Discount for employees to Provident Funding mortgage company
King County employees can save as much as $5,000 on top of industry-leading rates offered by Provident Funding, The Mortgage Price Leader ®. This competitive discount is provided on any eligible home purchase or refinance of a primary residence, second home, or investment property. The Mortgage Benefit Program discount is 0.25% and the amount will vary based on the new loan amount and property state. Additionally, Provident Funding offers an industry-unique conditional approval for purchases, the next best thing to a cash offer. Contact 888-547-4050 and reference discount code M34BS2835 or visit www.provident.com/KingCountyWA to start your application with discount code M34BS2835.
See all available discounts on the Employee Discount webpage.
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If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like driving a 60-foot-long articulated Metro bus, you’re not alone
Crossposted from Metro Matters
King County Metro’s 3,000 drivers make it look easy. They’re master curb huggers and their turning radius down sometimes busy and narrow streets in Seattle and across King County is on point! To get a better sense of the widths and turning radius of buses, the team at the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) got together with Metro’s safety and training sections to go for a spin.
Read more here or watch the video below.
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Roads crews prep for winter weather
Crossposted from Keeping Communities Connected
For the King County Road Services Division, known as Roads, it’s never too early to begin prepping for snow, ice and other wintery weather. Recently, planning work began with partner jurisdictions, King County Metro, school districts and emergency service providers to determine which routes will be plowed during a major weather event. The priority routes are now mapped and available on the Roads Snow and Ice webpage.
Read more at Keeping Communities Connected
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Security system software upgrade
The Facilities Management Division (FMD) will be upgrading the county’s security system software December 17 through December 24.
To accommodate this work, the ID Access Office will be closed from Wednesday, December 19 through Friday, December 21. During this closure, ID Access will not process new employee badges or issue replacement badges. Please plan ahead if you anticipate needing new or replacement badges. ID Access will reopen on Monday, December 24.
The system upgrade should not cause any disruption to building access or security systems. If you do have an emergency access situation during the closure, please contact FMD Security’s Emergency Dispatch Center at 206-296-5000.
Thank you for your patience during this important system upgrade.
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Updating Industrial Waste Fee Structure: Next Steps – Fall 2018
Crossposted from Clean Water Stories
The King County Industrial Waste (KCIW) program has been working on a proposal to update the structure of its fee system. Changes require a two-step decision-making process. First the King County Council considers updating the King County Code. Pending Council approval, the Department of Natural Resources and Parks develops a Public Rule.
Thirty-year old fee structure is out of date
KCIW is funded by fees paid by regulated facilities, and the range of facilities we regulate has changed over the last 30 years. These changes follow national and global trends and new federal and state rules that require KCIW to focus on new industry sectors. Our current fee structure needs to be revised to reflect these changes. The current structure is primarily based on volume of water discharged for two pollutant classes (heavy metals and fats-oil-grease). Since different industries use different amounts of water, fees based primarily on water volume do not necessarily reflect the amount of work it takes for KCIW to monitor each facility.
Read more at Clean Water Stories
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Training Spotlight: Strengthening Our Health and Resiliency: Towards Belonging and Co- Liberation and How to Navigate Amidst Overwhelming Times
The King County Office of Equity and Social Justice is hosting two workshops that center on the lived experiences of native employees and employees of color.
Strengthening Our Health and Resiliency: Towards Belonging and Co- Liberation, Nov. 26-27: This training seeks to engage a smaller group of leadership of native employees and employees of color at King County. Using lived experience and frames based on belonging, co-liberation, and health, this session will support thinking through what ensuring transformative and racially equitabble programs and strategies could be. The two day session will be grounded in Embodying the Belonging and Co-liberation frame. This training takes places over two days, Nov. 26 from 9 a.m.-2p.m. and Nov. 27 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Register and learn more, use password affinitygroup.
How to Navigate Amidst Overwhelming Times, Dec. 11: This session will pay special attention to the intersection of trauma and oppression especially that of indigenous and people of color lived experience and background. This will be a large a cross disciplinary gathering that works towards building a critical mass of those striving for sustainability. Register and learn more, use password affinitygroup.
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Celebrating over 100 Health Heroes throughout King County
November is a time to give thanks. Balanced You is grateful for employee Health Heroes who go the extra mile to create workplaces that support the health and well-being of all employees.
In appreciation of their time and effort, Jay Osborne, Director of the Department of Human Resources, sent letters and certificates of appreciation to King County employees who support onsite flu shot events, activity centers, weekly produce deliveries, Weight Watchers meetings, and the Healthy Employee Advisory Team.
Read more at Balanced You
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Wishing a Happy Thanksgiving to our employees, their families and the community
We would like to take the time to say how thankful we are for our employees and their dedication to making King County a welcoming community and a great place to live, and for supporting and serving the 2.1 million people who call this part of the world home.
You drive the way that we innovate, connect and excel in our service to our community and people across the region.
King County never stops serving, and we send a special thank you to the employees – bus operators, corrections officers, sheriff’s deputies, medics, and many others – who are serving our community over the Thanksgiving holiday. Thank you!
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King County Superior Court celebrates forever families
This Thanksgiving week, King County Superior Court wants to thank the nearly 500 families who stepped up across Washington State this year to adopt children. These children are international adoptions, step-family adoptions, but most are foster care adoptions.
November is National Adoption Month and on Friday, Nov. 16, Superior Court celebrated with 23 of those families including 17-year-old Delontea Sallee who spent seven years in the foster care system before his new mom, Amanda, stepped up to make sure Delontea has a family and someone who will help support him through college.
Check out Delontea’s story on Q13.
Nearly 1,800 children and teenagers need forever homes. If you are interested in adopting a child, please contact our partners at http://www.amara.org or http://www.olivecrest.org.
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Pet of the Week: Maya
Crossposted from Tails from RASKC
Active, playful Maya is our Pet of the Week!
This young Rhodesian Ridgeback mix was brought in by her previous owners because she was a bit too rowdy. So, she’s one of our “Rambunctious Red” pets – very independent, full of energy, and loves to play!
Read more at Tails from RASKC
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