File #: 2005-0348    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Lapsed
File created: 8/22/2005 In control: Operating Budget Committee
On agenda: 1/23/2006 Final action: 2/5/2007
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to records, elections and licensing services; and amending the 2005 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15083, Section 25, as amended.
Sponsors: Larry Gossett
Indexes: Appointments, Budget, Elections, Records and Elections
Attachments: 1. 2005-0348 Attachments 4-9 of 9-7-05 Staff Report.pdf, 2. 2005-0348 Fiscal Note.xls, 3. 2005-0348 Staff Report 12-7-05.doc, 4. 2005-0348 Staff Report 9-14-05, 5. 2005-0348 Staff Report 9-7-05.doc, 6. 2005-0348 Transmittal Letter.doc, 7. Attach 4 to 12-7-05 Staff Report - Summary of Elections Issues 2002-20052.doc, 8. Attach 5 to 12-7-05 Staff Report- Executive Task Force Recommendations Legislative Policy2.doc, 9. Attachment 6 to 12-7-05 Staff Report - Excerpts from Email from Bob Cowan to Rebecha Cusack2.doc
Staff: Hamacher, Patrick
Drafter
Clerk 08/12/2005
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AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to records, elections and licensing services; and amending the 2005 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15083, Section 25, as amended.
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PREAMBLE:
King County executive Ron Sims appointed the King County Independent Task Force on elections ("the task force") in April 2005 and charged them with developing short and long-term recommendations that would have a meaningful and enduring positive impact on the elections process in King County.
The King County independent task force on elections consisted of people with diverse backgrounds, interests, training and political perspectives and included several widely respected elections professionals, including:
1. Cheryl Scott, Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Group Health;
2. Patricia Aitken (Retired Superior Court Judge), Arbitrator/Mediator, Judicial Arbitration and Medication Services;
3. David Boerner, Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University;
4. Philip Eaton, President, Seattle Pacific University;
5. Nick Handy, Director of Elections, State of Washington;
6. Susan Hutchison, Executive Director, Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences;
7. Joe Knight, Dean, University of Washington School of Law;
8. John Lindback, Elections Director, State of Oregon;
9. Suzanne Sinclair, Auditor, Island County; and
10. Stephen Sundborg, President, Seattle University.
The ultimate goal of the task force is, to restore public trust in King County's elections system not only by improving it, but by building a secure foundation for King County to have a model elections system for the nation.
Task force members devoted hundreds of hours of time to their work, providing thoughtful examination of the issues, and a frank, candid assessment of the challenges the elections division faces that resulted in first rate, targeted recommendations that will a...

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