Meeting Summary
October 20, 1998
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.