Description
County plans, policies, and budgets establish priorities for County staff and resources. Addressing climate change is integral to the work of King County, and this will be demonstrated by formally integrating climate action and advancement of 2025 SCAP goals into planning, policies, and budgets. Specifically, this will include ensuring that:
- Climate change and climate commitments are integrated into King County Best Run Government guidelines and expectations, per Senior Leadership Team approval, and support cascading the strategy across the enterprise along with other priorities.
- Department and agency strategic plans will include analyses of opportunity to advance 2025 SCAP goals from their operations, services, and programs, as applicable. County and department level policies will explicitly include climate and sustainability as a principle. All infrastructure and facility master plans will describe the intended climate action outcomes.
- Budget decisions, rates, and allocation, including the base budget, will reflect the 2025 SCAP commitments. To do so, the office of Performance, Strategy and Budget (PSB), supported by ECO, will update budget instructions, including pre-submittal check-ins and capital dialogs, to integrate agency 2025 SCAP commitments into budget guidance. Agencies will designate a sustainability sponsor or climate lead to champion alignment of agency budgets to climate outcome measures and verify descriptions of alignment of decision packages and capital improvement programs submitted to PSB. Agency budget submittals will reflect the County’s climate goals and priorities and make explicit where budget changes impact the ability of the County to achieve climate goals and priorities.