Featured Job: Senior Customer Information Specialist (Sr CIS)
Salary: $47,340.80 – $67,620.80 Annually
Location: Seattle, WA
Job Type: Career Service, Full Time, 40 hrs/week
Department: MTD – Metro Transit
Job Number: 2019AH10877
Closing: 12/1/2019 11:59 PM Pacific
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Standing room only crowd talks storm season prep
A record-breaking crowd of 170+ attended the 8th annual Winter Weather Seminar on Oct. 29, hosted by King County Emergency Management and regional service providers.
As critical partners in winter weather preparedness, response, and recovery, the event brought together businesses, non-profits, and public professionals to discuss preparations for the coming winter storm season, review lessons learned from “Snowmageddon”, and talk about building partnerships to stay resilient. Fresh on everyone’s mind was flooding on the Tolt and Snoqualmie rivers and forecasts for possible early snow, which may have contributed to the high turnout.
Participants were welcomed by King County Executive Dow Constantine and Councilmember Kathy Lambert. Executive Constantine used the occasion to praise King County Search and Rescue efforts during last winter’s snow emergency and linked current preparations to the County’s update to our Strategic Climate Action Plan. Councilmember Lambert stressed the value of both personal and community preparedness.
Timely and helpful information presented by National Weather Service-Seattle, Puget Sound Energy, King County Emergency Management, Metro Transit, King County Roads, the Flood Warning Center, and Public Health highlighted available resources and reaffirmed the importance of agencies working closely together in battling whatever this winter season brings.
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Be prepared for possible wintry weather
Dear employee,
Cold, wintry weather is forecast for this week, with freezing rain and snow possible at higher elevations. While the potential for impacts to business operations are low, please dress warmly and be prepared for possible delays to your commute.
Make sure you’re getting the latest King County information at work and at home in the event of inclement weather:
- Call the Employee Hotline—206-205-8600 (save it to your phone now!).
- Check your King County email for specific directives and updates. Log on at owa.kingcounty.gov/.
- Contact your supervisor for instructions.
- Follow King County on Twitter—@KingCountyWA, @kcmetrobus, @kcroads, and @kcemployees
- Check your agency website or Intranet (if applicable), and monitor local media channels.
- Visit the Emergency News page at kcemergency.com for regional impacts.
KCInform: Make sure you can be reached in a major emergency. If you haven’t yet registered your personal contact or work cell information in KCInform, please contact kcinform@kingcounty.gov anytime or 206-296-3830 between 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday – Friday to request your unique registration link. Watch this short video to learn more or visit our website.
HR Policies: When an agency remains open, but conditions prevent you from reporting to work or from reporting on time, notify your supervisor as soon as possible. You may request leave, subject to approval by your supervisor. If you have no leave accrued, your supervisor may approve leave without pay to cover absences. Sick leave may not be used. Refer to HR Bulletin 2011-0009 County Operations During Emergency Situations and Inclement Weather (Sheriff’s Office employees refer to KCSO Inclement Weather Policy; Superior Court and District Court employees please see check court policies).
Resources for travelers
- Sign up for Metro Transit Alerts (text, email, tweets via @kcmetrobus, see RSS feed via desktop or mobile RSS reader)
- Sign up for King County Road Alerts (text, email, tweets via @kcroads)
- Sign up for King County Water Taxi Alerts (text, email)
- Visit the King County My Commute page
- Visit the Eye on Your Metro Commute (blog during peak weekday commutes).
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King County Metro seeking community input on future RapidRide K Line in Kirkland and Bellevue
King County Metro invites Kirkland and Bellevue transit riders and residents to take a survey to tell Metro where they want to see high-quality, frequent, and reliable RapidRide bus service from Kirkland to Bellevue. Metro is looking for specific feedback on route options between Totem Lake, downtown Kirkland, and the South Kirkland Park-and-Ride.
In 2025, Metro plans for RapidRide K Line service to connect eastside riders between communities and to Sound Transit’s Link light rail Blue Line, I-405 Bus Rapid Transit, and the RapidRide B Line. Metro is developing RapidRide K Line service for riders in the fast-growing communities between Totem Lake, downtown Kirkland, downtown Bellevue and Eastgate.
Read more in the official press release.
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Build partners for Children and Family Justice Center reflect on meaningful project
Design-build partners Howard S. Wright, HOK, and Integrus Architecture came together to discuss their time working on the Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center.
A strong team approach is the secret sauce for the success between HSW, HOK, Integrus and the County. “There were so many different folks that actually helped inform the design of the building through the process,” said HOK Senior Design Principal Alan R. Bright. That’s probably been the most joyful part, is people working together to make a difference in this amazing facility.”
Check out the video below to hear what representatives from each firm had to say about working on this unique project.
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AGS awards seven Ethical GEO Fellowships, including King County employee
The American Geographical Society has announced the award of the first seven Ethical GEO Fellowships. Greg Babinski, KCGIS Finance and Marketing Manager within the Department of Information and Technology (KCIT), was honored to be selected as one of the seven Fellows.
The American Geographical Society (AGS) is dedicated to the advancement of geographic thinking, knowledge, and understanding across business, government, academe, social sectors, and most importantly with teachers and students. Established in 1851, AGS is the oldest professional geographical organization in the United States.
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2020 Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Jan. 16
Community members and King County employees are invited to join in honoring our nation’s foremost human rights leader and King County’s namesake, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The theme for the 2020 Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration is “Yes, we are on the move and no wave of racism can stop us. We are on the move now.” They keynote address will be given by john a. powell, Director, Othering & Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley. The program also includes music and spoken word.
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, noon to 1 p.m., Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
For more information contact Matías Valenzuela, Director, Office of Equity and Social Justice.
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Pet of the Week: Stevie
Crossposted from Tails from RASKC
Stevie is a 14 year-old, female, brown tabby & white, longhair cat (A593379). Her personality color is GREEN, meaning she is an adaptable cat who loves to go with the flow. Stevie can be independent at times, but she loves petting and will even hop up in the laps of strangers. She is usually the first cat to greet those who come to visit.
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Celebrating Native American Awareness Month in King County
Dear King County employee,
November is Native American Awareness Month in King County, a time for us to celebrate the history, culture, and many contributions of Native people throughout our region and here at King County.
We are on the ancestral lands of the Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie, Puyallup, Tulalip, and Suquamish Tribes, and the Duwamish people. And our community is home to a large population of Native people from Tribal nations across the country.
Together with our Tribal partners we are advancing efforts to preserve open space, restore critical habitat, and save Orca and salmon from the brink of extinction. These efforts and others are central to Executive Constantine’s commitment to a strong government-to-government relationship between King County and Tribal nations, and honoring Tribal treaty rights.
We also are supporting efforts by Tribal organizations to address the lasting impacts of displacement and institutional racism that contribute to disproportionately high rates of incarceration, homelessness, and poverty among Native people. Last month, Executive Constantine joined with Native leaders to open “Eagle Village,” a pilot project between King County and the Chief Seattle Club to provide bridge housing for Native people transitioning from homelessness into permanent housing. Eagle Village is located in Sodo on property owned by Metro Transit and funded by the Department of Community and Human Services.
We know that working in partnership to deliver community-led solutions results in better outcomes. Eagle Village is a recent example of this approach. I encourage you to think what you can do in your programs to advance our shared values and upend the status quo so the services we provide create greater opportunities for our residents and address systemic inequities.
In honor of Native American Awareness Month I want to thank our employee-led King County Native American Leadership Council for their dedication, wisdom, and collective work to lift up the voices of our Native employees and to serve as a link to Tribal communities throughout King County.
Wado (thank you),
Casey Sixkiller
Chief Operating Officer
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Focus on values: We are one team
Dear employee,
Whitney Abrams, Chief People Officer, King County Executive Office
What do you think of when you hear the words “We are one team?” For me, “We are one team” is about strong relationships, trust, respect, and diversity:
- Our relationships with one another are crucial to our success. We all rely on one another to get our work done. Each of us brings unique skills and experiences to our teams. We come from different backgrounds and places. The more we get to know one another – what we like, our communication style, what we do outside of work – the more effective we can be as teammates.
- Trust is at core of healthy teams. To do our best at work we have to feel our best at work, comfortable being our true selves at work. Healthy teams are empowered to take risks together; they treat mistakes as opportunities to learn and get better.
- Respect goes beyond being polite and cordial with one another – these should be a given in our workplace. True respect means that we value each other’s ideas, suggestions, and opinions. It means that regardless of your job title or position in the team, you are valued for what you bring, do, and have to say.
- It’s the diversity of people and their views, ideas, and experiences – and valuing these differences – that make us stronger. Diversity in teams helps us look at issues from different angles with our individual expertise to identify solutions or innovations that help us serve our customers more effectively.
I value the teams and the people in them that I work with, whether it’s the Executive’s Senior Leadership Team or the teams I work with in the Executive Department, Department of Human Resources, and Office of Labor Relations. We bring our unique experiences to the work, learn from one another, value each other’s input, try out new ideas, even when they don’t always work out, and we have fun together.
That’s what “We are one team” means to me, and that’s the culture I hope you have or are building with your teams. Because this work is bigger than any one of us, and we need one another and the diversity of skills and ideas that we bring if we are to continue to meet, anticipate, and exceed the expectations of our customers.
Please find time to watch the “We are one team” video with your team and discuss what this value means for your team and how it applies to your work.
Sincerely,
Whitney Abrams,
Chief People Officer
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