A MOTION requesting that the executive transmit a plan for addressing major technology emergencies that might occur the in the office of emergency management, the department of natural resources and parks and the department of elections, and departments as requested by department directors.
grade you. Thank you very much. Okay. Let's bring up our next panel, which will be 2016 0473 and in a minute. Yeah. Okay. This is developing a plan for addressing major technology emergencies that might occur in three different departments that we wanted to start with. The Office of Emergency Management, Natural Resources and Parks and the Department of Elections. Mr. Hamburger, would you begin? Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. For the record, Patrick Hamacher, I'm I'm apparently being joined by Mr. Gillis. I'm also delivering a report for Mr. Giambattista, who's there in the office today. The proposed motion before the committee would call on the executive to work with three departments between the departments and committee to come up with a plan to address emergencies and the way that they would handle it. Related Emergencies within the department. The project, which essentially would start out like a pilot project, would require the departments to work with KCET on how they would be alerted on upcoming events, a schedule for major events that could be adversely impacted by I.T. emergencies. The how the how KCET would be alerted if there were issues to come up and the a resource or on call plan for dealing with those issues. That plan would be required to come back to the Council in April of next year for review and could lead to more widespread roll out throughout the county. And that concludes my staff report. Madam Chair. Thank you. That's pretty straightforward. Thank you very much, Mr. Key. How would you like to make any comments? Yes. Thank you, Madam Chair. For the record, Bill Kehoe, King County Chief Information Officer I think this is a a very good ordinance. It will improve the coordination between city and our separately elected agencies in our executive branch agencies when we have an event and an event can be a flood warning and could be an election cycle . There's many events that could occur that require our assistance and coordination. So this will formalize what we are trying to do today, which is to coordinate much better with our agencies around these events, make sure that we have the right recovery plans. If something were to go wrong, make sure we have the right resources on call, make sure that we have alerts so that we don't make any changes to our technology during one of these events. So there's moratoriums that we have to adhere to. And so we're looking forward to working with our with our agencies, in our executive branch departments and increasing the coordination and collaboration to make sure that nothing goes wrong during these critical events. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Robertson. Thank you, Madam Chair. I think a couple of weeks ago we had the emergency management program leadership. Judy Miller. Who was it? Judy Miller. Yeah. That was before us. And she said that we're trying to get cell phone numbers into our system, but we have to rely upon people calling that registering. And what that did, to my mind, is say that a lot of working class and poor people get different cell phones every four or five months, and they rarely would think about even if they saw ADVERTISMENT on TV to register with anybody. So my question to you is, how do we get information about an emergency that has are out the down quickly? Are we just we're out of luck. Thank you. Mr.. Mr.. Gossett, I think for this, this audience is really for internal coordination. For external coordination and our residents. You know, that's difficult for, you know, the folks that you mentioned. I think there's email, there's texting potentially is other technologies that we could look at in addition to the cell phone. But unless someone has access to that, it is difficult. Yes. And there's no way that every time someone gets a new cell phone number, it just automatically goes into our system. That was that technology doesn't exist yet. It probably does exist, but it certainly isn't something that we have available. You have to work with the various phone carriers and sometimes their cell phones that are, you know, just for day use or, you know, they're free, essentially. So those are more difficult as well. But that's a that's a real that's a really good problem to look to solve in the future. All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you. And thank you for remembering that we were briefed on some of the emergency needs and the coordination. And so I'd like to thank Carolyn Whalen, Judy Miller. Christy, true. And of course, you, Bill Kehoe, for the coordination on this and being willing to put this together so that when there is an emergency that the phones don't go to get overwhelmed or the computers slowed or crashed. And if they do happen, where do we do next to make sure that that doesn't happen for very long? Council member of the Grove. Thank you, Madam Chair. Bill, do you anticipate you can do this with your existing staffing and resources yet? That's a great question. I was actually thinking about that as I was walking up here. We have a lot of processes in place today, so we're not going to request any additional funding or resources a change management process. So I think it's just increasing the level of coordination. So I don't think there's a huge impact on on our staffing. Thank you. The other questions Councilmember Dombroski. Thank Madam Chair. Please to a to move for the do pass recommendation propose motion 2000 60473. Thank you. Any other questions? Please call for the vote. Thank you, Madam Chair. Council member Belushi. I want to come to Members and our city council member. Then Council member Gossett I. Council member Caldwell's I. McDermott, High. Council member of the group. I am. Some are proven right. All right. All right. Madam Chair, I am sure the vote of. No, no, no, no. Thank you very much. And with that, I think we can put it on the concert calendar, since it is an internal working document. And well, I don't know, Mr. Goss, that might want to talk about the idea of mentioning again to various people. Let's just put it on the real calendar and very good timing. Thank you very much. All right. Let's go on to our next item, which is the briefing 2006, Briefing 187, and that is our four culture update. Two weeks ago were updated on what they've done in the past and this update as required by code is what