hello everyone this is reginald kwame guillen's and i wanted to take a moment to talk about all of the resources that are here is him r t i multimedia resources training institutes of water for his ation over the last celebrities directly here to the studios and find out more information about them also there are a number of classes that go on here that may have be of interest to you learning how to do not only computer technology in a general sense but working on media programs working on the editing program software programs that will allow you to develop some skills to be value out there in today's i t market so i strongly strongly been also an advocate for some of the the parents i would appreciate your vote so i could make some changes that is needed in our schools sister grim going to ask  to grow up with the skills and knowledge needed to work in life and therefore i think that one of things that needed is an education  very much for having  good evening my name is michael jacobson i am the deputy director for performance and strategy in king county s office of performance strategy and budget i'm here with me in elliott who is working with me on the county strategic plan we'd like to talk to you today about ways that you can be involved in shaping the future of king county king county provides a number of services to the public some in collaboration with the city of seattle some that are the county's responsibility and we wanted to make sure that you had opportunity to participate in letting your voice be heard and telling us what services were important some of the services that we provide include the metro bus system we have county parks we run the county jail and the wastewater system we also in collaboration with seattle run the public health department there's a number of other services that people outside of cities use as well including land use planning and many people use the county runs the election department so there's quite a diversity of services that we provide and we're here to get your feedback on those different services and get your ideas for how we can improve our services and improve our community so no participating in a project that is about getting a strategic plan may not sound very exciting but is actually very exciting if you are not familiar with what a strategic plan is it's kind of a simple kind of like a road map for the county and where we're going to go over the next five years and how the county will try to meet your needs five years ago we were out talking with the community as well  public meetings and other forums and asking a similar questions and we heard a lot of really important things for instance we heard desire for they county to work on ending homelessness so our our committee to end homelessness actually set a target of creating ninety five hundred new units for homeless housing by the year two thousand and fifteen and we're about half way to that goal right now in two thousand and thirteen so it's things like this that you might be able to impact by making your vote boys heard through these forums so this year as we're out talking with the  public we're again holding a number of public meetings and talking to a small groups of people but we have a new and pretty exciting way that you can participate on your own time in your own place or at your nearby library and i'd love to show you a little bit about that today and it's called one king county dot info and that stuff w w dot one king county i n f o so if you can see my screen you can see when you go to one king county dot info you see this banner at the top here basic information the first thing that you may have noticed there is you get points for participating so that's my plug early on and by participating with points you get to go into our fancier word store here and claim different prizes from a coffee mug to a license for a year or a an orca card so you can get around on the metro transit system so there are a lot of different prizes so how do you get there you can come in here and go back to this house image here and that takes you back to the home page and if you scroll down you can see a few different questions that we want to know  those three basic questions that were looking to hear from you is one what makes king county a great place to live for you what do you really like about living here because we want we want to know that because we want to know the things we need to continue to support and maybe even do a better job of supporting then we'd like to know what challenges that you're facing what is kind of getting in your way of getting to w or you know enjoying your life and then also what ideas you have way to make us even better to make the county government serve you better to make life better just living here in king county so let me show you how it works first of all if you want to tell us about what you like about living here and you click on what makes king county a great place to live and then you can go in and i'm actually logged in here so you can see this survey but it'll say take this survey you click on it and they'll give you a variety of options and you pick the top three reasons or you can click in this box here where it says add your comment and you can write in your own ideas about what makes it great to live here so then if you want to go into the next question you go over here under topics and click up on topic number two challenges you face and this is kind of where it gets exciting because this is kind of it's a place for you to actually talk with people who live near you who live far from you all the way across the county and that have lots of different viewpoint so here you'll see that people have already had some ideas about what's a challenge about living here so this person a name is judy mentioned that she is having an issue with property taxes so if you click on that you can find out more about it so here she's saying that the property taxes are pretty high here and you can say oh yeah i really agree with that and if you do you  click on i love it or if you don't really care you can click on neutral so that's or you can have a discussion with judy about it in it add your own ideas here ok and megan judy points for putting that idea up there and you would get more additional points if you use if you voted on it right that's right so right are the different ways to earn points in the in the on the web site yes so if you go back up here topics go on to the next one where the big ideas and it's the same idea here but now i want to show you where people have actually had more of a conversation so i can see as  scroll down where there are comments so here's somebody talked about reducing obesity and making affordable healthy food available to everyone and the number of people like that you can see by the number sixteen here it's got a sixteen point rating this person is actually posted a video so that's another thing that you can do here you can take pictures or post videos  to further explain whatever idea you have and then if you scroll down you see that there are some people that have commented on it this person wins that this is are these ideas already in place and then there's another one another person that says there aren't they basically we haven't gone that far so those are just a couple of examples of how that works there are two more questions in there that are not our biggest priority questions but of course we would love to hear from you on them this when is how how can we get the information back to you and this is actually an important question to us because we want to make sure that you know that you're not just going to put your ideas out there and never find out what happens to them we are absolutely committed to making sure that you know what the results of this process are and we'll have those that information available in the diff and then we're of different ways for you so you can come in here again take this survey and tell us which way you would prefer to get your get the feedback and finally we would like to know a little bit about you and this is just asking you about how many years he lived here are you are you working those kinds of things just so we can understand who we're hearing from throughout their community is so really encourage you to do that if you like to but it's certainly completely optional for but we really encourage you to participate early and often go right away get on the computer right now and get started participating and by the way all you have to do to get fifty points is to sign up  and then you get more as you go on and then keep checking back to hear to hear what people might have said in response to an idea that you posted and also to comment on new ideas that come up on the site now if you don't have access to a computer or if you have one winch issues we do have partners that are available to help you  you can use if you do have a computer and you want some help with language and not comfortable reading in english there is google translate here so you can go on and select the language that you want and it will translate as you can see i selected arabic here and it translates into that language for you it's not perfect which is another reason we have those partners available so all of the king county libraries are available to assist you some of them have people available who can help in language not all of them you would have to call in advance to find out about that  at any rate you need to call them a day and a day in advance to reserve a computer other good partners that you can go to our real law there refugee women's alliance which is  like its name sounds not just for women you can go to multi service center near you their main one being in federal way and  you can go to another really great went to go to is the learning center at green bridge and that's in white center you have other ideas of things that we think you think we should make sure to share  i just i think one of the really important things that i want to be i want to convey is how important your participation is to us we know that the two million people live in king county  have many different experiences there are many people from different places different languages different religions and we want to be sure that we can include all the perspectives of people from all walks of life in our process  we are really trying to think big about what the role of the county is trying to get your ideas and really design our services to meet the communities in the us so if you have concerns ideas justin's we really would like to have your participation the website this one king county dot info is a new thing for us so we also were we're really interested to see how successful it is and if  people are using it and there's lots of the dialogue then it's likely to be something that we're going to be interested in trying in the future we know not everyone can take an evening out and go to a public meeting we know that that's hard to do for either because of job or kids or other obligations so we just want to make it try to make it as easy as possible for everyone to participate and i think one other little thing that i would like to add is if you're not sure what county service areas don't worry about it we want to hear what your experiences and what your needs are and we are actually communicating with other local governments in the area so you comments even if they aren't directly related to you county service won't go unheard plus there are lots of things that they can e can do that you know you might not think that we would do right one last thing people can come in person we might be will be asking many of these same questions but will you obviously have more opportunity presented your ideas in person with specific experience and examples yes so you can see here and you can always refer back to it it is available by clicking on the link at one king county dot info that was on the side there that weakest go back there and show you that if you look down here it says public workshop schedule and that just puts you out back to the county website where the listing of all seven of those workshops are and we really encourage you to come if you need an interpreter for any of those please contact us at two zero six two six three one one eight to let us know that you need an interpreter and we can use language line to help out with that request thanks for your interest and we really hope to see you on line or see you in one of our meetings and really pictures please come and use it and tank you so much extraordinary job it's an extraordinary city as well and i feel like we've gotten started on a lot of important things we have a lot more work to do i'd like to build more transit in the city to connect our neighborhoods to each other i'd like to improve our educational system and particularly make sure that our education system works for immigrant and refugee communities and i also want to make sure that everybody has a chance to share in the economic prosperity that the city can create whether that's through looking at things like minimum wages job means we're doing the planning to get more transit for the next generation and we also have a really hard job of making sure that we balanced our budget during the really bad times so we did we balanced the budget we protected human services we protected programs that affected our youth and we added and as times got better we've added more to those programs but we've also we've built or are any day fund and i'm proud of the fact that we're doing well economically now as well compared to where we were four years ago we worked hard to try after it sounds like this is an idea that's come in here and i'd love to hear more about it we like responding to ideas from the community and funding and one of the things that we've worked on is trying to expand our granting programs whether it's in the office of arts and culture of a speck anomic development or neighborhood funds so that when people identify opportunities they can you know request those grant dollars so i'd love to talk more about it i think sounds like a great idea  expensive so it was time to transition to a new way of doing it that would that was technologically up to date but we also were in a really tough budget times so we also had to save money abdulahi to help us on a contract basis and i would like to move more people into permanent positions within the administration as well as the biggest issues that our city leases right means what have you done about it well one major thing is expand the seattle youth the youth violence prevention initiative with something like four hundred kids on the waiting list so we've now expanded it so all of them can participate and i think it's been a good program providing more afterschool programs and mentoring be here thank you thank you  so i'm very proud to be part of this process you know like i always insisting on our community seen as we leave here we raise our taxes like everybody else we need to get involved with value education i support that because i'm a mother i have a child and that is the big difference for me that i have seen and the past twenty plus years that i lived in seattle no one values and education seattle and i'm in the studios of r t i which is the multimedia resources and training institute here twenty third in jackson and you are invited to come down here to get training and use of these facilities i'm here with some great kids today from the east african community but it's open to the whole community to learn new skills in video production broadcasting and just meet great people come on down