Thank you for your interest in the King County charter review process. The Charter Review Commission's next meeting will be next Tuesday October 30 from 5:30-7:30pm, at the Seattle Municipal Tower: 700 Fifth Ave, Conference Room 4050/60, 40th floor.
Speakers at this meeting will include:
- Randy Revelle, Former King County Executive
- Rod Brandon, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Office of the Executive
- Bob Burns, Deputy Director, Department of Natural Resources and Parks
- Gene Duvernoy, President, Cascade Land Conservancy
Mr. Revelle will be addressing charter issues raised by the Sheriff.
Mr. Brandon, Mr. Burns, and Mr. Duvernoy will be speaking on an amendment proposed by Executive Sims. The proposed amendment would protect over 100,000 acres of open space already acquired by King County. The county would be barred from conveying, relinquishing, or converting these properties except in certain specified circumstances, in perpetuity.
You can review these and other charter issues received by the Commission by going to our website at
http://www.metrokc. gov/exec /charter/issues. aspx. You can read a summary of the most prominent issues, download a synopsis of each of the comments (the Issue Tracker), or download a library that contains the full text of all the comments (the Issue Library).
The Charter Review Commission is currently studying charter issues in subcommittee:
http://www.metrokc. gov/exec /charter/committees .aspx. The Commission will deliberate until March of 2008, when the public comment period begins.
Our next full Commission meeting, in November, will occur on Tuesday November 27 from 5:30pm-7:30pm. All meetings are open to the public. Note: the November meeting and all subsequent meetings will be take place at King County's new county office building: 401 5th Ave, Seattle, Room 121/123. You can review our full upcoming meeting schedule on our website at
http://www.metrokc.gov/exec/charter/meetings.aspx.We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming meeting, or seeing you during the public comment period in March!
Sincerely,
Mike Lowry and Lois North
Co-chairs, Charter Review Commission