Speaker 0: We've got some other interesting issues before the committee. Item number seven is proposed ordinance 2020, dash 0224, which would make June 19th or Juneteenth, an annual holiday for King County employees. Juneteenth has historically been celebrated by the African-American community as the date of the end of slavery in the United States. Mike Reed from council staff will give a staff report and executive staff are here as well to answer any questions. It's the first time we've had a chance to look at it. Today is the first day I heard about it. So we'll look forward to maybe a first pass on this and what folks have to say. Mike, go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And you, this is a proposed ordinance 2020 0224. So you're aware, as you indicated, Mr. Chair, that the enslavement for African-Americans continued through the period of the American Civil War, which was 1861 to 1865 , towards the end of that, that war on June 19th of 1865, General Gordon Granger in the company of 2000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas. And I should say by way of context that Texas was out of the primary theater of war, and so became a place where those who were interested in retaining their enslaved persons retreated to and as the war came to an end. So General Granger read to the community general order number three, and I won't read the whole order, but the key piece is as follows The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a proclamation from the executive of the United States, all slaves are free. The celebrations which ensued are following at that reading are continued on the anniversary of that June 19th date for the coming decades in Texas and extended to African American communities throughout the nation over the coming coming years. However, formal recognition of that date did not occur on the part of public bodies that is, the county, county and state and federal governments for over 100 years, until the years somewhat after the civil rights movement of the 1960s. So in particular, over the last 20 years, state governments have in state codes provided formal recognition, but not legal paid holiday status to a June 19th as Juneteenth acknowledging the end of slavery in the United States. In at the county level in King County there are ten named holidays in King County code and there are two personal holidays. There is no reference, however, to to Juneteenth as a named or paid holiday. The ordinance before you this afternoon would provide for the extension of the paid holiday status to June, June 19th and designated as Juneteenth. So a proposed ordinance, a 2020 dash or 2 to 4, would provide that extension. It's also noted that the labor agreements are or represented. Employees that are in place in King County do require that modification of language relating to to extension of paid holidays is a bargain item. And so the legislation does does also provide that the executive may enter into or extend existing agreements with labor organizations to extend to representative employees. Those are those that paid holiday status, which by the legislation is extended to the number of employees. The Office of Labor Relations has historically provided cost estimates for these kinds of these kinds of extensions. And in this case, so what they were asked to do that the there is an attachment to your staff report which summarizes this. But in some they've estimated that $4.8 million would be the cost to extend the the paid holiday status to county employees for the Juneteenth holiday that is primarily for or the cost of overtime. So there will be some services that are likely to continue. Again, transit services, wastewater services, service, and that's what we continue over the course of the holiday. And overtime would be to be paid for those employees with providing those services and again, at a cost of about $4.8 million. There's also a productivity loss that would be expected for those services, which would not continue. And the equivalent cost is estimated at six. $3 Million in Productivity Lost To or without those services. Legal review has been completed on this legislation and no amendment was recommended. Matt McCoy did provide for the Office of Labor Relations of the Cost Estimate and he is here to offer to respond to questions. Richard Hayes, also from the Human Resources Department, is here to respond to questions as well. Mr. Chair. Like, thanks for that very fine staff report. I know this is Councilmember Debusk is legislation, I believe. Right? Right. Yes, sir. Okay. And in in Matt. Rick, at this point, I know him in to let you speak next. I just wanted to see if there was any any any additional comments that either one of you would like to make at this time or if you wanted to wait for questions? No, sir. Okay. One quick comment. The analysis analysis that I did, I regard kind of a high level analysis. We haven't done a deep dove. And so the figures presented are more of a general magnitude of the costs rather than what we a more of a pinpoint estimate. So the four and a half million in the 6.2 million, roughly 10 million, that assumes a paid time off holiday, not just an addition type of holiday. Yes. And let's be clear, those are separate estimates. There's a couple different ways to examine this issue. One way to say, oh, how much productivity are we losing if we give everyone the day off? And that's where the $6 million estimate comes from. The other thing I think maybe that I kind of lip do is how much more how much extra money is this going to cost the county if we provide this holiday? And that's in the form of overtime costs that people like wastewater or the correctional facility. Well, we'll be paying them overtime almost certainly because of the labor contracts, and that's where the $4.8 billion figure is coming from. So there's separate it's not 10 million. It's somewhere in the range, I would say between four and 6 million. Understood. Okay. Ron, why don't you want you to kind of orient as to what you're thinking on this and then give us a sense of kind of what you wanted to do. Thank you, Mr.. Appreciate it. What I'd like to do is move adoption with a do pass recommendation. We have some time between now and full council consideration because of the recess and that I'd like to. Give some background and thinking and have some dialog. Okay. Well, that's. She wanted to watch you make the motion, and then we can decide. I do move on to move adoption with a yeah. Doing ascertainment. Go ahead. Go ahead broad. And then she can have a point of order because you sure. Go ahead. Mr.. Move adoption with the do pass recommendation. Okay, great. And Kathy, you had a comment on a point of order.
Speaker 1: I thought this was on for briefing. I didn't think it was on for briefing the action because this is the first time we've seen it.
Speaker 0: Right. It's up for discussion and possible action.
Speaker 1: So I don't see. I mean, look back again. All right.
Speaker 0: Yeah. How is that listed there, Councilmember Lambert? On the agenda. I thought it was up with possible action.
Speaker 1: I had not thought of that as an action today. It is an action.
Speaker 0: Okay. So thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, I've described the events with respect to the civil rights movement in the last couple of months in this country is a great awakening. And I and I believe that that is the case. And I also think that there's another phrase that might be a great reconciliation that should occur. I think like many of you, I am a strong believer in the principle and value in our country of freedom as a bedrock and foundational principle. And we celebrate that as a country on July 4th, Independence Day. But I don't believe, Mr. Chair, that our nation has fully reconciled itself to the underpinnings of where we are today as a country with respect to the enslavement. Of Africans in our country. And that is what I believe, that this holiday, if we were to declare it an official holiday, is about. It's about freedom for folks that really help build this country, help build the capital, help build the White House, help build the Washington Monument. But did so not by choice, but by their condition as. Slaves, enslaved people and in servitude. Mr. Reed, who I want to say has been an incredible. 12th floor staffer. With respect in particular to equity and social justice issues talked about in the staff report the basics of this and that is following. September 22nd, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln. In those days, maybe the word didn't spread as far and as wide and as deep as folks today would have it. And not until June of 1865 did. Word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas when general order number three was read by the Union Army. Your Galveston and Mr. Reed quoted the relevant part there, and that is that all enslaved people or slaves were free, and that it went on to say later their relationship was that of employer and employee. Now, I didn't know when I came onto the council, Mr. Chair, about Juneteenth. We're out here in the West. It's not quite as rooted in our culture, but I learned about it over seven years with our colleague, then colleague, Councilmember Gossett, who each of you will recall brought forth at this time in June of each year, a special proclamation where he invited community leaders in from the African-American community here in King County to tell us about Juneteenth and educate us a little bit. And I need to confess to you all that even then I didn't really understand the importance of this moment in history and this this holiday to the people that helped build our country until the spring and the. Largest civil rights movement in the history of America. Maybe even the world goes has come forward and this has been a key part of it. A number of states, 47 of them recognized in some way Juneteenth as a holiday in Texas. Now, for state government employees, that is actually an official holiday, which is what this legislation would do. A paid official holiday. And the movement is growing to to make it so nationwide. I think in a county name now in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. That this declaration and this move, this legislation, which would make Juneteenth an official paid holiday, is the right thing to do. It's the right thing to do. And you cannot, Mr. Chair, in my view, put a price on it. You cannot put a price on freedom. And that's what Juneteenth is about. It's about recognizing and celebrating liberation, independence and freedom for folks. And in our country, African-American folks, black folks that have not had historically that independence and freedom. And I think it is worth lifting up and cementing in the culture of our county and providing an opportunity to celebrate it. To advance its cause. And to remember from where we came and the opportunities of where we are and promises are where we can go with a day that's off, that's paid to take the time to do that. So I, I commend this to my colleagues. I thank council members Charlie and Co Wells, I think are the current co-sponsors of it. I think we can afford it on a on a $4.8 million cost out of 6 million annually or so in our budget. And frankly, I don't think we can afford not to do it. And I respectfully request that we advance it forward today and lead. And I hope that our state will adopt it statewide and that other jurisdictions around the country will follow. Thanks up during Mr. Chair to share some remarks on why I think this is appropriate legislation. Thank you, Councilmember Nevsky. Appreciate those thoughtful words and the words of a mr. Reid staff. It's because it's hitting us quickly. I want to make sure, though, that everyone has a chance to ask the questions to discuss this. You've asked for a do pass recommendation and you've asked for that today. So I think that we should get anyone who ask questions or comments. Let's get them out. I have a couple of myself sitting in front somewhat flat footed. Does anyone have any questions? Grove okay, up to go, followed by Lambert. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I appreciate my colleagues comments. You can't put a price on freedom, but you can't put a price on a holiday. And so what is the fiscal impact and. If any. I might quickly note that again, there's been reference to the $4.8 million. So it's about the expectation is that there would be a number of services that would need to continue. Are those, as you heard referenced earlier, would be things like transit, wastewater, sheriffs, sheriff services right above the services. And those those employees would be paid added overtime rate. The cost of those services is estimated at $4.8 million. A follow up, if I may, Mr. Chair. I wonder if there's any creative way to provide recognition to the holiday without resulting in having to cut deeper into the services and programs often that benefit the people we're recognizing . And I'm loath to vote against Juneteenth as a holiday and likely to be supportive. I just there's there's a tradeoff there that's an I don't know if there are other ways to structure vacations or annual recognitions or in ways that don't create an overtime cost or I don't know if you explored that at all. As sponsor. If there were, you know, again, I'm likely to support it. I just wonder if there's other ways to achieve the same outcomes without having that fiscal hit at a time when, unfortunately, we know we're digging. So it just means digging a little bit more and having an impact in other programs. And so finding that balance, if there's any other creative ways that we do holidays that don't drive a fiscal cost, because I was surprised to see the kids grow up to grow. I guess that's a question to me. First, I acknowledge the cost. It's 4.8 million estimated in overtime to keep costs or keep services going. And the way I looked at it was to say, well, we we pay folks to celebrate President George Washington's birthday. We pay folks to celebrate Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, and the day after Thanksgiving. We pay folks to celebrate New Year's Day. And we have an MLK holiday, which is about Martin Luther King Jr. I looked at that list and I thought, frankly. That the recognition of the liberation of African-Americans in America warranted the same or better treatment. And that's where I came down. There's there's I didn't want to give it second tier status. I didn't want to treat it as an honorable mention, if you will. I just I just I just thought, you know, it's worth writing the check for, and. You bet it does. Costs some money. And your your recognition of that is real. But that's where I came down.
Speaker 1: So wg.
Speaker 0: Madam Chair. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a request for my colleagues.
Speaker 0: I heard a.
Speaker 1: Couple of factual questions and policy answers, and it may be that that's where we're at, that that we have all the factual answers to questions. And the answer is to choose to do it or not to do it, given those questions. But I want to make a plea, and I will make this plea on any issue, not just this issue. Since we're having committee meetings and we've been having more committee meetings, I really want to ask that we not forward things that haven't been fully briefed, debated before getting voted on. I'd like to do amendments in committee and committee work in committee. We have all lived through how challenging it is when we get only every other week and we are looking at whether we need to do more council meetings. But at this point it's every other week. It would be great if we could allow folks to have one more meeting with this, to ask their questions, get their answers, and then take a vote here at committee with everybody feeling fully informed before sending it to council. Because I just really want to minimize the amount of committee debate and amendments and things that happen in council. Or as you see, last week we had 8 hours of council meeting. That's more than two meetings worth and it's been like that. So not commenting on the substance of this proposal, but I've heard that there are questions in answer to councilmember up the gross question about whether there are ways that we can rethink how we do holidays. Perhaps that maybe minimizes the overall cost without signaling anyone out. By the way, I was not on the Council when we voted to recognize Thanksgiving as a holiday a little bit before my time. And so I might have had the similar questions back then, but I just really want to ask if we would be willing to make sure that everybody has an opportunity with this. This is the first bite of this apple here at the meeting. I would really prefer that we make sure that we get all the work done in committee, and then I'd be very happy to vote it out and vote in full council. But just procedurally, I'm going to be asking that for pretty much everything at every committee. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Speaker 0: I. Thanks for the request. I agree with your position, Councilmember Baldacci, but I also have a request from our members. So I think it's up to the member what he wants to do in terms of moving this forward. I think he should probably respond to you and then I have some comments or questions about specific legislation. This is your next cast as soon as we hear from Rod. If he wants to talk. Okay. Kathy, you want to go ahead.
Speaker 1: Eat? I was feeling the same way as how can we do this? And when I was looking at this the other day, looking at the ten holidays to personal holidays, one of the thoughts I had was, what if we asked our employees if one of the two personal holidays could be dedicated to this? And also in the timing of where this fits in the year is about the time that people would like to have a holiday. So I thought, let's look at maybe using one of the personal favorites, dedicating that out because it is important to all of us. I was lucky enough to go to a Juneteenth party with Larry, and I learned a lot at the party, and we had a wonderful time with the celebration. So anyway, that was one idea that we had. And the idea that we had is to look at maybe doing three segments in the county so that each year employees to choose what schedule they want to work on. And if we are going to work on this weekend, what we came up with the three different.
Speaker 0: Schedules.
Speaker 1: So that people could decide which of the three holiday types they want to be on so that we don't have to pay overtime, that we have a variety of when people are going to work and not work because certain holidays say maybe people are families, not around at Thanksgiving, but they'd rather do it at a different time of year. They could sign up for that. If you look at the ten days we have for holidays right now, the two personal holidays and 21 vacation days after five years, that's 33 days of the year, which is a month and a quarter off for every employee over five years. That is a lot. And so I think we need to look at that overall. We're going to open the door if we need to clean out what's going on and make sure that we are in line with the people who are paying the salaries, but maybe not getting a month and a quarter up every year after they've worked five years. So I think that there's work that needs to be done. I'm happy to help work on this work because I do think it's important and may meet other needs with moms that have daycare issues that some of this might be helpful for. So I think we have lots of work that we can do. And I agree that this opens up a door that maybe we need to be looking at more globally anyway.
Speaker 0: Okay. Thank you, kasey, for those comments. Other comments from my colleagues. Okay. Let me just say that. Here's here's that here's some of the issues I have. There's a couple different. I always wondered, how do these holidays get created? Like, how do they come up with Presidents Day or Columbus Day? Nobody likes Columbus Day. They just throw a statute in the water. We don't recognize Columbus Day here. Is that correct? That's my first question. We do not. The federal government does. We don't because I'd be willing to swap that baby out right now. But that isn't an option. So we have holidays that we recognize as special days, but people still come to work. Then we have holidays that we recognize as time off. There is a substantial cost, increased cost for ones that are time off. Not only do you have to, you know, you're paying employees, you're also getting a reduction in productivity because those employees are working one less work day a year. You also have the side effect that the constituency that we serve isn't getting the services presumably for that day, particularly places like deeper encounter operations that we have. And so. That middle that middle ground recognizing is is a special day. I do that in a minute's clearly rise as well beyond the level of special recognition. The issue for me is how do we how do we pay for it? Have we done the proper analysis? At some point you can't just keep adding holidays. I think Canada has a holiday every month. At some point you start to actually see meaningful reduction in the productivity to go to see. So that's that is a concern to me and the costs associated with it are concern to me. I really want to do a deeper dove if I'm comfortable voting for this. On what those costs are loss of productivity. I know we have a rough estimate. I heard 4.9. I heard 6.5. What services are going to be impacted and how we're going to get around those issues before I'm ready to support it? Maybe the majority of counsel wants to support it today. I want to flag I'm not going to speak to this anymore. I'm just going to flag this. We are in very serious Financial Times right now. The likes of which we haven't seen for generations in America. Neither has the county. And we just gave an $80 million raise to the bus drivers. We're now talking about giving ourselves a free holiday at King County. That's going to cost a lot of money to the taxpayers. I think there's value. I think there's value in thinking through this just a little bit more with a little more process. So the proper amendments can be made to guard and protect all of the interests that have been articulated here. However. I'm not going to get in the way of democratic process. So those are my own views. I sure like to take a chance to look at this more, do some other amendment work here. Give the Chair McDermott a chance to speak and vote in favor of assuming of this. But. But we'll go wherever the maker of the motion, Mr. Ambassador, wants to go. From here. Rod, what would you like to do based on the comments you've heard? Well. I have a lot of a lot of thoughts, Mr. Chair, but we're short on time. I introduced legislation on June 19, 40 days ago, so I don't know that it should be a surprise to anybody. But in consideration of colleagues interest in having opportunity to reflect and learn more, although I think it's quite simple. Costs are here. I do need to say I'm not swayed by the cost argument at all. This is about humanity and respecting the dignity of a portion of our population in this country that has frankly been put. Behind and put second and put last for 400 years. So that that does not sway me one bit. But in consideration of members interest. To learn more, I would change my motion or amend it to advance it with or without recommendation. So there are there is time for members to get the questions answered that they want if they want to develop amendments, they can, but that we keep moving forward, that we bring this forward and and get it and get it considered by the full council. So that would be my suggested approach, Mr. Chair, to try and acknowledge some of the concerns by folks today to to but at the same time honor the spirit of the moment and the co-sponsors who have decided that this is a good thing to do. So that would be a suggestion. Okay. Okay. So it sounds like you're comfortable moving it forward without recommendation, which to the viewing audience just means that the council's procedurally moving forward haven't really weighed in on the substance of it. It's kind of our tradition, right, when we want to keep things moving but have our way and then on the merits. Okay. All right. So that's before us. What do you think of that? I think it's a good place to start. And so I think maybe. Is there any other discussion on this if we're going to move it out with a recommendation?
Speaker 1: Mr. Chair.
Speaker 0: Yeah? Before you go, Jeannie. Claudia. Claudia. I'm going to hand the gavel magically through the world of whatever this is to you. Because I have to get in the car to drive to my child's 11th birthday party. And I will not miss that for the world, but I will reappear with a different backdrop. So now you have the gavel. Jeannie, you go right now. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. Chair. And Madam Chair. So I am one of the sponsors of this legislation, and I do so very positively and enthusiastically and look forward to the counsels as soon as whether or not we vote on it without recommendation today or we wait for to, I guess, three weeks.
Speaker 0: Three or four weeks.
Speaker 1: Given the recess coming up. That's right. Because the holiday is not until next June. I would just like to do this right where.
Speaker 0: Everybody.
Speaker 1: Will feel good about it. I would like to say, though, that I think this is a really critical measure, not only given the backdrop. Of what our society is going through now. The pandemic with addressing racial justice. But I also look at this from the point of view of someone who's been involved in an effort for a very long time. I cannot help but think of a film I used to show a long time ago when I was teaching at Cal State Long Beach sociology and teaching at the University of Washington for a long time in sociology. The film was called Black. Lost or stolen or stream and it is available. I just checked. I googled it. It's really outstanding. And it was actually released in 1968. And the premise, which is rather obvious by the title, is that we, so many of us do not know about black history and all the contributions that have been made and the significance of black participation in our development of our society and also throughout the whole time of this country since its inception. And I remember one girl growing up, I knew nothing about this. I knew about slavery. But our textbooks in our schools did not portray anything realistically, significantly about the contributions of black Americans in our society throughout all fields of study and all fields in our lives. So I think this is really important and it is a way for our county. King County, Martin Luther King County chairman to be able to say, hey, this is important. It's not only are solely rather about freedom, which is what our country supposedly was founded upon, but it's about what is reflected in our society today. And it's about time that Americans of all stripes, all colors, know about the important contributions and significance of black Americans and and others and our way of life and what we've accomplished as a society. And so I feel very strongly about this, and I think we should pass it. But again, I'm fine with doing it today. With that recommendation, though, that would lead to amendments to the council meeting, which I know the chair is not in favor or we wait until we come back. There's time. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember others. I'll just say a few words before we move to a vote. I, i, i share the view of those who think this is an important measure and something that we very much ought to do. I, in addition to all the things that have been said, which I won't repeat, I also feel that it is an important opportunity each year for us to reflect upon our progress in moving from where we are with regard to racial freedom, equity, justice, opportunity. The words of the proclamation itself are something that I think automatically upon reading them, they cause me any way to reflect on how far we have come, but also how far we have yet to go. And so I think for that purpose, it is a really valuable holiday to add to our list of holidays, because it marks a time each year when we should we should be reminded to reflect upon and recommit to, to justice. And so I think it's a good idea, and I think we should find a way to do it. My request really isn't met by making it move without recommendation if it's going to move. I would just as soon move it with recommendation because I think that's a stronger statement. My request is if there's still work to be done, that that work be done in committee. I'm really sincerely asking my colleagues to not send things to council that are not fully baked. I hear and am mindful of the length of time that some things have been waiting since introduction and have not had committee time. I think that as we continue to have more access to committee slots like you saw a couple of weeks ago, we're able to move more things forward and and therefore, probably naturally things will move forward faster and not sit in, you know, limbo, unheard. But I'm sincere and serious in that request. I really think that we are going to do better as a body if we do our committee work in committee. And I know as somebody who supports this and is prepared to move towards doing it, that some of us may be ready to vote and go. But some of us have expressed that we are not that we have some questions that we want to look at. And and so I just renew that ask. But if that ask is declined, then we will have a vote. Council member and basket. Want to call on your close?
Speaker 0: Thank you, Madam Chair. Then I withdraw my floated possible amendment to move it forward with our recommendation and renew my motion to move forward with recommendation. This is simple legislation. It adds an official paid holiday in the county code. To recognize Juneteenth as a paid official holiday. The brief. It was introduced on June 19th. Five weeks ago. There's been plenty of time to review it. It's simple. We have the cost estimates. That seems to be the major concern and we have the answer to that. And so I believe members today can decide whether or not it's worth it, whether it's nice to worth it, whether or not it's worth it to recognize African-Americans in this country. On the day that they were finally announced as fully free following Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, some tune it half years before on September 22nd, 1862, when in Texas . The American Army came to Galveston and read general order number three. And I think it's the right thing to do. I felt very strongly about it as an individual council member, that is my obligation. To use the position and power that has been entrusted to me in the franchise that has been granted to me to bring forward this legislation and to move it now in. Folks can vote how they would like, but these reflect my values and I'm proud to recommend you to the full council. I think more needs to be done. I request my colleagues vote yes.
Speaker 1: To the extent that statement suggested that members who have questions about what this means and how to implement it are not supportive of racial equity and justice. I think that's unfortunate and I'm sorry if that's the case.
Speaker 0: I didn't say that at all, ma'am. I spoke from my standard that my strong and my strong feelings and what I heard from the debate today in terms of questions about cost and and I believe it's fairly straightforward legislation, and I think we should move forward.
Speaker 1: I just want to state as the chair, that to the extent that there was an inference that those who might think that there's more work to be done don't agree as a policy matter. That is that's unfortunate and really shouldn't be done.
Speaker 0: There was no.
Speaker 1: Interinstitutional. Thank you, madam chair. Councilmember Dombrowski.
Speaker 0: I.
Speaker 1: Council member dunn. Councilmember Coel's, i. Council member, Lambert. No. For McDermott. Coulson. I found someone on my phone. Councilmember Bond right there. Hi. Hi. Madam Chair. I am chair chair of the vote has five eyes council members dombroski call wells up the graph so high and bounded she council member Lambert Felts now council member Dunn. McDermott and on both our excuse and 1/2 the cast member I'll call on you in a moment. By our vote. We have approved this item with a do pass recommendation. It will not be on consent and it will not be expedited. Councilmember Lambert. Thank you, Madam Chair. I, too, am a little shocked. Whether it was my interpretation or not. I too interpreted the final comments to be. To be very sad. I do have questions about all of the holidays, which is why we did some work in my office on just how many holidays should there be total. I have no problems with this being the holiday. I actually think the better idea. But I also think that we need to be looking at the taxpayers are paying for all these holidays in general, not just this one, but all of them. Member I'm sorry to interrupt you, but we really have voted and it's time to move on. There will be another opportunity. A full council. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving on to item eight. This is discussion and possible action regarding the positive implementation plan.
AN ORDINANCE establishing June 19 of each year, Juneteenth, as a paid holiday for King County employees eligible for leave benefits; and amending Ordinance 12014, Section 23, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.12.230.