AN ORDINANCE relating to King County district court electoral district boundaries for 2022; amending Ordinance 16803, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.12.050.
Thank you. We will now go on with item number eight and another chapter, both of which will be relating to the district court redistricting. And we're taking these two items together, but we will take action separately. They will be briefed by Erika Neumann on our central staff. We must bring back to Wilson. She has supervisor with King County Elections, an assistant presiding Judge Horne with the District Court to answer any questions. There will be a verbal amendment by Councilmember Bell to cheat that. We will get to that in a few minutes. And with that, Erika, please go ahead. Thank you, Madam Chair. Erika Neumann, Counsel, Central Staff The Items to propose ordinance 2020 2012 to begin on page 18 of your packet. As you all know, District Court is the County Court of limited jurisdiction and has the responsibility for traffic infraction. Small claims and misdemeanor criminal offenses. In November 2021, the Council adopted Ordinance 19358. Which authorizes. District Court to provide services to the City of Pacific under. The Interlocal Agreement. And the city started receiving services. In January of. 2022. The proposed ordinance would implement the changes to the King County District Court redistricting plan. On March 7th, the county's district redistricting committee met to review the. The. County's district court plan, as required by the state statute and county code. And they, in that unanimously approved the amendments to the district court district map, which would include voters. From the City of Pacific. That reside in Pierce County. And as you mentioned, in its current form, the proposed ordinance has a blank online line, which is on page 21 for the date that the committee has a blank. We need to have a verbal amendment to fill in that blank with the date of March 7th, which is the date the committee approved the amendments. I can pause right there or I can continue on to explain. Ordinance. Oh, one, two, three. Thank you. I wonder if there are any questions. And Kirk Newman. Okay. Let's go on and have fun. 2020 201232790123. What authorized the changes to the King County District Court Southeast Electorate District to include. The City of Pacific? The changes to the Southeast Electorate District are reflected in the attachment to the proposed ordinance. As far as timing goes, the Council is required to adopt amendments before May 1st of 2022. And if I recall correctly, if the. If the. If we take action today, the Council can take final action on April 19, full council meeting, which would allow time for the ordinance to go into effect prior to candidate filing, which begins on May 16. Madam Chair, that concludes my remarks. Thank you very much. Are there any questions? Kurt Newman under all measures. And we do have Wilson and George Ryan with. Us. Bearing questions of them or if they would like to send. Good morning, Mrs. Judge, and thank you for considering our ordinance and we are delighted to have both the city of Pacific and the city of are going to join the District Court as contract cities. And this is just a technical correction to make sure that all of the city and Pacific citizens have the ability to elect their judges who are hearing their cases. And so we appreciate your time and the willingness of the district in committee and the council to make this correction so that everybody has a say in who their judges are. So thank you. And I'm happy to answer any questions if you have any. Thank you for being with us today. Are there any questions of Judge Hahn or Mr.. Okay. With that comes the rebels. You are the sponsor of both measures. And we will first take the proposed ordinance. 2020 2012, two. Would you like to make a motion and then speak to it? And we do have the rebel amendment to the offer as well. Very good. Thank you. Chair Caldwell's I would move adoption of proposed ordinance 2020 20122. The motion has been made. And would you like to move the amendment? Yes. The amendment is a verbal amendment to insert the date March 7th, 2022, as the date the redistricting committee considered and unanimously approved the amendments to the district court districts map this week. Thank you. Is there any question on the amendment? Please all in favor of the oral and verbal amendments indicate by saying i, i, I must say now the amendment has been adopted and we now have because proposed ordinance 2022 zero 122 as amended Councilmember Belge and comments. The only thing I would add to what's already been said is that this was really kind of a life experience. It takes a great deal of effort to amend these maps. It doesn't happen very often. And so you had to pull together a whole convening of various members of different jurisdictions. Many of our mayor showed up in person to take this vote, judges from the district court and others. So it was really nice to see the kind of the community of the district court come together to support making this boundary adjustment so that the the residents of this area can vote for their own judges. And I think I think it was said, but just to make clear, Pierce County has to do a mirror action and they are on path to take this same action in Pierce County to just sort of make sure that it is fully approved. I don't question. So councilmember built into the comments. Okay. Well, I. Think please call it the wrong. Thank you. Chair Cornwall Council Member DG. II. Council Member DEMBOSKY. DEMBOSKY I. Council Member Then. I. Council member McDermott. High Council member Perry. A Council member at the grow. I. Council member. Bond Drive Bower. I. Council member, Sally. Hi. Chuckles. I never was. Nice eyes and no nose and nice kids. I'm okay with our vote. We have approved proposed on the 2022 zero 122 as a member. And unless there are concerns, we will send this ordinance with the due recommendation for the consent agenda to the April 19 Council meeting. And we will now. I will mount as Councilmember Bell to try to move proposed ordinance 2022 zero 123. Thank you. I so move. On to. Are there any comments you would like to make now? This is just the second action required to complete the approval process and I urge your support. Thank you. Okay. Are there any questions or treatment that will please call the roll? Thank you. Call us. Council members. Hi. Council member DEMBOSKY. Hi. Council member Dunn. I. Councilmember Mike Berman. All right. Council member Perry High Council member at the growth high. Council member Van de Boer. I council members thoroughly. Five. Chuckle. Well, I it won't is my eyes, no nose and no excuse. Thank you. Very much. And with our vote, we have approved proposed ordinance 2020 20123. And with our than concerns, we will send this ordinance with the best recommendation for the consent agenda to the April 19th Council. And I would like to make one correction. I believe I referred to our analyst Derek and woman as clerk. That was unintentional and I apologize for that. And we will now move on to item number ten on our agenda, which is proposed motion see 2020 20153 that would declare a King County support for the Cities for Citizenship Initiative.