A MOTION requesting the executive to contract with the University of Washington to conduct a retrospective analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 and the actions taken by King County leaders and public health - Seattle & King County to limit the spread of the virus.
And with that will continue to. The second item on today's agenda is a motion requesting the executive contract with University of Washington to conduct a retrospective analysis of the effectiveness of actions taken by county leaders in the Health Department to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. We were briefed on this item back in June, and I'm sure you remember it intimately by Sam Porter from Central South. This porter is here to give us a short overview and brief this on amendments. Ms.. Porter. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sam Porter, Council Central Policy Staff documents for this item began on page 19 of your packet, and as the chair mentioned, since this was previously briefed in committee, our focus on the amendments and proposed motion 2020 0182 would request the Executive to contract with the University of Washington to conduct a retrospective analysis of the current coronavirus pandemic response in King County and transmit the report to council. On page 27 of your packet, you can see Amendment one. This would remove previous language stating that a report should be conducted with Public Health, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the Gates Foundation and other organizations, and would add language stating that the contract should be made with the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. For graduate students to conduct an independent analysis to include but not be limited to the health, economic and social impacts of COVID 19 and the actions taken by King County leaders and Public Health, Seattle and King County to limit the spread of the virus. And this would be done using publicly available data and resources. The amendment states that the work should commence in January 2020, 2021 and that the executive can negotiate access to public health and other executive branch leaders in order to prioritize the ongoing pandemic response. The next amendment, amendment two is on page 29, and this would just change the due date for the report from June 30th of next year to July 31st of 2021. And the title amendment on page 31 of your packet would inform the title of the proposed motion to the revised scope of the analysis, as stated in Amendment one. We have current gill from the Office of the Executive and Sally Clark from the University of Washington on the line to answer any questions. And that concludes my remarks. Thank you. Questions of Ms.. Porter. Miss Carr, did you have any comments to make or are you simply simply willing to respond to any questions? You know, I'm actually pinch hitting for Professor Matt Stallworth from the Evans School of Public Affairs, and I'm happy to pass along some of that thoughts about how the student teams would approach the work. But given that this is your second briefing, I'm happy to also sit back and simply answer your questions. I think overall, we just want to thank Councilmember Dunn and for the and the Council on the Executive and Public Health for even considering this at this point. It's a great opportunity for the student teams. Great. See? No questions. Council member done. Is it on the table? Have I moved to get a date movement? Back in July, when we first heard it or not? No. All right. Well, I'd like to move it, if I might. Before the committee, the whole. Council member has moved to give it do pass recommendation to ordinance 2020 182. Councilmember Dunn. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And then I'd like to move Amendment One. Amendment one is before us. Miss Porter has spoken to Amendment One. Are there further questions about Amendment One? Let me speak to it, if I might, please. When the when the pandemic began early on, when we were learning what was really happening in China and the first cases had come much to Europe as well and and to the West Coast of the United States. I spent a lot of time looking to try and find more information about the pandemic back in 1918. And it was surprising how little information there was. I'm sure many of you saw some of the data I was able to dig up to the National Geographic and others, but there just wasn't a lot of information, a clue . There's going to be a lot more information about the pandemic of the Corona virus in 2019, 2020. But local information, local analysis sense of how we handle here in the Puget Sound, Iraqi County is going to be really important. It's not about saying, hey, we did it better than other cities, although I think we did, but that it will be a guidepost for future generations. Maybe our grandchildren will have another pandemic. So we worked with the executives office and others in the public health arena to come up with a way that we could do this without getting in the way of our existing pandemic responses. And so I think we've fallen on. The Evans School at the University of Washington is sort of uniquely positioned with their expertize, along with the access to one of the best research universities in the United States, the medical field and the county and other public health information to do it. Sally Clark, always great to see you. Appreciate the university's willingness to do this as well. And we'd like to partner in this, I think gets it out of the way of the executives response. It still gives us a really good work product. So that's what the amendment is. I hope my colleagues can support this and urge your support. Further discussion on coal wells. Amendment one. Councilmember Cole Wells. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And maybe it would've been better to ask this earlier, and I'm not sure that it was mentioned. It's done. The estimated cost for this. Staff. Do you want to take that on? I know that we were going to use existing resources in the Emergency Management Department. Has there been any additional cost with the Evans School besides the contract? Referring to Curran in the office to help answer that. They scowls, remember? I do not know if we have a cost on this right now. Perhaps we could try to narrow that down before we vote on it at full council. Just an I'm. Yeah. We'll get you we'll get you all that information. The last conversation I had was the emergency department. Emergency Services had the money in their budget and that was going to come from that point for the that the study unless something has changed that's my belief. But Councilmember, I'll get that information to you before a vote of full council. Thank you. Especially because we'll have completed our being on budget. Yeah, I just. Just. Just so. You know, the cost and I just got a text as you were speaking is between ten and $15,000. 10%. It's a small. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Amendment one is before us. See no further discussion on this. In favor of Amendment one, please signify by saying I find I oppose nay. Guys have. Amendment one is adopted. Councilmember Dunn. I move amendment to. Amendment two as before as Councilmember Dunn. And this changes the deadline to late July of next summer, allows the winter and spring quarters for the graduate students to work on this and gives them a chance to to complete it right around their graduation in in. Next year. Garcia. Well. I do. And it would be really fun if one of the committees and subcommittees that's really happy to do this would would hear the final report. I think it would be very important to, you know, not only to process all that work, to publicize it, agreed for the students as well. We would get some of them here and well here, meaning the county courthouse hopefully by then and can showcase what they've learned and what we can learn from it. Thank you. Say no further discussion. All those in favor of amendment to please signify by saying i. I opposed nay. The ayes have it. The council member done the title amendment on page 31 of our packets. Two. One. Q one is before a scene of discussion. All those in favor, please say I am opposed. Nay. The ayes have it. The title amendment is adopted. We have ordinance 2020 182 as amended before us. Further discussion. Urge your support, Mr. Chairman. I'll consider it. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Gallucci. Councilmember Powell, due to events, I can't remember how I. Council Member Tim Baffsky. Both I Council member. I. Council member done Bosnian Council Member Coles I Council Member Calwell Spokes II Council Member Lambert I Council Member Lambert Woodside Council Member of the Growth. Councilmember Arturo. Councilmember Bond right there. Councilmember Bong right there. I. I was on Larry King Live as well. Some members only high council members on line votes. I. Mr. chair. I. Chair votes. I. Mr. chair, the vote is eight i's. Council member of the group excused. Thank you very much. By your vote, we've given a do pass recommendation to where or does 2020 182. And we will unless the objection, we will put that on the consent agenda at full council. Our last item today is a motion related to the unbanked.