A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Christina Fogg, to the King County gender identity and sexual orientation inclusion task force, as the King County council representative.
And we also have with us Christina Fogg, who has been appointed as well and is the new member of the council staff or council member. DEMBOSKY has just joined us. Good morning. Good morning. Morning. So, Christine, Christina, would you please go ahead and speak on your behalf and then we'll hear from Council member Tomasky, I believe, as well. And if you could let us know what motivated you to be appointed to the task force and what you hope to work on? Sure. Thanks for having me this morning. Yeah. I recently joined Council member Dombroski staff in April. Prior to that, I was a lawyer for 16 years, the last nine of which was at the U.S. Attorney's Office here in Seattle representing the Western District of Washington. And my role there was as the coordinator for their civil civil rights program. And I mostly dealt with responding to complaints in the community about various forms of discrimination and violations of federal civil rights statutes. So this particular task force appealed to me because a lot of what I saw in my prior work was, you know, what happens when organizations don't have an inclusive culture or policies and procedures and norms and all the things that contribute to a culture of making a welcoming, inclusive place. So I was really excited to be part of something that is addressing those issues in a proactive and systemic way. And so I jumped at the opportunity to be that council representative. Well, I'm so pleased that you did. You have a terrific background and I know will being bring a great amount to the task force council members to be asking, do you have anything you'd like to say? Well, I don't want to kill the nomination. Here by messing it. Up. But thank you for your willingness to serve, Christina. And I think your background, as you've articulated here with your civil rights experience at the United States Justice Department, will be super helpful. But Christina also has a long history of other service charcoal wells, including a board member and mentor with the Joint Minority Bar Association Association Mentorship Program Service with the YWCA as a cooperating lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington here in Seattle, and also with the King County Housing Justice Project. So I think her significant experience and her expertize in civil rights will do well. I wanted to take this moment to thank you and your office, particularly Jonathan Fowler, who was the prior council representative to the task force. And he's gotten busy with commitments and other obligations. And so his service has been exemplary. And Christina is going to be, if approved here today, following in his footsteps to have that council rep there. So that's the background on on why we're having this nomination here. But I would appreciate colleagues support for Christina and the other nominees today. Terrific. Thank you very much. Councilmember Jim Baskin. It appears that Christina has another virtue of being very modest, but although sometimes one should be very forthright about all of their accomplishments and attributes. Christina, you seem to have a whole lot of them. So I think this is an excellent appointment that's been made. I congratulate you on that and I look forward to hearing from you as you report back to the council on what is going on with this task force. I do think. That. You're welcome. Does anybody have any questions of Christina on? I don't see anyone. Okay with that we will go. And we, the other two have not arrived. So we will go ahead and let's let's both take up all four names. People are busy and we get very busy too. So I'd like to have a motion. Councilmember Dombroski, would you like to make the motion? Yeah, sure. Thank you so much for all. There are four motions you're actually. I move that we give a do pass recommendation to motions 2020 2010013014. And I think is 012. This note say here to ten so. It's 210 and 0 to 1 zero 0 to 1 10213 in 0 to 1 fourth. Okay not to 12 to 11. To 10 to 11 to 13 to 14. That's weird. Or as the agenda reflects. If we've got that wrong. Okay. Are there any questions or comments? I think we will find it before us. Councilmember McDermott. Thank you, Chair Wells. I didn't have any questions for any for Sam and Kristina, but I want to express my appreciation to both of them and all four of the nominees for considering today and to acknowledge the role of the importance of the task force to represent the LGBTQ, the queer community in King County, and ensure that that voice is present within county government that we're aware of impacts that intentional and unintentional that we may be having in the community and how important it is that King County, our agencies benefit from a established resource for us to be informed and benefit from the conversations and information and experiences of the queer community as we legislate and do our work. Thank you very much, Councilman McDermott, for that very well stated comment. I couldn't agree with you more. And it's it's tremendous when I look over the whole roster, too, of this task force, very, very impressive individuals, the ones I know, and then the ones that I don't know, but that I have read about. And of course, we had them all before us earlier. So with that, if there are no checklist. Yes. Thank you. Oh, it's Councilmember Perry. I can't remember. I'm still getting used to looking off at the wall for Zoom when being in the chamber. And I somehow missed you. Go right ahead. Thank you. I just also want to share on Echo what Councilmember McDermott expressed and that how important it is that people are stepping forward and participating and and and keeping everything. Keeping people aware and asking folks to. To pay attention to the civil liberties of all. Recently, in the last six months, we have looked at non gendered language and are working hard on council to refrain from Madam Chair, Mr. Chair and Madam Speaker, Mr. Speaker, and things like this, and instead simply refer to people by their title. And it creates more of an egalitarian or not egalitarian, but but a respectful space of inclusion is the intention. So I look forward to hearing the task force's assessment of how we're doing on that and any recommendations for how we might improve as the Council. Our reflection of inclusion in the language that we choose to to use on the dais and in public view as well as private. So I just really appreciate all the work and potential work and and folks willing to step forward in this task force. Thank you. Thank you very much, Kay. With that, our Kirk will please call the roll.