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Category: appointments

Council member Johnson resigns

On 03/21/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, election

This morning, Council member Rob Johnson, who represents District 4, announced that is resigning from the City Council, with his last day in office April 5.

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CTO appointment advances out of committee

On 03/09/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, IT

On Thursday the Council voted out of committee the confirmation of Saad Bashir as the city’s new CTO and head of the Seattle IT department. His confirmation comes up for final vote on March 18th.

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HSD Director nomination avoids a backslide, but still stuck in neutral

On 03/04/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, human services

By a 3-5 vote, the Council narrowly defeated Council member Sawant’s effort to send Mayor Durkan’s nomination for HSD Director back to her for a do-over.  But that doesn’t mean the nomination has a clear path forward to confirmation.

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Sam Zimbabwe confirmed as SDOT Director

On 02/25/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, transportation

This afternoon, the City Council unanimously voted to confirm Sam Zimbabwe as Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation.

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HSD Director appointment still in limbo after chaotic Council hearing

On 02/21/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, human services

Tonight’s Council committee hearing lasted for two and a half hours. At the end, a resolution was voted out of committee — barely — but the future of Mayor Durkan’s nomination to fill the position of Director of the Human Services Department is as murky as ever.

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New SDOT Director confirmation moves forward

On 02/15/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, transportation

This morning, the City Council’s Sustainability and Transportation Committee voted to advance out of committee the confirmation of Sam Zimbabwe as Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation.

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Sawant introducing resolution to send HSD Director nomination back to Mayor

On 02/01/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, human services

As promised, Council member Kshama Sawant will be formally introducing a resolution on Monday to send back Mayor Jenny Durkan’s nomination of Jason Johnson as Director of the Human Services Department.

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Notes from today’s Council meetings

On 01/28/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, council briefing, full council, human services, state government

Here’s what happened at today’s Council meetings today.

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This week in Council Chambers

On 01/27/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, this week

This is a rare “fifth week” for the Council: half of the Council committees meet the first and third weeks of the month, and the other half meet the second and fourth weeks. So the committee schedule is very light. Still, things are happening that are worth paying attention to…

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Durkan makes a trio of appointments

On 01/23/2019 By Kevin Schofield In appointments, IT

Yesterday, Mayor Durkan announced three department head appointments: two permanent, and one interim.

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