Speaker 4: From the public agenda. They reported the government's education committee agenda item three Resolution 31933 expanding the requirements for the summary of the content that accompanies new legislation so that it also considers impacts of climate change. The committee recommends that the resolution be adopted as amended.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Madam Clerk. I'm going to go ahead and I'm the chair of this committee and would ordinarily provide the brief committee report. But in this instance, Councilmember Peterson is the prime sponsor of this resolution. And so I am going to, as the chair of the committee, defer to him as the prime sponsor of this resolution. Councilmember Peterson, please.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Council President Gonzalez. And thank you and your team for getting this resolution. 31933 on the agenda of your governance committee during this busy time. And I want to thank the committee for their unanimous approval of this resolution. I'd also like to thank those who took the time to contact us in support of this resolution, including Dr. Cathy Tuttle, who originated this excellent idea, Katie Wilson of the Transit Riders Union. Vlad Gutmann, the Washington State Director of Climate Solutions, Dr. Avia morris, and several other important environmental scientists and advocates. Colleagues, it's a time it's timely to approve this climate change resolution today because as we know, our nation has been enduring another historically horrible wildfire season with harmful smoke contaminating the air we breathe here in Seattle. Last month, King County updated its climate plan. And like the resolution before you today, it appropriately addresses both carbon emissions and adaptation or resiliency to climate change. King County's progress is a powerful reminder that City Hall can do more to address climate change, too. Today we have this legislative vehicle resolution 31933 to do something more specifically to update the summary and fiscal note, to view each piece of city legislation through a climate lens. How will it impact climate change, specifically emissions and resiliency? Just asking these two questions on emissions and adaptation is an important step forward and will provide council members with a more comprehensive view when making legislative decisions. It's important to note that the resolution will require the executive to report back to council in March about the initial results of the implementation, including any ideas for making it better. Council president. May I move for passage of resolution 31933?
Speaker 0: That is not necessary, but we will just call the roll on it in a moment since it's a resolution. But at this point, I'm going to go ahead and invite other colleagues to provide comments on the resolution. As is tradition and required by the rules. You'll have the last word and we'll close debate out to the extent that there is any. Are there any additional comments, cosmos data, please. And then Casper Morales. Thank you very much. Council President. I also want to thank Councilmember Peterson. Thank you for your work with our office to include some of the modifications and to this resolution. We really appreciate that the substitute added language under climate impacts and climate resiliency sections that calls out potential intersections of carbon emissions, impact and race and social justice impacts. We know that climate change disproportionately impacts black, indigenous and people of color, communities and low income workers. And this language really helps focus that analysis to make sure we're considering climate justice, not just climate change. We are also appreciative of that added prompt to describe the potential impacts on emissions and climate resiliency, not just the not just the the fact that we're implementing policy or projects because it's important that our climate analysis look at the bigger picture to understand the tradeoffs around action or inaction, as we just discussed at community, I mean, as we discussed at the committee meetings, I think that that's a really important and thank you for all of your work on this. And I think this this effort helps us move in a more strategic way towards a dynamic fiscal note as we're constantly trying to improve the process for fiscal notes to look at the tradeoffs between action or inaction, the cost of doing something or the costs of not doing something. This is an important element to that discussion. So thank you very much. Any concern was getting concerned. Morales.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I want to thank Councilmember Peterson for bringing this. I think we are asking the right questions with this addition to the fiscal note about the resulting carbon emissions and about our climate resiliency. Not being a member of that committee, I am I am curious if there is any information, specific information you could provide about the kind of analysis that will be done and who will be doing it if this information will be coming directly to central staff to report out to us on our summaries, or if it will be central staff doing this, I'd just like a little bit more information, if that's something you can provide.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 0: I got Handsomer Pierson.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you for the question, Councilmember Morales. So the legislation, since so much of the legislation will come actually through from the executive. We did we did vetted and talked carefully with the Office of Sustainability and Environment, as well as the City Budget Office. I also talked to Dan Eat of central staff about it because obviously central staff will also be working on legislation that we originate. And this is a qualitative response to the diversion of the fiscal note in front of us today. It's one of the attachments on the agenda. It asks the big picture questions about emissions and adaptation, and then it provides some suggestions on how that information could be provided. So O.C. is likely to work with other city departments to sort of train the trainers and in so that the whole city government is really thinking about this . And instead of just having, you know, a couple of experts in a key department like O.C., the idea is to have this permeate through our entire city government. It's doing things through the lens of climate change.
Speaker 0: There are no other questions or comments on this resolution. Councilmember. Please.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Just for clarification sake. Councilmember Peterson, you referenced that there would be a report back from the Budget Office and the Office of Sustainability and the Environment in March. But do I understand correctly that this new requirement does not wait to go into effect until that March report? In fact, it goes into effect. And then they're reporting back to us on what worked and what didn't work, but sort of through a practice of of preparing that these additional notes on climate and resiliency.
Speaker 2: Correct. And we work those dates out with with them as well to make sure that it will start January 1st. But then they'll report back to us in three months after that.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Any other comments on the resolution? Hey, hearing man, Kazmir Peterson. Anything else you'd like to add before we call the roll?
Speaker 2: No, thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you so much. All right. Well, the clerk please call the role on the adoption of the resolution.
Speaker 1: Lewis.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 1: Morales. Macheda. Yes. Petersen.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: So what?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Strauss. S. Herbold. Yes. Suarez.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: President Gonzalez.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 1: Nine in favor, nine opposed.
Speaker 0: The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the Court please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Report of the Finance and Housing Committee. Will the clerk please read the short title of Agenda Item four into the record?
A RESOLUTION expanding the requirements for the Summary and Fiscal Note that accompanies new legislation so that it also considers impacts of climate change.