File #: 2025-0053    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 2/4/2025 In control: Metropolitan King County Council
On agenda: Final action: 2/4/2025
Enactment date: Enactment #: 16747
Title: A MOTION relating to the organization of the council; and amending Motion 11122, Section G, as amended, and OR 2-040, and Motion 11122, Section H, as amended, and OR 2-050.
Sponsors: Girmay Zahilay, Rod Dembowski
Indexes: Council
Attachments: 1. Motion 16747
Related files: 2001-0147

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Clerk 2/3/2025

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A MOTION relating to the organization of the council; and amending Motion 11122, Section G, as amended, and OR 2-040, and Motion 11122, Section H, as amended, and OR 2-050.

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                     WHEREAS, the council has specified by motion the chairs, vice-chairs and members of council committees and provided for any changes to these positions to be made by adoption for a formal legislative motion, and

                     WHEREAS, the charter provides that the council shall elect one of its members as chair, and Motion 10651, Section II, as amended, and OR 1-010 provides that the council shall elect a chair who shall serve at the pleasure of the council for a term of one year, unless otherwise ordered by the council, and

                     WHEREAS, the council has specified by motion the chairs, vice-chairs and members of council committees and provided for any changes to these positions to be made by adoption of a formal legislative motion;

                     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:

                     I.  Motion 11122, Section G. as amended, and OR 2-040 hereby amended to read as follows:

                     OR 2-040.  Chairs and vice-chairs.  The council designates the following councilmembers as chairs and vice-chairs of the standing committees created in this motion and the regional committees established in the King County Charter.

                     Budget and fiscal management committee:

                                          Chair:  Rod Dembowski.

                                          Vice-chair:  Jorge L. Barón.

                     Committee of the whole:

                                          Chair:  Claudia Balducci.

                                          Vice-chair:  Teresa Mosqueda.

                     Employment and administration committee:

                                          Chair:  Girmay Zahilay.

                                          Vice-chair:  Sarah Perry.

                     Government accountability and oversight committee:

                                          Chair:  Pete von Reichbauer.

                                          Vice-chair:  Reagan Dunn.

                     Health, housing, and human services committee:

                                          Chair:  Teresa Mosqueda.

                                          Vice Chair:  Reagan Dunn.

                     Law and justice committee:

                                          Chair:  Jorge L. Barón.

                                          Vice Chair:  Claudia Balducci.

                     Local services and land use committee:

                                          Vice-chair: ((councilmember representing district five)) De'Sean Quinn.

                     Transportation, economy, and environment committee:

                                          Chair: ((councilmember representing district five)) De'Sean Quinn.

                                          Vice-Chair:  Rod Dembowski.

                     Regional policy committee:

                                          Chair:  Pete von Reichbauer.

                     Regional transit committee:

                                          Chair:  Jorge L. Barón.

                     Regional water quality committee:

                                          Chair:  Claudia Balducci.

                     II.  Motion 11122, Section H as amended, and OR 2-050 are each amended to read as follows:

                     OR 2-050.  Memberships.  The council designates the following councilmembers, in addition to the chairs and vice-chairs, as members of the standing committees created in this motion and the regional committees established in the King County Charter.

                     Budget and fiscal management committee:

                                          Members:  Claudia Balducci, Teresa Mosqueda, Sarah Perry, De'Sean Quinn, Girmay Zahilay((, councilmember representing district 5)).

                     Committee of the whole:

                                          Members:  All councilmembers.

                     Employment and administration committee:

                                          Members:  Jorge L. Barón, Teresa Mosqueda.

                     Government accountability and oversight committee:

                                          Members:  Teresa Mosqueda, Sarah Perry.

                     Health, housing and human services committee:

                                          Members:  Jorge Barón, ((councilmember representing district 5)) De'Sean Quinn.

                     Law and justice committee:

                                          Members:  Rod Dembowski, Teresa Mosqueda.

                     Local services and land use committee:

                                          Members:  Reagan Dunn, Teresa Mosqueda.

                     Transportation, economy, and environment committee:

                                          Members:  Claudia Balducci, Sarah Perry, Pete von Reichbauer.

                     Regional policy committee:

                                          Members:  Rod Dembowski, Girmay Zahilay.

                                          Alternate:  Sarah Perry.

                     Regional transit committee:

                                          Members: ((councilmember representing district 5)) De'Sean Quinn.

                                          Alternate:

                     Regional water quality committee:

                                          Members:  Reagan Dunn.

                                          Alternate: