Planned System Outage for PeopleSoft Upgrade
The PeopleSoft system will be shut down after 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 2 and will remain down until 6 a.m. on Monday, October 6. During this time, the PeopleSoft Upgrade Project team will be completing the tasks necessary to complete the final steps of upgrading the PeopleSoft applications from version 9.0 to version 9.2. The system will not be available for access by any County staff. Many of you have shortcuts on your desktop and/or favorites stored in your internet browsers with the link to the current PeopleSoft 9.0 environment. As… Read More
Kudos! Metro Transit Operator Philip H. Moseley
Good Morning – I just got on the Rapid B Line to Redmond from Bellevue Transit Center. Bus #6029. This bus driver is BY FAR the most pleasant driver I have ever encountered while riding Metro. He greeted EVERY driver with a smile and a “Good Morning.” Way to go Metro for employing such a wonderful, energetic, and Safe driver!! Just thought you should know!! – Anna T
Almost 100 New Nonprofits Join Employee Giving Program
Whether your passion is protecting animals, improving literacy, preventing hunger, helping seniors or supporting the arts, there are 950 participating nonprofit organizations that you can choose to contribute to in the 2014 Annual Giving Drive, which kicked off September 24. Almost 100 new nonprofit organizations were approved to participate in this year’s Giving Drive across a range of categories. Some of the new participants include: Animals – Best Friends Animal Society (9132), Seattle Area Feline Rescue (9224) Educations and Literacy – Literacy Council of Seattle (9656) Food and Hunger – Emergency Feeding… Read More
AFIS employee works behind the scenes for law enforcement
Coy Hodge’s line of work can sometimes mean the difference between guilty and innocent. “We’re really behind the scenes but we make a big difference for the law enforcement side of it,” Hodge said. Hodge works for the King County Regional Identification Program, also known as Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). AFIS is the fingerprint database King County uses to identify people.
Message from Sheriff John Urquhart and Rhonda Berry, Chief of Operations
Dear Fellow King County employee, King County employees work each and every day to make our community and the world a better place, for ourselves and for our families. Another way we do that is through our King County Employee Giving Program. We are very proud to be this year’s Annual Giving Drive Honorary Co-Chairs. The Employee Giving Program empowers each of us to personally connect to causes we care about, such as providing clean air and water, food, shelter, clothing, counsel, comfort or help in times of crisis. Regardless of what… Read More
Proposed 2015/2016 biennial budget address
Dear fellow King County employee – Here is the full text of the speech I delivered this morning to the King County Council, transmitting the first full biennial budget in county history. You can see the speech in its entirety here. As I told the Councilmembers, a budget is more than just another spreadsheet; its numbers impact the lives of real people. Like I shared with you Friday, I outlined how our revenues are constrained by the state to a level below that of population growth plus inflation. I discussed how the… Read More
Watch 2015/2016 budget proposal today at 11 a.m.
King County Executive Dow Constantine will transmit his 2015/2016 budget proposal to the Metropolitan King County Council today, Monday, Sept. 22, at 11 a.m. You can watch the 2015/2016 Executive Proposed Budget address at 11 a.m. by visiting http://www.kingcounty.gov/KCTV.aspx and clicking the link on the right hand side that says “Watch Us Live”. You can also watch a short video featuring Budget Director Dwight Dively giving an overview of what’s causing King County’s revenue shortfall. Dively explains the state’s tax structure and the broken system of providing revenues for King County, even… Read More
Kudos! Public Defense employees help client build career path
Edwin Aralica, a felony attorney at Associated Counsel for the Department of Public Defense’s Accused Division (ACAD), and Sue Wood, a mitigation specialist at ACAD, recently learned that their efforts to help a young single mother have made a profound difference in her life. Edwin and Sue successfully kept their client out of prison and got her into the new Family Offender Sentencing Alternative program, despite the prosecutor’s opposition. Edwin also helped her address some other legal issues in her life, including a problem with her driver’s license. She now has her GED, has completed… Read More
Firefighters and County employees get valuable emergency training
Area firefighters and County employees are getting some valuable emergency training this week thanks to the County’s Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD). WTD is hosting one of the largest and most successful regional fire department hazardous materials drills at the South Treatment Plant in Renton. Exercises like this provide reality-based scenarios, spaces and equipment for the emergency responders to test, train and advance their skills. WTD hosted similar events in 2010 and 2012. This exercise is held and coordinated in and around the old decommissioned chlorine building and chemical tanks. It features some… Read More
Bailiff enjoys variety of job minus the TV drama
Jacqueline “Jaye” Ware considers herself a traditional bailiff. “I could be defined as an old fashioned bailiff in that I take courtroom conduct and decorum seriously,” Ware said. “It is rare for me to joke or kid around with lawyers or parties in the courtroom as I believe it is essential that the court maintain every appearance of fairness, even more so if there are spectators.” But she also realizes that putting jurors at ease is an important part of her role. “I am more relaxed around the jurors, as I think… Read More
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