A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Sam Choi, to the King County gender identity and sexual orientation inclusion task force, representing Gay City.
Okay. So we'd like to now have Sam Choi, who goes by he him and Christina Fogg, who goes by she her to join us. And I welcome you and I congratulate you on the appointments. And it is the council's responsibility to have you come before us and answer some questions. And then we will take action today on moving your names, your appointments to the full council for confirmation of your appointment. And let's take that as Mr. Choi first, who serves as the Training and Technical Assistance Coaching Coordinator for Game City. And Jeff, where you going to go over each person's background a little bit. I think it's probably best for their appointees to do that, but I can do that for the ones. Okay. We'll go ahead and let the appointment. I'm just going there. Usually that's how we do it with the staff report. But Mr. Choi, Sam, would you please provide us a little bit about your background and your reasons for wanting to serve on this task force? And welcome. Hi. Good morning. My name is Sam. I use him pronouns and like you said, I am the training and technical assistance coordinator at Case City. We are going through a rebranding right now, so we will be changing our name to Seattle's Automated Compliance Center. Like I said, I graduated with a psychology degree u dub and I am a first generation queer and trans immigrant and a queer person living in Seattle. And through my work I work with acutely bipoc so queer and trans black indigenous people of color, youth, and we center bipoc youth in all of the work that we do . And through my work I connect with organizations, hospitals, businesses, whoever to meet their needs and becoming queer and trans competent. And I really hope to bring forth more compassion and care for queer and trans individuals and beyond comprehension. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Have you attended one of the meetings yet? Yes, I have. I have since April, when our previous executive director, Fred, left, I kind of took over his role in the task force. And so I've attended three meetings so far. Oh, good. Yeah. Any thoughts about the meetings and what you're getting yourself into? Yeah, I am. I think I'm still opening pieces together, but I understand the critical needs of having this task force of meeting to have various queer individuals in their room to understand and assess and make recommendations to ensure that Kent County as a whole can better support queer and trans rights. Well, it appears that you're an outstanding new member of the task force, and it appears like you're really enjoying your work on it thus far after attending three main meetings. So I think you'll do great. Do any of my colleagues on the committee have any questions to ask of San. The Council members are. Hello. And good morning. Good morning. Thanks so much for volunteering to be on this task force. I'm really appreciate your help. Could you just speak to some of your goals with the task force? What are your priorities? Yeah, I think I kind of spoke about it earlier. I work primarily with Bipoc youth in the work that I do currently and I feel like, you know, Bipoc youth are often left out of the conversation. Adult ism is a very critical thing and we do not give a lot of agency autonomy to youth. And so I really hope, through my experience working with them, to really center their voices and their experiences. So I am I'm healing from COVID and to really bring their voices and their experiences to the table as well. Tam, thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you. Are there any more questions? Well, thank you very much, Sam. Again, we'll be taking up a vote on your appointment shortly. And really pleased to have you with us today. And again, congratulations on your appointment. All right. 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.