Speaker 0: The motion is not adopted. That Texas item on today's agenda. This is the second piece of legislation that would request the executive create a blue ribbon panel of experts to address issues related to the economic recovery. We have Cliff Cory from Council Central South to provide a brief high level overview. Mr. Cory. If you please proceed. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This discussing career of council staff. Good afternoon. The materials for this and begin with the staff report on page 83 of your packet today. Basically, this proposed motion would call on the executive to establish a blue ribbon panel named the Corona's A Coronavirus Recovery Economic Task Force, or the Cure Task Force, which would be made up of enumerated state and local government leaders, along with business and industry representatives and other leaders, to identify issues and make recommendations for the economic recovery to the COVID 19 pandemic. The motion establishes the membership, and it also would require that the executive begin the establishment of the task force by May 15th and be prepared to report to the Council its recommendations within three months of the effective date of this motion. So basically, assuming action on this, it would be within three months, with the concept being that the industry leaders would come together along with other governmental leaders, union leaders, members of the community who are affected by the pandemic to discuss what would be needed and recovery efforts very similar to the recovery from any major disaster. Those recommendations would be formulated and would be ultimately form the basis for the recovery plan for the county looking for both economic recovery and other recovery. And with that, Mr. Chair, there is a striking amendment that incorporates format and technical changes recommended by the Code Advisor and makes no substantive changes. And if there are any questions for me. Thank you to my staff. Thank you, Mr. Curry. Questions for Mr. Curry. Hearing no questions from Mr. Curry Council member Dunn as the maker of the motion. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can you hear me okay? Yes. Okay, great. Thanks. And I wanted to first commend Cliff Curry for his work on this in a very quick turnaround time and in his work doing it mostly from home as well. What the your taskforce seeks to do is put a blue ribbon commission together. As Cliff indicated, that would be of local and state government leaders combined with various labor and other communities of interest representatives, as well as the business community. The idea is that we are going to be dealing with COVID 19 for a while, but as it recedes, we're going to be left with a substantially down economy. Given the sheer dollars, federal stimulus dollars and other moneys from both state and local governments being put in. We want to be among the first communities in the United States to emerge, and it will be all about the jobs and it'll be all about the economy. As we saw 2000 and 2009, the top three issues were jobs in the economy and jobs in the economy and jobs in the economy. We're going to be there soon enough. And so what we want to do is create a working group of individuals from all the communities. We have to really prime the pump and get the economy moving in ways that maybe we don't think of in our limited stovepipes here at local government. Maybe Microsoft doesn't think of in their stovepipe, the health care sector, in their stovepipe. But together, collaboration will generate the ideas we need. I have been talking with executive staff. I've been talking with the chair of the King County Council chair about duty. And we are going to come together, I believe, also with Team Caldwell's Sierra budget, to further refine this basic concept. And I commend Chair Balducci for her leadership on the needs assessment. That's a very, very important document. And what it is what it does in part is to sort of look internally at the needs, but also externally. What this would do is look very externally and long term at jobs and the economy. And how we dovetail those two together, I think will be an important role for all of us moving forward. So that's just kind of the primer. I'm not expecting a vote on this matter today and look forward to improving this particular motion as we move forward. But thank you for the discussion.
Speaker 1: And your share. This is quite a.
Speaker 0: Councilmember ability.
Speaker 1: Validity. There's always answer that the way I answer the phone, I yeah. I want to I want to add my thanks to Councilmember Dunn as to the previous motion to the making of the previous motion. There's just a lot to do. And and we are going to be struggling to come out of where we are today, where we're going after this. I think there's a question of a real debate, but how we get there, we definitely will need to work with representatives of the different sectors. So I did talk to Councilmember Dunn and others, and I think part of what we need to do is get our arms around the lay of the land a little bit. There are a lot of tables convening right now. The governor has several sector tables with the construction industry, the restaurant industry. They're talking to the automotive industry. And there's an effort coming together at Chambers of Commerce and business groups, having to do with large businesses, different ones having to do with smaller businesses, different parts of the county. And I think that it's really a good idea to have a discussion with a delegation from the council, as Councilmember Dunn described and the executive, to just wrap our brain around where we're going and how we work together, what is the lane of the county can occupy? I will just share my $0.02. I think there's two ways you can go with this. You can go big or you can go small and big is we try to coordinate everything county wide. I don't know if we're in a position to do that, but if there's a coordination role that's missing, sometimes that is our role and smaller is that we consider what are the county things that just we can do that only we can do, for example, as the health orders start to ramp down because we we continue on the path that we're on and maybe are able to start gradually loosening health orders without seeing a big rebound. What does that look like for small businesses without looking for restaurants? What does that look like for people to start coming out? They'll need more guidance than they probably got going in. So I suppose. The idea of having a further conversation across branches and then coming back with either a striking amendment or some other proposal as appropriate . And again, thank us, everyone, for being flexible with this and joining in conversation about how we can do something as Matt, how we really fix this. That's how we fix. Ultimately, people's ability to pay the rent is to get the economy going again so people can work and make money. And I'll stop there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Speaker 0: Thank you, colleagues. Councilmember Dunn, Councilmember Balducci, I want to thank you for introducing the legislation and kicking off the discussion today, and we'll look forward to more work and further action. That concludes the items on our agenda for today. Before we adjourn, I want to make sure that technical difficulties didn't prevent any council members from voting. Ms.. Calderon I don't believe there are any members excused for missing some votes. Can you confirm that for me?
Speaker 1: Yes. As a member, there was all the votes were recorded.
A MOTION requesting that the King County executive create a blue ribbon panel of representatives from state and local governments, business and industry and other organizations, to identify and address issues relating to the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic in King County.