A MOTION approving the implementation plan for investment of Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account proceeds, in compliance with Motion 15492 and the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18835, as amended by Ordinance 19022, Section 1, Proviso P1, as amended.
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. And we have Patrick Hamacher and Erin Aria from council staff to give a staff report. I should probably say for purposes of the public who don't understand what we're talking about when we suddenly turn to the master implementation plan. There's an acronym. It stands for the Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account. That would hardly you would hardly be the blamed if that didn't tell you much more. This is a it is a funding source that is going to be passed through to King County. The money comes from essentially sales tax, like payment from sound transit as they build their construction of stage three, the third sound transit capital program. And it is intended for educational purposes. So we're going to have a staff report today. I understand we also have executive staff here to answer questions. We've heard a lot of really good public comment in support of this. But based on what I understand as the second backup chair here today, the chair wasn't intending to move this out today, but that put it on the agenda again for action on August 25th. So with that understanding of the plan, I'm going to call on Patrick Hamacher first to begin the presentation. Please go ahead. Thank you, Madam Chair. For the record, Patrick Hamacher, and you did an excellent job of covering much of what I was going to cover. And with respect to the time I think we are on. Just to orient you, we're on page 149 and going to 100, page 150 and your staff report. The only part I will add to the background section is that the reason we're here today is that last November you passed an ordinance, while last August and last November you passed legislation that together required an implementation plan for the use of pastor funds to be transmitted to the Council for your approval. There was also a request for funding and for staffing to begin rolling out the pastor funds, and that has been rolled into an omnibus that was taken up by Councilmember Kowalski's Budget Committee. And so what's before you today is the implementation plan. And Aaron is going to begin the discussion of the elements that were required to be in the plan and how well the transmitted plan comports with those. So that concludes my remarks. Aaron I had staff. The analysis section of the staff report begins on page 151 of your packet. You'll notice in the section a series of tables designed to compare the direction given by Council in motion 15492 with the various elements of the implementation plan. At a high level, the plan identifies four main cost centers visualized in table two on page 153 of your packet administration and evaluation accounts for 7% of the total over the life of the account, with 10% each year available for technical assistance and capacity building. After accounting for that expense, the remainder is divided by only 52% for early learning facilities, 38% for King County Promise, and 10% for community based organizations. Table three on page one, 53 of the packet outlines the motion criteria for governance. The plan recommends the establishment of a CAIB as a subcommittee to serve as the advisory group to the UAB, which is the King County Children and Youth Advisory Board. It appears that the governance section includes the elements required by the motion. The financial plan previously covered the introduction, and the financial plan is basically what you would expect using transit during projections from April of this year. So I will not get into that more at this time unless you would like me to, and I will keep going for time sake. We found that. Those requirements. Were largely met and then areas of note will be discussed in the next section of funding. Category one and early learning facilities are E.L.F. Begins on page 156 of your packet. The recommendations of this category were derived from the work of the E.L.F. Work Group. The membership is listed in attachment three on page 2 to 67 packet. But again, we're on page 156 right now. The left hand column of table six remains the direction to the executive branch outlined in motion 15492. For the sake of time, I'll only highlight areas of discrepancy. The motion directs the executive branch to set appropriate target enrollment figures based on income level, local cost of living and payment makes and strategies to sustainably maximize services to prioritize populations. Prioritized populations are defined in section eight of motion 15492 on page 244 of your packet. The plan notes that this work was postponed due to the impact of COVID 19 on the childcare industry, and DCH has plans to explore enrollment targets once industry has been able to recover. The motion directs the creation of strategies to ensure facilities are built with project labor agreements or other labor friendly practices. TCHC contracts will require activities financed by passive pasta proceeds to comply with applicable prevailing wage requirements and labor agreements. And the county may consider implementing a project labor agreement if deemed applicable. Additionally, the motion stipulates that grants for family daycare providers will not exceed $20,000 per facility. However, the plan raises the maximum grant for this category from $20000 to $75000 per award, and that's in order to sufficiently meet the needs of the facilities. The ALF work group recommended this change and it aligns with the State Department of Commerce Technical Assistance Plan that they commissioned in 2019. Moving to funding Category two. Unless there are questions on that section, I'm going to keep rolling. That is stopping if you would like to. Madam Chair, funding category to me, does it say to my colleagues, I am very happy to let Erin finish the entire presentation, but if you do have a question at any point that it would be best asked in a moment, please just speak out and we'll call on you. Thanks. Please go ahead, Erin. Thank you. Funding Category two King County Promise begins on page 158 of your packet. The recommendations of this category were derived from the work of the Promise Work Group. The membership for that work group is listed on attachment and attachment for on page 269 of your packet. While funding for this category aligns with the structure set forth in motion 15492 with the King County Promise Fund split with 45% for K through 12, 45% for post-secondary and 10% for community based organizations. The plan provides for two programs to be created. So the first is called Promise Partnerships, where K through 12 districts, community and technical colleges and community based organizations will be asked to co-design the strategy and submit a proposal for funding through a competitive RFP process administered by King County. Through the Partnership through the Promise Partnerships, TCHC seeks to create a fund, a cohesive pipeline of services for the grantees, and to partner and collaborate with other organizations so that each application includes at least two of the following one or more public community or technical college, one or more public K-through-12 district and or one or more youth serving community based organization. The second sort of funding program that is envisioned is a system supporting organization which the plan envisions would focus on ensuring a functional pipeline. Excuse me, a functional pipeline is created for student support in order to achieve the target outcomes. According to the plan, the systems supporting organization will provide direct services to the Promised Partnership Funding recipients, including working to develop a system building effort that fosters collaboration among the funding partners. Table eight looks at the King County or the K through 12 promised dedication and can be found on page 158 of your packet. This section is largely consistent with the motion. However, the motion directs that investments be made in career and advising, including through trade and apprenticeship programs. The plan represents that these these as potential commitments that could be agreed to. Noting that the first group of promised partnerships will collaborate and design a set of shared commitments and working to achieve the outcome targets set forth in the motion. Table nine reviews the post-secondary promise dedication beginning on page 160. The motion directs the development of policies for funding services for students pursuing post-secondary educational opportunities that include higher education and careers in the trades and apprenticeships, and that provide greater system alignment. Student supports and reduction in barriers and completing a post-secondary degree or credential according to the plan. Children, Youth and Young Adult Division staff will bring funded entities together to co-develop a set of commitments that may include the items just mentioned. And funding category three begins on page 161 of your packet. You'll know the left hand column of 211 outline instructions given then the motion for the remainder and the remaining 10% dedicated to community based organizations. Our analysis showed that the plan largely met that direction, differing in terms of procurement and the time planned for the recommendations for this funding category were developed by the Racial Equity Coalition, known as the RTC, which served as the work group for this funding category. The 15 member organization is provided an Attachment five on page 21, which is also the last page of your packet break immediately. And then the plan envisions a three year pilot called Love and Liberation, or L.A. for Short, where RTC organizations would perform direct work with youth, including out-of-school time or expanded learning opportunities, access to physical education , mentoring and case management. According to executive staff, these positive funds would allow for new and new, but existing L.A. services through the United Way King County, to be scaled so that they may be offered more widely throughout the county. And according to the plan, L.A. providers will focus on geographic areas with high numbers of youth and young adults from passive, prioritized populations and monitor for relevant demographic changes. The RNC recommends use of participatory grantmaking for this funding category. According to the plan participants, participatory grantmaking explicitly and intentionally brings together communities impacted by funding decisions together with funders to shift traditional power dynamics and funding decisions with the goal of empowering communities and creating lasting change. Council staff is working to determine how this aligns with county's procurement rules. And on page 163 of your packet, you'll find table 12 in the Evaluation Criteria section. The plan recommends that DHS Performance Measurement and Evaluation Team lead a related evaluation work. The plan notes that initial outcome targets will be set at a later time in collaboration with funded partners and by passive staff. And that more or less concludes our staff report. We would be happy to take any questions you may have. And in addition, we have Sheila Capps, Danny, director of C D, Jackie Moynihan, Deputy Division Director for Housing, Homelessness, Community Development Division, and on a further mcconney implication manager. Madam Chair, thank you so much, Erin and Patrick. But mostly Erin did most of the work and council members questions for our staff or executive staff. This is a first briefing. You will come back in August, but it's a good opportunity to ask questions you have right now. I'm sure we will have questions. We're taking it on board. I will say while people decide whether they're going to ask or not, that I really appreciate the work that's gone in. This has been such a stepwise process, starting with the I mean, back to the very first time I heard from Justin Farrell about the compromise in Olympia that put this funding source into the stage three authorization legislation. And then there was just a not a lot of debate about it during the election, but afterwards it became clear that this was going to be a resource that would be unique. I'm really proud of the work that this council did to try to make the most out of it, and especially to, for not the first time we've done this before, but in a really significant way, explicitly call out racial equity as something that we are going to to fund towards. And then there was, of course, really hard work about the different buckets and levels of funding for each level of for each level of education. We set ourselves a goal of trying to spend this money deeply and not peanut butter and all over the place so that it has deep impact. And that's one of the things I'm going to be looking for in looking at the spending plan. I think the engagement with the community has been outstanding in the creation of this and of this plan that's in front of us today. And it shows in the amount of support that it received in from all the different folks who have been really advocating hard for investment in things that will help to improve outcomes for youth at all levels. So and I start the analysis of this program with it, it's just there's a lot of good work that's gone into it. The community support is really important to me. There may be little things here or there as we move forward, but I just speaking for myself, I don't I'm not feeling the need sitting here to do major amendments or major changes because we've really walked up to this point together. So councilmembers, anybody care to opine or ask? Council Chairman Eldridge, Councilmember Raquel Welch, please go ahead. Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a couple of questions that I know when we take this up later as well. For one, I really appreciate the work that's been done by the community groups who have put in a great amount of time. And I know that our staff, our district staff have been working on this for a long time as well. So I really commend the implementation plan that we have before us and of course also the executive staff and all of their work. One question that I have is so with regard to United Way and I maybe Sheila knows the answer to this, but of Will United Way are. B How much of the funding that will go to United Way will. Be. Retained as part of the administrative costs? Or is it something that United Way will be covering on there and. Thank you for that question, Councilmember. And hello. The the United Way what this project is actually. I'm sorry to interrupt you. Could you say that you didn't just realize that I was talking through myself and Sheila Capps, Danny and the director of the Children, Youth and Young Adults Division and the Strategic Advisor for Revenue. And so I the Love and Liberation is a pilot project and it has these partnerships to it. United Way is a partner will be providing capacity building and staffing for the Racial Equity Coalition to make sure that they have the foundation and the structure they need to get the work done. So the county will be will be funding that work that the United Way is doing. The United Way is not asking for a percentage and we're not giving a percentage to administration. I think. And Madam Chair, on a continuum, another question is that we know that the funding that we get from Southern Transit will be uneven. It will not be the same year by year. And depending on the construction that's underway on the part of some transit, there may be some years in which we have more revenue generated than other years. And I'm just wondering how this will affect the administrative process. I think it gives us some challenges. And I'm wondering if, Hannah, do you have an answer to that one? Yes. For the record, my name is Hannah. Honey, I work at sea my way. I am the custom being. Good afternoon, everybody. I would say we have looked at this 15 year budget really thoroughly and have based our assumptions on the latest estimates that we received from Sound Transit, which are from the end of April. So. So a couple of months back, we know that that is the latest information that we have and are moving forward with it. I would say about how we will handle handle the uneven distribution, which will probably still change as 15 years pass. So one thing is for administrative funding. We are planning and even spend down. So we are spreading the funds anticipating that our standard will be even across the years. And that's one one way we're handling our administrative and evaluate expenses. And then when we work with partners, once we have awarded contracts, then we will talk with them about how they want to handle their budgets. The one one strategy that we're employing from the get go is that we are thinking that implementation will be gradual and as such we will be accruing some a remainder funds at the end of each year that could be spent on one year and may be useful as a strategy as the fund itself starts to wind down towards the end of the 15 year period. Thank you. And one final question. Madam Chair, please go ahead. Thank you. Currently, we have a 7% administrative fee going to the county, and I'm wondering if that seems to be the right amount. I have actually offered an amendment that did not get approved by the council that would be at 5% so that we would have more funding going into the actual programs. But we do this 7%, and I'm wondering if that seems to be the appropriate amount thus far, or does it seem like we need more or less would do. Any feedback at this point? I think it's important to remember that that admin bucket is actually administration evaluation and capacity building. So it's 7% to accomplish all of those tasks. We're probably right at the edge of what is a good amount to do that. And so is as we hold admin steady, hopefully if if the income in that bucket changes or we can put out to community around capacity building. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Szabo, please go ahead. Thanks, Madam Chair. Hey, Sheila. How you doing? Hi there. I have some pretty elementary questions. So the implementation plan just confirming this is agreeing to the bucket or categories of spending and not allocating anything to specific organizations. Is that right? Well, that's for two of the buckets. That is true. What we are with the third bucket around the community. The community supports that 10%. That pilot project is already a predetermined group for the pilot project. That's similar to a couple of projects we did under BSC. So that is a closed amount. That is 10% of the 93% after admin eval and AC that was taken out. Gotcha. And who who are those neighbors that I don't think I see them yet. Do you happen to have that list in front of you? A lot of them testified today for public comment. Yeah. Aaron, as of 258, what's the pitch number? I actually have them right in front of me if you'd like to agree it. I'm sure the four C Coalition, all girl, everything. Ultimate program, also known as Age Up Education. Excuse me. Asian Counseling and Referral Services, Community Passageways, Education with Purpose Foundation for Pacific Islanders. El Centro de la Raza Follis Community Services. East Federal Way Youth Action Team, Filipino Community of Seattle Glover Empowering Mentoring Open Doors for Multicultural Families Para Los Ninos Powerful Voices. Red Eagle Soaring and United Way of King County. That's how I was at the end of, you know, organizations that belong to the Racial Equity Coalition. Any more questions? They're like, maybe we lost him. I think we may have lost control resolve. You know, let's take a quick moment here. Are they are high. Sorry, Councilmember, I couldn't hear if you had. If that was the end. I think I lost everybody. No. Can you hear me now? It can't hear us. In. Okay. Let's carry on and we'll see if we can help Rosalie with you. No. It's okay. I'm so sorry. Anybody else? Counselor Rizal, I'm going to pause you for a second. Anyone else have questions. About the growth. Of the growth? Please go ahead. Thank you, Madam Chair. It's more of just a comment. One of the areas I'm interested in continuing to explore is within the college career and technical education section. We've called the promise that Sorry is making sure that the way that is structured allows for as robust as possible community based decision making. I think we do a really good job of that in the K-12, and there may be some ideas to kind of clarify or strengthen the wording in a couple of areas so that the the community based organization envisioned. There are things called the systems supporting organization will be really a true partner with the department in developing recommendations. And so I wanted to flag that as an issue. I chatted briefly with with Sheila about that, and I don't have specific recommendations at this point, but I'm talking with the stakeholders and we'll be talking with the department and may have some amendments to bring forward. So that was a comment and a question. Not a question. Got it. Okay. Other members. I'm not hearing any. Let me just state again for the record that this is the first briefing. We will have a second, according to counsel to committee of the whole chair. MCDERMOTT That is probably going to be the time for amendments. So there will be some time between now and then with the caveat that we're on break and at the direction of leadership, many staff members are going to be taking some time off. So probably we'll be working on amendments the first two weeks of August, but we will have more time after that. All right. Any further questions? I'm going to pause this for a second because I have a message here that I was trying to get back in. And there he is. Cancer marsala in years. Hmm. I think it'll take just a second for him to cut their incomes. Councilmember ally. The system. Is also. Sorry. Everyone, can you hear me? Yes. Yes. Please continue. Well, we got to. Worry about that. I completely missed that the whole answer, but I think I got an email with the list. So I'll I'll look into that and I'll let me collect myself for a second. And you can please go ahead without me for now. Thank you. Yeah. So I was just I was just repeating for purposes of hopefully setting the expectation that there will be more time to ask questions, get answers. This is scheduled to come back August 25th, a committee of the whole. And that means that there will be not time plus plus a final council passage. So even if we can't get to today due to technical glitches, which are always so disappointing when they happen and you wish you could do something about them, but they happen, we will have time to get back to to those any issues that members want to raise. So I would. Ask one follow up question. Yes, please go ahead. And as many as you need to. Thank you, Sheila. If your organization or project want to access some of the early learnings that are capital funds in that bucket, from what what is the process like for that? What do they need to have in order to do that? Well, we will have we'll have an RFP process and there's going to be a lot of support around getting information out in our communities about that opportunity and also being able to help people as they think about is this the type of funding source that's going to be useful for them? I'd love to see actually if if Jacqueline, if you have any more information about how that might happen, nothing is written in stone yet, but how we've done it in the past with capital projects. Sure happy to. Jackie Moynihan, assistant Division Director for Housing, Homelessness and Community Development Division. And hopefully my Internet stays stable while I'm talking to you. So we would, for the new construction strategy that is in the implementation plan, will be running an RFP to select a third party intermediary to do those larger projects. But there would be an RFP and procurement process that would be run in coordination with DHS. So she was bringing there would be significant outreach of getting the word out into the community and also assistance provided to them to work with folks to make sure that that is appropriate. And I think part of the plan that is before you also includes a phase where there is some pre-development work that happens that helps test whether the project is a feasible project before you move into committing the multiple millions of dollars that would be needed to construct and facility. Thank you. Further questions. Okay. I believe we will have more discussion, undoubtedly. And we thank you for this opening briefing. And the good questions and answers will be back to those together in earnest. So. That concludes the action item on our agenda today.