Speaker 0: Okay. Well, sorry. We're going to move to item number six, confirming the appointment of Gregory Beans to the King County for Culture Cultural Development Authority. Please come on up and set the table. The light in front of you is the white button and that'll turn on your microphone. But first I'll call on Leah crackles OPR Council staff to give a report.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon council members and is critical Darby Council Staff. The materials for this item begin on page 15 of your packet and this is a motion that would confirm Gregory Beames to the For Culture Board for a three year term expiring December 31st, 2019. I'm going to provide some brief background on the for culture board and the appointment process, and then I'll provide an introduction for Mr. Beames and the King County Council created for Culture King County's Cultural or Cultural Public Development Authority in 2002 in order to support, advocate for and preserve the cultural resources of the region in a manner that fosters excellence, vitality and diversity for culture is funded through a portion of the lodging tax revenues collected in King County. In addition for culture administers King County's public arts program, the 1%.
Speaker 0: For Art Program.
Speaker 3: And manages the King County Public Art.
Speaker 0: Collection.
Speaker 3: For culture is governed governed by a 15 member board of directors who are nominated by the King County Executive and confirmed by the King County Council. The composition of the For Culture Board is established by the For Culture Charter. The Charter requires that the Board of directors have a demonstrated commitment to and knowledge of cultural resources and be active and experienced in community and civic issues and concerns and have the available ability to evaluate the needs of cultural constituencies in the region as a whole, represent a range of talent, experiences, backgrounds and viewpoints, and be sought from a range of cultural, civic and business professions. Are residents of King County and reflect the geographic and cultural diversity of the county and have no more than six directors from any one municipal municipality. In addition, the board must include one of each of the following a director with expertize in the arts, a director with expertize in public art, a director with expertize in heritage, a director with expertize in his historic preservation, and a director from the business community. A board member served for terms of three years and may serve up to two consecutive full terms. In addition to the 15 board members, four culture has five ex-officio board members, which include one member of the executive staff and three county council members and four culture executive director. The Culture Board has a governance nominating committee that includes the ex-officio board members designated by the county executive and the County Council. And that committee is responsible for nominating candidates for appointment to the Board of directors after seeking community recommendations, the for culture board votes on the nominations made by the committee, and then those nominations are forwarded to the county executive who is responsible for appointing four culture board members. And then the County Council is responsible for confirming that board member members may serve, may begin serving upon confirmation by the Council or 30 days after their appointment, subject to subsequent council confirmation or rejection. And unless there are questions about the for culture board or appointment process, I'll next introduce Mr. Bean.
Speaker 4: Councilmember Gossett Thank you, Madam Chair. A few days ago we had a I think it was a law and justice committee meeting in. Sponsored quite a few members to the board for culture. And then one of the members of the Common Council said I'd are three or four or five members, all from your district and on board , all from District two. And I didn't really know the answer. So we had a little discussion about distribution of board members. And we also had challenges to that concept that it needs to be removed from every district. So it's hard and it's probably coincidental that two, three, four people from the same district are on the board.
Speaker 3: There can be up to six from one municipality, but it doesn't specify within which council districts. And so you couldn't have more than six from the city of Seattle, which your council district has and there aren't. But you could have a number from that council district of the nominating committee. And the executive and the council find that there are qualified members to serve.
Speaker 4: Okay. Thank you.
Speaker 0: And it was my understanding, Councilmember, is that the way as as Leah said, that the way the charter sets this up is that there was a desire that the board have diversity, not all from the city of Seattle. And so the definition is no more than six from any one city, and that we have six from the city of Seattle on the board now. And the other nine or however many, I don't know how many vacancies there are today are from other places. So but it's a good question and worth addressing. Councilmember Lambert. Thank you. Since I'm one of the two districts that has nobody on this committee, that is very disconcerting to me. And I agree. We talked yesterday about the idea that isn't district wide, but it seems to me that there's 15 people that every district should have at least one person. So so the part here on page 15 is there no more than six directors, meaning one municipality that is in King County code or is that in the charter?
Speaker 3: That is in the four culture charter, which was initially adopted by the King County Council and could be amended, but it.
Speaker 0: Can't be amended. Yes. So I would like us to talk about taking that number from six down to four so we can talk about that. Who's on the governing nominating committee?
Speaker 3: Some of your colleagues sitting next to you.
Speaker 0: On the.
Speaker 3: OC are fired by the charter. Could be on the nominating committee.
Speaker 4: No, but you're done. What could be? It's like you're saying are.
Speaker 0: On it.
Speaker 3: According to the charter. That's what it should be. And he says You are.
Speaker 4: I'm on the nominating committee.
Speaker 1: By virtue of being. This is you only have 1/2.
Speaker 0: Okay. Trying to maintain control of the meeting here for a second. Mr. Kelly, why don't you come up, turn on the microphone, introduce yourself for the record, and then you can please proceed to address the councilmembers question. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Good afternoon. Members of the Council. I'm Jim Kelly, executive director for Culture. The fourth culture charter requires the three members of the King County Council serve as ex-officio members of the Four Culture Board. Currently, that is council members Baldacci, Gossett and Cole Wells. By virtue of your being ex-officio members of our board, you are on the board nominating committee. The board nominating committee includes all three ex-officio members from the council, the ex-officio member of the appointed by the executive, which is Jennifer Meissner and four members of the For Culture Board. And the charter also calls that the nominating committee be chaired by the four culture vice president. So vice president, three other board members, county council members, executive and myself serve as the nominating committee.
Speaker 4: Does it say in there that you're on the nominating.
Speaker 5: Committee because I'm an ex-officio member of the board? Yes.
Speaker 4: The executive director is a ex-officio member of the board. Okay. When when are these meetings going to.
Speaker 5: We've had we've already had one. We've had our first meeting already. You have been invited to that meeting and you will be invited to others if you can't attend. That doesn't mean you can't send a nomination over to us.
Speaker 4: Oh, but is this process going on now?
Speaker 5: Yes, because we have two openings that will occur on the board at the end of 2017. We have one board member who's completing two terms at the end of 2017, and we have a second board member who is moving in her fifth year of board service out of Kane County. So those two positions are open.
Speaker 4: Well, I would definitely like to know when the next meeting is. I didn't know that the charter calls for us to automatically be on a nominating committee, and I want to be a little more responsive to that request in the future. All right.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Bassett. Councilmember Caldwell's. Okay, Madam Chair, I'm not wanting to be circumspect or the opposite of that, but I. I also had not known that I was a member by accepting the exhibition status of the nominating committee. But I did receive an email three weeks ago or so alerting me to the meeting and that if I could not attend, that I could submit recommendations for or nomination. So I did do that. I submitted one person's name and so I would think the others got that to me. But we get so much email and we get so.
Speaker 5: We tend to seek your staff because it.
Speaker 0: Makes.
Speaker 5: You believe that you have time to open all our emails between you and you.
Speaker 0: But I do it faithfully here. You do their councilmember member. So I have in the past when I was an expedition member, put in names and so I'm very concerned just one district, we are the two that have nobody. And I just don't think that. That's right.
Speaker 5: Well, I totally agree. I have not a problem with that. One of our board members was actually appointed to the board as a resident of District one, and then she and her husband moved to District four. I'm sorry we couldn't control that.
Speaker 0: So I would hope that that and I will do something on my part to send out an email asking for people in my district this expertize. But if you could look for people in my district also that you have regular contact with, that would be wonderful because I really do believe that we have discussions around here about things like is a barn art or is it not? And, you know, it's very important, as you know, and people love it. So we need to have somebody at the table that has that part of the county in mind. Right. Okay.
Speaker 3: Councilmember, I'd also add that I recently saw their For Culture newsletter, their e-newsletter that goes out and the call for board members did specifically say they were looking for people from districts one and three.
Speaker 0: Excellent.
Speaker 5: I forgot to mention that.
Speaker 0: They say that you. I'm so glad. Well, thank you. Very good. Thanks, Councilmember. Go. Wells Madam Chair. Tim So what she just said about having had been a member from District one, but she and her husband moved to District Court, otherwise I would have not had any.
Speaker 5: That's here. You've got Kirsten.
Speaker 0: Powers. I just have one. And that apparently was she was appointed to justice.
Speaker 5: Right. So it was accurate when we reported that we have a restriction that no more than six board members can come from any one city. And it so happens the two board members who were leaving are not Seattleites. So those open up to positions. If the council wants to consider reducing that number to four, that's entirely up to you. That is a charter revision that you would have to do by motion or ordinance.
Speaker 0: Okay. Like so, we have had a robust discussion about the structure of the board. We are here to appoint Mr. Beames. So welcome, Mr. Muzaffar. Thank you for being with us. Now you can sort of see the sausage being made here and how we how we engage with these issues. Can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and why you're interested.
Speaker 3: In you want me to go first introduction.
Speaker 0: What are you going to share? Okay, my notes here say ask him to introduce himself.
Speaker 3: So I'm just going to give his bio and then.
Speaker 0: Very good.
Speaker 3: Okay. So Mr. Bean lives in Kirkland in District six. He's a coordinating partner at Ernst and Young and has 25 years experience providing audit services to public and private companies in a variety of technology and media fields. He's also a member of Ernst and Young Global Coordinating Partner Network and oversees Ernst and Young's Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year awards program. Additionally, he's a board member for the Washington Technology Industry Association, where he serves as the finance chair and he has bachelor's degrees in finance and accounting from Central Washington University and is currently pursuing his master in fine arts degree. From the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Speaker 0: Okay. Thank you. Now, if there's anything else you would like to tell us about yourself and and about your interest in serving on the Fort Culture Board, please welcome.
Speaker 5: And thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, I would say I actually completed my master's degree here this past December, and so I was fortunate enough to now have that in the bank and can spend time with my family again.
Speaker 0: Congratulations.
Speaker 5: Thank you. The other thing I would tell the committee is I serve on various other nonprofit organization boards here in the community. I've joined the photographic center, Northwest Board. I'm actually the board chair for this year. It's an arts education organization located on Capitol Hill that provides classes as well as certification in photography. And then I also am a board member and the Treasurer for an organization called Apprenticeship. It's developing an apprenticeship program that's taking people that are non software engineers and moving them into software engineer field. It's a one year apprenticeship program. It's focused primarily on minorities, women and veterans. And so over 50% of the participants have to be in that pool. We're actually at 80% at this point. It's a Washington based program, but it's also going to be rolled out nationally, and we're in the process of doing that as well.
Speaker 0: All right. Good. So my understanding is that you have been serving on the Fort Culture Board already for a period of time. So can you tell us a little bit about your experience, what you've learned, and maybe what some of your interests are going forward?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I have been fortunate to serve on the Finance Committee for a little over a year now, and you're not required to be a board member in order to serve on the Finance Committee. And then beginning this year, I began attending the board meetings as well. And so I've really enjoyed my experience thus far with for culture. It's a very rigorous process was one of the things that impacted me initially in terms of the applicants for grants, both at the arts level, the individual artist as well as the organizational level. And I've been impressed both with the committees that go through that initial process, the other board members that then review, ask questions and approve that, as well as the staff people and their involvement just in making sure to do diligence around that and their involvement in the arts community. So it's an organization that I've been extremely impressed with and it's one that I'm excited to be able to participate in.
Speaker 0: Thank you. CASTMembers. Any other questions for Mr. James? Customer Gossett.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Madam Chair. One of the things I hear a lot from people in the community about for a culture or entity, that this was a expand culture around our county is that they don't pay enough attention to cultural relevancy. What does that mean to you?
Speaker 5: In in terms of the different art for different cultures, or how do you mean that?
Speaker 4: And what I was asking you, what do you think it means? Cultural relevancy.
Speaker 5: So I would take that to mean that is the in the culture within which somebody sees themselves and is the artwork relevant to that particular culture as opposed to a general culture or somebody else's cultural background?
Speaker 4: Okay. Thank you.
Speaker 0: All right. At this time, yes. I called Councilmember Lambert to move this action item. Put it before us. Thank you. I'd like to propose motion 2017 0046 with a do pass recommendation. Okay. It's moved and is before us. Any other comments on this action? Or if not, I will. This is a roll call vote. Well, please call the roll. Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember DEMBOSKY. Hi. Councilmember Dunn. Hi. Councilmember Garcia. Hi. Councilmember Colwell. Hi. Councilmember Lambert. Hi. Councilmember McDermott. All right. Councilmember off the ground. Councilmember one right there. Madam Chair, I. Madam Chair, in the bonus, eight eyes, no no's and councilmember phone right there. Excuse. All right, with that, we have a do pass recommendation to the full council. And I haven't I don't think we've done a lot of these out of this committee. Does that typically go on a consent agenda? Yes. All right. We might as well expedite it because he's been serving for a while already. So no need for you to come to the full council meeting. It'll be a perfunctory consent agenda item, and we look forward to formally appointing you to the board and your continued active participation. Thank you so much for serving here. All right. And that will move us on to briefing item number seven, which is on the future of the regional solid waste system. It sounds almost philosophical. What is the future of the regional solid waste system? So we know there's a lot of study and planning that's been going on for a while, and I look forward to
A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Gregory Beams, who resides in council district six, to the King County cultural development authority (4Culture).