For 13 consecutive years, the Oregon Business Council has unveiled the business community’s economic blueprint each December at an event known as the Oregon Leadership Summit.

A central part of that event is a lunchtime keynote address by the state’s governor. Many times, governors will use the platform to unveil new policy they plan to propose, or to endorse parts of blueprint, known as the Oregon Business Plan.

Until Wednesday, Nov. 30, it was unclear whether the council’s 14th annual summit Monday, Dec. 5, would feature Gov. Kate Brown. The council had invited the governor, but Brown didn’t confirm her participation until Wednesday. Some insiders predicted the governor wouldn’t show up in the wake of the business community’s defeat of a corporate sales tax measure she endorsed. Measure 97 failed overwhelmingly after the business community spent about $27 million to foil it.

Much of the leadership summit is devoted to looking at what has caused Oregon’s chronic revenue problems, including a nearly $22 billion unfunded liability in the state’s Public Employees Retirement System. The state faces a $1.7 billion revenue shortfall in 2017-19, despite significant growth in its general fund.

Since the election, Brown has said she is leaving it up to lawmakers to offer any proposals that would raise more revenue from corporations.

While Brown’s slowness to confirm her participation in the summit might appear as reluctance, Chris Pair, a spokesman in her office, blamed the late confirmation on the business council.

“The Oregon Business Council did not set their agenda until just this week,” Pair said. “The Governor’s Office was able to decide to participate once it was known what times were available for Governor Brown to speak.”

In fact, the agenda had been posted on the business council’s website for at least several days. And the governor has traditionally spoken during the lunch hour during the summit.

The governor is scheduled to speak at 12:30 p.m. at the leadership summit, according to the most recently updated agenda at press time. Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, and Sen. Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, co-chairman of the joint ways and means committee also are scheduled to speak, summit organizers said.