October 20, 1998 -- Meeting Summary October 20, 1998 -- Meeting Summary
9:00am - 3:00pm |
The Seattle Room |
WestCoast SeaTac Hotel |
Seattle, Washington |
| Commission Attendance |
| Mona Lee Locke and Melinda French Gates, Co-Chairs; Kathryn Barnard, Lisa Brown, Don Brunell, Kim Cook, Yolanda Cortinas-Trout, Robin Dunn, Sheri Flies, Marty Jacobs, Lynn Kessler, Mary Ellen O’Keeffe, Dee Ann Perea, Gigi Talcott, Yvonne Ullas, Dee West, Gayle Womack and Diana Yu. |
| Others in Attendance |
| Sheila Connors, Marsha Fraser; Meeting Facilitators |
| Special Guest: |
| Dick Thompson, Director, Office of Financial Management |
| Meeting Summary: |
| Robin Zukoski welcomed the Commission and made a few announcements. First, the Commission has set aside 10 minutes at the end of the meeting to receive public comments. Second, the Commission would take a 30 minute lunch break. The public was encouraged to eat lunch at the hotel facilities. Mrs. Zukoski explained to the Commission that some handouts were available. One handout was regarding the legislative agenda of the Child Care Works for Washington and the Early Childhood Collaborative (provided by commission member Marty Jacobs) and a handout provided by the Yakima School Teachers. |
| Mrs. Zukoski then introduced the facilitators Sheila Connors and Marsha Fraser who were asked to come back to continue discussion and facilitation of the Commission’s purpose and goals and legislative agenda. |
| The facilitators started with an overview of what was to occur during this working session. They explained that they would review expectations, values and the purpose statement from the previous meeting and then move forward to defining the Commission’s goals. The facilitators then reviewed these items from the last meeting. |
| Mrs. Locke then announced special guest Dick Thompson, the Director of the Office of Financial Management who gave a presentation on the status and fiscal outlook for the 1999-09 Biennium. |
| After Mr. Thompson’s presentation, Robin Zukoski briefly discussed the need to finalize any legislative agenda and recommendations to the Governor that the Commission may have for the 1999 Legislative session, and that the facilitator process would work toward that end if the Commission chose to have legislative recommendations this year. The Commission agreed to proceed. |
| The facilitators then began to proceed on the finalization of the Commission goals as carried over from the last meeting. The Commission agreed on five goals. |
| The facilitators then broke the Commission up into five working groups to discuss each goal, and develop action steps that would help the Commission achieve these goals. Each Commission member was then asked to review the action steps developed by each group and add to the list of steps. The groups were then asked to prioritize sort these action steps and come up with the top five steps. |
| Finally, the facilitators asked each group to narrow these action steps to items that could be achieved during the 1999 legislative session. Discussion of these items took place and the commission finalized four items to act on during the 1999 legislative session. |
| The meeting was adjourned. |