Input: I would call the order the committee, the King County Council's committee to hold for November 17, 2021. And as we start today, I'd like to acknowledge the traditional lands, the Puget Salish peoples, past and present. We thank these partakers of the land who have lived here and continue to live there since time immemorial. I'd also like to acknowledge the many urban Indians in the county who have brought their cultural ways of life here and greatly enrich our community. As we are well aware now, due to the public health emergency, Governor Inslee has issued an emergency order suspending the section of the Open Public Buildings Act, requiring that we have a physical space for the public to watch our meetings. We'll be conducting today's meeting via Zoom. As has been our habit through the pandemic and too has to be noted will get started. Help us manage the meeting. Ask allows the public as well as executive and council staff keep your video off until just before you plan to speak. Additionally, if you're collecting via a cell phone and you wish to provide public comment, please connect the meeting through the Zoom application, which will eliminate possible delays and issues in a meeting. So if you're at all able to connect to the zoom out, if you wish to give the testimony not simply by telephone without asking, please call the room. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember, founder. Here. Councilmember Dombrowski. Here. Councilmember Dunn. Council member Cornwall Council member Lambert. Yeah. Council member up to grow here. Councilmember one right there. Councilmember Sala. You're. Mr. Chair. You're Mr. Chair. You have a quorum. Great. Councilmember Cowell's going to ask you permission to record the minutes of the member third meeting. A move, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Minutes of a previous meeting before a sumo discussion. All those in favor please signify by saying I. But I opposed nay. The ayes have it, the minutes are approved. And that takes us to public comment. Do you see anyone in the call for public comment? No, I do not, Mr. Chair. Neither do I. Taking a quick look. If we are making a mistake and a new one is here for public comment. Would you please turn your video on? Raise your hand. In some way get our attention. Seeing no one. If we ran the mistake and someone was here for public comment, please email me at Joe Dot McDermott about King County dot gov and we will take a public comment later in the meeting. And if you've missed, you know that Joan Dot McDermott, Art Carney, dot gov. And that takes us to our first item on today's agenda, which is the proposed health through housing implementation plan. We had an initial briefing on this item at our last meeting. The ordinance was duly referred to the Regional Policy Committee and the Committee as a whole. It was amended and passed by the Regional Policy Committee last week. It was Sanders supporter and Cherie Sue from council staff were here to provide the staff report. And Ms.. Sanders, are you leading off today? Yes, I am. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. April Sanders, council policy staff. As you said, I'm joined today by my colleagues Sam Porter and Sherri Sue. The materials for item five began on page eight of your packet. Proposed ordinance 2020 10330 would adopt the initial Health three housing implementation plan to govern the expenditure of health through housing sales and use tax proceeds. We last briefed this in CAO on November 2nd, so I won't go through the entire staff report or rather review what action took place in our PC last week. This item received a mandatory dual referral and was amended and passed by the Regional Policy Committee. Last Wednesday. The APC passed a series of amendments which are summarized on page 26 of your packet. The RPC passed or sorry, Amendment one amended any reporting requirements in the ordinance language. In the underlying ordinance, the committee is required to annually send a letter to the Executive and the Clerk of the Council to notify them that the committee's annual reporting through website update is available for review. The amendment required the annual report to be transmitted by the Executive on behalf of the Advisory Committee, as well as a motion acknowledging receipt of the report, the clerk would be required to provide an electronic copy to all council members as well as members and alternates of the RPC. Amendment to replace Attachment eight with the revised Attachment eight that made various technical corrections and clarifications in the initial implementation plan. The remaining amendments amended that revised Attachment Day Amendment three required notification to the Regional Policy Committee members and alternates for any substantive budget changes. Note that in the proposed implementation plan, substantive budget changes are defined as a change or series of changes within the same calendar year. The change a health or housing strategies annual allocation by more than the greater of 5% or $150,000. Amendment four removes the preference for advisory committee members to be from cities that did not separately impose the sales tax. Amendment five prohibited more than one fourth of the advisory committee from being from a single jurisdiction. And lastly, Amendment six made a series of changes on annual reporting requirements. The amendment removed the line stating that the Healthy Housing Dashboard update would be used to satisfy annual reporting requirements, and it added information that would be included in that dashboard. It stated that the annual report is to be transmitted by the Executive on behalf of the Advisory Committee and that the Clerk would provide an electronic copy to all councilmembers and members and alternates of our P.S.. The annual report would be accompanied by a motion acknowledging receipt of support a report similar to the language that was amended in Amendment one. In the ordinance itself, this amends the implementation plan, and it said that passage of that motion acknowledging receipt of the report would satisfy the reporting requirement. Lastly, it added the IRP to the list of committees that DC Jess would be prepared to present the annual report to upon invitation. That brings me to the end of amendments. It was passed again out of our PC last Wednesday, so we have a substitute version in front of you today. Mark Ellenbrook, Mario Williams Suite and Kelly Rider are on the line from DC. As for any executive questions. Your colleagues questions. What's. Your mother would entertain emotion. The structures discussed one to Moscow move adoption of the legislation with the do pass recommendation. Thank you. Councilmember Dombrowski was moved to give a to pass recommendation to ordinance 2021 2030. Would miss Sanders is just breathless and we have executive staff. If there are questions but this is the implementation plan for health through housing and as with Sanders just reported has been through the regional policy three with amendments there and provides the structure and the framework for continuing the health through housing program in the coming years. That is, speaking for myself. I'm beginning to have great success in providing housing and support to people that have experienced chronic homelessness. And this intervention is proving very successful and I'm glad to have it before us. Similar further comments. I would ask the court to please call the rule. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm sorry. One moment. Total number of. How did you were you trying. You really wanted to vote or to make your comment about. Right. Thank you, madam. Please proceed. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Council member. Baluchi I Council member. Council member. John. Council member, Caldwell's High Council member Lambert High Council member of the press. I think that's number one right there. Council members only. I. Mr. Chair. Hi. Mr. Chair. The vote is 7i0 nos. Council members done in one hour. Excused. Thank you. By your vote, we are given a do pass recommendation to substitute motion 2021 330 and we will forward that to full council on regular schedule. And let's not put that. I was able to speak to that for a moment. And that takes us to our legislative agenda for 2020. I understand this item is not ready to move out of committee yet today, but we'll have an initial briefing and be able to sit here and review the draft that has been put together based on individual conversations with council members. And I'll turn it over to you, I believe, leading off with Matt Nicholson. Mr. Nicholson, good morning. Thank you, Councilmember. Good morning. Nice to see you all this morning. I do have Dave Foster as well, joining us to answer the hard. Questions on. The legislative agenda. There's a staff report that I believe starts on page 168 of your materials. It really just sets out that this is the motion that will adopt the state legislative agenda. The agenda is usually attached as an attachment to that motion, so you will not see it. That addresses the agenda with that. But it was sent out shortly after this package went out yesterday. So you can see the draft. There's not much new that has changed from what was discussed at the pre council work session last week. There were some language requirements on the piece around that, requesting that the governor rescind the executive order relating to minority women owned business opportunities. That's spelled out a little more closely. It tracks what was in the motion that was passed. And then we formatted it in a in a similar manner to the 2000 and the 2021 legislative agenda, which you will also see. We try to sort of match formats for the biennium so that it's sort of like I said, it's a two year process. The executive side sent over some feedback last night. We didn't have time to incorporate it before this morning's hearing. So we will do that and then provide some additional updates and some good feedback. We'll have some more processes to iron out and get a draft that's closer to adoption. With that, I'm happy to go through it some more, if you'd like. You have the draft in front of you now and we're happy to get input from your words and our reads that captures what you are looking for from us. Thank you. Members have the draft legislative priorities. In emails sent to Josephine yesterday afternoon. Mr. Nicholas and I would suggest that on the second page. I'm sorry. Top of the third page we changed the headline to 2022 Legislative Priorities. Okay. That makes sense. We got that on the top of the page when we missed the top. Page three. Okay. Back in case you thought we weren't reading. That's good. That's. Thank you. Happy to help. And just never lose it. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just following up on a comment from the last time we talked about this, the affordable housing committee is getting ready also just in a few hours to take up and hopefully adopt our own legislative agenda. And I want to make sure to share it with all of you when we do. There are some very specific things that we're going to be debating, including including specific asks for large dollar amounts of an appropriated state, ARPA funds to go to affordable housing and some other ideas that have not been approved by the committee yet . But that might inform. Our. Final agenda. So that was saying one more thing to Councilmember Zala and I just to report to you were invited by the when a group of community advocates for race and gender conscious contracting you know an equitable contracting to meet with the governor's chief of staff which we did and ask has been very squarely in their court . I don't want to speak for him, but Councilman Rizal, I was quite direct in his questions. And so we hope to be hearing something back. I'm glad to see this language in our legislative agenda as well, so that we can continue to advocate, because it's it's a really important it's a really important policy. And I think the moment for change feels like it feels like now. So thank you. All other questions, comments. Feedback. Mr. Nicholson. This is Roger. Please go ahead. For you may be more of a formatting deal, but I might consider whether it makes sense on the housing piece with. So it's a little more maybe durable than just in the context of pandemic response. Just a thought. Otherwise, I think we're making good progress here. Yeah. Thank you, Councilmember. That is something we are in preliminary discussions the exact grant said had talked about making sure instead of sort of a pandemic response that's calling out a housing sort of better and a behavioral health charter. So sort of splitting that a little bit so that each gets held up more than they are now kind of taking that, you see. Well, thank you. Mr. Smith. Mr. Chair. Councilmember Wells. Thank you, Mr. Chair, Mac and David and others. I appreciate that you included in the Protect the Environment section, the one I'm continuing to enhance and grow product stewardship programs to help encourage recyclability and reduce waste and toxicity of manufactured products. I was looking specifically at carpet recycling, which had been worked found in the legislature, and so we worked with the AARP on this and I appreciated this, wanted to call that out. And just looking at this, I'm sorry, for the first time I was saying it yesterday, I do have in there about the legislation we supported last year on all the arts. Yes. Councilmember, if you look under the sort of the rebuild the economy piece, the councilmen authority for the sales and just agricultural. And then that and then the self production as well, which would be ahead of schedule. Yep. And that's right above it to enhance those to balance it together. Great. Thank you very. Other comments, feedback, suggestions. Mr. Nicholson Are there particular elements that have been added? I know that we've all had. And what can you comment on any specific points the executive has prompted inclusion? No, I did get the feedback yesterday. It looks like it's relatively on the same page. I didn't, in my sort of cursory review, didn't see that there was a lot of significant difference or substantive difference between what the exact was the the executive seeking and kind of the council draft in front of you. But I will certainly go through and make sure that you all get that. And I can call out certain areas where there's language differences or when there's policy asks. There are additional right or additions. And it sounds like then making sure that the documents are merged into one cohesive document is the key piece of work ahead of us before we take up action in committee on the document. Thank you. Colleagues. Anything else? Mr. Foster, thank you for joining us. Always a pleasure to have you with us. And thankfully, this is a Zoom meeting. You didn't have to drive around with Wallace. Very thankful to not have to drive around. And thank you for having me. All right. We'll look forward to seeing you in it and others at our next meeting with the Advanced Draft, perhaps final draft of the legislative agenda. That takes us to a briefing with the King County Library System. Lisa Rosenberg, the executive director of the King County Library System. Ron, Ron heads the Library System Board President are here to provide a briefing to the council. Good morning and welcome. Good morning. It's it's great to see all of you. And you can also see my grade here. Here I am. And thank you, Claudia, for being part of the club. I'm just putting that out there. So I'm in a it looks fabulous. So do you. I'm going to share my screen and go through briefly what we've been up to your class. And of course, I'm very glad to have Ron Higgs, who's the president of our board of trustees, here with me. So with that, let's talk about the future, because eventually we're going to be out of COVID 19 sooner than later, I hope. And I want to talk about the probably the elephant in the room, which is our hours. I know many of you probably have gotten some concern from some of your constituents on what's going on with cases like ours. And we get it. But just know that we didn't really open door to full service until July of this year. And so we took a very conservative approach with our staffing. We did not hire any staff, new staff during time. We lost a bunch of staff because for natural, you know, people retire, whatever. So we were very slow to hire people. And now we're doing that. We're have hiring and in progress, but it does take time. This is a very big system. We have contracts we have to abide by with our our membership regarding scheduling and hiring. So we're we're hiring a lot. So I just want you to know that in 2022, 22, our community library hours will increase 20% over 2021. And our with more than half of our locations will be opening to six day a week service. We're now at five day a week service, and we're also innovating our public technology. We learned a lot from COVID 19. We always knew there was a digital divide. Sadly, we were proved right during COVID 19. So we're going to support our patrons remote, remote working and their entrepreneurial needs, particularly in bipoc and resource challenged communities that heavily rely on libraries, which we learned a lot during COVID 19. And I'm going to share more of that in a moment. So our initial pandemic response was we did sustain service during the entire pandemic. However, we did have multiple mandates and it did limit in-person contact. We did pivot to online programing and contactless curbside service. That was very popular. People really enjoyed it. So we were able to maintain some service during the entire pandemic, and we really saw a dramatic increase in our in our cardholders. We went to one, we saw 1.1 million, and our e-book use increased from 5 million to 7.4 in 2020, which is a huge, huge increase. Ranking Casteels as second in the US and third in the world for e-book downloads. Our ongoing pandemic response continues. And we really pivoted and we added some vaccine clinics at our libraries. We partnered with King County Health. We really feel where we're a partner in health, in our communities, we invested in increasing better airflow in our libraries , and we offered a phased reopening of all libraries by July 21, 2021. And we have done some aggressive grants seeking to tackle some of the problems we saw from COVID 19, particularly when it first happened. We saw people in our our parking lots trying to get Wi-Fi access because they didn't have that access from their home. We saw families in our parking lots, which was really kind of sad to see that in order to for people to get to get wi fi, they'd have to drive to our parking lot. But we were happy to help them. So by mid October we had secured a 365,000 in non library grant funding and almost 1 million from the KC Foundation. And I'm going to share the highlights of what we're going to be funding in the next year. So we're going to add some technology innovations. We are collaborating also with Harborview Medical Center to pilot telecomm at a telemedicine service in five libraries, including Unum, Cloth, Federal Way, Skyway, Tuscola and Wood. So what is that? Well, when the pandemic first started, I got a call from a doctor in Harborview, and he said, What we are discovering is our South County residents are not using telemedicine in the way that other residents of the county are using it. And what how can we partner? And I said, this is a wonderful partnership with us. Let's work with clinics in South County and let's start offering a private room because we have to be HIPA compliant for anybody coming in. They can book a private room so they can talk to their doctor or nurse practitioner or whatever. So they also have the advantage of not having to drive to a clinic during the middle, during the pandemic or even later. And so we're offering that innovation at a number of our libraries. We also leverage grant funding to boost our exterior wi fi signals. And most of our libraries so that people will rely on us for Internet access could continue to access it during the worst of the pandemic. And so this wasn't just the Wi-Fi bleeding out. These are boosters that really make them much stronger. We launched an outreach digital navigator service, so long library laptops and Wi-Fi hotspots to homeless shelters, encampments into hotels recently purchased and converted to supportive housing to address the digital divide. Inequities made worse during the pandemic. And in fact, I mean, this was something that happened a couple of months ago, the Red Line Hotel in Renton. We sent them a laptop and because we were able to do that, they were able to become vaccination clinics by having a library laptop to schedule appointments. We also launched a contact free library materials pick up locker at Fossil and Covington. There you see Congresswoman DelBene and me with the big scissor opening up these contact us lockers and we're going to add more of them. And that allows you to just come in 24 seven, pick up your books. It's similar to an Amazon type locker, very simple. And it really extends our services beyond our hours. And as I mentioned before, we've been aggressively pursuing grant opportunities. We are getting we do have ARPA funds funneled through our state library and we're using those funding to upgrade our meeting rooms in certain locations for our patrons to conduct online meetings and employment interviews and other online interactions using Zoom teams and other platforms. In other words, we're trying to level the playing field here. If you're lucky enough to have a house with your own office, home office, good for you. But there are people out there that don't have those advantages. So we want to have the library provide that. Attendance at our online programing has tripled. In fact, one of our Facebook Live events generated 38,000 tickets, and with a grant from the State Library, we will retrofit a meeting room that's at our service center to allow staff to provide world class creative programing. So we're turning into a production studio because online programing is not going away after COVID, and we anticipate eventual public use of the studio once the staff have mastered the technology. And with our Board of Trustees meetings like yours, we are online during the pandemic and our public attendance has increased significantly and we want to continue that . So with some of that ARPA funding, we will improve the technology at the Service Center to conduct hybrid, in-person and online board meetings in the future and to continue to encourage increased participation in our meetings. So let's talk about the service innovations we have learned a lot from COVID 19. The Casillas Foundation awarded over $100,000 to launch it. Invest in Yourself an economic justice program to increase patron skills and knowledge related to small business operations, job seeking careers and financial literacy. We were also awarded 20,000 an ARPA grant funding to work with an established group of partners called Welcoming Enterprise to create community centered solutions for equitable local economies by connecting small business owners with KC less resources and services. We opened up welcoming centers, offering wraparound services for new U.S. arrivals to feel welcome and as they adapt to their new home in King County. And we also offered welcoming ambassadors. They're selected for their cultural and linguistic and community knowledge. Our current centers are at Bellevue campus and of course, online and service will expand the tech will in 2022. We know that in-person in some cases is the best. And so we're hoping that's why we're going back to in-person for these welcoming centers. And we also offer a writer color series, and that will increase our portfolio of high profile bipoc authors facilitated by local bipoc community members to further increase the impact and diversity of our world class authors programing. Partnerships. We maintain strong partnerships, and they grew even stronger during COVID 19. At the Skyway Library, we collaborated with Metro to launch an Uber like service that connects riders with regional transportation options. And Skyway, as you know, has somewhat limited transit options. So this new service takes riders up on demand and transports them to light rail or to major bus hubs nearby and charges public transportation rates rather than cap rates. Casillas is also supporting the King County Executive Office outreach efforts to reimagine public safety in urban, unincorporated King County, and recently joined with the King County Executive Office and Area Chambers of Commerce to assist local businesses as they access and print vaccination signage in multiple languages for the health and safety of staff and customers. And we continue to add King County elections drop boxes. We now. X is at 23 of our community libraries. Library boxes consistently receive 20% or more of all ballots return, proving their convenience and ease of use. The library continues to offer nonpartisan voter education materials in multiple languages, as well as online programs about candidates, ballot measures, election integrity and protecting democracy from misinformation. And we continue our ongoing program to enroll every student in our service area. Student E-cards Making a decisive difference for Learners. While schools and libraries were closed during COVID. Our community libraries are playing an increasing climate action plan public safety role. This past summer, we opened libraries as cooling centers during that June, intense heat wave. I actually worked at a library, have not done readers advisory for about 15 years, but I was at our incarnation library and we've also upgraded the filtration of our HVAC systems to improve indoor air quality. Environmental demands and technology have changed dramatically since we passed our capital bond in 2004. In 2018, we launched a green initiative to conserve energy and reduce paper waste by increasing digital storage options for our patrons and staff. Moving forward, we are embarking on an effort to increase and align our capital investments with federal, state and local county climate action plans. And we will be looking for partnership investments to increase community environmental health by more aggressively lowering the emissions of our vehicles and facilities in our facilities, and also to actively pursue some grant opportunities for for climate action. Those might include include electric chargers in our parking lots and solar panels or whatever we can get some funding for. And finally, where it is budget time, our annual budget hearing will be held tonight in conjunction with the November 17 Board of Trustees meeting and will include time for public comment. And you are all welcome to attend. And now I'd like to introduce our Board of Trustees President Ron Hicks. Thank you, Lisa. I'd like to thank you for that great presentation that truly shows that the wonderful impact that the library system has in our community. I hope you all enjoyed it, Lisa. Chairman McDermott and members of the Council. As you know, our board is appointed by the King County Library's King County Executive Office and approved by you. We perform our fiduciary responsibility through the monthly payment of bills at public meetings and the annual adoption. Of our library budget that Lisa just mentioned. Tonight, the Lisa and staff, or at least the staff, has already presented their proposed. Budget on October board meeting. And tonight, as Lisa mentioned, will be. Conducting a public hearing on the proposed budget. A final budget option is scheduled for our December 17th meeting. Thank you for having us. We appreciate the opportunity to show you what our library system is doing. For the community. Thank you both for this robust presentation. Anybody who is behind the times and thinks that libraries are only about books going to update today on your work to reach people well beyond the medium of books, but also in their home for e-books to recognizing and addressing the digital divide to a variety of authors and making sure that Bipoc voices and others are well heard throughout our community and responding to the climate crisis in our facilities and our support of people. I'm impressed by the breadth of the work and the presentation you've made today. And that only is supported by an occasion last summer when I dropped by the National Library. As you were reopening to some public access and learned the extensive work you had done, particularly to keep children engaged in reading and literature during the pandemic. Book Times are available for pickup to art classes and art projects being sent home to engage in continued learning and in fostering that engagement with people's communities, with their libraries. I was impressed then and only w so today. Thank you. Colleagues. Thank you. Councilmember Bellucci. I just want to add my voice of appreciation. You know, libraries are just traditionally kind of this bedrock institution of democracy, egalitarianism, sort of access for everyone committed to community engagement and education, lifelong learning, all things we want to see in our county. And we have an outstanding library system. I've always been a big supporter, and I just I appreciate all you do. I can't imagine how difficult it has been to be such a public facing, public serving institution that's used to just sort of being with and in community all the time during this COVID times. It's been hard for us and we have a much more specific task that we do, which is these open public meetings and and policymaking. And yours is just so broad. So thank you. Thank you to your board. Thank you to your staff for all you've done to continue serving the people of King County. I know our family, my neighbors and community, my district really values the wonderful libraries that we have here in King County. And I think that's probably true all over. But I wanted to just share my appreciation and thanks to you. Thank you. Lambert and his number. LAMBERT Thank you. I, too, want to say how much I appreciate all your work and the variety of libraries and library services across the county because it's not the same in every part. Whether you're talking about Redmond Ridge or whether you're talking about Carnation or all the way out interstate commerce. So thank you for being so flexible and all the different types of libraries and needs that. The one thing that you didn't mention that I think is also incredibly important is that you've hosted the community courts for a very long time when it was just a pilot and nobody really knew much about it. But you were so open to the idea. And I remember the one statistic that was particularly important was that 78 people showed up one day at community court to get services that weren't even court impacted. They just came because they knew it was a safe place and that they could get the services that they needed. And they think about what the ripple effect of that was that those of the people left with services and with hope and addition to the people who were there into the system to help them with those things. So thank you for your vision and for caring so much about so many people. And I really appreciate that. So thank you. Again, I really appreciate your joining us for an update report on your work and the actual work and investments in our mutual communities that you've been able to talk about have undertaken. Good luck with your budgeting process and the coming work as we as we come out of the pandemic and see perhaps a new normal and make strides to make it work better for everybody as we do that. Thank you again. It's always a, believe it or not, a highlight of my year when I get to present to all of you. It's your your support for libraries is is undaunted and we're happy to partner with the county. I think COVID really taught us the importance of partnership and that we were in this together and from distributing masks and being to to and vaccination clinics, we're happy to use our open our doors to whatever our county needs when when there is an emergency. And you also afterwards. So thank you so much. And for the opportunity to be here today. Our pleasure. Thank you. And our final item today is a briefing on new construction property tax revenue from the assessor's office and King County Assessor John Wilson and chief deputy assessor albums are here to provide the briefing assessor also. Good morning. Good morning. Council member McDermott and another council member is a great to be here. I come here today bearing money, new construction money and that for the fifth year we have been in the range of $10 billion. We're just a scant bit under it this year. What that will mean is overall for the county's 13 funds in the 22 year, it'll be over $15 million of additional revenue in particular. A couple of highlights for parks, it'll be 1.8 million for best starts. For kids, 1.1 million. And for EMS would be $2.6 million. We've worked hard this year, especially in wake of the pandemic and state staffing levels, and that to make sure we tried to capture every bit of new construction that we could. It is a challenge, though. One of the things we have found is that while the pandemic has affected the region in so many ways, there's still a great deal of new construction that's going on, that's going on throughout the county, from from the downtown core out into Easter and King County and Bash Island and such. So I think it's important for us to be able to do this. Part of it is a you're all aware is with the 1% cap we now have, one of the great advantages of getting as much new construction as we can on the books is there's a compounding effect so that each year it adds a little bit of ability for us to property, to set properly, set values and get the revenue in that we need. But we just wanted to come and share with you that bit of good news and we're out in the field already getting ready to collect money or rather collect values for the next year to hopefully bring you some more money come next year for new construction. Mr. Olsen, you're welcome to come and bring good news and cash any time. Thank you. Council member. We thought we could. Save some of that. Thanks, John, for bringing the revenue. You're welcome. You might know your calendar. The committee's next meeting is on December 1st. Let's see if I can break it with a bow. Okay. Thank you. So thank you for all your hard work and two things. When I was giving a speech last night and I was looking for local skate and it was not easy to find. I knew. I knew it existed. I knew where to look. And it still wasn't easy to find. So I think making local skate more easily accessible on your Web site. And anyway, I. Think. That's a great resource. And then secondly, could you remind me that six or eight months ago you gave a speech and you talked about how much they anticipated rather than anticipated, the praise increases in the snow. Call me valley might be. Do you remember the top of your head what you said that increase might be over the next five years. Oh, you'll have to forgive me. Council member. I don't have that number right off the top of my head. I'd be happy to get it to you and share it with you. Now, I was really surprised in meeting slowing thoughts because it was such a big increase and I know that it's a wonderful place to live. So I think it's important everybody know how much that's growing because they contribute so much to the county revenues. And I want to make sure that they get enough to make sure that they feel comfortable. Well, certainly one of the trends we have seen in wake of the pandemic is is some outmigration from the urban core of Seattle to Eastern King County. And that's where you have more people moving out your way looking for property. You know, I kind of scan real estate across the county on a regular basis, and I'm always a little bit surprised at both how much is out there and frankly, the price of it. You know, there's there's no place realistically in King County that is a bargain anymore on a map. But it's a sign of of how we're evolving as a community. I think, you know, the bridge back to our previous presentation, it speaks to the value of having a dispersed library system that also has that high speed connectivity, because we're finding people more and more looking into, how can I drop into the library for a few minutes? Frankly, our staff uses the King County Library system when they're out in the field to connect data and connect their iPads and that. So it's important in terms of local escape. We're working on a brand new portal that will make hopefully all of that kind of stuff much more readily accessible to people and make it easier for them to get quick access to information. So I hear you loud and clear on that. We want people to be able to access that. And we've been talking to Specialist who is the developer for us of Local Scape about some additional features that we hope to add here down the road. But I commend you and your team and include because I know you worked on that, on putting that program together because it's so amazingly valuable. And so I wanted to share it last night and it took me a while to find it. So thank you very much for your good work. Thank you. Colleagues anything further. Thank you so much, John. And now for joining us. For passing on the information. And we look forward to being able to use those resources for the betterment of people at King County. Absolutely. Thank you, Councilmember. Take care of everybody. Thank you, Madam Court. I believe we missed a couple votes earlier in the agenda. Yes, Mr. Chair, council members standing right there were excused for the vote on 2020 1033. Oh, that's the unhealthier housing implementation plan has never done one by. Thank you. And Councilmember one right there must be having connection issues. He was there a moment ago and I do not see him here now. And he will have the opportunity to withdraw his vote by email per our rules for remote meetings such as this. With that councilmember councilmember of Mike Bowers reconnecting now wait time he has audio. Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! James McGovern I we are at the end of the agenda and noting that we do not have a vote recorded from you on our ordinance 2021 2032 Health through Housing Implementation Plan. If you're able to unmute and cast your vote, we would welcome that. Member of Fowler. But remember, going forward, the end of our agenda, we do not have a vote required from you on ordinance 2021. 333 Housing Implementation Plan. That's now in Kauai after going through the Regional Policy Committee future. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I again, I think you were notified that I had a doctor's appointment at the earlier and it just got into my office here in Federal Way. Can you repeat the. You asked me to make the formal motion? No. I asked simply for your vote. We have voted earlier in the meeting on Ordinance 2021 330, the Health and Housing Implementation Plan. We've made no amendments from the version that passed the Regional Policy Committee last week under your chairmanship. Thank you very much. I got I thank you. Madam Court. We have that recorded. Yes, we do. Mr. Chair, council members Dunn and one Mike Bauer. Both. Both vote. I agree. Then, with no further business to come before the committee of the whole, we are adjourned. Thank you so much to everyone for participating in today's meeting.

Output: AN ORDINANCE adopting the Initial Health through Housing Implementation Plan to govern the expenditure of sales and use tax proceeds authorized by K.C.C. chapter 4A.503 and RCW 82.14.530 from 2022 through 2028 and creating the health through housing advisory committee; and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4A.300.