A MOTION requesting that the King County office of emergency management and public health - Seattle & King County work collaboratively to update the King County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, the Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan, the Regional Coordination Framework, continuity of operations plans, the King County Continuity of Government Plan and all other relevant emergency management plans and documents to address the risks from and response to pandemics, incorporating lessons learned from the COVID-19 outbreak, and to develop a pandemic response plan for King County.
And hearing no more questions will advanced eight in 2020 183, which asks the Office of Emergency Management and Public Health to update all of the county's emergency management plans to address the risks of pandemics. Jake Tracy will revisit the motion. Mr. TRACY. The letter goes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Jake Treacy Council Staff The Materials. For Proposed Motion. 2020 10183 begin on page 33 of your packet. I will keep this brief given the time. The proposed. Motion. Would request that the Office of Emergency Management will update all relevance of emergency management and disaster recovery plans and documents to address pandemics and with lessons learned from the COVID 19 pandemic and would request that public health Seattle and King County create a pandemic response plan. So a little bit on their pandemic response plan. There's an existing pandemic influenza response plan that public health authored and was adopted by audience in 2006. The plan describes actions that various entities would take during each of the four pandemic phases identified by the World Health Organization in a variety of scenarios and actions, including social distancing, isolation of cases, canceling of large social gatherings, a lot of things that probably some of my right now so that pandemic influenza response plan because their COVID 19 symptoms and transmission method are similar to influenza has elicited a similar response. But other pandemics in the future could have different symptoms, different modes of transmission. And so this proposed motion would ask OEM to come up with an overall pandemic response plan to respond to pandemics in general, not just pandemic influenza. There's some specifics about what the plan would entail. There is also a striking amendment that makes some changes. I will note that the striking amendment as a date makes the due date for this response plan, pushes it back to September 1st, 2022, with a status report and briefing to the Council on September 1st, 2021, or before. And the Executive has also requested some further changes. But I'll pause there for any questions. Colleagues. Amber Council member. Welcome. Thank you. Two quick things. Does this include and I didn't see it. I didn't see a stockpile inventory. I think we probably should know what our inventory is and going forward so we can evaluate, you know, what we have and what we might want to have now that we've had a pandemic. And secondly, the role of zone leaders. I will tell you that the cities in my area are very upset that the zone leaders are being done away with. And that is the huge, hugely important, because that's who knew what kinds of emergencies there were to help people prepare and to supervise and an ongoing basis. So I would like to know if they are going to get rid of the zone leaders, which I think is a public policy question. What is going to be replacing those zone leaders? Councilmember Lambert, on that first question, the motion does call out that the pandemic response plan would have identification of critical infrastructure or resources that are currently lacking that would be required in order to respond to pandemic and the barriers to acquiring or developing that infrastructure or resources and recommendations on how to fill those gaps. So that answers your first question, I believe. The second one, I would have to defer to executive staff who I believe that we have on the line in terms of the zone leaders. Thank you very much for. I believe we have Brendan McCluskey on the line from Ohio. Megan. Afternoon, everyone. Can you hear me okay? Yes, Premier. Hi. Good afternoon. Yeah, I'm the. The second council member. There are no plans to get rid of the zone coordinator positions. We agree it's a very important position to have there as an advocate and a link from us to the cities. And we absolutely. Are going to be continuing that program. Councilmember Lambert, you're on mute. Thank you. Do you want me to be the one to tell him, or do you want to be the one to tell him? Because one of us is going to make him really happy. So he's going to come up with his life. Yeah. Thank you. They're both aware that they are that the program is being. Continued. And they weren't yesterday. So. Okay. Thank you. So. Councilmember Dunn. Thank you. I'd like to put this before us and move motion number. What is that, Joe? 20. Five 2020 0183 2020 0183 Before us for consideration and speak to it. Councilmember Douglas moved adoption of moves we give a do pass recommendation to rush in 2020 183. Councilmember Dunn. Thank you. It's been almost 15 years since we did a pandemic planning document. Obviously, we're in the throes of one right now. We're learning an enormous amount and plans that should not be lost on us. And so, you know, in this particular scenario, as you know, the you know, the Department of Public Health Department of Health office is front and center. But they're being buttressed, I think, in a lot of different ways by our Department of Emergency Management. And this would call on the executive branch of government through that department to redo our plan, to improve our plan. Amount of time. But I think it's important right now that we start that process so that we are ready to move more quickly in modern times. In case this happens again, my great fear is that we get through through this, you know, a year or two later. Before us, and we need to be ready. And I know I work very closely with the executive branch of government, and I believe we have their support and would recommend this for your consideration. Further discussion. So I just want to clarify that there is a striking amendment and a title amendment. Councilmember done. Move one. Striking amendment. Ask what is before us on Councilmember Bell duty. I had a question, but I don't want to interrupt the middle of briefing the striking amendment. I can wait. Jake, why don't you talk about the striking amendment first and then we can do questions? Sure. So the striking amendment makes a couple of changes. The one I mentioned, it pushes the due date from September 1st, 2021 to September 1st, 2022. In the initial legislation, there was a requirement that the public health come up with different specific plans for different types of pandemics that might come about in this plan. It's just one overall pandemic response plan rather than individual plans for different types of pandemics and requests that public health update their other relevant planning documents, not just that pandemic response plan. And it updates some references to the existing plans that OEM has as offered. And so as I mentioned earlier as well, the executive has requested some. Additional changes. Passed that that doesn't keep you from taking action today, though. Questions on the Second Amendment. Kerry. None of us in favor of adopting striking amendment one. Please signify by saying i. I. I opposed nay. The ayes have it. So amendment is adopted. We have ordinance 2020 180 3t1. Two, one. Yeah. Move t one. Mr. Chair. Title. Amendment one is before us. See? No discussion. All those in favor. Please say I ii oppose. Nay, the ayes have it. T one is adopted. We have both in 2020 183, as amended before us council member Belushi. Yeah, this is a question I know it's a motion and motions are nonbinding, but assuming that the executive branch took up this very sensible path, what what resources will they or will they need to do it? I will defer to. Executive staff on that. Yeah. Thanks. That's my this is Brendan McClusky again from Emergency Management. The work will be added in 2 hours and I believe Public Health's work plans and reflected in our budget requests to the executive. As you heard earlier, we are being asked the general fund cuts and we're working with PSP now and to see how that will factor into our budget request for the next biennium, 2021 to 2022. So I don't think it's the answer to make, but thank you for that answer. I don't think the answer changes the fact that it is a sensible thing for us to have all our plans up to date, but it's just something that we need to keep our eye on going forward, that the organizations we need to do this have the resources to do the work. And this is probably beyond the bounds of zoom etiquette. But I just want to comment that the maker of the motion looks like he's sitting in a truck that has turned upside down. It's very pretty close, Claudia. Pretty close. The best I got here. Thank you, Claudia, for that. Yeah. I don't want to be sensitive to cost. There's a lot of in-house work that I know the Department of Emergency Management can do. And so I just think we have to do this. I mean, if we don't do our pandemic update, our pandemic planning document based on this, I think it's a big mistake that would cost us downstream. I'm sensitive to cost. And then my hope is that delaying that turnaround time for really 24 months gives us the best way to defray that cost and get it. Hopefully we can get it done as much as we can within the absorption of the existing personnel structure. So I'd urge your support. Seeing no further discussion of middle class, would you please call the role? And Mr. Ferrer, Councilmember Bellucci, I. Councilmember Bell, did she? But I don't remember. Dombrowski. Councilmember Dombrowski About time. Councilmember Done. By. Councilmember done. Councilmember Coles, I. Councilmember Caldwell supports I. Council Member Lambert I. Council Member Lambert. Bullseye. Council member of the Council. I. Council member of the group votes on Council Member Von Richthofen. I. Councilmember one right. There are votes. Councilmember Sanllehi. I. Council members on my line. Both I. Mr. Chair. Hi. Mr. Chair. You have nine eyes there on us. Thank you. But you don't to give me a do pass recommendation to must in 2020 183. Do we want to remain prudent concerned, given that we may have additional amendments in full council? Do we want to expedite? No, we will not accept. We'll send a full council on regular course of action. Now. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, that's appropriate. Great. Next item would be to offer reconsideration for anyone who missed a vote. Madam Clerk, I believe anyone who has lost a vote. Is that correct? That's correct, Mr. Chair. Right. That takes us to item ten in other business executive session. The committee does need to discuss another matter in executive session. The grounds for executive session under RTW 4231 ten are to discuss with legal counsel litigation or potential litigation towards the accounting is or is likely to become a party.