Web Advertising on the Assessor’s Website
The King County Assessor will begin testing the viability of web advertising on the Department’s website this week. This Pilot Project for web advertising was approved during the 2015/2016 budget process and is aimed at testing the revenue generating potential of web ads on the Assessor’s website.
Web ad security is a priority for this pilot, and a strong security protocol has been put in place to ensure that the ads are not vehicles for malware or viruses. In addition, the content of the ads will be focused on consumer services and must adhere to pre-approved content guidelines.
The web ads are being provided by a vendor that specializes in advertising on government web sites, and has successfully provided web advertising for a number of government agencies around the country, including the Washington State Department of Transportation, the Cook County Assessor, and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
An important element of this pilot is to gather public feedback and to make sure the advertising does not interfere with the viewing or navigation of the Assessor’s website. If you have any questions or comments, we encourage you to send them to: web.ads@kingcounty.gov.
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Best-run government in action: Public Agency of the Year Award
Crossposted from the DES Express
Fernando Martinez, Northwest Mountain MSDC President and CEO (left) poses with Sandy Hanks (right), recipient of the 2016 Public Agency of the Year Award for Martin Luther King County. (Credit: Ricardo Ibarra for NW MTN MSDC)
King County has been recognized by the Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council (NMMSDC) as the Public Agency of the Year. This award comes thanks to the efforts of Sandy Hanks and the Business Development and Contract Compliance (BDCC) team in FBOD.
NMMSDC covers a seven-state area, linking major corporations and public agencies to minority-owned businesses for the past 38 years. King County received the highest number of nominations ever for a public agency, and beat out contenders like the City of Seattle, City of Portland, and Multnomah County, Oregon.
Read more at the DES Express website.
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ORCA cards make transfers between buses and Link free and easy
Crossposted from Metro Matters
Now that Link light rail and our northeast Seattle and Capitol Hill bus changes are just around the corner, we’re hearing a lot of questions about how fares will work when using both buses and Link light rail to make trips. Having an ORCA card will be the easiest and cheapest way to pay.
This post will hopefully help you better understand how to navigate the Metro and Sound Transit system seamlessly, how ORCA can work for you, the different ways to get an ORCA card, and how to use it. We’ve created a few example riders who are updating their planned trips because of the new Link service. Read about their decisions in our next blog post and how to ride buses and trains together with ORCA in practical terms.
Read more at the Metro Matters website.
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Child Death Review: Prevention through collaboration
Crossposted from Public Health Insider
Since 2003, not a single child in King County has died from a helmet-preventable bicycle injury.
What helped lead to this victory? King County’s Child Death Review – a collaborative effort to identify opportunities and interventions that prevent children from dying.
As the ‘doctor’ for the community, we are responsible for looking at broad trends and understanding the systems, policies and practices in our community that can prevent disease and death. Our local hospitals look at deaths in their systems, and we look at deaths in our communities to see if more can be done to prevent future deaths.
Child Death Review (CDR) recounts the details of unexpected and unintentional deaths that occur in King County. Several times a year, three-hour CDR meetings are scheduled based on need, two months in advance. Each CDR covers six to eight cases and focuses on a specific manner of death (traffic-related death, suicide, overdose, etc.) and results in recommendations for prevention. CDR started as a statewide funded effort in 1998, but it was cut from the budget in 2003. Given the importance of this work, we have prioritized CDR and funded it locally.
Read more at the Public Health Insider website.
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Five questions with Paige Shevlin, Economic Development Policy Advisor
1. Why did you start as a policy advisor with King County?
When I moved to this area for my husband’s job I considered opportunities across the region including in philanthropy and the private sector but local government appealed to me most. It’s an opportunity to use my federal government experience but have more of a direct impact on people’s lives. King County is especially appealing because it represents the whole region and people live and work across city lines.
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Department of Public Defense Employees Feed Homeless
The meal in February pulled together a new group of DPD employees – nearly all of them were members of DPD’s civil commitment team.
More than 130 homeless people in Seattle were served up dinner by public defenders who volunteered for Operation Nightwatch (ONW) on Saturday, Feb. 20. The menu included Sloppy Joes, rice, salad and gourmet brownies.
This was hardly a first for public defense. In fact, members of the department have been serving dinners for homeless men and women every other month for more than five years.
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Free and low-cost exercise classes for King County employees in the Chinook Building
Did you know that there were free and low cost exercise classes in the Chinook building, mostly at lunch time? What a great way to earn Gold Status for the Healthy Incentives program! Some of the classes could use a boost of attendees to energize the instructors and other participants. Consider these options:
Cardio Dancing with Shirley Zhang: Mondays and Wednesdays 11:30 a.m. to noon, free.
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Shirley Zhang in motion with class participants.
No experience needed. Partially led by videos. Cool Chinese music. All are welcome, could use a boost of participants. Whether you were a dance major or have two left feet, just come and give it a try if you like. You can start in the back of the room. If it seems hard (this advice is for all classes!), remember that others may have done this dozens of times and also felt awkward their first time or two!
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Featured Job: Communications Specialist IV
Closing Date/Time: Mon. 04/11/16 4:30 PM
Salary: $80,522.00 – $102,066.43 Annually
Job Type: Career Service, Full Time, 40 hrs/week
Location: King Street Center – 201 S Jackson St, Seattle, Washington
Department: Department of Natural Resources & Parks – Water and Land Resources Division
Description: The Water and Land Resources (WLR) Division is one of four divisions within the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks (DNRP). It is a dynamic, high performing natural resource management agency comprised of approximately 350 employees with a $55.7 million operating and $65.6 million capital budget. Our mission is to provide high quality public services that reflect best scientific and engineering practices to meet our customers’ expectations, enhance the quality of land and water resources, and protect the quality of life in King County.
WLR provides both regional and local services for King County residents. Regional services include flood hazard reduction and emergency response, hazardous waste management, noxious weed control, agriculture and small lot forestry practices, watershed planning, and environmental laboratory services. Local services include storm water management, habitat restoration, and scientific analyses.
Learn more about this position or view all available jobs.
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King County applies lessons from Arizona to help families facing teen domestic violence
Stephanie Trollen, legal services supervisor for King County’s Youth Detention Center; and Jimmy Hung, senior deputy prosecutor and chair of the King County juvenile unit.
Crossposted from the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Facebook
“I hated the feeling that we were failing families,” Stephanie Trollen said.
Stephanie, who spent 18 years as a victim advocate at the King County Prosecutor’s office, described an all-too-common scene. “We would see these parents and teenagers come in stressed and upset and desperate for help, and I felt like we had nothing to offer them.”
Kids and parents commonly ended up at the detention ce…nter because of domestic violence. These weren’t scenarios where a husband was abusing his wife. In juvenile cases—where one-third of new bookings are domestic violence situations—it’s kids inflicting violence on their parents, siblings, or other family members.
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Josephine Wong will join 2016-2017 class of Annie E. Casey Foundation Children and Family Fellowship program
Department of Community and Human Services Deputy Director Josephine Wong has been selected for Annie E. Casey Foundation’s tenth class of the Children and Family Fellowship, a 16-month intensive leadership program for executive leaders. In its third decade, the program is designed to give more child and family-serving professionals the confidence and competence to lead major system reforms and community change initiatives that get results. Without strong leadership, investments in programs and system reform initiatives alone are not enough to create urgent, long-lasting improvements for children and families.
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