(The Center Square) - Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was handed a major defeat Wednesday when a City Council Committee delayed her plan to provide universal taxpayer-funded school breakfast and lunch for public school students. “I am proud that the amendment passed by Council commits the City to universal school meals in 2027." Wilson’s taxpayer-funded school meals proposal is part of the larger $1.3 billion Families, Education, Preschool and Promise Levy approved by the voters last November, before Wilson was elected mayor. “Our proposal simply postpones the tentative universal meal launch to the 2027–28 school year, which is still one year ahead of the state’s universal meals program.” He said the only equitable solution is to provide taxpayer-funded meals to all students.