AN ORDINANCE relating to the city of Kirkland's South Kirkland Park-and-Ride elevator and pedestrian bridge project; approving an interlocal agreement between King County and the city of Kirkland to provide partial funding for the project, and authorizing the King County executive to execute temporary and permanent easements for the project.
Thank you. Others in favor the minutes as written. Please say I I those opposed. Nay, the minutes are approved as written. We will be postponing item number four and we will be going into a briefing since we have employees here that we would like to honor their time. So we will start at number seven, and that is the briefing and the update of the sheriff's new domestic violence unit. Mr.. Does would you begin briefing us? And welcome to our sheriff and also to Mr. Martin. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Lambert. Yes. As you mentioned, we will be hearing from the prosecutor's office and the sheriff on their new domestic violence unit, and that is relative to report 2016 be 0159. And as background for the briefing, the Council added in the 1516 Biennial Budget 872,003 FTE to reestablish a domestic violence unit within the King County Sheriff's Office. The prior DV unit had been cut in 2009 as a result of reductions made during the Great Recession. The ad was accompanied by a proviso that required the KSO to produce a report that included an analysis of expected impacts of establishing the DV unit and the identification of desired outcomes, goals and specific performance measures for the unit. The Kato produced that report and it was subsequently accepted by the Council in April of 2016. So with that as background, I would just go ahead and turn it over to David Martin, senior prosecuting attorney and the King County sheriff, for their briefing. Thank you. Mr. DAWSON Thank you, Madam Chair. It's good to be here and talk about something that's been such a success. Now, when I came into office in 2012, one of the things I wanted to do was reestablish the domestic violence unit in the sheriff's office. As I mentioned, we had it through 2009, but I thought it was time to start over again and really emphasize these, particularly in these crimes are insidious in the effect they have on the community and the effect that they have on families.