One thing at a time, Dow. Maybe start with decorating.Over 100 days ago, newly elected King County Executive Dow Constantine told hundreds of people packed into the former First United Methodist Church that he would improve transportation, clean up Puget Sound, bring in aerospace jobs, and jumpstart the economy. But after more than three months in office, Constantine is finding that actually accomplishing anything is hard. He hasn’t even decorated yet. The walls of his office are still mostly bare, artwork sitting in frames on the floor around the room. So today, in his first major policy address since taking office, Constantine downgraded those goals. A lot. His new aims are kind of snoozers: reducing annual increases in the cost of running the county, responding to citizen complaints within 72 hours, and stopping the flood of pink slips that have gone out to the county’s 18,000-member staff over the last two years. But Constantine still isn’t offering any specifics. So far what’s there is a whole lot of talking.For instance, Constantine said today that he doesn’t want employees constantly fearing for their jobs as they have over the last two years. But the biggest expense in the cash-strapped general fund isn’t paying for immunizations for kids or handcuffs for Sheriff’s deputies, it’s the staff–85 percent of the general fund goes to salaries and benefits. So Constantine will either need to get pay or benefit concessions from unions or start handing out pink slips.Constantine says that he’ll hire a new director of labor relations and convene a meeting of department heads to try to figure out a way to resolve the shortfall without axing employees this fall. He hopes giving everyone more input will make them more open to concessions. But so far, the labor unions have given no indication that they’ll make the concessions necessary to make the budget pencil out.Last week Constantine spokesperson Frank Abe told seattlepi.com that the Executive would “outline a significant restructuring of the way this county conducts its labor negotiations.” But hiring someone to be a more direct conduit between the Executive and labor doesn’t seem like an especially major change. Ron Sims had a famously good relationship with the unions and still couldn’t convince them to take any pay or benefit concessions.