A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of David Hadley, who resides in council district three, to the Harborview Medical Center board of trustees, as the district three representative.
Look forward to it. That takes us to items. We're going to combine item six and seven. And today's agenda brings us to notions 20, 21, 157 and 158, which would confirm appointments to the Medical Harborview Medical Center Board of Trustees for Bill Boyce and David Hadley. The application materials for the appointments were sent out to council members separately in an email from Ms.. Stedman on Wednesday, April 14, at 12:40 p.m. and Sam Porter from Counsel Central Staff will provide a brief staff report and then we'll hear from the nominees. Themselves. Miss Porter. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can you hear me? We can. Great. Councilor Sam Porter, council policy staff. The documents for this item for item six begin on page eight and page 13 for item seven. Overview is a 413 bed teaching hospital that serves as the level one trauma center in the four state region of Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Montana. Harborview is owned by King County and operated by the University of Washington and governed by the county appointed Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is composed of 13 members, one representative from each council district who is nominated by their respective council member and four At-Large members. Nominees are appointed by the executive and confirmed by the Council by motion and the Board as the representative authority of the county, oversees the provision of health care services to assure that the county's priorities are addressed and high quality health care is made available to residents regardless of their ability to pay. As you mentioned, Mr. Chair, there are two appointees here for consideration today. We have Bill Boyce, who would represent District nine, and David Hadley, who would represent District three. And that concludes my remarks. Thank you so much. I will turn it over to Mr. Boyce and then Mr. Hadley to introduce themselves, share a little bit about their background and their interests in serving on the review board of Trustees. Thank you, Councilmember. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me begin for the honor of being here. I'm very excited about the possibilities appointment here. A little bit about my background. I spent four years in the military. There's an Airborne Ranger paratrooper. I'm a Boeing. Employee for 3 to 4 years of my profession at the Boeing Company. I have. Served 16 years on the 10th School Board of Education and now currently in my third term. On the Kent City Council. Also, I'm the vice chair of. The Sentencing Association, the state committee. What excites me about this. Possible appointment is our high review is a well-known medical center in northwest L.A. being part. Of the best. I feel like I have some skill. Set that can be. Part of a team and help enhance. What we are trying to do. Be successful at Harvard. I had a very nice conversation. About interim CEO Summer yesterday. And so it was very pleasant to talk to her and talk about what's going on at the hospital and some. Of the challenges. So I really look forward to this area and being a member of the team. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Mr. Hadley. Get the right button pushchair. There we go. Welcome back. I can't remember. MCDERMOTT It's a great pleasure to be considered for being a part of the Harborview Organization. I've been a resident here in King County since 1981. Previously has served on the board for 14 years. I stepped off the board at the end of my term four years ago, and Council member Lambert asked if I would consider returning to the board. And I'm thrilled to be considered young to be part of this organization. While on the board, I served as the chairman of the Finance Committee for several years. I also served as the chairman of the board for two years. I am currently involved in start up here in Bellevue. We're a medical device manufacturer focused on ambulatory monitoring for electrical activities in cardiology, with the goal of trying to identify pathological arrhythmias in the heart. And we also build a product that's used for screening use for the risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Before I turn it to colleagues for questions. We have also with us the CEO of Harborview Medical Center. Some are clinical. I'm Wally. And if you would like to make any introductory comments, you want to. Oh, thank you, Councilmember and Chair. I had the opportunity of meeting both with Bill Boyce and Dave Hadley, and they have expressed very wonderful commitment to being on the board. They are both very excited and both bring a very nice skill set to match our other really strong board members and the engagement. We have both asked very appropriate questions and verbalized extreme interest in the committees that they're already excited about joining. So I have spent time looking at the past past council of our past board members that have been on and feel like these two will be extremely good additions to the to the committee. And I'm very pleased that they are up. Thank you very much. Thank you. Colleagues. Questions Conversation Dialog with our nominees. Councilmember Bell, D.C.. Thank you very much. Just a couple of things. And for reflection, if either of the members want to, but I want to I want to first off, just share my appreciation. Both of you bring a great deal of experience, expertize and knowledge to this position. And we we so appreciate you doing that. All of our board members, it's a very high functioning board with a very critical mission for our our entire county. So thank you, first and foremost. Second, we're going into a really interesting time of growth and expansion with the Harborview Levy that passed last year. And so I I'm interested to hear your your thoughts on as board members, how you help to guide an institution through this kind of a major expansion, which is very exciting. It's an exciting time, but also a challenging time. And then finally, I just want to say, particularly to Councilmember Boyce, I'm very glad to see somebody with your experience coming on the board, because we often hear from from the staff of Harborview about, you know, various issues. And it's so important that the organization have strong policies and a strong, you know, philosophy of supporting the staff because they are the services. They are the they are the trauma force center. They are the ones who make sure that we have the best in class treatment and support for, you know, for everyone in the county, but especially for our mission population. So I think that your experience is so, so, so good to have on the board. Anyway, no, no response necessary unless you feel like you want to. But those are my thoughts as we move to make this appointment today. Well. Mr. Chair. Councilmember Dunn. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank both applicants for your willingness to serve on this important board. It is, in my judgment, the most important board that we appoint for at the King County Council. And we have seen more now, more than ever with the pandemic, the need for a strong and robust public health system. Our review is the only level one trauma facility anywhere in the northwestern portion of the United States yet to go all the way down to San Francisco before we get to another one and quite a ways east, I don't know. I think it's Minneapolis. So it's really important and it's good to have different temperaments, generally two convictions and professional experience on that board, as we have seen, to make it better, more user friendly for everyone. So thanks for your willingness to serve. I eagerly support both of your nominations and appointment to the board and look forward to working with you once you're there. Thank you. Thank you very much. Comes a member of on board. Thank you, Mr. Chair. First a question for Mr. Boyce and for Dave. What are in your minds the greatest challenge you're going to have as a board member of Harborview Hospital for the next couple of years? What do you think. Is going to be the greatest challenge to you as a board member? I'll go first. Thank you, Councilman. I think for me, really, we all need to make sure we're on the same page for understanding the. Mission of Harborview. Medical Center. I mean, that's number one. I think it's. Important. Also that we put our people and our employees first and also make sure we provide the most upgraded. Profession to all of our patients. Right. So I think that's what we're really going to identify, at least. To kind of keep us continue. The look at the number. One trauma center. And I think it's. Up to us as trustee, as the CEO and our staff that we deliver. Services to. All employees. Thank you, Councilmember. Dave. I would certainly echo Bill's comments. I think those are very appropriate. I think Harborview is nearly unique in the country. Most county hospitals have at extremely difficult times in surviving facilities are inappropriate or are inadequate. Part of it runs on a razor thin margin and provides support for the uninsured and everybody else, elements of our society that otherwise wouldn't have access to great care. So I think helping support the organization as it continues to balance the budget without calling upon the county to supplement its budget is extremely important. I was on the board when we built out the Ninth and Jefferson Building and I think the ability to expand the range of care that we can give away with care we can give is essential as as the county continues to grow. So I'm really excited about those areas. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you for the. Comments of Councilmember Dunn and Councilor Belushi, because they reflect my own sentiment. As well. Thank you. Thank you. Further questions. Discussion. I have my own perspective. I would just like to note that one of the things the in addition to the substantial bond measure that the voters so strongly approved last year, another part that the council has paid attention to and devoted some interest in over the last several years is the labor relations with Harborview and our labor partners at the hospital. And I want to give credit to the interim CEO and the management team over it, over time as well, that have made improvements in those relationships. Now, we can still continue to make strong improvements, but it is in partnership with our Labor employees that we provide the care to our mission population and everyone seeking care at Harborview. And I would just emphasized the need to continue that cooperation and progress while continuing to make sure we're managing the hospital well. I think strong labor relations is part of strong management. And you agree? Council member. Up the Grove. Councilmember of the Grove. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to add my voice of support for both of the nominees. And in particular, Councilmember Bill Boyce and I have had the chance to bump into each other over the years and and cross paths in his role as a council member. And he's someone who has demonstrated and has a reputation for being thoughtful and levelheaded. And I've always known him to be someone who is driven by the public interest and wants what's best for the community. And I think he'll bring those values to the Harborview Board as well, in terms of being a real voice for what is in the public interest and in terms of whether it's the patients, the employees, the all of the of the people who impact or impacted by that organization. So I just wanted to add my word of appreciation for Councilmember Boyce, for you willing to lend your time and talent to the to Harborview and certainly support both of both of these excellent nominees. Further discussion. Councilmember Lambert. Thank you. First of all, I agree with everything that's been said about what a special place Harborview is and. And the other things. And you mentioned adding the knife and Jefferson and I've had the opportunity to be up there on a number of occasions, and that is a beautiful space for people and very respectful. And I am really pleased the quality of care that Harborview is famous for. I am also pleased with the technology that you reach out to in so many ways with specialties like the Burn Unit and robotics. One of the units that I want to mention is that England bond issue that we just passed. There's going to be a new behavioral health building, and I've seen the schematics of that. And it is so impressive to me what that is going to look like and the range of services and how thoughtfully that was put together. And with the issues that we're having with mental illness, that building getting done on time and hopefully even a little bit early would be very helpful. I did teasingly ask if we could get keys to the building so we could come in and relax and enjoy the atrium. And no, we don't get keys to the building, but it it is really a wonderful design and I am looking forward to seeing that be available to us as we work with the impacts of life in general. But post-COVID. So it's one that I'll be looking forward to seeing more and hear more about as well as I know that the director of the unit currently has a lot of really good ideas that I'm looking forward to seeing implemented and potentially being a role model nationally. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the discussion. Seeing None Council member done, I would entertain a motion to give a do pass recommendation to motion 2021 157 Appointing Mr. Boyce. Move a to pass recommendation with pleasure for proposed motion to add 20 1-0157. The motion is before us and we've had great conversation with the appointees. Nominees. Any further discussion? Just generally super proud of these guys for being on the board. Has a long history of of that group working well together and also reporting back to the council on ways that we can continue to improve the system. I would urge my colleagues support and thank the individuals for their willingness to serve. I see no further discussion. Madam Clerk, could I ask you to please call the roll? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Belushi. Hi. Councilmember DEMBOSKY. I am Councilmember Dunn. I council member calls. I council member member. I council member of the growth. I council member by night. There are. I. Council members online. I. Mr. Chair. All right. Mr. Chair. The vote is 19 strong us. Thank you. By your vote, we've given a do pass recommendation. A motion 2021 157. And we'll send that to full council and on regular course on consent and council member Lambert. Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure that I'd like to move. Item number seven 2021 desk 0158 with a do pass recommendation. Council Member Lambert's moved adoption of the motion 2021 158 Appointing David Hadley do the Job Review Board of Trustees discussion. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Hadley knows the work well, is serving many leaders of capacities on the harbor board before and when he had to step down for business reasons. A couple of years ago, board members called me and said, Oh my goodness, you're going to have to really work to find somebody to fill those shoes. And I did. But when that person had to leave for business reasons, I immediately called David. And I am so thankful that he is willing to come back again and to have his many expertizes back. He, as with Mr. Boyd, will do most, will do an excellent job and continue the great work of a past board members as they go forward. Thank you. Seen no further discussion. Madam Kirk, I'd ask you to please call the roll. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Carlucci. Councilmember DEMBOSKY, I council member done. By. Councilmember Kowalski. Councilmember coe was i. Councilmember member. I. Councilmember of the grill. I. Councilmember. Born right there. I. Council members all. I. Mr. Chair. All right. Mr. Chair, the vote is 99 zero now. Thank you. By your vote, we have given a do pass recommendation to motion 2021 158 appointing Mr. Hadley to the review board of Trustees. We will send that to council in regular course and put it on the consent agenda. Gentlemen, it'll. It'll be up for consideration by the full council. We'll see how you do there with all nine members. And it will be a consent. So we would expect that we'd meet with great support. And with that, I want to acknowledge that I believe the chair of the board of trustees, Stephanie Fain, is with us as well. Ms.. Fain, if you wanted to offer a word of congratulations or an update to the council. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And good morning, everyone. I just wanted to be here to support the appointees. Normally, I would just sit in the row behind the appointees, but Zoom puts us right up front. We are very much looking forward to working with the appointees. And I also want to take this opportunity to thank you all again for your strong support of our review and the unanimous passage of the bond measure that allowed the voters to consider it in November. I'm happy to answer any other questions. I believe we'll be back later in a few months to do a full report. Exactly. But I wanted to be able to recognize you and acknowledge you joining us as well. Chairman, thank you for not taking a vote on. Okay. Thank you so much. And we will move to item eight on today's agenda. This is an ordinance that would prohibit county administrative offices and executive departments from using facial recognition technology. I understand that there is a technical striking amendment.