Five Questions with Roxanne Vierra, Disability Compliance Specialist, Office of Civil Rights & Open Government
1. What was your first role at King County? I’d previously worked 10 years at the U.W. Disabled Student Services office, then 10 years at the Seattle Office for Civil Rights, where my position included primarily fair housing investigations and a bit of public disability access. When I was offered this job with King County 16 years ago, I was excited because it allowed me to use my Disability Specialist experience in a more active way. While I still handle fair housing enforcement and outreach, my role as Disability Compliance Specialist enables… Read More
Employee Giving Campaign comes to Renton
All King County employee are invited to meet some 30 nonprofit organizations at the Employee Giving Program Renton Expo at Elections on Oct. 8 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and learn more about how their dollars can help our community, A sampling of Expo offerings: Have a wacky or serious picture taken at a photo booth Enter to win prizes, including “Fitbits” Sample bake sale goodies and support Northwest Harvest And more! Check out #KCEGPEXPO in social media to follow what’s happening at Expos. Last year, Elections employees pledged more than $18,000 through the Annual… Read More
King County employee a published author
King County employees do lots of interesting things in their “other lives” in addition to the work they do for King County. We’re sharing some of their stories in our “Other Lives” series. While waiting for a flight to San Diego after her father had died, Donna Miscolta started writing a novel. “I was thinking of my father who had come to the United States as an immigrant. He had never really talked about his experiences in the Philippines or his early years as an immigrant,” Miscolta said. “I sort of used… Read More
Former Marine finds new way to serve community
After two Iraq tours in the Marine Corps, Gavriel Jacobs’ plan was to pursue a career in law enforcement. “I wanted to come back from Iraq and the Middle East to go from serving my country to serving my community and really planned on joining the Seattle Police or Washington State Patrol,” Jacobs said. But when he lost his leg below the knee in combat and spent a year in the hospital, he had to rethink his career goals.
Join us in celebrating Disability Awareness Month
October is Disability Awareness Month, and it’s a great time to raise awareness and learn more about the work that King County does to provide opportunities for all individuals to participate, contribute and thrive in our communities. Attend a lunch and learn event Invisible Voices: What Do You Think of When You Hear the Word Disability? (video + discussion) | Thursday, October 16, noon – 2 p.m. Chinook Building, Room 121, 401 Fifth Avenue, Seattle | Presenter: Roxanne Vierra, Disability Compliance Specialist, King County Office of Civil Rights & Open Government | Contact Roxanne.Vierra@kingcounty.gov to… Read More
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
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