Okay, I'll go ahead and call the city of Pial up Left Disability Board meeting for September to order.

Uh first item on the chair on the first item on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance.

If you join me the pledge of allegiance, hear the flag of the United States of America.

And two three public for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Next we'll have the roll call of board members, Chair Kurt Vanderbert.

Present.

Vice Chair Ken Hillis.

Present.

There should be a correction on that.

I'm not vice chair.

I'm sorry, at large.

At large, Ken Hillis, correct?

And then Vice Chair Chris Taylor.

Present.

Councilmember Lauren Adler present.

Councilmember Renee Gilliam present.

Thank you.

We have a quorum.

Okay.

The next item on the agenda is an election of a chair.

And then does somebody want to explain, or we uh we according to the my what I'm reading, we aren't up for chair vote, but is this just going to be it to fill in until next January, or is this going to be for another full two years or a full year?

Somebody needs to so there was a discrepancy between the left approved uh like rules, but the council in so the left rules were approved in 2011, and the council made a change in 2012, shortening the chair and vice chair elections to a one-year term.

So while you are on the board for two years, the chair and vice chair terms are voted on annually at the first meeting uh of the year.

So that is why um this is coming about was because we had not been following the city code appropriately.

Okay, and you and I have had considerable conversations.

I know that our rules that we wrote say that we're gonna have an election, the first meeting in January for a two-year period.

And do you want us to are you asking us to change our rules so that the chair is for one year?

And is this if we vote today, is that going to be we're gonna be voting again next September?

So city code trumps the left boards, just our discussion of rules and regulations.

So we are we are going off of what city council in 2012 has requested of us as a board.

Um, and unfortunately, up until now that has not been put into place, and so we're just trying to be consistent across all boards and having that be in place for this board as well.

So while um we are in compliance with the RCW that pertains to the less left disability board, we are not in compliance with the city code, and the city or the excuse me, the left disability RCW does not specifically state the length of the vice chair and the chair term.

It only places you as a board member for two years.

And I'm changing it, I don't have a problem.

I'm just asking the question.

Do you want to change it to so this is temporary until January of next year, or is this going to be a full year?

So we're gonna be off because last time we did this, we've had this argument about four times now as to what rules, and we've always stayed with the two-year terms.

So what I want to know is, and we changed the date of the appointments to January so that the people from the council that are sitting on the board could run for chair or vice chair if they so moved.

So what I'm trying to get out of the city staff is do you want us to change our rules?

Do you want us to vote for a full year till next year?

What are you asking us to do?

So the election per city code is the first meeting prior to March, I believe, annually.

So we have until March of every year to elect a new chair or vice chair, if that's so what the board is wanting.

Um so that is in compliance with the city code.

Um and then just the rules and guidelines of the left board do not over or suit, they don't the city code supersedes the left's rules and guidelines.

So while we have just generic rules and guidelines, um the city code was voted on by council and is in application to all city, any city ran board um that is under the jurisdiction of the city.

So while we are still in compliance with the RCW, because the RCW does not state that we as a left disability board um have it actually doesn't say anything about having a chair or vice chair election, it is only to be appointed to the board in terms of two years.

So we are in compliance with the RCW per our uh legal department.

We have conferred with them and they have agreed that the city code does trump the uh current left policies um that were put into place in 2011, as the city code was approved in 2012, Mr.

Chair.

I think to help clarify this.

The appointments to this board are not under the RCW.

It's it's it's it's um understood that we can do two year terms, but it's not an RCW.

So therefore, the city can set the years, how how how many years we serve on the board?

It's not an RCW, so they're not trumping the RCW, they're trumping the policy of um the left board, and they can do that because it's not an RCW.

That's correct.

Uh kind of correct.

So your appointment to the board is two-year terms, but the appointment of chair and vice chair uh within the board is a one-year term.