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Clerk 03/09/2021

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AN ORDINANCE affirming the establishment of an advisory committee to provide input to council during the council's office of law enforcement oversight director appointment process.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  The council is in the process of appointing a new director of the office of law enforcement oversight ("OLEO") through a nationwide search.  As a part of that process, the council approved Motion 15830 establishing the office of law enforcement oversight director recruitment advisory committee to provide input to the council during the process to appoint a new director of OLEO.

2.  Motion15830 provides for the committee to be comprised of members who are employed by King County and members who are not employed by King County.

3.  K.C.C. 2.28.006 authorizes the council by ordinance to provide per diem compensation for members of specific boards and commissions.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.

                     A.  The office of law enforcement oversight director recruitment advisory committee is established, consistent with Motion 15830.  The duties of the recruitment advisory committee shall include:

                       1.  Providing input on the candidate profile which Ralph Anderson & Associates will use to describe the director of the office of law enforcement oversight position to attract qualified candidates;

                       2.  Interviewing finalist candidates for the position of the director of the office of law enforcement oversight as selected by a subcommittee of the employment and administration committee of the council;

                       3.  Providing input about each final candidate to the council based on the recruitment advisory committee review of application materials and candidate interviews.  The committee shall not rank or score the candidates as a part of its evaluation process or its submission of input to the council; and

                       4.  Working in collaboration with Ralph Anderson & Associates and council staff to provide timely reports to the council.

                     B.  The membership of the recruitment advisory committee collectively represent the expertise, viewpoints and perspectives needed to advise the council during its recruitment of the office of law enforcement oversight director.

                     C.  The recruitment advisory committee shall consist of the following members:

                       1.  DeVitta Briscoe, Not This Time, codirector;

                       2.  Michael Byun, Asian Counseling and Referral Services, executive director;

                       3.  Sergeant Loi Dawkins, King County Police Officers Guild;

                       4.  Angela Donaldson, Fall City Community Association, president;

                       5.  Captain Mark Konoske; Puget Sound Police Managers Association;

                       6.  Laura Philpot; Maple Valley, city manager;

                        7.  Liz Rocca; King County sheriff's office, chief of staff;

                       8.  Adrienne Wat; office of law enforcement oversight, interim director;

                       9.  Abiel Woldu; community advisory committee for law enforcement oversight, president; and

                       10.  Sili Savusa; White Center Community Development Association, executive director.

                     D.  The council retains authority to decide which finalists will be interviewed and which finalist will be appointed as the director of OLEO in accordance with Section 265 of the King County Charter and K.C.C. chapter 2.75.

                     SECTION 2.  Members of the office of law enforcement oversight director recruitment advisory committee who are neither employees of King County nor employees of other municipal governments shall receive per diem compensation of one hundred and fifty dollars for attendance at each meeting lasting two hours or less; or three hundred dollars for each meeting exceeding two hours.  Total compensation for each committee member who is neither an employee of King County nor an employee of another municipal government is limited to five hundred dollars for the entirety of the member's service on the law enforcement oversight director recruitment advisory committee.  The purpose of the per diem compensation is to compensate those nongovernmental employee committee members for their experience and expertise contribution to the process of appointing a new director of the office of law enforcement

oversight.

                     SECTION 3.  This ordinance expires September 1, 2021.