A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Shawn Peterson to the King County gender identity and sexual orientation inclusion task force, representing the Na'ah Illahee Fund.
Any person in the minutes have been abducted. Well, now go to number five on our agenda, which is to confirm the appointment of Shawn Peterson to the King County Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Inclusion Task Force. And Shawn is representing the nonaligned he fund. The task force was established in 2000, meeting to develop a recommended countywide gender identity and sexual orientation inclusion strategy and work plan to implement the use of an additional gender designation or designations in all appropriate administrative processes and use by county departments. We have Sam Porter with us from our central staff to provide the briefing on this item, along with the appointee to answer any questions. Sam, I'll turn it over to you. And do we have Shawn with us? Yes, we do. You are as Shawn. Thank you, Madam Chair. For the record, Sam Porter, Council policy staff. The documents for this appointment began on page eight of your packet. Your summary of its course was very comprehensive. It was established through motion 15162 in June 2018. And they have the task force has been meeting in accordance with the initial framework that was adopted through motion 15623. According to executive staff, they are anticipated to complete their work in mid 2022. The proposed motion would appoint Shaun Peterson. She currently serves as the Gen seven program coordinator for the Lahey Fund. According to the organization's website, she has more than five years of experience in youth program development and implementation, including a program called Native Girls Code, which is focused on computer coding, coding and culturally relevant STEM content for Native girls. That concludes my remarks. Sean is with us along with Mina from the Executive Office. There and Max. Sam, before we proceed. Are there any questions of Sam? Okay. Well, welcome, Sean, to our committee of the home meeting and congratulations on your appointment. And I would like to invite you to tell us a little bit more about yourself and about why you wanted to be serving on the task force. Thank you, Chairwoman. My name is Sharon Peterson. She her. Channel. Baby. Will come. From Vancouver Island, Canada. And I work for the not only fund. And my current role actually is community partnerships manager. I just changed roles and this work is very important to me because within my organization I'm really trying to bring forward LGBTQ. Lens to separate lens. As our organization historically has served native women and girls and as a queer identifying person, it's really important. That we're visible. And that we have a place. And so I was. Approached to sit. On this task force because there weren't very many there wasn't another indigenous person sitting in that space. And I think it's really important for me as an indigenous woman living in the city of Seattle to have a voice when it comes to these kinds of things as relates to the county. Thank you. And congratulations. Have you been able to attend any church? Yes, I. Have been attending regularly for probably the past three months. Terrific. Yeah. Is there anything you would like to share with us about your impressions of the task force and thing that you particularly want to work on or emphasize? Oh, yeah. I have really been impressed with my colleagues in the committee and how much experience that they have, and it's a variety of communities represented, which I think is really important. And a lot of, you know, communities in this area that are marginalized and really trying to put a voice to how these things are implemented, and then also how one of the mechanisms at which any of our recommendations are put into place in the county, and that those that we see those through and that we have a way to understand. And once we put things forward, like how it's actually. Going to be done. Is something we just variously. Talking about. Anchor. Are there any questions of Sean or comments anybody would like to make on the council? Let me. Constantly rebounding. I was just a thumbs up. And I thank you for serving. Yeah, thank you. Yes, very much. Thank you for serving. Councilmember Dombroski was the honor, I should say. Yes. Councilmember Brenda Dombroski was the one who actually came up with the idea for this task force and got it going. And Councilmember Dombroski, give anything you want to comment on. I just will thank Shawn for their service and move approval of the motion if you're ready. Okay. The motion has been made. Before we go to that. I'm wondering, though, if Meena from the executive office would like to say anything. Good morning, Mina. Thank you, Madam Chair. For the record, Mina Hashemi with the executive offer. We are excited about Sean and that path for our staff. Significant time in 2021 doing outreach to ensure that we had a diverse and full task force. And we are excited about Sean's experience and the passion that she'll bring to this work. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anybody else? The motion has been made to a proposed motion 2020 20051 to give it a due course recommendation. Does anyone else on the committee want to say anything else? Okay with that, could you please call the role and propose motion 2020 20051. Thank you, Madam Chair. Council member Banducci. Hi. Council member Dombrowski, I. Councilmember Dunn. I. And some of them. McDermott, I. Councilmember Berry. I. Councilmember at the ground. Councilmember Bond. Ray Bauer. Council member. Caroline. I. Madam Chair, on the board is ayes. No, no. Council member. Bond. Bye bye. Excuse. Thank you. Council member. And can vote before the meeting screen. That. Please let us know. Thank you, Rick. Our vote. We have approved proposed motion 2020 2005. When we will send this motion with the due pass recommendation for the consent agenda to the April 30 Council meeting on stemming objections. Great. Congratulations, Sean. We will be taking this up on the consent calendar. You do not have to be at the meeting to speak. And if you are wanting to be there, you can tell them otherwise. And we will, of course, let you know after the fact as well. Thank you. Great. Thank you all so much. And thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Great. Okay. Our next item, number six is a briefing on a 2020 to be 0039 with King County Regional Homelessness Authority. Providing an update will be Mark Jones Chief Executive Officer and also Felicia Sauceda, who is Executive Director.