A MOTION making an appointment to fill a judicial vacancy in the southwest division of King County district court.
So thank you very much. So with that, we are going to move the first motion. The first motion is the one for Southwest Division, and that is proposed motion 2016 0218. And because it's Southwest, we are going to have a Southwest Councilmember Council member at the Grove. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move the proposed motion 2016 0218 be adopted. Thank you. Would you like to make a motion of filling in a name? Yes. Thank you, Madam Chair. I would move that the name of Laurel Gibson be inserted on line 18. Thank you very much. All those in favor of the. So I speak to it. Yes, please speak to it first. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Chair, this is really an honor for me. To be able to nominate Laurel Gibson to the Southwest Division District. Court. She got her undergraduate degree from University. Of Washington and her. Law degree from Seattle University. She's been practicing criminal law for 12 years. And but most. Importantly and what stands out in my mind is she brings four years. Experience both as an administrative. Law judge, but as a pro tem in this court on the Friday calendars. And the folks she worked with, the current bench and the staff have nothing but praise for the work she's been doing in the district court right now. I want to also mention how much I enjoyed listening to the remarks this morning of Brian Todd. He brings a tremendous life experience and commitment to people who are disadvantaged, and I hope he stays engaged and we get to see his name again in the future. And so we were blessed to have many excellent candidates, but I think we will be very well served in Southwest Division Court with what I hope to be a Judge Laura Gibson, and committed to you. For your support. Thank you very much. Any other comments? Can I please ask our clerk? Yeah. Okay. So the name being built into I treat that as an amendment and we vote on that as an amendment or since it was already a blank, do I just go forward and do it as just so I think we'll treat that as an amended motion? Okay. That's what I that's where we will report it. Okay. That's what I was going to do. But I want to make sure. Okay, good. So, Councilmember Domestic. Thank you, Madam Chair, of be very brief. I wanted to echo Councilmember up the Grove's comments in support of Ms.. Gibson as the appointed judge for the Southwest District. Really excellent job in the interview is a great background, great recommendations. But I also wanted to recognize Mr. Todd. I thought he did very well and made a very compelling case, really appreciate his service to the community at El Centro de la Raza and in the community legal clinics. And I want to note that the most compelling recommendations for me were for Mr. Todd from court staff bailiffs who sometimes don't up bailiffs wrote in in his materials. And to me that was very telling about Mr. Todd as an individual, as a person, as a human being, how he treats the court staff. And it wasn't just one, but there were multiple letters from court staff. And I think that we'll see. Mr.. Todd again. Thank you. And that also tells our bailiffs we care about them. So thank you for pointing that out. Anybody else? All right. So before us right now is the amendment, oral amendment, to put the name of Laura Gibson in to this motion. All those in favor of the amendment, please say those opposed. Nay amendment is on. And so now before us we have the underlying legislation 2016 0218 Any questions or comments? The clerk please call. Did we push? Do okay. Call for the roll. Okay. Please call the off. Thank you, Madam Chair. You didn't I remember Dumbo Knight Councilmember Dunn Knight. Councilmember Gossett. Councilmember Toll. Well, I've. Been a councilmember. Experiment, all right. Which remember. The girl? Navajo Code Council councilmember of the girl, I think. Councilmember. Brown right there. Madam Chair, I don't know who is Ada. Mike Bowers Excellent. So that one will proceed to Monday. And we want that on the consent calendar to want to talk about it. We want to talk about it or not. Do you want to consent for us to say a few words? Okay. So it'll be expedited, but not no consent. Okay. So the next two motions that are before us to 2016, oh two and nine and oh to 20, we're going to move those together. So would you please move both of those at the same time?