A MOTION requesting the executive to prepare an assessment report to inform council deliberations regarding possible renewal of the best starts for kids levy.
conversation we realize that we don't have final amendments in place. With that, Mr. Williams and Mr. Maslin asking the line, Is yours? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Hillary Williams, Council Policy Staff. The staff report with this item begins on page 11 of your agenda packet. I propose moves in 2020. 200 would request a report from the Executive to inform Council deliberations on possible renewal of the best charge for kids. Levy. As you all know, Best Start for Kids is a levy funded, prevention oriented regional plan that is aimed at supporting the healthy development of children and youth, family and communities across King County. The motion asks the executive to transmit a report that assesses the effectiveness of current levy strategies and programs and meeting the goals of the levy. And that analyzes and makes recommendations on various policy considerations, including how a renewed levy would benefit the entire region while targeting resources to those most in need. This report would be due by September 30th, 2020, and I will now provide a little bit of background on the specifics of the levy. In November 2015, King County voters approved the current best start for Kids Levy, which is a six year property tax levied at a rate of 14.14. Cents per $1,000 of assessed value in 2016, with an increase of up to 3% for each of the five subsequent years of the levy. As you stated earlier, Mr. Chair, this levy is up at the end of next year, and based on recent revenue forecast, the levy is anticipated to generate a total of approximately $404.5 million in revenues over the life of Levy. The Bank Levy Ordinance, which is ordinance 18088, directed that out of the first year levy proceeds, $19 million be set aside to fund the Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative, as well as the amounts that were necessary to pay for election costs related to the lift. All remaining levy proceeds are to be disbursed as follows 50% for the invest early allocation, which focuses on children and families ages 0 to 5, where they are to support healthy child development and family well-being. 35% for the sustained sustained to gain allocation, which focuses on supporting positive development for children and young adults ages 5 to 24 as they progressed into into adulthood, and then 10% for the Communities Married Matters allocation, which focuses on strategies to create safe and healthy communities. Building on a partnership between the county and the Seattle Foundation on Communities of Opportunity, which is based on the latest research regarding the impact of placed on individual and population health and wellbeing outcomes . This includes local community supports and building their own capacity to create positive change. And finally, there's a 5% allocation for the outcomes focused and data driven part of the levy. And this supports evaluation, data collection and improving the delivery of services and programs under the. Let's quickly talk about levy oversight. The BSC levy is overseen by the Children and Youth Advisory Board, which carries dual responsibilities, ties to the best stance for kids Levy and the Youth Action Plan, as well as the communities of Opportunity Best for Kids Advisory Board. Which is the advisory body for the communities of opportunity portion of the network. These groups play an integral role in monitoring progress of service and program implementation, while partnering with the county to ensure that these investments are consistent with levy requirements are effective and transparent to the public. I am now going to cover the analysis section of the staff report, which begins at the bottom of page 14 of your packet. Again, this motion would request the report from the Executive to inform Council of possible renewal of the best stance for food levy. More specifically, the motion ask that the Executive transmit this report to be developed in consultation with stakeholders. That includes one an assessment of the effectiveness of the current strategies and program in achieving the current levy funding goals, including in an analysis of the impact of investments in advancing equity and social justice and changing systems and policies of racial and other forms of oppression to. An analysis and recommendations on the following potential changes to the levees three Primary Goals and existing and existing strategies and whether a Renew Levee should incorporate any new goals in our strategy. How a renewed levee would align and coordinate with children and family. Strategic Task Force Recommendations. The Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy. The Mental Illness and drug dependency on the Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account as well as other funding streams. How a renew levee would benefit the entire region while targeting resources to those most in need. And final point there is that the assessment report would look at whether a renewed levee should retain or revise the current oversight structure or the representation of the Children Youth Advisory Board. And finally, the member should have received a recent email that I sent out with an attached conceptual, conceptual, striking amendment. I'd like to note that staff is currently working with Council member about Dempsey's office to finalize a striking amendment to be offered at next week's council meeting. I will now go over the conceptual strike if there are any questions at this point. I sense for Mr. Telhami before moving before the addressing the concept of a thinker comes number validity. I wanted to say a word. Please. Okay. Thank you. The artillery and is doing a great job with the briefing. I just wanted to give a brief little bit of additional background, if I could. I wanted to thank Department of Community and Human Services. They initiated this request for the motion to do an assessment because it is always a good first step to look back at how the Levy programs have performed. To help us then develop a base of information to create a program with changes as needed to to be more effective going forward. Assuming we ask the voters to continue this program, which I am assuming that we will. I will have a few more words to say after the next part, but I wanted to just briefly share that in developing this striking amendment, we did reach out to all of the council officers and we got feedback from a number of them. We tried to include I think we include all we include all but just one request. And I hope that that one was minor and not in not too upsetting to the member who asked for it. And we're still working a little bit on language just to make sure that we're really clear. And I'm having one additional conversation with DHS on this. Now, there's a really clear understanding of exactly what the report will contain so that it sets us off on a really good path to be talking about potential changes to the program going forward. I just wanted to set that context. And then because of the timing, I'll say this in the middle, but I'll say it again at the end. If members here today hearing this, looking at it, think, I really wish we would also ask about something else. Please, please, please bring that up today so that we can make any final changes within the next 24 hours, because we do have a three day weekend coming up and this is up for a final vote at next week's council meeting. So thank you for letting me jump in there and just add a little bit to what has already been a very thorough staff report. And I look forward to hearing the conceptual strike or briefing. Thank you, Mr. Williams. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I am currently on the conceptual striker document. It is a list of about seven things to go through briefly. Mr. Williams, if I may, just to direct members. Mr. Williams was not kidding when he said he had recently sent this. It was after the meeting started on 20:05 p.m. today. Met email from all members from Hilary Williams with the attachment he's working through now. Is there. So I would just start with number one and go down the list. So the first thing that the amendment would do is add language directly to direct the executive to develop the assessment report in consultation with the Regional Policy Committee. Two. It would provide more specificity about what information is being requested to be included in the assessment regarding the goals, strategies and programs in the first years of the escape. It would also require the report to include an analysis of levy proceeds used to fund technical assistance and capacity building. The amendment would require the report to include the rationale for any unspent or reallocated levy funds. Iraq's language ban directs the executive to explore goals and strategies that could be incorporated in an increased or expanded level. The ads efforts focused on equality and social justice, including racial justice, to the list of new or revised goals or strategies that should be considered in a new, increased or expanded level. And finally, the amendment would require that the analysis of investments by geographic area includes zip code level data of person served. So that's currently what we're working on and refining at the moment. And. Mr. Chair, that concludes my remarks for this item. Thank you, colleagues. Councilmember Lambert, you're unmuted. There you place. Councilmember Lambert, we can hear you. You don't seem to me. You don't seem to be muted. Now you're muted. Now you're not. Councilmember Lambert, could your device be muted? You're unmuted on. Zoom. No. Can some Mr. Chair sentiment be that I my volume is down on my laptop. Maybe she could check that. Oh. Councilor and Council Member Lambert. I don't know if it would help if you logged out like back in. I mean, now you have your colleagues offering I.T. support. None of us, right? Professionals catch our attention and will help recall your involvement. Council Member Demovsky. Thank you, Mr. Chair. A couple of thoughts to share here. I wondered. I recall that we built in some reporting out and results kind of language in the original ordinance that was adopted by the voters in the levy. And I think it would be worthwhile to circle back and look at that language when we were advocating for it in the community, including particularly, I recall, before the Municipal League, they were particularly interested in how we would demonstrate the efficacy of the investments. And it can be kind of hard on some of these macro community investments to show the needles to move. But there has been some reporting during the course of the levee with the with the annual report that's done that. So I think the reporting on it has been been pretty good. I would hope that we could include a reference, as we did in the original legislation, to the goals set forth in the adopted policy by the county for youth and young adults and the Youth Action Plan, and making sure that that continues to be a guiding light. My office has had some early discussions with our youth Czarina, as I call her, who I see is on the line Sheila campus Danny about eventually updating that to reflect and a ten year anniversary the basis of where we ought to be on policy there. And I think that's a good idea. But I think it's good to have a policy document that guides us. And I would also be interested in one of the things that I was pretty happy to work on was making sure we included a bucket of money, which I think is 35% for youth and young adult investments. We had to invest early, right, and then sustain the game was the language when the concept was first advanced. It was really an early childhood program and we broadened the investments and I think those have been, in my observation, very well received. I do think that the investing early from a. Science standpoint is good and you get great results there. But I know that those dollars that have supported young people during critical years of development and growth and formation have just been really critical to a lot of organizations. And I hope that we can continue those investments in a renewed level. So there's some some thoughts in terms of the reporting out. Do we have a put in the form of a question that maybe we would like analyze? Do we have the right balance in the bucket? 5035. And then the balance for measurement and administration. Thank you. And you. This is. Here comes my plumber. I have had computer problems for the last half hour, so thank you to the kids for your. Assistance. In dealing with this. Luckily, I have the computers in my house, so they're running back and forth to figure out how to get it on. Anyway, I have two questions on this on the best for Kids. One of the things I noticed in there is it talked about second and fourth graders, but it didn't say anything about my grade as being a pivotal year. Fourth grade is the year that your teachers are most likely to be able to predict who is going to be getting into trouble in later lives, which is an unfortunate thing. But ninth grade is when you can tell whether somebody is probably going to drop out of school or not. So there was a study done a couple of years ago by. Dr.. Gentry reinvesting in youth, and that report was very well done, had some superintendents or fabulous on the committee, and I think that's a report that we should make available to the people doing this research. And then the second thing is, when we started the search for kids, if I remember correctly, there were. Several boards that were huge. Could you tell. Me how many boards would be support boards and how many members to those boards at. This point? Councilmember Leppert The only boards that I am aware of are the ones that I mentioned during my staff report. And those are the. Once again, the Children and Youth Advisory Board and the. Communities of opportunity based on expertize advisory board. I would have to defer to executive staff on the line or any other of the boards that are that that may be applied here. If she ever heard. Good afternoon, Councilman. Councilmember Lambert, we do have the two governing groups with. The Children Youth. Advisory Board is up to 40 members. I believe we're somewhere around 34, 35 at this point. We've greatly increased our membership of youth on that board. And as all of the members come before you all to confirm, you've seen the caliber of candidates we have. But right now, it is about 35 or 36, and I'm not sure how many are on the committees of Opportunity Board, but those are the two. That function right now. In point. Of 40. It's pretty, pretty big. So. Oh that I was just concerned about. Well we have to have those meetings. We better to do them. Other than actually, yes, it is a big board. They operate by subcommittee a lot. So a lot of the. Work gets done in smaller groups and then they report and tackled larger issues. A large group. Alex. Dombrowski. Councilmember Dombrowski. Thank you, sir, for the second round. Sheila, great to see you. With the September deadline, I know we are leading up to kind of a renewal program, but when you have enough time to do a thorough report given the to kind of put a deadline in here, how does that schedule work for the department? Thank you so much for that question. We certainly have lots and lots of things that we are managing. I think that a September 30th deadline is one that we can make. Mostly because we've started to do the dig in part of this and working with all of our staff on how is your strategy going? What's been happening with it? So we've started that deep work. What we're going to be needing to do in the next couple of months is all the writing and the analyzing of all of that. But the work has started to be able to produce the report. Councilmember Balducci. Thank you. I've been listening to the comments with an ear to. What. Might be added to a striking amendment that we will work up for next Tuesday. And I heard some good ideas about things to focus on as we're building the program. And I heard Councilmember Lambert say that it would be a good idea to make sure that the folks working on the report were familiar with the Reinvesting in Youth study, which I think if it's in English, probably they are, but we will make sure that that's easy to do. I actually I would just want to check with my colleagues. I heard one suggestion that I would interpret as a change for the Stryker, and that is to make sure we ask the question as part of the analysis whether the balance is right between the different buckets or a large, you know, high level programmatic divisions in BSC. So if anybody thinks I missed something, please say so, because that's that's what I will take back as a potential add to the Stryker. And we will work up a final version as quickly as we can. Councilmember Balducci. I did not hear them speaking. So we will expect they will forever hold their peace. I don't expect that. But I think I've done the best job I can collecting one additional thing for the conceptual striker list, and then we'll work on making sure that's all in language. We've got a pretty good draft underway. Miranda and Tillery have been working on it, but we'll finish it up quickly and circulate it. Thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Councilmember Valdes, you're the prime sponsor on this piece of legislation. Would it be your wish that we move it out without recommendation of all council that we hold in committee and expect to relieve committee of our counsel next week? I do not have a strong. Preference, but I suppose it would show commitment to move without without recommendation, I mean, and at least the commitment of getting it to council. So that would be fine with me. And I would I would so move. Councilmember She has moved. We move our motion 2020 202 for council without recommendation and again highlighting our discussion today about a striking amendment that would be prepared and offered to council next week. Councilman Romanski This is a procedural question, Mr. Chairman. I'm a little confused on the explanation regarding the relationship of the Regional Policy Committee. Was this a non-mandatory referral or or how is it that we're just not getting their input? It was another mandatory dual referral. There was not a corridor for all. Correct. But that's all I needed to understand. Thank you. And then in the council member building, as you just mentioned, I also understand that in the timeline for the report, there's a as you already asked the department to make sure they have time to do it, not to delay the formal request for the report. Councilmember Bell, anything further? Briefly. And I may be speaking for Councilmember Von Right, but a little bit here. But as chair of the IPC, I understand that he did put out a request to members of the IPC about tell them to if they had any input upfront that they should feel free to share that. And I actually did receive one piece of feedback from a member of the IPC, and I included that in the Striker Amendment list. I think that. Yeah. You know, again, it's a motion. It's a request for a report. Not a not an ordinance requiring a report. And if anything comes out, we have an RPG meeting coming up this week. If anything comes out of that, that is important. I will certainly join my colleagues in asking TCHC to make sure that they look at things that are important to our city partners, and I believe that they will be open to doing that if they can. So it's it's a sort of a mushy answer, but but we will do our very best to make sure we include feedback from the PC in our requests around this report. I thank you as chair and customer about the chamber, as I was truly just unsure of the process or the procedural posture of it. And I obviously when we go to advance the ordinance to put it on the ballot next year, that would be also the dual mandatory through our if it's on their work plan. So I'm hearing no more discussion. We have more than 20, 20, 200 artists advancing to full council without recommendation. So someone else seemed to be recognized. No. No. Ask the court to please call the. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Barghouti, I Council member BANDUCCI. But I. Council Member Dombrowski, i. Councilmember Dombrowski, outside councilmember dunn. By. Councilmember dunn, go to councilman caldwell's i. Councilmember Caldwell spoke to councilmember lambert. Councilmember lambert gonzales. I am up the ground. I councilmember of the ground but i councilmember of honor. I council member upon break thereabouts i council members on life. I council members all my votes i. Mr. Chair. Hi. Mr. Chair. The vote is 19 to announce. By your vote we have moved advanced motion 2020 202 for Council without recommendation we will expedite. So it is on the agenda for next Tuesday's council meeting. Thank you, everyone. That brings us to item seven proposed ordinance 2020 203, which would place on the November ballot a charter amendment to allow the county to sell some properties for