Featured Job: Park District Maintenance Coordinator
Application deadline: Fri. 06/06/14 4:30 PM Salary: $30.70 – $37.11 Hourly Department: Department of Natural Resources & Parks – Parks & Recreation Division Description: The responsibilities of the Park District Maintenance Coordinator position include developing work plans, scheduling and assigning work, monitoring budget expenditures, completing work orders, ordering equipment and supplies, resolving complaints, performing maintenance and repair work, and overseeing and evaluating the work of subordinates at assigned parks, public grounds and/or facilities. This position is open to current King County Career Service employees only. Learn more about this position or view… Read More
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)/Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Public Health’s Emergency Medical Services Division offers free CPR/AED training to King County employees. All classes are American Heart Association Heartsaver classes. Take a three-hour Basic class or, if you’ve taken CPR training within the past two years, a two-hour Refresher class. Classes are held in the first floor conference rooms in the Chinook Building, 401 Fifth Avenue. Pre-registration is required. To register for a class send an email to Andrew Burns. Please note that these classes do not meet the requirements for Health Care Provider BLS CPR/AED training. Basic CPR/AED Training… Read More
PAO receives 2014 Technology Achievement Award
The Prosecuting Attorney’s Office (PAO) has been presented with King County’s 2014 Technology Achievement Award for a technology project that delivers value. The PAO’s new computer system for case management, called PbK, was fully installed and implemented last year. The project was the result of the hard work on the part of attorneys and staff in the office who put in a lot of long hours getting the system ready for implementation. The extraordinary effort of the team led to the completion of the project on time and under budget. Assistant Chief… Read More
Pet terrier helps employee lose weight, get healthy
When Debra Billups’ nurse practitioner told her she wouldn’t keep her as a patient unless she changed her eating habits, Billups decided it was time for a lifestyle overhaul. “I had to make the life change. I had to make that decision, it had to be mine,” Billups said. Billups, who helps customers with questions about their ORCA card auto-load in Metro Transit’s Customer Communication and Services group, was diagnosed in 2009 with osteoporosis, a condition of thinning bones and then diagnosed with asthma shortly thereafter. In January of 2012, she had… Read More
Employee’s work helps to save a veteran
Jodi Riley-Kauer, a Social Worker with the Department of Community and Human Services Veterans Program, recently helped a veteran (“John”) who was homeless and having a really hard time finding work. “Jodi said she would help me, but on the condition that I would follow her direction, which I did,” John said. After a few meetings, Jodi recommended that John go to the Veterans Administration medical center to be screened for mental illness. “I knew she was probably right because I had thoughts of hurting myself and had some anger built up… Read More
Home Repair Program makes life easier for local family
Before the King County Housing Repair Program, Shawn Price had to carry her son Elijah, who suffers from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, up and down the stairs to her home. “I would take him out of the wheelchair, pick him up and carry him up the stairs,” Price said. “You have to do it so I took muscle relaxers and I would just do it, it was a lot of pain.” Now, thanks to the program, Price was able to install a ramp leading to her front door. “It’s a… Read More
FBI honors probation counselor for work with sexually exploited youth
In late 2013, Deb Stuckman, a Juvenile Probation Counselor with Superior Court, was recognized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for her work to help commercially sexually-exploited youth. Deb received the award “…for your excellent work with the Central Sound Child Exploitation Task Force that has achieved notable success in major crime control efforts. Your close cooperation with officers from other jurisdictions also contributed to the Task Force’s successes on behalf of the public. These operations are complex and sensitive, and the FBI is grateful for your outstanding contributions.” Deb began working… Read More
Featured Job: Contract Specialist II
Application Deadline: Thursday 6/5/14 Salary: $71,905.60 – $91,145.60 Annually Department: Department of Executive Services – Finance and Business Operations Division Description: King County’s Procurement & Contracting Service Section (PCSS) is looking for a detail oriented Contract Specialist. A successful candidate for this position will have knowledge of contract administration, possess positive negotiation and project management skills and have experience in improving operations. Some of the responsibilities for this position include determining and developing a procurement approach, working with client groups to analyze and develop the scope of work, holding public pre-proposal meetings,… Read More
Victim Advocates help abused women escape, start again
Emily Elting, a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate for the King County Prosecutor’s Office, helps abused woman find their way out of domestic violence through the justice system and into new lives. One of those women is Jane Gregory, who was beaten nearly to death by her partner in 2012. Jane got the help she needed from Emily and was able to testify at her abuser’s trial. Watch the KCTV video here. Note: the video contains some graphic images.
Wastemobile makes hazardous waste disposal easy
When the permanent hazardous waste facilities weren’t enough to deal with all of King County’s hazardous waste disposal demands, the Wastemobile was created. “We didn’t know how big the demand was; we needed a better plan of doing it,” said Henry Draper who was the original project manager of the Local Hazardous Management Program’s Household Hazardous Wastemobile. “That was the genesis of the Wastemobile.” Now, celebrating its 25th anniversary, two Wastemobiles serve rural and suburban areas of King County, accepting residential and small business hazardous waste materials. The Wastemobile is dedicated to… Read More
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