A MOTION confirming the appointment of Alina Santillan to the King County cultural development authority (4Culture) board.
And me to do so. Thank you very much for your time. You. Okay. Our next agenda item is the appointment of a Lena Santillan to the Fort Culture Board for a three year term representing Council District four. I made the appointment and the staff report begins on page six. We are happy will brief us. We do have E Kennedy, the appointee with us and we also have Claire Michel from the fourth culture coming who is support culture, government and Community Relations Manager. So go right ahead, Leah, and you can talk to us outside the fireplace right afterwards. Thank you. Thank you. Council members. Good morning. My name is Leah Crackles. I'll be council staff. This item before you, as the chair said, is a motion to confirm the appointment of Elina Sundin to the Fort Culture Board of Directors for a three year term expired, expiring on December 31st, 2024. And I'll provide some brief background and introduce Mr. some at the end and then turn it over to the chair for any questions the council members may wish to ask the appointee. And as a reminder for culture, is King County's cultural development authority responsible for administering King County's arts and heritage programs and for culture is governed by a 15 member board of directors who are to have a are required to have a demonstrated commitment to and knowledge of cultural resources, the active and experienced in community and civic issues and concerns, and have the ability to evaluate the needs of cultural constituencies in the region. Board Position number four, which you are considering today, is to be appointed by the Council member representing Council District four, which of course is Chair Caldwell's. As she said, Mr. Santiago resides in Council District four and his professional experience includes works for Seattle Arts and Culture, for Anti-Racism and for Katie XP. And his current community experience includes serving on the city at Seattle Community Police Commission and the King County Equity Cabinet. And the Racism is a Public Health Crisis Committee and the Seattle Works Board. The appointment of Mr. Sunshine to the Board Culture Board appears to be consistent with the policies and process governing for culture appointments. And that concludes my staff report. Thank you very much, Leon, and greetings and welcome, Mr. Santillan. And do you prefer being referred to the Senate or as Mr. Santillan? ALEX Fine. Councilmember Thank you. And I've had the opportunity to meet Aruna and commend this nomination. Confirmation, rather, appointment confirmation to the committee of the whole. I'm very excited about joining the Fort Culture Board. And I think, Alina, you were at this month's meeting. Is this your first one? Is that correct? Yes, ma'am, that's correct. So we welcome you and we'd love to hear from you about your wanting to be appointed. Why are you why you chose to be on the board? Thank you so much for giving me an opportunity to talk with you. I hope that my permanent. Top dog. Will be quiet while I share a little bit about why I've been excited to join the culture board. I've been in the arts and culture nonprofit sector for more than a decade now. And, you know, I'm sure over the past couple of years, we've seen a lot of change and conversation around how we're making all of our spaces, government, our built environment, arts and culture, health care. How are you bringing an anti-racism lens to that work? How are we talking. About equity and intersectional way? That is not just for some people, but is actually for every single person, especially those that have been historically and presently under invited into our spaces. And I think that my kind of passion in wanting to join the. Culture. Board is, is bringing my perspective, bringing the skills that I've built over time around. How do we make culture change that is lasting? How can we make, you know, when we are giving messages of solidarity with communities that have been harmed, how do we make that solidarity actionable? How do we live out our values, especially with the intersection of funding? Right. We've had a lot of conversation well, I've heard a lot of conversation today about the experiences of our community members, Jackson County, whether that is like struggling to pay rent, but then they're struggling to say, hey, I'm doing my best and I found a job, but I can't I don't have access to. Housing. And and where I'm bringing hopefully skillset. And passion. And perspective is bringing those conversations that we're having today. Largely. Throughout. The culture board. Obviously within that. Race and culture sector. But really about our work. How do we make this work last? So we make sure we are bringing our our. Lived perspectives. At the table, that those who don't have a seat at the table like these. Have a lot of. Privilege in being able to be here today. Are we make sure that we're elevating the voices of those that don't. So I'm excited to and honored to be nominated and to to be serving in this role. And I just thank you all for the opportunity. I look forward to working with everyone. Thank you, Ilene. A very much and uncertain. My colleagues on the committee can see why I was so enthusiastic about making this appointment. I had three recommendations and I did not hesitate with making the decision to select two coming. Are there any questions that. Come to more of a comment than a question. I'm very happy to support this nomination, and I really thank you for your perspective and for listening to us and working that into how you think about our. And my comment is, I feel like in the arts and culture and, and heritage space, there is such an opportunity to bridge the historical and present gaps that we see between and among people. That leads to the kind of inequitable outcomes we see. And that can seem really intractable in a political space. Like we're not trying to convince people of something. We're trying to share our experiences in a really, really immediate way that gets past the mental processing. And so I just have a lot of hope when I hear people who want to help build our public art space further in these ways, because I think that is a huge part of how we move forward from where we are today. My comment my second comment, Madam Chair, is I just want to take this moment to make a bit of a pitch to you, my colleagues. We have three ex-officio seats on the floor. Culture Board Council member Coles is in one of them. Council Member Perry will be a new member in another one. We had two members who were on the board last year who will have termed out there are there is a three year term limit, although you can cycle back on after a break. And so I just want to make sure that members are aware we do have one seat that we could still fill as an ex-officio member. And if you're interested in it, please do contact me. Thank you. I imagine. Thank you. And I appreciate your you're making that effort. Are there any other questions that. We do have with this Claire Michaud from Fort Culture. Claire, do you wish to make any comments? No, I. I think Alina said it all. Thank you very much. I think it's very obvious how much Alan is going to be contributing to the Fort Culture Board. Very excited to be working with Galena and of course, the current board. Okay, good, good. I spent hours watching the proposed motion. 2020 1069 travel. I've never done this to a council member than as vice chair. Oh, thank you. My vice chair of this fantastic committee this year. It's so good to know. Oh. Oh, good. I'm glad to have some leadership responsibilities. I'd be happy to move the motion out of that sneak bias in the word feature. Email Council Member Don. Feature. Email and the agenda where you're listed at the top tier and I'm here you are. You did a really good job though. Vice-Chair as well. Thank you. Thank you all. And our commission has been made. Any discussion? Okay. Could you please support the bill? Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember Ritchie, I. As a member of the. High. Council member done. By. Anthony McDermott. I. I'm in a very I. As a member of the group. I. As a member and I by way. I. As a member, sir. Hello. Hi. Madam Chair. But is my. iPhone also no. Excuse? Thank you. With our vote, we have approved the motion 2020 10469 and scheduling of send this motion with the deep recommendation to be placed on the consent calendar at the February 15, 2022 Council meeting. And congratulations to Lina, since we will be taking this up on the consent calendar. You do not have to be in attendance. Of course we welcome you to be there, but there won't be any discussion at that time. Thank you for your service. Next, coming up, do you want to say anything? Just gratitude. I'm so excited to work with all of you and excited to get to work. Thank you so much. Okay. And we're I'm very excited to work with you. Okay. With that, we will go on to our last agenda item number seven, which is a proposed motion 2020 10467 requesting the executive to establish an equitable development initiative or