Crossposted from the DES Express blog Julie Long has been chosen to serve as the Executive Assistant in the DES Director’s Office. Julie has been serving as a Confidential Secretary at King County International Airport since 2014, providing extraordinary customer service and executive-level support. She has more than ten years of executive-level support experience in government and the private sector and is extremely excited about her new role. Julie will be transitioning into her new position this week, and splitting her time between the Airport and downtown for a few weeks. We look… Read More

View this video to get the latest information on a few of the most recent King County hot topics. See how the county is transforming Animal Services, and you’ll be seeing more cameras on Metro buses. Join host Matt Sampsell for King County @ Your Service.

Crossposted from the RASKC blog Meet our amazing Animal Control Officers! We value and greatly appreciate the work that our Animal Control Officers (ACO) do on a daily basis. Their genuine commitment to serve the community helps maintain RASKC’s mission to provide collaborative and compassionate animal care services throughout King County. Thank you for all you do! Read more to view their picture and learn about why they love what they do! Read more here.

The new Aspiring Leaders Program (ALP), part of Metro’s Partnership to Achieve Comprehensive Equity (PACE) initiative, is designed to expand career development opportunities for staff who want to grow their careers within the agency. While there are many training programs available across the County, most occur during the day and tend to focus on office or administrative work environments. Hourly operational staff in Metro often need to have their positions backfilled to participate which creates a financial disincentive to offer development programs to these employees. ALP is different as it is available… Read More

Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) received a phone call from an elderly woman letting WTD know she appreciated getting help from an employee last week. She was in the Elliott West Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) facility area and wanted to go to the Cancer Care Alliance in the Eastlake area of Seattle. She was lost. One of WTD’s Facilities Inspection and Conveyance staff took out his map, showed her an easy route and reprogrammed her GPS unit as a backup. She said that he was helpful and that he “saved the day.” Kudos… Read More

“It’s akin to hiking in the mountains with a compass, hike for a while, check your compass, and adjust course, and if there are boulders in the way, we’re going to help and show you a path to go around.” This is how Budget Analyst Karl Nygard describes his work with the Office of Performance Strategy and Budget (PSB) to implement the Best Run Government initiative. While he admits no two days are alike, Karl usually works on budgeting processes for internal service funds for various County agencies, including King County Information… Read More

Our most popular event of the year Want to see the new County laptops? Get your Skype photo taken AND import it into your Skype account? Learn how to go paperless? These are just some of the 10 stations (and dedicated Service Desk teams) at KCIT’s Hands on Technology Day, April 13 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. in the Chinook Atrium.   KCIT teams spend the entire afternoon explaining, showing and fixing! Skype for Business Tips and Tricks: 30 minute in-person (and via Skype) tutorials. Session One: Set up a meeting for… Read More

The upcoming 520 Bridge Replacement events presented an opportunity for approximately 160 underrepresented student populations from nine school districts to celebrate the grand opening of the world’s longest floating bridge. On March 24, their attendance kicked-off the 520 Bridge celebration with an integrated partnership established between Environmental Health Services, Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT), University of Washington – College of Engineering (UW), and various community partners to promote college and career readiness for youth to become involved in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The students were invited to participate in a… Read More

Our latest Employee Town Hall is now available to watch on-demand in its entirety or as individual segments. Hosted by Natasha Jones, Director of Customer Service, the Employee Town Hall featured King County Executive Dow Constantine, Budget Director Dwight Dively, and Matias Valenzuela, Director of the Office of Equity and Social Justice, in a discussion on the 2017/18 budget forecast and its implications for employees and our priorities. Employee Town Hall  (complete with captions –  59’26”) Read more to see all the segments available to watch