King County Board of Health meeting Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 1 pm

The King County Board of Health will meet Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. This will be a hybrid meeting* that can be joined through remote access or in person in Council Chambers (Room 1001), 516 3rd Avenue in Seattle.

*Hybrid meetings: Attend King County Board of Health meetings in person in Council Chambers (Room 1001), 516 3rd Avenue in Seattle, or through remote access. Details on how to attend and/or provide comment remotely are listed below.

To help prevent the spread of the COVID-19, all Boardmembers and staff will be participating in the Board of Health meeting remotely unless otherwise listed as a Hybrid Meeting. The live feed of the meeting will be streaming on the King County Council's website and on KCTV Channel 22.

How to provide public comment:

• Join in person: You may attend the meeting in person in Council Chambers.
• Join online: www.kingcounty.gov/boh/zoom
• Join by phone:
  1. Dial (US): 1-253-215-8782
  2. Meeting ID: 836 2614 2088

If you do not wish to provide public comment, please help us manage the callers by using one of the options below to watch or listen to the meeting.

Two ways to watch or listen in to the meeting:

• Stream online at https://king-county-tv.cablecast.tv/
• Watch King County TV (Comcast Channel 22 and 322 [HD], and Astound Broadband Channels 22 and 711 [HD].)

Meeting agenda

1. Call to order
2. Roll call
3. Announcement of any alternates serving in place of regular members
4. Approval of minutes of the meeting of March 21, 2024
5. Public Comments
6. Chair's Report

Briefings

7. BOH Briefing No. 24-B09
   Public Health Strategic Planning Update
   • Eva Wong, Strategic Planning Manager, Public Health – Seattle & King County
     
   • Matías Valenzuela, Director, Office of Equity & Community Partnerships, Public Health – Seattle & King County
     
   • Jessica Jeavons, Director of Policy and Strategy, Public Health – Seattle & King County
8. BOH Briefing No. 24-B10
   Preview of On site Sewage/Septic Code Updates
   • Meagan Jackson, Assistant Division Director, Environmental Health Services Division, Public Health – Seattle & King County
9. BOH Briefing No. 24-B11
   Environmental Health Rate Study Preview
   • Dylan Orr, Director, Environmental Health Services Division, Public Health – Seattle & King County
     
   • Michael Perez, Finance and Administrative Services Manager, Environmental Health Services Division, Public Health – Seattle & King County

10. Board member updates
11. Other business

Adjournment

The King County Board of Health sets county-wide public health policy, enacts and enforces local public health regulations, and carries out other duties of local boards of health specified in state law. These duties include enforcing state public health statutes, preventing and controlling the spread of infectious disease, abating nuisances, and establishing fee schedules for licenses, permits and other services.