A MOTION confirming the appointment of Frank Martin to the King County cultural development authority (4Culture) board.
Our pleasure. And with that will move to proposed motion 2019 112 MESABI five. Crackles IP. Excuse me. Yeah, see for that. I don't get. It, Mike. Michael. Again on page 17 of your packet, this is the appointment for for culture board appointment for Frank Martin and he was appointed by Councilmember Lambert. Mr. Martin lives in Skycom ish in Council District three. He was or he is the founder and project manager of I hope I pronounce this right. One one Amish Lodge, an adaptive reuse of a historical building in downtown Squamish. He is also a senior project manager and business consultant for a construction company and he is a councilmember for the town of Squamish. And this motion also has an amendment for your consideration. Amendment one would make Mr. Barton's appointment a three year term and to conform with the advice of council's legal counsel for filling four culture board vacancies. And with that amendment, Mr. Martin's appointment appears to be consistent with the requirements of the County Code and the culture charter and bylaws. Thank you, Mr. Martin, and invite you to join us to the presentation table. Good afternoon and welcome. Councilmember Lambert, would you like to make a few remarks? I would love to make some remarks. First of all, it is a pleasure to endorse him for this position. I met him under circumstances. He purchased a piece of property up in Sky Comet that I had my eye on for us to build as a community center and town. People said Councilmember Lambert may not be happy with you buying that piece of the property. And so we talked about it and he turned it into a amazing place that I couldn't be happier about. He took something that now was close to almost falling down and turned it into a beautiful place. And not only did he do that, but the workmanship in there, it was the two common arrows bridge that you took the lights from at an auction and put those lights in. He used crates from another business to redo the stairways. He left in the back of the building the marks on the ground where it used to be an old ice house. And so the marks from cutting up the ice were left on as part of the historical history of that building. There were so many pieces that showed absolute intricacies and devotion and love to the art of keeping this building alive. But he has done an awful lot or that building and for the town and that creativity that I saw as I went to the grand opening was spellbinding. And even the side of the building is now the back slat backsplash for the stove in the kitchen. And so the reuse was amazing. So I just really appreciate what you've done and I look forward to working with you even more. And thank you for being on the committee. Town committee. Thank you. Mr. Carter, any framing comments? I'll just say that Mr. and I had a chance to talk last week, which is the first time we had met. And I think what he brings to the foreclosure board at this point, which is really important, is this focus on preservation and I think an understanding of the built environment and what it takes to protect it for the utility that it provides community and also the beauty that you keep, the artistry that goes into the act of preservation of historic places. So I just look forward to him bringing that perspective. And then also it's just you guys know, there's been I do. It's a big county court. It's a gigantic county. And having somebody with deep roots as far out as Skycom, which will help bring that perspective that I think can that can work elsewhere as well outside of Seattle to be able to bring that frame to it. So I look forward to those two perspectives and also just enjoyed our conversation we have and look forward to him being on the board. So welcome. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Martin. Good afternoon. Sir. Humbled by following Yvonne's appointment in front of all of you. I'm. I'm. I'm a 15 year vet here in the city. I moved here from the East Coast, from Maine. And, you know, I was in Seattle for most of that time up until I bought an old another home that was about ready to end up in Skycom ish, just because Skycom was this town that, as you know, was heavy in mineral extraction and timber and the railroad, and it sort of died when it was cleaned up. And now it's coming back to life again. And I'm a huge ski and snowboard enthusiast who spent a lot of time up at Stevens. I run a nonprofit up there as well, and I just invested my time and effort and energy into this little town that's trying to reestablish itself again. And I had the pleasure of working with Councilmember Lambert and mayor of the town, a lot of other for Tara and different groups. And we were able to kind of pull something together for this building and not to mention start to build a new vision for that town. I am though not relegated only to skate commerce. I do have a home on Queen in, so I'm back and forth. But Skate Commission is my primary residence where I spend the majority of my time just because it reminds me a lot of where I grew up in Maine, where I'm 45 minutes from a city and, you know, 5 minutes from the outdoors, which is what really lured me to be be up there. So I'm again humbled by by the folks, the sport, everything of our culture of don't have gone through their grant program already. They gave me a grant for this for the lodge and it's called one mesh. One is in a group of people that are coming together under one roof. And mesh is the Native American suffix, meaning people. So. One people underneath this lodge that are using it as a base camp to access this recreational paradise that we have in our backyard in the great northern corridor. So, again, happy to be here and just honored and humbled by the folks here just to to take part and to do what I can to get back to. Thank you. Thank you. Questions for Mr. Martin. Councilmember Dombroski. CHAIR Thank you very much for willingness to serve. And when I came here in 2013, Councilmember Lambert and I worked on a joint piece of legislation called the Sky Commerce Initiative. If you're familiar with it, but was really to encourage our county departments to work together on a recreation, economic opportunity, historic preservation, those three kind of pieces of the three legged stool. And so it's not that we're necessarily leading on that, but we want to be a supportive partner and call your attention. Councilmember Lambert, if she hasn't already, I'll get you a copy of that motion so you can wave it around to various county folks when you need some help. For Terra was a great partner in that as well. And and we've been supporting through our conservation futures work efforts to protect the Moloney forests there and acquire some of the last original old growth timber remaining in King County, which is just north of Skate Coalition fighting the Scoop Jackson National Forest. So thanks very much for your willingness to serve your work in Sky Commons. Absolutely. Certainly invite anyone to come up there too and sit in the whistling post and talk to some of the old loggers about the trees. These the and you know, back in the day, it's it's a pretty impressive community, very small, but very welcoming warming. To. Councilmember Lambert. I don't know I don't know if all of our listening audience knows, but the town guy commish had a railroad leak from the early 1900s. And when it was discovered, there was like 36 inches of oil underneath the town. So they had to dig up the entire town down about 30 feet, suck out all that oil, and they put the houses on big logs and rolled them to the other side of town. And then after the oil was all taken out and many, many things happened, then new dirt was put back. They regraded, brought the houses back, reset them, new sidewalks, new streets. And then they took the next block and did that until the town block by block until last year. Oh, my gosh. 15 years ago, maybe something like that. Yeah. I think the first lake was discovered in 98 and the clean up for 80 to 90% of it was finished in 2006 27. And they just recently finished the old school that was up there was a is an art deco school, but it was a concrete they couldn't move it. So they installed a bunch of steam pipes underneath and have been working on pouring that sort of contaminated slurries and. They didn't know how they were going to do those steam pipes. So it took time to design how they would be done. And it was an amazing issue with local governments together and and state and federal, they had a whistle that would blow. And then there was a yellow house in the end. And when the whistle blew, everybody came to the house and they would say whatever problem they had had at that moment, and then they would whiteboard it and then everybody would agree when they finally agreed. And then it was signed off by everybody. And so that everybody that was there in that room had the authority to sign off on this because there were so many decisions that had to be made that it was truly an example of government at all levels at its best. And the railroad was there also. And once we got started and the railroad was very helpful and and and it was made to have happen, but it the history has been written on it. It's an amazing story how the town of Skye Komische was actually moved and reconstructed. And so it's the little town that could and now it will. And we're excited about what's going to be ahead. Very good. Councilmember Lambert, we'd like to put a motion before us. I would indeed. I would like to move proposed motion 2019 0102 with the do pass recommendation. We have motion 2000 amendment. We have a motion 2019 102 before us. Councilmember Lambert. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to move amendment number one. And Councilmember Lambert has moved Amendment One, which is the one that is was that are places when we got to the dais today. Could make the three year term to conform to the advice of the council legal staff. And I will pursue a question with legal staff is not in committee today but just to make sure I understand the or origin of this amendment making sure that we are all in line, but we have a recommended amendment making the term a three year term instead of the originally proposed two year term. All this in favor of an amendment. Simply say I opposed any human. Kerry's further discussion. Madam Quirke, would you please could call the roll in motion 2019 102. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Belushi. Councilmember Tim Buskirk. Councilmember Dunn. Hi. Councilmember Garzon. Hi. Councilmember Colwell. Councilmember Lambert. Councilmember at the Grove. Councilmember Yvonne Ricardo. Mr. Chair. Mr. Chan. The vote is nine is no nos. Thank you. By your vote, we've given a unanimous to pass recommendation to our motion 2019 102. And like Ms.. Phelps, we will we will put this on the consent agenda for a full council. So there should be no need for you to come to the full council. We look forward to full, full approval. Thank you. Thank you, Chairman. And with that, we move to agenda item seven. This is this item is a motion to confirm the executive's appointment of Rick Brady as our new director of the Road Service Road Services Division of the Department of Local Services.