2019/02/27 Council Agenda Packet

We would bring our experience and creative thinking to bear in this process. Key elements of this plan would include: » Outlining your projects and policy issues that may require a federal legislative,agency, programmatic,appropriations/budget,or regulatory solution or approach. » Determining the legislative,political,and budgetary dynamics-the pressure points-that may affect these proposed projects/issues and what the challenges and opportunities maybe to a successful outcome. » Organizing a comprehensive federal advocacy plan and strategy,together with a checklist of action steps and timetable for each priority. Once completed,this plan will be the blueprint for pursuing each priority issue. It will have clear assignments of both long-and short-term strategy options,tasks/subtasks,and deliverables that, together with performance criteria,will hold Holland&Knight accountable toward achieving each project or issue objective. 7.Provide policy advice and help schedule meetings with other national mayors and leaders; and work with the U.S.Conference of Mayors on the Mayor's participation on task forces, signing onto letters,and other mechanisms to enhance the City's role on national issues. Holland&Knight regularly works with the U.S.Conference of Mayors. Over the years,we have used this strong relationship to elevate our clients'profiles and highlight their expertise at the national level. For example,we secured a position for Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan as vice chair of the conference's Technology&Innovation Taskforce-a taskforce that the Holland&Knight team helped create. Mayor Durkan has used the taskforce as a platform to advocate against the Federal Communications Commission's recent actions to significantly limit local government authority over small cell deployment. Through her leadership,Mayor Durkan has mobilized both Democratic and Republican mayors across the country to oppose the order,support litigation,and to develop strategies for the next Congress to overturn it.She has also used this taskforce as a platform to showcase the City's work on digital equity. While the U.S.Conference of Mayors is important,Holland&Knight has also created the Urban Mayors Representative Group. It is led by Senior Policy Advisor Eve O'Toole,a member of the firm's proposed Everett team. The group is comprised of federal mayors'representatives working to share information and advocate on issues important to cities. The Urban Mayors Representative Group has achieved significant success on coalition building efforts and helping to raise mayors' national profiles. Because of our extensive relationships with other mayors and their staff,we are easily able to set up meetings with other mayors to help Mayor Franklin expand her national network. This network is especially helpful when we need to quickly mobilize coalitions around fast moving issues at the federal level. Holland 8c Knight Confidential Presentation for the City of Everett I 22