A MOTION confirming the appointment of Vivian Phillips to the King County cultural development authority (4Culture) board.
Thank you. The March 4th minutes would be for a C, no discussion. All those in favor, please say I opposed. Nay, the ayes have it. The minutes are approved. Takes takes us to items five and six, two appointments to the for culture board. Last year, the Council adopted an ordinance that made changes to the oversight for culture, the county's cultural development authority. One of those changes was to have the have Kane County Council members directly point nine of the 15 board members with the council confirming those appointments. Two of the council members nominated for culture board members are here today for consideration of their confirmations. The first is Vivian Phillips, who was nominated by Councilmember Larry Gossett. Leah Cockles, up from our central staff, provided a brief staff report on the appointment, and then I'll ask Councilmember Goss if he'd like to introduce the item. And I'm here from as Phillips. Good afternoon, Council members. The materials begin on page one of your packet and just a little background for culture is King County's Cultural Development Authority, created in 2002 to administer King County's arts and heritage programs. And the For Culture Board is governed for culture is governed by a 15 member board of directors. Directors, according to their culture charter, are to have a demonstrated commitment to and knowledge of cultural resources, be active and experienced in community and civic issues and concerns, and have the ability to evaluate the needs of the cultural constituent constituencies of the region as a whole, directors are to represent a range of talents, experiences, backgrounds and viewpoints related to cultural development. And directors must be residents of King County and are chosen to reflect the geographic and cultural diversity of the county. Last year, the Council made some changes to the board culture board appointment process, and nine of the 15 positions are now directly appointed by Council County Council members. Appointments must be confirmed by the Council by Motion Board members as four Culture Board members serve four terms of three years and may serve up to two consecutive full terms and now move on to board appointee Vivian Phillips. She lives in Seattle in Council District two and was appointed by Councilmember Larry Gossett. Mr. Phillips is a strategic advisor and consultant serving clients in arts, culture and communications fields. Additionally, she has served as director of marketing and communications for Seattle's largest performing arts organization, the Seattle Theater Group. She has co-founded an African-American theater lab, served as an adjunct professor for Seattle University's MFA Arts Leadership Program, independently produced theater productions and served on the Seattle Arts Commission. Mr. Phillips appointment appears to be consistent with the requirements of county code, the Fort Culture Charter and the bylaws. Thank you. Then invite Ms.. Phelps to join us. And Mr. Bryant. Carter and Mr. Carter, if you want to join us at the presentation table, welcome. I didn't realize Mr. Carter was coming to. I know Mr. Phillips well enough to know she could fend for herself. Yeah. But I can't remember. Gosset, would you like to introduce? Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. It gives me a great deal of pleasure and privilege to introduce to all of you who don't yet know her. Vivian Phillips has been more active in the cultural arena than just about anybody I know. She goes all the way back to the black arts west and central area where she was dynamic and a person who was involved as well as very supportive of black theater. I thought that our staff persons met in other big titles that she currently owns was good, but she is very rooted in the grassroots movement for our culture, involvement of African-Americans and other people of color, and just anybody who thinks they have the talents to be more active in a culture of various cultural arenas that are called to represent than just about anybody I know. And because of this training and experience, she's someone that will even challenge Councilmember Gossett when she thinks it's appropriate. So I kind of dig that. So what I want to do, what I want to do not turn to Brian, who I know knows Mr. Phillips. And he is currently the executive director of the for Culture Organization and its its board that I am recommending Vivian serve. So I'd like to give you an opportunity to mention briefly about the board and then what he thinks Vivian will bring to it. Thank you, Mr. Curry. Welcome. If you have any framing remarks for both the board in general and for culture, and Ms.. Phelps would welcome them. Just want to say hello to all the council members. Thank you for having me here today. And thank you specifically to Councilmember Gossett for nominating Vivian Phillips. I've known Vivian since it's been a while now. She was the emcee for the opening ceremony of the Northwest African-American Museum back in 2008, which is when I first became acquainted with her and was able to celebrate that momentous occasion together. And since then, I've seen her and her prolific career and, as you said, those large titles. But beyond that, I'm excited about her. Coming on the board for culture at this pivotal moment is we're an organization that's evolving, that's changing. It's really looking critically at where funds go and how they best support the culture and helping the entire county. And I think she has an experience across just myriad disciplines, different size organizations with such roots in community that it's somebody that I plan to rely on for their counsel, for their advice. And like you, I'm sure she'll call me out when need be as well. So I look forward to the talents, I think, and the experiences and perspectives that she brings to the Fore Culture Board. I think she'll be a valuable asset and I look forward to working with her. So thank you for that. Thank you. Good afternoon. Ms.. Phelps, some words in your own defense. Well, it. Seems everybody knows me. Pretty well. And I do. Want to say that the last time I was here, I. Think it was when I was working with Pete von Bauer back in the. Nineties to secure. Funding for the restoration of the Paramount Theater. So yeah. My career goes. Back quite a long. Ways. It is quite an. Exciting opportunity, I think, to be serving on the Fort Culture Board at this particular juncture, given the changes that are taking place across the region, both in the demographics of our region and in the arts and cultural complexion of our region and under the leadership of Brian. So I'm really excited. To have. An opportunity to be a part. Of. Not only uplifting the arts, but uplifting the arts as a part of our civic conversation, as it relates to the growth of the region, the changes of the region, and how arts and culture really is an important part, just like infrastructure and everything else. Without arts and culture, our region does not survive or succeed. So I'm excited and. Thank you very much. Thank you. Questions from his Films Council. Councilmember Lambert. Thank you very much. It's good to see you and thank you. Thank you. Glad to hear that. Your involvement with theater labs and that we definitely need some of those out in the unincorporated areas to further east. I just wanted to say that we had a listening center of succession with the entire board. So that last week the task. The ordinance task force. Right. Yeah. Last weekend. Yeah. So I was really, really impressed with the broad array of people on the board with their ability to listen and actually their excitement about being out in the area of my district. Some of them hadn't been there in a very long time. And one of them told me afterwards that they felt so warm and comfortable there that they may move there. So it was an interesting opportunity to talk about the idea that we are all united and that the unincorporated area also needs to have more art. And so I really appreciated that. And thank you for spending the time that night. Thank you. Can I just. In response to that, you say that for probably the last 13 years, I've had. The opportunity to work with or culture on bringing. Stories. About arts and culture throughout the region of King. County to a viewing public through KTTV. And it has been the best thing. That's happened to me to get out to Carnation, to get to Snoqualmie. To get to these other areas. And really see the kind of work that's going on there, as opposed to just being in a bubble here in Seattle. So it's really exciting to have another opportunity to get back out into the county. To Councilmember Yvonne Rick Bower. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank Casper Gossett for his leadership in appointing someone who has been truly a leader in this community. We had a chance to work long hours on a project that many thought would never get done. And thanks to her leadership, she not only talked about it, but she helped put together the mechanisms. And with some outside help, we were very successful and today is a credit to you and your leadership. I also want to thank her for her acknowledgment of the regional responsibility for culture, because when she and I were working together in the nineties, that county was a little different and they different and the county has changed dramatically. Yeah, populations have moved throughout this community and so important to make sure that we follow the people because the people are moving throughout this county now and make sure that the cultural opportunities that are not just limited to those lucky enough to live in Seattle, but are lucky enough to live in Federal Way and Bothell and Auburn and other parts of our region because they need to have that access. And she understands access. And I want to thank again Councilmember Gossett for having the foresight again to appoint someone who I think is a true leader in our region. Thank you. Appreciate it. Senior Council Member Coles. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and also like to thank Councilmember Gossett for his foresight and wisdom here. And Mr. Phillips, I think what's so wonderful about you two is your breadth of experience, breadth and depth of communications working, of course, in live theater. And I also really appreciate that in substantive areas you've brought to the public the keen awareness of of the transatlantic slave trade. And that's very important that we look to not just at the position, but what it is one is doing in one's position. So thank you. Thank you. So much. With that, Councilmember Goss added, Entertain a motion. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It gives me a great deal of pride to put forward the name of one of my own girls, Vivienne. I both grew up in the center area, so therefore I like to move that with the proposed motion. 2019 0067 Council member Garcia just moved. We give it due due passed recommendation to motion 20 1967. I second. Thank you. It has been moved and second to see no further discussion. Madam Clerk, would you call the roll? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Bell Duchin. Councilmember DEMBOSKY, Councilmember Dunn. Councilmember Garcia. Hi. Councilmember Colwell Councilmember Lambert, Councilmember of the Grove. Councilmember one. Mr. Chair. Hi, Mr. Chair. The vote is nine eyes, no no's. Thank you. By your vote, we've given a unanimous recommendation. Do pass recommendation to approve Ms.. Phelps appointment to the Culture Board. We will advance that to our two full council and we'll put that on the consent agenda. So it will be taken up as part of the consent agenda. And you won't need to reappear unless you certainly want to. Great. Great. Thank you. Thank you so much. Our pleasure. And with that will move to proposed motion 2019 112 MESABI five. Crackles IP. Excuse me.