A MOTION creating the legislative branch equity and social justice team and adopting its mission statement.
Sounds good. Okay. Was anybody there for the pickle speech? Does anyone remember the pickle speech? Speaking of spoken word, very good. Recommend you go back on KQED and watch it. Excellent Speaker. All right. Our final item today is propose motion 2018 0282 offered by Council Chair McDermott, Councilmember Garcia and Councilmember Cole Wells. This legislation would create the Legislative Branch Equity and Social Justice team and adopt its mission statement. And Andrew Kim is going to present the basics on this as well. Thank you. Mr.. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, Andrew, can we counsel send your staff the staff report for this item begins on page 45 of your packet by way of background. In 2012, a legislative branch, equity and social justice team was convened consisting of representatives from all legislative branch agencies, council member offices and Legislative Central Staff to provide input on the annual legislative branch ESG Work Plan. The ESG Work Plan was a vehicle that was introduced through the Council adopted ESG ordinance in 2010. Since 2012, with the exception of the current biennium, the Council has adopted either an annual or by a biennial legislative branch, ESG or plan by motion. Attachment two to the staff report on page 496 includes a copy of the 2015 2016 Legislative Branch ESG Work Plan. Since convening in 2012, the Legislative Branch ESG team has broadened its scope of work by facilitating lunch learners lunch and learns, providing a safe venue for legislative branch employees to discuss and engage in conversations related to ESG . Being a liaison to the county's ESG Inter Branch team and leading the efforts to take action on the commitments that were identified in the work plan. Since its first meeting, the team has not had any funding for its activities. However, for 2018, the team received a $6,800 grant from the Office of ESG to fund ESG related training and learning events such as the recent ESG Professional Development Training Session and the sexual harassment training session. The proposed motion before you would establish the legislative branch ESG team that would include representatives from all legislative branch independent agencies, the Flood Control District Council member offices and legislative central staff. The motion would also adopt the team's mission statement to establish the team's organizational structure and identify its scope of work that includes drafting a work plan. The. The proposed motion would also ensure a safe environment for all team members to fully participate in all our team activities without repercussion or concern of impacting their primary legislative branch responsibilities. And that concludes my remarks, Mr. Chair. All right. Very good. Councilman, who would like to start off the presentation from the dais on this item? No. One Council member, McDermott, would like to put it before us. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Of Adoption of 2018 to 8222. You are the prime on it, and would you like to speak briefly to it beyond Andrew's remarks? Yeah, I'm Andrew. Some of the legislation itself, we've had a historic ESG group within the legislative branch, and I think this is a very good step in codifying, putting into code practice and the work that we know is ongoing. Very good. Other remarks, Councilmember Gossett and Councilman Raquel Wells. Thank you. Ms.. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Adding on to Councilmember Mike Darling is that I think that this ordinance or allow us encourage us facilitators are doing a better job of developing clear goals for our legislative branch, equity and social justice team. And also it having a potential a plan, even a more effective role in a larger King County government ESG team, because they're going to be asked to be a little more clear and crisp on what it is that we see. Equity and social justice efforts being in relationship to development of legislative policy are government wide policies that move forward. Our commitment to making considerations around equity and social justice and the development of all major public policies in our government. So I look forward to us paying that kind of paying better attention and giving better focus and guidelines for the development of this team. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Councilmember Cole Wells. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I strongly support this. I'm really pleased with all that's been going on way before I arrived here, and I've enjoyed the events that have been sponsored by our legislative team. But I'm just curious, Andrew, maybe you can help. You mentioned a grant. Would there are there budget implications for this legislation if it were to be approved? There are no direct budget implications. The Office of the Council appropriated funds to the Office of Equity and Social Justice, and they've had those funds available for other departments and agencies to apply to advance some ESG related topics. And the the legislative branch applied or the ESG team, the current ESG team applied for that grant and received that grant just for this year. Just so just for this year. But the next biennium, would we need to apply for another grant depending on what happens in the budget? Or would we be able to just include something in the budget? There's been any discussion on that there? There hasn't been any discussion. The Office of ESG. May we initiate such a grant program again for next biennium? We would have to see the their budget proposal to see if those funds are included in the executive proposed. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, Councilmember Gossett. Thank you. I thought that was a good question by way of example. And the guy that runs this professor at the University of California at Berkeley, John Power, has done really excellent writing on equity and social justice and how to make it work and various governments across the country. We would like to try to get the authorization from the County Council to bring him up as a speaker. So that by itself probably costs five or $7,000. So it's the only source for that the SJ office offices of the County Government as a whole budget or can we use some county funds to bring special speakers just for our legislative staff? Councilman. So there's currently no budget in place for the GSA team. But should the council want such a speaker to come for the next biennium? You're definitely open to include a line item in the Council's or the legislative branch as budget two to be used for the term by Mr. Powell. I thank you. Marco. How do we call the rule on this one? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Bertucci. Councilmember done. Councilmember Gossett II. Councilmember Caldwell, Councilmember Lambert. Hi. Councilmember McDermott, Councilmember of the girl. Councilmember one right there. Mr. Chair. Right, Mr. Chair, the vote is nine eyes, no nos. Okay. Why don't we expedite that and have it on the regular calendar since it kind of goes with the other one? All right, colleagues, that's all I have for today. I know you're disappointed and a little bit overly market. Do you think that our motion approving the minutes, despite the lack of a quorum since no quorum call was made, is appropriate, will stand. Yes, Mr. Cherri. All right. Very good reminder to you all that because the committee stand down, are meetings moved to Monday morning? The next meeting is scheduled for October 1st, preliminarily at 9:30 a.m. here in chambers on Monday. That's on Monday, yeah. Depending on the volume of the agenda and what your schedules are, we may look at adjusting start time, but my