Speaker 0: Thank you. All right. We're going to move on. We were also passed over item four and approve the minutes where we have a quorum and move to item five, which is proposed ordinance number 2018 0068. It's our continuing work to establish a gender neutral language in our code. This one has a number of titles which I assume will be listed out. I have them here, but I'm not going to list them out. And it's the second of four planned ordinances that together will make the entire King County code gender neutral. As we last year had the went to the voters to make the King County Charter gender neutral. We have King County Central Staff Aaron Osnes here to present. Welcome. And please go ahead and give your presentation.
Speaker 3: Good morning. Aaron Osnos, Council Staff. The materials for this item begin on page nine of your packet. Proposed Ordinance 2018 0068 is the second in a series of four ordinances that would make changes to the King County Code to remove gendered pronouns and historically gendered terms wherever possible. This ordinance, this ordinance includes the titles of the King County Code that collectively are the county's development regulations, which do include titles nine, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, a 23, 27 and 27. No substantive legal or policy changes are proposed to be made as part of this ordinance, but other drafting corrections are proposed by the Code Advisor and have been incorporated into the proposed ordinance. By way of background, in July 2016, Motion 14680 was passed by the Council directing the Clerk of the Council to develop options for how to apply gender neutral references throughout the King County Code the same day. Related Ordinance 18316 Place an item on the ballot to amend the charter to make the language of the charter gender neutral. That charter amendment passed by a majority of the voters in November of 2016. This proposed ordinance is consistent with washing with existing Washington state law and county code to be written in gender neutral terms. In the proposed ordinance, gender pronouns such as he, him, she or her are replaced with the title of the actor in impacted sentences, for example, in sections that refer to the director as he or she. The proposed ordinance changes the gendered pronoun to the director, thereby naming the title of the actor and disregarding the gender. Table one on page ten of the packet contains a sample of other proposed changes to historically gendered terms. A comprehensive list of the gendered terms addressed in the proposed ordinance is available in attachment two of the staff report, which starts on page 159 of the packet. Executive staff that were consulted regarding the proposed changes and their feedback has been addressed and incorporated into the proposed ordinance in attachment three on page 163 of your packet is the timeline for the future ordinances. There are two additional ordinances that will be presented to the Council and that will then complete the review of the remaining titles of the code. The entire project should be complete by May of 2018. That concludes my report. As with the previous ordinance, it's important to recognize the work of Russell Bethel and Bruce Ritson from the clerk's office on this project. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Erin. And you as well. The staff has been doing an amazing job on this. It's a it's a lot of detail work, but I think it's it's really working to have a better code at the end of it. I really appreciated the portion of your report that talked about some of the detail that goes into this and the practicality where we had proposed changing manhole as a manhole covers to like utility access or something point. But apparently out on the streets and in documents, it's there are abbreviations all over the place and say major. So we came up with maintenance hole so that now people will know what Mage means is.
Speaker 3: A good example of incorporating the executive staff's comments. So that was their request.
Speaker 0: So I appreciate the level of effort that's going into making this work. Well, any questions or comments? Councilmember Caldwell's.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, Sharon and all the staff, thank you for all your excellent work on this. Two things I'd like to bring up on the top of page ten, just so we'll have accurate information here on the second line. Additionally, in 2007, basically the state legislature passed Senate Bill 56, 50, 63. That was the first year of I believe it was six years. We had legislation each year and it took a long time to go through all the codes. So it was done through all through all the ICW. So it was done during the interim when the legislature was not in session. But you might check that just for accuracy. Second of all, and table one on the same page and the existing term journeyman changing it to journey. You might want to check that. When we did the the whole ICW, you know, all of them, we found that there were several terms that were official terms and they had not been changed in the federal codes chapters and we did not change those. I'm thinking that Journeyman was one of those, so you might well look and I think we could always amended and.
Speaker 3: Yes, there will be an amendment at full council on those because there's other ordinances that are coming along should that are will be adopted first.
Speaker 4: Again. Okay. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Councilmember, any other questions or comments before we move to a vote? I'll just observe that I have heard in common usage, people refer to journey level. I don't know if that works in the context that you were looking at. And I appreciate you taking a look out before we take this up at full council. So this is on for action today. If we are prepared to do so, I would entertain a motion to approve Ordinance 2018 0068 with a do pass recommendation from a group that's been moved and seconded by two of my male colleagues. Thank you so much, gentlemen. All those in favor. Oh, I'm sorry. No amendments. Any other comments before we move to vote? Will the clerk please call the roll?
Speaker 5: Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember Dombrowski, Councilmember Dunn, Councilmember Garcia, Councilmember Colwell, Councilmember Lambert, Councilmember McDermott, a councilmember up the grove Councilmember Bond right thigh. Madam Chair II and chair the vote is seven eyes, no no's, two excused.
Speaker 0: Right. The motion passes and will be on the regular course to give some time for those amendments to catch up. Not on consent.
Speaker 3: Not on consent, and actually is required to have a public hearing now. So it'll be out.
Speaker 0: A few weeks there again. All right. Let's go back to item number two. And if you're ready, Mark, could you please call the roll?
AN ORDINANCE clarifying Title 9, Title 13, Title 14, Title 16, Title 17, Title 19A, Title 20, Title 21A, Title 23, Title 27 and Title 27A of the King County Code, establishing a gender neutral code and making technical corrections; and amending Ordinance 9163, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.04.020, Ordinance 11616, Section 14, as amended, and K.C.C. 13.24.140, Ordinance 4895, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 14.28.030, Ordinance 6254, Section 5, and K.C.C. 14.30.050, Ordinance 4099, Section 14, and K.C.C. 14.46.140, Ordinance 4099, Section 16, and K.C.C. 14.46.160, Ordinance 12560, Section 55, as amended, and K.C.C. 16.02.170, Ordinance 12560, Section 13, as amended, and K.C.C. 16.02.370, Ordinance 12560, Section 54, as amended, and K.C.C. 16.04.490, Ordinance 11923, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 16.04.890, Ordinance 11923, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 16.04.900, Ordinance 7853, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 16.04.980, Resolution 21284, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 16.05.124, Ordinance 12560, Section 120, as amended, and K.C.C. 16.14.220, Ordinance 12560, Sect