A MOTION making an appointment to fill a judicial vacancy in the southeast division of King County district court.
Or we can share all those details. Thank you both very much. This brings us to proposed motion number 2017 0162. And I'm going to call on Council Member Dunn to make this motion. Thank you, Madam Chair. I would move proposed motion number 2017, dash 0162 and to speak to it. Well, first, we will need an amendment. To amend the. Name. I mean. Yeah, all right, before I make that motion for a minute, I just want to say that all of you, all five of you, I feel very comfortable with you on the bench, very high quality candidates, very important job. As you know. You know, every case, as some of you noted, that comes before you is the most important thing to that person. And I'll tell. I just appreciate your willingness to serve on the bench. I have seen over the years that those who don't get appointed here very frequently will get appointed in the next round or they get elected to the bench. And so I would not give up for those of you who don't make it, I continue on because you all have a special talent. But with that said, though, it's my distinct pleasure and honor to move to amend this ordinance with Jason. Address his name. Okay. Thank you. Any further comments? Just at this point is an excellent candidate for this. He's extremely well qualified, as noted, and like his is his judicial temperament and his work ethic. And I think he'll bring a lot of really important qualities to the bench. That's it. Thank you, Mr. Dunn. And the other comments. All those in favor of the motion adding Jason Poitras as his name. Please say I, I and he opposed motion carries. Any further comments on final passage? I will just again say that we had the benefit in this in this round of interviews of five eminently qualified candidates . And I think that I would be very comfortable and pleased and we would be fortunate as a community to have any one of you serving on the bench. So I want to second what Councilmember Dunn said about not giving up, because it would be it would be my pleasure to appoint any one of you at some point in the future, and I hope that you will continue in your seeking this role. Mr.. Put just some of the strengths that I saw. Although you have a unique you bring a really different set of background skills we haven't seen before, but I think that can be a good thing. I think those different experiences as a an administrative law judge, as a hearings officer, got you into into people's cases in ways that that I think will be beneficial on the bench. I really appreciated the diligence and the amount of time over your career that you've put into pursuing your goals. It's it's apparent from everything you do that you are intentional and that you are that you are driving towards a result. And I think you will bring that to your daily calendars in a way that will serve the people in the court very, very well. You had a very impressive list of references as well. I ran into one of them at lunch this weekend, so I was hearing about you. But I want to thank you all again for participating. And if there's anyone else I'd like to add. Councilmember Gossett. Thank you. My client that I would add and I think will benefit from from Jason, is that he comes from a very well known inner city community and our country. And because of those experiences, I think that the passion and compassion that I believe is necessary to combat racism and classism and other problems that we have in our entire government here are bringing some really solid benefits. And he's a few years younger than me, so he'll be bringing them for a while. Thank you, Councilmember. All right. With that, I'll ask the court to please call the roll. Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember Dombrowski. Councilmember Dunn. 1/2. Councilmember Garza. Votes five. Thank you. Councilmember Garcia five. Councilmember Cole Wells. Councilmember Lambert. Councilmember McDermott. Councilmember up the Grove. Councilmember Yvonne. Wraith Bauer. Madam Chair. Hi, Madam Chair. The vote is seven is no nos. Council members of the Grove and one right GA excused. All right. With that, the motion passes unanimously with a do pass recommendation that should also be expedited. Thank you very much. And related to this, coming. To this coming Monday at the earlier time, as announced by our chair, and that concludes our business before the committee today. If there is any other business to come before us seeing none, we are adjourned.