A RESOLUTION in support of the bid by The City of Seattle to host the National League of Cities 2025 City Summit conference.
Agenda Item three Resolution 319 39 The resolution in support of the bid by the City of Seattle to host the National League of Cities 2025 City Summit Conference. Thank you. I meant to adopt resolution 31939. Is there a second? Second, it's been moved and seconded to adopt the resolution. Councilmember Herbold, you are the sponsor of this resolution, so I'll hand it over to you for remarks. Thank you. So, as I mentioned at this morning's briefing, this is a resolution in support of Seattle's bid to host the 2025 National League of Cities Conference. The National League of Cities is the country's oldest and largest organization, serving municipal governments with a mission to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership and governance. Seattle is a long term longtime member of NLC and previously hosted this conference in 2013. Visit Seattle is preparing Seattle's bid, working in partnership with the Association of Washington Cities. The mayor has signed a letter indicating her support for hosting the 2025 conference. My mayor my office has previously circulated additional information to all council members about this conference and its expected impact on Seattle, including answers to a checklist of questions that is required by Resolution 30340 for special events. This resolution declares that City Council support of the bid and invites the National League of Cities to conduct a site visit here as it considers whether to host. It is projected to be about 4500 attendees, with an estimated economic impact of $13.8 million for the city of Seattle, and in particular the tourism and hospitality industries, which, along with so many industries, are being really hard hit by the coronavirus right now. In 2018, some of you may remember Councilmember Bagshaw sponsored in the council, passed Resolution 31813 in support of hosting the conference in 2024 or 2025. At the time, the question the checklist of questions required by Resolution 3034 when considering hosting events was not prepared. Visit Seattle believes a new resolution that specifically identifies 2025 as the target date will be required to ensure a competitive bid. So given the desire for a new resolution, I initiated the review process outlined in Resolution 30340 to ensure that the City Council is providing appropriate oversight for large events. Central staff. Reviewed. The visit Seattle's request and indicated that the National League of Cities conference meets the definition of a major event in the resolution. Because city resources will be required for planning and or security and special permitting is unlikely to be required. This event is unlikely to result in the triggering of a future obligation. As. As. Anticipated. As. The resolution anticipates concerns with future obligations, and the city's financial exposure and resource commitment to the event is unlikely to to meet the threshold to trigger that obligation. In addition, another trigger is anticipated overtime expenditures exceeding 3% of Seattle Police Department's budget for overtime. Another trigger that is not anticipated to be met. I requested that the Office of Intergovernmental Relations and visit Seattle complete an evaluation of Nlc's request using the checklist list of questions outlined in resolution 303400. That's all I have. Thank you. Remember Herbold for those remarks. Are there any comments on the resolution? Once a president kills more of a skater, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, council president. I want to thank council member Herbold and her office for the work that they've done on this resolution. As someone who's also been in touch with folks from the U.S. about the possible possibility of including encouraging the summit to be held here in Seattle, initially had some concerns about funding and future obligations, which Councilmember Herbold just spoke to. So I want to especially thank Councilmember Herbold for all the time that she spent tracking down the information on past city summits and working with a number of stakeholders to get answers to those questions that I know we shared as one of the two city representatives with Councilmember Strauss on the Association of Washington Cities Board. I am excited to support this resolution now that we have answers to those questions. I know that it will be easy to find additional revenue to support and host the summit as we get closer to 2025. But I know that there is options for us to work with others in the community to make sure that the funds are brought in. The summit does allow for us to highlight what's great about Seattle, I think provides us with the opportunity to highlight our great union workforce that's in much of the hospitality and in our greater Seattle region as folks come into the city. They will be able to see how Seattle has hopefully been able to rebound with our great workers on the front line and to bring in much needed revenue to our industry. That's being hard hit right now, including in food service, tourism and hospitality. So the National League of Cities also participates in charitable event giving during this summit, and this allows us to bring in national attention and resources. And I think that it's a great opportunity for us to highlight what's good about Seattle and help build towards that 2025 deadline. Thanks so much, Councilmember Herbold, for all the work you do to answer those tough questions. Thank you very much. Are there any other comments on the resolution? Case hearing none. Well, the clerk called the roll on the adoption of the resolution. Councilmember Suarez. Hi, Councilmember Lewis. Hi. Councilmember Morales. I. Councilmember Moschella. I. Councilmember Peterson. Hi. Council members. What I. Councilmember Strauss. I. Don't remember Herbal. Hi. President Gonzalez, I. 9 a.m. favorite nun post. Thank you. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the adoption on my behalf? I'm sorry to the legislation on my behalf. Okay. So we are going to move now to adoption of other resolutions we have. I think this is our last second to last agenda item. So we will go ahead and hear about Resolution 31940 if the clerk can please read the item. Item four into the record.