponsor · primary share8 in favor · 0 opposedaffected service or requested subjectSigned ordinance 127051
Amends the City–County agreement establishing the King County Regional Homelessness Authority.CB 120858 · Ordinance (Ord) · 2024 · Housing & HomelessnessHomelessness ServicesProcurement & Contracts +3.0 pts

Official titleAN ORDINANCE relating to homelessness; authorizing the Mayor or the Mayor’s designee to execute an amendment of the interlocal agreement between The City of Seattle and King County establishing the King County Regional Homelessness Authority.

Homelessness ServicesProcurement & Contracts

Reach 1: the action serves a defined program, department, or user group rather than every resident directly. Fiscal 0: no appropriation, revenue change, or specific expenditure is identified. Durability 0: the action is transactional, technical, advisory, or one-time. Institutional scope 1: one department or city system is principally responsible for implementation.

Factors [1, 0, 0, 1]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(2 factors + 1 sponsor) × 100%Original sponsor · primary share9 in favor · 0 opposedaffected service or requested subjectSigned ordinance 127105
Creates prostitution-loitering crimes, exclusion zones, arrest policies, and violation penalties.CB 120836 · Ordinance (Ord) · 2024 · Public Safety & JusticeCourts & Legal Enforcement +2.4 pts

Official titleAN ORDINANCE relating to prostitution; creating the crimes of prostitution loitering and promoting loitering for the purpose of prostitution; establishing policies governing arrests for prostitution and prostitution loitering; creating Stay Out of Area of Prostitution (SOAP) zones and providing for both the issuance of court orders relating to those zones and administration of those zones; creating the gross misdemeanor of violating a SOAP order; and adding new Sections 12A.10.010, 12A.10.030, and 12A.10.040 and a new Chapter 12A.11 to the Seattle Municipal Code.

Courts & Legal Enforcement

Reach 1: the action serves a defined program, department, or user group rather than every resident directly. Fiscal 0: no appropriation, revenue change, or specific expenditure is identified. Durability 1: the action changes an ordinary policy, code provision, plan, or limited-duration program. Institutional scope 1: one department or city system is principally responsible for implementation.

Factors [1, 0, 1, 1]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(3 factors + 1 sponsor) × 60%Original sponsor · primary share8 in favor · 1 opposedaffected service identified in operative titleSigned ordinance 127086
Requests a plan supporting small businesses through the Equitable Development Initiative.SLI OPCD-005S-A · Statement of Legislative Intent · 2025 · Land Use & DevelopmentPermitting & DevelopmentSmall BusinessEconomic Development +1.0 pt

Official titleRequest that OPCD develop a plan to support small business economic development through the Equitable Development Initiative

Permitting & DevelopmentSmall BusinessEconomic Development

Reach 0: the adopted action is an internal report, study, analysis, or plan request. Fiscal 0: the SLI does not itself appropriate or authorize the background program amounts it discusses. Durability 0: the request calls for a one-time report, study, analysis, or plan. Institutional scope 1: one department or city office is principally responsible for the requested work.

Factors [0, 0, 0, 1]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(1 factors + 1 sponsor) × 50%Original sponsor · unranked shareaffected service or requested subjectAdopted SLI page 28
Requests quarterly vacancy reports for City-funded rental housing projects.SLI OH-005S-A · Statement of Legislative Intent · 2025 · Housing & Homelessness +1.0 pts

Official titleRequest OH to provide quarterly vacancy data reports on city-funded rental housing projects

Reach 0: the adopted action is an internal report, study, analysis, or plan request. Fiscal 0: the SLI does not itself appropriate or authorize the background program amounts it discusses. Durability 1: the request creates a recurring reporting requirement. Institutional scope 1: one department or city office is principally responsible for the requested work.

Factors [0, 0, 1, 1]reach · fiscal · durability · institutional

(2 factors + 1 sponsor) × 33%Original sponsor · unranked shareaffected service or requested subjectAdopted SLI page 25