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THE TIlvIES agrees with the po-siton taken by the MunicipalLea g u e last week - that KingCounty officials should be chosenin nonpartisan elections.

There is more than ample evi-dence locally to support the Mu-nicipal League's generalized dec-laration that:

".lIost American counties are'un(ler partisan tovern1/cTlt andtheir record isn't too good. A 1/a-

jorit)' of cities are ullder 1/onpar-tisan cliarters and their stnlulardsof serl'ce effidency are geTlern1/)'

belfer tlian tliose of coimtie,.,"

We are not going to hold herethat Seattle's nonpartisan electedmunicipal government is a para-gon of efficiency. But when it iscompared to King County's parti-san-elected government, the citygovernment here is far superior.

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has been roc ked in recentweeks by disclosures or scanda-.lous inefficiency and lack of dil-gence in managing the businessof the taxpayers and in providingfirst-grade public services within

its jurisdiction. This negligencehas occurred over a long periodof time, It embraces a span oftime when both Republicans andDemocrats have been in chargeof the county commission.

HeTlce, the JluTlicipal Lea~ueis clearh on tlie ri~llt road to im-proved 'effici"TlQ'~ allI reformii-ien it arli"ocates tliat tlie com-

mission of freeholdl'r,~ to beelected ;"ol"ember 7 prol"irle inthe cormt)' charter for nonparti-smi elpCiinns a,~ a sulJ,aitrte forthe preseiit s~'stpm of partisanelections.

The Times believes, however,that nonpartisan elections alonewil not be enough. Civil service

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also should be established in thecounty government - as it nowexists in the Seattle municipalgovernment - if the evils of thepolitical spoils system are not totake further tolls in county ineff-ciency, .

AGAIN, we do not hold that- civil service is without dis-advantages. But when we com-pare the ravages of the spoilssystem in the county over manyyears with the' stability of em-ployment of career personnel inthe mlinicipal government, thecity looks awfully good,

The rille iTl count)' governmenthas been that cmployes there cancount on tlieir.tenure on!)' as longliS th,,)' play tlie political tame oftheir electire superiors, and tliisoft e It in eludes pa)'ments intopolitical fiinds from pay lei'cisthat are slia1/ enough aTl)'lioiC.The Seattle municipal employe

enjoys the dignity of poliical in-dependence and does not have todig into the family purse to helphis boss get votes in order to in-sure his own tenure.

IT is the average citizen, how-ever, in terms of the level oftaxes he must pay and the levelof services he may receive, whois the big g est loser from thecounty government's pol i tic a ispoils system_ The turnover of.personnel in the county govern-ment is much higher than in citygovernment, and that takes ahuge toll in effciency,

1'lierejorf', The Times tdll ad-nn-ate, diirin~ the conl"PTltioll offreeholders I"hn il'll draft a corm-ty cliarter, that tIie coiiiity polii- _' .cui ,~poil,~ system b(' altar/.ed irith

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IT struck us during the recentcounty freeholder el.:ction cam-paign that an oversimplifidfCl_s-cination was att::ched to the de-sirability of a "short" el,ectionballot. "

Indeed, tli~re" are too, mari)'electirc state amI city offices list-ed on the i-oLiug t/ac!i:rics eachtime an election rolls around.Ballots can and s110ulcl he short-ened lh elimination of officesthat perlorm only ministerialJunctions as COlltra;;ted to polic)'-making and admini:stratIie clutiesthat require the abilty of judg-ment not precisely defined by8tatute.

.' Yet, we beli~ve that the ballot-shortening process could be car.ried too far by those who draft

. the new county charter - so far. _ that the administration of county

~ affairs would become so central-, ized that offcials would be irre-. sponsive to the electorate in areas

.: where the people can and should. make decisions,

'CLEARLY, it is axiomatic that~ _ county commissioners mustcontinue to. be elected, and thatthe number on the board shouldbe enlarge'd in a framework inwhich tha:t body serves largely,as a legislative and policy-settinggroup. A county administratoralso should be provided, to beelected dIrectly by the people orby the Board of Commissioners.. We doubt if the electorate,ei:en for the sake of a countyhome-rule charter, u'i! be idllnt;'to relinquish its prerogatÌL'e ofselecting the assp.ssor at the bal.

lot box. To make this oifice up.pointii-e u'ould be to place thepoicer to establÍ,h lei'el$ 01 prop-ertv taxation in the hands ofofficials icho estahlilih the spend.in;! levels.

The proposed county chartersubmitted to the electorat.: in1952, we well recall, was de-feated largely on the issue of re-moving the electio!1 of the asses-sor from the people to the Boa rdof Commissioners, The freehold-ers wil be well advised to avoidthis booby trap, which sur e i ywould make their efforts fail ofratification by the voters ,,"ho\vill l~ake the final åecisioJ'.

MOREOVER, we would notlike to see the offices ofauditor aild sh~riff i-cr~:ì",ed from.. .

conclusively that the "watchdog"office of auditor must be strength-ened and maintained as an in-dependent arm of the electorateto guard against mismanage-ment and. the threat of corrup-tion, Under no circumstancesshould the Board of Commission-ers be permitted to appoint itsown tethered "watchdog."

Our reasons for Im,'oring re-lention of the elecrh'e office ofslH::riff are these: In most Seattleni;i n i (' i pal elections, es peciall)"u-7len the office of mayor i$ atissue, the Police Department andlaii:.eriforcement generally - in.

cÏueling the element 01 "toler-ances" wliich cit), officials say donot e,t:st - often become the'"tail that u:ags the dog."

Election-time controversy overthe Police Department, in whichthe mayor names the chief, toooften subordinates other and moreimportant municipal election is-sues. Moreover, we have seeneyidence often enough of a cor-rosive influence of "pinball" andother monies flowing into munic-ipal election campaigns because .in reality the mayor, City Counciland Police Department hold thepowers to establish the "toler-ance" policies that wink at activi-ties of. doubtful legality.

To make the office of sherifappointive, we suggest, would ex-pose the Board of County Com- .missioners even more than atpresent to those corrosive influ-ences that pay the piper -in theform of election contributionsfrom those who benefit by thecounty's system of tolerances.

THE offces of county clerk andtreasurer are largely minis-

terial and could be made appoin-tive to shorten the ballot. Clearly,the clerk-whose duties mainlyconcern custodv of court records-should be nåmed by the Suoperior Court, as the clerk of theState Supreme Court is namedby that body.

The office of coroner, we be-lieve, should be made a part of amedical-examiner s y s t e m andtaken off county election ballots.The freeholders, \Ve hope, wilgive consideration to transfer-ring the administration of theKing County Airpoït to the PortCommission as a matter of effi-ciency and joint operation withSea-Taco It is .co!ìpl~ely ¡I1ogi-

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King County freeholdersv,'il meet January 3 in theCounty Courthouse to set uptheir permanent organiza-

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Associate Editor, The Times

The split in the King County Board of FrE:eholderswhich came to Iieht during last week's organizationalmeeting raises the possibility that voters may bl!asked to consider alternate provisions in a proposed

county charter.During last week's action to adopt bylaws and

rules to govern the writing of a charter, argumentdeveloped over a plan to require a two-thirds vote ofthe freeholders for approval of a final çIraft.

The two-tI1irds-vote proposal, advanced by DonMcDonald, Robert Eberl~ and Howard E. Bothell,was beaten by majority members, \'oho expressedbelief that such a requirement conceivably couldproduce a stalemate that would block the adoption.of any charter. .

Elected last November, the 15 freeholders are to'draft a charter that would involve sweeping changesin county government and then submit it for voterapprovaL. The present plan is to offer a charter pro-posal in the November general election, but there isno strict time limit. A freeholders' commissionelected in 1950 did not complete its work unti twoyears later and the charter it placed on. the ballotwas rejected.

In the new freeholders' commission, the pres-ence of a minority group that has expressed con-cern over "dictatorship" by the majority suggeststhat unanimous a.greement on a charter wil bediffcult to achieve.

It is conceivable that the dissenters wil write aminority report. Although the minority could notsubmit a separate charter proposal in a single pack- .age, the State Constiution provides that alternatearticles or propositions may be presented for thechoice of the voters and may be voted on separatelywithout prejudice to the others.

OUTLOOK: It is expected that there wil begeneral accord among the freeholders on such mat-ters as the enlargement of the Board of County Com-missioners, creating the post of county administrator,civil service for county employes and others,

The critical issues that could result in the sub-mission of alternate charter provisions involvewhich presently elective county. offices should beabolished or nï2de appointive, and whether allcounty offces should become nonpartisan.

Considerable argument has developed already onthe partisanship issue and there are strong feelings

. on both sides of the question of whether such posts.' as sheriff, auditor and assessor should be mkd by

appointment or be subject to periodic election: '_..The board's next meeting is scheduled at 7:30

p..m, tomorrow in Room 402 of the Courthouse.

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Appointment of an exccu-ti\'e director for the KingCountv BOilid of Fr~choldeïsis esšential, most membersof the board agr::eJ lastnight. . ' ,A six-member committe~

wil begin screening appli-cants for the job even thoughthe Board of King CountyCommi:ss:r;:iers not vet hasapp:-opriatcd funds for it.,: Richard Albrecht, chair-

¡man of the freeholders, ap-;~pcjnted himself to the com-'Tii'ttce along with Simon'Wampold, vice chairman,and James N. O'Co¡inor,RGbert J. Block, Paul Fried-

lar,der anc. Terry l\lcKenna.Aibrecht. will be exofîiciochairman of the group.

U!E ADI is TO DE readyto make the appointment asSOO:1 as the commissioners

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act on the freeholders' re-quest for up to $ï5,OOO.

Albrecht said the com.llis-sioners have indicated theywil act favorably on mostfunding requC'sts.

Wan~pold said that whilethe freeholders wiI make thepolicy decisions on draftinga County Charter, the execu-tive director will do the all-important research.

Don McDonald, One of sev-eral freeholders opposing the

hiring of an executive direc-

tor, said the voters gave theresponsibility to the 15 free-

holders. If research is re-quired, he said, it should be

obtained by hiring consult-ants for specific projects.Robert Eberle and How-

ard E. Bothell said they also

op)105e hiring of an executive

director. for whom a salaryrange of SI6,666 to' $20,000 ã

year has been proposed.

FREEHOLDERS receivedan opinIon by ProsecutorCharles O. Carroll statingthat the commissioners andnot the freeholders wouldhire an attorney for the free-holders. Carroll said that be-

cause the prosecutor's budg-

et does not pro\'ide for such

an attorney, the commission-ers would have to contract.with a law firm and obtainapproval of the contractfrom a majority of the Supe-

rior Court judges.

The freeholders wil meetagain January 31.Albrecht is arranging a

series of orientation meet-ings with county officials forthe interim. The board al-ready has met with theclerk, assessor and electionoffcials. The next study ses-sion will be Saturday, with

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.Of CilCirC-er GroaJp: By JERRY BERGSl\lAN tation meetings. They met: King County offcials wil yesterday with Stanley Gal-provide freeholders with up lup, manager of Boeing(0 $42,200 for staffing and Field, and representatives ofsup P lie s this year, The the Seatte-Tacoma Airport.Times learned yesterday. There h~ve be~n proposals

The freeholders who wil to consohdate t,1e two air-draft a County Charter, had fields under the Port ofsought appropriations of up , Seattle.to $77,000-

_ But Simon Wampold, vicechairman of the freeholders,said he feels the county has

made fair provision for. the_group, . ,!:-,,-" THE MONEY would be for10 months. This assumesthat a charter - will-epresented for voter approval

in November,-The county wiI providespace for the freeholders on

the ninth floor of the Court-

house. The county wil con-tract for the services of' an-

- executive 'director insteâd of. hiring one full-time.. :.. In addition,' commissionerswil give consideration tohiring an attorney when one!s proposed. Pro see u to rCharles O. Carroll has said

that a contract for legalservices would have to beàpproved by a majority ofthe Superior Court judges.

- 5HE COUNY wil furnishótfice equipment, supplies

!lnd printing. Contingencyfunds wil be provided as re-:auested. -- _ Freeholders were told thatexpenditures should not ex-ceed these amounts:: : $15,000 for an executive di-rector; $5,700 for a secre-tary, $2,500 for extra help;

S10,OOO for an attorney; $1,-500 for printing, and $7,500 \

for advisory fees.: . Freeholders plan to con-tract for studies that would

be paid for out of contin-gency funds.. Originally, the freeholders_were considering spending'

$16,600 to $20,000 for an exec-

utive secretary and $20,000for an attorney. They hada~ked $20,000 for contingen-cies and $10,000 for printing,

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. The County Board of Free.holders today recommendedto the Board of King County

Commissioners that Paul R.Meyer, for more than threeyears assistant executive di-rector of the State Associa-

tion of County Commission-ers, be hired as the freehold.

ers' executive secretary.Meyer, 81, said he would

be able to report for worknexi week.

Rihard R. A i b i' e c h t,chainnan of the freeholderssaid he wil recommend th~commissioners approve hir-ing Meyer on a IO.monthcontract at $1,500 a month.

THE FREEHOLDERShope to place a proposednew charter on the Novem-ber ballot.Appointment of an execu-

tive secretary has been seenas the first big step toward

developing a charter. Thefreeholders also wil seekcollege students to serve aspart-time assistants without

pay.Terry McKenna, a freehold-

er, is in charge of finding in-terested students.

A paid legal adviser wilbe hired.

A committee interviewednine applicants for executive

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Meyer, a native of Elma,Grays Harbor County, wasreared in Tacoma. He holdsa bachelor's dE'gree in politi-cal science and a master's 'degree in piiòlic administra-tion from the University ofWashington. He attended theU. W. Law School one year.He is a captain in the ArmyReserve and served in budg-eting and administration forArmy intelligence while on .active duty. i

MEYER SAID, "If this Icharter is successful it wil ipoint to a whole new direc-ition for county governmentin this state. New attitudes :wil develop. Out of t11is a Inew shape of county govern- 'ment wil evolve."

Albrecht said Meyer wilties and gather information.coordinate the group's activi-

With an executive secre-

tary, Albrecht said, the free-holders wil be able to sched-

ule public hearings andmeetings as well as developwork schedules.J\!eyer said he wil evalu-

ate home - rule charters inother parts of the country.

He said he wiI take a neu-tral position on all questions

so he can point out the ad-vantages and disadvantagesof various charters.

The policy decisions wiJrest with the freeholders al-

though Meyer would assist inthe formal drafting of acharter.

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Name Executi~eCounty Freeholders. rec~

ommended yesterday thatPaul Meyer, 31, be hired asFreeholders' executive sec-retary.

C 0 u n t y Commissioners- were asked to employ Mey.er for 10 months at $1,500monthly, '

Meyer is assistant execu.tive director of the StateAssociation of County Com.missioners,

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A fiErO:1T TO l'tE PEûnE: LFreeh,olcler Charter Ready'In Noven1ber--Vvamooldt-1ljll . 8

(EDITOR'S '01'B: Voters of . .,~.. bave ~t every Sai:rday andKing County tuned out in record .."-' ., ~ one night a week With countynumbers for a special election f' , "".officlals. to orient themselvesTuesday to endorse many for- ;,' : with the present county govern-.ward-lookig issues of the For-. ..1 ment. They also met at 7:30ward Thrst package. .¿(~",.~ ./_,,_.J a,m, weekly to screen and

meet. . .. ' - " ,'v c ,/,' ,. "', . '-11 the eight applicants for th

(If ths is an indicatlon that ", \. / "', 't excutive secretary job,th citizes of Washington's ': . '\ .¡. " '.most populous county have in- '1". '", '.i " , "We plan ii series of publicdeed decided that It Is time to \ .---,. .' hearings thoughout the countylook into th futue , . , and to A\. -' d, to find out what the people thin!do sointlng about it now,.. // '. ......- .ßouldbeinthecharter."Wam-then they will be interested in " ''\ . , t". pold said. "I have been proin-another issue which plans for.; \ '-.".,. lsed that one of the first ofthe great futue of King Coli- " l' ,,' ,1 thse important hearings wilty, the ~~~~der Charter ..0.. _..'_',. __ _-'_~ tl ~.'~ ,,; .J_EE h~ld in Bellevue."which will probäóiy ready SIMON WAMPOLDfor their approvalinNovember, Bellevue Freeholder

(In approving many of the - Meyer, who was elected unan-Forward Thrust proposals, the Imously by the freeholders lastvotes still kept an eye on Wednesday,their pocketbooks. A majority Meyer. a former assistantof th Issues passed , . ,but excutive secretary of the.less than hal the money asked state's county commsslonerfor was approved, since th associaton, brings vast exper-rapid transit Issue falle.d, a ience in the types and the opera-$385 million item In the $820 tion of typs of county govern-DUilon package,) ments. A public adnnistraton

- major, Meyer wll be goinginto teaching following the com-'pletlon of t1s $1,500 a monthposition with the freeholders.

Much of the groundwork hasbeen lald for the new excutiveseretary, The freeholders

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By JACK YEAROUT

Since last September, 15elected freeholders have beengoing though the organzationaJprocesses of developing a iiw

governmentaJ charter for King",County,

The deliberations bave been.very time consumig. . . rules ,of procdure had to be ~dopted. 'a $45.00 budget had to be ap-proved by the King County Com-DUssioners, and an exeutiveseetary had to be agreed upon

by th majority of the cOmmt-tee. . ïBy Wednesday of last week

th.s had ail come to pass. . .and a Bellevue man has beplayig a major role in thesetedious procedues. which w!llead to the development of acharter which will streameKing county government.

Simon Wampold, Bellevu at":torney, Is the Eastside'srepre_sentative on this COU-"1ci! of freǡ":"holders, As chalrman of therules comnutte he was largely

responSible for th by-laws un-der which the freeholders nowoperate, He Is also vice~hal_man of the 15-mmber free-'holde committee.Soft spoken. (hIs voice re-

flects his home state . , . hewas gradated from the Uni-versity of Alabama) be reiter_

ated his original stand on what

be thks shOuld be included in

th charter. He is bopeful thatthe new Charter wll lead to theestablishment of a county man-ager or administrator; a legis_lative hnnv i'f ~A"",... ...._ too _ _. ..

Among the items in the bud-get.. alowed _by the comms-sloners was a $10,000 item foran attorney and$7,OOOfor"out-side experts." Instead of trav-elig throughout the country to

se how other model countygov'ernments operate, the free-

holders will have the experts

come to them in their offceson the 7th floor of the County-City buldig.

Wampold contributes aJltime .required for freeholder meet-ings, but he does enjoy oneremuneration . . . he gets freeparking atthecounty~ltybuld- 'ing,

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What the board or (hectors ofthe Kin;; County rrccholdcrsh;:vc done to "tool up to do the

job" was exp:ainccI to a commu-ni ty plapiilng workshop Fridayat Pacific Lutheran .uni,'er~;it,..

Richard Albrecht, chairm~nof the King County Freeholders,

said his' group hope's to completeits job of p;'e~arÍìig a proposed

new chartcl for public vote bythe end of 1958.

"Up to this point, we havebeen electing offc('rs, hiring asccretary and sort of toolingup to do the job ahe"d" AI.brecht said. '

The King County Freeholderswere appointed' 'last l\o,'emberand held their first meeting inDecember. '

Albrecht Was the featuredspeaker at the all-day PLU con-Iference held on campus. Theconference is the third of four Iplanned for this schoel year bv iPLU to look into the prohIcn;s land functions of local govel'l- f:ment in this area. jJ

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Stressed AtL1l-iU ~,Jei.~;n(l

1'" L .. J; \.~.i.hbBy BOWARD FERGUSONThe resources of universities

: are "committed to the needs of! the community," Tacomans at.4 tcnd!ng a Pacific Luthrran Dni-I versity spon.-;ored community

I, planning workshop were toldFriday.Dr. Thomas H. Langevin,

PLD's academic vice president,told, some ï5 community andbUs11ess leaders that he seesmore cooperation in the futurebetween schools and local gov-ernment to "íind the answers tothe many pressing problemsthat we have,"

He added:"We here at the university

are committed to the needs ofI the community,"

Langevin's remarks openedi the one-day worksh8p, the third I. of four such affairs planned for it this school year by the univer-!l ' sit" ,J' i

Dr. Lowell W. Cuh'er PLUassistant professor of p~liticalscience and chairman of theworkshop, reported on the ac.

, tion_s of the fir~t two workshops, ;

: i du~'ing which elective and ap-o pointed offcials discussed vari-

; ous forms of local government.

, Cuh'er said "we ha,'e tot watch what takes place in Kingr County, what happens the l' e

wil have a great effect here.The choice is yours - we stil

. have time to plan for coordi.nated growth rather than achaotict:i)e of growth."

Featured speaker was RichardR. Albrecht, chairman of' theBoard of King County Free-holders. ---- _. ,.. . .

Albrecht told of the work ofthe Freeholders since the,' tookoffce late last year. .

Albrecht said thi' Freeholdershope to have their job com:preted before the end of 1968.

Their final proposal for a new'King County charter wil thenbe put before the voters, he said.

Also spea~~ing was State Rep.Slade Gorton, Seattle. '.

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Direci-oï Picked

For County PostJohn K. Porter, former director of the

Puget Sound Goycrnmcntal Conference,has been offered the $20,000-a-year job orKing County administrator, The Post-In-telligencer learned last night.

County Commissioner John D. Spellmanproposed Porter's name a few days ago tohis fellow commissioners. it was learned.Both Commissioners John '1. O'Brien andEd Ì\Iunro were agreeable to the choice ofPorter.

. Porter. up to last night. had not n()tifi~d~ commissioners or his decision. but is ex-pected to do so today,

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By JERRY J;ERGSMANJohn Parler, 4J, formrr

executive director of thePugrt Sound GoyernmentalConrerenre, today agreed tobecome King County's firstadministrator.Commissioner J 0 h n T.

O'Brien, chairmi\n or theBoard or County Commis-sioners. said Porter willhegin work by April 1, orsooner if he completes hiswork with the ConsultingServices Corp. of Seattle andSt. PauL.

Porter has been director ofthe firm's governmentalservices work since leavingthe conference post lastyear. He had been with theconference siiice 1!"r,2.

O'Brien said the salarywill be $2.l,fì~n a year,

O'Brien Sèl id the positionsof county rE'r~')~ncl directorar.d budget analyst will befilled nn;:\' that an ildminis-tlii tor hilS been chos0n.

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under Porter, who \,..;11 over-see the activities of z.ll coun-ty departments headed byappointed officials.

Porter, a native of Detroitwith bachelor's and master'"degrees in urban i~bnningfrom the University of Wash-ington, has servcrl as plan-

nin~ director of Chelan andSpokane Counties,Porter endorsed the idea

of a merit svstem for countv

employes aiid said it couldbe' put into effect in a fewmonths aft"r a personnel di-rector is named.

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For Puget Sound ConferenceEinar M, Syvertsen, Sno-

homish County Planning di-rector, has been appointed

deputy director for planning

of the Puget Sound Govern-

mental Conference.

Svvertsen, 38, succeedsRudolf Gast, who resigned atthe request of the conferenceexecutive director, RobertMcAnee.

Syvertsen was assistant'di-rector of the conferencefrom I9iìO to 191)2. and hasbeen in the Snohomish Coun-

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ty post since 196r,. He also is

an instructor in the Universi-

ty of Washington College of

Arc hit e c t u I' e and UrbanPlanning.

He received a bachelor'sdegree from Franklin (Ind.)College in 1957 and a mas-ter's degree in urban plan-

ning from the U. W. in I9HA native of Dubuque, IO\va,Syvertsen is the father oftwo children,

He wil 11 s sum e theSli.OOO-a-year post April 1.

The appointm€nt has beenconfirmed by the conference

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should be changed to allowcounties to adopt perform-

ance budgets and include,steps in pay scales. H

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ing stagé - h¡is not beenreached. B

ut Loi:; l\orih,freeholder, said it w

ould beadvantageouS to have an at-torney not invo\ved in the

p,,\icy decisions.T

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c.Onì1i'\ittce \\"as \:nanin1oH

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pi úved the selei:tion. Mc-

Donald ,'oied against it.S

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clasS. Stra:;burger ¡ias beenin privale practice in Seattle .

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meetings, on requesl, but

mainly w

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ihe dltllter proposalS and re-

sea felling legal qiieSÜons.

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ul1der:;tood that Stra:;burger

was chosei\ because 11C ht'S

110 political alfiliation and no. connection w

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probablY wil bf made Mon'

day. A majOrity 01 the Supe-

rior Court iuÖgC5 then won\d

ha,'e \0 approve the contn1ctlor it to taK

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Coun':'yChangesSome basic changes in the administration of

King County government are in the offing which.theoretically at least, wil improvc th~ efficiency ofthe governmental machincry.

John Porter, former executive director of thefour-county Pugct Sound Governmental Conference,wil become the county's first administrator, at asalary of S24,600 a year, by April 1. Hc \ril bejoined shortly by a ne\\- personnel director- and

budget analyst.

Meanwhile. Prosecutor Charles O. Carroll hasproduced an opinion that the county commissionersmay, under state la\\', establish a merit system forcounty employes under a p poi n t i v e departmentheads. A merit s\'stem, however, cannot be madecompulsory for dèpartments whose chiefs are elect-ed, .?ccording to the prosecutor.

Indications' are that the commissioners \i-iladopt a merit system and this coupled with Porter'sappointment and those of a personnel director andbudcret analyst should free the three commissionersfor inore effective performance at the policy mak-ing leveL.

. A RE:\IAI\'I~G weakness in the county system,we believe wil be the lack of a merit program inthe county"s elective departments,. where th~ hirin~and firing of employes have been imbued wit~ poh-tics. This is among the areas that should receive at-tention from the freeholders engaged in draftng ane;'v county charter.

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Ex-Dallas Man to rlandfe# " lFreeholder Legal T asl~sA lawyer who came to Seattle tIon, which is expected to b(

four years ago from Dallas, approved by the full groufTexas, wil be recommended to tonight, was a turndown fO!the county Board of Freeholders Prosecutor Charles O. CarrolL~onjghtas the attorney to handle Carroll had sought to preserve ¿:

its legal responsibilities in draft- degree of control over actions ojing a new county charter. the freeholders thrOUGh selec.He is John Strasburger, Belle- tion of an attorney or his owr

vue? who was the unanimous choosing - preferably a deput)choice of the freeho.!ders' attor- prosecutor from his own staff orney-selrctlOn com~ittee. a former deputy.

Strasourger, 30, ~s a member. The selection also was a sur..of the Seattle law firm of Short, prise to all three countv com-Cressman & Cable. His selec- missioners, each of whõm had

-'~-favorites waiting in the wings

they probably would havepushed if they - had been con-sulted.

Despite this, it is expected allthree commissioners wil concurin Strasburger's nominationwhich is considered likely at

. tonight's meeting. Strasburgerhas not taken part in politicalactivities since moving to, Seatte. "

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King County freeh0lòers exposed someof their thinkin~ on \\Titing a county char-ter last ni~¡1t by discussing possible ad-

vanta;;es of enlarging the present three-

man Board of Cl)mmissioners.County Commissioner John Spellman,

present as an im-ited guest, was used as asoundin:! board.

He said he thinks the state legislaturewil come' up with some form of municipal

go\"ernment for counties at its next or fol-lowing session.

BEFORE questioning Spellman, thefreeholders \-oted to recommend to t1:ecommissioners the employment of cT 0111Strassber;er of the Seattle legal firn of

Short. Cressman & Cable as counsel to thefreehl)lders. '

The commissioners wil have to get fi.nal arpro';al from the county's superiorCOilrt judges. after negotiating with the12.w' firm.

SPELDIAX, one of a series of public

officials the freeholder~ plan to interview,said he like;; the present system of elect-ing commissioners from a specific districtbut with all county voters participating.He advocated retaining this system. on thepresent partisan basis, if the board is en-larged. ,

"As to the numbers game, I ha\'e nofixed opinions," he said" "It wouldn't do

to make it too cumbersome - initially,certainh" no !llore than nine members. andmaybe Iess_"

The' commissioners. he said. could findplenty to do as full-time legislators for thecounty.

"l do favor also a strong cou,nty execu-

th-e elected on a parti~an basis. if an em-ployee merit system goes with it," hesaid.

He suggested th~ county executiveprobably should be paid S~.Uir.O or 82.j.COO a

year. or some\\"he!"e in that range.

"The municipal system has prestigeand recognition by the peopl",," he said.

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. , . merger proposal in an air- to develop an expert stafl. Spellman. said that deci-

,,~in study the possIble merg- port study. No. decision has Paul Friedlander, a free- ,sian may be made in connec-

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,,,/77We feel it is time for the new Executive Secretary to say a

few words. Up' to now he has been striving hard to "learn theropes" and prepare to take over the reins from a predecessor wholiterally devoted a lifetime to local government, becoming one ofthe recognized experts in the nation on the practical workings ofcity and county and other local public activities. To follow him isanything but easy or simple.

However, after much experience in moving into new situa-tions in diferent places throughout the world the learning andtaking over of a new and different jop was not an unfamiliar ex-perience. The unusual part was having several months to learnfrom the departing expert, rather than trying to learn and at thesae time catch up on current business because the predecessor

was long gone. The learning peiiod was most welcome and wetried to take ful advantage of it.

To say the least we are honored and pleased to have been

selected for such an interesting and challenging job in an organi-zation that plays such an important role for the citizens in thearea, There is certainly no lack of challenging projects and issuesto get our teeth into; the principal concern is being able to get to

them al, We wi do our best.

What are some of the important things that must be done?High on the list must be a vigorous campaign to get word aboutthe League and its operations to a greater number of citizensmany of whom could profit greatly from League activities and atthe sae time contribute to good local government. Paricularlythere are many new people in the area and many young comersin al categories of occupation who have had little opportunity tolear about what we are doing. The League affords an excellentopportunty for them to become involved in any of a number of

effort to help solve some of the critical problems of local govern-

ment. I urge each League member to look about and select goodprospects, A phone cal to the League offce is al that is requiredto have an envelope of material about the League on its way to -each of them.

Of oextTe~ an immWiat~ importace is the need to assist.the Mayor, the City Council and other offcials in solving theminoiity problems. This requires the sincere interest and specialeffort of all of us. League committees already have begun workon some of the problems. Because time is of the essence they wilmove as rapidly as possible.

Also of immediate concem is the drafting of a report that canbe u;;ed by the Freeholcl~s in their charter drafting task. Con-sideration of this report wil be the prirIlã.lý business öni1-Boardof Trustees at a late February meeting.

Forward Thrst proposals approved by voters wil be closelyfollowed up by future committee action. The League intends todo its best to sciutinize the implementing provisions as they un-fold to insure citizens get the most for their money.

This and preceding issues of the Municipal News haveemphasized the need for continuing attention to our crime anddelinquency problems. Subcommittees of our Public Safety Com-mittee have just reviewed their priorities and are moving quicklyto study these problems and make recommendations,

One committee has begun to study Tax Exemptions and wil_,__'__ _IY___J .._ ____Ju~L__-i_ -l_ ___ ___ _~J _1_1 . _ J1__1

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King COllõty's flecho~ders eno:igh to pro\"rle adnquatelast iii~ht heard the three- represcntatio!1 for all citi-man co u n I y eommIs~irin zens but sn~311 CtJO;'6h -'to

S\"stCl~ì rlcsCïiied ?s an '''''- be wOl'kè'hlc, as \';en as not

n:clna;ea!)le "t I' 0 i k a that execssivel'- 'CXp::nsiH',,"

ccln't give aclliesIre dire;;- It also srould Iiciïe an odd

tion." number of co'nm¡ssioners.Die k Trowbrict;;e. who to preHnt a deadlock. the

was bud~et director for for- li:ague advised.mer Coiintv Conimjssinncr 'the report ITged appoint-Scott \\'a1Iace, told the frce- ing, rat;ier than' electing. a

holctc'ls: number of county officials,'.:.ly experience led me to including:

h~1ie\"e the county govern- Ccron~r - "Since (his)1'c:nt structure is woefully functions are administra-iiiad~quate to ni e e t the tiv'e. the offce should notneeds. It cmild plcin itse;f be electi\'e. The medical ex-

sill,- but too o;ten was un- amÌ!er s\"stem . , . shouldabiè to translate plans into be investigated,"

effecti\'e action," Sheriff - Policy-making

HE SAm the Board of ex e l cis e d bv the offceCOèmty Coniniissioner's 01'- should be transrcrred to an.ganization compared f)cJrl~- other offcial or the com-with that of the City of mission, r,Ia~y of t.~e .ree-Seattle and Mayor Dorm 0 l' d - k e e p i n g functIonsBraman's offce due to the should be transferred to a

- difference in sh"~icture. " records department.Trowbridge suggested a Co~inty Clerk - Should be

commission ,,-ith from five appointed by the courts,to nine m?mbers, togetherwith an elected county ad-

ministrator.The latter recommenda-

tions were simUar to thoseof the Sea t tIe ;\IunicipalLea,:;ue, contained in a 12-

page report given the free-hol:1ers_

Gordon Conger, chairmanof the league committee onKing County government,said the reDort was the re-sult of a )-ear's work bylea:;ue members.

The freehl)lders meetingat the courthouse took thereDort unrler studv and wilho-id discussions òn it withleague representatives a tfuture meeti!'cis,

THEY mLL start draft-ing a Cii?.;-ter for the countywhen hearings are complet-ed.

Tiie :\Iun;cipal Lea g u erecommended a 1 a l' g e rcounty comm!~sion and hir-ing of 8 "strnng, overall ad-

ministrator."The administrative and

kgis!èifI\'e rOiI",'r" and func-ti"ns shoujd ee s,;oarated

:he report said. .. . JIt sug~es~ed tIie expanded'

:ommission s!1l)ulri Ì:e large

Assrssor - Administratorshould appoint, with com-mission approvaL.

Auditor - Commissionshould appoint; non-fiscalfunctions should be done byother administrative off-cers.Tre.isurel - Administra-

tor should "ppoinL

ALSO RECmDIE;\DED ¡was a single county person- :nel system, directed by the 'administrator, with meritand retirement systems.

The league took no posi-tion on partisan or nonpar-tisan county elections butsaid that if partisan elec-

tions continue, the person-

nel system is vitaL. A full-time budget director, ap-pointed by the administra-tor, was advised, in orderto prepare an integratedplan for submission to the.commission. /

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¡ioner John O'Brien;hrew a block-buster to;he county freeholders,now drafting a ne\\' chart-ter, Tuesday with an-nouncement he wouldsubmit a county reorgan-ization plan of his own to

his two fellow c()mmis- O'Brien told this newspaper in ers not only to increase the ty Engineer Jean DeSpain.sioners for approval and an exclusive interviè;v he did effciency or county government O'Brien said. The plan is alsoimmediate implementa- not intend to short-circuit the but to achieve new economines based on the consolidation of thet' work of the freeholders. if possible. He said he \\'as county-s two present road dis-.ion, Vote Test Ahead optimistic his new reorganiza- triets.

At the same time, the com- "But we must remember their tion plan would meet basic The four other new superde.:missioners moved closer to the work - in whatever final shape approval by his collegues on the partments O'Brien seeks to cre-hiring of a nationally reorgan- it takes - must face the voters board, paving the way for its ate would be headed by a'¡zed expert in the field who wil for final ratification. We haw no eörlyadoption. director of property; a directordecide by Friday whether he assurance at this time such The O'Brien plan primarily of personnel; a budget analyst..wil accept the new county post approval will occur," he said. evolved around a reorganization who would supervise the coun-,

of adrini,trator that was of- O'Brien emphasized it was the of the administrative portion of ty's imi operations, as well as'

fered to him yesterday. desire of all three commission. county government and would its accounting, payroll and,. _ I!ot alter the status of present budget responsibilities, and a

elected county offcials. It would director of county services. Thecreate a new department of lalter would include the pre-:Public Works responsible for viousl)' autonomous depart-operation of tI,c county's sanitar- ments of buildin¿;, purchasing.y sewers al!d all present engi- licensing, veterans' aid, ci\'¡¡neering functions. defense, parks, and a director ofChief Selected justice, to include the county's

. It would also include the probation-and-parole operations.

airport, which is now an inde- All of the five new bureau,pendent department, within its heads would be responsible toframework. Likely head for the the new county administrator.

, new bureau, if and when it's O'Brien stressed in his an-

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!Iouncement that the proposeå~eshuffling coul~ be .accosn-pUshed without disturbing thework of the freeholders, a~dhopefullv, could be included,,!!!the finãi charter draft to ~'submitted to the ~Iectroate. ';"-Freeholder Surprised . .~~,Richard Albrecht, chairman

of the board of freeh~iders,taken by surprise at the 0 ~ri~ij,move, said he would be d~hRhl-ed to meet with the commissioo"ers, hopefully berore coui;t~implementative action.

"Naturally, the freeholdersare concerned that we draftA'.oo a county charter as P?SS,I:

~Ie, If Commissioner O'Brien,s,plan can improve our pr~s~tltcounty government, we will ~:delighted to consi.der !:s merits.in our deJiberations, he fl~~, dared. . ,'"~ .~_ ~ /-". i Ani

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or their thin;'ing- on "Titing a county char-ter last night by discussing possible ad-vantages of enlarging the present three-

. mCln Boai~d of Commissioners.County Comniissioner John Spellman.

present as ,11\ im'ited guest, was used as asounding bO:trd.

lIe said he thinks the state legislatiirewill come up with some form of municipalgo\'ernment for counties at its next or fol-lowing session.

BEFORE questioning SpellmCln. thefreeholders voted to recommend to thecommissioners the employment of ,JohnStrassbcrger of the Seattle legal firm of

Short. Cressman & Ca hIe as counsel to thefreeholders,

The commissioners wil ha\'e to get fi.nal approval from the county's superiorcourt judges, after negotiating with thelci.w firm,

The freeliolders, a I5-member nonparti-

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sari ~roiip. voted unanimously to hold theirscheduled :\larch 5 meeting on :iIarch 6 af,tel' it was pointed out that Repuhlican pr¿,cinct canciises are slated for March 5. Un-animity sprang from Democratic mem-bers' trust that reciprocity would be forth-coming should events require it.

SPELDL\K, one of a series of publicofficials the freeholders plan to interview,sci id he likes the present system of elect-ing commissioners from a specific districtbut with all connty voters participating,He advocated retaining this system. on thepresent partisan basis, if the board is en-

larged."As to the numbers game, I have no

fixed opinions," he said, "It wouldn't doto make it t00 cumbersome - initially.certainly no mare than nine members, andmaybe less."

The commissioners, he said, could findplenty to do as full-time legislators for thecounty.

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EVERY county should have a WiliamB. Kirk, And King County is for-tunate to have him. Kirk has just sug-gested that his $12,OOO-a-year positionbe abolished. . .

Kirk says the functions of his office.that of county veterans' aid administra-

.tor, can eašiIy by absorbed by some'other offce, pres~imabiy at a sizablesaving.

The Buard of Kiii;j COUlIl)' Coiimiis-,~iolll.rs, irliicli may u'arit 10 acceptKirk's reCDrlilieil(laCion, nii~Tlt be icelladrisecllo "pcp l(irh Oil the COUlll)' pay-

roll for emliwCi1l~ the iiecessit)' oj some.other COll1lt)' fmiciioiis,

Anyone who, as Kirk did, concedesthat his office expense is not justifiedbv the service to be rendered is \vorthhis weight in taxes to the public.

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i i /(irl( Reports to Freeholders¡ ! Veterans' Aid2 Feels ¡-Ie's f\Jot Needed. i cJ I ? í'L! By JERRY BERGS;\lA:-

Wiliam V. Kirk, county.veterans'-aid administrator,

recommended yesterday his$12(01)0-a -yea r post bedropped.The suggestion was madE'

at a l1i'eting of the bOilrd of

freeholders. Kirk then m?depL~bnc his ~nnu3.l report to

: John T_ O'Bri,'ri, chairmaa. of the Board 0: King County

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William V, Kirk, county Growth of the economy year, If they had receÎ''ec- veterans'.aid administrator, meant there were fewer in only minimum aid for pro

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: said yesterday that the low. need. sjo~s instead, ,531 !ï~4 ,,',o'J2't t f ha\ e been distributed, .,:. es amoun 0 money ever ENFORCEMENT of a said.

-. distributed to veterans in one-year residency require-. Kirk contended the admin

. King County was given out ment. "Although it is impos- istrative cost of the office L, last year. sible to state the exact per- out of proportion to the ~er'\

. Kirk made the statement centage." Kirk said, "it ap. ices p2rformed. He said th,before a freeholders' meet- pears that better than 50 per 1868 budget was rednce(in'" in which 11eî=ëcóÎiimend. cent of the new contacts $4.142 bec;iuse of a retirE:

:~ el that 11is positon ,of aided under the previous ad- ment. The job wil be ab_ :~veteran's aid administrator ministration were not eligi- sorbed by the existing staff

~be abolished, ble under the residency reo he said. Kirk said th~ budge.' quirement." can be cut still more nex_. . STATE LAW requires that Dropping of rent subsidies year. _:; one twentiesth of a mil to toward veteran's halls rent.'~. one and one-fifth mils be set als for some organizations.: aside for soldier's relief. In some cases, Kirk said, \.

. '-K i n g County assesses the these had been p¡!Íd improp.

.: lower figure, which raises erly. The soldier's relief

. '$95,000. Administrative costs fund had paid $180 a year

. ~ of the offce come from tow a r d h?ll rental for

. i other funds, . veteran's organizations, Kirksaid. In some cases, they:: . Last year, Kirk said, S~8,- were not eligible, he said.

-;. 682 was distributed to veter- This was discovered late last:; ans for emergency aid. That year.:' was $15,643 less than the Kirk said the' amount-; pre\ious year, he said.

: 1. Kirk, who took 0 f fie e spent on this was $6,995 lastyear, a drop of Si90, but he

: March I, 1967, said the reo said it wil be reduced more~ duction was made despite this year.: -the fact that more than oae.

third of the total was distrib. Shifing of the emphasis touled in thè first two months obtaining employment forneedv veterans. "We feelof last year by the previous that 'our responsibility is toadiiiinistration. -

provide aid and it is our: ; Unexpended funds return feeling that the greatest aid.. . to the expense fund, I\:irk we can provide is to find the. ~ said. vet era n gainful employ- \: :'" Kirk ga\-e these reasons ment." He said work was

for the reduction. found for :inilii Tn..n 1"",. L.

Commissioners.Kirk said the functions or

the office can be absorbedhy another county depart.ment. He did not have anvimmediate recommendå.tions. bilt a freeholder. Don1\IcDonald. raised the idea of

creating a department of so-cia I services.

By establishin;: ¡:uiclelines

and enforcing state laws,

Kirk said, the amf1unt of Rid

given has been reduced. Hewas highly critical of someveterans' Qrgaiiizatioas.Kirk said: "It is the feel-

ing of numerous veteransand the Veterans of ForeignWars in particular thatwhatever we receive in' thesoldiers relief fund should beexpen.ded." ~.

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¡;1'?7 Fi , I I .,.78 j1eefuOfCje¡4S VVanf CloB~l JERRY BERGSl\IAIn six days, the _-rP.u..ty

Board. of Freeholders wil go-to PortJãncrtoJeai- how it

. . was done.That is, the freeholders

',,-ill meet with the chief ar-- cJiitects of a Multnomah

Coimty home-rule cliaiierêpproved by a slim marginin 1966.

Then the King Countyg1"()UP ,dll go to MultnomahCounty's chief executive to2~k how the charter is work-ing.

This is not tJie first timehing County has traveledtlie road to "home rule"¡;o\"rnment. A charter elec-t:e'n was lield in 1952. It hadta :;En a board of freeholders

. two years to draft a charter.- '. It tèol; the voters one day

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to turn it down by a 2-to-1

margin.The failng effort, in which

opponents lashed at the idea01 having a county adminis-trator because he would be a"czar," delayed county re-form for more than a dec-aùe, A number of factors, in-cluding an apparent break-down in countJ' ad1lini5tra-

tion, revived the attempt two~'ears ago.Now, a I5-member group

- seeking to learn from themistakes of the past - plans

to have a charter ready forsubmission to voters in thefalL.

It is becoming apparentthat the freeholders wil callfor splittng policy-makingfunctions from administra-tion. Most likely they wilpropose a Board of CountyCommissioners responsiblefor legislative functions anda county executive for ad-ministration. Under the pres-ent system the commission-ers are deeply involved inadministration.But, should the executive

be appointed or elected?Ed l\1unro, veteran county

commissioner who is president of the National Associa

tion of Counties, says:

"There has to be a sing!executive and I thinkought to be elected becau

I'm of the. opinion that anman who is ruling us shaulnot be free from our bein

able to decide whether

should stay there or not."County government h

been traceò to the shires aEngland 1,000 years ago,That basic system - em

bracing judicial, police anpublic-works functions .was carried to the UniteStates with the British colnists. With the system earn

the theory that 'county gov

ernment merely was an aof state government.Despite the demands fo

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Changes inaèe over the'-ears in the Seatte CityCj;aiier - the city's "consti-

t:;,;on" - have 'been baro-1ì~8ters of changing tides in

t::e political and economic\'~e\Ys of the voters.

The City Chaiier was ap-r,o\":d at the polls March1~, Jg~6, replacing a charter

(,f j8S6 which had becomee:;tirely outmoded.

"IT WAS an expeiience toh: treasured" says CharlesT. Oliyer, one of Òie 15 free-

h)1ders who framed the cityèc';:ul1ent,

"We lian some 1105t enjoy-2c,le and li"iely sessions, with~-,~, verbal holds barred,"C;j';er, wl10 retired recentlyco 5 executive secretary uf the

City Retirement System, re-"Jls,

Oliver remembers one of;:8 litte battles he lost. He2d pressed for changing the.. ,~ii;~"'"" "t rin.,nl~l-l1ør tn

controller for the city post."But I got outvoted i-uid

we stil have the old-timespelling, which I think is ob-solete," Oliver observed.

But this was a minoi' itemin discussions which led tothe document under whichmost of the city f;ovc.rnment

stil operates.

"\rc strengthened themavor's hands and madeother chaii::es which ha\-econtributed Lgreatly to moreefficient functioning of thecity," declares Alfred J.Westberg, ('.ttorney and aformer freeholder.

Lawyers point out that theterm "freeholder" meansthe holder of a freehold es-

tate in land or other prop-ertv, At one time in Ameri-,caD history, a voter h"d tobe a "freeholder."

The Charter was appro\'cdby a vote of 60,251 to 25.0G5,

The freeholders had beenelected l\1arch 13, 19.15, fromamong 70 who filed for the''tn~tc:

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ALFRED WESTBERG

BESIDES Oliver and West-berg they were Victor Zed-nick, long-time state lerisla-tor and secretary of the ElksLodge; Charles W. Doyle,bbor official; Henry W. Cra-mer, attorney and now aKing County Superior CourtJudge; Carroll Carter, KingCounty Treasurer and Demo-cratic politician with a gift

. for colorful phrases.Walter L. Wyckoff, build-

i:i¡;-company officer and CityPlanning Commissioner; M.O. Anderson, a u to mobile,4r-!.lni&. P T Ur'll"-.rA ':l1,fn_

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Roberge. secretary of tliCity Board of Public Works;

Ho~\-ard G. Costigan, representath'e of liberal group

during the 1930s who hadbeen president of the Wash-in~ton Commonwealth Federation.

Henrv W. Parrott, 'attor'ncy; L~'le F. Wilson, jn~est

mcnt banker who now islnEllber of the Transit Com

mission; Fred C. Becker, insurance executive, and HildT.l-ii-ic.lìl"t 1......H;('r" in thr- rriii

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A county charIer gl\'ng Ki!Jg County

government its first major overhaul in ieOyears was c:pro';cd un:inimously yesterdayby the County Frecè,oldei s.

The 46-page document strccimlinc5 theoperations of county government and cre-ates a strong office of an ele,ctcd cotintyexecutive. It also provides for a nine-

member county council to be elected on apartisan basis.

Under the proposed charter. most pi'€'-sent elective offces would become appoin-tive.

The 15 freeholders who nave worked onthe charter since last Januarv will submitthe ch2rter 10 the countv comrnissioners at

10:30 a.m. Monday. -Commissioners wil be asked to place

the charter on the Nov. 5 general electionballot. It requires a simple majority votefor adoption.

KING COlXTY has never had a charteroutlning its go\'ernment.

Richard R. Albrecht, Freeholder chair-man. said:

"This is a step in e\'olution of. bettergovernment for King County. The charterwil give more representation to KingCounty voters. especially those not in in-corporated cities."

Freeholders took pains to make thecounty eXccti th'e' s office powerfuL. The ex-ecutive was ginl1 the power of veto o\'r"any ordinance or any object of expense ofan appropriation ordinance" in the char-ter.

A coiin!v administratI\'e offcer w(\,11d

be apPointc-d by the executh'e and ser\' as

his assistant.

'fHE PROSECCTOR, assessor, judges?nd superintendent of schools would re-main elective offices.

Councilmen would be paid Slfì,OOO peryear. The county executive's salary is notto exceed S27,OOO a year.

Councilmen would be nominated and'ejected in their o\\n districts. Under thepresent system, the three commissionersare nominated in .their districts but areelected county-wide.

Albrecht pointed out that the legislativefunctions of the council are separated from

. the functions of the executive offcer in the, charter. He commented:

"There are a lot of thiilgs in countygovernment not getting done now becauseno one has time to sit around and think 'about what should be done."

ALTHOlGH they continued partisangovernment, the Freeholders did not ruleout indpendent candidates for offce.

An independent could stil file for elec-tion and his name would be placed on theprimary ballot.

The charter directs the council to enacta county redistricting ordinance every fiveyears and provides for penalties of loss ofpay for councilmen if they fail to act.

Councilmen are also directed by thecharter to adopt a conf1ct of interest ordi.nance for coi-nty offcers or employes.

Everv 10 veal'S the charter would be reovIc\red to måke necessary changes or im-provem en ts.

A PERSOXXEL system for county em.ployes is outlned in the charter to assure

"recruiiment, selection and retention of

county emplo)'cs on the basis of merit."

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Paul Friedlmider, Seattle ed chairman Richard Albrecht, z3tional stniciure of the newbusiness leader and member who, in turn, told freeholders fi)rm 0 f cou n ty governmentof King County Board of Free- "we're just beginning our ajso wil be llëide available.holders, was named Friday to work." Albrecht noted that "thehead the frecholder effort to "As I view the resolution draft charter does not reflectwin voter appro\'al of the new creating this body, it provided the personal view of anyonecharter. The action came at a for both the drafting of a new of the Freeholders. Rather" hewind-up m('eting at which free- charter as well as an obligation said, "it represents a compos- .holders took steps to phase in on the part of freeholders to ite view of w~at the freehöld-

the ir oper¡¡tion with that of a explain our work to the com- ers as a board ha\'e concludedcitizens' group now forming to munity at large. This we in- is in the best interests of Kinginform the public about what tend to do," Albrecht declared. County and will p rov ide tothe charter contains and why. In a leiter to the Board of King County an improved local

The body also voted to seek County Commissioners, AI- government. We hope thatapproval of the Board of King brecht requested permission to each of the King County Com7County Com m i s s i 0 ners to divert the remaining funds in missioners wil recognize it asspend the remaining SG,OOO left tLe freeholder budget to print such, and welcome it as thefrom their sii,500 original ap- 30,000 copies of the charter framework for improved coun-propriation on printing and ad- which wil be available to in- ty administration and wil ac-ministrative expenses in con- terested groups and individuals tively support its adoption bynection with distribution of the at no cost. He said a brief the voters of the county.

charter. summary of the salient provi- The charter wil be formallyBefore the group adjourned, sions of the charter plus a presented to commissioners to-

" special resolution commend- chart of the proposed organi- morrow at 10:30 a.m./.--~.

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have scored a truly rem ark a b 1 eachievement in reaching unanimousagreement on terms of the proposedcounty charter, to be submitted to vot-ers in November.

There was a broad spectrum of pol-itcal and ideological phil sophy repre-sented among the freeholders and thecharter reflects considerable compro-misc. The fact that the finished productcarries no minority report brightensthe document's prospects of voter ap-provaL. .

Freeholders' Chairman Richard Al-brecht has earned special praise for hissuccess in reconciling the differences

bet\\-een his 14 freelioider colleagues,

:;OW, IT is up to ~he county's votersto familiarize themseh-es \rith provi-sions of the proposed charter. Copies ofthe charter are expected to be madea\-ailab!e to the public by the countysoon. Every voter has a responsibiltyto cast an informed ballot on this issueof tremendous importance to the struc-ture and qualit,y of King County govern-ment. .

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Serf Nov. 5Count.y Commissioners reo

cived a pro p 0 sed KingCounty charter from th~Freeholders yesterdClY ana

directed it be placed on theballot for a vote of the peo-

ple Nov, 5.The conimissioners als(

set Oct. 7 for a public hear.ing on a county traffc cod,

similar to the state's.If adopted, fines collecteè

for t r a f f i c violations orcounty 'roads would go t(the county instead of to thestate.' .' . '. Commissioner J 0 h 1O'Brien wil leave tomorrow for New York witll\Iayor Dorm Bran~an a!1(attorney James ElIis, pnncipal a-rchitect of the Forward Thrust program.Thev wil seek a favora

ble in-tcrest rate on the S3r

niilion first block of Forward Thrust bonds soon t(

. be sold.

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holders aëeôñ1plishC- the

"impossible," It adopted aproposed county chartcr yes-terday without dissent.

When the 15-m e m b e rboard first met December 5,it was badly split. From thebeginning, there was specu-lation the members not onlynever would agree but thatthere probably would be aminority report on a charter.It did not happen, During

'the course of 55 meetin~s;. ind some 200 hours of meet-;ng time, the split healed,

compromises were made andagreement was reached,Freeholders gi\" a large

part of the credit to theirchairman, Richard Albrecht.They meant it when theyadopted a special resolutionyesterday praising him,

THIRTEEN of the 15 free-holders voted "aye" on themotion to adopt the charter.

Paul Friedlander one ofthose who was absent, later

,signed the resolution, JamesCurran was expected to doso by Monday,Friedlander was appointed

coordinator to represent the

freeholders with any citizen?roup formed to support the, ha rter.

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Albrecht said the freehold- together to draft "a compro-ers will not be discharged mise document in the bestuntil after the election, He tradition of the democraticsaid the state constitution process."requires freeholders to pre- Jack Geoffroy moved forpare and propose a charter the adoption of the charterand propose means to in- and was seconded by Mrs.form the public of its con- Lois North. The resolutiontents, No additional meet- recommends that the ballotings are expected Úfter to- title read: "Shall the pro-morrow, however, posed home-rule charler for

Albrecht said he met with iKng County providing forJohn T. O'Brien, chairman separation of legislative endof the Board of County Com- executive pow~rs and formissioners, and set up a improved administration bemeeting Monday at which adopted?" ,the commissioners wil be Albrecht urged the free-asked formally to put the holders to provide the "samecharter on the ballot. dedication to inform the pub-

Albrecht said $4,500 wil be lie of the contents as you did

needed to print 30,000 copies in drafting the charter." And

of the charter for distribu- he i.rged the cooperation oftion, Of this sum $1,500 al- citizen groups.

ready is budgeted, Terry McKenna, who hadThe freeholder orlice wil planned to make a final ef-

remain staffcclunti! ¡:ter the fort to reduce the number ofelection. This, Albrecht said, councilmen from nine to sev-wil facilitate the printing en, but felt it was too late to3!ld distribution of the char- accomplish it, said he votedter and provide a source of for the Charter even thoughadd i t ion a i information to there are a number of thingsvoters, in it each freeholder does not

Albrecht wrote the com- favor as an individuaL.missioners: He would have voted for"The draft charter does seven councilmen last week,

not reflect the personal providing the eighth voteviews of anv one of the free- needed to make the change,holders, Rãther, it repre- but was unable to attend thesents a composite view of meeting.what the freeholders as a The charter calls for elee-bpurd have conducted is in tion of a chief executivethe best interests of King nine county councilmen re:-Co',in~\" and \\ ill PrG\'ide to presenting districts and theKing èriunty an in1prO\'cd 10- assessor. All other officials

cal C!:1\'C!'n;tnL would be appointed either bv"\Vc hope (hat edcIi of the an adininistratiYè ofìicêr Õl"

Kin:; County (o,nmissioriers cnier exeuctive with confír-wia re(ogni7~ it as such. We ~nation by the coL:nty council /'hope you \',il! wC:I:uinc it as in some cases. /"

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~I"HE :'l~l'pol'2d! King County charter standing public service,adopted last week by the B.?ard of Since December 5 the board hasCounty Freeholùers does not dovet,1il held 55 meetings amounting to some 200

hours of unpaid lobor. In addition, thec0111pletely \vìth the individual views of individual freeholders have devoted un-anyone of the 15 freeholders, counted hoiirs of study and thought to

Neither-3s comments in these col- the projE:ct. Theirs \\"s no glamour job,umns have made clear-is The Times but a tedious task with little personalin accord with all of the provisions of acclaim attached.the document to be submitted to King JVJ¡(¡f'i(Y the fate of thc prOfJo,w'rlCounty voters November 5. charler (If t!ie polls, Board Clwiriian

There ought to be unanimity through- lUclirirl All)rec!ii ((Tld the other free-out the county, however, on one point: holders merit the public's tlimil.s for.The freeholders have performed an out- IliC'r selfless (!fforts...~~.,.

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it/s All Ve;ry Stimulating,-': i.Annoúncement by John O'Brien, county

commissioner, that he wil submit a countyreorganization plan to his fellow commis-sioners is most stimulating and certainlywil be welcomed by all residents of thecounty if O'Brien has some good new ideas.Perhaps O'Brien and his fellow commis-

sioners wil be stimulated by the fact that15 charter freeholders, tried and true, aredeliberating and debating thè merits of anew charter for King County. No doubt theaction of the freeholders had some effecton O'Brien and,i'n- essence, stimulated himto plan his own reorganization.

May we congratulate the commissionerfor tliis move and hopefully add that anyactìontaken by.the county commissionersmight also stimulate the count~' freeholders.

A litte competition in good governmentwil not hurt anybody.

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'CornnìissIoners 0/(, - '- , .' lTrip lor Freeholder.

C 0 u n t y commissioners...,-..----,~-_._--~ .--.'1 yesterday authorized ex- I

) penses of $198 for the KingCounty Freeholders to go to: Portland next Saturday to. study l\ultnomah County's

j new charier,

In other actions, the com-- missioners:

-Approycd hiring of JohnH. Strasburger as the Free-holders' legal counsel at S24

per hour.

-Authorizcd expenses of

$460 each for the prosecutorand two deputies to attendthe conference of the Na-t ion a I District Attorneys

Association at New Orleans,La., next T u e s d a '/ andWednesday.

-c 0 n t i Ii u e d a public

hearing o-n county regula-tions for massage and sau-na parlor operations untiApril 8,- -A s k e d the 'prosecutor

for advice on purchase ofpro per t y between Kin~County Hospital and thefreeway for p~rking space.

. ";:_. .: County AffairS '1/ 1,'.---:-~ c; ii¡L lawyer For~. Freeholders

Is ß~pproved

Tentcdively.The board of King County

Commissioners tentativelyapproved yesterday the hir-;'.ing of a lawyer to handle

legal work for the Jreeho~d.

ers who are redrafting the--County charter.

The board agreed to hirethe firm of Short, Cressman& Cable, John Strasburger.a member of the firm, wilhandle the freeholders work-

Strasburger wil be paid

$24 an hour and other mem-bers of the firm at lesserrates, with total paymentsDot to exceed $10,000.

Before the contract ist~gned, however, the pros~-

cutor was asked to check itand obtain the approval ofthe majority of SuperiorCourt judges. The law re-quires the judges to approvesuch a contract. ~

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Oí'¡reredJohn O'Brien, chairm,m

of the King County Board or .Commissioners, last night,presented free!!oldels with~a p i a n for streamlining',

COllï,ty government. .O'Brien said the opera-:

tion of tlH" count\' could be .

brok,~n dow'1 Ilitò .f¡,'e divi-i; ion s and recommendedposts to head the di\"sions,.They are:

ElDGET Anillyst, CnuntyAdniinistn!cir, PersonnelDiredor, Puhlie Works Di-rl'ctN. and Servi- '; Direc-tor.

O'Brien, ho',i'cvcr, ~aid hethinks there is a need for

full-time commissioners.He said there should be at

least three c,)mmissionersand not more than five.

"I DO~'T think we shouldhave govern. ent by com-mittee." O'Brien said.The commissioner s aid

all but two of the county of-

fices should be eleclive.O'Brien said the County

Clerk should be appointedbv the SllDerior Court andthat the Superintendent ofCounty Schools should alsobe appointive.

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gather information from in- peets of a proposed home-dividuals and groups have . rule charter for county gov-been s c he d u led by the .County Board of Freehold- ernment will be e~couraged,ers but those appearing at the.: .. hearings will be requested to

1 he fm;t will .be held at 10 confine their remarks to thea, m. Sat!r,-day In th~ County subjects under discussionCourtho.use. It. will seek and to submit written state-

~ugg.estions-i on ~ county leg- ments outlining their viewsi~lative b::'-'Y'.,.in,.cIuding the on other matters.size, con,pOSldO.~ of mem- 0 i bl h -bel'S how they should be se- Lier pu ,IC earings arelectdd, duties and whether expected to be called la:ythey should be partisan or " -- .nonpartisan,

The board is studying howto'separate the county's leg-islGtive and administrative.

fUiictions.Thè second hearing is set ~~-~~~._--'~-'~-.'

Jar 7:30 p. m. April 2 in the

Beìlevl1e Public Library. The

subject wiI be the chief ex-

ecutive, his duties and theoffice's relationship to other

l~ ~epaltn:~ts. ~.

¡$el'i_~-f¿rums '¡j Citizens wil be able to speak legislative body, its size, com-

out on proposals for changes in position, selection and duties,

¡ Kin~oun!y gOY,e,i:ruent at two The April 2 forum wil concen-"commipty forus" schedul- trate on the chief executive,"ed by the 15 coy,!tfre_i:~~rs. Meyer said subjects to be

I The first is slatedfor 10a.m. considered at subseq1.nt for-this coming Saturday atthe King urs wil be an.'1ounced later. ;. County Courthouse in Seatte. ;

The second is set for 7:30 p,m. Meyer said, "All major func- 'April 2 at the Bellevue Pulic tions of the county have been

Library. studied, including personal in-At the forus citizens wil be tervews with over 30 depa~t- "

able to express their views on ment heads of the county." ."certain eÌements" of a county The freeholders were e!ected

charter the freeholders are last November to draft a char-working on. said Paul R. Mey- ter for modernization of countyer, executive secretary, govenient. That charter wiìl

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POR) L;\ND - .\ CI)Uiity.....ha rter is a constitution thul~Iinuld deal with the stllll-ture of go\'eniiicnt ¡; wI IlI)tI~gislative mò tters.Orval Etter, a VC'er,in

with the Bureau or Munici-

pal Research in Oregon whoserved as legal aide or cun-

sultant to each of the Oregoncounties that drafted char-

ters, made that plea forbrevity and' simplicity incharter drafting.The Board of King County

Freeholders traveled here

yesterday to learn the tech-

niques of drafting a charterand to find out how they

work The, fuJI-day sessionwas in the Multnomah Coun-

ty Courthouse.

ì\1UITl'Q:IAH CO U N i Ý_ adopted a charter in 1966, It

provide,; for a strong execu-

tive who is elected as chair- iman ot the. five-member i;boarà of commissioners. He iiappoints: all êi e par t men t iheads. with the approval ofthe board. i. M_ James Gleason, chair- !man. was a commissioner ibJfore and after the charter 'went into effect He is in.lhis 20th year. With a fewexceptions, Gleason consid-ers tiie Multnomah Countycharter a modeL. He wouldhave preferred more flex-ibilry in creating and fi-nancin6 special districts toprovidt' water and sanitaryfacilities.Bud Kramer, who worked

for the Association of O.e-gon Counties, on the staff ofthe l\ u i t nom a h Count)'

Board, as an aide to Glea.son, and now sen'es as thecoiint;y's chief ~f centralser1.iLCs. ~laltS flath': "Thed",rier hd~ inipll\'ed couni\'¡;ll\'ernmeiii." .

h:en Ti-iII'lldcir. for seven::f'drS eXl'nlri.':c secrctary of 'in': r\ssor,:I;: 'ion of f)....'ontniirtif'.;; and no\\ \\itfi-íhe'F:lIlca li nl l:iO\ï.'fniiental Re.:-':;~rl.h in (Jre~(Jn.' nt:UiiH~ln;

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GLEASO:\ also opposedcieêl.lion of commi:,sions andbOdl'CI;. "I think gm'eriiieni

by committee is the poorest¡ind weakest kind of go\'ern-ment \i'e can ha \'e."

"When various boards andcommittees are appointed,the commissioners are, in ef-fect. trying to spread theonus of making decisions,".he added.

When the legislative andexecutive functions are divid-ed, Kramer said, the com-missioners stil should befeil-time because part-time

officials not fulIy aware ofday-to-day operations arenOt 'in a position to vote onproblems of county gov~rn-ment. ;. ,"

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Pl.RTL\:-!)-:\l1 ('1('("H.d ("ou:ir\' c:,f'i'l.lii\p to hiL:~'::!"adniinistr;:tion was given a strong - endols('nH~nl hn" :,¡:,-terd;iy.

II rn"de a lasting impression 011 memhers nf th~ Kin;:Count". Freeholders, many admitted later. The frefholdp.J'~came - Ìlere to learn ho\~' county chalJcrs \lere cl~;¡i;~d.adopted and no\\ work in Oregon coiiniil',.

\í. James (;l('ason, chieff':\elduti\'~ and diairJ1¡,n ofthe ì\1u i t nom it h Coiin~y

HOdI'd, iiiged tkit the ad-

l1iiiiistniri\'e effiepr be eic(t-cd. ¡If: said:"It is possible 10 rind ~

teclinÎlally traiiicd person

bt:t it ;" 110t possible, as a

r,11l', to rind " technicallytrclin::d person who has hisroots in the community . . _al1ò i think this is absolutelynecessCi ry,"

1:\ ADOrnO:\ to beingeler'red, the executive shouldhave a voice in the legisla-tive body, either with a voteor veto power to make hisoedsion known hoth to theboard ánd the electorate,Gleason added.

The freeholders learnedt~èse other points:There is a trend in county

~(; cnim~nt toward fewcrelect.;d officials, but thoserlec!'d are partisan.

Cii riel'S should be brief,S:O;~2 8nd allrnl' f1~xibiiity.

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I'm: :;c (heir Illii ¡;)r ¡j,c¡"In)1.'IWi(lre Citlempu;ig ;;ny cli..r-t..r d¡'äfts.

The: exp:'ril:llce in Oï",;:nn

counties sho'.i's no trend -nil\\ hy a diêirU'r p,i,sse.;; nrr,iii:;. And it cippC'arfd tomake lit! It d iff ere ii c ":whether a la l~e campai;~Tl\vC's moul1:ed fnr or agäiO'~;

a cÍicirter. e:l' ,¡:' then' w;i,;, any cömpai~1i ;" alL Elev~ncOl.aties subm i ttui cha J'tee:,in Oregon and four were "p-proved.

The main thin;: is for fret.-hol(krs to tell ti;~¡r stOïV b,'

tel1n~ the public \',hat "it ¡,and what tht'v hooe it wilido, the King - Col!~ry gro:ip

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THE TRANSITION to\cii.lrter go,'ernrnent was rel- :a t i v e i V sl1u0th,' Kramer'said_ Tiie fact that four of

the fi,'e board:members werecommissioners at one timeor another before the char-

ter bo,h helpE'cÌ and hinderedThey had to revise their

thinking to recognize they nolonger were both administra-tors and legislators, he said.The revision of thinking goes 'even deeper.- County relorm is required

. to serve the urban areas,. Gleason said. In charter gov-

eniinent, there must be a re-versal of thinking. Instead of

counties being allowed to do

only those things the Legis-

lature specifically allows,

Gleason noted, officials mustconsi.der that counties mayèo anything unless specifi-c ally prohibited.

B..it, Etter said, tlte char-ter should not spell out indetail what some persons I(on'sider safeguards. For ex- iample, he said; the proce-dures for applying special 'a"sessments should be left toth~ governing body, Thehoard must give adequatenoticE. and hold public hear-i:igs before this type of legis-

. Jation is approved.

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is toward appointive ratherthan elective departmentheads Three Or" four coun-ties elect offcials on a parti-san basis and all are makingstrides toward a county ex-ecutive, usually elected, he

said.Gleason said he believe"

eJected officials should be. partisan.

"Partisanship has to start "some place. Being nonparti- .san makes it much easierf"r the incumbent to be elect-ed because he does not gelthe caliber of opposition," he

said.Part i san s hip, Gleason

said, brings an interchangeof ideas, and competitionbringr out the best. But, he i

. added, "the. day after ploPi'_"

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There aren't too many of this kind ofopportunity that come along, so you mightconsider keeping Saturday morning avail-able.

On that day - starting at 10 o'clock -you'll have an opportunity personally to tellthe 15 freeholders YOll elected last fall whatkind ofa county government you think wéought to ha\'~. The freeholders willìsten toyour views in the Courthouse.

The 15 freeholders have been charged(by you who elected them) with the responsi-bility of drafting a new King County charter.Whatever the freeholders conH: up with wilbe submitted to the voters of the county foracceptance or rejection, presumably nextfalL. This is the second time around on thecharter-rewriting effort. . . the first try wasdumped unceremoniously by the voterssome 10 years ago.

It is expected the freeholders wil holda series of public hearings to get the viewsof all interested before the freeholdersbegin the not-inconsiderable task of com-mitting to paper their com'ictions about thefuture course of county government. TheSaturday session wil be the first of theseries; the second has been scheduled April2 in Bellevue.

The Saturday "community forum" is toc'oncentrate on the county's legislative body.Questions for which answers are sought in-clude the future body's size, composition,how it is to be selected and what duties wilbe assigned to it.

. Freeholders arranging the public ses-- sion said comments on other aspects of the

charter wil be encouraged. However, it \vaspointed out that persons appearing Satur-day wil be requested to concentrate on thematters concerning the county's legislativebody. Those who wish to outlne their viewson other county charter matters wil beasked to submit those statements in writing.

The freeholders have been meetingsemiweekly to learn about present countygovernment, interview more than 30 countydepartment heads and build a base ofknowledge from which they eventually canproject the new image of a charter that w:-'be adequate for the 1970s. .

They even found. occasion for a junketto Portland. Ore., to see how MultnomahCounty had made out in its first year under a"holle-rule" charter_

But most of you readers won't have to

tra\'el anywhere near as far as Portland toget in your Í\vo-bits ,vorth. It's not far toThird Avenue and James Street, the fore-noon starting hour is reasonable. . . and thefree~~lder~!eally need-your advice.

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'~/77 ~~_/. By JERrtY BERGS;\IAN I don't think it would be ap-

propria te,"

Simon W amp 0 I d s;iw"nnthin;: wrong with a gener-al stiitcment."

He s"id, however, the free-holders are not a legislativebut a constitutional body de-

signing a framework of gOY-ernmf'nt."Reg;ird!css of whether

you're for it (open housing)

or against it," Wampoldadded. "that is a legislativematter and not one for thecharter. "

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,bIe, oy countv' "bil of. rights," for tli~ charter itwill propns, tri voters.. The ;!eneral attitude seems

. to b'? that a prcp.mhle wouldhay€' no positive effect and

onlv would ckiract from thechi. rtcr's basic function ofestablishin,; a ìramework ofgovernment.

A PREM~P,LE could in-cIudea. statcment on humanrights, including open ho,is-ing_ '

BuLniost of the freehold-ers said thl'\' could see noreal p'lrposc -in such a st;ite-ment because it would haveno lega i effect.

Jack Geoffrey s;iid a gener-al statement would have toinclude "thousands of things,including open-space goals."

, It woulrl serve little pUlpost',he sairl, "unless we weretrying to design a catch-ill!to attract votes and endorse

. motherhood."A preamble could back-

fire, Lyle R. Schneider said.The omission of any "right,"he said, could be construedas meaning the freeholderscondemned the "right."Rich;ird Albrecht, of the

freeholders, said in disciiss-ing open housing:

"That sort of legislationbelongs in a county resolu-tion or in a legislati\'e proc-

ess but nat in a charter. Itwould not add anything and

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could be included.Terry McKenna was an-

other who felt the idea of apreamhle should not be dis- 'missed outright. "We should, .take a ~ood look at this," he 'said. "We should listen very ,carefully at these publiche8rinr!S."

No r'm 'a n Acklev said:"Some of these things area',vfully important." in light'of possible federal legisla-tion, however, Ackley didnot see much need to write ahuman-rights position intothe charter.

James P. Curran said: "Idon't real1y think a pream-ble would do any good. It'has n,o legal effect, It is notsomething that can be used

as a tool." ,.State and federal constitu-

tions alread\' cover areasthat a preilm"ble would touchupon, Virginia Gunby sa?

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, Updating the Commission~rs' Race

Briefly NotedIf Kenneth Rogstad, King County Republican chair-

man, has it right. four Valley-area frceholders may makea try for the upcoming' Iegislative seats in theirrespective districts next falL. .

These inclulle Howard Bothell, Auburn car dealer,and Terry McKenna, Kent airline pilõt, who areconsidering running for House seats, in the 47thLegislative District. and Bob Eberle, a former legislator,who is considering either a try at the 41st LegislativeDistrict House race, or, possibly, challenging BrockAdams, Seventh District Democratic t:ongressman.

Rogstad, despite his focus on the running battle he'shad over the where, when, and who of Republican -precinct caucuses, has been spending a considerableamount of time attempting to fil the Republicanlegislative ticket.

Besides' freeholders interested in House seats,Rogstad reports s,,'eral others eyeing the race in theValley's three legislati\'e districts. These include ArtKrauser, former Republican area chairman, and JimAtterbury, Boeing engineer. both of whom are consider-ing the House race in the 30th District. In the 4 tst, GeorgeClarke and Brian J. Lewis, Republican Incumbents, areconsidering a try at the new senatorial seat due 'to befilled next falL. So far, Rogstad says. no other Republicanexcept Eberle is on the horizon in the House. '.

Three other candidates besides Bothell and McKennaare reported to be considering the House ace in the 47thDistrict. These include James Topham, who ran pre-viously; Hal Edgar, and Auburn insurance man, and ArtThompson. a Boeing engineer.

Democrats seem to be siower in lining up potential,candidates. According to Jeanette Wiliams. Countychairman, only one Democratic possibilty has emergedIn the 30th: 'Georgette Vally, a former Legislator, and,

, possibly Alva Long, Auburn Attorney. No Democratshave surfaced to challenge Republican control in the 41stor incumbent Democratic control in the 47th to date, shesays....

The eagerness of a great many persons to fie forfreeholder - an unsalaried post with lots of !"orkattached - could be explained. Ed 1\1unro, SecondDistrict commissioner, wryly observed last week, astheir interest in greater, political horizons. Makes sensesince legislative seats are a traditional first step inpolitical careers.

UPD.\TIG TIlE CmDTISSIOXERS' RACE....With Dave !\ooney'" fund.raising dinner due next

weekend, the former Kent ~Iayor's campaign to wrestthe Democatic nomination from ~iunro is off andrunning. So far, ~Iooney seems to be the only oppositionto appear on either ticket. Rogstad is talking to possiblechallengers, but to date no Republican, apparently aWar~of ~liinro's smashingly successful doubi..,hifted dinneriasi month in Scatti~. seems too e~gcr to make the r£.(;(;.

1n the Central District. Rogstad stil is optimistic,John O'Brien, board chairman, wil run again, butinsiders to think the affable Commissioners has his eyeon other things - among them, a possible connection withbig-league sports. That is, after the new stadium isoHicially in the works and the big leagues have exercisedtheir options. 0' Brien is we\l liked among his Courthousecolleagues ana wouia be a cinch to hold his seat if hedecides he wants it after alL.

Whether O'Brien is in the race or not, Democrats areeyeing possible candidates for their sides of the ticketincluding, Charles (Streetcar) Carro\l, a city councilman:who polled a staggering victory in Seattle's municipalelections; M. J. R. (Mel) Wiliams, county treasurer, whohas est!,blished a reputation for deft handling of hiscounty iob; and James Dore, Seattle district judge. Dore~as been mentioned as a Demo possibilty for other spotsIn the past..whether he would make a try this time wouldprobably depend on the opposition and availablefinancing. Lok for a possible surprise entry in the personof an aide on the Seattle municipal scene. I's underwraps now...but Seattle'sMayorDorm Braman's decisionIn another term (chances are it's yes) wil np a factorBRIEFLY NOTED.... ' .

Robert Kull, Demo State Chairman. back tomorrowafter sDendinir last week in Washinirton, D.C., conferrinir

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The V'lay They Are: Q/BrienJohn O'Brien, chairman of the

Board of King Count~. Commis-sioners, joined the parade ofcounty officials appearing be-fore the freeholders last week todiscuss what they should doabout his job. The group isengaged in writing a new countycharter. .If he has hi way (and his

words were well-heededWedr.esday night) he'd leavethings in the County Commis,sioners' offce pretty much asthey are.

In the process, he predicted itmight be necessary to adopt a"Metro" approach to the prob-lems of solving surface drainage_ now plaguing many portionsof the Valley floor.

Lamenting the failure of theForward Thrust proposal to pro-vide funds for storm drainage,

O'Brien said the county hasinsuffcient funds to handle thejob that needs to be done.. ,evenwith available funds from othergovernental levels.

"It may not be another Metroas we now know it, but I believe

. we should explore the same typeof basic regional approach tosolving this urgent problem,"O'Brien stated.

As for the job he's held for thepast eight years, he has somepretty specific ideas as to howthe freeholders should tackle it.

He believes no less than threeconimissioners (at present) andnot more than five would besuffcient to handle the coiinty'~business. . .th.1 ~W should befu\l-time offciais elected coun-ty-wide and they should beelected on a parisan basis.

In fact, the former big leaguesports champ said, he is of theopinion all county offices exceptthe clerk and superintendent ofschools could and should beelected, including the cornòner.

"There's alwavs an element ofpolitics in gover~ent. . ,andmakng the elections non-parti-san won.t remove it," O'Brien.notably apolitical, stated. He didobserve however, that he was ofthe belief there was not as muchof the spoils system in KigConty politics as most peopleimagied, stating that he, a

. Republican. had on many occa.sions made long-service awardsto county employees survivingat the Court House because of,merit, not politics.

O'Brien said many of theadministrative problems nowconcerning the three commis-sioners would be eliminated by

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Surprisingly, in view of thefact they are concerning them-

selves with the problem of howbest to streamline the county'sadministrative functions. free-holders had litte to say about

the O' Brien plan other than toquestion him closely concerninghis feelings of a larger board ofcommissioners with purely leg.islative functions. At present.the Board serves in executive,legislative, and quasi-judicialfunctions."i feel a larger board could

result in individual commission-ers protecting the interests of 2particular segment of the coun.ty," he stressed. "As the boarcis presently constiuted. I thin~all three commissioners worlfor the best interests of all thicounty despite the fact they artelected in the primaries fronone specific district."O'Brien said if he had hi~

choice he would delegate som,of the commissioners' present

duties - including bid openingsand rezoning appeals. As for thelength of commissioners' tei:m"he believed the present fouryear term was reasonable.

'Aclally, that's not as lon,as it seems. When you're sittin,there, it seems to come e';er)two days," he quipped.

O'Brien noted there were aleast 30 persons employed b:King County who receive mor.than the $15.00.

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MAR 6 1968

. tx-DaTlas Man to Handle. .' I. ! 'iFreeholder Lega/'T as!(sA lawyer who came to Seattle

four years ago from Dallas,! Texas, wil be reconuended tothe county Board of Freeholders

. tonight as the attorney to handle· its legal responsibilities in draft-, ing a neVi countv charter.i ~ -I He is John Strasburger, Belle-vue who \vas the unanimous

: choice of the freeholders' attor-. ney-selection committee.. Strasburger. 30, is a member. of the Seattle law firm of Short,,Cressman & Cable. His selec-. tion, which is expected to bei approved by the full group- tonight, was a turndown for1 Prosecutor Charles O. CarrolL.~ Carroll had sought to preserve a

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prosecutor from his own staff ora former deputy.

The selection also was a sur-prise to all three county com-

missioners, each of whom hadfavorites waiting in the wings

they probably would havepushed if they had been con-sulted.

Despite this, it is expected allthree commissioners wil concurin Strasburger's nomination,which is considered likely attonight's meeting. Strasburgerhas not taken part in politicalactivities since moving toSeçittle. ,': .

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The 15 King Countyfrcehol-ders have been meeting twice

weekly to learn more about

county government.All major functions of the

city ha\'e been studied, includ-ing personal interviews with

over 30 department heads of

the county.

Building a base ofknowlcdgeabout the existiig operation of

county government is as im-portt as knowin what newform of government wil workbest. Included in the process

of building a better system

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All major functions of the county havebeen studied" including personalinterviews with over 30 department headsor the county.

Buildin:5 à b3. e of knowledge about theexistin¡; vpt'ratIün of county government isas im¡ .1.:it a~ i-owing what new form ofgoi.'erni,ient wil work best. Included inthe process of building a better system wilbe a visit to l\ultnomah County. Oregon,,to study how Oregon's largestmetropolitan center has fared with a yearor home rule under its governmental béit.

The freeholders. at their last businessmeeting on February 23th, adopted afuture work schedule which includes twocommunity forums - the first tobe held

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at Belle\'ue's Public Librciry. .

At the community' i;):'l:,''f:..tizens ofKing County wiI be abie.to express theirviews to the freeholje~s about certain

elements of the charter. The March 16th ~

forum \",il concentrate on the legislative'body, it's size, composition, selection andduties.

Comments on other aspects of thecharter wiI be encouraged, but personsappearing at the forum wil be requested'to concentrate on the legislative body andto submit written statements outlningtheir views on other matters.

The April 2nd forum wil concentrate onthe chief executive. Subjects to beconsidered at subsequent meetings wiI beannounced later.

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County, Oregon, this conugSaturday, to study how Ore-gon's largest metropolitancenter has fared with a year

of home rule under its gov-ernmental belt.

The freeholders, at theirlast business meeting on Feb-ruary 28th, adópted a future

work schedule which includestwo community forums -- the

. first to be held on 11arch 16that the King County courJiouse,and the second on April 2i~d atBellevue's public library.

At the community forums,

citizens of King County wilbe able tn express their viewsto th;-freeholders about cer-

tain elements of the charter

The March 16th forum wilconcentrate on the legislativeboy, it's size, composition,

selection and duties.

Comments on other a'spectsof the charter wil be encour-agd, but persons appearL'1g at

the forum wil be requestedto concentrate on the legisla-

tive boy and to submit written

statements outlining theirviews on other matters.

The April 2nd forum wilcóm:entrate ~n the chief exe-cutive. /

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MAR i 3 19æ

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'i Freeholders Plan r-orum.s ..._ --- ", hace been studied. indudin~ whii.h mlcudes (wo cômmüfi~

111(: 15 Kine. ~'i).unt~. rreeolders per:-i)nal interviews with O\"er 30 torums ~ the rirst to .be h~ld o~ha'"e been meeting twli'e wt'kly to department heads or the county. :\::Jrch 16th at the King Count~ .le:Jrn more ôlblJut i'ounty The Freeholders. at their last Courthouse. and the second ~n

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Count" Commissioner Ed1\1 u n r'o yesterday urr;edfreeholders to con solid atecit~. and county go\'ernm entin King County. ,

Mum'o spoke prior to thefreeholders' first in a se riesof public forums desig'nedto gi"e groups and indiddu-als the ch¡¡nce to air l heirviews on a new co'Jnt)'charter."There should be but one

governing bod y inKingCounty," Munro said. ,

"You should be bold inyour approach. Consclida'tion is coming, whethel youpeople do it or not.". '

ASKED IF the freehold-ers had the. power to consol-idate go\'rnment as hi' sug-gested. Munro replied:"You can get remedial

legislation from the s1 atelegislature if necessary."

Munro sug;:ested a legis,lative boà\' of at least nine

members: drawing a salaryof a minimum of $1.000 permonth, and an elected exec-uti\'e offcer' with a salaryof at least $20.000 per year.

"These salary fizures areabsolute miniinuiìis," hesaid. "I'd like to see them alot ¡'jgher."

The commissioner pro-" posed 21so th¡¡t the offcials

be partisan, full-time, ,servefour-year staggered termsand be nominated bv theirdistricts ann elected 'by the

county as a 'shole. ..,"

T~ S()!XE the problem ofeliniination of job snowhpJd b\' ejected coi.nty andcity officials, ;lIunro sug.

ge~t~d those offcials be ap.pomted to the legislativebody unti their terms of of-fice eX'pir~.

'.;ri~ -is' a concession lipolitical reality," he ~aid.

At the open forum, speak,ers representing major or,ganizations-and a few whospoke only for themselves

-recommended expandingthe legislath-e body. Thegeneral feeling was that aH~r£c-man b(':il-Ò of Çnrn-niis,ioners could not ade.quately serve the county.

Kine memèers' was thafigure most agreed upiin,but that ran g e d up\i'¡¡rd

from 11 to one proposal for32 or 50.

ORGANIZ.\ TJONS heardfrom included the League ofWomen "oters, the "'lunici-pal League. Shoreline Com-munity De\'eiopment Coun-cil, Vashon CI\-ic Associa-

tion. Associated Clubs ofthe "orth End anf the Fed-eral Wa\' COllniunii\' Coun-

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By JERRY BERGSi\ANElection of county com-

missioners by districts yes-t~rday got its strongesthoosl so far in thc de\'clop-

ment of a county chartcr.Lack of represcntation in

county gO\'frnment was thcchief complaint from manyof those who spoke at apublic hcaring befor~ theBoard of Freeholders. Nomi-nation and ëiëtion of com-missioners b\' districts wasseen as the answer.

Commissioners now arenominated by district butelected in county-wide ballot-ing.

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SEVERAL fre e hol de rssupport the district - repre-sentation plan. Don Mc-Donald and Norman Ackleyboth are giving considera-tion to provisions that wuld

place commmssioner£ in thesame boundaries as statelegislators.This hearing, on the func-

tion and form of a countylegislative body, was thefirst of several the freehold-

ers plan. 'Richard Albrecht, chair-

man, said the second wil beheld on a oounty administra-

tOI at 7: 30 p. m. April 2 inthe Bellevue public library.Ohers wil be scheduled onco~nty-elected officials, fi-nance and budget proce-dures, a personnel system,and initiative, referendumand recall procedures.

Coiimunity clubs yester.day were concerned mainly\\ilh lack of representation

. In county government.Jim Haase, of the Federal

Way Community Club, COn-tended "the fact we are I:seeking incorporation as acity makes it obvious iv" feel Imore repFesentation is need-ed." , i

Mrs. Miner Baker of theCom m u n i ty DevelopmentClub of Shoreline, RobertVan Devanter of the VashonCivic Assembly, and GlennBattson of the AssociatedClubs of the North End .werE in agreement. 'Art Brown, a systems ana-

lyst at the Boeing Co., and amember of the MunicipalLeague and Community De-velopment Club of Shoreline.Frl,nk Matz, a civil enginee~

and Municipal Leag~e mem-ber; and Dr. Brantley Holt,Jr.. a member of the Munici-pal League, strongly en-dorsed a districting plan.

THE Municipal Leagueh~d ~upported nomination by

d,stricts and county-wideelctions.

Brown contended districtelections would promote res-ponsÍ\..en~ss by making thecommissioner mOre accessI--ble to the people he repre-sents, increase the probabili-

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san elections with a provi-sion to allow a candidate to

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Sheriff Jack Perter todaystrongly urged that his posi-tion continue to be elective.Porter. suggested, how-

ever, that a cuunty inal1èlger

could be given authority todirect the fiscal and record-

keeping functions of theSheriff's Dep,irtinent.

"In this manner, Portersaid in a statement for theCounty Board of Freehold-ers, "\ve would have an ex-pert in business matters di-recting the norma i bilsil1essfunctions of the departmentand an expert in police ad-ministration dirccticg themany functions of law en-forcement. "

By contrOlling budget plan-ning, office equipment, pur-chasing, comp~,ter work andvehicle-equipment manage-ment, the county manager"could coordinate these ac-th.ities with those of othercounty departments and thusassure an economical and ef-fective county-wide opera-tion," Porter said.

The elective sheriff, hesaid, would make policy de-cisions affecting law enforce-ment.

A survey by the Nationalì\lunicipal League of 41 coun-ties with appointed countymanagers shows that 40 õfthem have elected sheriffs.The exception is ì\lulmoinahCounty in Oregon, which thefreeholders will visit Satur-

day. 'Porter quoted Peter J. Pit-

chess, elected sherif of Los

Angeles CGunty, as saying:"There is no officer in coun-ty government who has agreater responsibilty or whomore directly tcuclies thelives, rights and liberties ofindividual citizens than thesheriff, "Porter said policy deci.

sions touch on such things asth\"rnetr.c:! of handling ju\-e",niles. use of time, assign-

ment and demeanor of depu-ties and prisoner-rehabilita-tion programs.If administration for the

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Sheriff's Dcparlrncnt were tobe phli:ed in the hands of ab:Jsinl'ss administrator, "thefinal autlio1-ity for all deci-

sions would rest in the handsof a man who is not electedby thp. people and responsiveto their wishes and, moreimportan.tly, a man whowould be totally without anyexperience, training or edu-

(;JUon in la\'. -enforcement"ncll1ii1istldtiun," he s'iic!.

Porter Solid a sb;rirr needsto have experience in lawenforcement and police ad-min.istration and a close con-t"ct with the community andits leaders "to insure thatconiniunitv needs are reflect-ed in ti~e dicision-makingprocess. "

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County Commissioner EdMunro suggested today thatan\' elected offcial whosejob is abolished by a Chartershould be made a commis-sioner on an expandedb02.rd.The noyel proposal was

made to the Board of Free-holders, which is drafting aCharter. He !'aid this shouldhappen if there is an electeùexecuti\'e and CounciL.

"Ii you make them (othercl"ct~d oliicials) appointed,"i\lun;o said, "let the int'um-

bent~ be members of theCouncil on the first round."This would run until the endof their present terms, in19iL.l\!unro, president of the

National Association of Coui1-

ty Officials, was quick topoint out that this pro\'sion

would not affect him. HisteeTI expir~s this year.

HI DON'T THI~I( vouha\ e any more right to abol-ish' their jobs than they haveto a bolish yours," l\lunrosaid. He also noted that theelected officials' experience

is needed and that all re-ceived high ratings from theMunicip2.! LeagUE:.

To pass a Charter, someconcessions must be made to"political reality," ;\lunro

added. "r don't think this is'much of a concession," hesaid,

Munro's main point wasthat the freeholders shouldbe bold in their approachand consu1idate government,

He reels only Oiie. go\'cm-ment shoulrl (\n?ratf' in Kin"

C' ", on H''t ';'\'~./i jß jfederal governments as anequal partner."

THERE ARE legal ques-tions about this approGch, heconceded, but said actioncan be taken bv the 19Ci9Legislature to sol\'e that.

Except in impro\'em.;nt oithe chain of command, effi-ciency will not be increased

merely by shuffling officesaround, he said. Consolida-tion of government is re-quired.

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cd. "If not by you, then bythe next (6 r 0 U P offreeholders) ,"

Munro c a I i c d for anelected execlltive, full-time,partiEan comm issioner withfour-year terms and a legis-lative body expanded to atleast nine members. He suit!partisan elections tend tomove elections away frompopularity contests and re.duce the power or the bu-reaucracy.

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ri~ . .. I LJ\r\Un~Ci;Ja eagueBy Ji:~ly~JGSl\lAN arately and establishin;! his league said. The asscssor making policy. It called for ing responsibility involvingAppointment of all county own methods of admini~tra- . should be appointed by the splitting the auditor~s func- the 11"'1'1 of law edor~emei1t

officials except the commis" tion. "an ovcr-a!! goal is dif- administrator with approval tions into nor.fisacl jobs, to sl'fluld be trdnsferred to ansionprs and possibly the ficult to establish. Co:irdinat- of the legislative body, it be done by the officers re- ei~ctcd cO'int\' executive orcounty administrator was cd effort or planning also is said. The lea;!ue called for sponsible to the adminis\ra- the legis¡"tive body, the ;recommended today by the difficult to achie\'e." study of a medical-examiner tor; pre audit functions of le:;t:ue s~id. ¡1\lunicipal League. "King County is not likely syste mto replace the coro- checking expenditures bc!ore Commissioners should be

The league, in a report to to escape from new and larg- nero thev are made bv the de- full-time, nominated by db. . ¡-be submitted to the Countv er demands for services for p a -rt men t s invòlved, and tric: and i;ed,~d at large as IBoard of Fr(eholders:- programs. With its present THE LEAGUE conter-ded po~t-audit fu~cti('ns by an t1:2\' ace no\\, according to Jn¡ghl:-l.;l-ei~êöñ1l11rlida- structure, King County'" is assess.ed valuation is a mat- auditor arpointed by the leg. the~ lcar.i~~. 1tion on Wheih~,. the oifices poorly equipped to antici- ter of judgment, but that the islative body. A p~rsnn;'eI 5ystem undershould be part;,an. The fn,e- pate, plan for and perfoi'm a~~e~sor is not involved in The shrr-¡ff's J"lic~'-mak- the aòr.,ini,trator w 0 u I dholders are draitin~ a char. the ta~ks and functions nec. 'i~--~ --_. --_.. -;~:,~~~~~.~~i~~'c:~";~I.ë¿6~-..~;;.i~ter to chan;;c the sfructure essary in the years ahead." ,

of county goveniment. The league said the admin- .¡strator ,¡,ould have veto I

THE LEAGUE called for power O\'er legislation. He Iseparation of the lr;;islative would be the central authori- I

tions. expansion of the ty responsible for adminis- :.Board of Coumy Com mis- tration. Isioners alO at least seven .members, creation of a per- TH EEXECUTIVE, the re- I~C'nnel svstem under the port said, would coordinate I,count\' administrator and an all county services, develop'iombrdsman to be a watch- cooperation between depart- ,åo;; for the public. ments and with other agen-

The recommep.datÌ!ln on des, eliminate administra-election of coiint\' 011icials tÌ\'e duplication and recom-

applied to eXi,tini positions. mend policies, programs,f'O Tec¡iinmcnnation was priorities and objectives.mare on the position of coun- The lc~¡;ue oumned altcr-tv administrator. John Por- nate county-manager planster has been appointed to in which the ?d:'iinistrator isth;¡t new post and will take appoi~(ed by and responsible

office ~'lärch 25. to the legislative body and inThe report calls for pro\'- which the executive is elect.

sions for recall of elected of. ed. However. the leagueficials and ior the ini!iati\"e made no choice is made be-and rcferendLn1 proct~scs. tween the two.

The report follows a year- While the prosecutor's of-Jon~ studv under Gordon fice is constitutional andCo¡;Qer, ehairman of the_ cannot be chan¡;ed by char-league's COuniy Go\'ernment ter, the I e a g 11 e rccom-Committ!?. It is aI:,ed at me~dcd admini,trative andproviding inf"rmation with- leQisl"ti,'e bodies be author-out tryirg to de the frcebold- ized to employ their owners' job for them, a league legal advis~rs. The pmsccu-srnl;esman ,,,id. tir now provides legal ser\'-Parts of the rfrort are so ice for all county depart-

inler~-clR~cd. the spo~esman mcnts.sdiò. that Rny chan::e in one

provision ,,,'''uld require a re- The league c"lkd for ap-view of the others. p"intment of the c!lroner,sherif. cIerI;, as,essor and

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A .. SliiC2ltr !.!dn1:nisLrat~vehead 2.nd~ a bUc!C'i't th;it de-tails programs ratlier thanni::nb::t' of c!:1ploycs wClCli~tcd last c\,i;:i:ng as needsfor county go\'ernment.

Richard Tr()-:bridge, who\\':s b1:åget director for Ior-mer COL:ntv CommissionerScott Waiiãcc and bdorethat a Couii!:ou:"e re¡Jorter

for The Tim:s, made thesesi:?gest¡oi~s to the Board ofFreeholders.

Commissioner Ed 1\1;'1 :'0will speak to the frcf.:hcilc:ersat 9 a. m. Su.tC!rdav b2foft' a

public b'aTing on- a coiintvlegisbtiye body. The hearingwil be in Room 40:? of theCourthouse. Benr\, Sidelialso a fcnn8r b\..dÙet diréc-tor for Wallace and now anaiòe to United States Repre-

senLÜive B~'ock Ad:in1s, isscheduled to speak nextmonth.Freeh"ider;; are holding

he:iiT" -æJ orient:tiol1 ses-sions ~in preiJaratlon fordraaing a co;,nty ebrter.

Trowbridg=, who no\\ hasan administrative position atthe University of Washing-ton, said the county's struc-

ture is the' root of manyprob!ems. The county cam~otrra:1s1ate plans into ei -"ctiveaction because the "pFsentstructure does not pro,,'ideadequate mana~eme:!t," hesaicì.

"The fact so much d0€sget d(ln-i is ~ tïihute to thededication of the county em-ployes," he said in c.aIlingfor a single aåministrator.

Unler the existing plan

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commissioners are involvedboth in making laws and ad-ministerin!' them.

Trowb'ridge urged per-forma;i::,, bud;ets tii:it pin-pljint plans, Iong-r::nge bt.dg-cis, full-time commissio;ler,:

and election of the execu-tive.

There was a sharp ex-chan2'c between Don Mc-Dona~id. a freeholder, andGordon Conger, chairman ofthe Municipal Lengue's Coiin-ty Gov."rnment Üirnmittee,

The league submitted rec-on.mendations on county re-org;:niIL.ation but did not" takea stand on. whet1~er the elec-

tive offices should be parti.san. Ì',IcDonald demanded tokn0'.i why the league lud

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MAR 7 1968

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baC'l;'d frQm a p8SltCn ofe:~clols¡iig nonpartisan poli-tics on the local leve!.

Con~,(:r said: "It is fair to

sav tl~2re '.~rns no Ul18.niniItvon' \rI~etilC' pnr¡¡s~!ii or Iloñ.

parlis:m go\'em:ne;-t s2rv~d

the bterests or local gov-ernment in the bc:st \,'ay. WecOllsicC'rcd the values ofboth,"

It was felt, he said, thatpartisan politics in local gov-ernment is important by pro-viding groups that take. i, ,stonds on issues an.d assist (in the orderlv solution ofproblems. But: he added, "itwas felt that historically in .

, I(ing COUllty political paítiesbye not plaYéd an ac~-role in this process." /" ....

tai elements of the new char-

ter they have been chanedto present to th voters inN~v_ember. .The Bellevue foru wil;'

concentrate on th Chef execu- I

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administrator, who plans to make this his life's work,feels a higher trust to truth, honesty, the public's good

and himself and would rather be fired than to betraythat trust.

There are many appointed county administrators,particularly on he East coast and in California, whohave shown this to be the best form of county govern-ment. The appointed administrator works \vell in cities.port authorities, hospitals, public i:tilty dist;'icts, sch?oldistricts, and in water and sewer districts. \\ hy not w1thcounties?

This letter refers to your May 6. 1968, editorial,"Freeholders' Dilemma," wherein you recommendedthat the proposed King County Administrator be electedwith certain stipulations. These were minimum educa-tion and experience levels, You, also, suggest that resi-dency re(iuirements be liberal so that people throughout

the country could be candidates. _As an interested observer from a distance I cannot

help but feel your recommendations. although wellmeant, are unworkable. How many educated, experi-enced people would leave a job in Seatte, lct alone Kan-sas City, San Diego or Cincinnati, to run for election IIlSeatte?

Dave Rowlands, City l\!Rnager of Tacoma, has beensuggested for the position. Do you think he would quithis job to go to Seatte to campaign for the position?

He would have no organization or campaign funds tohelp him. If he didn't quit his present job, he certainlywould be fired. .

WOL'LDX'T IT BE much better to have an appoint-e.d, 9ualified administrator, not with minimum quali-fications, but with the best qualifications that could beobtained? I assume if he didn't work out he could befired.at any regular meeting just like any ~ity manager.

You state that there should be a separation betweenth~ legisl~ti\:e. and administrative functions. Any ap-pointed . auministrator feels a strong obligation to goalong with the bod.)' that appoints h.im, but a professional

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MAR 1 s 1969

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THE I\lunicipal Le8gue gave unsoundadvice to the King County freehold-ers last week whenïtrëcoáimc-i1dcd tlíeappoi-rtment of all county officers ex-cept commissioners and perhaps thecountv administrator.

It \vould be unsou'1d for the proposedcounty charter to permit the Board ofCommissioners to appoint the auditorwho would check the commissioncrs'coiiduct of count\' business. The audi-tor's office must'maintain its independ-ence and be responsible only to theelectora te.

The office of assessor also must be

;)eattle, Wash,Post-I ntelligencer

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MAR 1 7 1963

Jlllen ~ P. C. B. Est. 1888

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L · f ·OJrerl ngA county ordinance mak-

ing it a inisdemeanor to loi-ter under suspicious cir-cumstances was adopted

f ~1 0 n day by county com.1 missioners,1 In other actions, com mis-. ,: SlOners:

.~ - Referred to the county;: park department petitions':~ by 3_316 voters asking that

:: a public swimming pool be:~ buil at Issaquah urder the~~F'orward Thrust program. .:: - Referred to budget di-

:~ rectors petitions by 1,857

::: residents of the Federal~~~ Way area callng for enact-

::: ment of a dog-leash law::: for the county.:~:~ - ApPOinted D 0 u g 1 a s:::: Warne of 12548 SE 73rd St.,t R e n ton, a Kent school:::: teacher, to the King County:::: Fair Board. .~::? - A p pro V e d hiring of

:) John H. Strasburger as at-::~ tornev for the Fre2holders~::~ at S2- an hour up to a ceil-., ing of SIO,OO. .-:

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lnwi,./i of COllII:_" ~IiI''nrllr(/: 10 i'-eep

iI", /ill/!'I''S of .~I'iiii.~ '('I'"s üf properlyIrixlliOlI s('f/rirril(' frii/l ilie ('xf/('iirli/ilre

polli'rs of 11,(' cOllliis.,ioli('rs. Oilier-il'i.~e, properly taxr" Il'ult! take off liken r/)('l."'.

The ivrunicipal League's recommen-dations for appointive office may lookgood in theory. But they surely would,be proved faulty in practice. If the free-h()lders shòuld follow the League's ad-vice, their proposed charter doubtlesswould be defeated at the polls-as itshould be, ~

Renton, Wash.Record Chronicle

(Cir. W. 19,180)

M~R 1 7 1958

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"'F-~~-~holdors lJ1eeting Officials-. t'From Other Am2riccm Countries

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By Our County News Bureau public hearing wil ~e held in the IThe County. Board of Free- Valley cities. The first was held i

holders wil meet with a series Saturday in the King Countyof national county offcials dur- Courthouse and the second wil ìing the next ten days, Richard be held April 2 at the Bellevue

Albrecht, chairman, said Fri- Public Library. ./day.

The freeholders have beeninterviewing numerous countyoffcials during the past weeks,

including Ed Munro, countycommissioner, who appearedbefore them Friday.

Ths wil be the freeholders ,opportunity to consult with na-,tionalleaders in county govern-

ment Albrecht declared.,wong those who wil be 1

meeting the board are Wiliam' c.llen's p,C.B.Allen chairman of the Toronto 1tCan~da) Council, Bernard Hi!- ilenbrand, executive director of :the national association of coun- ities and Ed ~lichaelian. county

offi~ial of Westchester County, iNew York. tThe freeholders are meeting l

on a twice-a-week schedule on a f

stepped-up work program be-fore writing their first charter adraft. Those stil to be inter- vviewed include Ralph Stender, ¡:deputy clerk of the county ~om- fmissioners, and Henr Seidel,budget director for Seott W~-lace, former county commis-' ..sioner, and administrative cutive. .assistant to Co.igressman Brock ie The first forum, held lastAdams. It Saturday in King County CourAlbrecht said no decision had L. .

been made as to whether a trurd

Bellevue, Wash.American

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Est. 1888

FreeholdersPublic ForumHere April 2

..1''1The sêcond in a series ofpublic forums wil be held by

the King County Freeho!deri=.at the Be1Ië\"uê1íc Ubrai_on April 2 at 7:30 p.m. House, concentrated on th.

The forum will concentrate county legislative body. focus.on the subject of the cruef exe- ing on such 'issues as its size

method of selection, partisanship versus non-partsanshi¡:

compensation and duties.

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alOur County !'ews Bureau ' local lel'el that could handle and al !iii'ge in the general cluded spokesmen for the cities present at the span;,

Thc dean of thc county's area.wide problems on an area. elecCion as at present. They Seatte.

King C

ounty Alunicipal attended hearing. A

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is- wide basis. . should be paid no less than L

eague, the Com

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e, public hearing has besjoiicrs and an acknowl. "I don't care ,,:hether t~is $1,000 monthly, and should velopment Club of Shoreline. scheduled for April 2 at t

d d t ial tl .'t local gOl'ernment is a muniei- Serve staggered terms for four the Vashon Civic Assembly', Bellel'ue Public Library. Si

e g~ ~a 101 t' au hOllla pal gO"ernment or a county years, ~iunro said, and the Associated Clubs of pending is a decision whetli

on OIl, couii ies s OU government: The important The commissioner empha. the North End. the board will call a heari

be opt:rated last week thing is that it ,be one govern-sized that an adequate salary' There were no representa. in the Valley. ,

met with c?unty free- ment," Mlinro emphasized, He be paid to the county's legisla. /..--

holdcrs to discuss what pOinted out that this fragmen, (¡ve body, .. "

he felt should be in the talion has produced duplica, "Government must not shut

new county charter, tion and confusion and pre, out persons w

ho are not. vented the local level from wealthy from holding elective

As far as E

d 1\unro is con- assumiiig its full share of gov. office," he declared. "B

y payce,:ncd (and his ~

"oi-ds cany ernmenlal responsibilties as ing couiity legislators, com

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weight because he s als.o presi- an equal partner with state sioners, or whate\'er they are

dent ,of the potent National and federal levels. . finally called, anything less

Association of Counlies) free. "I think it's coming whether than a living wage. freeholders

ho!ders have noth,ng t? lose by you people do it or not," he will preclude any but w

ealthybeing bold ab?ut theil' Job. predicted. persons and self,serving repre,

"It's ~ot going to be easy to' "ote F

or Ruler sentatives of large business or

pass t~i~ c~arter no malte:. h.ow

Munro called for a county corporations from

holding of-go.od it iS, he declared. .. au executive, to be paid between fice.

micht. as well make ~t. as far. S20,OOO and 'S25.000 yearly, "I don't believe this leads

reaching and as efficient as He should be an elective offi, to proper representath'e gOY-

you can," . cíal because, as he put it, "I ernment:' he declared.

1\unro counseled board mem

, like to vote for the man w

ho County governm

ent also.bers they should strive to rules m

e," should be a partisan affair,aehie,'e unity in local govern. The county's legislalive body, 1\unro believes, to a\'oid the

ment w

hich. he said, does not whether called com

mission, popularity contests often S

eenexist in its present fragm

ented county council, or whatever, in nonpartisan elections and 10

state. To do this, he said, free-should be com

posed of at least reduce the power of bureauera.

holders should consider a nine rnembe,rs elecled in Ihe cies, .

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roposedM

unro proposed thaI present.ly elected county ofleials be-

come autom

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should be t:lected or~ J '7 -I 'appoinlive, he said there

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odernization county reorganization plan is approved should be som,:. coneessio~

'tI' tl t f . h ld . made to the realities of POlitl.

of Kina County °overnment mioht Wi lIn ie. n~x ew years s ou, sei ~e i l'

'" b Ö as commissioners at least until their ca i e.

well result in abolition of several elec- norm

al terms expire in 1971 "T

here are pl.a~es w

here' .... C., . Ed 'r . . '. you can make political conces,

tive positions, omm

issionei h unro Tiiis proposal 1/1',,"s lI/lxed bless. sions and it seem

s to me this

~as . sugKes.ted that any official w~o~e iugs: ,.'~Oll a prUl'I/ui/ Blllldi'~i:ll. "1,,/ is one of

them. There are olhers

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om- ii/gIii heli, 10 iieiilm

lizc uii)' IJUlitic(d or should be m

ade," he warneú.

'. missioners. oppo.-tiO

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i iiiciiirl.ciii off/celio/i. Munro said he favors som

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mong various proposals now

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t'Prlill'lll ot'er.,! sarI of county personnel sys-

study by the Board of F.rçeIi9.lders, such Iiaiii. :iiicli ,op/,o..iliolt 1m

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lc/or illd tem, but he. said effciencies

elective posts as clërk, treasurer, cor- the t'olers' r"je,'lioli of a dUlr/"r plolll! and econoniies in county gov-

oner and the like would either be elim

- offered iii 1952, . ernment occur not so m

uch¡nated or be m

ade appointive. Yet elected offcials are accustom

ed from a m

erit or civil.serviceB

ecause a county charter is stil to risking their jobs at intervals andl system as the r~

sult of ac.ivi-SOme time off, however, all elective what Munro is suggesting would be al ties of

the county slop adminis.

offc~s \~il be fi~ed in tI~e normal nove!, form o,f, _"~nemp!oyin~nt in~~ir-~ tr~~~~è pUbÌic hearing follow-

fashion In next Novem

ber s genera) ance for polltlel3.nS w

li? \iould, tind, ing ~lunl''S

remarks, m

ost ofei~ction. ,Munro thinks thos,e J?en ,:vho themselves headin ¡ nonexistent units of' Ihe speakers favored an en.

:,. L will be dispossessed of their Jobs if a county government. _. __'._ _..-i larged county legislative bOdy

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. to legislate county businesses.I At present. the Board of

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ig Lobe. repre,

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rull" Time, ()fficialsf\lf1/açled for County

./ I ïBy Jumy BERGS;\1AN sÏ(iner Clayton Nyberg, and

Dick Mil b rod t, countymanager.C I) U n t y commissioners

should serve full-time even ifthey are restricted to Jegisla- !\lRS. WILCOX said it isti\'e functions, the Board of inipOliant to have cOl1mis-King..COL)nty_._Fl.ce11oJQ~1:. sions and boards in advisOl)'was told yesterday. . . . capacities but questioned the

Elton Haut, a political-.sci- , concept of the planning C011-enee teacher ~n? part-time mission.c?unt;r COJ1I~lISSlOner from Simon Wa in pol d, a\\ ~shii~ton County, \?regon, freeholder, favors abolishing

said. failure to ~rovide f?r the planning commission andf~ill-time,. ,','ell-paid. COl1mJS- having appeals go directlysioners lS the r.iajor weak- from the technical staff toness in his county's charter. the CO lint\' commissioners.

Mrs. \\;iJcJX supported theconcept. Noting that the(ountv commissioners !i¡¡\,cthe f¡¡ial say on zoning any-lIay, Mrs. Wi!cn\ c!e,cribi.'dthè pLinning commission asa buffer het\\'cen the public

and elected officials.

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i~iocracy demands that thebroadcst se~nient of the p0p-idation be represented,"

Frecliolàers heard strongpleas for an appointed ad-

ministrator, a ",dl-organized

campaign to promote thecharter the\' wil draft andappointment by the commis-sioners rather than the ad-minLtr:itor of key offcials,

W:isliington County, withDJ.OOO population. is west of

Portland. It has a number ofcitics. including Bea\'crton

¡¡:,d Hillsboro, but no central

core citv.Otlicrš \'JIO spoke here

\'CSkïdu\' were 1\1rs. Bar-bara Wilcox, a former Wash-i!1"lon Count\' Co;,imissioncra¡;d l1n\Y c~;cL\11 i\'c sCtTcLiry)f Oïu;on Gov. Tom 1\1('-Call's Committee 011 Inter-~o\'ernnienta\ Conorchi¡!tÌ\iii;\":asliij,~I~JI C(l:nty (omiiis-

IlAUT, NYBERG ;iiit! :-1\1-brodt ¡¡ II supportcd t he ideaof an appointed rather than

('1eckd. administrator. Theysaid cippointnicnt makes theadministrator respon~ib)(~ to

the board, prewnts one manfrom becoming too pmi crlu!and priwides the apport unityto recruit professional peo-

ple.An elected ewcuti"e, ¡;,iut

addi:d, \\oud h,1\e to s\lr-roiind h i ni s e J. f withprofessional people anyIIay,makin; his position eithersuperfluoiis or disruptive.

"The impurtant tliin:! is toMet prokssirm;11 mana!ie-

;~l(,Jl~ into the s~'stcm." 'hesaid. "!'I:c \\ :lY to gt't it isllirOq~;i ~:n ;ip;yijn\('d ii;¡n,l~-., , . . - .tcr. , ~

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Renton, Wash,Record Chronicle

(Cir, W. 19.180)

MAR 2 0 1968

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/king County To Host

National County Meet~ By Our County News Bureau County installations.. King County wil play host Notably on the tour wil be thenext week to the Western Re- garbage-compacting mole nowgional meeting of the National nearing completion and MetroAssociation of Counties, Ed sewage treatment facilities. ..Munro, King County commis- A special meeting of the na-sioner and national president of tional NACO officials with KingNA VC announced Tuesday. County Freeholders is also 011: More than 600 elected county the ageñda, l\'¡unro saitoffcials are expected to be The Western Division of thepresent at the four day meet,' National Association of Counties

.ii1unro said. Among those who is the only regional organizationhave accepted an invitation to within the association, he point-speak are Senator Warren G. ed out. The group meets yearly tDMagnuson, who wil address the discuss opecial problems of theconference at a luncheon Mon- west that stem in large partday, and Gov. Dan Evans. from the fact that about 50 per

The meeting wil begin with a cent are owned by the federalreception Sunday night at the government. This large portionSpace Needle and wil end of f0deral ownership prt:sentsWednesday following a luncheon special problems to the West in iat the Olympic HoteL. , terms of solving water needs'

Munro said a special go-see 8nd the problems of forest andtour is being planned for confer- grazing land management. Mun-ence members of several King ro noted.,

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Seatlle, Wash. .Times

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MAR 3 1 1968

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TIlE A"SWERS given yes-teràay to some questions arenot likely to be changedlater. The 13 members pres-ent \"ere imanimous for par-tis~~n county government.T:H:~.' agreed without dissentto lour-war terms. Elevenf,,\'ored ;ta22ered tErms.

Onl" L\'le- Schneiòer andP~ul 'Frie~ll"nder òid not at-tc,iel the meeting. Schneider\\T('tc a lellC'r, hOlle\'er, and\I here his positioo was clearhi; \'ote was rC'cordC'd.

Do" ~1cDonald took thepo"i:ifJll th;,l the freeholdersshould not include in a char-ter either the commission-

. ers' salary or whether com-In'is~iolier5 should be full

Urge.-'Soård'of r~~ ine . Conii'Tissionerstv comm~SSioners is theprobable fonn a home-rulecharter wil take.

In iis firs i policy àiscus-

ti me. He contended the com-mis,ioners should decide býestablishing their own salaryif they are to serve full time.

Norman Ackley also op-posed full-time commission-ers, contending they wilhave SO lit! Ie to do that theywm project themselves iiioadministrative work whichthe freel:olders plan to con-

fine to an administrator.The freeholders finally

",;ied that if thev do feel itnecessary to meñt;on a sal-ary, it will be that pro\idedby state law. Con~iiissioners

pay will go up from ~15,OOOto ~;ig.ooo in 1969..

REDISTmCTI!\G 11 a yerid up being the major dcci.sion facing ¡I.e board. Anumber of me.r,bers contend-ed any attempt to redistrictwil jeopardize adoption of acharter.If no boundaries are es-

tablishcd the board wouldhave three electe! 'lromeach of the existing county-

commissioner districts, cre-ate automatic machinery forredistricting and let the ninecommissioners establicÌl iiinedistricts after a transitionperiod. .

Others favor creation of~tltommic machinery for re-distñeting, but believe the

lrcdiold~rs should draw nineboundañes as part of thedi:irter.

The rcdistrictin~ questionwaS one factor in oppositionto proposa 15 by McDonald"nd Ack1c\' that the numberof comiii;sioners be set at16, conforming to legislative

5:0:., ti:t Kh2. CC\!:i\' E0"rdof Frpejolt.trs yesterday\'oTêd-rongl\' in fa\'or oftho,c positionš.

These are "tent:,the' posi-tions" that can be chan2cdon the final \'oie after char-ter provisions are put onpaper. But Richard Al-brecht, chairman, said thetentati\'e decisions will allow

. Paul R. l\Iey~'r, cx~cutÏ\~e

secretary, and John H.Strasburger, the attorne~', to

districts. James P. Curransaid a charter would be injeopardy in South King Coun-tv if that was done bec.!Use

ti,at area is not happy withthe legislative districts.

Simon Wampold agreed,adding that boundaries con-forming to state legislativedistricts would inseit stateissues into county electioncampaigns. 1\rs. Lois !\orth,involved in state legislativeredistricting, agreed, butnoted th"t thc backgroundand tradition of our commu-nity sug,?csts the number ornín~ county commissioners.I\10st city councils have ninemembers.Stil to bc decided are the

questions of establishing amerit or cIvil.serviee s)'stem

for employes and which, ifany, or the new independent-ly elected connty officialswil be appointed undercharter provisions. /'

begin ',work' on a' formaldraft.

The near-unanimous votewas a surprise. Only a fel\major questions still remain.

The m(.mbers had been di-yiMd on eleciin~ commis-sioners bv district, but the"ate for it \\a5 io to 3.

The . fr€-eholders agreedthe board of commissionersshould be expanded fro mtrh~e members to nine, thatthey should continue as fun-

time count\' offcials andthat nine di~tricts should beformed. A key question tobe answered is whether the,freeholders wil att1mpt tocreate those new districts.Four..yer.r staggered t e r m 5were fa\'ored.

A hearing on the form andduti~s of a chief executi\'e

\\'ill be held at í: ~o p. m_Tuesùa\' in the BellevueFublic -Library.

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Interrelations of charterprovisions are a major rea-son the Board of Coi'D¡Yr r e e h 0 i d e r s cannot takefj¡¡Jfsì(jõns at this time.

An example arose on thequestion of at-large election.\lhile the freeholders finally

agreed yesterday to electionoí commissioners by district,Hmic freeholders expressedrc,ei "ations because theyf e I t some representations;'f)uld be at-large.

The compromise was tovote for election of commis-~il)nçrs by district on tlie as-sumption an executive wilbe elected at large. The

c;i,estion of an executive hasnot been discussed, but a de-cìsiicn to appoint an execu-tive would result in changesof position on election ofcommissioners by district.

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(Continued from Page 4)little and too late. Organizational efforts beganon his behalf in Seattle the day after his an-nouncement. but without some kind of agreementbetween the two candidates. preference of theWashington Democratic del~gation may looklike this: :.lcCarthy, Johnson, Kennedy. - - in thatorder!Rosellini to Run Again

Informed sources last week were circulatingthe story Albert D. RoselJini, former two,termgovernor defeated in 196- by Gov, Dan E\'ans, has

definitely made up his mind to make another tryat his old job. The o'nly thing that isn't known, it isreported, is when the ex-governor will make hisintentions formally known. Al has been building

. up the same kind of state-wide backbreakingschedule he maintained in his previous cam.paigns . _ , with reports from the hustings he isbeing well received. So far both of his primaryopponents, Attorney General John O'Connelland State Senator :.lartin Durkan have beenconfining themselves mainly to state issues, butRosellini, with his instinct for the politicaljugular, has been slashing at what Evans, inRosellnïs -eyes, has failed to do . . . notably inthe field of taxation and state instiutions. Rosel-lini wil make much of Evans' increase in thesales tax - unnecessary in Rosellini's view. Inthè slow-burn departme'nt: O'Connell, for whom,Rosellini has no particular affection since the1964 campaign, and Durkan . " . both of whomcould lose, along with Rosellini. in a three-way

race against Evans. One thing seems certain: Theslow aiid deliberate Democratic quadrile mark-ing the campaign of both declared candidateswil get some fast rock and roll from the ¡'give-'em-hell" type of campáigning Rosellini is notedfor.Briefly Noted

Insiders Report That Freeholders are reach-ing a few key decisions- anent the new county'charter: A county executive of some kind; an en.larged, full-time well-paid legislative bodyelected on a partisan basis, and partisan elec-tions for county officials who are not appointed.The group, apparently, is in no mood to take onthe wrath of both political parties. - - each ofwhich likely would go ãii out to defeat a chartersetting up a nonpartisan form of county govern-ment " . " Brock Adams, meeting with'membersof the 31st, 35th, and 47th Legislative Districtsrecently at Renton Inn, hard

pressed to defend hisfreshly announced support of Kennedy when re.minded from the audience of his ride with John-s(ln in 1964 " . . Supporters of Both Dave l\looneyand Ed Munro are wondering if 1100ney intendsto keep his campaign to unseat incumbent Com-missioner Munro on the constructive plane hepromised in light of his remarks at a fund-raisingdinner on his behalf at Meeker's Landing. - '. i

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Rockefell¡:r Out For Good?Washin(Tton Statc's infant Draft Rockefel1er

movement (most localized in King County) wasnipped iii the bud by Thursday's bombshell fromNew York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.' :\Iost ex-perts had predicted his declaratio~ of candidacya foregone thing. . . now the way is paved for aNixon slate both county. and state-wide. Evenwith Rockefeller in the race, Nixon had beenassured of at least 16 of the state's 24 Republi-can delegates. No\\ it's likely he wil capture theentire delegation. That is, if forces boostingNixon are genuinely boosting Nixon. There'ssome speculation here and in Olympia the Nix0!lboom is part cover for a move to support Cali-fornia's Governor Reagan. WhEther this developsor not, there's strong. sentiment in King Co,:ntyror Reagan as vice president . . . as precInctcaucus polls showed two weeks a~o. .

If Rockefeller is genuinely out or the presi-dential race or merely out or the primaries(everyone or which he had a good chanc~ to los~)there's stil hope among many Republicans Inthe county that some kind or lone:-shot might re-sult in a convention draft for LJ,'k:' They reason\'rã'. 'C"l"'"j U'iHYùi\', 'à f,'iY;:\:\:r~\\~'l tânÙ\Ùâc~ ~ânthere be some real,M;J¿;.uf achi~ving a dialogueon the Vietnam issue, ... and other pressing,domestic bsues. As of now, with Nixon and John-son both taking similar hawkish positions on theconduct of the war, there is a good chance votersmay have no genuine choice at least on this issuenext November. Likely next move on the part ofNixon no\\ that Rockefeller has offciailv dc-clared himself oÚt: A dovish trend with ~omespelled-oi.t details on how he plans to end the.war.Postscript on the Week That Was:

One of the noticeable side effects in KingCounty of the rapid-fire series of events culmi-nating in the entrance of Senator Robert Ken-

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Upd~ting the Commissioners' Race

Briefly r:oted .If Kenneth Rogstad. King County Republican chair-

man, has it right, four \'alley-area freehQlders may makea try for the upcoming legislative sèats in theirrespective districts next fall.

These include Howard Bothell, Auburn car dealer,. and Terry l\!cKenna, Ke;it airline pilot, who areconsidering running for House seats in the 4ïthLegislative District, and Bob Eberle, a former legislator,\\ho is considering either a try at the 41st Legislative

District House race, or, p)ssibly, challcriging Brock

Adams, Seventh District Democratic cong"essman.Rogstad, despite his focus on the running battle he's

had o\'er the where, when, and who of Republicanprecinct caucuses, has been spending a considerableamount of time attempting to fill the Republicanlegislative ticket

Besides _ freeholders interested in House seats,Rogstad reports several others eyeing the race in theValle,ys three legislative districts. These include ArtKrauser, former Republican area chairman, and JimAtterbury, Boeing engineer, both of whom are consider-ing the House race in the 30th District. In the 41st, GeorgeClarke and Brian J. Lewis, Republican Incumbents. arecQmidering â try at the nt'ìl .~t'natoFiaJ Siat DJJe to .rfiled next falL. So far, Rogstad says, no other Repiiblicanexcept Eberle is on the horizon in the House. .

Three other candidates besides Bothell and I\chenn;i

are reported to be considering the House ace in the 4ithDistrict. These include James Topham. who ran pre-viously; Hal Edgar, and Auburn insurance man, and ArtThompson. a Boeing engineer.

Democrats seem to be siower in lining up potentialcandidates. AccordilF' to Jeanette Williams, Countychairman, only one D~mocratic possibility ~as emergedIn the 30th: Georgette Vally, a former Lsgislator. and~

possibly Alva Long. Auburn Attorney. 1\0 ~emocrabhave surfaced to challencie Repuhlican control in the 41stor incumbent Democrati~ control in the -lith to date, shesays.... .

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neu.y llw tilE' presidential race is the develop-ing consensus among Dçmocrats here who war:tthe U.S. out of Vietnam. . . and quick. The amaz-ing McCarthy strength was unpredicted by countyleaders. eV"e~ ~ mo~th ago, and Kennedy's candi-d~cy, with hi.s identical position oll the war issue~-ill do no.t~ing to diminish the strength of grow:ing oppositlOn to the war policies of PresidentJohnson.

. ~the.rs, including Publisher John Fournierwriting in the nation's capital, report that Ken-

nedy's declaration can only encourage Republi-can hopes_for capturing the presidencv nextfalL. Agreeing is Republican Chairman K~nnethRogstad who declared Friday the Kennedy candi-dacy has d~ne _ nothing but increase Nixon'schance of winning. "Any time Democrats tearthemselves up only helps Republicans. In thiscase, the i;ntrance of this petulant youth into theDemocratic Party s.weeps.takes will further rup-ture t.he already split fabric of Democratic unity."

\\ hat Kennedy's announcement means inte.rms of the state's 45-mcmber delegation that\~'iii ~ead for the Democratic National Conven-t~on In August is not so easy to assess. Organiza-tion Democrats (inCluding State Chairman RobertR. ~u.ii) are still predicting LBJ will control amaJority of the party's delegates. So far, most ofMcCa~thy's strength in Washington State is cen-t~red In the urban counties, but i£the momentumhis suppo~ters exhibited in local precinct cau-cu.ses continues through the convention process,this could be enough to control the deleO'ationboth on the ,east and west side of the mou;tains.

~s f?r Kennedy stampeding the county con-ventIon 11 June, don't be too sure! At least in thisstate and perhaps in the county, he may be too

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freeholLler -- an unsaiãried post with lots of workattach('d - could be explained, Ed :\lUnro, SecondDistrici commissioner, wryly observed last week, astheir interest in greater, political horizons. l\Iakes sense

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UPDA TI:lG THE cü:niissro:-ERS' RACE....With Dave ì\Iooney's fund-raising dinner due next

weekend, the former Kent J\Iayor's campaign to wrestthe Democatic nomination from l\Iunro is off andrunning. So far, J\Iooney seems to be the only oppositionto appear on either ticket Rogstad is talking to possiblechallengers, but to date no Republican, apparently awareof Munro's _mashingly successful double-shifted dinnerlast month in Seattle, seems too eager to make the race.

In the Central District, Rogstad stil is optimistic,John O'Brien, board chairman, wil run again. butinsiders to think the affable Commissioners has his eveon other things - among them, a possible connection withbig-league spolts. That is. after the new stadium isofficially in the works and the big leagues have exercisedtheir options. O'Brien is well liked among his Courthousecolleagues anà WouJà be a cinch to hold his seat if hedecides he wants it after alL '

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Whether O'Brien is in the race or not, Democrats are -eyeing possible candidates for their sides of the ticket,including, Charles (Streetcar) Carroll, a city councilman,who polled a staggering victory in Seattle's municipalelections; M. J. R. (Me!) Wiliams, county treasurer, whohas established a reputation for deft handling of his

county job; and James Dore, Seattle district judge. Dorehas been mentioned as a Demo possibilty for other spc' .in the past..whether he would make a try this time \';:;~.c.probably depend on the opposition and availablefinancing. Look for a possible surprise entry in the personof an aide on the Seattle municipal scene. I's underwraps now_..but Seatte's MayorDorm Braman's decision:m another term (ch::nces alf~ it's yes) wil hE':: f¡¡ctorBRIEFLY NOTED.... '- .

Robert Kull, Demo State Chairman. back tomorrowafter spending last week in Washington, D.C., conferringwith offcials of the Democratic National Committee. Forthe record, this is first time in history the party picked upexpenses for such a meeting of all the nation's statechairman... John J_ O'Connell Attorney General ended along spell of no-speech fund-raising dinners ten days agowith a remarkably toned-down attack on the presentadministration. Some who've heard him in his more fierymoments hoped he'd open up...but the rapidly climbingJohn chose to play it cool.. ~Ieanwhile, Gov Da~ Evans,same place (Olympic Hotel Grand Ballroom) one weeklater, tooled up the campaign to an overflow crowd ofRepublicans. Among the out-of-state VIPs honoringEvans: Colorado's Gov. John Love. Republican County

Chairman Rogstad's joint suit with three other countychairman to revise the structure of the Republican StateCentral Committee gets an assist from across the aisle:He's retained the firm of Schweppe. Doolittle, Krug. &

Tausend. Tausend, incidentally. is one of the sparkplugsin the O'Connell campaign and a fast-rising youngDemocratic attorney....Stil hush-hush. insiders report'the team of site consultants now at work to determinewhere the new stadium should be put favor not a locationin downtown Seattle, nor the Valley, but. in all places.Factoria! Seattle minded members of the stadiumcommission might find themselves winding up refusing totake the recommendations of their expensive experts: ii 3G J ¡

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1 in a recent consultat's report to King County Commissioners

j on the County's Road Engineering Department, but the recom- ,.

IJ mendation has to-date been ignored by the Commissioners.

, Nearly three months ago the report, by John A. Donaho &

¡ Associates, Inc., urged a num

ber of changes be incorporated inf the operation of the Engineering Department with consolidation

j of the north and south road districts being the one most im-

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e theJ two road districts operate independently of each other and semI- I

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ngineer and his staff. This organ- I

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for county residents.. It was alsorecommended the present flood con-trol operation be abolished as aseparate division with these func-

tions being carried by other sec-

tions.Donaho noted that nine years

igo, in March 1959, his firm sub-nitted to the Board of County::ommissioners a report entitled,'An Administrati\'c and Organiza-

;ional Study of the Road Engineer-ng Department." The consultanttoted that very few of the recom-

nendations carried in that report

'Vere implemented.

New DevelopmentsThe present report states that

two important factors have devel-:iped since the 1959 report:

1. Th-:i accelerated urbanizationin the western section of KingCounty has resulted in increased de-mands for county services. The re-port said, "results have been lessthan sat.isfactory, sometimes pro-ducing unwarranted annexations ofincorporated areas and/or the crea-tion of special districts - sewer,

wa tel', drainage, and so forth." Inlight of this the report recommendsthe restructuring of the present En-gineering Department to carry theresponsibility for all of the county'spublic work functions.

2. The second consideration con-cerns the Freeholder's Corrssionand their drafting of a charter forKing CounJy.. inhTsë¡;~~ is-âp-proved by voters it wil undoubtedlyaffect most county departments andfunctions. Donaho said the re::om-

mendations in the report were de-signed to complement and not con-ftct with matters to be considered

by th.. Fr_hnHp.l',County Fiscal Failures

The Donaho report noted thatstudici conducted by their firm in19;;9 and '60 dwelt at some lengthon the deficiencies in county budgetand accounting practices. The cur-rent report noted that few of therecommendations nine years agowere incorporated. The report saidin part, "The failures of the countyto develop an adequate government-wide budget system and a support-ing a-:counting system stand out asprime deficiencies in the adminis-

tration of King County govern-ment." The report said that some

of the problems are compounded bythe failure of the county to have acounty-wide data processing planand also "The situation is madefurther complex by the independentstatus of the county auditor who isthe offcial bookkeeper of thecounty. The consultants furtherconcluded that even with the un-

wieldy structure of governmentthat King County presently has itis possible to develop effective bud-get and accounting systems.

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which were clearly of a constructionnature." This report recommended

the county stick to a policy of pub-lic administration that "governmentperform services with its own forcesonly when it can be clearly demon-strated that those received through

the avenue of private enterprise areinadequate or too costly." The re-port said there were indicationsthat county crews are presently en-

gaged in more construction workthan they were when this study wasmade in 1959. The report said, "Onesuperintend en t estima ted that abou t80% of all work classified as con-struction in his district is completedby force account (county person-

nel)."The report pointed out another

inadequacy in road district opera-tions by showing that one districtadministered maintenance activitieson a day-by-day basis. The foremanin this district generally scheduled

their crews' work only one day inadvance and an attempt by theCounty Engineer's staff to developa program of scheduling work acti-vities one week in advance met withcomplete resistance in this district.

Equipment MismanagementThe Donaho study of King

County road districts further wenton to state that substantial econo-

mies might be realized in the pur-chasing and utilization of equip-ment. The report said, "It was pre-viously pointed out that no controls

have been exercised in the purchaseof new or replaced equipment." Andthe report also noted that with thepresent "policy of county forces per-formng most of the road construc-tion work has resulted in the neces-sity of the purchase of expensive

equipment and many of these ma-chines are used on a seasonal basis."

The study showed that each ofthe road districts develops its ownfleet of equipment and the samepattern of independent operations

was also clearly evident at each ofthe district's equipment mainten-ance shops. "Again, there is little orno exchange of personnel, tools, ma-terials or experience of equipmentpractices."

Continuing in its recommenda-

tions on road district operationsthe study admonished the depart-ment's car - pool operation, "Withvery few exceptions the cars are as-signed to persons ra ther than a de-

partment or county-operated pool.

While many of these assignmentsappear to be justified there are sig-nificant number of cases where it isdiffcult to understand why an em-ployee is permitted unlimited use

of a county vehicle.

Consolidation A MustDonaho said that many of the

failures noted in the study were adirect result of the present systemof two road districts. The district

first class department to performvital services for the community.

Consolidation of the two road dis-tricts is the only answer, the reportsaid. Donaho went on to state thattwo road districts should be re-placed by a Department of PublicWorks that would include the ad-ministration of a personnel merit

policy for selecting and retaining

department employees.

Commissioners Fail To ActCounty Engineer Jean DeSpain

said, "I'm ready and anxious to meetwith the Board of County Commis-sioners to discuss the entire study."DeSpain said, "I'm very much infavor of a single district."The survey by John Donaho &

Associates, Inc. of the King CountyRoad Engineering Department wassubmitted to the King CountyCommissioners on January 8, 1968.The Commissioners had taken noaction on the survey by the timethis isue of the "NEWS" had goneto press - almost three monthslater. f), I '7 7 ./r-

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15 frreholders elected tn draft a home ruié chårlerfor King County ¡:overnmenl is that of appointiveversus electÌ\-e offces.

Throughout the countr~'. the accepted trend ingo\'ernmental reform is toward fe\rer elected off-cials and more appointive officers responsible to asingle administrator who. in turn. must answer to asingle eJectcd legislative body. The sound thcory isthat a go\'ernmental unit's comprehensivc piannin~and polic~' making are most efficient when lines ofauthority are direct and sharply drawn.

The problems posed by a raft of independentelected offcial~ within the same governmcntal unitare exemplified by King County's existing system.In addition to the three electcd count\. commission.'ers, who have a hodgepodge of admi'nistrative andlegislati\'e functions. there are seven other inde-pendcntly elected partisan offcials. each autono-mous and each with his o\\'n policy making powerand method of administration. This makes coordi-nated county programs difficult to achieve and isexpensive.

FREEHOLDER recommenchitions to reduce thenumber of count\' electÌ\'e oífce~. however. õrelikely to meet rciistance because partisan political~tron;:ho1i1s ?t the courthouo0 ".'ould be abolishcd in1he process. Some electivc offces must be mnde ap-pointive. though. if county govcrnment is to bestr~nc:thcned and modcrnizcd

C'ctain to receive consi¿crable atfenlion fromthe frccliolòcrs are recommcnòations offcrcd bv theSei'tlc-King Count~. 1\lunicipal Lcague. whicJi has~ubmilled a comprehcnsÌ\'e report following ayear-long study.

The League proposcs a chartcr provision for a~ingle exccui I\'e or administrator. to coordinate allcounty programs and serviccs. under- a single legis-lative body. The presently elccted positions of asses-sor, treasurer, sheriff, coroncr, auditor and clerkwould be made appointive.

1:' TilE CASE of the auditor. it has beenargued that he should reniain independcnt of the

othcr branchcs of go\'ernmcnt in order to insure ob-jectivity in his perusal of county business opera-tions. The role of \\'atchdog o\'er expenditures. how-e\'er_ is amply filed liv the State Auditor's Di\'isionof ~Junicipal Corporations which chccks the booksof the county auditors. Furthcr, the Department ofElections is under the auditor's wing. Without cast-ing aspersions on the conduct of the office by in-cumbcnt Auditor Bothy 1\lorris, it seems poor prac-tice to ha\'e elections supervised by partisan offceholders.

As for the- other five offccs, we agree with theIIJunicipal League that thcrc arc no eompclJn¡: rca-sons for )'e-t?Ining them as elective positioi;s e-thcr.

1t may well bc that the frccholdcrs wil havc tocompromise in this tonchy p,ca, of elimi,iiating clcc-\in offccs; in or(.cr to \rin a majoi'ily ¡¡(voter sup-

port for a new charIer. Aiiy siich compromises,howevcr, ~hotl¡d not he so broad thcy oh\-iate the:;0'11 of a modernized and efficient couiity &oveni-moit. .j

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Seattle, Wash.post-lnteUigencer

198.812 Sat. Mor. 184,332Sun. 239,092)

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Fresho/c!0rSOre~on's M u i t nom a h

County has made as muchprogress in 14 months underits home rune charter as itpreviously did in fí\'e years.Kiii; County's Freeholders

were fold last iiigl~t.1\1. .J"mes Gleason. Port-

lônd. chairman and elecledadministrator of t ii e fi\'c-member ¡'luJtnomah Count\'Commission. said: -

"We ha\'e' one \'oice. onepolicy," 'Gle3son advised eleding

the co u n t v administratorand about 'five or sevencommi,sioners to h a n iii eIegislatI\.e functions.

HE SAm all his rle¡iärl-mrnt hc;ids except the 31:rli-tor are appointed ;ind this

system works \\ell.

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Courdy

,Favored, Kiiig County's freeholdcrs

¡ )'esterday ten i a t i o' : 1 y¡ ,agreed the n~'.': tv" : gOY.¡ ernment should .:ave nine

'I full-time ('r,: ~rnissiGners,

I e¡eUed by diSiiict on a par'tisan basi~. ~ri1h sa~ârles of

i at least SIB.CrO.i The consensus of the free-

holders. who met at theCo u n t y Courthouse. ""as

that the county coinmission.ers' terms sho\lld be four,'eal'5 and sta~oel'ed

It was the frr~t expressionof the board's \'iews on the

county c h a i' t e r that thefreeholders wil sta~'t draft.ing aèout May 1. The\' hopato submit the charter -io \'ot.ers in tl',e ?\o\'moer elec.tions.

In future hearings. thiif I' e e h 0 Ide i' s wil d"-cidewhether the county execu-'ti\"e, or administrator 85well as department h;ads.

should be elected or ap-pointed. .f'T' 0 "" ,'ß 01 0 """0' onJÇ\Jí .J_I'Ç.;-

Th~ Orcton offcial alsoreco'iim('ndcd a flexiblecharIer to allow setting ofpolicie;: as the new boardproceeds with its diitics.Ed \\ in G. Ì\;ichaelian,

elected execiilì\"e Qf West-

chester county. just north of;\e\\' York Cit\.. seconded

Glenson"s Suggrstions.Both men said the counh'

administrator should not be

brought in from out$ide -that he must know and un.derstand the area.

"Y 0 u 'r e in the sameIhrocs as we were in 19;;4,except the popiilction explo-

sion has hit your" \lichaelianexplained.Six of Snohomish Coun-

Iy's Freeho!ders '"I in atIDe meeting, in tÌ'e OlympicHoteL.

)IICH.\ELt\X s a i d hiscounty adopted a charter in1924 but that due to tradi-

tional m;i);cup. thp go\"ern-

in~ body has 45 meinhcrs.

lIe s"id he would (a\'or acnmmission of a b 0 u t 11 .-- 'members for Kin;; Cou:Üy. 137,q. j

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Jllle,ls P. C. B. Est. 1888

Countyi Not City, May Be T on10rrov/s

Governnient¡ NáNonaJ County Head

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By VIRGINIA BURI'SIDEOur County News Bure::u

Those who think county government is an archaicholdover from the horse and buggy age are dead wrong.

This was the categorica~ statement last week ofBernard Hillenbrand. executi\'e director of the NationalAssociation of Counties which wound up a three-daywestern regional meeting in Seattle.

And to make his point, Hilenbrand advanced somefacts and figures to prove that if there was to be onegovernment at the local level, recent trends indicate itcould well be county, rather than a city government.

Item: County government is growing nationally at arate of 6 per cent yearly-compared to a 5 per cent yearlynational growth rate for cities. .

Item: County budgets have been going up about 12

per cent ycarly, with last year's monies spent bycounties totaling $11 bilion,

Item: Counties are one of the biggest businesses iiithe country, employing 1,100,000 persons in 1967.

Hilenbrand is in a position to know. He's presided~~\,

over the explosive growth of the 16,000 member NACUsince 1957. But before that, he was on the other side of the

fence as the assistant director of the National League ofCities.

"The national trend is toward a much wider use ofthe county to provide area services on an area basis,such as mass transit, public health, public housing,àirport facilities, air and water pollution control and thelike," Hilenbrand pointed out. .

"In fact, the county is becoming the city oftomorrow.

"The evolving and merely important role of countiesis not without its problems," he warned. The restrictionplaced on local government by state constiutions andlegislative action must be eliminated . . . notably theinability to levy differential tax rates. -

He said counties, particularly King County, must findsome satsifactory way to consolidate the myriad numberof special taxing districts which remove local controlfrom the voters and give it to absentee bond holders foran indefinite period of time.

Hillenbrand also was critical of most counties' lack ofsome kind of executive, which he regards as the focalpoint for administrative direction.

"Washington State has done pretty well in thisregard, by limiting the number of count v commis-sioners to three,. but most county governÍents alsohave some kind of elected or appointed administra-tion," he said.

Highly aware of the King County Board of Freehold-ers, now writing a new county charter, Hillenbrand said~e was ple~sed at the_ logica!, systematic way the groupis proceeding about its business, "I'm impressed withtheir methodology," he observed.

He noted that nationwide that nearly a dozen newcharters have been enacted in populous counties thatinvolve major governmental change for milions ofpeople. _ .

Some of these changes, he observed, includeprovisions for an appointed county executive, but mostnew charters in the nation's large counties provide for anelected executive.

Hilenbrand said in most of the new charters the sizeof the legi~lative bodies depends on local tradition. Onecounty in i'\¿w York, he said, had 38 commissionerswhicli. has no\\ been reduced to 24. '

A!t?ough NACO has no offcial position on whatposition county government should take, Hilenbrandstrongly urged the county's freeholders to prQvide forfull-time, well-paid county legislators,

"For the good of our democratic tradition it isnecessary that a cross section of the electorate be in aposition to run for, and win, these positions. There mustbe an adequate pay scale to permit the average salaried

. person to do this. Otherwise, county government wil betured over to those who can afford the job" theyouthful, forcefull executive declared. '

Hile~brand was strong in his praise for the growing,co-operative role now emerging in many cities andcounties, including King County.

"I don't know if this increasing co-operat!Qn. wil

ever produce a governmental merger at t!i'jocallevel, or even if it is needed," was his comment.""

"Significantly, for those who like to place the citiesand .counties in a hostile, competitive relationship, we arefinding that many local problems can be solved withoutinterferring with existing local levels of government.

Which to Seatte's 1\ayor Dorm Braman, cast in anin_crea~ing role of mutual planing and problem soiv:ng---..1. Tr. _ _ . "roo. 1 ~

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~lech3dCountyExecu.¡iveDebatedBy JE~ly'~iRGSI\Ai'\

Whether a county adminis-trator should be elected or

appointed wa~ debated at apublic hearing last night. .It was the second hearing

called by the Kin..CountyBoard of Freeholders in itsefrorts-ïõãî-alt a countycharter. The hearing ..as inthe Bellevue Public Lihrary.

A hearin~ on a county per.sonnel system wil be heldApril IS in the Kent CityHall.

Kenneth Rogstad. countyRepublican chairman,. c.alledfor an appointed administra-

tor. Patrick McGilis, repre-

senting the Democratic Cen-tral Committee, urged thaithe administrator be elected.

OTHERS ENDORSING aiappointed county executivwere I\lrs. Harold Mozer cthe League of Women Vo'er.; R. !QR'QR!JRE. Ke,terson, Bellevue Are~ SelImprovement Council; '.1

Joe Mí1er. Bellevue eilmanager; Jim Vaux, form'Kirkland mayor, and J. 1Windley, chairman of. tJ33rd District R e pub i i C aClub. '. Supporting an elected eecutive, were Jim Haase.the Federal Way CommuniCouncil, Inc.; Mrs. Winifr

Heiser. East Lake Samma.'ish Property Owners; ViGould, real-estate developand opponent of rar""-:~.:it ;:r.d Frank Ma~¡~;ï e~gineer and Municir

L(aOue member. c'The Municipal League

not take a position.

EVERYOXE Agreed ththe executive should be spa~ated from the legislati'branch. The granting of vepower was endorsed by moof those who wanted the e:,.eclltive elected.

Ronstad contended thoelection of an administratewould dilute the power of thBoard of King County Cor:missioners, which he sai~Sh0uld be directly res pons i

ble to the people.Miller contended: "It is a

little' more sure to hire a¡!Dad man than to c1ec~ one."He said the a p poi n t e dmananer would have no alle-gianc;s or debts resui~ingfrom a political compaign;woiiid not have a divided in- Lterest between government Iand hi, business; would be Inon pol i tic a i, and wouldstand between the depart-ment heads and the iegisia-Itive branch.

SAID An administrator,elected county-wide would!provide a chec~ a~d balance ;against COrnmi.sSloners re-__~_..'...¡.:.... ri,,,t..,,.lc:

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P ,.al'fI5ûl1Republican and De m 0-

craUc Party leaders agreed

last night. They bolh urgedIhe King Couiity Freehold-ers 10 relain partisan poli-lies in the election of off-

cials.Kcnnetli Rogstad, counly

GOP chairman, said thenew counly legislative bodyshould have nine mem bel'S

elecled on a parly basisfrom nine different legisla-tive dislricts in the counly.

HE CAL"fION.ED that ae 0 u n t y executh'e shouldhave his term of offce andduUes reslrained by thefundamental power of thelegislators.Rogstad said that many

of the traditional functions

of Congress have been erod-ed by executive invasion ofthese grounds.

, On the other hand, Pat-rIck McGilis, representingthe King County Democrat-ic Central Committee, whileagreeing with the parUsanchoice of nine legislators,said the execuUves shouldhave some "velo power"with a four-~'ear term of of-fice and a salary between

,)0,00 and $25,000 a year.A I tho ugh many of the

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Poli.(ics Urgedpresently r.1ec!ed counly of-ficials essentially perform

ministerial duties and could

be appointed. he urged thatthe auditor, sheriff and as-

seS~Qr snould continue 10 be

elected directly by Ihe peo-

ple.He also suggested that a

four-year residence in the

county be required for Ihe

candidates for the executivepost.

THE FREEHOLDERS,who held the meeting inBellevue to gI\;e their studyof a proposed charter a

. broader geographic expo. isur e, interrupled bolhspeakers wit h numerous iquestions. ,Another speaker, James

Haase, a Pacifie Northwest

Bell management employe IrepresenUng the Federal ¡

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Way. Communily Councisaid the executive shou!hai'e Ihe authorit\' 10 hiideparlment heads. but onlwilh the conrirmaUon of lii~ounly legislators.

He said his group feIhat Ihe legislators shoul

number between 13 and Jmembers.

The only supporlor of 11'non-elccled counly mBnag(type of administration w;

'. Joe MiJlcr, cily manager (Bellevue.

Sea Hie, Wash.Times

ceil'. 226,374 Sat. 215,122Sun. 270,529)

APR 5 1968

JliAPR 5 I:;l:~liens P.C.B. Est. 1888¿. ,Correction:~ I.. -. ' j i IMrs. Winifred Heiser of

the East Lake SammamishPropert Q-'\l1erS Associationsupported the concept of anappointed county administra-

tor when she spoke Tuesdayat a public hearing of theKir.g ClJ-.ntv BOt.::çl..horders. ,It was reported erro-

neously in the, Times yester-day that Mrs. Heiser support-ed an eiected administr_ator./ as'

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Seattle. WesNh.

WL.t Center ewsn\ e p'd 7 758 Free)

(Cir. W. 5,86Z al ,

C ~~R i ,\CjGSEst. ISS8~/1cn'5 '.C.B.

-CO~rJYV rJ~rJL~Ü~~l tEM~D~ fi~~O~YS TO f~~EL~OL~EnSand guidance from the State elect the executive separately

"; J11 . By Terri Todd , , Constitut~on and laws. and at. large. ~his s)'s!e~ isIn 'R report to elected freeholders, the Municipal According to the league reo used in Georgia, Louisiana,

League of King County has prepared an information port, the administrative reo Maryland, Missouri, New Yorkd d. t' , t' th ra quirements imposed on the and Wisconsin.an recommen ation s arting poi~ in e prepa ' Commissioners, along with the In their evaluation of the

tion of a Home Rule Charter for King County, independent authority of the independently elected offces,The result of a year-long ef- objectives is hard to establish other eJecled offcials, have the league suggested that the

fort, the report contains a and harder to administer. "\'irtually prevented the com- offce of coroner, sheriff andstudy or the existing county Following are general im- missioners from looking at the Superior Court clerk be ap.go\'ernment structure, as well pro\'emcnts suggested in the total operations of the county pointive rather than eleclh-e.as possible alternatives with report: and establishing policy ,and With reference to the officestheir ad\'antages and disad- 1. Separate administrati\'e direction for it." of county commissioners, thevantages. The 50 league mem- and legislative functions. The report recommended league recommended that theber volunteers were divided 2. Increase the number of that the position of an admin- number of commissioners beinto subcommittees: Finance, legislators. istrator be established, sepa- increased and their adminis-Counlv' Commissioners, Inde- 3. Create a strong, overall rate from the legislative body trative functions be transfer-pend;nt County Offces and administrator. and with the authority to' co- red to the office of the admin-Comparati\' Cowity Go\'ern. 4, Create modern procedures ordinate and be responsible for ¡strator, the single head ex.men!. for fiscal planning and man- . the total county government ecutive heretofore mentioned.As a preface to their.six agemen!. operation. The league further advised

. "eneral recommendations, the 5. Pro\'ide belter methods Two forms of basic struc- that commissioners be elected

. ~ommitteeš cited various prob. for indÍ\'idual citizens to pre- ture that provide for a _single at large rather than by dis-

,lems which they feel warrant sent ideas and complaints, as administrator were considered triels so that "The most inter-. a new chartier. County Com- well as identify with and feel b)' the league. These were the ested and capable individuals

. missioners, for example, have a part of their government. council-manager system 'and may be elected regardless ofboth legislative and adminis- ß. Pro\'ide for long - range the elected chief exee.utive. In where they live in the county."

trative powers and duties. planning and goals. the case of the council-man- In the issue of partianshipThere are seven other inde- As to specific suggestions, ager system, (county manager th lea due sugdested that ej: I

, pendently elected offcials \\~ith the report began by. recom- plan) the body is e.Jected and th:r the" electio;s be non-parti. ,administrati\'e duties and five mending that a provision be has power to appoint an ad- or allow candidates toindependently appointed ad- made for a single executive ministrati\'e manager. It also s~n e between party ¡dentifi-

: ministrators. Each acls inde- or administrator. Presently, approves the budget 'and other c ~o~ or non-partisanship.

, pendently and each establishes there is no central authority plans submitted by the man- ea 10

. his own methods of adminis- responsible for the entire ager. In refere~~e to personnel

. tration. county government op£'rations. In the second type of basic system 'policies, ,the leagueThe resultant situation is The 10 elected administrators structure. the elected chief suggested that a single county

: that an overall goal or set of receive their basic direction executive mode. the citizens personnel system be develo~

Seatte, Wasn.Times

(eir zi6 374 Sat. 215,122. sim. Z70,529)

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"'c ,. n ~..J. irt. ,.,~. -1NOtH1.V l'ic.v:ISi' Ldi ';:;, J ;1 "7 J .'(ESTERDA Y'S Supreme Court deci-sion extending the "one man, onevote" principle into counties and iiiunic-

ipaJities ,houJd be of guidar,ce to free-holders writing a,King County Ò:irt_er.

Thc freehofders now are ùiscussmgwhetlJ(r their proposed sl~te of ninecommissioners ,hould run for offices bydislrict or at hrge. Commissionersnow rcpresent (lislricts but run foroffce at large.

P ..-rOVIS!CnIII li¡:lii of ilif' Slil'r('lil' COI."'. ell"

ci..;io1t~ t!tr fr(''/inldt'rs .di()u.'(r It',rlff' 111(0tlir' ("¡urfer nd('Cjllfl!fl prori..;oii for re-tlr:-lrif'fill~ nt fTl'lfllNll ;111('(1"(11'" to rl:r..n',., i:il'(iil(ilii;('., iii .'\llif!;llg pOfJiilaliOlitotals. .1

Th:it must be Gonc because experi-ence ~liows that electeG offcials, oncein ofíice, are extremely reluctant toadopt nny redistricting pr~cess. t.hatmi"hi reduce or climinate thcir politicalor ';conomic power. ~

ed which wil achie\'e tÎe fol. :lowing: .

1. Place the personnel offceunder the direction of a countyadministrator.

2_ Reh' on merit in all bir.ing, pr~motions, salal1' in.creases and assignments.

3. Pro\'de for the training

and periodic evaluation of in.dividual employees.

4. Consider complaints or in-dividual employees.

5. Provide an employee re-tirement program.

Commenting on the indc-pendently elected fiscal offi.cers, the league rccommendedthat the assessor, the auditor

and the treasurer be madcappointive offces and appoint-

ments made by the legislativebody.

The Home Rule Charter, the.league suggested. should be

simple, short and provide forthe greatest possible adminis.

trative and legislative ílexi-bilty_ /.

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meeting to "share my preju-dice with you." In his opinionthe ultimate thing to do was to

appoint the executive, search-ing out an experien~c;d. edu-

cated county manager,

Freeholder Wanipold said that ,---" -- '

the board had been told that.a shortage of qualified countymanagers existed, and thatamong other objections to tMsappointive position were theopliiior.; of Mulcnomah County(Oregon) offcials that such anoutsider would have noknowledge of local problemsand no prestige to offer when.seeking Federal helps.

"'liler denied that any ofthese points were tre, and ur-

ged that the board not makethe executive head of county

government an administrativeassistant to the chairman oftheboard of commissioners. Hewas also against smalldistric,tsor constituancles for elected

commissioners, feeling thatthey should be elect.,d by thecounty at large.

Mrs. Winifred Heiser of theEast Lake Sammamish Pro-

pert Owners asked for 9 to12 commissioners, elected b)'districts and not at large. Her

group wanted the county auditor,clerk, assessor, prosecutor anè

even the county engineer elec-tive offices, and even felt that 'Dear Sir: '7' l /7 L .

METRO should be "answerabie The let(er fróm'Rober.t M.to the people" and under county Huniphrey (Argus, ~p,ril 5)

. 1 praises the Everett cit) fre-e-commissioner contro , . holders and states that theR. E. Kesterson. speaking Kiiig~lJ_o_an t.y_.~reeliolders

for the Bellevu Area Self Im- have been "fighting one an-provement CouncU(BASIC)said other since t~ey started." Mr.that this group's survey showed Humphrey is not only ':n-

dth 're of what the Kingthat Bellevue peoplefavore ê~~nty Freeholders havemanager-commissioner form been doing, but he does notof government, but that the Oc- appreciate the value of thetober questionnaire included no deliberative :proc~ss.

questions which would indicate Far from fighhtinigd onehan-other the Free 0 ers ave

whether the executive should be coope'rated \vith each oth~r.

elected or appointed. ,I with their staff and withKen Windley of the 33rd Dls~ __ __ _,'u.___ _..

trict Republlcans, said his cutlve head of the countY gov- '1

group wanted the executive ap- ernent. - -pointed. . . and that he should The Seatte real estate brok-'have speclallzed training and er, speaking with a soft south-

education. Hov.-ever, he would ern drawl, added a certainhave no vote, no veto powers, ' amount of levity to the meeting.his tenure of office and his He said that county governentsalary would be at the d1scre- is a business, should be rution l?f the commissioners, as by a hard, cold business head,would his hiring and firin~ of and he urged that a vote of nodepartent heads be, subject confdence or a recall clauseto commissioner approval. be written into the charter

It was VickGould. final speak- so that "if the rascal doesn'ter and the. only individual who perform we can getridcfhim."was speaking for himself, who The next Freeholder com-~rged the Freeholder board t~ munity foru wil be held in

give us some kind of safet) Kent later this m, onth. I'' t~ 'lvalve" with regard to the exe- .. _ . . "_", ¡JI i

\ i (Continued from Page 1)case, he should ~ot be a votingmember of the tentative 11-:man board of commissioners.However, if the chief executiveis elected, then he should have

veto powers, the Muny League

believes.Th Municipal League thought

'such an oiIce should have aminimwn salary of $ 25,00,and that the executive should

be allowed to appoint and re-move heads of all county de-partents.

Mrs', Harold Mozer spokefor the King County League of

Women Voters. This groupwanted pollcy-m aking jobs elec-tive. and thought the chief exe-

cutive job should be appointive

by the commissioner or leg-islative body. have no vote and

no veto powers.Partisan politics came into

the meeting with the oratory ofKenneth Rogstad, chairman ofthe Republlcan Central Com-mitte.He said his organization

agreed with the Freeholderson election of a larger nwnb~rof commissioners, and thatthese elected officials should

each represent a restricted con-stituancy and not be electedi. at large" by the county asa whole, He felt that this wouldgive closer control of countygovernment to the voter. His

group wanted the executive po-sition filled by appointment by

the elected commissioners.Following Rogstaõ's rather

lengthy talk, Simon Wampold.Bellevue, vice chairman of theFreeholder board, had this tosay:

"As a Democrat, I find my-self in the unfortate positionof agreeing with much of what

you had to say. i am alsoagreeably surprised that you do

not have horns, after seeing

some of your press releases."Patrèk McGilis then spoke

for the Democratic CentralCommitte, and said that thisorganization hoped that county

government would continue tobe partsan. to reflect the ma-jority feellng of the people. He

recommended thot the chiefexecutive be elected for a four-year term, with a $20-$25,000

salary for the offce, that he be

required to !lve in the county

at least four years before run-ning for the job. He shouldnot be allowed to hire and fìi-eall depártment heads (auditor,and assessor offices at leastshould be elective)but~e shauld

have some \-eto power. ~ÎL. Joe Ml1er, Bel!e..ue city:.

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Argus(Cir. W, 7,210)

APR 5 1968

Jlllen's P,C.B. Est.18BSFreeholders MODe

Dear Sir: ;i J ¿ '1It may be of interest to

Arg-us readers to know thatthe Everett Freeholders haveused up 4/6ths of their spanof life and accomplished9/l0ths of the job they were ,created for. LEverett voters have a new .õ' officials. Meeting

charter to vote on, about twice weekly for the past 13August. weeks the Freeholders haveThis is a most compatible attended faithfully and lis-

and well balanced group of tened attentively as localresponsible citizens. Its pat. officials, national experts andte.rn of behavior and accomp- interested citizens described,lishment could serve as an the organization and func-excellent example for your tioning of the present countyKing County Freeholders government and proposedwho have been fighting one, alternatives. Only after thusanother since they started. becoming better informed

ROBERT M. HUMPHREY have the Freeholders begun"".----L. UT_. to deliberate on the major=ïssues to be dealt with in a¡ county home-rule charter.

Mr. Humphrey states thatthe Everett freeholders are"a most compatible and well-balanced group of r~sponsi-ble citizens," suggesting thatthe King County.group hasnone of these attributes.

Meaningful deliberatio~ byresponsible people requires.indeed depends upon, ?- thor-ough airing of all points of..iew. What better way tobring "Home Rule" to KingCounty?

RICHARD R. ALBRECHT,Chairman, Board of King

County Fr~ehold/

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By VIRGINIA BURNSIDEOur Count)' News Bureau

The King County freeholdersnow engaged in drafting a newcounty charter wil take theirwork to the Valley April 18 ,,,hen

iney hold a public forum in KentCity Hall to discuss a newpersonnel system for the county.The hearing wil begin at 7: ~Op.m.The soiitheastern county

meeting wil be the third in aseries of public hearings calledto give local organizations and

residents a chance to present. their views to freeholders on

what they believe should beincorporated into the new char-ter. The previous two meetings,

- including the one held last nightin Bellevue, were concernedwith the county's proposed legis-lative body.In a consensus among the

freeholders on the details of howths body should operate, allfour of the Valley's representa-tives on the board were inunanimous agreement, PaulMeyers, executive secretary ofthe board, said Monday. Theseare Terry McKenna and JamesCurran, both of Kent, and How-ard Bothell and Lyle Schneider,

both of Auburn. Schneider madehis position on the legislativeboy known by letter, Meyerssaid.

They favor a full-time Boardof County Commissioners com-posed of nine members servingstaggered four-year terms, theprelimnary vote indicated. '

Meyers noted that all favoredthe election of the nev,-ly consti-

tuted Board of King CountyCommssioners on a geographi-cal and population basis thatwould. follow the present com-mic:i:io.rer-district dii'ision.Their decision was qualified hesaid, in connection with 'thedecision they must also makeconcerning whether the newcounty executive (which all fa-vor) should be elective or ap-pointed.

"If he were to be elected, thenfreeholders would probably pre-fer the election of commission-ers by district; if the executive....__.. .... L_ ___ _!_J.~ ~ !.. ____ _ ..l- _

as elecli\'e oflcers . . . or evenabolished (as might be the caseof the coroner); whether thet:ounty should have a personnel

system; whether the county machinery for initiative, referineeds a county executive, and, if endum, and recall should beso, whether he should be elected retained, modifed,' or eliminat-

or appointed; and whether the ed. /'

Kirkland. Wash.East Side Journal

(Cir, W, 3,188)

APR 1 0 1968

Jlflen's P,C.8, Est. 1888

"'Freeholders. slate 2 morepublic fofdr1s7The Bo_~rd ...nLçp'u!:ty

Freeholders, who are draftinga Charter "for modernization .

of county government, wil holda thrd and fourth in a series

of pulic forus at 7:30 p,m.April 18 in the Kent City Hall

and April 24 at Shoreline High

School.The third w11 focus on a

personnel system. The fourth'';11 be devoted to new county

departents and whether heads

of these should be elec, ted or./appointed.. . . . ,/ .

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.Al/øn ~ P. c, i.-:;. Freeho~dersVJiH ConductPublic Fori~ms

The boarQ... 9.L.King_ County, FreehQJers ",ill conduct the third

.an') r;:UJtÌ Li a series cf public ),forums on Apri 18th at 7:30 P.M. jin the Kent City Hall and on Apri24th at 7:30 P.M. in the Shoreline

Hi Scool "Little Theatre". TheAprl 18th foru wil focus on the

subject of a personnel system underthe county charer, and the Apri24th foru will be devoted to thesubject of new county departmentsan the consideration of whether'

suc heads of departents should

be elected or appointed. ), ¡ 7 7Actual åraftig on the charter

wi begn followig the publicforums and the delibertions by the

.' Kig County Freeolders.The forums have provided

valuable assistance to thefreeholder in a-'t~~"iri iWt !becommUJty woUld like to see in y

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,,') I ., 7By JERRY BERGS;\L\..\¡Th~irlow ~iarti:i HeggJand,

chief administrative officerof San Diego County 19vears until his retirement a\veek ago, ycsierday suppDrt.

ed appointment of a KingCounty mana.ger.

Heggland spoke to theBO?-T_Q oLKin;;, Count,:,f.ree-

ho'ders, which is drafting a.home-rule charter."Peüple ought to want

someone who ¡" a qualifiedaå'11Inistrator ani: not some-one who can win a popular-ity contest," he said.

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(Cir. 226.374 Sat. 215,122Sun. 270,529)

f.PR 'i 1968

Jlllen's P. C. B./C u u rr;"'y

Est. 1888

HEGGLA:\D ,,:! ¡d he couldwork under an ,::('ctcd exec"uti\'e "but I honesth' don't

knol\ if i could fecI i Ìiad the

!'Cll1-: capacity ,nd the s~\mcscope or office as \..!wri I leftthe ofìice"

lie ~aid he \'.o'Jld prefer to\\ork for a boa rd of county

com m :ssioiiers.

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administrative officer ofSan Diego County, Calif.,thinl; the job &hould bedone differently,

'. T. h u r low M. Heggland,: who was county manager inthe SOU the r n Californiacounty for more than 17

. years' and retired just aweek ago, spoke yesteråayto the King County Board ofFreeholders.

The fr€€Ìlolders are draft-ing a home rule charter.

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SAN DIEGO County, hetold them, is run by a five-man board of supervisors,which appoints a chief ad-ministrative offcer,

The CAG car r i e s outboard policy, One of hism)Tiad duties is to reviewand make recommendationson all departmental budg-ets.

The board of supervisorsis both legislative and ad-ministrative.

"I would prefer that thesupervisors do the legisla-tive work and let the chiefadministrative offcer d 0

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ln San Diego County, withabout the same ,populationas King County, the adminis-trator is appointed by afive-member board of super-visors. The biiard membersare elected bv district iiinonpartisan eÌections andhave both administrativeand legislative functions.Seven other d e par t men theads are elected.Freeholders plan to sep-

arate legislati\'e and admin-i~trati\'e functions and He~g-land agreed this is prefera-ble.

Because man\' items arereferred bv the "board tó the

administrå'tor for analysisand recommendation, his of-fice becomes involved in poll,C\', he said.-The San-Die-Jo administra-

tor reviews and makes rec-ommendations on all budgetsand must approve all newpositions requested by elect-ed and appointed oftkials.The question of whether

the official is appointed orelected makes little difft'r-ence in the administrator'sdealings with them, Hegg-land said.

Heggland supported the'appoìntment of all officialsexcept the sheriff and dis-trict attome\' in San DieioCount\.. He -endnl's"'d us€' i'frecru(tment and pro110tiGnprnccdiires or Civil Scrvici"

but s,~id wp'lc\'ds of depart"l1L?nts should not be protect-ed bv it.

THE AUTHORITY of thead m i n i s l r a ior, he said,gra\\'s \\i,h the length oftime he is in ofïice. "Over aperiod of time. the adminis-

tratol' finds there is a rea!a:.ahoritv that accrues to thefJdïl.'e v:'hetht'l' it is spelledout in an ordinance or not,"

He~~land saiå.

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SO;\lE OF THE frce~~1d- ;ers suggested that giving ,the CAO so much powerwould almost create one-man rule in many areas ofcounty government.. Hegg-land admitted that manypolicy decisions were madeby the supervisors on hisrecomn:e.. ation."I don't think it would

give oni: man too muchpower," Heggland said. "I itold the board when I firsttook the job that any timethree of the five disagreed

with me on policy I'd stepout of the job."

H egg 1 and said that acharter review committee ',I'wil recommend soon thatfive of seven county elec-tive jobs be made appoin-tive, only the sherif anddistrict attorney, of ~he sev- ,;en posts, to remam elec- :t',live, !. !

HEGGLA~'D personally"would go one step fur~her f'and have the Sheriff ap- Lpointed. .~

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. By JERRY DERGSiHAN county level was proposedA strong "mayor-Council" last night by Henry Seidel, a

form of government on the former county official who----,-- -- . -- -- .--_.... . now is an aide to Congress-

n"Ím Brock Adams.Seidel told the County

Board .of FreC'hoìders, thatthe exe-:utive, or "mayor,"should be elected becaLse hewil be the most powerfulsingle influence on countygovernment. Appointment ofan administrator, S e ide isaid. would 'mean the admin-istrative and leg is i a t i vefunctions would not be sep-arated.

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SEIDEL ALSO said it isvital that the executive be

I allowed to appoint a legalcounsel for himself and ap-

pointed department heads,The prosecutor's office nowprovides legal guidance.

Asserting that local gov-ernment now is a hodgepodge of overlappingsubgovernments, S e ide isaid:

"If we can now disentan-gle ourselves from the suffo-cating governmental over-lapping jurisdiction, theremay be a chance that wecan shape our environmentso that we can live in a com-plex industrial society inpeace and harmony with ourenvironment. "

Seidel w:is budgtt directorfor' former commissionerScott Wallace for six yearsbefore joining Adams' štaff.

Seidel contended there is

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Est. 1888

,-Freeholders Ask $1 1,500

For~~9,nfingent:y Bi~dgetThe COUiitv ~oard of Free- travel and out - of - pocket

. holders today' asked COi!nty expenses without delay. .commissioners to approve He said the $1I,500 wouldan SlI,5CO budget for small pay for office supplies, te!e-expenses. phones, postage, advisory

Richard R. A i b r e c h t, services, extra help, fareschairman, said the freehold- and mileage.ers have obtained tEstimony The major expenses of thefrom leaders in coi'nty gov- freeholder,; are for contrac-'ernment at little exp.ònse, tual services, including those

but that the board should be of the board's executive sec-

able to reimbu,se them for retary and attorney. _..

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(~overt1f~1etJino practical way to establishone government for KingCOt:rity and he expressed thefear that abolishment of the

various governmental unitsin a merger would form astructure too large for eff-cient management.

BUT, HE SAID, the engi-neer should have the respon-

sibility of moving towardelimination of junior taxiiJC

districts providing municipalservices such as water andsewerage.

He said counties should begranted powers to providethe municipal services orcoi1ract with other govern-mental units to manaoe theSystC111S. ö

He called for election of acounty executive and of afull-time, partisan, seven-member Board of Commis-sioners. Commissioners, hesaid, should be nominated bydistrict and elected at :arge.

HE SAID the audi tor ~ theprosecutor and a public dE;-

fender in the prosecutor's of-fice should be elected an.d allother -county 0 f f i cia i sappointed by the executive.The auditor would have au-diting functions only" .

Seidel said the clericalwork of the courts should beunder the supervision of theexecutive so judges couldspend all their time on judi-cial work.

He called for establish--ment of a joint county.~ity

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jail, performance b;,dgets in-stead of a line-i¡:em, budt;èt,a central personnel ofiicethat would put merit first inhiring and close cooqerationand coordination of countvgovernment with Metro, thePort of Seattle and thePuget Sound Governr.:c!1talConference. He said BoeinO'Field should remain unde~county jurisdiction..

Ralph Stender, clerk of theBoard of County Commis.sioners, supported the con-cept of an elected auc!ito;' asa check against the board.He out 1 i n e d his duties,stressing that he is a dejiuty

auditor although he s-=n'esas secretary of the board.

The freeholden...re å:-?ft-ing-a countv charterTar- sì.ìEl-

misšiõn to \7oters ìiiNovem-ber,

Seattle, Wash.West Seattle HeraJd

(Cir, W, 24,000)

Arr~ 1 1 1968

Jillen ~ p, C. B.' Est. 18:58

Freeholders Set

Public Forums '''i. -.' -.. .A 'IThe Board of King Count:

Freeholders will co-ñdûc"f"t h .third.und-fourth in a series 0public forums Apr'l 18, at 7: 3p.m. in the Kent City Hall an

April 24 at 7: 30 p.m. in thShoreline High School "LittlTheatre. ..The Arril 18 forum wil (ocu

on the subject of a personmsystem under the county char:er. and the April 24 forurwil be devoted to the sub;ec

of new county det."lrtments ~nthe consideration ::ò'r- whethesuch heads of departr-i;entshould be elected or appointee'

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Countv Oufcgrovls Buildinv That Isn't,-. i '7 ~.,l ;.j I .IN.

an exercise of bu.reaucratic fore-sight, the Board of King County Com-

missioners has authorized expansion ofthe proposed Courthouse annex to pro-vide additional office space which theboard expects will be needed if thecounty government is reorganized byadoption of a home-rule charter.

The annex had been planned as' aneight-floor structure. Bllt ll'tli the free-holders fai-rin~ t.1llnrging--iu'!-nóar1loT-TiiiižìSšiõri'Crs jrom its presentthree-member size to nine, the annexis deemed (by the present board) tobe too small.

Hence the extra floor now author-ized, in which the proposed nine-mem-ber board of commission~rs might behoused in suitable fashion to match thepenthouse quarters of Seattle's mayorin the not-long-ago completed l\lunicipalBuilding.

The action by the commissionersproves anew a theory of poliical reali-

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Est. 1888

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Co u n t y Commis~ionersdecided yesterday to aùdone more story to the pro-jected administrati\'e annexacross 4th ..\senue from thecourthouse.

The adc1itional floor, in-creasing the structure tonine stories, wil add from$300.000 to $400,000 to thepreviously estimated S.1.95

. milion co s t.

Th¿;Bo:ird of King CountyCommiss:i,ncrs liiS agl(;c.Jto add another f100l to the'pro p 0 sed administrativebuiidi1~g at a cost of $300,000

to $-400.000.

On the basis of Earlierplans, showing five fullfloors and three part floors,the cost would have been$4.95 m i 11 ion. The planchange is based on proposalsby the County B03.rd ofFre,~holders to increase the

number of cOt:nty commis-sioners from three to nine.

Bids on the building areexpected about June 1. Ten-ants in the block bounded byFourth and Fifth Avenuesand Jefferson and JamesStreets, site of the building;

will be given notice to mo\'e

by May 19 so that demolition. can begin.

CO;\i:IISSIOXERS s aidthe d~cisiQ..n._~as ,based_ ()n

the pos.sible enactment of acounty charter and possible

eniärgënieiit of the l),oard ofCoInmÍsslöncrs'- flom three

meiñb~'Ù9: ñin¡~:---- ,_..-DemoÙtion of thE' Holl:md

Hotel and other buildings. on the block wil beg i nJune i.Bids for construction of

the new building wil becalled in July,

Construction wil beg i n

around Aut. 1.

ties enunciated in Parkinson's la\':s-that the growth of government rises bya numerical factor greater than its re-sponsibilities for governing.

Specifically, the commissioners mustbe convinced that the modernized gov-ernment contemplated by the free-holders wil be bigger county govern-ment. Otherwise, the older Courthouseand its annex-\vhich supposedly wasto accommodate future growth-wouldhave filled the bil for the Utopianhome-rule system now being devised.In short, the proposed annex is out-grown before it is built. '

This should surprise 110 olle because

110 oiie ei-er heard oj a moderiiizeduiiit oj t:Ol'cr/lmeTlt that didii't eiid up

larger than the jorm it replaced. .And, of course, the commissioners

are assuring that in any futulie short-ages of office space they (Jr their suc-cessors wil have ample space stakedout for their convenience and C?rr~- ... ' . , II

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By \'IRGL\IA BUR:'SIDE freeholders on the details of how missioner-district division.Our County ~ews Bureau this body should operate, all Their decision was qualified, he

The King County freeholders four of the Valley'S representa- said, in connection with thenow engaged in draftng a new tives on the board were in decision they must also makecounty charter wil take their unanimous ag reem en t, Paul concerning ",'hether the new

, work to the Valley April 18 when Meyers, executive secret~!.y: nr county executive (which all fa-they hold a public forum in Kent the board, said h)st week. These vorl should be elective or ap-

. City Hall to discuss a new are Terry l\lcKe;ma and James pointed.personnel system for the county. Curran, both of Kent, and How- "If he were to be elected, then

, The heming will begin at 7:30 ard Bothell and LyleSchneider, freeholders would probably pre-

, p.m. both of Auburn. Schneider made fer the election of commission-: The southeastern county his position on the legislative ers by district; if the executive! meeting wil be the third in a body 'known by letter, Meyers were to be appointed, it was the

\ series of public hearings called said. feeling they would want to make: to give local organizations and They favor a full-time Board some commissioners - or legis-: residents a c!iance to present of County Commissioners com- lators - at large," Meyers said.! their views to freeholders on posed of nine members serving Apparently the entire group of; what they believe should be staggered four-year terms, the freeholders, including the Valley. incorporated into the new char- preliminary vote indicated. representatives, is reluctant to

tel' The previous two meetings, Meyers noted that all favored embark upon any charter provi-, induding the one held, recently the election of toe newly.consti- sions that would require redis:in Bellevue, were concerned tuted Board 0: King County tricting, although the charter

. with the county's proposed legis- Commissioners on a geographi- probably wil include machinery

.,lative body. . cal and population basis that to set up a redistricting commis-, In a consensus among the would follow the present com-' sion. Unti then, it was likely. ' '''" "". - ,,--. ''''- , , tnaI-ea.ch present commissioner

district would have three com-missioners nominated and elect-ed by district, the secretaryreported.Stil ahead of the group are

I decisions on whether the coun-I ty's other elected offcials 1

should be appointed or continue '.as elective offcers. . . or even

, abolished (as might be the case

, of the coroner); whether the. county should have a personnelsystem; whether the countyneeds a county executive, and, ifso, whether he should be electedor appointed; and whether themachinery for initiative, refer- r

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Ai the risk of raising thehackles of trailer owners, itis ¡;rat~ing ,to fin - a School

Oífdal wilin to offciallyobject to proposed mobilehome develorments.

I refer to a recent letter

!rn, Fie Schol Superinten-dent W. Carl Stegman to theFie and Milton TOI\n Coun-cils in which he said:

"The board wishes to en-ter its strong objection to the

opening of the area to mobilp.hon1l developments becauseof the lack of property re-venii~s available , , . both

for schol building pUI1Xlses

and schol maintenance and'operation requirements.

The board's feeling, Dr.Stegman said, is that suchdevelopments should b3 ban-ned until appropriate mobile

home tax revenues are pro-vied the schols by the leg-islature.

The letter was prompted byplans for a S1.8 milion com-plex, Fife Gardens, to ~ lo-

cate on 34 acreS adjacentto the east side Qf the Fife

Schols complex,The school offcial eontend ~

ed that the developer should

, be required to designate acertain portion of his land forschol use, either through a

dedication or by sellig it at

no higher than the origialcost.

The controversy over mob-ile homes in the Federal WayDistrict on this same basis

fowi 1',0 offcial support fromour Schol Poard despite thefact that it would have ~en

of the utmost concern to them, .. . as it is to the Fife Poard.

., .,.,The Current Freeholder

study of a new County Gov-. ernment structure for the vot-ers next l'ovember appears to

perhaps have create an un-desirable reaction from the

now go'..erni boy. .'My point is that the Coun-

ty Commissioners have so farigore a tliee month oldconsultants report recom-mending the consolidation ofthe two road.distret~ as ..~U

as other consoliùation~ 'in the framework of the pre-sent Co u n t y government,

Would it not sem that the. Commissioners aré awaiting'

the freeholder recommenda-tins ~fore they take actionon this . , , and other prob-

lems . . , such as the dogleash law.

Yet, as rointcd out in tle!\unicil':i I\cws, the consul-tants lt'to¡i staLCs that since

19.;9 two important factors

hose !x'en noted.1. The accelerali'Ù urban-

ization in the western sec-tion of King County has re-sulted in increased demandsfor county services. Th~ re-

poii said, "results ha-,eooenless than satisfaclor.r, some-times proucin unwarrent-ed annexations of inconirat-

cd areas and/or the crea-tion of special districts ,-sewer, \'li'ai.r,draiagci a.'1d soforth." In light of this the

report recommends the re-Strcturiig of the present En-

gineering Department to car-

ry the responsibilt,y for allthe county's public worldunc-tions.

2. The second considera-

tion concerns the Freehold-

er's Commission and theirdrafting of a charer. If thischarter is approved by thevoters it wil undoubtt-dl~. af-

feet most county departmentsand functions, The recom-mendations by the consultig

firm were desigil to com-pliment and not confict \\ithmatters to ~ considered by

the Freeholders,This brings me back to re-

cdmmendations made in tlscolumn in the past, not onlyconsolidation at the top, but

also consolidation of our pre-sent taxing districts, sewer,

water, etc" with a go'start

made by the recent consoli-dations of the Federal Way

and Lakeland Fie Districtsan the pendin merger of theS;'hia Pines an Des MoinesSewer District,

Our iremendous grwth to-

d¡n' and in the future demandsthat this be done to avoidduplication, which in turnbris unnecessary costs tothe home - owner.

Locally, ii1è:itlel avenuewil ~ ÏIeoniratlnn, which.would I hope, aeceleraw theseconsolidations. ./ '

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Two oÎf¡cial5 long f~mil.iar with coun~ry go\"ern-ment ag\'!'erl ~t a frter.old-er's meeting la~t iiight thatthe county auditor remainan indcp!'ndently eIectp.d or.ficial, not an appointee ofcounty government heads.nal¡ih J. Stender, veteran

clerk or the Board of CountyCommi~sioner~, re,pondedin an,wer to a quc~tion thatthe auditor ~houid remainan elected officer, free toexamine the budg!'t and another fiscal functions.

HeMv Seidel, who wa~budget - d ire e tor for th~

county for six year; before

becoming administrativeassistant to Rep. Brock Ad.ann in 1964, told the frep-holders that "the auditorshould remain an p;ectedoffcial for the reason that

there must be an independ-ent check of the accounting

and biisines~ practices ofthe elected offcials."

5 T E" D E R, him;;elf adeputy Ruditor serving t~e

commissioners as the 1 rclerk, was asked why com-missioners shouldn't be al-lowed to appoint th!'ir clerklhemselns. He ansii'eredthat th!' clerk "must be freelo tell them they're ai'iout tojo something the y can'tjo."

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i,t for doir.g that iit times

during his 22 Y~?~'s s:?rving

the board. ,\s to whetherthe commi;.sir)i:~rs' 1 e galadvi~er ~hr,uid be an ap-pointive or decti'.'e official,Stender res p (I n d e d heshould be an independentoHicial a~ he now is in theperson or the pro;;ecutoreven thou;h or the opposite

poliical party.

So m eo comm¡,,;'ion~rsmight have tried to infiu-er.ce tllQir adviser had hebeen their appointee, Sten-

der pointeG out. Seidel'sreconnnendó,tion:; dHfered,from Stender's in that Sei-

del would hai'e an elected

county mayor gI\'en pJi','erto appoint the count).'s civillegal adviser.

He would als(\ ha\'e thepower to appoint the sher-iff, treasurer and ass~ss01:

aIth.'1ugh Seidel agrted theauditor shO\:ld remain elect-ed. He also recommended"a merit system for county

employes, with hjri~g firston the basi.' of merit andsecond on the basis of poli-tics."

He recommended t h ~commissioners be their ownp i ann i n g commI:-sionerswith_ appeals bein~ tAkenfrom their decisions to thecourts.

The freeholders are !'e-ceiving views of nffeialsand citizens bernre draftinga charter for submi~sion to

the voters proposin¡. are.vamping or county -go,ern-.ment. '~~"".~""~

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L' B"ut Why__Nine On County BÇ)ard?. ~l i J; The King C01IntyBoard of Freeholders day by the United States Supreme Court: is beginning to get down to the nitty-gritty The court in an historic 5-to-3 decision. of decision-making in preparation for the put local government under its one-man,

drafting of a new charter to offer the voters one-vote rule as it derives from the equal-in November. i protection clause of the 14th Amendment to

One of the first "big" decisions came re- the Constitution.centIy when the freeholders took a tentative As a practical matter, the ruling is in-position that the policy-making board of terpreted to mean that each district of acounty commissioners should be enlarged whole which elects persons to public offcefrom the present three members to nine must be nearly equal in population to allmembers, each elected to a staggered four- other elective districts of the whole. Thus,year term by voters in the district he wil it would require that the commissioner dis-represent. tricts of King County - whether there be

While the proposal would continue three, five, seven or nine - be roughlycommissionerships as a partisan offce, it equivalent to each other in population and, Iwould ofter a direct break with the present hence, voters. In this manner, the vote of a',election system in which the three commis- man in one district carries about the samesioners are nominated by voters in the dis- "weight" as that of a voter in any othertrict they represent but elected by all voters district. And that, in the view of the court,in the county. makes all men equal. . . one man, one vote.

Although no firm decision on this has Reapportionment, obviously, wil beyet been reached, it was considered likely some time in coming about. There is, ho\\-that whatever type of a chief executive is ever, something the Board of Freeholders is .provided for the county, such an executive now doing to continue to keep their deliber-would be elected at-large. . ations at the grass-roots leveL.

The question is bound to arise. Why. The board has now scheduled one of itsshould King County need nine full-time public sessions for the Valley, this to be incommissioners? That's six more than at Kent City Hall on April 18. -present, in addition to the consideration The forum wil be the freeholders' thirdbeing given for election of a chief executive. public session, and basically wil be keyedAnd that's a total of seven offcials. to discuss the possibility of establishing a

It's easy enough to understand the need new personnel system for the county in thefor a board of commissioners larger than the new charter. Previous hearings were heldpresent three, The burdens of the position in the Courthouse and in Bellevue.have escalated. And a two-man majority - The Kent hearing wil give all resi-generally political - is not always the most dents of the Valley an opportunity to meetdesirable way of settlng some of the weighty with the freeholders and give the offcialsproblems with which the commissioners the benefit of their grass-roots thinking con-must cope. cerning what should or should not be inthe

But why nine? Wouldn't five do? Or even new county charter. The South County areaseven? " "is well and ably represented on the board,

Whatever the number, there apparently but undoubtedly there are many in the areastil remains the decision on how to set up who would welcome the opportunity to voicethe districts geographic211y. their opinions on charter revision. . . and to

One part of the apportionment prob- do it close to home.lem - regardless of how many districts ulti- Thanks, freeholders, for making itmately are involved - was put in focus~!oi:.: possible.. -- /'

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An $11,500 budgetfor small

. expenses was requested bytlieThe board of King C'ounty Counn' Board of FrcchJlders

freeholders wil conduct the on April 11.third and f( irth in a series Richard R. Albrecht, chair~,of public f(,rums Thursday, man ex-plained that the free~ A public forum to discuss a -April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the ' b . ed t Ii new personnel system for King

holders have 0 tam cs-Kent City Hal) and WednesJo.y, t County wil be held by freehold-,at 7:30 p,m. in the SlioreLne mony from leaders in coun y ers at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in theHigh School "Little Theatre." . government at litte expeidl1sbe, Kent city halL.The April 18 forum wil focus but that the board shou e The Kent meeting wil be theon the subject of a personnel able to reimburse them for third in a series of publicsystem under thecotlnty cliar- travel and other e::q)enses hearings called to give localter i and the April 24 forum without delay. organizations and r~sid~nts awil be devoted to the subject He' ponted out that the chance to present their views toof new county departments and $11,500 budget would pay for freeholders on the new charterthe consideration of whether fares an mileage, extra help, . .such heads of departm ents provisions.should be elected of appointed, advisory services, postage, Previous meetìngs dealt with

telephones, an offce sup- the county's proposed legislativeThe first forum con\.~emed plies. body, probably to be a full-timethe legislative body, and the At tls time, the major ex- board of nine commissionerssecond forum was de\'oted to penses for the board are for serving on staggered four-yearthe subject of the chief exe- contractl.ral s0rvices, inclu- terms and elected on a geo-~utive. I' d'

din those of the board's ex- gr:aphical and popu ation 1S-Actual drafting on the char- ecuti_ve secrctar;y an attr~ 1 _ tnct_., J:er will begin follo\ving the .. . f _ - ..'..)ublic forums and the delib- ~~. , I - W h ,..,_.Ji--~rations by the King Countyi ~ . Seo1t e, a~ S' attle:reeholders. " Northgate-Nort e

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To fJ1eét In

l(cnt Thu;.sdny

i A pUbiic forum to discuss -ai new personnel system for KingI County wil be held by freehold-! ers at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the

Kent city he'lL.! The Kent meeting wil be thei third in a series of publicI hearings called to give . locali organizations and residents a't chance to present their views toi freeholders on the nc~\" charter~ provisions.. Previous meetings dealt with

I the county's prOi)osed legislative..

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body, probably to be a full-timeboard of nine commissionersserving on staggered four-yearterms. and elected on a geo-g~aphical and population dis-trict '-~- . Burien, Wash. ._"

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The - BQard of King ~ Co'iinty holders.? I r¡ 7'

'. Freeholders Will cöñ5i1 the . The forums" have providedth11èIñãIô'lrth in a series of valuable assistance to the Free-

public forums on April 18, 7 :30 holders in assessin.g what tnep.m., in the Kent City Hall and community would like to see inon April 24. 7 :30 p.m.. in the a new county government. Ap-Shoreline High School "Little proximately 60 persons attend-Theatre." ed the forum on April 2 in Belle-The April 18 forum wil focus vue; and the Freeh~ld~rs anti.

on the subiect of a personnel cipate greater public involve.system under the county char- ment as they begin t~eirtel'. and the April 24 forum will delibe:-ations on the variousbe devoted to the s'Jbject of new an~as of the charter. All of thecounty departments ånd the Freeholders' deliberati~n ses.consideration of whether ~uch ,sions are open to Li.e public. ~heads of departments should ~ .-be elected or appointed.The first forum was held on ~

. March 16, cor.cerning the legis- Jlative bodv; and the secondforii~ was' 0.1 April 2, and wasdevoted to the subject of tiie .chief eXtcut:ve,

I Aciu:il draftng on the char- I

ter wil begin followín~ the~i.

pubìic forums and the deJibera-tio::s bv the King County Free~- ~ --

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The Board of King County Freeholdersvtil conduct the

, four in its series of public fi)rurr.s at 7 :30 p.m. tomorrowin the Kent City Hall and at 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday,April 24, in the Shorelie Highi School "Litte Theatre":The April 18 foru wi flX11 on new county government.

the sub'eit of a pernnal system Approximately 60 personsunder the county charer; the Apri attended the last fo~ Apr

2. ~nd

24 foru ",ill be devoted to the the freeolders anticipate gre.t~

su!:i~t of new county departents public involvement as they b~and the consideration of whether thei deliberations on the vanol1

suc heads of depaents should ar of the charer. .be elected or appointed. All of the freehol ders.

The first forum, March 16 delibera~on sessions are ope tococerned the legislative body; the the pubhc. --secnd forum on Apri 2 wasdevoted to the subject of the chiefex~utive. _Actual drftig on the charer

wi begin follo\l1ng the publicforu and the deliberations by the

Kig County Freeolders.The forums have provided

valuable assistance to the,. freeholders in aS$essig what the.~~unty would lie to se in a.

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ficquest $1I,S00

For E!rpoti~es

An $11,500 budget for small- expenses WC\S requested bytlieCounty Board of Freerl)lderson April 11.

Richard R. Albrecht, chair-man eXl'lained that the free-oold~rs have obtain cd testi-mony from leaders in countygoveniment at litte expense,but that the board should be

able to reimbarse them for

travel and other e~;penseswithout delay.

He' ponted ,?ut that the$11,500 budget would pay forfares an mileage, exira help,advisory services, postage,

telephones, and offce sup-plies.. At ths time, the major ex-

penses for the board are forcontractural services, inclu-ding those of the board's ex-

ecutive secreta an attr- .' .ney. /

Edmonds, Wash.Tribune-Review(Cir. W. 4,575).

Jlllen's P.C.B. Est. 1888

Tax Re"form

PTA TopicA panl of experts on Con-

- sttutional Revision an TaxReorm ".vlÍ1 be featud on theprogram of the PTA D1stct18 anual spring conferencepland April 22 at WoodwayHigh School, 23200 lOO West,Edonds.

Me11ers of the panl will beRep. Slade Gortn, member ofth legislatue from the 46thD1strct and house majorityleader; Senator r-lar J, Du-

Je, ways an meanschalan;an Mrs. Edmond H. Bran, ,fist vice president of theLea!re of Women Voters ofWashngton. r-1rs. DouglasNort, King CountYTreeholder,'

will be moderator.The speakers will tell what

citizes can òo to help bring

abut ta.x re~orm.

11 ~verúng wil begin withregistration and refreshments

at 6:30 and the program andelection of offcers wil be at /

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Freeholders

To r~~eet In

Kent ThursdayA public forum to discuss a

new personnel system for KingCounty wil be held by freehold-ers at ï:30 p.m. tomorrow in theKent city halL.

The Kent meeting wil be thethird in a series of public

. hearings called to give localorganizations and residents achance to present their views tofreeholders on the new charterprovisions.

Previous meetings dealt withthe county's proposed legislativebody, probably to be a full-timeboard of nine commissionersserving on stagger~d four-yearterms and elected on a geo-graphical and population dis-trict. r ./. so

FreeJ~()!t~e§"s To face Pi"ok~!em'.Of Pel~onnel Tomorrow Night

By Our Count~' News Bureau Seidel viewed its success inOne of the crucial decisions soh'ing the problem of sewage

facing freeholders in their job of disposal such that it may alsodraftinrr a new county charter hold the key to other problem,:wil ?eo the subject of ,a public as rapid transit.h~aring slated for 1 hursd.ay Although the freeholders havenight at 7:3~ p.m. In Ke~t City not formally started the actualHalL. That is the question of. writinp' of the charter a serieswhether King Count~ should of vot;s, the first on the compo-adopt a personnel s:, stem to sition and function of the Boardregulate the employm~nt and ef County Commissioners, haveconduct of the county s large indicated a growing consensuswork force. .

Paul !\Ieyer, executive offcerof the Board of Freeholders,said the board would welcomethe participation of individuals

and spokesmen for communitygroups who wish to go on recordon the subject. The hearing is'the third in a series of fourscheduled at key parts of thecounty to sample local opinionon how the new charter should

. b€ written, he said.l\Ieanwhile, freeholers contin-

ued their schooling in countygovernment last week as they Iheard Henry Seidel, formerbudget director for ex-County (Commissioner Scott Wallaceand now aide to Seventh DistrictCongressman Brock Adams,make suggestions for new direc-

, tIons in county government.Among those proposals were

that King County should begranted municipal permission tooperate water systems, sewagesystems, fire systems, and po-

lice departments; that KingCounty should be granted au-thority to enter into contracts

with other municipalities tomanage their municipalsystems, and that the functionsof the planning department andthe planning commission beassumed by the County Commis- '""sioners."The planning commission ,"

should be the county council," r~.:Siedel declared. "Since thecounty council is a legislative t,.d...,body, this function in reality is a t

legislative function. The councilshould also be a full.time body,

as no other function of govern.

ment wil assume the impor-. tance to the people of the county,in its environmental aspectsthan this function." .

l . A strong supp~rter of Metro" -;.~. .

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among the body. At the present -time, it was learned, a vote on _

the functions of a county manag.er or mayor wil be taken at an .executive session this we~k.

l\lajor spli, and it appears to be-an even one, is not whether the ~

county should or should not have,a manager, but whether the,position should be elective or.appointive.

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Journal(Cir. W. 25,240)

AN~ 1 7 1968

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The B~~rJ o?¿g Coiity Freeholders wil conduct thefour in its Š-ëlies of public forums -at 1:30. p.m. tomorrowin the Kent City Hal~ and. at 7 :30 P'T' .next Wedne,~day,

April 24, in the Shoreliri~ High ~diùOl Litte Theatre .The Apri 18 forum wili fcxJ5 C;i the freeolders anticipate greater

the subject of a personal s)stei:- public involvement as they begiunder the county charer; the Apri thei deliberations on the varous24 forum wi be devoted to the' ares of the charer.subject of new county departments All of the freeholders'and the consideration of whether 'deliberation sessions are ope tosuch heads of departents should Uie'Dublic_ ---be elected or appointed.The first forum, March 16

concered the legislative boy; thesecnd forum on Apri 2 wadevoted to the subject of the chefexecutive.

Actua drafting on the charerwi begi follov;ing the publicforu and the deliberations by the

Kig County Freeolders.The forums have provided

valuable assistance to thefreeolders in asessing what the

community'would like to se in a .new county government.

L Approximately 60 personsattended the lat foru Apri 2, and .I

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thei

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b of

drafting a neW county charter

will be the subject of a public

hearing slated for Thursday

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n K

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Free

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elco

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'the participation of individuals

Lan

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grou

ps w

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ish

to g

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rec

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that

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ount

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ould

be

on the subject. The hearing is granted municipal permission to

the third in a series of four operate water systems, sewage

scheduled at key parts of the systems, fire systems, and po-

coun

ty to

sam

ple

loca

l opi

nion

lice

dep

artm

ents

; tha

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gon how the new charter should County should be granted au-

be w

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to c

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acts

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ued

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vern

men

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now

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Dis

tric

t sio

ners

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mak

e su

gges

tions

for

new

dir

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ld b

e th

e co

unty

cou

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cou

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Com

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dy. A

t the

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Itim

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a v

ote

onth

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r a

coun

ty m

anag

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or

may

or w

il be

take

n at

an

;executive session this week.

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or s

pli,

a"d

it ap

pear

s to

be

an e

ven

one,

is n

ot w

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er th

e i

coun

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sho

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not h

ave

a miínager, but whether the; ,

posi

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ld b

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appo

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body

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s fu

nctio

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rea

lity

is a

legi

slat

ive

func

tion.

The

cou

ncil

should also be a full-time body,

as no other function of govern-

ment wil assume the impor-

tanc

e to

the

peop

le o

f the

cou

nty

in its environmental aspects

than

this

fun

ctio

n."

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tron

g su

ppor

ter

of M

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idel

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succ

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.. By Our Couiity 1Ikw!. Bureau the participation of individuals

r One of the crucial decisions and spokesmen for community:! facing freeholders in their job of groups who wish to go on r.eco~d

draftng a new county charter on the subject. The heanng is1 wil be the subject of a public the third in a series of fouri hearing slated for Thursd~y scheduled at key parts o~ thenight at 7:30 p.m. in Kent CIty county to sample local opin1On

, lIall. That is the question of on how the new charter should

i whether King County should be written,. he said. .I adopt a personnel system. to Meán1vh¡le, freeholers contin-1 regulate the employment and ved their ..chooling in county1 conduct of the county's large government last week as they~ work force. . heard Henry Seidel, former

Paul Meyer, executive offcer budget director for ex-County

~. of the Board of Freeholders, Commissioner Scott Wallace.~aid the board would welcome and now aide to Seventh Disti~:ct

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legislative function. The councilshould also be a full-time body,

as no other function of govern-

ment wil assume the impor-tance to the people of the countyin its environmental aspectsthan this function."

Co~gr..ssm~n Brock Ad~ms, A strong supporter of Metro, I~ake. suggest10ns for new direc- Seidel viewed its success in

t10ns in county government. solving the problem of sewageAmon.g those proposals were disposal such that it may also

that King ~~unty sh~~l? be'hold the key to other problemsgranted municipal permbslOn to as rapid transit.operate water systems, sewage .systems, fire systems. and po- Although the freeholders ha\ e

lice departments; that King not. rormally started the act~alCounty should be granted au- wnting of the. charter, a senesthority to enter into contracts or ~otes, the fir~t on the compo-

with other m u n i c i p a I it i es to sltlOn and functlOp ?f the Boardmanage their municipai?f çounty Comml~slOners, hav~svstems and that the functions indicated a growing consensu~

of the pÌanning department and ~monE the body. At the present'h ! i '1.': '1g commission be time, it ~vas learned, a vote on

assumed by the County Com mis- the functions o~ a county manag-, sioner-s. er or ~ayor w\l.l, be taken at an

"The planning commission exe~utive _ sessi~n this week.should be the county council," Major split, and it appears to bESiedel declared. "Since the an even one, is not whether th~county council is a legislative county should or should not haVE

body this function in reality is a a manager, but whether thf'-\;~~'posit!on. should be elective or. I ' appointive. .

Actual writing of the charter

is expected to begin sometimenext month, Meyer said.- ~

J(entF,r~eholder Meet Short: 20 Persons CòmIt didn't take t1e King County freeholders long to

hear the public's suggestions on a new personnel systemfor the county Thursday in the Kent City HaIL About 20persons showed for the meeting with fewer than half ofthem from South King County. '

The southeastern county public forum was third in aser!es of hearings called to give local organizations andresidents a chance to present their views to freeholderson what they believe should be incorporated into a newcounty charter the iree holders are drafting.

Except for Dave Mooney, former Kent councilmanall the speakers giving suggestions were from eithe;Seattle or 1'orth King County.

Up for public hearing was the need for a personnelsystem. Al of the groups represented agreed that thereshou!d_ be a system based on personal merit, that the top

- admrustrator of the system and the secretarv be p!pdpr!

-and that the system allow for hiring and firing of. '-.:. ,personnel. by the e.xecutive, with a sepamte an9.rivatè ;" . appeal board. . - , ,

,_Flexibilty Urged'. The personnel direCtor ,;ould in tyrn be re;õpor.sible

to ths executive. it was suggested, but the'systi:m mustbe flexible enough to a1!o\\ for change when_the executiveis changed. Therefore, there \,;ould not be a completepersonnel changeover every Unie a new executive cameinto offce. . . .

Most agreed that some' restrictions shouldbe placedin the charter about recruitment. Suggestions include

residency and voter status but such restrictions shouldnot be so selective as to ignore Qualified persons.

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Represe~tatives of the 33f(fDistrict Repubiican'Clubsaid something should be in the charter stating that 10per cent of the county employes should be Negroes or of aminority group.

Another speaker felt the county should not givespecial preferences to certain persons such as veterans,Som~, . ~ositions w_ould g~ ~nfiled in preference to

acceptance of a poòr1y qualified veteran-wait extrapoints for miltary service.Mooney Offers Views .

Mooney, who was not a scheduled speaker said thecounty must be run as a business. '

"To change politics and employes at the same time isnot the most effcient way to run a business," he said._ Mooney said he didn't think three county commis-

sioners could do the ~ob as effectively as five men, butthat ,as many as rune members serving staggered,four-) ear terms would not be necessary.

Other speake~ suggested enlarging departents ofthe county and having a group of laymen over the variousdepartents. This group would give the public a source

of appeal other than the courts when a particulardepartment said "no" to a request. '

The freeholders will offer their next public foru at

7:30 'p.m. ~Vednesday in the Shoreline High SchooL Thihearing wil be devoted to the subject of new countydepartments and whether heads of such departmentsshould be elected or appointed.. , .

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A civil service-type systemto bring qualified career em-ployes to county governmentwas endorsed last night at apublic hearing held by theBoard of Freeholders.TfJ1g-';as in the

Kent City HalL. Creation oT apersonnel system will be dis-cussed by the freeholdersApril 27.

No one oppo"ed the con-cept of a system to makequalified coi:nty employessecure in their jobs. WalterBarcla\,' who retired recent-Iv fro~ the County Clerk'sÕffice. blamed the lack ofsecurity for failure of the

county to attract young peo-ple to government employ-ment.

SEVERAL speakers saidlabor was opposed to civilservice. But Art Kent, vice

, president of the Renton Divi-sion of the King County La-bor Council, said, "all of la- _bor is not against civil serv-ice_ "State Representative Jo-

. seph L. McGavick, who par-ticipated in a study of per-

sonnel systems in the Legis-lative Council, proposed achi i service-type system. Hesaid rules of the commissionshould be ratified bv thecount\. commissionerš andsaid áppeals' hearings by thecommission should not bepublic.

Mrs. Bilie Nichols, retiredexecutive secretary of theSupenor Courts and aut!1orof an initiative for countycivil service, said the Civf¡

Service Commission should

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have control over drafting ofrules. 1\rs. Patricia J. VanAlmkerk, president of theCounty Employes Associa-tion, also supported a per-sonnel plan.

Pat Dilenburg, represent-ing the 33rd District Republi-can Club, said, a merit svs-

tem should contain a non-c!is-crimination clause and pro-vide that at least 10 per cent

of those hired would be fromminority groups.

OTHERS Ð~DORSED anon - discrimination c I a usebut opposed a quota systemfor minority persons.

Helen Lea, a former biolo-gy teach~r, urged that veter-ans not be given preference.

The League of Women Vot-ers and the K~nt Chamber ofCommerce endorsed a mei;tsystem.

Other sub j e c t 5 broughtthese remarks:

Chet Wheeler, chairman of

the County Planning Com-

mission, sULgested lay com-missions be used on a bro:1d-er basis in county govern-

ment so the public has"some place to go to getsome reliet" Ha said com-missions should be createdoyer the En:5ineenng andHealth Departments.

The Kent Chamber anrlWheeler endorsed election ofa county assessor. Wheeleralso favored election of thesheriff. An appointed admin-istrator drew the support ofWheeler, the chamber andDave I\íooney, former Kentmayor,Contending that "the great

need is the return of county

government to the people,"Mooney said geographic aswell as population factorsshould be considered indrawing districts for county. commissioners. ./-

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Dr-council form 0; gove:--mpnt at the collMv level W;¡S

th.. ,1os:tior. takeñ \'tsterd;win .;~f '!;"~l\intv-Bl1arct n-fi~('h.,ld('r!-. --------- ...

But the decision \\'\s ashaky one that could be 0\-'t'rturned in favor of an ap-

pointed manager.

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THE FREEHOLDERS vat-en S to 6 for the elected ex-

('cutiV£. A chan~e of onevote could reverse the out-cnme,

A number or freeholdersindi('ateri the~' planned topush for that rev('rs;:i1.

b.1E Schneider, th~ onl\'free':older not present, h?dindicated earlier that heJeans toward an arrointcr!?.dminIstrator. And .T;: c kGeoffroy, who voted yester-da\' for an elected executive,said he would fa\'or an ar-p n i n t e d administratnr ifcounty commissioners a:-eelected countv-wide insteadof by districts'-

On !\arch 30, the freehold-ers had voted strongly in fa-vor of election of commis-sioners b\' district. But sev-eral indicated the\' wouldswitch their vote oil that po-siton rather than los~ in the

meth¡id of selecting thc ad-ministrator,

Simon Wampolri ;:è\\'C ni,-tice he wiJI ilsk latr, that t:¡C

bo;:rd I' e con sid e ;" cmlnt\'-wide election of coi:i;iissin-n-ers in the hope a revcrsalwil put Geoffroy nil the sideof an appoint(d ;:clniinistra-tnr.

Al! positions t;¡ketl so farare tent;:tive, a ltho,i;:h one-

sided votes have' indicated achange wil be (Uiicult. Thefinal decision will comewhen freeholders vote onwritten Charter provisions.

So far, none have been pi!ton paper. '

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Tlrofcs,,¡oniì( qu;¡liricatiol1sfor 3n apjî0Întec! m;¡na.~cr

unr!rl an clrcted executive.

The split that o¡ii'ned ycs-

terd;t\. was the first in thefre e-h 0 I d (' r del:n!,r;tionssince the ca rlv weeks of or-ganization this- year.

A number of attcmnts if)¿Play taking a vote o'n thequ~stions f:iiied,

Wampolct. Terrv l\1cr~er.:ia,Don T\kDonald, -James eur-rim. ROIF'!t Ehc,le and How-ard B0thdI voted a~ainst anflected eX'ècutive. Eut ì\1c-

Don;.lci and Bothell al'f hold-inr. out for aHotner alterna-

ti\'e: Selection of a ch;iirnianof the hDard hy and fromamong the elected comh1is-"ioners.

This, thev m;:intain, \Voiildkrep the i);:lance of powerbetween the executive andcommissinners equal.Curran, M c Ken n;i and

\'/ampold were the leadf'rs inthe effnrt to have an appoint-ed administrator_

the st;: c:e \\'as set for anelected' ex('rutive when thefrrehnlders dr:rided cl1mmI.s- I

.sinners shnulrl he full-time Iand ('¡",('ted h\' di:;trict on apartisan h;:sis".

Pa:,¡) Friedl?r.ctcr argued;thci t people h;t\'e a right to \vots for those who govern :tI~cnl.

THE FREEHOLDERS vot-ed to give an elected execu-

tive the veto power, whichcan bc overridden bv a two-

thirds vote of the "commis-sinners; that there should he

no residency rE'al.l~renicnt be-yondch(:ing a regiqe~rd vot-'d frr the: exccùti';ç, ",andthat the exc;cutivc\vciuld rLIt':on ,a' part(san, basis for a

'four-yeilr' krm Rnd wouldha\'c the power' to appointdepartment heR cis,

Frceholdrrs plan to cteter-mine what department headswill be appointed later. Theyalso indicated the\' will de-cide if some dëpartment-head appointments should bec.onfirmed by the com!1sioners. ".1--I , ..

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CURRA'\ SAID the electedexecutive would diffuse theresponsibility between twosections of county govern-ment, the aòministrator andlegislative body. He said nei- :U1E'l would emerge as a:strong leader.

WaìTuo!d contended the;: pro i' n t e d actministratot~would h~ fi-eed from "dav tod;.y pett:, pillitics ¿inri r0liti.cal cliri;T'" and rrn\'idc thecounty -,\'iih a profc5::innal1ytrained rcrson to prO\"debusine.:slike m;.nagement.

An elccted ex~cati\'e ¡!ivescoiinty go\'ernment a politi-v.1 parity with city govern-ment. Rohert Blo.::L¡ argued.He ca lJcrl this im¡i0rtant inprovidin:z lines of communi-'cation. bet\\'2en the two. .

SU')7Jort¡n ~ an elected ex.'

ecuti;:e, Lo¡'s :\orth kOi1tend-

ed the vDters want control.Over those in /)ffce so res-ponsibility is fixed. She said

BEC.\VSE OF THE ser- an elected exeeutI..e wiliOiiS split on the question of h:1\'c a st~'ke in the commu-an executive, r.r,we\'er, Rich- nit::, and election of one offi-a rrl Albrecht, chairman, in. cial in a cou~t';-\\¡rle cam-

dicated he wil gI\'c e',ery- p:ii;!n will prO\-I-de a dialog

onr an opportuniry to vote on area-wide issues.ac;¡in nn the posi,io;;s taken Alhrecht said there is aso far. nC'('d fnr people to identify ,

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Kent Frèeholder Meet Short: 20 Persons CameIt didn'Í îa~e -;¡; Z'ng County (reeholders long 10 . and that the system i:iow (or hiring and firing of acceptance of a poè.rli qualified veteran-wait exra

hear the public's suggestions on a nel\ personnel system personnel by the executive, with a separate and private points (or miltary service,(or the count)' TIiursday in the Kent City Hall. About 20 appeal board. - Mooney Offers Viewspersons showed (or the meeting I\ith fewer than half of Flexibilty Urged Mooney, who was not a scheduled speaker, said thethem from South King County. The personnel director should in turn be respor.sible conty must be run as a business.

. The soutlie~stern count)' public (orum WBS third in a to this executi\'e. it was suggested. but the system must "To change politks and employes at Ihe sae time issenes of hearh¡;s called to give local organizations and be flexible enough to allow for change when the executive not the most effcient 'say to run a business," he said.residents a chance to p''tseni their \'iews to freeholders is changed. Therefore, there would not be a complete Moone)' said he èidn't think three county commison what the)' belie\'e should be incorporated into a new personnel changeover e\'eI)' time a nel\ executi\'e came sioners could do the job as effectively as five men, butcount)' charier ihe free holders are draftng. into office. that as many as nine members serving staggered,

Except fc.r Dave !llooney. former Kent councilman. !llost agreed that some restrictions should be placed four-year terms would not be necessary.all the speakers gi\'ing suggestions were from either in the charter about recruìlment. Suggestions inciude Other speakers sug¡;ested enlarging deparents ofSeattle or Aonh King County. residency and \'oter status but such restrictions should the county and havin¡; a group of laymen over the various

Lp for public hearing was the need for a personnel not be so ,seleclive as to ignore qualified persons. departments. This gr,,p would gi\'e the public a sourcesystem. All of the groups represented agreed that there Representatives of the 33rd District Republican Club of appeal other tha" the courts, when a particularshould be a system based on personal merit. that the top said something should be in the charter stating that io department said "no" to a request.admInistrator of the system and the secreta be elected, . per cent of the county employes should be Negroes or of a TIe freeholders will offer their next public foru a(

K t' W 1.' minority group. 7:30 p.m, Wednesday in the Shoreline High SchooL. Thisen i aSn, Another speaker felt the county should nol give hearing wil be devoted to the subject of new county. News..o~rnal) special preferences to certain persons such as veteran. departments and whether heads of such departments

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more firm which has madeseveral studies of King Countygo\'erruent has been invited tospeak to the Board of KingCounty Freeholders May 4, PaulMeyers, executi\.è secretary ofthe group. said Friday.

He is John' A: Donaho, whose're¡xrl on the reorganization ofcoiinty gO\'ernment was re-leased last month after severalmonths under I\raps.

The rEport, critical of variousroad district operations, hadrecommended the unification ofthe county's north and southroad dislricts in addition tomajor restructuring of other.Jeparlments in county government.

Among its principal proposalshad been a Departmenl ofPubl;c Works, embracing the.county's present engineering de-partment and including severalother related (unctions, amongthese thE county's sanitationeperation.

The freeholders are scheduledto take a "consensus vote" ondesir;,ble administrative clvi-

- sions within King County theyL wil write into the ncW county1 eli3rter May 11.

Tn a baek and forth, two-bour delîhcra(joii "estcrdavthe Frceholders òf K in ~County \'otcd in fa\'or ofchief exec,iti\'e o( the coun-ty ejected by the ,peoplerather than appointed.

"It must be stressed."~aid Chairman Richard AI-hr~eht, "t!wt all of toctav's

dccisions were tentati\'e' tothe extern e."

SDio~ "'A:'¡POLD, who

fa\'ored appoin'tment, said:

"The ad m I n i s t I' a torshould not be subjected today by day !"olitics andshouldn't be tied down toeeremon;al functions," aswould an c1ect~d offciaL.'"He should be appointed tomanage the office in a busi.ness.like wa\', There's tco

much chance óf the yoterselecting a 'pnJilîcal hack'who we would be stuck withfor four years,"

Those who fa\'ored elee-lion str~,;scd the imp 0 1'-lance of the ppople's re-~pnn.'ibiiit:i' in deridin.~ thelcader, Said Paul Friedlan-der:

"The responsibiliy musthe the people's, It's their1'"ritht to eJl'ct their owl-administration,"

THE l'i:RI'OSF; 01 theeourthotJ'e nll'?:ing was 10allow thl' ÍlcchoJtlC'rs to ex-pre,s their indii'jdual i'jewsto the !)(het'. The te~tath'e\'ole fa\'ored an "ell'cted"official S IQ 6 with onel1emhl'r ahi'cnt.

The minorit\' 01 fr~ehoJd-

ers favored 'the proposalthat the execuli\'e, who ma\'be loosely cor,ipared to ~cì1y maJ"O, be appointcd bythe elected legislators.

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holders will hol-d~~'-~h----.'-'-- a puol!cearing at 7:30 p. m. tomor-row on selection of county~kpar~nient heads. The hear-109 wiII be in the Shoreline

High School Little Theater.. Th~. Freeholders, who aredrafting a County charter,~ian to determine their pnsi-~Iion ion department headsJ~ av I

S'e\'~ral persons andgl0lìr~S al.r~ady have ex-pre:~,-d opinions. Some h,ì\-ecaIItd for election of all de-

partment heads and othhave 11 d . ersca e IOr appointmentofarl. ~.

By Our County 1'('\\5 Rure;iuThe president of the Balti-

more firm which has madeseveral studies of King Countvgovernment has been invited tospeak to the Board of KinaCOU?!)' Freeholders ~Iay 4, Paul

Me,) ers, executive secretary ofthe group, said Frida\'.He is J0hn A. Don~ho, whose

report on the reorgnniz:ition ofcounty government was re-leased last month after severalmonths under wraps.

The report, critical of variousroad district operations, hadrecommended the unification ofthe county.'s north and southroa~ districts in addition tomajor restructuring of otherdepartments in county govern-ment.

Among its principal proposalshad .bee~ a Department of

t Public., \1, orks, em~racing the

count,) s present engineering de-partment and including severalother related functions, amongthese ,the county's sanitationoperatlOn.

The freeh.olders are scheduledto take a "consensus vote" ond~sirabl.e .administrative divi-

.- si?ns wlthi~ King County theyj will .wri!~ mto. the new county~_ c_har .êr .'1Y 11.

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. Although the Kin:: Countv Board of Freeholders is- divided sharply on the -eTIõñ-õr\\'1iëtIier-Tf-Iil'ifdrêcom'_ mend an appointive or elective county manager, the boardgenerally is proceeding in its chaneI' deliberations with a

minimum of disagreement. At the time of the freeholders'.;' election last year, there was conjecture that many mem-

bers were so far apart on certain issues that the boardmight produce both a majority and minority charter report.for the voters' consideration . . . '

o Seattle-area boosters of a future balanced trans-

portation system, as opposed to unlimited expansion ofthe highway network, found encouragement in the John-son administration's new legislative program submittedto Congress this week. AI,hough more billons are beingasked for e:-iiansion of the interstate-highway system,

Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd also is recom-mending expansion of existing highways as an alterna-tive to building new ones, And for the first time, Con-gress is being asked to help' finance "fringe area" park-ing spaces on the outskirts of cities-if they are tied inwith mass-transit systems, . .. 0 .Washington State ~rotlps studying the gro~\'ing juve-

nile-crime problem may watch with some interest a de-velopment in Arizona, where a law-enforcement committeehas recommended Jowerin;; the age at which juveniles maybe prosecuted as adults from 18 to 16 . . , /

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,LOis ilORTH, one of fifteenKig Couim.J~~!).Qld£l electedlat l'o~ember, today announced

her ca~d!~acy as a Republican for a44th District se:t in the State Houseof Representatives.

N::. l'ort, wife of Douglass C.. rt, Professor at the Universi"yof Was' Lf ilgton: h~s been a residento Ute 44th District for ten years

The family lives at 10023 Vint .. Cour N W' Th on: .' ree sons attend~wn I!il,. Marcus \Vhitman and

gram Hi~h S-:hools.Active in the League of \Vomen

Voter f~r f!fteen years, Mrs. NorÙlwa Legislative Chaiman for theSta.te League in 1961 andcharnanned L'ie State League'scomnttee for Intiati\'e 1\0 2'1 .1962to '. '..ilredstrct and reapportionUte State Legislature. Sht! h.:-~ered as president of the Seattø

eague of Women Voters from 1cs3to 1966, and in 1957 was apPoi~;edby Governor Dan Evans to theBoundary Review Board of KigCounty. .Mrs. ~0l: is a member of the

44th . DlStnct Republican Club,~Jated Republican Women ofKig County, Muncipal League of

Settle-King County Blue RidCo~iity Club, P.'T.A., and ¿:Universlty Congregational Church

. A ~di:ate o~ the University Qf

Cafoii;ia, she is a.Iso a lie member. oflle tJ.C. AIL.r;1 Asociation.

As. a. .former teacher of Social

Studies il junior and s¿nior high

scools: Mrs. l"or+Ji state; that her

S€?tr into St2te politics is anti.~o.wth of her in~eresL in theaclilJties of State go\'emmcnt th"taffect l:1I"';ll h~('h!o~. ....~.;....r~._L." "

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The Municipal League's re-port on Home Rule Charterswa,si:e.çently __presenteatotheFreehold_GL'ì_(News March 13)

and incorporated a provisionfor an Ombudsman. The reportsaid, "King County 'govern-

ment should communicate withits citizens. A department tohandle inquiry and complaintsshould be created separatefrom a public information de-

partment."

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The repcrt went on to say thatan Ombudsman is an individual pro-fessionally qualified, readily acces-

sible, politically independent, com-pletely detached from governmentand authorized to inquire into ad-ministrative shortcomings_ "In ninecountries this external critic hasbeen very successful, principally asa means of establishing communi-cation and understanding between

an individual citizen and his govern-ment," the report said.

In the March issue of the Na-tional Civic Review Dr. Randy H.Hamilton, executive director of theInstitute for Local Self-governmentin Berkeley,' Calif., said, "Undertoday's urban conditions much ofour population cannot obtain re-dress for many of its grievances

(real or imgined). The complaintwidow in some City Halls is not wellsuited to handling today's com-

plaints." Dr. Hamilton went on tosay that today there is often a callfor a third party critic to see that acomplainant receives a hearing forhis grevance and, if justified, aproper remedy. "The most popu-larly current model of the thirdparty for this purpose, is the Om-budsma."

Hamilton went onQo say that an, Ombudsman is n-ót a creator or

critic of public policy but is an over-ser of administrative decision-mak-

ing.Dr. Hamilton said, "One of the

broadest categories of need are in

the area of complaint against dis-cretionary decisians wherein thecitizen disagrees with the mannerin which an offcial has exercised hisdiscretion. He has no formal meansof challenging it, or, at least, no in-expensive means."

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An OrnbudsnianIt's a maxim that individual citizens can't fight

rity li~i1. Most citizens can't even find anyone atcity hall to hear their complaints.

To remedy this sorr state of civic afrairs,establishment of the position of ombudsman by un-its of local government Is being advocated by grow-ing numbers of students of government.

'rhe ombudsman, a Scandinavian term, is a fel-low of high repute on the puhlic payroll who listensto and investigates the complaints of private citi-zens.

When an ombudsman finds that a complaintagainst a governmental agency has validity, he pro-poses a specific remedy to correct individual injus-tices or he recommends a change in the agency's _procedures.

In European countries, where ombudsmen havebeen o~rating for many years, the ombudsmanusually succeeds in effecting reconim~nded changesbecause he has the weight of the public wil behindhim.

THE SEATTLE.Kli\G County l\Iunicipal Leaguehas recommended to King County's board of free-holders that the board make provision for a countyombudsman when it drafts a proposed county char-ter. We think this is an excellent suggestion and weurge the City of Seattle also to comider establish-ment of an ombudsman, or his American equi\'a-lent. /

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, l' Freeholders Recomn,end Elec'ted\ ( Il '~ County Manager By 8-6 Vote.

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By JACK YEAROUTTh new Klng,County "lie

rule" charter Is slowly taking

form under the watchful eyesof is elected Freeholders, who

have speñfiiëss hoursmeeting together to help shapeIts tlnal d"Mt for presentationto the voters of King County.

It Is natural that quesUons

should arise from among thevoters as to "why" some ofthese early decisions have beenmade by the is member group.

Th Bellewe American hasselected from among the Free-holders the two representatives

on the is member panel who re-

side on the East Side of LakeWashington to answer somequestions pertinent to the char-ter. These two men are of op-

posite political beliefs, bothsuccessful in their own fieldsof endeavor. Simon wampold,Bellevue attorney, Is the onlyFreeholder from ths district.ÒÒn, McDonald or Bothell is abuilding co "actor.. The quest,ons posed to themwere these:Why nine ful-time county

commissioners? Is nine toolarge a numr. and wil thisfurther political patronage?

Would nine commissioners hin-der or compound problems of acounty administrator or mana-ger, unless on a part-time ba-sis, acting only as pollcy mak-ers?

wm the chaner be writtnso that It can be adapted latto a combined Seattle-KingCounty government? Whatlshome rule, and why do we wantIt?

Wampold explained the 9 full-time commissioner decision Inth way:

''Ts Is only a tenatlve de-

cision, but or.e a ma j ori ty ofth Freeholders agreed upon.It is my opinion that (and the

others were agred on this)a part-time commissionermeans part-time responsibl-.Hty." the Bellevue attorney

pointed out,A commissioner who repre-

sents from 100,000 to 130,000

people should have a full timeJob meeting' with this publlcand administering to their needsand concerns.. was Wampoldsway of puttng It,

While he thought that threecommissioners should be elec-te at large and six from their

own districts, he agreed with

his is counterparts that this

new nine-member legislaturefor th county government would

have its hands full with the re-Sponsibilty ofpollcy making for1,00,000 people,

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Ible enough that it would bereadily adaptable to such a

"Pugetropol is" governIent,was the bellef o!the local Free-hoider. ,

Wampold -favors .appointmentof a quallfied county idminlS~trator by the -commissioners.

This thorny question of whetherthis Important offce wll befiled by appointment or elec-

tion by the peopie was, d,.-cided Saturday by the IS-mem-ber panel. It was the big-gest and most":ontroversial de-cision the Freeholders have had,

to make to this point,In clearing up the "home

rue" point, Wampold pointedout that state statutes have

decided the form of county gov-

ernent. tellng which officers

shall be elected, etc.Under the 21st amenJ-

ment to the state constitution,passed a number of years agoby the legisiature, counties wereallowed to set up home rueby charter...but no county wlth-In th state has yet elected to

do so.Now, King County, 'for the

second time, will attmpt toform a charter, undenhe Free-holder system, to accompllsh

home rue. Snohomish CountyIs considering the same step,but the Freeholders of thatcounty are waiting to see what

hanpens hiirp."'. ampold brought up one In~

teresting point In answering thequestions about the county ad-

ministrator. He revealed 'thatthe Free hol ders- had interviewedtwo outstanding men, one whonm San Diego County, Call-fomla (about the same size asKing County) and another whoadministrates Westches-ter County, New York, a slightlylarger county governent.

"Both of these men are do-Ing an outstanding job...ChlefAdmnistrative Officer Hegg-land of San Diego, an appoin-

ted official, and Ed Makallain,chief executive offcer of West-

now ruMfng on a district basis, ..are elected '.' at large" by King'County voters. Ths means thatwhile they are desIgnated as

commissioners for given dis-tricts. they actually have a

constiniancy of sometliing Wee

1 mmion people. (Tis samearea and consUtuancy is cutup into three legislative dis-tricts)

. As for the executive headof commission, It is McDon,al's feelingthatthis man shoulbe elected by and from amongthe commissioners themselves,designate him board chairman,president or whatever, He ~:ould

be an equal among his peers,and it would be his duty to fill~ll administrative offices by

appointment, with the approvalof the remaining 8 commis-sioners. McDonald feels thatsuch a role by a strong, elec-ted leader, approved by his fel-

low commissioners. wouldellminate rather than increase

patronage,

Since the commissioner-se-lected chai rman or president,in essence, by McDonald'sthinking, would acnially fulfilthe position of a county exe-

cutive, there would be no con-

flict of interest or duplica.,

tlon of duties. McDonald sees

a chief deputy or executive as-sistant for the chief executive

of county governent, whoseduties would be the "house-1:eep!n~' functions of county.

governent, a sort of depart-ment head of general admini-stration.

As director of ths general

administration departent hewould see to such things as'courthouse constrction, pur-chasing, motor pool, etc.

In McDonald's opinion,METRO and the Port of Seatteshould become departments un-der the elected commissioners.Bonding capacity of these twonow dependent districts wouldbe retai.r.en by E"y_offlt"Jn mem-bership of commissioners.Their administrative forma-tion would remain the same.

The Bothell Freeholder Is al-so of the opInion that the countyassessor. auditor (with some

additional functions) sheriff and 'coronor should remain elec-tive offices...the coroner be-cause of the legal aspects ofhis position, and of course the

county prosecutor because ofstate statutes.

McDonald summed up his .stand prett well when he said

"the people wantto Identify with:~':i;'. :~:n_,?lssionef": and they

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readers concerning th newKing County Charr , . . andespecially would like to hearany recommendations from or-ganzed groups, political 0:: oth-erse, abut how they think thecharr' should be writt,Simon Wampold, BellevueFreeholder, has agreed to an-swer all questions to the beStof his abilty, and will submit

any Ideas offered for the con-sideraton of th Freeholderboard.) /-

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Results of the "government. responsibilities and limitationssetion of the B.A.s.l.C, sur- of their local government.

vey have been summarzed by Bellevue area residents seemthe government commttee and to ,be uncertain abut the ac-were. presented at the King cessibilty and willngness ofCounty Freeholders meetinO' their local government offcialslast month, - Q to communicate, the committeeThe committee is alo study-concluded. Although 38 per cent

1ng the results in regard to 80- said yes the offcials are 8C-nexation to the city of Bellevue cessible, an equal per cent were

to se U any patterns can be undecided.noted. Consequentiy the governmentThe responses show that the committe suggested that the

future structure of th city. Freeholders may v.ish to con-

county and metropolitan gov- sider' SCiT'e provision in theernments of the Bellevue area charr 'i. encourage two-wayis not clear 1n th mids of communi::.a~ion between gov-:residents of the area. ernment'tn¡~.iie citizens. . /Half of the people feel a need. . ~ . ': _ _' _ _ . -,.' L._.'

to consolidate, but 23 percent

see no need and 27 percet are

widecided.The direction of consolidation

was not clear. With residents of1ncorprated areas abut evenlydivided between favoring themayor-council form and thecouncil-manager form of localgovernment the undecided votewas enough' to swing the voteeither way.

County residents in the Bell - 'vue area, the committee sum-mary poI?ted out, show a great-er preference for a manager-commssion form of county gov-erment than a board of com-missioners alone.

As to the typ of metropolitan

goverent preferred, thelargest vote favored a single

metropolitan government withdirect representation from ex-istg areas. But this was only

29 per cent of the total.Sixt per Cent of the area

resic'ts also said they are

satisfied that their local gOY-

ernrr;ent responds to most ofthir needs and èesires.

However. 55 per cent ad-mi~ they were not really

~ell inormed ~ut th powers, (

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The Kig Coiinty Board ofFreeholders recel'tly endors-ed a civil service~t)"pe sys-

tem for bringi qualifed ca-..' reer eniplo~'ees tocountygov-

el'1nent.The hearing was at Kent

City Hall on APril 18th. Intheir nexi meetin on April27th, they wil discuss thecreation of a persoll'1el sys-

tem.There was no opposition to

the April 18th endorsement,

which would help to makecounty employees more se-cure in their jobs.

The lack of present job se-I curity, complained WaIt e rBaclay, who recently retiredfrm the County Cierk's Of-fice, is due to the failure of

the county iii attracti ;younpeople to govel1ment employ-ment.

,Several speakers b 1 a m e dlabor for opposin civil ser-vice, however, Ar Kent, vicepresident of the Renton Divi-

sion of the Kin County LaborCouncil, said, II Al of laboris not against civi servce.". State RepresentativeJosephL. McGavick, who participat-ed in a rer:ent studyofperson-nel systems in the LegislativeCouncil, proposed tne civilservice system. He said rulesof the commission should beratied by COtU1ty commis-sioners and no appeals' hear-ins should be made public.

The Civil Service rommis-sion should have control overdraJn of rules, was a sug-gestion made by !\rs, Bili~

Kichols, retired executive se-

cretalJ' of the Superior Courtsan autoor of an initiative forcounty civil servce.

Oter suggestions were that

a'merIt system should contain

an antl..Jiscrimirli'-tion clausean pt'Oi'ide for at least 10 per'cent of tl:ose bein hb~d fromminority groups. However,ths 10 per cent quota later met

with opposition.

It was also urged by Helen

Lea that veterans not be giv-en any preference.

The League of Women Vot-ers and the Kent Chamber of

Commerce also endorsed amerit system.

It was also _sugeste byChet \\heelc:~cliaim."l of theCounty Plc.:min Commission,the lay comnussions be used

on a widerb!,~i~in_colUtygoy-ernènt 'so the public wouldhave "some place to go to getsome relief."

The Kent Chamber of Com-merce and Wheeler also en-dorsed the election ofa count)'assessor, and \\1ieeler favor-ed the election of the sheri.

An appointed admistratorgot support from \\1ieeler.the chamber. and David ~roo-

ney, former Kent mayor.1100ney also conter,ded that

"the great-need is the returnof county govenunent to the

people," añirmin that geo-grphic, as \yell as population

factors should be consider~in drawing dIstrcts for coUÎt),

commissioners. ./

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"~ !Free/ie/c!efs R.enic;in S¡Jlit on Starus

fre~liclder, said appointment Sil said the council sup- tor, assessor and sheriff was .,of an adm!'1istrator is the port'cd the concept of an ap- a "practical compromise ononly way to bring profession- pointed administrator, elec- our part."

al mim:igt'mcnt to county tion of seven of nine com- Wiliam Massey, assistantgo\'cri:llent. missioners on a partisan ba- director of the Municipal

Roberl J. Sill, pn:sident of s¡~ ?y dJstricts. a~d red~s- League, r e pea t e d thethe Conirniinitv Council of tricting 0, COmm!5sioner dis- league's position t hat pres-Shoreline, said elei:tion of ~rjcts by Superior Court ently e Ie c t e d departmentthe auditor, assessor and Judges. heads should be appointed.sheriff should continue so "We feel the present sys- Asked by Virginia Gunby,that voters wil not reíect a tem of electing some of the a freeholder, if he felt ap-charter. ldeal1v, he said, all administrati\'e department pointment of all departmentshmilcl be appòinted. He said heads is a fundamental heads would jeopardize pas-the council feels the clerk wealme!:s of the eidsting sage of a charter, MasseyI I 1 f f ty 0 e replied: "i think the climateanc treasurer s lOll d 'be ap- orm 0 coun g v rn- f h '

pointed and the coroner ment," he said. ~ _ aoge is much bettershmiId be an appointed phy- He said the position of not 'now than it was in 1952 orsician. opposing election of the audi- 1962," In 19j2, a proposed.

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I ti~",J.~k~-.-'- '- bya Jarge margin..' Ar Brown, 16020 Dens-',

m~re Ave. N., supported ap- . ipointment of all departmentheads. He said the chanaemight be easier to accept bifthe auditor was called thecontroller and the assessorwas called the appraiser.

He contended all policys.hould be set by the legisla-tive body rather than the de- . .partment heads. ./

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By JERRY BERGS!\lANThe solít o,,'er whether a

county ~dmil1jstrator shouldbe elected or arrnInted con-

tinued to plagut: tho: Board ofFreeholders at ~:lbliC ,hear-ing last night. / /1 ~l

Discussion a t~e 'hea ringshowed that the issi:e still isvery much alive. Etr0i's wilbe made to reconsider thetentati'-e position tahn Sat-'lIrday that the chief execu-

tive be elected. The votethen was S to 6.Status of coiinty depart-

ment heads under a charterwas the topic for the publichearing at Shoreline HighSchooL. But the question ofthe administrator kept. com-

ing lip because of his rela-tionship to de par t men theads.

Speakers g en era II y fa-vored appointment of depart-ment heads now elected. Inorder not to jeup:irdize ap-

proval of a charter by vot.ers, h!1v.'ever, some felt theposts of asse'isor. auditorand sherif probably shouldcontinue to be elective.

Lois North, a freeholder,contended voters can showdisapproval of the executive

only at the ballot box andthat appointment of an exec-

l:tì\'e blurs the separation ofi leg¡slati\'e and administra-! tive functions.

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~ ¡'iit By JACK YEAROUT .. Last Saturday 14 of the 15 elected Free- An elected chief executive has a potentially

_holders of King County, whose job it is to draft dangerous concentration of political power. Bya new'chaì:'t:el""ior home rule of this booming assumed mandate of the voters he would hr.vearea, made a tentative decision on how the chief control of appointments, services and millionsexecutive of this new governing body should of dollars of government funds. We needn'tbe selected. point out that this could encourage undesirable

By an eight to six vote theý said elect him political consequences. .in an at-large, bi-partisan election. Then, too,. elected officials are not always

We say appoint him. . . . and here's why. good administrators. Why not just hire a,The Freeholders have already agreed that up chief executive who has proven his ability to

to nine county commissioners should be elec- handle such a position in the first place?ted by the voters. While we are not entirely Proponents of the elected chief executive willsatisfied that all nine should be elected frorn point out that because he is the voters' choicenine different districts, within the county, at he will be more responsive to the public will.least such a method of selection would be to- Is an elected executive likely to compromiseward better representation at the grass roots on what he knows is best for the county in orderlevel. to remain popular to get re-elected?

These nine, then, would be the policy makers Leave the efficient management of this newfor King County's new "home rule" govern- government setup to a man who has had publicmente To elect an executive head, county administration training, and experience to pre- ,manager or whatever he might be called by the pare him for his position. .same voters would, in our opinion, be super- Here are some more arguments favoring thefluous, and even further a reversion to more appointment of a county chief executive.political patronage, exactly what this new charter ; Delegating administrative responsibilties to a

is supposed to be steering us away from. manager leaves the commissioners free to ~e-The decision is not a final one. It is our i vote their time to policy and long range plan-

understanding that the one absent Freeholder t ning. The power of appointment to the managerexpressed _ his thinking by letter to the group 1 lets him select assistants on merit and withoutwhen he couldn't be at the Saturday meeting. regard to political connections. Any impro-He sided with the minority group, making the ~, priety on the part of the manager can bevote even closer at 8 to 7. readily checked by the commissioners.

Oddly enough, the vote went against an ap- " Appointment of the chief executive does notpointive chief executive, even though public r seriously alter the basic democratic nature ofmeetings and written recommendations from '. county government. The elected commissionerindividuals and groups throughout the county a board provides all necessary representation forhave been heavily in favor of appointing acotL'1ty:. the people . . . as a matter of fact, the appoin-

manager. . . :. tive plan provides the combination of demo-_As Simon Wampold, Bellevue's only repre- _ cracy plus effciency.

sentative on that Freeholder board -puts if, I And that's.what this new charter is all about."perhaps it's because the county manager sys- ~ ,)"tern has never caught on like the city managersystem. "

It isn't too late to correct that assunptionhere in King County. Here are some factorsto think about. 6Z

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submitted a lO,point recom-mendation last week for KingCounty Freeholders to considerin drawing personnel regula-tions in the county charter.The recommendations were

made after research and studyby the legislative affairs com-

mittee and adoption by theboard of directors of the cham.ber.

The chamber went on recordas favoring a nine,member"elected County Commission, tobe limited to legislative func-tions and policy making.

The chamber also favorselection by district of theCounty Commissioners forterms of four years, and pro-poses that the board appoint acounty manager or administra-tor to carry out administrativeduties designated by thecommission.

Also recommended is a meritpersonnel system, to be admin-

. istered by, a department ofpersonnel: and the only elec-tive positions in the county to

be the commissioners. countyassessor and prosecuting at-torney.Denver Grigsby, chamber

president, also urged that thecounty promote closer co-operation between, local unitsof government. such as citiesand :\Ietro.

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board that would carry out

hirin

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isIliven a chief executive re-

mai

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dou

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tions

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to b

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pers

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pro

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pre

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whi

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. Because of other commit-

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a b

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; more session devoted to sre-

,1 cific provisions of a person-

.:' nel system.

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lover whether the charter

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the writen charter provi-

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mad

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s-terday on the personnel sys-

tem are not necessarily even

a majority expression.

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but one had to leave before

tent

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both

the

empl

oye

and

rnih

lic,

t.her

e co

uld

he a

deb

ate

over

how

muc

h po

wer

the

chie

f. e

xecu

tive

will

be

give

n to

guid

e it.

FR

EE

HO

LDE

RS

agr

eed

ape

rson

nel s

yste

m s

houl

d ,in

-clude a separate personnel

de par tine n t and board,

which should he appointed

by a chief executive with

conf

irm

atio

n by

t.he

cou

nty

com

mis

sion

ers.

Mem

bers

of

the

boar

d w

ould

ser

ve fo

urto

six

-yea

r st

agge

red

term

s,be

pai

d on

a p

er d

iem

bas

is

onC

ounr

ryPe

rson

ne.l

'Se.

tiip'

¡an

d w

ould

num

ber

at le

ast m

aine

d In

dou

bt. T

hree

wer

e ch

aair

man

; Sim

on W

arn-

three. aginst any restriction; four pold; Robert Blod;; Virginia

Fair

ly c

erta

in to

be

Indu

d- w

ante

d to

lim

it em

ploy

es s

o G

i:nby

; Loi

s N

orth

; Jam

esed

arc

pro

visi

ons

to b

an d

is-

they

cou

ld n

ot p

artic

ipat

e in

O'C

onno

r; N

orm

an A

ckle

y, .

crimination based on race,1 election of county officials. and Paul Friedlander. Fried-

relig

ion,

pol

itica

l act

ivity

01'

;1 P

rese

nt a

t the

mee

ting

land

er h

ad to

leav

e be

fore

sefx

t;i to

gua

i ran

tete

the

riig

lt,t i

~':~

re R

i~~a

r~.~

.l~i::

~'-~

'2_'

J0fe

.. __

__".

.. ,./

o 1e emp oye 0 appea 'U'

the

pers

onne

l hoa

rd d

ism

iss-

al o

r di

scip

linar

y ac

tion,

the

right or the citizen to com-

plai

n ab

out e

mpl

oyes

, and

agr

andf

athe

r cl

ause

lock

ing

prt's

ent e

mpl

oyes

into

a jo

b,T

he c

utof

f dat

e fo

r lo

ckin

gem

ploy

es in

to a

job

is a

t is-

sue. Fre

ehol

ders

sai

d es

tabl

ish-

ment of a personnel policy

wou

ld b

e in

the

hand

s of

the

boar

d, b

ut n

o vo

te w

as ta

ken

on who would recommend

that

pol

icy,

It w

as a

ssum

edby

mos

t tha

t pol

icy

wou

ld b

ein

itiat

ed b

y th

e ch

ief

exec

u-tiv

e or

per

sonn

el d

irec

tor.

.Five of seven freeholders

felt

the

chie

f ex

e c

u ti

v e

should appoint the personnel

dire

ctor

. The

re w

as d

isa-

gree

men

t Ove

r w

i1ic

h po

si-

tions

wou

ld b

e ex

empt

from

the

pers

onne

l sys

tem

, or

ifth

ese

shou

ld b

e sp

elle

d ou

tin a charter.

Although freeholders

agre

ed c

ount

y e

ni p

I 0

yes

shou

ld b

e al

low

ed N

i"tic

ipa-

Iition in political activity, the

degr

ee o

f pa

rtic

ipat

ion

re~

, "~.

'( 1

~ ~~

.~ ."

'¡,

_....

,J

1 I I /

___J

c~ I'.

-Hearing A1ay 11

Fre

ehol

(lers

Con

side

ring

JOm

buds

mad

.", ~, 'i . . be an indivudual professional_ in which an offcial ~as exer-

By

\'IR

GI:

\IA

Bt:R

:'SID

E m

an, .

rel

ativ

ely

new

to th

is I

y qu

alif

ied,

rea

dily

acc

epta

. cis

ed h

is d

iscr

etio

n. T

he c

itize

nO

ur C

ount

y N

ews

Bur

eau

coun

try,

ong

inat

ed in

SW

:den

" bl

e, p

oliti

cally

inde

pend

ent,

has

no fo

rmal

mea

ns o

f cha

l-A

n om

buds

man

for

Kin

g w

here

a n

atio

nal ?

mbu

dsm

an I

S co

mpl

etel

y de

tach

ed. f

rom

leng

ing

thes

e de

cisi

ons,

or

atC

ount

y? a

n im

port

ant i

¡o\'

ernm

ent o

ff¡-

gove

rnm

ent,

and

auth

oriz

ed to

leas

t ine

xpen

sI\'e

mea

ns, l

heIf some of the members of the chI

alii

invo

ived

b In

! mifa

nYf m

?Jor

inve

stig

ate

adm

inis

trat

ive

go\'e

rnm

ent w

atch

dog-

grou

p be

Board of King County Freehold- c a en~es on e 1a 0 Citizen shortcomings. . Iieves.

ers have their say provisions for complaints. .' . Sucn an offcial, in the league In other places, the sen'ices of

a special government offcial Several ombudsmen exist in eyes, would be not a creator or an ombudsman are performed

will

be

incl

uded

in th

e ch

arte

r th

e U

mte

d St

ates

. nol

ably

as

an c

ritic

of

polic

y, b

ut a

che

ck o

n at

gov

ernm

enta

l exp

ense

rat

h-no

w r

each

ing

draf

ting

stag

e. a

djun

ct to

. the

offi

cesi

of b

som

e ad

min

istr

atÌl'

e de

cisi

on m

akin

g. e

r th

an a

t a c

ost t

o th

e pe

rson

The

mat

ter

has

been

off

icia

lly s

tate

atto

i~ey

gt~

nera

s, t

h ut

.:n

"One

of

the

broa

d ro

ad c

ate-

with

a c

ompl

aint

.set for consideration by the no state . oes. eil' au on y gories of need is in the area -of That cost, and just how an

board May 11 but already the rivapl that ini SWeeden. i d complaints against diseretiona- ombudsman might bè needed in

., roposa s or an om iu s- d' . h' th 't' K' C '11 b

question of providing citizen t h t i i i h . lory ecislOns, \\. erem e Ci 1- mg. ounty, Wi e . uner

redr

ess

has

thre

aded

thro

ugh

nian

h~ (

e s

ac e

~'e

td e

re IU

d ze

n di

sagr

ees

with

the

man

ner

òisc

ussi

on n

ext w

eck.

./--

. . W

as in

gton

wer

e In

1'0

uce

_.

several diSCUssions the freehold- into the last legislative.,r ,

ers

ha~

e he

ld a

bout

how

Kin

g se

ssio

n, b

ut fa

iled

to s

urvÌ

\'eCounty s new government the committee prOCess. An

sho.uld be structured. . I ombl!dsman at the loealle\'el

The c~ncept of an ombuds-.: has been recommended by the

Seatlle-King County "uiiicipal

League, which made this

com

-m

ent i

n a

repo

rt O

il ho

me

rule

'ch

arte

rs:

! "King County go\'ern'ment

i sho

uld

com

mun

icat

e w

ith it

s: citizens. A depart

men

i 10 handle ~,,;

i com

plai

nts

shou

ld b

e cr

eate

d,

' sep

arat

e fr

om o

ther

dep

art-

men

ts."

Just

how

free

hold

ers

will

in-

corp

orat

e th

e co

ncep

t int

o co

un-

.ty g

over

nmen

t will

be

disc

usse

dne

xt w

eek,

Pau

l !lle

yers

, exe

cu-

tive director of the freeholders

~ro

up, s

aid

yest

erda

y.H

e sa

id a

mas

s di

scus

sion

of

11e concept indicated there is

ilready considerable board sen-

:imen

t in

favo

r of

the

coiic

ept,

iUt t

hat d

etai

ls o

f the

pow

ers

of;u

ch a

n of

fice

wou

ld h

ave

to b

eN

orke

d ou

t.T

he lJ

uliic

jpal

leag

ue h

aspr

opos

ed th

at a

n om

buds

man

.'

Ren

ton,

Was

h.R

ecor

d C

hron

icle

(eir

. W. 1

9,18

0)

..i,

!.. .

l

p, e

. 8. E

st lS

88

j-tee

fl0!d

ers

C~

Ons

¡dèr

g'ng

'-um

ouas

man

-'By \'IlGI.,i.\ ßl'TI:\SlDE challenges on behalf of citizen Just how freeholdcrs wi'! in- "One of the broad road cale-

Our

Co"

nt~.

!'('

\\ S

Bur

eau

com

plai

nts.

cor

pora

te th

e co

ncep

t inl

o ro

un-

gorÎ

l's o

f ne

ed is

in th

e an

'a o

fi\n

om

buds

man

for

Kin

g Se

vera

l om

buds

'nen

exi

st in

ty g

ovcr

nm~~

\t w

il be

dis

cÙ,s

ed c

ompl

aint

s ag

ains

t dis

cret

iona

-C

ount

y? th

e U

nite

d S

tate

s. n

otab

ly a

s ai

i nex

l "'c

ek, P

aul ~

lcye

rs, e

xeeu

- to

ry d

ecis

ions

, whc

rein

tlte

citi

-'If some of the members of the adjunct to the offices of some tive drcdiir of the freeholders zcn disagrecs wiih the manner,

Board of King Counly Freehuld- state attorney gcnerals, but in group. said yesterday. in which an oflicial iias exer- ;

ers

have

tlte

ir sa

y pr

o\'i~

ions

for

nn s

tate

doc

s th

eir

auth

ority

,Ile

",id

a m

a~s

disc

ussi

on o

f cis

ed h

is d

iscr

etio

n. T

he c

itize

n I,

a spccial government offieial n\'al tit

at in Sl'edin. tne cn~iccpt ii\ùieated tlt!'re is has no formal means of chal-

wil

be in

clud

l'J in

tbc

char

ter

Prop

osal

s fo

r al

l om

buds

- i:l

rea

,'.I

cùns

idc'

r"bl

e bo

ard

sen-

leug

ing

thes

e de

cisi

uns,

or

atno

\\ re

achi

ng d

rafti

ng s

tage

. man

at t

he s

tate

leve

l her

e in

tim

ei.t

in fa

vor

of th

e co

nccp

l, I¿

ast i

nexp

ël\s

Ì\'e

mea

ns, t

heThe mullet' ha

s li'

:Ln

i ffÌ

c'.li

~"'

ashi

ngto

ii w

ere

in!r

iili,~

('d b

ut I

!ml r

iêla

iL.,

of th

e pu

w('r

s of

¡;o

\'el'm

ent w

a\cJ

idog

,gro

up b

e-set for consi'! 'i" t'r ) b ia y lltO the last legisla\i\'e such ~~n office \\uuld have to be lie\'i~s.

bO'lr

d ,la

' 11

c ì'

~ i

'in ,.

y, t

he s

~ss

ion.

but

faile

d to

sul

''Ì\'c

wor

k':d

out

. Iii

oihe

r pl

ace"

the

ser\

'ice'

s of

u~stio~ ~f ' iU t i C"ùl,the ihe coiimittee process. An The !lllnil'Jl"i lcague iiJS ,ll ombudsman are performed

ie-l

ress

has

¡ír

o::!

(.i~

Jt /'

~'IZ

:~ o

mbu

dsm

an a

t the

loca

l lei

'd f

1/":

""I.

'd th

at a

n om

huds

¡n;,n

;;1

gove

nini

¿nta

l cxp

ense

, rat

h.sc

;'cr;

¡J d

iscw

;sj'~

;',~

ri~~

fn:~

;;;~

¡~-

l~as

licc

'n.!'

''c,,~

iiin(

'nde

d I~

y.th

e lil

an

il~¡~

i\'"ù

naIIJ

I',lfc

ssi¡;

n"l-

er th

an a

t a c

ost t

o th

e pe

rson

(:r~

ha\

'e h

clù

¡,h(

¡u\ h

oi;'

Kin

g S(

'a(l

k-I~

m:;

Cuu

nly

,Iu!

ucip

al I

y "u

,¡lif

!,,(

!. r

ea'!i

ly a

eeqi

t;- w

Hh

a co

mpl

allt.

.C

ount

y's

li('W

"O

\' el

'Jiie

nt L

eagi

~e. \

\ hid

i iia

de tl

us e

"m, h

ie, i

wht

ii'al

ly ll

rh'p

em!¡

'IiI,

.1 h

at c

ost,

and

Just

huw

an

should be sll'lctur~d ment II a repurt on home rule cüuplelclY delat/i('d from cmbudsmanlllglit ve ncedid l/

. cha

rter

s: g

(J"Ù

'l'l!l

1l'll

t, an

d au

ihul

'ilt"

d tu

Kin

g C

oiin

ty, w

iii b

e un

der

The

con

rcpt

of ¡

:n o

mbu

ds-

"Kii;

g C

ount

y go

vern

mcn

t inw

~li:

~al

e ad

miii

i,tra

ii\'c

(!ÌS

i'lis

sion

Ill'X

! \\c

ek.

man

, rel

ati\'

ely

nèW

to th

is s

houl

d t'o

nll1

ìinic

ate

with

its

sllO

rlr.'"

",i:c

s.co

untr

y, o

rihin

alcd

in S

\\ede

n, c

itize

ns. A

dC

ln¡r

tmcn

t to

hand

le S

C't'

/¡ a

n uÙ

icbl

. in

the

Ii:i,'

iiew

here

a n

;ltilJ

ll:-i\

(Jl

nbuc

:5m

al1

is (

;(im

pbin

ts s

houl

d be

cre

ated

, tyl

"., w

tJul

d be

not

a i:

re,it

oi: o

r, a

n in

ipor

\:mt b

u\'c

rnin

cn\ o

W. s

epar

ate

from

(;th

er d

epar

t- c

ritic

oLp

olky

. biit

a c

hei:

or.

L ci

ai in

vul\'

ed in

rn~

t1y

nKljo

r in

cnts

." i.

dini

ili~

trdt

i\'e

dl.'c

i::io

ii tn

iikìn

l!

,'.

c65

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L . -;--",'~~~---_.~_.. F¡"t.c,'-" r) I rl ,:~t'S. I ...~I I". ~uç.

, ': I"-¡By JrRr:'t'~ERGS;\lAN.

"

- '1\ lt¡ ...\ IIfj 'i" "'.

R ~, ..\l or;J .,Ü ~;, ¡iHear Pros and ((--1 -;,:.dnq

t l ~g~ ìI "C'~ligations essentially are the cal-eX'mim~'''' ,--;7 ,,¿iuhe 'r e due e dsame. He said a "medical Sowers COL_....cu ,mu doc- costs in his office and e!imi-examiner is submerged with tors supported him in his nated ques(Ìonable practices.p,tpcrwork and does few au- election against a physician. Dr. \Vi!son said he did 1,319tOi)sies." Sowers said funeral direc- autopsies last year com-

tors and labor organizations pared to 300 in l\Jultnomahalso favor him. County.

There was a dispute over Wi1!bn L. J\nze!, chiefcosts of the two systems. Dr. criminai deputy prosecutor,

Sl.¡)porters of the medfca!-examiner system and thosein fa \'or o~. rctciinin'¡ a coun-ty coroner presen~ed theirp 0 ~ i t ion s to the Cmintv DR., \\'HITE said a majori-Board of Freeholders Jašt ty of the 1,400 physicians innight. King COUî1ty favor a medi-There was substantial - -.---- :.

agreement that both a path-ologist and administrator,are needed in a coroner's of-rice. Bet the medical-exam-iner eXpOtli'nts contended the'p\iysician should have thepr!nwry responsibility, \\1iíiE-~~--Con-iner Leo M. Sowers saidthe administrator and pJth-olo¡2ist should divide themedical and administrativ(:-legaJ ..reas equally.

,

and James E. Kennedv,chief civil deputy proseeutcr,

,explained the functions of:: the prosecutor's office. Ken-nedy said the civJl and crim-inal sections of the officehave an overlap, particular-ly in the area of county po-

lice, -lowers,

Kinzel and Kennedy notedthat attorneys in each sec-

tion assist in the other whenthey are neèded. They said

divorcing the civil from thecriminal division would re-quire increased staffs inhnth .../

!

SOWERS and Dr. Gale'Wilson, chief pathologist, e::- ipLiinE.d the coroner 'system. :Dr. Lowell E. White, Jr., ~ck,irman or th8 King County. . . -Medic~! Society's legislative L.7--~~~'-'committee, and Dr. Wiliam ' ..~~r B~fdlIuiln~~~~gi~~~~~~: A Cas e for Non 0 art i san S 1'1 l pentorsed the medical-exam- "J I ~'((' Iiner system. IN LE'ANIN toward a perpetuation of . Since most l.oeal-government. func-So~\'~rs poi:ted out that partisan poliics in the Courthouse, tions. ~ener~lIy involve t_he maki:w of

administrators are in eharoe.- . admInistrative and pOll C Y decisionsof hospitals. Dr. Brady aes_ ~he King ~ounty frech?lders are ,lgnor- rather than the implementation of po

lit-

scrted the coroner makes ing a major opportunity to achieve a ical philosophies, it is ilogical to attachmeåical decisions priniarily genuine county-government reform. partisan labels to such offices as the.and the adr:iil1istl .1tor shQuld During their deliberations to date, sheriff, assessor and auditor,be l'åer bin' Ik' . '1 '1" i'. the freeholders have been ta ïng in And there are pariicular va /les a('(l -

"The day o~ the lay elect- terms of a county charter that would able in makiiig the auditor's office non-ed coroner is past," Dr, provide for the election of officeholders par/isall.Brady deCiu€,:!. "You IH:ve running under poliical-party banners, Past exper1ence elsewhere h2_s shown~.e 0tPortu.nl~y to b~in~ 1',,1 ihe arf!umeiiis fat'oriTlf! non- that the party labels \yorn by auditors

Cingt' ,~~ntj Into the ~~tn parti.~mi cOlllll)" gOl'erlllIenl oiiticeif!h occasionally have colored the manneren urj. . 1 . h' h d' h d h'. . _ . contrnr:r coiltentlollS to suc i all e.ttent in w iC au itors .3ve pursue t eirDr. Wilson, i~ his 33rd that the l'larler-lcriters should gii'e "watchdog" tasks. The "watchdogs"

year as path~logis~, cO~1ten~- l!ici1 the ali('li/iOll th",. desert'e. are tempted to be less watchful of gov-ed ~~at whe,h~r tiie title is Two dramatic ilustrations of the ad- ernment agencies supervised by off-~eoi~~i :x~mine~ or coro-I ~ vantages and drawbacks of nonpartisan- cials of the same political faith.~~~ dutie~ vs.-partisan local government are on Opposition from the politicians con-o view in two public buildings less than a tributed to the defeat of a charter

city block apart. placed on the ballot in 1952, a reorgani-In Seattle City Hall the nonpartisan zation plan that called for removing

municipal government operates eff-' partisan labels from all county offices,ciently and with a minimum of political There edd('1ll)" is cOTlc('ni amonginfluence. But in the Courthouse the tll( pn'seiit fr('pfioltler.~ ihat .~i1lilnr:ineptitudes of county government over 0PIH/8ition might j('opardi::p the dwiircsthe years clearly can be traced in part of ihe 1/('/(' ClUlrl('r proflO.'als beingto the political-spoils system, '\yhich approi'rd I'y the i'nlt'r.~ 1/('xl fall. ' ,

often has made county officials more Our view is that the concept of non:. responsive to their party organizations partisanship is so desirable that the

and supporters than to the public at danger of" political-party opposition is abrop risk well worth takin2_ /t

(Cir.

-..""11'=1 YVdSn.

Post-lntellgencer198,812 Sat. Mol'. 184332

Sun. 239,092) ,

MAy ~ 796t

Jlllen~ p.e,B.Est. 1888

W I L SON ob.ïetved his33rd \-ear with the coroner'soffce yesterday and said hehas pcrformed-15,895 autop-

sies in that time,Dr, Willam J, Brady,

coroner of 1\1 u 1 t nom a hCounty in Portland, whichoperates on the medical ex-

aminer system, said he didnot think there is any pur- Ipose in electing a coroner. Ii'

Dr. Bradv said that sincehe instituted the medicalexaminer system in ?Iultno- IImah County, the number 1\of autopsies has increased !Isixfold and that costs have .:been decreased.

He recommended that theFreeholders "seriously con-

sider adopting a medicalexaminer system" in KingCounty and said that theyhave the means of makingit a model system.

~___~_"'._d~:".~---....~ii 'i

Notes on the News ,J I 'l 7

o When future i-eeways are built, they wil have onedistinct improvement over those already in existence. Re-cently adopted federal highway-safety standards rule out"left-hand" approach ramps like those found at severalpoints on the Seattle freeway . . .

C The Olvmoia City Council has enacted a fair-hous-in" ordinance a'nd mùnicipal offcials in nearby Laceyan"d Tumwater arc preparing similar legislation, But theaction lar'''c1v is symbolic. An informal checl¡ by Olympianewspape~mcn showed recently there are fewer than 50Negro households in the entire Olympia area. , .

o Olympic Hotel officials doubtless wished the hotelhad two grand ballrooms this week. Seven hundred per-sons filled the hotel's main ballroom Wednesday night fora dinner honoring the Rev. Dr. Elmer Chri~tie: retiring asrector of Seattle's Epiphany Episcopal P.arish. The spacehad been reserved ahead of th8 d:i,te set for the Seattle visitof King Olav V of Norway. As a result, a state-city dinnerhonoring the King, Wednesday night, which ordinarily wouldhave been held at the Olympic, was scheduled instead at theRainier Club. three blocks south. . .

o Dr, Willam J. Brady, a Portland physician whowas elected IVhi1tno!1;:.h Cou:1ty coroner in is 54 on a plat-form of elimimitir.g the offce, has urget t~.~.lg~g,i=~Board of Freeholders to abolislie e ective coroner Infavõr'õr añâppóiriP.iiical exC'"miner. The l\uItnomahCounty coroner's offce wil be absorbed into Oregon's

¿ statewide medical-examiner system next year, Contend-ing that an untrained, elective coroner may have obliga-tions to special-interest groups, Dr, Brady told the free-holders his opponent's major campaign contributionscame from two funeral directors, three attorneys per-forming the coroner's estate administration and t\;O phy-sicians holding corcner's contracts for poison tests andautopsies, , .

. A report by The Times' Julie Emery has placed auseful perspective on the anti-war and draft-resistance pro-test directed against the University of Washington admin-istration. About ï5 students participated in the planning ofthe April Days of Protest and some 1~0 attended a meetingcalled this week to discuss the reìection of their demandsby Dr. Charles Odegaard, U. W. p;-esident. But the univer-sity's enrollment is nearly 30.000. Small wonder that a .protest-group spokesman complained that only "the sameold faces" appear at meetings. ~ _, _' ,_ ,,

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Coroner Leo ~L Sowerstold the Freeholders lastnight that a medical exam-iner system, replacing the

present coroner's system in'King County, was unneces-sary.,Sowers said:"I feel that I am just as

capable and just as compe-tent to do a job as well as

any doctor."Sowers was referring to

the administration of his of-fice. He said he adminis-ters and that Dr. Gale Wil-

son handles all matters of amedical nature, includingautopsies.

Dr, Lowe 11 White Jr., Ichairman of the legislative icom m i t tee of the KingCounty l\I e d i c a 1 Society,told the Freeholders that l'both the King County Socie-

ty and the State Medical So-ciety favor the medical ex- ¡

amineI' system,

OPERA TIOXS of the pros-ecutor's offce we r e ex-plained to the Freeholdersby Chief Civil D e put yJames E. Ken n e d y andChief Criminal Deputy Wil-,liam L, KinzeL. / .. " ,

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stron~ exccu ,1\-e he:'d , JohnA. D0!18.!i,), a man3ilemcntconsult,,!:t, told the CountvBoard of Freeliolriers laštni~h~.

Donaho, \\'ho did a seriesof studies for King County 10yedrs ago and another on itsengineer's office in the past

, year, chided coi.inty offcialsfor failin6 to put into effect

some of his key recommen-dations. .

In King County, we knowthat in the pC\st 10 years the

county has failed to develop

a personnel system or anadequate budget system," hesaid. "Thus, the chartershould probably treat theseareas in some detaiL"

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E ,,-':: " ~7A,r i, 1/ ~lf f~.",¿;~~..~..lià" "-..parttiine, paid low salariesand elected county-wide.

Donaho contended highpay attracts "mediocrity"because local governmentcannot pay enough to get theto~) people. But low pay, hesaid, does attract top offi-cials.

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appointed as p:irt of a fi-nance department. he said.

"You can't create policyor manage with separateelected heads." Donaho as-serted. "Obvioiisly, the ex-

ecutive can neither directnor coordinate officers whodo not report to him."

He ccmtended King Countynot only is badly organized

but not providing many ser-vices an urban county canbest provide. He called forpositive programs under toppeople in the fields of fi-nance, personnel and pur-chasiiig and said an appealboard should be created toprotect employe rights andto hear aggrie'.-ed employes.

DO:\AHO recommended 5to 11 commissioners, saying

the board should be smallenough to be deliberative butlarge~ enough to be represen-tatìve. He said terms of of-fice ;;hould not be staggeredand no standing committeesshould be created,

He said:"To have fuJI-time council-

men or commissioners wouldcreate competitive power The size of the Unitedcenters with the chief execu- States was doubled when thetiv: and create conflcts louisiana Territorv was ur-wh¡ch would damage the or- chased from France in 18b3.derly processes of govern.- ---- .__ ___ment," .. tf

An appointed administra- itor does not fit the needs of IKing County, he said. Ane 1 e c t e d chief executive.should be the center of all 0authority and responsibilityfor administration, elected atlarge and on a partisanbasis, he said.

DON A H 0 recommend,:dthe merger of the road dis-tricts in his latest report,

but the 'Commissioners havetaken no action on that.

The consultant also criti-cized some tentative decI-sio:1s the freeholders havemade.

The board indicated itwants nine full-time commis-sioners elected bv districts.It is split on the questian ofan elected executive or anappointed administrator. OTHER OFFICES now

But Donaho ca!)ed for an elected should be appointed, ,elected executive and said he said.- The auditor, treas-commissioners should be lIer and assessor shoul'b b,:Ja:--.---~--_._-_____ .~

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'Fight Cit~, HoB?'The Day May Come

English.language dictionaries oftendon't recognize the word. It's one, however,with which we're all going to become a lotmore familiar in the near future.

The word is Ombudsman.It's beginning to crop up frequently in

conversations. A lot of folk think we shouldhave one.

Probably we should. At least, we shouldemploy one at county-level government andhigher.

The Ombudsman is the man who getspaid to be in the middle. He's the one whohelps interpret government to the citizen. ..particularly to the citizen who believes he'sput upon and not'getting a fair shake fromhis government.

Candidates for public offce have beenquick to find a need for Ombudsman. Somehave f~shioned a plank for their platform,proposing that - if elected - they wilcreate an Ombudsman offce. Additionally,the Municipal League of Seattle and KingCounty proposed recently to the King CountyFreeholders that provision' be made for anOmudsman in the new county charter beingdrafted by the freeholders.

- The belief is growing that governmentshould be able to communicate better withthe citizenry. Growing complexities pointto the need for a special department tohandle inquiry and complaints.

The Ombudsman is described as anindividual professionally qualified, readilyaccessible, politically independent, com-pletely detached from government andauthorized to inquire into administrativeshortcomings.

This middleman is not set up as a creatoror critic of public policy. Rather, he becomesan overseer of administrative decision-making. .¡

Dr. Randy H. Hamilton, executive direc-tor or the Institute for Local Self-govern. ~ment in Berkeley, Calif" said recently: "Oneof the broadest' categories of need are in theare~ . of compl~int against discretionarydecisions wherein the citizen disagrees withthe manner in which an offcial has exer-cised his discretion. He has no formal meansof challenging it, or, at least, no inexpensivemeans." .

The value of the Ombudsman in suchcases as that becomes obvious.

.The aggreived citizen can put his com-plaint. berore the third.party Ombudsman.Investigation by this middleman can pointthe way to a solution or compromise thatpro~ably never. could be achieved by theparties, to the dispute acting by themselves.

We ve all heard the old lament that"You Can't Fight City Hall!"

Maybe... . just maybe _ . . the day wilcome.

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91 blgliSh-iangUage dictionaries oftendon't recognize the word. It's one, however,with which we're all going to become a lotmore familiar in the near future.

The word is Ombudsman.It's beginning to crop up frequently in

conversations. A lot of folk think we shouldhave one.

Probably we should. At least, we shouldemploy one at county-level government andhigher.

The Ombudsman is the man who getspaid to be in the middle. He's the one whohelps interpret government to the citizen _ . .parlicularly to the citizen who believes he'sput upon and not gettng a fair shake fromhis go\'ernment.

Candidates for public office have beenquick to find a need for Ombudsman. Somehave fashioned a plank for their platform,proposing that - if elected - thèy wilcreate an Ombudsman offce. Additionally,the Municipal League of Seattle and KingCounty proposed recently to the King CountyFreG.1i;ci;that provision' be made for anOmudsman in the new county charter beingdrafted by the freeholders.

The belief is growing that governmentshould be able to communicate better withthe citizenry. Growing complexities pointto the need for a special department tohandle inquiry and complaints.

The Ombudsman is described as anindividual professionally qualified, readilyaccessible, politically independent, com-pletely detached from government andauthorized to inquire into administrativeshortcomings.

This middleman is not set up as a creatoror critic of public policy. Rather, he becomesan overseer of administrative decision-making. .

Dr. Rand)' H. Hamilton, executive direc-tor of the Institute for Local Self-govern-ment in Berkeley, Calif., said recently: "Oneof the broådest categories of need are in thearea of complaint against discretionarydecisions wherein the citizen disagrees withthe manner in which an offcial has exer-cised his discretion. He has no formal meansof challenging it, or, at least, no inexpensivemeans,"

The value of the Ombudsman in suchcases as that becomes obvious.

The aggreived citizen can put his com-plaint before the third-party Ombudsman.Investigation by this middleman can pointthe way to a solution or compromise thatprobably never could be achieved by theparlies to the dispute acting by themselves.

We've all heard the old lament that"You Can't Fight City Hall!"

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Perhaps the single mo:;t importantquestion to be resolvcd by Kiii~ Coun-

ty's 15 freeholders, who are draftiii;: anew countv charter, is whether thecounty's Ch1ef administrôti\'e offcer is

to be elected or appointed.

This is an issue on \\'hich the free-. holders reportedly are di\-ided, and it's.small wonder. There are good argu-ments on either side.

If the county's chief executive \\'ereappointed by the el8cted commission-

. ers, harmony bet\\"een the administra-,tor and the commissioners ,,'ould belikely. Also, the chances are strong thatthe admiiiistrat or \,'ould be well qUôE-fied because he would be hand-pickedb~' supposedly knowledgeable electedofficials.

If the administrator \'¡ere elected,

ho\\ever, the legislative and adminis-trative functions of the countï would beseparated and, because the a"dministra-tor would be independent of the com-missioners, there would be a healthycheck and balance.

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is essent ial. Therefore, we recommendthat the' administrator be elected, with.certain stipulations. ;

One of the hazards inherent in elect-'.ing an administrator is that an indi\'id-ual \\-ith high \'oter appeal and namefamiliarity but questioncibJe qualifica-

tions might gain office. Therefore. wesuggest that requirements for the offcebe '\Titien in such a manl1ér as to helpinsure thClt the elected administrator ishighly qualified.

THE REQnnE:\IE\'TS for office,for excimple. could set minimum educa-tioìi and experience J8\'els. Residencyrequirements should b0 made liberalenough to gi\'e opportunity for election:to qualified candidates from throughoutthe nation. !

FinaJly, the salary of the cOllnty's,chief admini:;ir2frir sJiouJrl l-c set highenough to attract outstandingçandi~.dates.

Adoption or these principles, in theopinion or The Post-Intelligencer, wouldprovide a sensiblè solution to the free-holders' dilemma, : ~:":'

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J I r ì '/ 'Norm Ackley reported to the White Center Chamber of Commerce Tuesday

mornina on what the final form of the proposed King_C()u.!ty_Çharter .might

take. He said it was expected that there wiii-b;-~i~e County Com-;i~ioners

and they will be elected by districts.During the first such elec.

tion, howen'r, if IT.JY be ex.

pected that tJiree ::ommission-

ers wil be elected from each

of the 'present three districts,pending establishment of thethree final district boundaries.

A new elective office, that of"E xecutive," is expected to beestablished to provide a countyadministrator, Commissioners

would be relegated to legisla,tive . and adjudication duties,

He also said that most ofthe other present elective posi-tions are expected to become

appointive, or the positions

wiI be eliminated under the

new chiirter. Administrative

and Personnel departmentsare among several new bodiesto be formed. And Ackley saidthat, although it won't be in

the charter, a Civil Service or

merit type of county employ-

ment is expected to be estab-lished.

There is a "sharp divisionof thought among the freehold-

; ers as to whether or not the. county Assessor and Sheriffshould be elective or appoin- .. _ --

; live systems. Mostlr for po.i Utica 1 reasons, Ackley report., ed that these two positions are. among the most controversialquestions to be tackled by the

freeholders in drafting the. county charter.

Another guest speaker, Fred IBowan, spoke on the Jobs

r0":rosram as a volunteer'.~

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Alliance of Businessmen, Hestated that the objective of the

program is to involve businessin finding jobs for hard core

unemployed persons' and - fordis.?dvantaged youth,He said that the Greater Se-

atte goal of this presidential

program is to provide 2,800,

summer jobs for the youth and1,000 permanent jobs for the

hard core unemployed."Employing them makes

good economic sense," Bowanexplained, because the publicgets very lit.tle return when

it supports them with public

welfare funds.

Chamber Manager Les Alt,man told those at the meetingthat this summer's July Jubi-lee in White Center showspromise of being one of thebiggest and best celebrations

to date,

He said one entry alreadyhas been received for theQueen's Pageant and manymore are expected. He urged

this area's eligible youngwomen to apply early to al-low them to participate in themany excitin~ events beingplanned for the cont.estants for!v! iss White Center 195-69.Altm an also said that the

White Center Eagles arescheduling their annual Pan-

cake Breakfast and Parade tocoincide with the Jubilee. The

Pancake Breakfast probablywil be held on July 13.

Other activitic's being dis.cussed include a "greasedpig" contest by Youth Better-ment Inc., v¡¡rióus "fun"booths run by local organiza,tions, plus dog shows, rockhound shows and so forth,

Stan Bradley r~ad a resolu-tion proposed fo:- adoption tothe Associated Clubs of South

King County. It states thatfear of punishr.1ent and fear

of publicit.y are chief deter-

rents to juvenile delinquency-

and crime and c.:lls for givingfull publicity to trials involv-

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Two recently-announcedcadidates for this vear's electionspre _ John O'ConneII, Democrat.who ,will. seek his party'snomiation in the gubernatorial

race, and Bob Eberle. Republican,who wi seek the 7th DistrictUnited States Congress seatcuently held by Brock Adams.O'Connell formerly was PiereeCounty prosecuting attorney and'now is state attorney genera.

Ebele is a former state legislatorfrom West Settle and now ~,Kig Couty Fr~~older. ./ ___

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By Our County News BureauThe first draft of the proposed both Commissioners John Meanwhile, freeholders are

county charter, to go tc ,;:)lpr'" O'Brien and Ed Munro, if both winding up their last two deli-November 5, wil be re3('~' by rL:n for re-election), wil be dealt berative sessions, before Attor-June 8, Paul ì\leyer, executIve with in one of three ways, Meyer ney John Strazzburger trans-secretary of the King County said. Freeholders wil either lates their areas of concensus ,-------~-Board of Freeholders, revealed retain them in their present into legal parlance. At thisTuesday. offce; retain them in their point, concensus exists among

Following this, a series of present office but make them the group that the charter in-public hearings wil be held advisory to the new legislative elude provisions for a full-time .throughout the county to obtain body. or terminate their service legislative body composed ofvoter reaction before the char, at the effective date of the nine commissioners paid notter is finally adopted August 24. charter. less than $18,000 annually, elect-The charter must be certified to The general feeling of the ed on a partisan basis butEdward Logan, King County freeholders seems to be that the nominated and elected by dis- ~election superintendent, by Sep- county's cadre of elected offi- trict. Freeholders also agree r------- _-:-- ,-- -- --- --,tember 21 in order to qualify for cials would prove valuable that the county's executive head F 1 ldthe general election. assets to the county in the eariy should be elected at large on a reei) 0 ersAssuming passage of the char- period following the governmen- partisan basis and that the '. ¡ - ì

ter, l\leyer said the state consti- tal switch-over, lvleyer reported, county should establish a per- T ,.- p' " . i

tution requires that election qualiying as he said this, that sonnel system wit~ both a per- 0 US 1date be set immedaitely after the charter must first be passed. sonnel board and director.the general election to select The matter has already been Stil pending are decisions on 1~ew county offcials. Their elec- discussed among the freehold- the county's other six elected Am. r.n,(l1nenttion, however, may be held ers and various public inform a- offcials, including the contro- . \. '\ ;.a,nytime within the following tion campaigns are under con- versial posts of coroner and. lÇing County's Board or Free-six-months period. sideration. Preliminary plans assessor. Meyar said a decision holders plans to tak~ ~ new

Present county officials, call for a first effort to reach the on their role in the new county" charter to the voters in Novem-either holdovers or newly-elect- general public in September and charter would be reached Satur-, bel' the board's executi\'e see-ed commissioners, (including October. . day. ret~ry reported at Pacific ~u-

..// theran University's C?mmumty

Planning Workshop F~d.ay. '.Paul Meyer, administrati~e

head of the freeholders, said \that a rough draft of the pro-posed charter wil be ready .bY ,the end of May and that a seri~sof public forums wil be held inJulY and August.Speakin" 'about the progress

of the fre;holders in King Coun-

ty, Meyers said t~1ey ha:'e met34 times since their election lessthan a year ago,

"It is important to kee~ open I

the channels of information so 1

that they (the county employes) I

can see that we are not crea~'1in'" a monster that they can t iII\:"e with," Meyer said. . i, "An honest give and take with I

county department heads has re- ¡suIted in remarkab:; frank-iness," Meyer said. One de.,

'- partment head eve,n. s~ggesteA~ 1,

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Associate Editor, The TimesThe. boundaries of King County comn:¡issioner

districts would be revised drastically under a pro-posed county charter being drafted by the Board ofFreeholders. -. -ATthouoh several items remain open for additionalstudy and discussion, the charter's provisions cov~r-inO' the make-up of a new Board of County Commis-si;ners are reasonably firm. '

As now envisioned, the charter would estab-lish afull-time nine-member board, with the comm!ssioners

. elected on a partisan, district-by-district basis.To become effective, the new charter first must

be approved bJ' the electorate. The Times' JerryBerO'sman reported today that the freeholders planto h~ve a preliminary draft complete~ by, early nextmonth with the final proposal ready in time for ther\ove~ber 5 general election. (Details, Pag.e 13,)

If approved, the c~arter woul~ establish pii:ecommissioners' posts, \vith three bem:: chosen iro.meach of the existing North, South and Central Dis-tricts, '

Once in offce, the new commissioners. wouldundertake reapportionment legislation, to .define theboundaries of nine new districts on the basis of popu-lation. 1 . .

Because redistricting is a potentially exp osiveissue, the freeholders' thinking has been that the pathtoward voter ratification of the charter would besmoother if the redistricting question were .Ief.t to alater date-that is, until after the new commissionersare in offce. '. .

Nine ne\v districts in place of the existing three,of course would represent a radical departure fromthe structure of O'overnment with which King Countyresidents now a~e familar. ,

The three existina districts embrace large chunks _of King County's 2,136 square miles.. . .- ,

Included in the Central. or 1st, District are Mer-cer Island and sections of Central Seattle lyin~ roughlybetween Yesler Way and a line paralleling North,Northwest and Northeast 70th Streets.

" The South,' or 2nd, District includes part~. ofi Southwest Seattle and such South End communities

I as Renton, Auburn, Kent, Federal' Way and En~im-

claw, plus the unincorporated territory eastward mto. the Cascade foothils, .. .. .

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Most of the major East Side cities-Bellevue,. Kirkland and the like-are included in the North or3rd, District, which also embraces Seattle north' or"above" the 70th Street line, the Bothell-Redmondarea and a vast expanse of territory surrounding suchareas as Snoqualmie, North Bend, Issaquah and Sky-komish.

The break-up of these three large distrkts intonine smaller ones is a scheme substantially difer-ent froni that envisoned in a proposed charter thatwas defeated in 1952. ,

The 1952 freeholders advocated enlarging theboard to seven members, but splittng their constiu-encies into much larger blocs. Three commissionerswould have represented all of incorporated Seattle,three others portions of King County outside Seattle,and the seventh would have been an "at-large" com-missioner representing all of the county.' ,

COI\i¡UENT: A reapportionment plan woùld re-ceive wide support from residents in unincorporatedareas of the county, They long have complained thatthe existing system robs them of adequate represen-tation, .

The argument has been that with only three dis-tricts in the county and \...ith most of the population inthe cities, it has been the "city" vote that carries thegeneral elections.

One possible weakness in the charter now being/ drafted, however, is that the establishment of nine

commissioners, each rt!nning in separate districts,would create a "ward" system in which offce-holders might place their own constitutuents' in-terests above those of tlie county as a whole.

But the "ward" system has its ad'ii3:ìtages, toO-,notably, that it makes government more accessibleand responsive to the citizens, a condition not ~always prevalent at the Courthouse, ",

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C~arter Scheduled by June 8By k'lRl E'RGS:\1:;\ questions is whether the personnel system of some

The Bord of King County chief administrative off:=er kind also is assured.Fr(?c!io17Iers plans to Iiavë¡i' should be elected or appoiit- The next two deliberation¡5minar)' draft of a coun- ed. T~)e board is sp~it on the ses:.io!1s will be on which ofh. charter in hand by June 8. question although 1t .stClnds the depèi rtment heads should'Jh. Id h t now for an cie~ted chief ex- be elected and which shouldT IS wou mean a c ::r er ecutive. be appointed. A number ofwill be ready for submission The board also has decided persons and groups are sup-

to the voters at the NO\'em- to have nine full.time com- porting retention of the as-bel' 5 general election. m!ssionera ele~ted by. dis- sessor, auditor and sheriff as ,

t t a art1san basis A plprtprl "ffi,.i" k '"A newly adopted schedule ~o_n P . "will allow the freeholders"

i;(aff three weeks to makethe preliminary draft basedon decisions of the freehold.ers.

Richard R. A 1 b r e c h t,chairman, presented the re-vised schedule to the board

members.It calls for deliberation

sessions Saturday and May,13 followed bv the three,wèek period w'hen Paul R..Mever. executive secretary,anâ John H. Strasburger, at-'torney, \vil prepare thedraft.

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offcials of special districts,:~ : - 'Such as water, se\ý-er and

fire districts, to make pres-,- , .entations,

Meyer said one or moresessions will be held to reo

fine the preliminary draft.;:'. - August would be available

for final deliberations and; re\'isions.

If the charter drafting~ ,goes according to schedule,

, it will be adopted section bysection in mid-August andadopted in full by the end of

. August. To be on the Novem-ber ballot. the charter mustbe certified by Septen~ber 21.

But Meyer predicted the'freeholders \viI completecertiication by September 7.

110st of the major deci-sions have been reached' ona tentative basis, but last-ditch efforts to change themcould come when the preli- jminary draft is presented.

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f Appointive ProcessN earl y all of the now-

elected King Collntv off.;c.als should be appointed:: the boar d of freeholder~

= drafting a ne\v-ëõÚnty char- ':: tel' agreed yesterday,: But the county assessor: shDuld be elected, the free-:: Jio1ders indicated, during a- meeting at the courthouse.

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:: county legiSlative or execu-- tive branches, or both, ofthe auditor, clerk coroner

sheriÏ and treasu;er. '- The freeholders a g r e e d

t~at "many of our profes-sional and administrativeleaders should be kept out

of the political light. " I-

THE "WATCHDOG" of.ficeof auditor must be "in-dependent" of politics, theboard pointed out. It alsoacceded to a request fromSuperior Court judges thatthey choose their own coun- !ty clerk. I

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..tounty Charter's First Drcift"-0 B~ Completed by June 8By Our County Nrws Bureau ney John Strazzburger trans-

. The first draft of the proposed lates their areas of concensuscounty charter, to go to voters into legcil parlanc,e. At this

November 5, wil be ready by point, concensus exists amongJune 8, Paul r.ieyer, executi\'e the group that the charter in-secretary of the Kir:g County elude provisions for a full-time

Board of Freeholders, revealed legislative body composed ofTuesday. nine commissioners paid not

Following this, a series of less than SI8,00') annually, elect-

public hearings wil be held ed on a partisan basis butthroughout the county to obtain nominated and elected by dis-voter re:iction before the char- tric!. Freeholders also agreetel' is finally adopted August 2~. that the county's executiveJieadThe charter must be certified to _____ . -Edward Logan, Kj!1g' County ~.election superi!1~en'dent, by Sep-'"tember 2',;;1 order to qualify for ;.the ger,cral election.

Assuming passage of the char-ter, Meyer said the state consti-tution requires that electiondate be set immedaitely afterthe general election to selectnew county offcials. Their elec-.tion, however, may be held-anytime within the followingsix-months period. '

Present county officials,either holdovers or newly-elect-

~ commissioners, (ineludingboth 'Commissioners JohnO'Brien and Ed ì\'unro, if bothrun for re-election), wil be dealtwith in one of three ways, Meyersaid. Freeholders wil eitherretain them in their presentoffce; retain them in theirpresent offce but make themadvisory to the new legislativeboy, or terminate their serviceat the effective date of the: charter.

The general feeling of thefreeholders seems to be that thecounty's cadre of elected off-cials would prove valuableassets to the county in the early

period following the governmen-ta switch-over, ~ieyer reported,

qualifying as he said this, thatthe charter must first be passed.The matter has already been

dissed among the freehold-ers and various public inorma-tion campaigns are under con-sideration. Prelimnar planscall for a first effort to reach thegeneral public in September andOctober.

Meanwhile, freeholders arewinding up their last two deli-berative'sessions, before Attor-

should be elected at large on a

partisan basis and that thecounty sh.ould establish a per-sonnel system with both a per-sonnel board and director.

Stil! pendkg are decisions onthe county's other six elected

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Icleas Â~cJvaricedBY F~REST WILLLUIS

'Spokesmen for rural \Va-" ter and sewage districts

last ni-¡ht urged the Free-holders not, to incorporate

any t h i n g in a proposedcounty charter that wouldaUow the count\. to takeover those districts.

(There are more t.!ian 200local utility districts and

other small units of govern-

ment here - more than anyother county in the natioñexcept Chi c ago 's CookCounty. )

FRED Crawford, a com-missioner of I\ewport HillsSewer District east of LakeWashington, however said:"If you have a depart-

ment of the county whosesole responsibilty is util-ties, and it is managed by aprofessional, \\'ho keeps inclose touch with the com-missioners of the local util-ity districts, you piight beable to do it better thanwe do."But I would not recom-

mend SUC-!l a changp underthe present county -adminis-

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But most of the speakeiseemed to share the viewof Richard Murray, execitive secretary 'of the ì\'as!ington State .Associ~tion rSewer Districts, \Vhl) dêclared:

"We feel that special diótricU; should not be taker

over by some tuper form 0government (such as th'county) with thp idea that icould administer them better than do the local distric'com missioners."

WATER D 1ST R I C 1speakers echoed the themEof attorney Donald G. Holrrof Renton: counsel for waterand sewer districts. thatthe i r own commissionersare in close touch with localresidents and are -best ableto" do the administrativejob.

Ste\"e Kipper, treasurer ofthe State Association of Wa-ter Districts, asked:

"Can you imagine th~ponderous form 0( g(l\ern-ment which would U,lllt if-'the co u n t y attemr~'LjntakE' over the water ((I:.tricts 7"

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Oinbudsrnan, A1andated:2111-' -. d dIn Lo\vi ;-leld Still ;~Jee e )To The Editor: 'l~ï""""""\'=1\ l~J

Re: Free.hqI.ders considering ~ k ~: £ a.!J V ~~ "'Ombudsman. Tp~~ '".~' "./, ..: lToday, in many nations of the ..... ~~ .

world, the concept of Ombuds- E D ~ 1(; ~ \' J, 7/man means .a "guardi~n of the " . 4.~' "'0_ . l¡people's rights against.. the ~ ' ., -abuses and malfunction by gov- our laws and Constitution.ernmental services are ren- Further, it should be noteddered by public employees, as that the Congress has enactedrequired by Constitution and legislation, which, in eff~ct, ~ro-law. vi des for an Ombusman service.Many people hold the opinion This is to be rendered by the

that the idea of the "Ombuds- United States District Courts,man" first came from the Euro- but congressional studies of t~epean countries. Yet the fact "Iield administration of thismust not be overlwked that the legislation" disclosed ~ .mal-farsighted framers of our Con- functioning and maladministra-

stitution of the United States tion of this governmental serv-recognized the importance of ice. _such a public offce. Accord- It is admitted that there is ainaly, in the drafting of the real need for such Ombudsmanc;nstituion at the Constitutional service in every executive de-Convention in 1787, those partment of government, feder-"founding fathers" established aI, state, county and city. Hean "Ombudsman clause," which should serve as an "alter ego"makes the office of the Pres i- of the chief executive to handledent the chief law-enforcement all citizen-s complaints whenofficer, who is directlj' responsi- any public employe fails toble to the people. faithfully execute the ministe-The Constitution of the State rial duties of his offce, as

of Washington also has an "Om- required by law and Constitu-budsman clause". Article 3, sec- tion.tion 5, likewise, makes the offce The enforcement procedure isof the governor an "Ombuds- relatively simple. When the Om-man_" He, too, is charged with busman established the validityresponsiblity - "and he shall of the citizen's complaint, and

see that the laws are faithfully the offending public employe,executed.", fails to comply with the Om-But, by the passage of tie, budsman's corrective order, the

the- electorate has forgotten Ombud man notifes the Suretythese constitutional safeguard~. holding the public offcial's bondAnd, all too many elected Presi- and notifies the Auditor and thedent and governor, have just not Treasurer to stop his voucherbothered to car out ths "Om- and pay check.budsman function," maiy for It must be recognized that ourpolitical re?sons laws and, Constitution, in part,Thus, it is from ths lack of constitute a "Service contract"

enforcement of our Constitution betvieen al citizens, collective-and laws that many persons Iy, and the citien, individually.have adopted the concept that When tie citizen has paid histhe Ombudsman "fights City taxes, he, therefore, acquiresHa" for the "little guy." the right to demand the rendi-

Actualy, it is the function of tion of al governenta serv-the Ombudsman to see that all kes, pursuant to th serviceministerial duties of.a public contract.

offce are preformed in theprecise manner and mode asmandated by the privisions of

Walter H. Phiipp, ~1210 Fifth Ave_ N.,

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Renton, Wash.Record Chronicle

(Cif. W. 19,180)

MAY 1 2 1968

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Ombudsínan, MandatedIn La~YI rJeld Still f~eeded

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To The Editor: ' r; y e = l~~He: Freeholders considering L..l E.Zl.;~.jIO ri~Ombudsman. l'M!' ~,5.:: . .1, -.: 'lToday, in many nations of the 11. ¡; -i:~ '

world, the concept of Ombuds- E ¡; ~ ~fC~1 " ì/man means a "guardian of the ..-' l¡peolJle's rights against the "" . 4 ~''''''abuses and malfunction by gov- our laws and Constiution.ernmental services are ren- Further, it should be noteddered by public employees, as that the Congress has enactedrequired by Constiution and législation, which, in effect, ~ro-law. vides for an Ombusman service.Many people hold the opinion This is to be rendered by the

that the idea of the "Ombuds- United States District Courts,man" first came from the Euro- but congressional studies of the - _pean countries. Yet the fact "field administration of thismust not be overlooked that the legislation" disclosed a mal-

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recognized the importance of ice.such a public offce. Accord- It is admitted that there is aingly, in the draftng of the real need for such OmbudsmanConstiuion at the Constitutional service in every executive de-Convention in 1787, those partment of governent, feder-"founding fathers" established aI, state, county and city. Hean "Ombudsman clause," which should serve as an "alter ego"makes the offce of the Presi- of the chief executive to handledent the chief law-enforcement all citizen's complaints whenoffcer, who is directly responsi- any public employe fails toble to the people. . faithfully execute the ministe-. The Constitution of the State rial duties of his office, as

. of Washington also has an "Om- required by law and Constitu-buds man clause". Article 3, sec- tion.tion 5, likewise, makes the office The enforcement procedure isof the governor an "Ombuds- relatively simple. When the Om-man." He. too, is charged with busman established the validityresponsiblity - "and he shall of the citizen's complaint, andsee that the laws are faithfully the offending public employeexecuted." . fails to comply with the Om-. But, by the passage of time, budsman's corrective order, thethe electorate has forgotten Ombud man notifes the Suretythese constitutional safeguard~. holding the public offcial's bondAnd, al too many elected Pres 1- and notifies the Auditor and thedent and governor, have just not Treasurer to stop his voucherbothered to carry out this "Om- and pay check.budsman function," mainly for It must be recognized that ourpolitical re?sons. laws and Constitution, in part,Thus, it is from ths lack oJ constitute a "Service contract"

enforcement of our Constitution between all citizens, collective-and laws that many persons ly, and the citizen, individually.have adopted the concept that i,Vhen, the citizen has paid histhe Ombudsman "fights City taes, he, therefore, acquiresHall" for the "litte guy." the right to demand the rendi-

Actually, it is the function of tion of all governenta serv-the Ombudsman to see that all ices, pursuant to ths serviceminiterial duties of a public contract.offce are preformed in theprecise manner and mode asmandated by the privisio~s of

Walter H.PhiJìpp,

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(Cir. W. 19,180)

MAY 1 2.1968

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t:ic h:ie;-Zo! ~:r.~~cs o¡ Gov. Ds.n Evans and stateGOP C:¡~:~'~::2.:i c. )f:o:;tgOi:e~~ J o:..nson.

E':2.::s' co;.:::ol of Ü:" ::epublican State Com-mit~ec, \'1hlen in turn sets t:1C ground rules forth~ st~tc co::ve:-4tio:i J~r:e 2:~22, t.p:?csrs to besl12.:') ;:: t;iis time. .å.::à a 7-7 èivision on thepar~y's st~te eXçcutive boarà could throvi controlof ~;1ê co:ivê!:tion to the co::se¡'ntive wî:g of the.p:o:.y thz.t now incli.àes Pierce, Xing, Snohomishand S?o;;::me count~es. The rra~ter is of signifi-cance not so r.mch in terr:is of:Svans being electeda delegate :;s it is on y:l:et;-er he viil head thedelegation to !iliami and/or be 3. favorÜe son.

From what had beer. expected to be a color-'less af~air in :iliami, the GOP national meet isr¡o\V' sh:i~ing to be one at the èecade's big strug..gles. So far, rrany GOP le:cders here want to re-mai:i nei.t~'al until it's a little closer to AUgiist 5.

At th:s poi:t, many see;-,1 to regard Re.:gan as a

stand-by candidate if Nixon falters but do:i'tbelievê he wil officially put hi:nse'lf into therace. Kevertheless, there is wucn unde:cove::sup~ort for California's goverr.or here that manybelieve wouicr be of signi:'icar.t consequence ifthere's a deadlock between Xixon and Rocke-feller.

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U::èaunted by what ha:iùened in In.:ian:iX,:Carthy forc-:s here stil âre o:itimistic theirman inti:-è.s to stay i. t;:e :race_ Sêven.l personshi¿3 in the ~~!cCar~~y or6ani~a:io:i here report)howev.;::, they're not qi.:te able to put down ru.mors the ~:i~neso~a se~ator may no: go the dis..tance. :::our.Ur.g deficits, k~ds back in school, and,some heal:h problems forcing h:m to cancel someI:ajo:: speeches are fueling the rumors. The;/realso concern.:d their efror.s here and his else-where !:ay have lea!__ed too soon. :',lea¡~whileWaslington suppo::el"s have manageà to send$2,5C:) to '\Visco::sin, Sl,CCO to Neb:as:;:a (watchwhat happens the:e Tuesday) ar.d $1,500 fromBellr.g:i:i:n to Indiana. Also newswo:thy: A pilotprog::am of 200 COllege stuàer,ts w:.o are in Ore-

go;; this weekend beating the dri.m for :i:cCarthyIn c:dva::ce of the p:-i:n2.::Y . . . and a I-(enneåy..:,IcCartny de:-a.e at the Seatte Center. The latterwil be ~ b~er bust anå t::ansmitted live (the_.

Kent, Wash.News-Journal

(eir, W, 8,681 Paid 4,519 Free)

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Local Demos are busting ti1eir buttons overwhat could turn out 'to be success::.l efforts tosnng Vice President Hub~rt Hurrphzoy for theircounty convention June 1 . . ". 7;,ee¡:cl¡:'~;;s to thePost. . , Robe:t Eberle, who wiì challenge CongoBrock Adams; Lois North, Seattle housewife whohas announced for the Legislature; and ,possiblyRobert Block who is considering a spot on thecounty's new legislative body if the charter pass-es . . . A!thc~gh many veteran poliical forecastersrag::rdGovernor EV,"llS as pretty well sure of asecond term, it's stil no fun to have your manturned down at your own county convention:That happened to the liberal-winded governor at

. the Thurston county convention right in theGovernor's backyard . . . St:ite Demo ChairmanRobert :"~uI: also got a turn-down last weekend at

. Ocean Shores when he tried to get approval for a$30,000 computer installation at headquarters.. _The party still is beset with finar.cial ~roblems...Same place: a move by former De:r.o State Chair-man Herb Legg got no place when he tried for a

, delegate reallocation to the national DemocraticConvention that would be mo;;e favorable to -ZI'Ic-Carthy . . . seems as if even the ¡'¡cC:irthy peopledidn't want it, after all! New Dewo comer to ke~pyour eye on: Alan :\lunro, son of South District

- Commissioner Ed ~runro, who survived a McCarthymajority to win the chairmanships of both thecounty and, state platform committees draftingthe party's state platform at Alderbroo:;: Inn._:'lunro is a Humphrey supporter. . . Accord~::g to) ICommissicner Jolm S¿e:Iman, activities of t!:efreeholders, leaving the future of incumbe:~tcounty oficials clouded at the least, is keepingcandidates and money out of the race. Spellmansays he doesn't blame potential aspirants if theydecide against running twice! . . . The rejcctio:i bythe Democratic State Committee last week atOcean Shores of Initiative 224 is causing somenot-so-slow burns on the' part of both parties'county officials. The measure, sponsored by theWashington AssocÍ3tion of County Commission-ers to transfer Z r.iis of the state property taxto the county a::d ap,roved by mem~ers of bothparties, would pour ~,OOO,OCO into King Countyalone. '78."

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embe

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pointing an assc~snr to ob- selecte:l by the Sup~rior

(¡iin technical skilL. Coiirt Judges or the chic! ex-

ecutive. Freeholders chose

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eited their suggestions in writ- cial audits. the charter should call f(li

ing. . splitting the county into i!(;

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~position would not be a cni- Recording functions of the hoards fnr planning anr

cial factor and siiggested the auditor's ofti('(' w0uld be parks, and whether the ch~,J'

chi\rter draft specify ap- transferrrrJ to ;in administra- tel' will create a puhlic-de

pointment of an (ISSf'SSO.r. tive si'clion. fender system for t!insi

Should the charter ~rpcar in McK0nna rut lip n stiff ch;lrgeCi with crimes.. Thi

jeopardy on the h,IS~:'; of pub- hattle for r0tC'ntion or ;in freeholdi'rs also \\111 discus

lie hearings, thC'n the frCfL e1cct\.d corono('r hut W,1S again the question of w!1cth

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. ~.liange it ~o an elective 01- pointnieiit was assiirt'd c1e- a clii('r executive to hire OJ

lice, he said. spite the close v('le hc('aiisc attonwy 1)

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J cept applies to local elections asl well as to those on the state level,

ruled the U.S. Supreme Court. Thiscould change ward boundaries inmany of the nation's 20,000 localgov;rnments because previous de-cisions have indicated that no dis-trict may deviate even as much as3% from the average district popu-lation. Switching to "at-large" elec-

tions may not be satisfactory either.Minority groups complain that theirvotes are swallowed up unless theycan elect a representative from theirdistrict or ward. The King..,9unty-'-Freeholders are preseñtly in favor

of ~ti¿~ by district. ~

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What decisions are theelected King CountyFreeholders malÖng aboutgovernment for our country,and why? Seattle League ofWomen Voters and guests widiscuss these questions at unit

meetings ~l:y 21 to 23_

Mag;olia-Qeen Anne d.:yunit will meet with Mrs.Raymond Dowling, 3219 37th,Ave. W., AT 4-8258, ~l:y 21,9:30 a.m_ ~lagnolj:i-Q;¡eenAnne evening unit will meet atthe horne of ~lrs. John Aldrich,24 i 5 Manta Vista Pl. W., AT /4-4661, ~!Jy 24, at 8 p.m. /

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The Board of King CountyFreeholders will hold its finaldeliberative session Saturdaybefore a three-week layoff dur-ing which the fruits of their ifive-month effort are translatedinlo a rough draft of the new

count\' charter.Stili to be decidC'd arc their

final opinions on tlie initiative.referendum and recall, althoughdiscussion SaturclcîY indicated

the group wished these citizen-protection vehicles included inthe first draft. Freeholders alsowill vote on the status of presentcounty elected 0 ff i c ~ a is andwhether the charter should in-clude a public defender and abureau or offcial to handlecitizen complaints. The latter,known popularly as an "om-budsman," has considerable'sentinient going for it among thegroup.

By a 9 to 4 vote, freeholdersSaturday supported the concept

of an elected assessor. Themajority vote included Valleymembers of the board. all ofwhom were concerned that thematter of appointment versuselection of the assessor not bethe issue that torpedoes thecharter. It has been widelyregarded that the Board of KingCounty Freeholders' decision in1952 to make the assessor anappointive office helped to scut-tle the county's first . . . and

only. _ . attempt to rewrite thecharter.

On other offices, freeholdersvoted to appoint but not elimi-nate the offce of coroner, with

all other officials except the

clerk to be appointed by theelected county executive. He,they decided, should be appoint-

ed by judges of lhe SuperiorCourt. The group also voted tosharply limit the functions of theauditor to include onl\' the con-

duct of post - and other audits.

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The Bo¿¡rd of King CountyFreeholders will hold its finaldeliberative sessiun S2turcl~i\'before a three-week layoff dui:-ing which the fruit:; of theirfive-month effort are translatedinto a rough draft of the new

county charter.Still to be decided art' their

final opinions on the inItatj';c.referendum and recal!, althoughdiscussion Saturday indicatedthe group wished these citizen-protection vehicles included inthe first dri.ft. Freehold'2rs alsowil! vote on the status of present_county elected officials andwhether the charter should in-clude a public deft'nder and a

bureau or offcial to handle Icitizen complaints. The latter, .

known popularly as an "om-budsman," has considerable'sentiment going for it among the

iS group.)f By a 9 to 4 \'ote, freeholdersit Saturday supported the concept

n of an elected assessor. Themajority vote included \'a11e\'members of the board. all õf

d whom were concerned that the1, matter of appointment versus1- election of the assessor not be1- the issue that torpedoes theI- charter. It has been widel\'IS regarded that the BOJrd of King

County Freeholders' decision inr 1952 to make the assessor ans appointive office helpt'd to seut,s tle the county's first . . _ and

t only.. - . attempt to rewrite thecharter.

On other offices, freeholdersvoted to appoint but not elimi-nate the office of coroner. withall other offcials except theclerk to be appointed by theelected county executive. He,they decided, should be appoint,

ed by judges of the SuperiorCourt. The group also voted tosharply limit the functions of theauditor to include 0,:1'; the con-duct of post - and other audits..

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l\y JERl.Y BERGS\t-\NThe need will cOIltim:e for

fire, water and se\\'cl dis-. tricts - partic,ilarly in cx-panding rtnd d (' \' e lop i n gareas - atfic-jab or st!ch cli~-trict:; told the Kiii:: Crii;;,t\.B('ird fo rrechoicièrs Tuc..-

di'\' nHit.1l1l' ~ili,'i:ls rl"wicrÎ ihat

the stc¡tc:; of thr- dt,,1 ;.:,'ts Ilotbe CìiilIl;.crj th,el::':'1 thecluj.ter the Frcc!1cllclers are

(hiftil1¿, for sU0¡¡iisó;ion to

\ ute rs.

rREEHOLDERS have dis-ci:s';cd gil'ng county gm-ern-ment some authoritv to enter~:crvice areas handled by thedistricts,

It appe2.rs lInlikely. howev-er, that the Freó:holders \villatter.ipt to eliminate the dis-tricts.

The efficiency of countygovernment came in forheavy criticism by a numberof special-di5trict oîîicials,

They expressed a fear that atakeover by the countywould mean poorer serviceand higher fees for taxpay-ers in the districts. Kin,!County has 35 special firedistricts plus many sewerand water districts.

w. Ed Gamer, executivesecretary of the Washington

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Fire Commissioners Asso-ciation, prrctictcd that mostareas in WcstClI I\ing COU;l-

ty will b~eoiic incorporatedwit!;in cities, b:it he saidthrre will hc a J1ecd for fire

c1¡~tricts in Ertstcrn KingCoiintv mal1' \,cars.

Gar~icr sã'. the fire dis-tricts as required during the"transition fro m forestedarcas to cities." He discount,cd as impractical the con-cept of a county-wide firedistrict. Garner said differ-ing levels of fire protect ion

are desired and a count\'-wide di.:trict woiild make "itmore difficult to get volun-tecr firemen.

Robert H, Ely, presideiit ofthe County Fire PreventionInspectors AosriciatIon andchief of the Bellevue FireDistrict, said coiint\' otìicialsshould ta;;e a "se;'ious lookat the field of fire preventionand fire control. Many im-provements are still need-ed."

HE SAID fire districtsmust rely 011 the county toadopt fire codes. Though thesjn::itioI1 is improving, hesaid, COl:ntv officials "fortoo long ha\~e been followersinstead of leaders."

Not all water districts

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have wa t e r mains bigenough or in sufficient num-b('r for fire control, Ely add-ed.

Sewer- and water-districtofficials said they have per-sonal knowlcd~l' of theirareas and the areas' needs.

John Cartano, attorney forthe Bellevue Water District,contenùed the special dis-tricts pro..ide local control,

respor:sibility and represen-tation. He said transfer ofcontrol to county govern-ment would result in tappingwater re\'enue for otheruses.

"Studies show." he said,"that when a water systemis made a part of a largergoverninen tal organiza tion,it frequently subsidizes non-

income - producing d e par t-

mcnts of that governmentaloperation. "

Don Holm, attorney repre-senting water and sewer dis-tricts, contended the specialdistricts are vital in expand-ing areas. If the area is com-pletely developed and onlymaintenance is involved, hesaid, "it becomes quite im-material who harules the op-eration, the county or a dis-trict." Holm called for pre-serving the right of taxpay-

ers to expand a local facility.

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The King County Freeholders are now in the finalstages of drafting a new countv charter (forconsideration by the \'oters). -

One of the m2jor decisions was made o\'er thew~;'end when t1'le 15-member board considcred theqUbtion of ele;tive vcrsus appointive offices. Thetentative resolution of t1ie question was to retain thecounty assessor's offce as an electi\'e position. Tohave the County Commissioners appoint a 1egislaUveauditor. The executive of the new county go\'ernmentwould be charged wiLi appointment of the coroner.sheriff, and tre2Surer. The judges of the SuperiorCourt wo~ld appoint the clerk of the court.

All of these positions are n,)w electi\'e.The elected positions would be the county

administr2tor, the county commissioners, and theassessor.

The decision to retain the assessor as an electivepost was ot.vioils!y conditioned on the fact that many

, of the freeholders felt that makin" all of these

_ ,poitions appoinjve would jeopardiz; vot"r passageof the eventual d'lcument.

The decision to chop out most of the electedpositions ind'èed met with a rrjxed reaction at CountyHall this wetk. The basic argument is o\'er whethe~

the individual voter should ha\'e the right to pass

judgement on the. performance of each indi\'idualcurentlyele;ted.

The o~Ì1er side of the coin is that 'nith nine CountvCommissioners and a chief executi\'e, who is elected,the voters ha\'e substantial control o;'er their county.Thus many feel the administrati\'e positions can beappointi\'e ..ithout compromising the control peoplehave over their government.

The assessor's offce was maintaned as anelective position because this is regarded as the officeclosest to the hearts or spl~n of the ele;torate. But

many or the freeholders felt this position, too, shouldbe appointive.

It was interesting to note the reaction of one

county commissioner who favors retlntion of electivepositions. He said there were "t\';o positions which Ifeel could be better served by appointi\'e offcers."One was the clerk or the court, who the commissionerfelt could be best chosen by the judges of the SuperiorCourt. The second position was countysuperintendent of schools. This electiveadministrative position, the commissioner felt, couldob';iously be filled by a man chosen by the CountySchool Board or other such agency. The freeholdersare unable to speak on that position.

Another elective position is county prose;utor.There are many who reel it is'somewhat strange foran officer of the court to stand partisan election, as henow does.

There is, of course, no such thing as Republicanlaw or Democrat law. There is also an open questionas to whether or not the prosecutor should be electedor chosen on the recommendations of the bar by theCounty Board.

But the freeholders were unable to consider thatquestion, too. The freeholders said. "Many of ourprofessional and administrative leaders should bekept out of the political Ught...

It is a question well worth discussing whether theprosecuting aitorney and school s~perintendent

should be kept out of the political light, partisan ornon partisan.

If the voters of King county agreed with the

fr~holders' decision to transrorm many of the nowelected positions into appointive positions. it mightthen be wise to study the 21st Amendment to theState Constitution which mandates that they put onbliders as far as the prosecutor and school

superintendent are concerned. The 21st amendmentforbids the freeholders from affecting the election ofprosecutor or school superinte~dent. ./

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ExecutiveFav.priog Election of ChiefB)' JEiikl ntRtS!t:\:" to persiiad(' thos(" all the Il¡i. ekcled in a partisan C'leç.

EUon~ to r~\'er~(' a tenta. jority ~idt' to ~wi(ch" tion, county-wide."tive d("i~:ol1 by C'o:.nlv Frce. Jack GC'fl"ro\', onr of thehold!:t's in t;ivnr-¡ Fu-eholders who '"oled fort'll?ctei: coi;nt'; cbid cxccu- an elected ('xecuii\'c biit hi-ti..l' app-:tn":1 oot.imC'd (Q dicatcd be would fòJ\"or ;li'

o failure yc¡:ierday. appoint('d admi"is.il~(1)'i ifit Janlt50 p" Curran, one of commissioiicrs were elN.'led

those who h.id held out for cGunt\'.wide. !.ince has madel. an appoint~ adniilii~tl'dlOr, clear 'hl' dOt:!. not plan fa reoo. nnnouncro he has Swili"hed Verse his ,"ote.

to the majority side. Thi' dr-. In effect. an elected cXt'cu.~~i~~ '~~~c~1~~~..,~i~~i11r~('~~ vite together with a nine-

in favor or aii elected execu. m("mbt.r BOärd of Countytive is at II:Jst 9-5, Commissioners would i:1\'t"

An effurt to reverse the th~ couni)' the equi\'alt-nt ofpas it ion ii- expe-cied June :~~~~~~~C~~~~~~'~'/~~"~e~~tf;~:S \\h('n a preliminarydroii of Ih(' chai1er wil be Curran snid: "After fur.si.limiut'd to the board" Biii ther reflection, stud.., andCUiï..m's rl~cio;ion puts the consideration or the rel1arkssuccess or the effort in of niore reent spcakt-lS and,~reJter doubt. finall)', in deference lr lhe

problem of g('tting the char-ter accepied by the people, Ihave concluded thaI thechier executÍ\'e should be

cA Nt~IBER OF those fa-

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CURRAN SAID he .I\\.v,has felt cal1ili~ for aneJ('trd exeC"lti,'e would en-ft~r...C' pro:-p('cts of oblainingpas.sagc or a coi:nty c11drte-r.

It has bet.n decided tenta.tively thai county commis.sioners should be eJectt:dfrom districts, a kev coiisi-deration or several freehold-ers in their decision to f~vorelection of thl. executive a..'...cll. A number feli aileCOunt\.. orrici~i1 shcJllld be'eli'ctcd coun(\'-wide ~a on-r-ail issues ".Ul;ld be di"cu~!'i'din c1C'ction campJign~.

Freeholders wil ha\'e atleast fWD chances 10 confirmOr re\'er!.e lentatÎ\'e deci.sions. The first wHl bC' whenthe prclimin31l' draft is dii,.cussed. The second wilcome \l-hen the final draft isapproved secHon by section,

Those favoring aii eleci~.jexecutive believed it Wouldinsiirt: scparution of the ad-ministrative and kgis'aii.,.i.~

branches, fix rcspons¡hili::,

on a singlc clel.~icd oHici'rwhom the pub I i c cCiuldremove at tht prllng pbi.cand pro\'ide ihl. coiinty w¡tha kej'" official who Ii\'e~ inihe community and has astake in it"

O:i THE oiher $ide, it Wd"Sargui.d tli¡il un appointed Gd-ministrator \\oi'ld ~l\.II'Jnt.:~profession;il m;.nilgl'l~h'¡Ii.maii~ii.lin po....cr in the Cl\lP-n1Íss¡oli"rs ins:\..'~d of an (':(.ecmÌ\'c and elimin-itE" politi-cal palronagf'.Several Freeholders hd\'e

expressed concern th.'\t anelccicd executin' would hd\"eo \' e r w h elm i n g aulhorhycompared to the power .si\"~nthe commissioners. /'

/.'~ -Fre~h~ldsrs Add Nevi Vote to A1ajorityFa'lor1ing Election of Chief Execu'¡-iveB)' JERRY BERGS-'IA.'1

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.. Etfons to reverse a tenta.live decision by county Free-hoJders in favor of anelected cgunty chier execu-tive appeared doomed tofailure today.

James P. Curn, one ofthose who had held out foran appointed administator.

anounced he has s\\'itchedto the majority side, The de-cision was made Apri 20 onan 8- vole. Now the lineup/'in favor of an eJ~c(~d e,",ecu-iive is at least 9-5.

An effort to reverse thepo sit ion is expected Jllße8 when a preliminarydraft of the charter wil besubmitted to the bOJrd. ButCurrn's decision puts thesuccess of the effort intreater doubt.

A r;minER OF those fa-\'orin;: an nppointed aöm¡nis-trator ha\'e been at~emptíngto p"rsi:::dc those On the ma-jority sid!. to switch. .

Jnck GC'oUro\', one of the ¡Freehofdnn; \rho '"uh:d foran ClCCiC'd e:\ecutÏ\:e but in.dÏCated he would fa,'or anappoinlt'd administrator if icommis~ioners were' electedcounh'.widc, since ha'i madeclear .hc dOfo, not plan to re..\ï~'r'!e his \'ote.

fn erfcct, an clecled exccu-vite to.;ether with a nine.member Board of CountyCommis5ioners would givethe co~nty the equiv3.le-nt ofa mayor-council form or gov.emment, si milar to Seattle's.

Curran said: "After fur-tJ~l!r refle-ction, study andco:i~id('ratio:i of the remaïksof more recent SPE3k('I'S and,finally, in deference to theproblem of ~('tins the char.ter ac('~nrp:! hv H,ø l"ø"'nl.. ,

county offci.11 shm¡fd beekct~ County.wide so o..er.all issues would be c!i:-cu.ssedin election canip¡ii;;ils"

Freeholders wiI h,¡1\C' atleast two chances to eonfirmor re"'ersc tentnti,,"c deci..si~ns. Thc first wHJ be whenthe preliinory draft is dis-cussed. The second wilCome when the fial drart isapproved section by section.

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executive beli~\"ed it wouldinsure st'paratjon of the ad.m¡nisir;iti\,c ..md 1('~:si..U\'ebi,;_mches. fix rcsiK'nslbilir..or: a sÎn~ie eJtctcd cffic(~'rwhom the pub I Î c couldremove .t the polling placeand provide the county witha key offcial who lives inthe community and has astake in it.

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Se,-eral FreC:ìoJdcrs haveexpressed concern that anelected executi..e \vauld haveoverwh eI ming authority

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. hoiderš--~'ës:-~r(Eïy'-agrecd togive job sccurily to county('onimissiorier;s and othere1i'cted oliici"ls affected bya proposed charter.

The charter will s,,'itchcounty rlccrions from eVen~numbcred to odd-numbered~VC;¡lS to fociis attention on

:'coiiniy officials in local elec-tion~.

These were amon~ a series ;_aof decisions the board ma,:c

in iis last session before thestaff prepares a preliminarychaneI' draft fpr presenta-

,iion to the b.i.)rd JUl1è s.~ '; he twO i:lJllì\Y coinmisø "sioners elected in November'and the one holdo\'r com- 'm i s s ion e r would becomemembers of the proposed ¡nine-member Baard of Como. fmissionC'rs until their terms.,.:

expire. If the charter is ap-".

proved, Commissioner J obn .Spellman will have two 1years left, and the tllO elect- :-ed in November, four years'each. Commissioners, John,O'Brien and Ed iVlunn:i areexpected to seck re-eleetimi .'this ycar.

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ELECTED department.heads would receive the.'same salary they do now un- r,til their terms expire in 1\\' I'years. They also would be!a¡¡owed to remain as couniy,!employes, although possibly,in lesser job classifications

than department heads., 'Charter proposals c.,il for..election of nine commission-ers from districts, a countyexecuti\.c and assessor, allon partisan tickets, It pro-vides for appointment in-stead of election of the sher-

iff. coroner, clerk, treasurerand auditor.

co'unty to operate utilitiesand establish braiich court-¡,,'iise, throughout the countya Iso will be considered later.L~.~al qllèstions on eachmust be answered first.

'FURTHER attempts wilbe made to retain the audi-tOl' as an elected officiaL. Si-mon Wampold and DonlVkDonald s u g g est c d anelected auditor should be

responsible for fiscal auditsand sen'e as a citizen com-plaint bureau.. By 7 to 4,freeholders voted to provide

Sflme form of citizen com-plaint bureau, but detailswere left open..

J¡iines Curran said he willmove later to include in thecharter an enabling clause to

allow the county to operatein the fields of water, sewerand' fi re protection services,

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and to establish branch of- the õlssessor to two four-yearfiees, in e Iud i n g Superior terms and change the nameCourt functions, outside the' to appraiser also we I' emain COilrthouse. beaten.The effort to appoint an CommissiQners will con-

assessor was defeated 9 to 2. firm executive appointmentsVirginia Gunby had pro- to head departments with di-posed the assessor by ap- rect service to the piiblic butpointed by the executive and not those IÖ head internalrun for election without op- county operations. The exe-

. position to allow the public ciilive will be allowed to fireto accept or reject the ap- department heads without.piiintìnent~ Motions' to limit . appeaL. /"

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Freezing into offiee the Although freeholders de-countv commissioners and feated by a 6 to 6 split a pro- ¡

:' gÏ\'ing permanent job seculÍ- posal to allow appointment:ty to present elected depart- by the county executive of a;'ment heads were secn as legal department, outside the:ways to eliminate opposition prosecutor's offce, they vot~to the charter and preserve ed 8 to :; to prepare for later;continuity and experience in consideration a section per~county government during mitting cretion of ,(he de-the transition period. parlmenl by th.. eommissioo-

As a starting salary, the ;'l!rs.' 'Whether -,the charterboard agreed the executive "could create such a depart'should earn 50 per cent more Îuentis a legal questio~.t h a n the commissioners. A tentative agreement wasThat would place his salary reached to take rezoningat $27,000 a year, After their from the Planning Commis-first terms, commissioners sion and give it to the countywill be allowed to set their:. co II m i s s ion e r s, but theown pay leveL. f \vhole question of establis!,-

ATTEMPTS TO place re- ing procedures fot quasi-jii:strictions on an electen as- . dicial functions wil be con-.sessor were defeated. Free- i J sidercd later,holclers agreed to create i Provisions allowing (he,some sort of public com- j' --plaint bureau, placed quali-:fications on the referendum'process and rejected estab- "lishment of a pubJic-defencle,- :

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U.S. Congress Seatin 7tl, DistrictBob iblrJ 1in.LCQunty

Freehòlâër-d-prmer StateLegisJaioiîrom West Seattle,announced today that he wilseek the 7th District UnitedStates Congress seat currentlyheld by Brock Adams.

Eberle, 33, a ith District resi.dent for the past 8 years, madehis formal announcement be.,fore a meeting of West Seattle

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He assailed Adams' recordin Congress as being one ofappeasement in Viet Nam anda disciple of the "giant ad.ministration spending policieswhich have brought our nationto the brink of financial di-saster. ..

Eberle expressed hope forsuccessful negotiations on VietNam, but expressed doubt asto the competency of any ad-ministration-appointed negotia-

tion team.

"I am concerned about thepeople who our governmentwil be sending to that negotia-ting table," the RepublicanCongressional candidate said,"The record of the DemocratParty in the 20th Century, ofstarting wars and then losingthe peace has been consistentand tragic."

"From Versaile to Viet Nam,that record of negotiations has

been clear. We spil blood towin the war, only to suffer de-feat and dishonor behind theclosed door of the conferenceroom," Eberle continued.

Eberle extended his attackof the Democrat administrationto ,Bobby Kennedy, saying,"He proposes a one-way haltto our miltary effort in VietNam, he promotes supplyingblood to the North Vietnamese,and he advocates forcing theSouth Vietnamese to acceptinto their government the rep-resentatives of their mortalfoes to the North. He is propos-

ing the same 'peace-at-any-price' that Nevile Chamberlainpurchased from Hiter at Mun-ich. ..

"We cannot afford a UnitedStates Congressman from this7th District who has echoed thissame equivocating policy bysaying, "Senator Kennedy is thebest candidate (for the Presi-dency) to bring about the newpolicies I have repeatedly ad-

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"Adams has supported tràdewith Red China. He has spokenout for the one-way. no-strings-

attached cessation of bombingin Viet Nam. He has voted forand advocated the entire pack.age of Kennedy-inspired 'pull- ,out. pack-up and ship-off polic-ies designed to stalemate ourtroops, suffocate our military

abilty, and stagnate our desire

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Eberle has tak..n a leave ofabsence from his job asResearch Engineer at The Boe.ing Company to become "aworking candidate," He isPresident of the WashingtonYoung Republican Federationand as a Washington StateLegislator from IS33 to 1£65 be

served on the Local Govern.ment, Highways and CommerceCommittees and was ViceChairman of the State Govern-ment Committee,

His civic activity member-ships have included the RapidTransit Commitee of the Grea~er Bellevue Chamber of Com-mdce. the Mercer IsLmd PTA,the Island Cuuncil Legislative

Committee, the National RifleA~sociation and the YMCAYoutb in Government Com-mittee. He is nn Instructor ofthe Boeing Public Affairs Classand was chosen a Freeholderfrom the Central District inlast November's countywideelection,

Eberle and his ",ife, Kay, aformer teacher at Asa MercerJunior High, have three child-ren; Susan, 8; Dan, 4; and Jil,

1. The family attends RedeemerLutheran Church,

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County Boundary ReviewBoard.Mrs, North, on the 11.

member board since it wasformed late last year, \\'1oteGov. Dan Evans that hercampaign for state repres~n-tative in the 44th Distnct,demands her full time and

. energies,Ì\lrs_ North, a Republican~

L. also is on te Board of Free.

also is on the Board of Free.hGlders, which-îSdrë! ung-"a

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The need will ccmtinue forfire, water and sewer dis-tricts - particularly in ex-

panding and developingareas - officials of such dis-tricts told the King CountyBoard of Freeholders iastnight.- The offcials pleaded thatthe status of the districts notbe changed through thecharter the Freeholders aredraftng for submission to

',voters,

FREEHOl.DEP.S have dis-cussed giving county govern-

" ment some 8Ühority to enterservice area:: handled by thedistricts.It appears unlike1y. hO'vev-

er, that the Freeholders willattempt to eliminate the dis-tricts,. The effciency of county

- government came in - forheavy criticism by a numbE:r

of special-district oficia Is.They expressed a fear that atakeover by the "countywould mean poorer service

, and higher fees for taxpay-_ ers in the districts. King

Co!lnty -has 35 special firedistricts pius many sewerand water districts.\V. Ed Garner, executÏ\'e

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ha\"e wa t e r mains big,enough or in suffcient num- .her for fire control, Ely add- ;ed, " \

Sewer- . and watcr~¡¡~trict.¡ofieials s;¡id they h,Ùc per- ,$1)1131 kll':wl¡;dg,e of tliair'î

areas and tiie a,eas' needs, 1,John Cartnno, att:n;cy for

the BcllcvUl:i Water District,contended the special dis-tricts provide local control,

rcsp'J'sihilty and represen-tatiun, He said transfer ofcontrol to county govern-ment would result in tappingwater reVenue for other'uses,

"Studies show." he said,"that when a water systemis made a part of a largergovernmental organiz.ation,it frequently subsidizes non.

income - pi"oducing de p a l t-ments of that governmentaloperation. "

Don Holm, attorney repre-senting water and sewer dis-tricts, contended the specialdistricts are vilal in expand-ing areas, If the area is com-pietely developed and onlymaintenance is involved, hesaid, "it becomes quite im- Iimaterial who han11es tbe op- reratjon, the -county or a dis- \trict." Holm calIed for pre- iiserving the right of tax!ny- ,:ers to exp:ind a loca! facility. ¡:

Fire Commissioners A~so.ciation, predicted that most3re~s in \Vestern I\ing Cf)~m-

ty wil become incorporatedwithin cities, but he s.iidthere wil be a need for firedistricts in Eastern KingCounty many years.

Garner saw the fire dis-tricts as required during the"transition fro 11 forested

areas to cities." He discount-ed as impract¡cat the con-cept of a county-wide firedistrict. Garner said difer-ing levels of fire protection

are desired and a county-wide district 'would make itmore difficult to get volun-teer firemen.

Robirt H, Eiy, presideiit ofthe County Fire PreventionInspectors Association andchief of the BcJ(evue FireDistrict, said county otlicialsshould take a "serious lookat the field of fire preventionand fire control. Many im-provements are stil need-ed."

HE SAID fire districtsmust rely on the county toaåopt fire codes. Though thesituation is improving, hesaid. cOl:nty offcials "for

too long have been followers. instead of leaders."

Not ail water districtstIe.. ,_, ".~.._-' ~.

Unifounc~ed Fears--, .f.'~~-:;:

Fears, express'ed this week, that thenew King County charter being draftedby freeholders might seek eliminationor consolidation of rural water andsewer districts are unfounded fears.

Even if the freeholders desired to in-clude provisions in the charter to elimi-nate such special d i s t r i c t s, theycouldn't do it. The reason is that suchdistricts have been created by the StateLegislature, In order for counties totake them over, new enabling legisla-tion would need to be passed in Olym-pia. .

So the county's water and sewer dis-. trct commissioners can relax, for the

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er, it's a good time to consider theeventual consolidation or elimination ofsome of King County's myriad of localutiity and other special districts. Thereis a total of 189 local taxing districts

within the boundaries of King County,second only to the number in spra wlingCook County in ilinois,

J\J.NY OF THE county's specialdistricts are administered effcientlvand economically, yet we suspect thereare a considerable number which arenot and that their taxpayers would bebetter served by professional manage-ment on the county leveL. 8

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Bv VIRGINIA BURNSIDE November 4.. Kramer then. re- !ions to county ooks, Logan considerably smaller vote casi sioner o( public lands, and insur- Three bond issues on whichÒur Countv News Bureau turns a presidential and vice- predicted. He said public inter- than could be expected even in ance commissioner , , , in voters wil choose includes $25,-

Volers in King Omnty wil presidential ballot by mail on est in the recenl Forward this (all's primary election. addition to their party's nomi- 00,00 (or water-pollution con.-cast at least 480,00 votes for which the voter may indicate his Thrust election had produced Dozen Slale Issues nee (or President and Vice trol !Re( erendum 17) $40,-President in November's prcsi- preference and return, again no approximately 35,00 new regis. King County voters wil vote President which will head each 00 00 for outdoor recre~tionaldential election, County Elec- later than midmght, November trations in King County, which, nn 12 state-wide propositions party's slate on the voting ma- ar~as and facihties meferen-tions Supt. Ed Logan predicted 4. Neither the apphcation nor with the 5,00 persons who have now certified for the general- chine. dum 18), and $63.00.000 forFriday. the ballnt will n..fOd to be iiotar- registered since then, should election ballot and four initiative King County voters along with capilal improvements at institu-

Logan made th' prediclion on ized, Logan said, although mis- add 75,00 new voters to election measures Logan predicted also others in the state will be tions of higher education and theìhe basis or an e~timatcd regis- l~f~~m;;~rOf residency consti- rolls. would appear. In addiition, Kiiig deciding upon seven proposed Slate. Department of Generaltration which he expects will p J y. -- . . . . County voters Will vote on 22 amendments to the state consti- Admmistration .and the Depart-approximate 575,000 by lhe time Iiifonnation;i¡ Campaign Due 111e possibility that Kmg positions for Superior Court. a tution. including measures au- ment of Institutions (ReI. 19).books close Oclobei' 5 for the In order th;it all new IIdshing- Counly volers w?uld face the Central and South District eoun- thorizing investment of puhlic Other state-wide issues to begeneral election, He said total ton residents will receive their lenglhi: ballot which confronted ty commissioner, a slale sena- pension or retirement funds on the ballot mclude an Imtia-voles cast usually amount to ballot in time to have it proeess- them m the .Forward Thrust tor 10 the 1st, 41st, and 48th (S.JR 5), the establishment of a tive to the Legislature (No. 321

around 80 per cent of tiie ed Logan said that olitical election was discounted Friday pistricts, state representatives eourl of appeals (SJR 6), the re¡:ulatmg the proeessllg ofcounty's registered voters. pa~lies. candidates anloffcial by the counl)' e.lection official. 10 all districts, two Justice Court creation of a state building state timber, and a referendum

. election personneh~ould begin a Logan said he will seek co-oper- Judges, m Aukeen. and authority (SJR 17), authorizing meas,ure (No. 35) which wouldAt the same time, Logan lar e-scale ublic-inf ti ation from Jocal laxing district" Skykomish, two municipal two-year excess levies rather prevent an open,housing provi-

re\,i,;,jpd ,Procedures by which camgpaign imi:eclil1t I or'lfio~~ including port, school districti, Judges, and precmcl committee- than 'one as at present, (SJR 2.1): sion or a new state law fromnew re"(lents to the state may in 'he state 'm e y Se 0 t and others. to place their financ- men. and SJR No. 24 which would becommg effective.ca,t Oieir \'(lte for President. be~ ;7 UrgingPJ: tary ..l ~mi ing measures on the primary demand that all vacancies in The four initiative measuresWashington Slate iS now the 171h b' ii t' r t' a ilr~'j'en la ballot. Also headed for the general- c(luntv elective partisan offces Logan felt would ohtam s"fh-state wnich permiL' reduced J a tilPP ~ca IO~ e i ear- , election ballot is the new county be fi(¡ed by a member of the cient signatures by July toresidency. requirements for a ¡~¡ l~fwll;e, gard watrned: "We have no rubber ballot - charter now being readied by same political party as his quail:( for the general electionpre.sldent"'l election. .~ atP/a °f7s ~lu t no per and it looks now as if the the Board of~~.I.iL~unty Fre~ predecessor. are Imti~tive 24t icallmg a st~t~Under the rules to be an. mi e e~ ion 0 icia s 0 process general-election ballot could be holders. -" ronstitutional convention), Imti-

nounced soon by Secretary of reques . a lengthy one jf these bonding State-wide, voters wil select other proposed amendments ative 242 (implied consent toStale A. Ludlow Kramer, a propositions are not handled one United Stales scnalor. seven to the constitulion include prop- evidence of liquor le,t). Inila-presidential vote may Il cast by Although it is expected that earlier," Logan declared. He congressmen, f(lur jud¡:es of the erly assessmenls on recreation- tive 244 (the transfer of twoar" ~erson wl'o has lived in the both political parties, groups said he saw no problem in their Stale Supreme Court, 80 Superi- al lands based on use (HJR I), mils of the state property tax to

fúï ût ÌL.:.:t t.....o mOiJt:J~ nnd sü¡:p.:...tcrs \if poli¡ca: can. \'aHdaUon, ü:: the ;'ãlid¿;t¡¡¡g cr Court judge:;, a s:ivcrnof, and a provisIun t.1mt public th(: C'(Iünly to ¡¡i-ovid\: needed~ 10 the ge",'ral election didates will slage a large regis- year necessary for many fund- lieutenant governor, secrrtary offcials' salaries may be in- county funds), and Initiative 245November 5, 19G8, by requesting tration effort this summer, it is ing propositions would be based of state, treasurer, auditor. at- creased during their terms of (reducing interest rates on re-an affidavit from lIe secretary unlikely their efforts wil add on ballots casl in an off-year torney general, superintenent of offce excepl those who fix their volving credil from 18 to 12 perof state's oifice by midnight, more than 35,00 _new registra. election in which there was a public instruction, commis- own salaries (HJR 13). cet).

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ADDRESS, NOTICE

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Elected King Coiint:-- officials would beretained under the proposed charter, free-holders decided yesterday.

R\' an 11-2 vote, the freclioldel~ voted to

incorporate county commissioners into t~elegislati\'e body for the length of theirunexpired terms. should the charter be ap-pro\'ed by voters next l\ovember.

Elpcted county officers got an even bet-ter break.

IT WAS DECIDED to give them theirremaining time in office' a1. the same sal-ary - even though they might he demot.ed- and to give them tenure after the expi-

ration of their tHms.The tenure would bE' without regard to

salary, however, and they would be paidfor the duties performed. .

Both decisions came after lengthy de-bate.

Another hot issue, the "ombudsman"idea, survived two attempts to shelve itand wil go into thp first charter draft withseveral alternative provisions. The "om-budsman" w 0 u I d handle citizen com-plaints.

THE EX.\CT form wil be hammeredout at s~bsequcnt meetings. b~¡t there were

recommendations thô.t the office be underexecutive, legislative and judicial arms ofgovernment.

All wil he incorporated into the draftreport and the final selection will be madeafter what promise~ to be hot and lengthydebate.

Names were assigned to the executi\'eand legislati\'e bodies.

The nine-memher legislative body wilbe known as "commissi0nE'rs" and thechief executive as the "county executive."

THE COl~TY executive's initial salarywas set at 1l~ times that of the commiš-

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sinners and the charter wilprovide that his salary at

all times be at least a mul..-tip!e of the commissioners'sa'3ries.The latter provision was

passed 7 to 6 and only afterVice C h air man SimonWampold changed his vote.

In other actions, the free-holders:

- DROPPED a qualifica-tion provision for the offce()f assessor and decided tor eta i n that name ratherthan change it to appraiser,A motion to limit the asses-ior to two terms failed also.

-Directed the staff toprepare a charter with ex-

isting governmental agen-cies grouped into functionalareas,

-Approved legislativeconfirmation of the countyexecutive's appointments inthe line function offces.

-AFFIR:lED the coun-ty executive's right to dis-miss department heads andsquashed a motion to give adismissed department headthe right to a public hear-

ing. .-Approved three referen-

dum proposals which wouldpattern restrictions on re-

, ferenda along state consti-tution lines; would requireall referenda submitted bythe commissioners to thepeople be first passed as or-.dinances, and would pro-

. vide for referenda as the re-sult of petitions signed bycitizens. '

-Passed a section which I\I.-ould attempt to abolish: .some statutorv boards andcommissions "and transfer.their fun c t ion s to other ibranches or government. j

" :"IN conjunction with the

iibove, passed a see t ionwhich would h y pas s thepresent planning commis-sion and submit hearingson land-use directly to the,legislative bod y and an-other which would set up aquasi-judicial review board.

-Dropped a plan to pro-vide an offce of public de-

fender but okayed languagethat would permit its estab-lishment by commissioners,

-Approved legislative re-view of personnel board pol-icies.

-Decided to hold elec-tions in odd n u m bel' e d

years,

ON O;."E item, that ofproviding an independentlegal department for thechief executive, the free-holders deadlocked at 6-6

. with one abstention,

The matter was postponed

: indefinitely.

. The freeholders wil meet- again June 8, at which time:. the first. draft of the pro-

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County-City Should Merge;Freeholders' Job ObsoleteIdeal Proiect for League of Women Voters

King County freeholders, elected to draw up a newcharter for.the county, have been meeting faithfully to dotheir job and the final draft will soon be ready. Therehave been long debates about the number of commis-

sioners, whether or not some officials should

as be elected or appointed, and other equallyobtuse problems.

Certainly the freeholders are doing a

I conscientious and workmanlike ¡ob, but wecan't help wondering if they are not con-

see it cerned with a plan that is outdated, out-moded and obsolete.

Ph ilp Today there are compelling reasons forBailey the consolidation of governing bodies. First,

. of course, is the expensive and wastefulduplication of officials and employees, starting with lawenforcement agencies, and running through the courts,fire departments, parks, planning, schools and so on, adinfinitum,

If these duplicated agencies made the problems easierof solution, they might justify their existence, but justthe opposite is the case. Planning is a prime example,

Proper use of land will become ever more important, andit will become increasingly necessary as population andindustry expand. It must be accomplished on at feast acounty-wide basis, preferably a regional one.

Only One Agency

Roads and highways should certainly be under thecontrol of one central agency, not only to insure proper

location of secondary highways and roads, but to avoidthe duplication and expense of two engineering depart-

ments,Sewage and garbage disposal is just another facet of

government that requires area-wide planning and solu-tions,

lethargy, resistance to change, tenure of existingoffice holders, will make consolidation difficult. But itseems inconceivable that voters will allow these difficultiesto stand in the way of necessary changes which will insuremore effcient and less expensive government.

Pressure for the change must come from the votersthemselves, for those ensconced in office will never takethe initiatjve, and will, on the other hand, fight valiantlyfor the status quo.

It would seem to me that an organization such asthe league of Women Voters could and should take onthe ¡ob of assembling the facts and figures necessary toobtain a clear cut picture of the savings and benefits fromconsolidated government. They could then present sucha plan to the voters for approvaL. It would be a majorundertaking, but one which would be of incalculable profitto the whole community.

We are, after all, in the jet age, not in the horse andbuggy era, and our government should adjust to thatreal~. ~

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: Folloy,ing is the first in'i;~es on Kig CountyFreeholders and their efforts to draw up a satisfactory county charer tobe presented to voters for their approvaL. The series is being written byMrs. Evelyn Amyes, offcialobserverfor the League of Women Voters ofSettle at the Freeholders' sessions.)

By MRS. EV EL YN A:IYESt Who are the_.l\ing_ C,?untyt Freeholders? A group of 13 men

f aiid tY;u 'w'omen elected from three

districts in King County to write acharter. They serve without pay,working unti the charter iscompleted and submitted to the

i voters for approvaL.

The term "freeholder" means anowner of a freehold - a piece of

2 land which can be passed to heirs.The other uniquely highrequirements met by the KigCounty freeholder candidates were

i that they be qualified electors

(regstered voters) wrt at least fiveyears' residence in the county.

Why does King County need acharter? To modernizegovernment. The present form ofcounty government '.vas establisheJ114 years ago by the Washington

Territorial Assembly: In thosepioneer days a county was thoughtto be an agency of the state needingfew powers. since it would servesparsely settled rural areas. The í

fonn of government established:then is basically unchanged today.In the years since 1854, the.

population has grovm to more than .a millon. King County is now

laer in population than nearly one-

third of the states of the Union.

With more people crowdingtogether, more problems havedevelope: problems of garbage,

water supply, flood control,sewage, planning for orderlygrwt, and many others.Because the county had few

powers granted by the state to deawith these emerging' problems,

speial districts have been fonned.Today there are a total of 237

governmental units in the county,sometimes working in oppo~

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directions.King County elects the three

legislator-administra tors (the

county commssioners) and 34other independent county officials.In addition there are appointed

offcials, boards, and commssions.Because there are so many, the

citizen may become confused aboutwhom to hold responsible foraction or lack of action.Many students of government

believe that county structureshould be simpler. moreunderstandable. better able to solveproblems, more responsibe to thewishes of the people than the

present organization of KingCounty permits.

The State Constitution \\ill allowus home rule to establish forourelves the kind of go\'ern1Te~.t

~e waiit in King County if. and onlyif, we adopt a county charter. TheFreeholders are now at workdray,ing up such a charter.

Future articles wil report on theprugress of the Freeholder~''-

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By App~ßuiVDV~-A¡dce . Decås90ú1By Our County News BureauThe chairman of the Board of

King County Commissionerspredicted yesterday a decision

to make all county electionofficials but the assessor appoin-tive could endanger the p.assageof a new county charter.

Members of the Board of KingCounty Freeholders voted Satur-day to make the county posts ofsheriff, coroner, clerk, treasur-er and auditor appointive posi-

tions.Commission chairman John

O'Brien declared their decision,contrary to the position he hadrecommended their taking,could interfere with the successöf the initiative at the polls. Hepointed out that such a moveundoubtedly would cause opposi-tion among the two political

, parties _ . . a factor that helped. ~..~se the defeat of the county's

only other charter effort in 1952.

This was corraborated yester-day by Kenneth Rogstad, KingCounty Republican chairman,who said the freeholders' deci-sion "only diminishes the voice

the people have in their govern-ment. "

"In this day of proliforating ,appointments of boards and,commissions, the tendency is to 'move away from the directcontrol of the people over theaffairs of state," he continued.

"I am certain most Republicanswould not care to sacrifcegovernrent by the people foruncertain efficiencies to be .gained through appointing theirmajor county officials."Rogstads Democratic coun-

terpart, ~Irs. Jeanette K Wil-liams, King County Democraticchairman, was unavailable forcomment, although earlier shehad declared herself strengly infavor of an elected cadre ofcounty offcials selected on, apartisan basis. _ ____,~.

Also in favor of retainingpresently elected county off-cials on the same basis wasSouth District Commissioner EdMunro, who said he felt present-ly elected offcials who have hadlong experience in county gov-

ernment and have receivedsuperior ratings for their per-

formance by the 1\1 u n i c i p a iLeague should be retained aselective offcers.

.. If the freeholders were goingto abolish their offces as elec-

,live offices, I believe theyshould be appointed to thè coun-o ty's -legislative body for theduration of their term," hedeclared.

Freeholders decided Saturdayincumbent county elected off-

. cials would be allowed to re-

-.i---- .main as county employes for the way" unless the charter is create some sort of public com-two-year balai:ce o.f their ter., patently worse than what the plaint bureau and temporarilyaItho~)j;h ~ossibly In lesser Job county had now. . . and that, he rejected establishment of aclaSSldcatlOns than depa.rtment declared, he could not see hap- public-defender system forhea~s. They would continue to pening. . those charged with crimes.recei~e the sam~ salary for the Freeholders also voted Satur- They now have a three-weekremainder of their terms. day to switch county elections layoff while the first draft of the. ~l1pporting the fre~holder de- from even-numbered to odd- charter embodying their deCÎ-

cision was Commissioner John numbered years to focus atten- sion is beincr readied. It is

Spellman, who said he intended tion on county offcials in local expected to b~ ready for a firstto back the charter _ :.~~~=_ elections. They also_agreed to_ look ~une 8. ~ __,'

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Tlie ~\ucii'&4or ancJ tlie VoJers'~/n 7 .--IN aav'oca~ing an appointive county It is curious that the freeholdersauditor immune to the direct control have grasp~d. this issue as it appIi~s to

. another position that must remain inde-of the electorate, t?e. B?~rd o~ ~:ng, pendent of pressures inside the Court~

County Freeholders is InViting reJecLlon house. Under the terms of the charterof the county charter to be submitted to now being drafted, the assessor wouldthe voters later this year. remain elective. Thus, it is dificult to

AmonO' the ten tat i ve decisions understand.why the freeholders properly, b ,. favor election of the assessor-the Offi-reached by a maJority of the freeholders cial who levies the taxes-but advocate

to date is one to convert several elective appointment of the auditor-the officialcounty-government posts into appointive responsible for seeing that t3.X revenuespositions. are spent according to law.

Few u'oulcl quarrel with the objective There hal'e been ,enough recent ex-of .'shortening" the oi'er!on!! couiity- am pies 01 mismmwge1len tin countyelection ballot. But in their zeal tó government to twrraiit the viei!' that thestreamline tiie county administration, tmtc1ulog office of auditor not onlythe freeholders tread unsoll1d ground must be streii~rlll'lled a1lI maintainedwhen they propose taldntt the auditor GS an indppewlent arm of the elector-,oJ! the list of electhe officials. ate, but also ()(' made a nonpartisan po-

Certainly the taxpayers wil want to sition Iree 01 poliical considerations inretain direct access to the offce, which ei'a!iwiiiig the cOIHluct of i'arious coun-:in its post-audit functions must serve as tya?!Pllcies. .an independent watchdog over public A few members of the Board of Free-expenditures. As long as the auditor holders intend to make renewed efforts'remains elective, his sole responsibility to keep the auditor's offce elective. Ifis to the taxpayers. If the job became they are unable to convince their col-appointive, there would always be the leagues of .the merit of their point orpossibility that the auditor's first loyal- view, the charter that is to be offered

ties might be to the offcial who gave for the ratification by the voters wil,. him his job. _ contain a major defect. ~

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King Counti ans wil have a wIl be proposed as part of a.' bigger voice in count govern- commissioner district includ-mem if present proposals 9f ing the Northshore. Shorelinethe freeholders win approvaL. an part of the Lake Washing-

ton school districts.'. Ths was emphasizeóbyDon- The 15 freeholders, elected: aId N. McDonald. a North Dls- last year, are aiming for a

~: ¡ trlct freeholder, as he spoke Vote on a proposed charter- 'to the Kenmore Oiarnber of draft this coming November.

Comerce last Wednesday. It has been decided the countyNow being drafted by the 15 should be admllUstrated by an

freeholders, a newcountychar- executive, McDonald explained.ter wll likely call for a lUne- Ths wll make the admilUs-

. member board of county com- tr ator responsible to the people,missioners, .McDonald pointed providing a balance of powerout. between the executive and legls-. Districts for the nine com- lative branches. McDonald said.

missioners have not yet been He added that he is In fa'irset. of electing the sheriff. Why elect

No matter what the freehold- the sheriff when police chiefsers decide, their proposed are appoimed?manypeopleask,

lC ¡charter wil be subject to ap- he commented. "We should have." 'proval by voters of King one elected poHce offcial if.Count, all the rest are appointed,"

A majority of the freeholders is ~1cDonald' s reply..

agree the nine commissionersshould be elected on a partisan McDonald wants the auditorbasis, McDonald said. Non- elected-UHe'saone-manjury

~ !partisan caooidates are backed making political decisions. If· 'by too man small clubs aoo he feels the legislative branch, such, making their support "too is wrong, he can make chanesdiffused," McDonald told the as far as the people arechamber, concerned.'" . , :; ."'~~

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mem "for th.e people," even iif this makes thlngs more inef- !flcienc for "officials." Mc-'Don?ld stressed.

Asked about the "extr a cost" ; .of haVing six more county com- .ml$sloners. McDonald s a I d,"The purpose of government isto represent the people. EveItwith nine commissioners. eachwil represent some 120,000

people.Won't Seattle people outweigh

the rest of King County? a cham-ber member asked. The nlne-member commission presum-ably wil be split four for Seattleand five for the rest of the

COUL'.Y, McDonald answered.Ccmmlssloners would be elect-.ed by each district individually.

Now, there are two commis-sioners from Seattle (JohnSpellman aoo John O'Brien) and

one from outside (Ed Munro ofSouth County), '

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Federal low-cost housingp,rojects, like Shoreline's'turnkey," ani a moderate-cost housing project proposednorth of Bothell, were criti-cized by King Count freehold-er Donald N. McDonald as hes poke before t.1ie KenmoreOiamber of Commerce lastWednesday.

He emJÌaslzed that he wasDOt disagreeing with the "social

need" for turnkey projectsaied at providing low-costhousing for the elderly, Eut'he felt the cost is far too high

uner the federally backed KingCounty Housing Authority,

The same job could be donemuch cheaper by privateenterprise, according toMcDonald,

lie Pointed to the $1.015.000cost of the 70-unit turnkeyapartments for the elde!"y,being built at NE 145th an20th NE in the Shoreline area.He objected that this cost asmuch as $18.000 or more aunit, Is too high for a "low-

cost" project.Satisfactory housing could be

provided, at less cost. in pri-vately owned apartment struc-tures which are available inthe

. North Seattle area, McDonaldsaid.

pened if the area had had rep-resentation In count govern-ment. (He was referring to thefact that northern King County' s

representative on the countyboard of commissioners, JohnSpellman Is from Seattle.)A construction com pan y

He described the unsuccess- president much Involved inpoli-ful attempt to put a turnkey tical life, McDonald criticizedstructure In Kenmore as a "fi- a proposed "moderate-cost

/,that wouldn:t h_a~e ha~ _ .~oUslng" llan-uit develop-

ment just north of Bothell a"lousy planng" The projecwould be in an area of hig.'icost homes, McDonalprotested,

The couty plaru~commlssion has slated a May 28 hearlng on the project. It would b

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an that has been to mar'yeas ago, i recall a part ofa pom tht went S(ffCUiilie t1s . . . I don't careit he is a ho ~'Ou quitkicki my dog arurx!"Wel! sir, we have been

"kcki" t1s dog leash lawaroun for man weeks nowafr a concerted petition ef-

lirt that spread frm South

Ki County to thc Nortern&er. With OIÙ' token op-

position, there appears to bewke agreement that somemeasures must be taken tocontrl the cantaerous ca-nies who seem to multply

. alost as fast as rabbits an

do twice the damage as wellas posin threats not only toma men an news Ixys butto ehiren as well.

It is a problem faced even-tual by every communityonce it becomes well popu-late. There ar the usualtwo recourses, either the dogowner accepts the responsib-ilty of contrll lus pet,or laws must be enforced'which wül accomplish tipuse.

The mattr was referre tothe Commisioners who inUI referred it to the Coun-ty &aget an Ei"ÌeerinDe-paents who in turn askedthe Prosecuti Attrney fora niin, who in turn . , ..sup-posedly wil have such a ni-

ii at a meeti set up t1s-Thursday between the depa_ment heads.As Eneer Dave Robin-

son said the queston wil re-volve over setti!lg up dog con-trl laws pert to cer-ta distrcts an then det-erm who enforces theselaws, the Sheris Departentor Humane Society. . '~ an howwm the eiorcement be 11-.Daced. He rued out a Co-t; Wide dog leash law mai-1a it woul be to dif-ficult to enforce, wluch se~msrather riiculous in that if theproblem exists in the alxvementioned areas it certlJ'must exist elsewhere.If no fus ar available

1br enforcement of the law,thn it would be a manatUpon the County Government10 pro\ide these 1ls in the

ne buget. .. .Of course th is tnical of

ou entire County wide prob-

lem . . , lack of sufcientadmistrtion an in5Uc-ient fus to give represen_

taon to ta pa;¡.ers,

Perhaps the Freeholderslinn of goveniment wluchmost lieJ. wil call for di-viin the coimtyintidistricts

with each to be represent_ed by a commssioner inidtgive us mOre voice in .,urcounty governent.

However, there is no guar-ante of t1s an thus theneed for a sming look at in-

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~llcn Voters IMeet Tue'sdaYJJí7 TO DiscusSWhat decisions are the elee F ee'nolder

ted King Count). Freeholder, r Imaking abOur-gõ\'ër'iiñiëii\fo DecisionsOur count).. and why? \\ h) . I ciedfor instance, would an electei Yo'hal decisions areidth: e :kin,

" b . C t"Freehoer,m .count:, administrator e pre Kig oun, lour count\.,ferable ?r less desirable thar, about g~:~~~~e~~ i~~tance. wouie

an appointed administrator? and v;h'ed' 'unt\. adminisirator be. '11 b d an elect co, thThese questions 111 e is.. f' ble or less desirable an ar,cussed at the Maj' 21 meeting pre ~r:ted administrator?of the West Seattle Unit. The api,ttie League 01 Women Voter:

meeting starts at 7:45 p.m. al and guests wil discuss Mth.~

the homes of Diane Young, questions at unit meeUngs.. i~2ô~2 42nd Ave. S.W., telephone to 23. O~er Leagues tl~ sam'

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corpration, the right for selfgovernment, the oPPOrtitynot onl,y to antiCipate our prob-lems but to work as one com-mlUty toward solving thein.. . .

Briefl)' noted:Your support is lxlynecd-

ed at Saturday's auction in

the new Jefferson Higli ScJiool.I had aii oPporttuiity to see

some of the merchanise to beauctioned and it is terricfrm go TV sets to beau-til lamps. . . . an thu-sans of usefu items. So,not onJ. wil you help yourbudget . . . but y'Ou wil also

help the new buget of the newstudent buy at Jefferson Hihwhen it Opens t1s fal, for

the schol must depend en-tirely upon _outside fuds 10 Jll" C Bsupport its exta-curricular fen s P. . .acti\ities. ,There are-pro ll con aÌ- -'

guents regardin the pro- Women Vc~er.si _/posed new County Trafc Coewluch would return al Coun- What decisions' ê-re the elect-ed Ki Coty Freeroldersty law enforcement traffc maki alxut governent forfies to the County, where-as 'our couri~ry, and W".,f Why, forthey now go ti the Stte. instce, would

an electd coonHowever, it must be point- t; admnisttor be preferable

ed out tht the tro.1fc vi- or. less des.U:ble than an ap.

olation fies collected outside pointe admstrtor?incorprated areas are dis- ' SeWe League of Women Vo-bursed by the Stte with one ters an !:ests wi discussh If ... +-, ad these questns at unt meet-a goii \U coun'J ro s, ÍJs Ma 21 to 23. Otrone 1burth ti state paks an Leages in Ki Coun~ wilth remaier ti promote discuss the sae materiàur-luhway safety, ' ÍJ May.

UNT MEETINGS: Mt. Ba~rDa: Mrs. Nicrolas Rees, 39t'1S. Court St, PA 3-75P9, Ma21, 12:30 p.rn

Mt. Baer Eveni: cal IUtcl for locatin, Mrs.John Weinberg, PA2-6568,Ma.. 22, 8 ¡i . _, _.- .

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What decisiQ;s are theelected King County Free-holders making about go-vernment for our co u n t y,and why? .Magnolia - Queen Anne

- units of the League of Wo-men Voters and guests willdiscuss these questions atunit meetings next week.

The day unit will meetat 9:30 a.m. Tuesdav atthe home of Mrs, RavmondDo wIi ng, 3219 3ï¡h IV.;evening unit at the home ofMrs. John Aldrich, 2415Monta Vista PI. W., at 8p.rn" Friday, May 24. ../

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County Uni';"John. Porter, co~intv ad-

ministrator, sees the- De-sign Commission createdfor Forward Thn1st projectsas a pernnnent addition tocounty government.Porter told the Count\'

Arts Commission yesterdaythe Board of c.ou;tv Con;.missio;iers has the option ofasking the design group toreview any capital-improve-ment project. The group

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ï.~~must review all those be-ing funded by ForwardThrust Bonds.

The bO':rd Mond?y ap-proved a resolution Cl'eat-ing a se'"en - meniber groupto recommend architeC'sand revieiv all plans forForward Thrust projects.Porter sa i d professionalgroups are submitting rec.ommendations i)n appoint-ments. Six menibers will be

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Roac1..District -I\Aerger ApprovedJohn T. O'Brien, chairman

of the Board of County Com-mission~rs, said today thetwo county road districts wilbe merged Monday as theresult of a unanimous vote ofthe board.

County Engineer Jean

DeSpaiii and JohnA. Donaho& Associates, Inc., manage-ment consultant, both recom-mended the merger to ir.-crease efficiency. 'O'Brien said it is hoped

the merger wil be fully ineffect within six months.

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Perrila~lentarchitects, planners and en-gineers_The A I' t s Commission'

agreed that the DesignCommission will replace itin the checking of countyprojects_ Although the ArtsCommission nevç;r officiallywas :isked to review plans,it requested briefings from

architects for county Court- ¡.

hoiise remodeling and ex- I1pansion projects.

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a highly creditable job to date, in our opinion, in

making basic decisions rel;:iive to the proposed newcounty charter to be submitted to voters next fall,

Several of the kev decisions were made last Sat-urday, at the final freeholder meeting prior to the

writing of a preliminary charter draft.

The freeholders agreed to shift county electionsfrom even-numbered to' odd-numbered years, tomake the three holdover county commìss~()ners au-tomatically members of the Dew, enlarged nine-memher board of commissioners, and to protectother elected couiity offcials by guaranteeing themfuture jobs with the county,

, The sw~tch in election years makes good sense,It would mean that Seattle's municipal elections -

for mayor, City Council and other city elective posts- would be held simultaneously with the countyelecti.ons, This would tend to generate increased in-terest in both city and county races and it wouldproduce less cluttered ballots in even-numberedyears. when state and federal offcials, includiiigpresidents, are elected,

It also is reasonable to retain those commission-, ers who are in offce when the new charter becomesö': effective, until their existing terms expire. Two

commissioners wil be elected thii; !\ovember, underthe existing system, and there wil be one holdover.

We do have a single reservation, in regard tothe county's other elected offcials whose pos~tionswould become appointive under the new charter.The freeholders have agreed that the elected hold-overs should be retained on the county payroll un-

til their normril terms expire, at no decrease in sal~ai)', So far, so good.

WHAT WE question is the tentative decision toguarantee the present offce holders lifetime countyemployment, though perhaps not as departmentheads. 'ì'e don't believe the county should be held toany such long-tenn obligation if, for example, oneof the holdovers were to perform poorly.

Obviously, the latter decis:on is designed to helpthwart any incipient oppositon to the charter thatmight be marshalled by the incumbent coroner,sheriff, clerk, treasurer and auditor, all of whosepositions \yould become appointive under the new .

'charter. The decision may be a necessary poliical .expedient, but this makes it no less questionable.

On balance, however, the freeholders' decisionshave been sound, including the decision that the

, chief county executive be elected rat;lE':' than ap~"~po~nted. . .,.../. .: d;, .'

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THIS is THE THIRD of The Post-Intellgencer's Weekly Polls. To-day's poll deals with subjects that concern every resident' ofKing County-the offce of freeholder and the formation of

county government.

. The poI Poll wil be presented in each Sunday's paper. Results

are published every Friday in The poI.Readers are requested to ans\\'er only one choice to each of the

four questions.

Please circle the appropriate number in answering. This wil,speed processing on The P-I's computer.

As all replies must go to the P-I's data processing center by 10. a.m, Wednesday, please mail yoÜr poll by noon Tuesday,

~:lf1t~/~tf:~~f:j~ì~~~~~A RECENT SESSiON OF THE KING COUNTY FREEHOLDERS

A-What is the primary job of a King County freeholder?I-To_ write a county charter. -- -- -- - .

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2-To outlne the structure of King County government.

3-To set salaries of county offcials.4-All of the above.

5-None of the above., 6-N 0 opinion.

B-Do you think King County's chief administrator shouldbe elected by voters or appointed by commissioners?

I-Elected by ,'oters.2-Appointed by commissioners.

3-No opinion.

C-How much should the county's chief administrator bepaid annually?

1-$8,000 to S10,000.

2-S10,000 to S15,000.3-$15,000 to S20,000.4-$20,000 or more.5-No opinion.- \ '

D-At the present time there are no medical requirementsfor the office of coi.ty coroner. Do you think it should

be necessary for the county coroner to be a licensed

physician?I-Yes.2-No.3-No opinion.Mail by noon Tuesday to The Posl.bzlellgeizcer Poll Editor

Post Offce Box 2500, Seatte, Wash., 98111(

Seattle, Wash.West Seattle Herald

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Freeholders \VorkWhat decisions are the elect-

ed KiD C:oiint~.ichd e r s'making ::bout government forour county, and why? Why, forinstance, would an ejected Coun-

ty administrator be preferable

,or _ less desirable than an ap-!pointed administrator? ,

Seattle League of Women Vot-ers and guests wil discussthese çuestions at unit meet-

ings May 21' to 23. OtherLeagues in King County w i 1 idiscuss the same material' dur-ing May.

The local is at the home of

Diane Young, 2642 42nd Ave.S.W., (WE 7-3399), May 21,7: 45 p.m. ,.

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-,¿.. -" What About1 Freeholders,) ft/ Î\ New Charter?

What decisions are the electedKing Cou!!tLf_r-e~olders makingabout government for our county,and why? Why, for instance, wouldan elected county administrator bepreferable or less desirable than anappointed administrtor?

~ttle League of Women Voters

and guests ..ill discuss ilesequestions at unit meetings :\lay 21to 23. Oiler Leagues in KingCounty \\ill discuss the same

material during l\lay. Interestedwomen are invited to attend.For information regarding the

meeting times and places forneighborhood units call :\lrs_ James'Tyler, E:1 2~498. . ~

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on Obscenity

IBy JERRY BERGSMAN had invited commissioners to IA proposed res 0 I uti 0 n ask questIons but the com- '

making the sale of indecent missioners die! not schedulematerial to those under 18 a a conference to do so. Hecrime was referred to Prose- called the referral to his of-cutor Charles 0_ Carrol! for fice "an exercise in futilitya legal opinion today. beçause the resolution af-.But Carroll sent It ri~ht ready has been carefully re-

back to the Board of Kin'" viewed from that sandpointCounty Commissiòners. b (constitutionality)."

Spellman asserted the Un-ited States Supreme Courth;:d not ruled on the clausein the New York measurethat presumed the sellerknew of the contents.

Carroll,Clasf'l

:G. O. P.By LYLE BURT

Time~ Political Reporl(\rLon~-standifl;' disseii.siriii

- among King County Rrpiif)!i-cans has rcsiilted in a ni;¡:;sresignation from thepHrtv'scounty finp.nce coiniiittèe,The Times learned today.

Although those involvedwer(" unsure ah.out the exactnumber of resignations, itapppared that ii persons hac!

walked out in rrotcst againstcounty party 0 per a tl 0 n shCc1ded by Kenneth Ro,gstad,county chairrtlil'1. .Fred Baker, Seatte adver-

tisìng-agen("y executive andone of those who resi'Jnedsaid the action was fake~la~t week. It stemmed, hesaid, from a feeling that thestate party or~anization was

not getting a p'roprr share of

fiincìs raised in King Countyand because of unhappinessover a United ~tates Di:'trictCourt lawsuit fied by Ro¿:s-tad and others against thestate or~uiniz2til)n. .The suit challenged the

formi:la adopted by the StateCentral Cr:mmittee for allo-cating state-convention dele-

gates to each cciunty. It wasdi~n;iss~d, but the court per-

mitted it to be refied withan amended complaint,

"ALL OF US (those whoresigned) have done ourdarndest to try to work outthe county-state impasse, butfrankly ha'.p. gott'?n no-where," Baker said. "TI~elawsuit was the last straw."

Baker said the attitude ofcei:~in cou:ity Republican?fficials who "have no realmterest either in the stateparty or the governor"

: Jt)rce the dissidents. to

clIOOSP. who they arf' for_ ,

Members of the gi'oup snp~poit tlir st:ite party organi-zation and Go\'emor Evans.

The ,?l'np plans to an-nouncE' bter what Course itwill take.

Bak£'r is co-chairman ofE van 5' campaign-finance'commitee. '

, William E. Boeing, Ji.;'chairman of the county" fi-nii¡ic(' committee, said heheel received several lettersof resignation, but said hedid not feel the action WOiild

hinder the party's efforts in'tliis year's camp,dgn. '. - ~

DESPITE contentions byJames E. Kennee!v, chiefcivil deputy prosecutor, thatthe resolution has beenchecked by the prosecutor'soffice and found to be legal,the board returned it for anopinion on the constitutiona-lity of one section. The SE'C-

tion says it shall be pres-Llmed that the vender ofmaterial knows what it con-tains.

Commissioner Ed Munrovoted against the referralsaying he would have pre:ferred taking the resoliitirinunder adviÙ'nient beca\l~ehe wants modifications inthe text. Carroll had ri:com-

~ended its passage. sayintit was patterned 'after a NewYork 0 r din a nee recentlyupheld by the United State~

Supreme Court.Commissioner John Spell-

man moved to seek the opi-nion. . Commissioner JohnO'Brien said later he 'votedwith Spellman but had been'prepared to adopt the resolu-tion..

BOEING SAm member-'Ship on his committee had attimes reached 60 or more,biit only a relatively few hadbeen active at all times, '

"1 disagree that the shiteJias not been receiving' itS.full share of funds," Boeing'

said. He conceded tbat thecounty organization was be-;hind in its state quota butsaid a mtmb('r of otherco'un-

ties were also. Fimds raisedindependently in the coimtyby the state organizationhave more than offset thediff8rence, Boeing coritend-ed.Thp finance cci:nmHtee wil

be reconstituted \\ith about

~o m0mbers, the chairmanadded.Those whr: resigned m-

elude Bake:-, Kenn,eth R;.- Fish",,., Inil1' B. R;ibel,John H. Hauberg, Jr., Don\Ve"ver, B.m Gardii~er ,and1\k:heel Dederer, accordingto B¿;.bnd ctiid John Barnard,E\rl~I1~' state c amp a ì inch.cirman. . "Rogstad ('auk! not be-

reached for comment. "

AT A PUBLIC hearing to-day. a number of personsdealing with books, maga-z~nes and films spoke. Theyeither opposed the resolutibnor sOl1ght modifications.

.Burton Aldo, attorney forRiches & Adams, a distribu-tor, contended that the reso-lution raises questions offree speech and free press,tliat it (mfers frnm the oneapproved by the court bvsetting the age at is instead

of 17, and that the court hadnot ruled on the presumptionclause.Jay Adams of the same

firm said it is impossible for

a distributor to know thecontents of some 12,000 re-

i leases each year. W. L. Gib-bon, attorney for the PacificNorthwest Booksellers Asso-ciation, a retailer group,contended the association fa-vorè-d~the law except for the

presumption clause.Fred Danz of the Sterling

Theaters Co. suggested thatthe age limit be dropped to

16, that the definition of nu-

dity be dropped becausecom m u nit v standardschange, and "that the .word"willfully" be added.

Mrs. Richard Young of theAmerican Civil Lib e r tie sUnion opposed it, sayingthese decisions should be leftto parents.

O'Brien s;¡id he wouldmove for passage of the re-solution at this afternoon's

meeting of commissioners.

CARROL, returning the re-solution to the lx\ard. saicì

the board h;id been infoi-icdtlat the rE:~~olution has hcrn

reviewed by at least eiditlawyers in his office. e

He added: "You were spe-cifically informed at yourmeeting that in the or¡nicin

of our office the resolution isconstitutional, and certainlywe would not have trai1smit-ted it to you with the recom-mendation that it be passedwithout havinC' first satisfiedourselves that it was consti-tutio al."Carroll noted also that he

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An e I e vat e d plaza atFourth Avenue and JamesStreet connecting city andcounty buildings is underconsider:tion bv the Boardof ~-cing County. Commis:iìcn-ers and city officials.John T. O'Brien, chairman

of the board, yesterday said

John D. Spaeth, city plan"ning director, made the pro-posaL. O'Brien said countycommissioners would favorthe plan if investigationshows it is feasible.

Harmon, Prey & Detrich,architect for the Courthouse

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ings, and stairs leading tothe plaza from the streetwuuld be near the PublicSa!';õty Building and th£COii¡¡ry Administrative Build.

ing.O-Brien said the projec

wO'.i1d be a further step i

making ¡:;"e area a govert;menrdì complex. Costs \voulcbe shared equally by thecOU..y and city, O'Briensaid.The plaza would havetrees, flowers and benches.

An air well to provide lightfor the street would be in thecenter of the plaza.

remodeling, has been asked

to make a study, including acost estimate, O'Brien saidhe hopes it will be complete

in a month,

Craig Harmon, one of thearc hit e c t s, indicated to

O'Brien that the project ap-pears feasihle from a struc-tural standpoint.

The plaza, 14 feet abovestreet level, would cover theintersection, connecting theCity Hal! and Public SafetyBuilding with the CountyCourthouse and proposedCounty Administrative Build-ing.

Entrances to the plaiawould be off all the build-

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DAN L STARR, Publlsh.r

LOUIS It GUZZO. ManagIng Editor

Established 1863 MAin 2.2000

10 FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1968

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Kin" County's freeholders generally have donea highly creditàble job to date, in our opinion, in

makin'" basic decisions rel.'tive to the proposed newcount

yO charter to be submitted to voters next fa!!,

Several of the key decisions were made last Sat-urday, at the final freeholder meeting prior to thewnting of a preliminary charter draft. -

The freeholders agreed to shift county electionsfrom even-numbered to odd-numbered years, tomake the three holdo\'er county commissioners. au-tomaticallv members of the new, enlarged nine-member board of commissioners, and to protectother elected county offcials by guaranteeing themfuture jobs 'Ivith the county.

. The switch in election years makes good sense.It ~'oi¡ld me::n that Serttte's municipal elections -for ma\'or, City Council and other city elective posts_ ~,Otild be held simultaneously with the county

elections. l1iis would tend to generate incre¡¡sen. in-

terest in both cit\' and county races and it wouldproduce less cluttered ballots in e\'en-numberedyears. when state and federal offcials, includingpresidents, are elected.

It also is reasonable to retain those commission-ers who are in office when the new charter becomeseffecti\'e unti their existing tenus expire. Twocommis;ioners wíU be elected this November, underthe existig system, and there wil be one holdover.

We do have a single reservation, in regard tothe county's other elected offcials whose posWonswould become appointive under the new charter.The freeholders han agreed that the elected hold-overs should be retained on the county payroll un-ti their normal tenus expire, at no decrease in sal-ary. So far, so good,

l\AT WE quest!on is the tentative decision toguarantee the present office holders lietime countyemplo'ment, though perhaps not 'as departmentMads~ We don't belie\'e the county should be held toany such long-term obligation if, for example, oneof the holdovers were to perfonu poorly.

Obviously, th!llatter decision is de,i~nen to helpthwart any incipient opposition to the charIer thatmight be marshalled by the in~=bent coroner,sheriff, clerk, treasurer and aüditor, alI of whosepositions would become appointÌ\'e under the newcharter. The decision may be a necessary politicalexpedient, but this makes it no less questionable,

On balance, however, the freeholders' decisionshave been sound, inchid;ng the decision that thechief county executive be elected rather than ap-po:.ted.

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Appointive ProcessNearly aU of the now-

elected King Couilty off.: cials should be appointed,. the boa r d of freeholders

drafting a new county char-ter agreed yesterday.

. But the county assessor

should be elected, the free-holders indicated, during ameeting at the courthouse.

The charter would pro.vide for appointment by the~ounty legislative or execu-tive branches. or both. of

the auditor, clerk, coroner,

sherifi and treasurer.:rhe freeholders a g r e e d

that "many of our profes-sional and admini,trativeleaders should be kept out

of the poJiticallight."

THE "WATCHDOG" of.fice of auditor must be "in.dependent" of poliics, theboard pointed oul. It also'acceded to a request from'Superior Court judges that'they choose their own coun.,ty clerk.

Further questions wil bediscussed next Saturday at

a public session, also at thecourthouse.

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(EDlTOR'S NOTE' Following is Constitution grnts to counties onlythe second in a series on King very limited powers. Any power not

Counl)' Freeholders and their specifically mentioned in, ourefforts to draw up a satisfactory nearly SO-year-old constitutiontounl)' charler to be presented to cannot be assumed by a countyvoters for their appro\'a!. The series until a law permitting that exactIs being written by ~Irs. Evelin power is passed by the StateAmyes, official observer for tbe Legislature.

Legue of Women Voters of Seattle League of Women Votersal Ibe Freeholders' sessions.) members have been fortunate in

BY MRS. E\'EL Y:- A.\YES having available to them theHow should you go about wTitir,!; intensive studies of King County

a charter for a county which has gO\'ernment conducted by a leaguenever had one. in a state in whic" committee. League of Womenno county has yet adopted a plan Voters of Seattle produced the

for home rule? pamphlet "Study of King CountyThat was the question facing tho Government" which has been used

13 men and two women who had as a text by schools and civic groupsqualified as land..wning. voting "ithin the county. But many peopleeitiens of at least five years' are involved with only a few

resdence in Kig County. and had agencies of the county. For them.ben el""tei last November by the King Count). bovernment is like thevoters in their districts as fabled elephant examined by the

Freholders. charged "ith framing blid men - one thought it wasa charter for King County, f.\ like a tree. one like a snake. one

clrter is to a county what a like a wall. and so on; none "saw'.

constitution is to the state or the the whole elephant.naüon.) The Freeholders did not "ish to

Each of the Freeholders had be like the blind men. but rathershown considerable interest in the they wanted to see the problem inproblem., of county government by its entirety, After selection of

even filing for the unpaid positionß. offcers. and adoption of rules ofMany were concerned ..ith the procedure. the 'Board 01inabilty of King County to come to Freeholders. acting as a committeegrips ..ith modem problems such of the whole. started to take a goodas the need for adeq"ate roads or look at the eXlE,"t and function ofother tr.nsporttion. wate dis- the present branches andpol. public saety. departments of King County

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King County freeholders are n.o~\' nour-ishin" and hope to bring to fruition thegreat~st sugar-plum political tree ever t.o t)Cplanted here. That tree will bear rruit tothe tune of $189.000 per year for "legislators

and administrators to run King County gov-ernment." This is one of the tentative de.cis ions already made by the freeholders.

In checking on their tentative conclu.sions the board of 15 freehol.ders h.as beensomething less than nonpolitical in theirdeliberations. They have proposed to setup a board of nine legislators replacing thecounty commissioners at a salary of $18..000each per year, with election on a partisanbasis.

Second in line in this spending programwould be a salary one and a half times thatof the legislators for a professional adminis.trator. This amounts to $27.000. Adding thesetogether we get a grand total of $189,000 per

year for executive salaries.There can be no objection to the $27,000

salary for a competent executive adminis-trator but to pay $18,000 each to nine sepa-rate ':Iegislators" is really walking back-wards in the scheme of governmental"modernization."

King County freeholders should take aleaf from the book of the Port of Seattlewhere the commission is presently oper-ating a tremendous and growing busine~swhich is costing taxpayers $1 per year in"salaries" for each of the commissioners.

King County did take a forward step inplacing the King County Port Commissionon a nonpartisan, noiisalaried basis. Theresults of this act have been nothing shortof outstanding. King County Port Commis-sion, which operates Seattle-Tacoma Inter-national Airport. is doing a magnificent jobnot only in managing affairs of this ever.growing instiution. but also in saving tax.payers of King County a sizable.. sum ofmoney.

It may be inequitable for laymen towork in government for no salary, but, thankgoodness,' there stil are some dedicatedcitizens who wil work and spend their timeanù effort for the benefit of the communitywithout pay. Rewards are found in per-forming a service to local government.

One of the basic concepts of Americangovernment is that of localized participationby'lay members without pay. This is bestexpressed in operation of school districtsthroughout the nation. None can say thatthis method of operation is unsuccessfuL.

There is much that the freeholders havedone that is beneficial and of value and thiswe want to review later, but as a beginningevaluation it appears the group has nothelped the cause of good government bysubstituting a sugar.p1um tree for the basicconcept of lay participation.

We doubt that the public will buy thistype of "modernization" based upon theconcept of an o';erpaid and overloadedsystem of nine partisän legislators.

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A l(in9 CountySugar-Plum Tree?

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King County freeholders are now nour-ishing and hope to bring to fruition thegreatest sugar-plum political tree ever to beplanted here. That tree wil bear fruit tothe tun.e of $189,000 per year for "legislators

and administrators to run King County gov-ernment." This is one of the tentative de.cisions already made by the freeholders.

In checking on their tentative conclu-sions the board of 15 freeholders has beensomething less than nonpolitical in theirdeliberations. They have proposed to setup a board of nine legislators replacing thecounty commissioners at a salary of $18,000each per year, with election on a partisanbasis.

Second in line in this spending programwould be a salary one and a half times thatof the legislators for a professional adminis-trator. This amounts to $27,000. Adding thesetogether we get a grand total of $189.000 per

year for execntjve salaries.There can be no objection to the $27,000

salary for a competent executive admin'is.trator, but to pay $18,000 each to nine sepa-

rate "legislators" is really walking back-wards in the scheme of governmental"modernization."

King County freeholders should take aleaf from the book of the Port of Seattlewhere the commission is presently oper-ating a tremendous and growing businesswhich is costing taxpayers $1 per year in"salaries" for each of the commissioners.

King County did take a forward step inplacing the King County Port Commissionon a nonpartisan, nonsalaried basis. Theresults of this act have been nothing shortof outstanding. King County Port Commis-sion, which operates Seattle-Tacoma Inter-national Airport, is doing a magnificent jobnot only in managing affairs of this ever-growing institution, but also in saving tax-payers of King County a sizable sum ofmoney.

It may be inequitable for laymen towork in government for no salary, but, thankgoodness, there still are some dedicatedcitizens who wil work and spend their timeand effort for the benefit of the communitywithout pay. Rewards are found in per-forming a service to local government.

One of the basic concepts of Americangovernment is that of localized participationby lay members without pay. This is bestexpressed in operation of school districtsthroughout the nation. N onè can say thatthis method of operation is unsuccessfuL., There is much that the freeholders havedone tnat iS beneficial and of value and thiswe want to review later, but as a beginningevaluation it appears the group has nothelped the cause of good go\,ernn¡e¡¡t b)'substituting a sugar-plum tree for the basicconcept oflay participation.

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County Freeholders in six months on the job was issuedlate las~ week by Paul1íeyer, executive secretary. of theboard, ~1' 'Iuded in his report were the major points ofagreeme..l \;11 what wil be in the new.county charter, duefor its fir~l ..nveilng June 8. _..

In it are decisions involving the restructuring of r,.mgCounty in' it:: legislative and executive functions,including a pr'opos,,~ to provide for a full-time legisla:ive

boy of ni~¿ cor.imissioi:ers nominate~ and elected b?,district. This group woii,d have only legislative respci:si-bilties and wculd be paid a salary no less than that whichAA-class count\! commissioners receive - which will be$18.00 yearly after next fall's elections. Elections wc.uldbe on a partisan basis.

Freeholders also decided the new charter shouldinclude a chiei executive independently elected atlarge, al,'; i)n a partisan b!lsis. and th~t he shou Idh~\1' 1!1 Lis staff a professional administrator who

--~. ~ for staff administration. The10f the chief executive at one to¡hat of county legislators.'ecision, freeholders approved the

rfiei system for the county in afrom the executive and the

r of this system and the board's¡ appointed by the county chief:ards chief function primarily the

j Oter pulicies involving hiring and, \dged to be an executive matter

__Ie personnel director.

Some political activity shOuld be allowed at the stateor federal level, freeholders aruged, but prohibited suchactivity for county employes. Those persons ~resentlyemployed by the county, they felt, should have assuranceof continued employment with the requirement they passsatisfactorily a job examination.

The present offces of assessor, auditor, clerk,coroner, sheriff, and treasurer - presently all elective,would be (except for assessor) appointive offces underthe new charter. Freeholders decided that all appoint-ments are to be made by the county chief executive withthe exception of an auditor, whose appointment wil bemade by the legislative body. All others wil be confirmedby the legislative body.

Although freeholders agreed the charter shouldinclude additional provisions setting up initiativereferendum and recall procedures and that thereshould be provision for an offce to receive citizen'scomplaints, the precise nature of these proposals \\illwait unti the first draft is approved.

Meyer said freeholders had met 35 times sinceDecember 5, 1967, to. hold orientation sessions, deliber?-tive sessions (at which votes were taken) and publicforus. A new series of public forums is bein3 plannedthroughout the county during July and August on theproposed charter, followin~ which freeholders wil _again

reconsider the charter. A fmal vote, based on a section by

section analysis, wil be taken by late AugustThe charter is expected to be ready for ballot J

certification in September, permitting it to be placed on /'

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A wrapup of the work produced by the Board of KingCounty Freeholders in six months on the job was issuedlate last week by Paull\eyer, executive secretary of theboard. Included in his report were the major points ofagreement on what wil be in the new county charter, duefor its firt unveilg June 8.

b it are decisions involving the restructuring of King

Coty in its legislative and executive fuctons,includig a proposal to provide for a full-time legislativeboy of nine commssioners nominated and elected bydistrict. Ths group would have only legislative responsi-bilites and would be paid a salary no less than that wn' ~ii .AA-clas county commssioners receive - wh;ch ww !de .$18,.00 yearly after next fal's elections. Elect;ons wouldbe on a partisan basis.

Freeholders also decided the new charter shouldinclude a chief executive independently elected atlarge, also on a partisan basis. and that he shouldba\'e on his staff a professional administrator whowould be responsible for staff administration. Theboard pegged salary of the chief executive at one to

., one and a half times that of county legislators_

In a thrd major decision. freeholders approved thecreation of a personnel system for the county in aseparate body ap.rt from the executi\'e and thelegislature. The d¡,~ctor of this system and the boardsni.'mbers should be appointed by the cour.ty chiefe.Jtecutive. with ihe bL1::rds chief fune-lion r"in~a!i!" thehe.:rin¡; of &r:e\a:ices, O:her pciicies in','olvl:¡; h:ri~g ande.xarnations were judged to bt' an exec:;!i\'e matterwithn the preview of the perso:iel director.

Some poliical activity snould be alowed at the stateor federal level, freeholders aruged, but prohibited suchactivity for county employes. Those persons presentlyemployed by the county, they felt, should have assuranceof continued empJo)ment with the requirement they passsatisfactorily a job examnation.

The present offces of assessor, auditor, clerkcoroner, sherif, and treasurer - presently all elective:would be (except for assessor) appointive offces underthe new charer. Freeholders decided that al appoint-ments are to be made by the county chief executive with~..~ exception of an auditor, whose appointment wil be

: :-. the legislative boy. Al others wil be confiredL" the legislative boy.

Although freeholders agreed the charter shouldinclude additional provisions settig up intiativereferendum and recall procedures and that thereshould be provision for an offce to receive citizen'scomplaints, the precise nature of th~se proposals wilwait unti the first draft is approved,Meyer said freeholders had met 35 ties since

Deember 5, 1967, to. hold orientation sessions delibera-tive sessions (at which votes were taken) ~nd publicforu. A new series of public forus is being plannedthroughout the county duri::g July and August on theproposed charter, following which freeholders wil againreconsider the charter. A fin:il \'ote. based on a section bi'section analj'$::. .....:ll be I¡;Kcn ty ¡ate Au,,"SI.

The charter is expected to be r~;,dy for ballotcertification in SoJptember, pemiitting it to be placed onthe )'o\'ember..l%8, generaJ election ballot

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:1117Most new life brought into this world begins with hesitant,searching steps. The fledgling !!oam,oLKing .ç()\ln.tYYJ~-ers made their initial entrance in this manner less than sixmonths ago. But maturity came early, due primarily to thequalty of the group. In the beginning the individual Freeholders

sized up the arduous taks ahead and were somewhat over-

whelmed by the magnitude and complexity of the job of writinga home rule charter for the county. The natural way to proceedwith a task of this nature is to find out what has been done be-fore. Loking at the record in 1952 found the proposal for a homerule charter soundly defeated by the voters. Numerous reasonswere given for this defeat. Some of the more popular ones were:The elected county offcials fought it; the county employees

fought it; political parties fought it; newspapers fought it, andwith al that the voter obviously fought it.

With this background it is litte wonder that the presntFreeholders began their deliberations with some timidity. How-ever, as the operations of county government were unfolded be-fore them, the Freeholders, at first individualy and then ingroups, were made vividly aware of the need for major reformin certain areas. The evidence presented indicated that aftermore than 100 year many changes are in order and that hal-heard, compromising attempts at reform will not do the job.

Kig County voters elected the Freeholders to wrte acharter to provide home rue for Kig County citizens and any-thing short of that goal is a breach of the faith. It would be agrave and costly error if the Freeholders lited themselves oncertn issues because they were afraid of voters rejecting theisue. If thi charter is soundly structured and well conceived

then the individual citizens and civic organzations and groupsthat work for community betterment will fal in line to informvoters and work toward its passage. The Municipal League iscommtted to this principle as are the other groups.

The cliate for change is abundantly evident, with general

. communty approval of such proposal as Forward Thrust andOpen Housing. In addition to this the profie of our local popula-tion is becoming much younger and the local citizenr is being in-fitrated by many newcomers that do not have a buit-in reflexaction against change.

Now that the Freeholders ar beging their preliminarcharr drafing they might well be advised to wet their figerand put it to the wid, for the season's changing-the winds out

of the north and around here that mean clear skies and smooth. sag.

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in thi colwn in the May 13 edition of the NEWS ;ere incor-

rect, The story concerning courthous remodellng used theequatio~ that one new courtroom is needed for every 40,000 in- .creas In population. This equation is used by the Superior

Courts and results in a projection for 26 total courtrooms by1970, not 26 in addition to the present 20 in the courthouse. Toextrapolate further this would require 31 total courtrooms in1975 and 45 by 1985. There are presently 23 judges servicing the~~ /

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A series ?r recom:nendations;:for a ne\\ King Cuui:ty charte,'

: have reached a point of substan- f .- I ) -'~ia agreement on major revisions k. in the cuunty's governmental e;structure among the King County is

. Board uf Freeholders. ¡if.The cond:isions reached by a

tlit: freeholders, elected last fallfor the purpose of updating in-COtU,ty gÚ\'rnment, in dude the oe-election of a county adiiinis- nts,!rator and a fulItinie board of itynine c.oii.imissioners to replace ep-the existing three-man board of bcount)' commissioners_ deTh' i .

i e n.ei\' mne-man board would 'on-: ~ nominated and elected by dis- :'ì !rict on a partisan b2.sis and'\~'ould serve as a purely legisla- 'e~~tive body_ Each would receive a'salary of no less than S18,000 IYt~~annual~, hold

A chief executive would be Iul~l_ected a~-large, also on a par-:1 b~tban basis, at a salary ranging -isals

from $18,000 to $27,000 annualy. IA Cü:IPLETEL Y revamped; the

personnel system would be set' teif th ,r rup,. e freeholders' recommen- ¡No-datlO_ns are accepted at the fall ¡il telectio?~.. . ' d1~-

Polincal acti\'ity at the stateand federal le\'els would be per.

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i was encouraged by the. forward-looking steps taken

by. the ~ County Free-Ih£!ders-vhen 11iëytëñi:ati'è':ly agreed that most of theadministrative heads beap-pointed. This would go' fartoward shortening the ballot,fixing responsibility on thechief executive of the countyand imprO\;ng coordinationamong the departments.

One more step in this areais required. For sound rea-sons the assessor should beappointed.

The job of assessor re-quires technical skills betterass u I' e d by appointment.Election does not guaranteeresponsibility to the elector-

ate . . . The independencewith which the elected coun-ty assessor can opeiate hasno parallel; checks and bal-ances operating in otherareas of government are

i nonexistent for the assessor.

~ An appointive assessor,howeve:, would be directlyresponsible to the chief exe-

cutive . . .We hope for a truly viable

county government, not justa token change. '-MRS. BRIAN SHERA, JR.,

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Alec Bayless,' an attorney,ha~; submitted his resigna.tion to the King CountyBoundarv Review Board.

His r e s i g n at ion leavesthree \'acancies on the 11-member board. It takes sixvotes of the eight remainingfor affirmative action.

The board approves or reojects applications for annex-

Portablè

ations and other bOLndarychanges of taxing districts.

Bayless s u g g est e d tht"board "Could use one ormore lawyers who would besensitive to the over-aU pur-pose and legislative intent ofthe act (creating theboard). "Bayless' term would haVE

expired in September, 1970,

Planners NameNew Chairm¿inSelection of architect

Leon Bridges as chairmanof the King County Plan-nig Commission was an-nounced yesterday, He suc-ceeds Chet \\"heeler, a realestate bröker.

John Teutsch Jr., mort-ga~e company oaiciaI. waselected vÌCP president. suc-e e e din g Vern Picke~;:ig.Dm'aH dairyman. \n1tt'lerand Pickering contir.;:e ascommission members.

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ProducesThe import;:.nt work of King County's

freeholrìers, who are in the process ofdraftig a proposed charter for county gov-

ernment, evidently has produced yawnsfrom most citizens,

At least that would appear to be thecase based on the limited response to ThePosÙntellgencer's third weekly poll on is-sues of wide public concern. Only 76 read-ers responded to the poll, in coi~trast tomore than 2,000 responses to the first poll,dealin'" with presidential candidates, andthe se~ond poll, which drew more than 1,-00 responses on the state race for gover-nor,

.4SKED what is the primary job of aKing County freeholder, those replyingsaid:

To write a county charter..,.. .33%

Outline a structure of King Co.

government . . ' . . . . . , . . . . , , .19%Set salaries of county offcials ., 0%All of the above ............... .42%

Kone of the above.............. 1%

No opinion ....................... 5'10

The preferred answer, of course, was. "all of the above," in which 42 per centcorrectly responded... .

On the selection of a King County chiefadministrator the response was:

Electerl ..".,..,................71%

Appointed .............. ... .. . , .28%Ko opinion ...."........"...... 1%

Setting the chief administrator's annualsalary drew tlus breakdown of replies in asharp division of opinon:

88,000 to S10,000 ,............... 5%

$10.000 to 815,000 ............... ~or:

S15,000 to S20,OOO .... ...'........ ..36%

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$20,000 or more ................ ..30%

No opinion ..................... 9%

Comments from those who believe theadministrator should receive more thanS20,OOO included the following:

"HE SHOULD receive enough to keephim from petty graft," and "One reallyqualiied should be adequately compensat-ed."

On the medical requirements of thecounty coroner, the answerS were:

Yes, should be a licensed

physician ....,............. .79%

No, should not be a licensed

physician ,..,......".,.... .20%

No opinion ...................... 1%

One reader who favors a change in thepresent system, which has no médical re-quirement for the offce of coroner, de-clared: _

"It's ridiculous to have anyone in thatposition but a licensed physician."

On the other side of the same issue, a,reader said: '"The coroner is chiefly an administra-

tor and an administrator need not neces-sarily be a medical doctor."

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The November Story: Nixon and HumphreyWith just one more presidential primary to

go, it begins to appear as if the choice, this year,for President wil be belween two vice presidents_ one former, one present - and that, after all,there wil be no new face in the White House.

Nixon's durable, commanding series of vic-tories in the primaries (particularly in Oregoñwhere his two major opponen~s campaigned ex-pensively and unsuccessfully) points to the Iikli-hood he'll get his party's nod at Miami August 5,probably by acclamation and possibly before thefirst ballot is even ended. The Rockefeller boom-let apparently proved that being an able governordoesn't necessarily add up to being a successfulpolitician, and Reagan seems to have provedhimself the party's top money-raiser rather thanits top vote-getter. Both men, however, wil befactors in Nixon's choice for running mate - notso much as a choice but their say-so on who itshould be. One certainty: It won't be Washing-ton's Gov. Dan Evans, despite Nixon's carefulwords in Olympia last week. When political dealsare made at this level, it takes two to tango, andEvans, bespeaking the new young Republicanimage as he does, still doesn't have more thanthat to trade with.***'*.*McCarthy Due Here Wednesday

En route back to New York following the Cali-fornia primary Tuesday, Senator Eugene McCar-thy wil swing by Washington State Wednesdaynoon to shake hands with delegates to the Demostate convention and discuss his plans for thetwo and a half months leading up to the party'sconvention in Chicago.

Even if he loses to Kennedy Tuesday (and..ost polls show Kennedy slightly in the lead) hissupporters here and elsewhere feel the thrust ofMcCarthy's campaign is such that he wil playakey role in the power juggling leading up to theDomination.

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King County freeholders are now nour-ishing and hope to ~ing to fruition thegreatest sugar-plum political tree ever to beplanted here. That tree wil bear fruit tothe tune of $189,000 per year for "legislators

and administrators to run King County gov-ernment." This is one of the tentative de.cisions already made by the freeholders.

In checking on their tentative conclu-sions the board of 15 freeholders has beensomething less than nonpolitical in theirdeliberations. They have proposed to set

up a boar9 of nine legislators replacing thecounty ,commissioners ata salary of $18.000each per year, with election on a partisanbasis.

Second in line in this spending programwould be a salary one and a half times thatof the legislators for a professional adminis-trator. This amounts to $27,000. Adding thesetogether we get a grand total of $189,000 per

year for executive salaries.There can be no objection to the $27,000

salary for a competent executive adminis-trator, but to pay $18,000 each to nine sepa-

rate "legislators" is really walking back.wards in the scheme of governmental"modernization."

King County freeholders should take aleaf from the book of the Port of Seattlewhere the commission is presently oper-ating a tremendous and growing businesswhich is costing taxpayers $1 per year in"salaries" for each of the commissioners.

King County did take a forwJrd step inplacing the King County Port Commissionon a nonpartisan, nonsalaried basis. Theresults of this act have been nothing shortof outstanding. King County Port Commis-sion, which operates Seatte-Tacoma Inter-national Airport, is doing a magnificent jobnot only in managing affairs of this ever-growing institution, but also in saving tax-payers of King County a sizable sum ofInoney_

It may be inequitable for laymen towork in government for no salary, but, thankgoodness, there stil are some dedicatedcitizens who wil work and spend their timeand effort for the benefi of the communitywithout pay. Rewards are found in per-forming a service to local government.

One of the basic concepts of Americangovernment is that oflocalized participationby lay members without pay. This is bestexpressed in operation of school districtsthroughout the nation. None èan say thatthis method of operation is unsuccessfuL.

There is much ihat the freehoJdel' havedone that is beneficial and of value and thiswe want to review later, but as a beginningevaluation it appèars the group has nothelped the cause of good government bysubstituting a sugar-plum tree for the basicconcept of lay participation.

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freeholder, said today heplans to ask the Board of

Freeholders to rèconsider THE PRELIMINARY draftits štñêf in favor of an ap-

of a charter wil be present-poii:tive, rather than elec- ed to the freeholders Satur-

tive, county - auditor, day and at that time all de-

Wampold contended tne cisions ""ill be discussedauditor "will need an inde- again, Wampold said thatpendence which he can only since he wil be out of theachieve through election by state most of June he wouldthe people," submit his ideas in writing

By an 8 to 3 vote, the free- through Paul Meyèr, execu-, holders decided May 11 that tive secretary,

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"We have recognized inour deliberations that ther

is a need for an independent

post audit review of county

offcials," Wampold said."We have also expressed aconsensus for some n~e ofombudsman or citizen-com-plaint review board."

He said an elected auditorcould handle both tasks.

"The auditor should bethe watchdog of the countyand also the conscience ofthe county," Wampold said,"a one-man grand jur butwithout the evils attendant-on periodically and hastilyassembled grand juries as.we have knO\\" them in thepast. "

" WAlIPOLD SAID a merit tsystem for county employes 'should provide a speedy andsimple way for a citizen tocomplain,He said a merit system

also should provide a meth-od by which employmentand job advancement wouldnot depend solely on ""Tittenexaminations because manypersons are not adept attaking these.Recommendations of the

offcial responsible for theoffice should weigh heavilyin a formula to govern hir-ing and promotions, he said.

Wampold called for a per-sonnel board which chiefly

"would hear appeals fromemployes. While a person-nel board should set stan-dards of employment prac-tices, he said, it should not

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'ñluted bv Memorial Day. a Memorial day more poignant.than the\' are between wars. There was Seattle's annual-- ,:Memoriåi Dayp.arade along Fourth Avenue past Memo-rial Plaza at the Public Safety Bldg. This is where arelined the mai-bie slabs with the 2,432 names of Seatteand King County's World War II dead. In the lie ofmarch and the best part of the 49-uiiit parade were BCompany and D Company from the 2nd Battaon, 3rdAd\'anced Training Brigade, Ft. Lewis. The marching .infantrymen got a small hand from the small crowd,mostly, it appeared, because the majority of paradewatchers didn't know these advanced infantry traiees

from a Boy Scout troop,An old friend of almost everyone, the P-I's Doug

W~lch, columnist and humorist summa cum laude, diedat his typewriter this week, victim of a heart attack atage 61. He was a man of many talents and not the leastof them was his ability to make people smile. . . anyorié .can make you cry but the man who creates true humor,is priceless and there are few of him.

Politics is in the very air around here. The GOPright wing is stil fighting' with the moderates. The De-mos are all fighting with each other depending upon'their allegiance to i\1cCarthy, Kennedy or Humphrey. 'Nixon came through this week to meet with his peopleand patted Gov. Dan E\"ans on the back by referring tohim as a "posible" vice presidential nominee. Gov. Daajust smiled. . . he knows Nixon says it to all the boys.

Response to last week's poI poll was a momuntal ho-"hum. Pre\-jous polls have drawn thousands of answers a'Week. But the latest, concerning the freeholders who arewriting a new King County charter to revamp countygovernment, drew Jewel' than 100 returns. And most ofthose who responded were not quite sure what the ques-tions meant. Actually, the work of the freeholders isgoing to affect the lives of almost 1 milion persons dur-ing the next couple of decades.

Civil rights leaders and the Washington NationalGuard, headed by l\aj: Gen. Howard S.McGee, got to-gether at Camp Murray to work out a plan to improvethe Guard's image among the state's minority groups.Chief result was a p'lan for aggressive recruiting of.Kegroes into the Guard,

A subdued 11uhamrnad AU, nee Cassius Clay, spent2 couple of days here this week on behalf of the Black?luslims. Gone was the old flip, Wisecracking man oft heavyweight championship days. Instead, he was a ser-ious and eloquent exponent of his views, ,

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- Singapore... 'Maybe the National Science Foundationkno\\s something we don't. It gave the LnÎversity ofWa~hington $5 millon to build an underground laborato-

ry for earth science studies. . . Cliff Jorgenson and Ear-nest J. Hardman and their wives, of Federal Way, diedwhen their Cessna 177 crashed in the west end of Sno-

qualmie Pass. Eight orphans. , . Little Wilie John. theblues composer and singer who made more than $100,000a year at his peak, died in the state pen at \Valla Wallaof pneumonia. He was doing a stretch for a knife kilingwhile he was playing here in 1965 . . . The motor shipElwha, last of the state's four super ferries, wil arrivein Seatte tomon:ow from San I?iego, after being delayedby coastal storms. The other three, lIyak, Kaleetanand Yak i m a were all back on their runs the lasttime we looked - about an hour ago . . , Speaking ofstorms. Seattle had better weather in March than it'sbeen gettng the past two or three weeks. Rain, )rouknow, and lots of it. /

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For COtlI1ÝY Progrc1li1The groundwork for estab-

lishing a motor pool and pro-gram budgeting for KingCounty wil be laid in thesummer. Data for creationof a personnel system couldbe an outgrowth.

These developments willbegin when three grarluatestudents at the University of

Washington start work forthe county Monday as in-terns. County CommissionerJohn 'Spellman said they willbe supervised by County Ad-ministrator John Porter.The three, recommended

by Dr. Ernest Miller, direc-tor of the Un i v e r sit Y 'sSchoo?l of Public Affairs,

wil be the first employed bythe county under an internprogram. Seattle has usedinterns in the past.

PORTER said the internsare M i c h a e I Fuson, 24,studying for his doctorate inpolitical science; Clifford L.Stilz, Jr., 23, now a law stu-dent with a master's degreein public administration and

William I'd. Hinkle, 2i, work-ing toward his master's inpublic administration. Allhave prior experience work-ingfor 'gO\'ernmcntal units

on the West Coast.

Porter said Stili and Hin-,kle wil continue to workpart time after the summervacation.

Fuson .vil be Porter's ad-'rninistrative assistant. Stilz,who developed a manual on.commerci.al haulers for the'State Motor Vehicle Depart- 'ment in 1966, will work withdepartment heads to develop

. program budgeting here.The first step toward pro-

gram budgeting was made jthis week when the pi,mning Idepartment was granted anem erg en c y appropriationbased on ,a program-budgetoutlne,

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Richard Albrecht, chair-man-of the Co.ntv Board ofFreèÍ1orders. 'said todav' he

wiJT-ropo.3e that a cõnsuJ-tant be hired to draw bound-aries of county-com mission-

-"BY STATE .law, county

budgets are spelled out inline items that specify thesalaries of each employe. Ina program budget, the ap-propriation lists the opera-

tion in which the employe isengaged as well as other ex-penditures needed to canyout the projectPorter said he wil suggest

that all appointpd depart-:ment heads submit programbudgets for 1969. He saidelected department headswill have an option.

In what could lay thegroundwork for a personnelsystem, Porter said appoint-

ed department heaùs wil berequired to submit an organ-ization chart that includes:

the title and job description :

of each employe. This wil ¡be for the program, budget. j

Guidelines for job descrip-tions will be furnished the J'departments.

er districts.Freeh;:lders have decided

that úie Board of Commis-sioners should be enlargedfrom three to nine mem-bers, all elected bv districts.

A preliminary. draft of acounty charter will be re-viewed by the board Satur-day. The aim is to completea charter in time to presentit to voters at the November

, general ejection.

FREEHOLDERS HAD dis-cussed allowing three com.missioners to. seek electionin each of the existing thïee

commissioner districtš, withprovision in the charter for

establishing new commis-sioner - d is t r i c t bouiida ïieslater.Under Albrechts proposaL.

the commissioner-districtboundaries would be estab-lished in the chaner, whichwould provide for future re-

~) districting.. Albrecht said' he will pro-~~_._-~- .._--

pose that Raj Joshi. a spe-cialist in, population, data

analysis, be hired to drawt ii e commissioner - districtboundaries using guidelinesestablished by the freehold-ers.

JOSHI. A par t n e I' andprincipal planner of UrbanPlanning & Research Associ-ates, estimated the work\',('uld take five davs andcost up to S800. . :!

lri 19ti. Joshi drafted aforecast of population dis-

tributor and employment ¡showing the impact of a pro- :pvs~d rapid transit system. 'The work was done for Kingand Snohomish counties.Joshi formerly was a plan-

ning consultant with the Pl!- '.get Sound Regional Trans-portation Study and an as-siiciatf' planner in the COlmty

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county charter scheduled for Other changes have been main- Unveiling of the proposed offcial, have been submitted.yesterday wi! occur next Satur- Iy alterations in wording. county charter scheduled for Other changes have been main-day instead, Paul :'leyer. execu- The proposed charter wil be yest~rday wil occur next Satur- Iy alterations in wording.tive secretary, said Friday. The released offcially for public day Instead, Paul !\leyer. exccu- The proposed charter wil bedelay was due to the death of scrutiny at Saturday's meeting. tive secretary, said Friday. The released offcially for publicSenator Robert Kennedy and to Public hearings and at least one delay was due to the death of scrutiny at Saturday's meeting.the need for additional language more version of the document Senator Robert Kennedy and to Public hearings and at least onerefinements on the document. lie ahead before the charter the need for additional language more version of the document

The draft has been in the reaches its final ballot form. It's refinements on the document. lie ahead before the charterhands of freeholders since Tues- scheduled to be before voters at The draft has been in the reaches its final ballot form. It's

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What AboutFreeholders,New Charter?

What decions are the electedKig County Freeolders mangabout go\'ernment ror our county,and why? \\l1y, ror intance, wouldan elected county adnnitrtor be

preerable or les desble than l\

appointed admistrtor?

Settle League of Women Votersand guests ,,';l discus these

questions at ùnt meetigs May 21to 23_ Other Legues in KigCoty will dicus the same

: material durng May. Interestedwomen are invited to attend.For informtion reardig the

meetig times and place rorneiborhoo units ca Mrs. James

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Nortwes FeatureBy BRI JOHNSON

Th Kig County Freeolders are now in the finalstages or drafting a new county charter (rorcosideration by the voters).

One of the major decisions was made over theweekend when the 15-member board considered thequestion or elective versus appointive offces. Thetentative resolution or the question was to retan thecounty assesr's offce as an elective position. Tohave the County Commssioners appoint a legislativeauditor. The executive or the new county governmentwould be charged with appointment or the coroner,sheriff, and treaurer. The judges of the SuperiorCour would appoint the clerk of the court.

Al or these positions are now elective.,The elected positions would be the county

adristrtor, the county commoner, and theasr _

Th deision to retn the asesor as an electivepot wa obviouly coditioned on the fact that manyor th frolders relt tht makng all of th~e

poitions appointive would jepadie voter pageor the eventual document..

The decon to chop out most of the electedpotions indee met with a mixed reaction at CountyHa th week. The bac argument is over whetherth indÍ\idual voter should have the right to pass

jugement on the. penormance of each individualCUentlyelected.

The other side of the coin is tht 'With nie CountyCommoners and a chief executive, who is elected.the voter have substantial control over their county.Thus many reel the adITnitrtive positions can beappointive ~ithout compromig the control peplehave over their goverent.

The asesr's offce wa maintained as anelective position beause this is regarded as the offcecl to the heart or sple of the electorate. But

many or the rreeholders relt this position, too, shouldbe appointive.

It was interesting to note the reaction of one

county comITssioner who favors retention or electivepoitions. He said there were "two positions which Ireel could be better served by appointive offcers."One was the clerk of the court, who the comITssionerrelt could be best chosen by the judges of the SuperiorCourt. The second position was countysuperintendent '.or schools. This electiveadristrative position, the commssioner !elt. could

obviously be riled by a mar¡ chosen by the County

Scool Board or other such agency. The rreeholdersare unable to speak on that position.

Another elective position is county prosecutor.There are many who feel it is somewhat strange roran offcer of the cour to stad partsan election, as henow does.

There is, or course. no such thng as Republicanlaw or Democrat law. There is a);o an open questionas to whether or not the prosecutor should be electedor chosen on the recommendations or the bar by theCounty Board.

But the rreeholders were unable to consider thatquestion, too. The rreholders sad, "r-Iany or ourproressional and adITnistrtive leaders should bekept out or the political light."

It is a question well wort discussing whether theprosecuting attorney and school superintendent

should be kept out or the political light, par ornon partn.

If the voters of King county agreed with the

freeholders' decision to trsform many of the nowelected positions into appointive positions. it ITghtthen be.wise to study the 21st Amendment to theState Constitution which mandates that they put onbliders as rar as the prosecutor and school

superintendent are concerned. The 21st amendmentforbids the freeholders rrom affecting the election orprosecutor or school superintendent. .10

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County-C'ity Should Merge;Freeholders' Job ObsoleteIdeal Proiect for League of Women Vcters

King County freeholders, elected to draw up a newcharter for the county, have been meeting faithfully to dotheir job and the final draft will soon be ready. The:ehave been long debates about the number. ~f commis-

sioners. whether or not some officials shouldbe -ei:-'èd or appointed, and other equally

obtuse problems.Certainly the freeholders are doing a

conscientious and workmanlike job, but wecan't help wondering if they are not con-cerned with a plan that is !Jutdated, out-moded and obsolete.

Today there are compelling reasons forthe consolidation of governing bodies. First,of course, is the expensive and wasteful

duplication of officials and employees, starting with lawenforcement agencies, and running through the courts,fire departments, parks, planning, schools and so on, adinfinitum.

If these duplicated agencies made the problems ea~ierof solution, they might justify their existence, but iustthe opposite is the case. Planning is a prime example.Proper use of land will become ever more import~nt, andit will become increasingly necessary as population andindustry expand. It must be accomplished on at least a

. county-wide basis, preferably a regional one.

Only One Agency

Roads and highways should certainly be under thecontrol of one central agency, not 'only to insure proper

location of secondary highways and roads, but to avoidthe duplication and expense of two engineering depart-ments,

Sewage and garbage disposal is just another facet ofgovernment that requires area-wide planning and solu-tions.

Lethãrgy, resistance to change, tenure of exištingoffice holders, will make consolidation difficult. But itseems inconceivable that voters will allow these difficultiesto stand in the way of necessary changes which will insuremore efficient and less expensive government,

Pressure for the change must come from the votersthemselves for those ensconced in offce will never takethe initiati~e, and will, on the other hand, fight valiantlyfor the status quo.

It would seem to me that an organization such asthe league of Women Voters could and should take onthe job of assembling the facts an? figures nece~sary to

obtain a clear cut picture of the savings and benefits fromconsolidated government. They could then present sucha plan to the voters for approvaL. It ",ould be a mai~r

undertaking, but one which would be of incalculable profitto the whole community,

We are, after all, in the jet age, not in th.e horse andbuggy era, and our government should adiust to thatreality. J¡

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On ~RE(E;-~OlDL:~S Lj£ll!.(EDITOR'S NOT: FoUowig Is the first in a series on Kig Count).

Freeholders and their effort to drw up a satisfactory county charer to

be presented to voters for their approval. The series is belig wrtten b)¡

Mrs. Evelyn Amyes, officialohserverfor the League of Women Voters ofSettle at the Freeholders' sessions,) .

By !\RS. EV E L YN A!\YES directions.Who are the King' County King County elects the three

Freeholders? A group of 13 men legislator-administrators (the

and two women elected from three county COmmssioners) and 34districts in King County to write aot1er independent county offcials.charter. They serve wit1out pay, In addition t1ere are appointed

working unti the charter is officials, boards, and commssions.

completed and submitted to t1e Because there are so many, t1evoters for approvaL. citizen may become confused aboutThe term "freeholder" means an whom to hold responsible for

O..l1er of a freehold - a piece of action or lack of action.land which can be passed to heirs. Many students of governmentThe other uniquely high believe that county structurerequirements 'met by t1e King should be simpler, moreCounty freeholder candidates were understandable, better able to solvethat t1ey be qualified electors. problems, more responsibe to t1e

,(regstered voters) wit1 at least five wihes of the people than t1eyears' residence in the county. present organization of King

Why does King County need a County permits.c h art e r ? Tom 0 d ern i z e The State Constitution ..ill aUow

" government. The present form of us home rule to establish fori county government was established ourelves t1e kind of governmenti 114 years ago by the Washington we want in King County if, and only. Teritorial Assembly. In those if, we adopt a county charter. The

pioneer days a county was t1ought Freeholders are now at workto be an agency of t1e state needig drwing up such a charter.few powers" since it would serve Future articles will report on t1esparsely settled rural areas. The progress of t1e Freeholders.

form of government establishedthen is basicaUy unchanged today., In t1e years since 1854, t1e

population has grown to more thana millon. Kig County is nowlarger in population than nealy one-third of t1e states of t1e Union.

With more people' crowding'. together, more problems havedeveloped: problems of garbage,

water supply, flood control,sewage, planning for orderlygrwt, and many ot1ers.Because the county had few

powers grnted by the state to dealwit1 t1ese emerging problems,

special districts have been formed.Today t1ere are a total of 237

governmental unts in t1e county,sometimes workig in opposite

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Mrs. Dou5'ass c! North willspak to the Mercer IslandFederated Republican Wom-en at luncheon beginnng at

. 11:45 a.m. Monday, Jun 3,at th home of Mrs, C, A,Newell, 6043 78th S,E.

Mrs. North wil discuSS the

proposed King County charr ,

and some of the ideas beingadance by th BQ¥d. ofCounty Freeholders, of whichshe is-a'rñiñ'bI'.

Mrs. Nort is a past presi-det of the Seatle Leag ofWome' Voters, and is cur-retly a candidate for theRepublican nomiation forStat represetatve from th44th legislative distrct.

Cost of the lunchen is$1,50. The public is welcome.No babysittng service will beavailable at ths meetig. ./

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holders meeting schedLdtomorrow was postponed to-day because of the mouril1"for Senat?r Robert F, ~:ned~'. R i c hard Albrecht,c~airman, said the meetin'"will be held Jun~ -l5:~,

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\ :,tadium St(¡iicl-,Is Approv,eclMr. John L. FournierEditor and Publisher'Dear John:

Thanks for sending me your ieditorial on "Let's Not DeceiveV?ters on the Stadium," I agreewith you tbat we do have aproblem in that $40 000 000 wil '

n?t provide parking fo~ a sta-;dlUm. $40,000.000 wil be needed

,for a covered stadium and the'pr?blem of parking wil stilexist. i

Along side of that editorial 'you had another editorial on .. AKing County Sugar-Plum Tree."Arter I read it I certainly agreew1th your thinking that perhaps~e could get the county commis-SI?nerS to serve at $1 per year. I

Will bring this up at the next

Freeholders meeting which isthis coming Saturday. Thanksfor remembering me.

. Sincerely,Paul S. Friedlander

Member, Board of KingCounty Freeholders.

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JUN "l 1968

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Dear Sir: ~ I 7 7i disagree. The govern-

ments of King County andthe City of Seattle shouldremain separate. In addition,the Freeholders have a mostdifficulE-yet most necessaryand urgent job to do and dowell.

The Wall street Journal on3 October 1967 pointed outthat the combined govern-ment of the County and Cityof Honolulu has all the prob-lems of any big city in theU.S., and has the same lack'of solutions. Many politicalscientists place the blame forthese problems of cities onthe patchwork, of local gov-'ern~e~ts. Çonsolid~tion theymaintain will permit solutionof these problems.

Honolulu has a consoli-dated government. Accordingto the Journal, its worstproblem is a lack of plan-ning. Therefore, the Hono-lulu experience indicates thatlarge, central governmentsd~ not provide "better" plan-rung or "better" urban de-velopment. .

J To paraphrase ProfessorRobert Warren of the Uni-versity of Washington (a po-litical scientist) a centralcombined government doe~not per se make master planseasy or workable. Small areaproblems remain the same ~regardless of the size ofGovernment: In addition, big'

. go~e;rment is not necessarilyefficient or coordinated. May,I add, as an example, our IFederal Government? "

I request that you encour-' iage the Freeholders to devisea simple, efficient and work-able organization for ourcounty, To quote the Leagueof Women Voters, whom youhave asked for help "the un-wieldy structure óf countygovernent makes it diffi-cult for the citizen to under-std, to vote intelIi:ently,or to know whom he cancontact for ansers to hisgovernmental problems." )

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,.Progress Report On Local GovernmentPrKttr ~i;ierous changes and improvements are under-

way in both city and county governments, but change for the

i;e of change is not necessly desirable. We are interested in

change for the sake of improvement and we believe that prently

th is the brand that is being 'sold.'

Some citizens think that local government is stagnant, Wl-bending, uninteresting and Wlinterested. This type of thinking

has not always ben without caus but credit should be givenwhere it is due. CIT

Here are some of the changes for the better in Seattle whichclearly show the respon,i~eness of the city government towardbetter admnistration.

1. In 1967 a highly select and well qualified commtte ofcitizens appointed by the Mayor studied the City Charr andreommended a number of important changp.s which were re-ceived and analyzed by the city governent and subsequentlyapproved by the voters in November. They are in the proces ofbeing implemented and Wldoubtedly wi improve the effciencyand effectivenes of city admnistration.

2_ The city administration reacted promptly in the sumerof 1967 to the increasing poverty and race problems and by de-veloping some well considered actions helped ca an Wleaysituation. Additional program in thi area have since been de-veloped and major strides are being made toward permanentsolutions to some of the problems.

3. A comprehensive survey of the Seattle Police Deparenthas ben made by the International Association of Police Chiefs,an organzation with experienced and highly competent analysts.The fidig!: of the study, when implemeted, Wldoubtedly wi

reult in an improved Police Deparment.4. A job clasification survey of over 10,00 positions in city

governent has been Wldertaen. It wi go a long way toward 'updatig many jobs because of changes in technology, systemsand procedures, and in the operation of city deparents.

5. Another highly select and well qualfied commtt ofcitiens is studyig, in detai, the procedures and operations of

the City COWlcil with the objective of determnig what changescould improve and increas the effciency and effectivenes of thatimportt and busy legislative body.

6. Finy, it must be reognzed tht the Forward Thtpropos were developed Wlder the sponsorship of both the City_A. "l; Om...,';'; '¡~.'è~'it. 'l ~~~ U'i'àt wtT~ llp~prov~ by the voters are being implemented with a cooperativeeffort In an attempt to give citizens the most for their ForwardThr..t tax doUx-. COUNT

. As of now we can'~ point to as many changes in the countgo'ernmen~ ~ we credit to the city, but there actual could bYmore by this tune next year. y e

1. The action with potentay the greatet' tgovernent' th' impac on countyfift F hIS e preparation of a new County Chartr by theeen ~~Iders elected last November Th '- hmucñtme 'and effort foil . . ey ave spentorO"anized owig a carefully considered and wellce~table cl~~~~v:i::t ~he~:~ t~~n:t suitable and ac-this Chaiter is accepted by th t . N y put together. If

h e vo ers il ovember it wi b .muc needed improvement to county governent nng .2. Forward Thrst of course was b d .

Proposa af t' th' ase to a large extent onec ing e entire count d h dernment support. The county . y ~ il strong COWlty gov-

plementin~ the successful prop:~~vig ead promptly in Ii-

3. A big step in Iiprovin th ff'

the governent of the co gee cienc~ and effectiveness of

Admnistrator This Wl~y was the appointment of a County

4 An h' . was an importat and long overdue chbo t" ot er ~provement which undoubtedly wil :ge.a u greater effciency was th lid' nng

Road Districts Th - . h e conso atlOn of the two County. . lS.lS anot er step forward.It 18 goo onCe in awhile to sit dm . .

and recognize the sign of pro d ~, resurvey the situation

isn't al bad. We do h gr~S an improvement. Everythingin and out of local gave many ard-working, dedicated people

d Overnment struO"gling to 'd ff 'an effcient government Th M . _" pr?VJ e e ectivethis endeavor. . e WllCipal League IS dedicated to./

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~MBUDS~J1ANThe cor?'p(loi'~n "Ombudsman,"

to deal with citizen complaints hasben gaining favor in many quar-ters by students of government. TheLeague's King County GovernmentCommitte recomemnded the estab-lihment of an Ombudsman's offce

in the charter now being drafted bythe Freholders. This reommenda-tion a¡; to have caught the

fancy of the Freholders for theyhave incorprated the provision forsuch a function in their preliminarydraft 01 the charter.

Studies of this approach in deal-ing with citizen complaints have

ben developed by the Institute ofGovernmental Studies at the Uni-

versity of California. A paper en-titled "The Citizen and the Bureau-cracy," it was noted that a paradoxoftn develops, wherein the citizen

seks to control the bureaucracy

that he has indirectly established

to control, in part, his 0"'J activi-

ties. The paper describe and eval-i nate the role of the legilativebrach as a "collective Ombuds.

; man," and its continuing capacity

to hadle citizen complaints in theabsence of new institutions.The Institute of Government

Studies has contribute several ar-ticles to the continuing study of theOmbudsman with the premise thatthe present social structure is esen-tily bureaucratic in both public

and private sectors. The report saysthat public bureaucracies wield

great power. They can be a sourceof abuse and injustice even assum-ing the bet of motives since the

freque.icy of contacts between acitizen and the government has in-creas.

The Ombudsman concept is prac-tice in seera European countries

with considerable effecvenes insoé iñsta!lt! but has yet to be in.stitued on a large scale in ttiscountr. Critics of the proposal say

that esot.lishrnent of this llt:W S~l.I vice would more than add to the al-

ready over-burdened operations oflocal government. A bil proposingan Ombudsman offce be establishedfor state government failed in thelat session of the Legislature.

Proponents of the concept say

that bureaucracies are so large andunwieldly and remote from the in-dividual citizen that it is extremelydifcult for him to know where totae his grievance.

COMMENT: Most peple agreethat some procedure should be es-

tablished for servicing citizen com-plaints but the comment was made,by Herb Robinson in the SeattleTimes, that another name should beoffered up in place of "Ombuds-

man," which few peple understand

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Best's MoonlighHngThe revelation that City Councilman

Ted Best is on the payrolI of the Wash-ington Optometric Association, as its.executive secretary, raises some se-rious questions regarding the salariesand responsibilties of elected public of-ficials,

City Council positions, which com-mand annual salaries of 515,000, aresupposed to be full-time jobs. It's diff-cult to believe that Best can devote aproper slmount of time to the city whileearning an extra $5,400 a year from an-other employer,

Even assuming that Best, who we. regard as an able councilman, is givingthe city a fair shake. t.he quest.ion of

ethics arises. We believe there is aninevitable conflct of interest ,vhen anelected public offcial accepts pay froma p r i vat e source, particularly one

. Which may have legislative goats,The citizens of Seatte have a right

to demand that their city councilmen

stick to their johs as councilmeÍi. Ac-

cordingly, they should be paid enoughto preclude the necessity of their seek-

ing outside income. . .On the matter or salaries for public

offcials, the King County Board ofFreeholders has recommended t hatcounty commissioners to be elected un-der the proposed new charter receive$1B,000 annually

and the county's chiefelected administrator $27,000. The theo-

ry is that these salaries wil te highenough to attract qualified candid8.tes

and to insure that they devote all oftheir working hours to the county. It's agood theory, and we subscribe to it.

IT l\A Y BE that the level of CityCoiincilsalaries is due for a review. \'lethink a reasonable argument can bemade ,that councilmanic salaries shouldat least equal those of the county c?m-missione.s.

In the meantime, we suggest thatCouncilman Best halt his moon1ighting,

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B)' Our County News Bureau . Some poliical activity shOuld be allowed at the stateA wrapup of the ~vor~ produced by the. Board or King or federal level, freeholders aruged, but prohibited such

County Freeholders in six months on. the Job was issued activity for county employes. Those persons presentlyl~te last week by.Pa~1 :\Ieyer, executive secretary_ of the employed by the county, they felt, should have assurancebOard. Included in hi,S rep.ort were the maJor points of of continued employment with the requirement they passagr~em.ent on wn~t wil be in the new county charter, due satisfactorily a job examination. .for its rllst unve~ling J~ne 8. . .' The present offces of assessor, auditor, clerk,

In it ~re ~eclslOn. in~olving the restru~turing of ~ng coroner, sheriff, and treasurer - presently all elective,çount~ in its legislative _ and execut~ve fu~ctlO!lS, would be (except for assessor) appointive offces underincluding ~ proposal. to_pro',1de fo~ a full-tune legislative the new charter. Freeholders decided that all appoint-h?Y. of ni~e commissioners nominate~ ~n~ elected by ments are to be made by the county chief executive withd!S_t~iCt. This group wo~ld have only legiSiative respoi:si- the exception of an auditor. whose appointment wil bebilities and would be paid a salary no less than that which made by the lecrislative body. Al others wil be confirmedAA-class county commissioners receive - which wil be by the lecrislat:~e boy.

$18,00 yearly after next fall's elections. Elections would "be on a partisan basis. , Although rr.eeholders .a~reed th~ charte.r. s~0:id

Freeholders also decided the new charter should lIclude additional provisions setting up mitiativeinclude a chief executive independently elected at referendum a~d. recall proc~dures and. tha~ .thei;elarge, also on a partisan basis. and that he should should be pronsion for an office to receive citizen shave on his staff a professional administrator who complaints. the precise nature of these proposals wilwould be responsible for starf administration, Tiie wait unti the first draft is approved. -~-~board pegged salary of the chief executive at one to Meyer said freeholders had met 35 ties sinceone and a half times that of county legiSlators: December 5, 19£7, to. hold orientation sessions, delibera-

In a third major decision. freeholders approved the live sessions (at which votes were taken) and publiccreation of a personnel system for the county in a forus. A new series of public forums is being planned'separate body apart from the executive and the throughout the county during July and August on'

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legislature. The director of tlús systeij and the board's proposed charter, following which freeholders wil again. members should be appointed by the county chief reconsider the charter. A final vote, based on a section byexecuth'e, with the board's chief function primarily the section analysis, wil be taken by late August.headng of grievances. Other policies involving hiring and The charter is expected to be ready for ballotexaminations were judged to be an executive matter certification in September. permitting it to be placed onwithin the preview of the pers0nnel director. the November..l9€, general eJection ballot ¿~ :to;

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appeared in this column two weeks ago turned out to be amost enlightening experience. I asked for candid opinionsand got them. They ranged from "You are doing a greatjob, keep it up," to "What have you ever done to deservere-election?" , '

The first fourteen questions are from ~ íquestionnaire being used by many Republican candidatesthroughout the state, There wil be an opportunity later'to compare the thinking within the 36th district with that.of other districts throughout the state. The last six.questions were added to cover local issues and to get some iidea of current thinking about the governor and myself. ,

Questionnaires such as this are most helpful to a '.representative and I certainly appreciate the efforts of'

. those who took the time to fi11 them out and return them. fI doubt that there are any two that give all the same ianswers. Adding thema11 together however, one 'gets a'very good cross-section of the thinking throughout the' 'district. :

In almost all cases, my tluking and my actions in .the legislature are in accord with the general thinking of:the people I represent. Listed below are the questions, J

your answers and my answers to the same questions. . ¡

I._Are enough parks and recreational facilities being:provided for our people?Yes 28% No 56% No Opinion 16%NO-Forward Thst wil be a great help but we stilneed the passage of the $40 milion state bond issuethat wil be on the ballot this fall, We must take taction now to meet the tremendous demand of the- :immediate future~. ' . 1-Should Washington abolish capital puIùsÎuent? iYes 36% No 54% No Opinion 10% . ~YES- From a practical standpoint we do not have itnow, nor does any other state. This week's LifeMagazine points out that there are over 450 peoplein Death Row throughout the countr but no one ihas been executed in the past yeari I .Do you favor a state income tax? IYes 29% No' 54% No Opinion 16%' !Of those answering Yes some 9% favored a flat rate'ltax and 26% favored a graduated tax. Some people '-1answered the question "No" and then marked one'

-::\.-:f the rates,NO-An income tax should be imposed only as partof a tax reform package that wil improve our totaltax picture: See question No.1 4. .Should special levies be eliminated, as a regular'method of finanCing public schools? .Yes 62% No 21 % No Opinion 17% .YES-We must find a way to nnance, our publicschools that is regular and dependable without

, '\ sacrificing the quality of our education, Eliminatingspecial levies wil be inpossible without major tax

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ihe fund -12703') OF TilE FUND-This seems like a reason,blemarf-in (or error in making cslim.iCcs up to 2lh yearsin ad..;incc. Wjlh.a J.Tf:CI cDi't.inz,ency fund we could

reform. gel ,long WilhOlI 2"".1 seions for a few mOreS. Should pubJjc employees ha\'C "ihc righi to strike'?u year..

V", 17% No 67% No Opinion 16% I J. Do you favor the "Implied Consent" Law for1\'0- The ritht to orcani1.c and bargain but not the suspcl.1cd ùrinkingdrivers?-.---right to strike against the public. TI\clr bosses and Yes 63l; No 14% No Opinion 23%Iheir cu,lomers are the same people, They knew VES-Such a bill wos one of Ihe governor's requestthat when they look the job ,nd it should be well bil, but f,i1ed to p,ss during the last sessionunderstood before they ever start to work. primarily because of politics, There wil be another

6. Should indu,try be given ta. incentives for '\tempi made during the eoming session.complUnce with strit! air and w,ter pollution J 2. Do you feel that enough is being done by our slale

contro1 b.ws? government in the field or human rights?V.., 55~ 1'0 38'i NoOpinion 7% y"" 41% No 27% NoOpinion 26%VES-Dut only under limiled condjfXiM. 1 played a NO- Thm: are 100 many progrm. in effect rightmajor part in Celtin¡ ",d. a bin through the U""se "OW, but nearly all of Ihem are feder'll"o¡;ams. 'durini; the lasl scssìon wi~h the cooperaiion of Tax The state mu-st do more 10 get the conlrol closer toCommissioner GeoTße Kinnear. We cave indu':1ry a home. State and local covernment must

do more orIwo year limit, ..eluded new induslryor new plants the federal government willill the void.who know the new niles, and Hmitcd Ihe stale.s 13. Pleascratctheseservicesofstategov~mment.liabilily if ihere are federal concessions. Where we CORRECTIONALlNSTITUTIONSrcquireanoldplanttomcelanewstandardilisonly Vel)' Good 6% Good 37% Poor 19%,fair 10 ¡;ve ihem some help for immedi,te No Opinion 311% .compliance, bul for a new plant or an old onelhal MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMShàs 10 be forced there should be no concessions. Very Good 6% Good 38% Poor 22%

7. Should volers aulhorize the modernizaiion of ihe No Opinion 34%Slale Constiiution by a Constitution,1 Convenlion? HIGHWA VSVes 53% '/\olS% NoOpinion 29%- Very Good 22% Good 38% Poor 13%VES-We need 10 do sometrung 10 bring our No Opinion 27%consiilution up 10 date. Ths is one way 10 do il. I STATE PARKSh.,'e voled for aD measures thI would make Ii Ver Good 22% Good 44% Poor 7%"easier 10 chance Ihe constituiion. No Opinion 25%

8. On ihe basis of priority are you more inle~ed in TOURIST PROMOTIONde"elopine mor; and beller areri.is or more and Very Good 16% Good 41% Poar 15%beUrr frcewJ)'s'? No Opinion 28%Arkri.il,M"; Freeways 12% No Opinion 24" EDUCATIONAR1ERIAIS-n,,1 is exactly the aclion that w.s Very Good 24". Good 43% Poor 107.takC'n b)' thc bst session of the Icci~lJtun:. The No Opinion 23%incre.se in Ihe f" !n will be used for such work. GOOD-All of Ihem are good, nõne of Ihem areThe rnults or our 2dions :Ire just starting to take good enough. .e((cct. 14. Would you fa\'or a state income "'ax if it were

9. Do you (i\or ri:mo\at or the existin~ rt'slrictions on accompanied wich a reùuction of the sales tax. aCaliforniJ wint's"? reduction or the business and occupation ta.x, they~s 7Ji;c No i 1% NoOpinion ISl; elimination of the saks tax on rood and drugs, theYES-J \,oted for such a bil during the bst ~ssion limitation of the i:ss.ssmcnt ratio on property toand wil do so Jz.iin this time. With better handling 25% and the reduction of special levies for schools?in the Ie~isl.iturc. ..hich will happen this time, the Yes 4870 No 32íó NoOpinion 2O?measure shoul~ po'" . YES-This is essenti.iiy the I.. package the

10. Should Ihe slate ¡;ovom",ent have. cash reserve? Republicans allempted 10 pass Ihrough the HouseYes 71i; l\o 6:c NoOpinion 23% during the last session. Some such total tax rerorm

_. '(i;S-:thl't niir-aion should h3\;e had m.ore p:ickagc is an.absol.uii: ni=essity to solve the state's'1'11 u:rs S I pn:1S Pjc:) problems. No one step wil really help and il is

SJtISP¡09 ~I S=1I: 6O$lJO.S!lve), -sA~/lJrJSJouc:;Ji¡u!A31/ doubtfuJ t1i:lt anyone step could gd the necessary

votes to pass through either hoiise orthc Itgis13ture.~o_you r¡¡'.or ø. ri:pid ban::it :J).stcm fm. Kin,;County?Yes 64% No 16% . No Opinion 20%YES-l1Üs Forward TIuust measure wil come up

, again. Let us hope Ihat the 64% figure wil,i'.boid up, '~!'Lne.1 election. .' I

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: Ves 53% No 12% NoOpinion 35%¡ VES- The King County Freeholders, now in the'

'I. process or drafting-a nevi charter ror the county,eould do mueh 10 solve our local problems, Let us

1~1I hope Ihallheir efforts meet wilh sueeess. _How do you feel Dan Evans is doing his J,-~~:l' ovemOr --~Very Wen 38% Wen 207 Averaee 15%Not Very,WeD 6% Unaceeptable 6%No Opinion 15%VERV WELL-Dan Evans has ¡;own with the job. 1 'was one of IDS original backers when I handledpublicity for Ihe Republicans during Ihe 1963

session. He has done an outstanding job that we eanal be proud of for the st.te of Washington.How do you feel John Murray is doing rus job asyour Statc Reprcsentativc?VeryWen31% Wen29% AveragelJ%Not Very WeD 3% Unacceptable J%No Opinion 25%-

WELL- This is a tough one 10 be objective about. Iam prejudiced, bull also know wh,t i have been

able 10 do and what I have failed in better thananyone else. A fre,hm,n sitting in the very backrow, who is naturally the quiet type, should not beexpected 10 change slate governmenl in his rirstsession, I didn't. I was able to get some of my friendsdown in fron-I 10 say some things that 1 hadsuuesled and Ihoughl were cood.0iie can help 10 overcome Ihe handicap of "eing

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. Out of nearly seven hundred people who are on mySponsoring committee as it appearcd in last week '5 paper.there were 27 whose names appeared as a result of theirresl"nding to the questionnair bur-only eighi of Ihebalance or the sponsoring commiitee Curned inquestionnaires, This is a little discouraging rrom thestandpoinl of my friends bulalso means that the resulis ofIhe survey are nol loaded with my known friends. That -

. should mean that it is much more valid to an objective 'observcr.

R.H. Westenbere wrole a Iwo page letter 10 amplifyhis views and many others also wrote shor1cJ notes. Someor the more interesting comments that were written were:"Stop an parking on arteriaJs." "Both parties sem to betrying to give away all or ourresourccs in one generation.""It would be a full time job 10 be well informed on aD .

. isses and aU candidates. U uThis is a good idea to find outwhat people think." uKeeps voters inronned-good man.""I favor strict air and water p01lution controL" "'Touristpromotion is too good:' ul.m a Republican-nonRogstad." "Full. open, honest public statements withouteoneèalmenl is necesry for public approval of change,anywhere, anytime on anything." "We are a captivedislricl and disgusled wilh Ihe erowd followers - get oulof Ihe rut." "You do not respond 10 lellers r- two lastsession. Vou voted for the gas tax increase"already 100high. Vou voled for Forward 1lsl and Ihe stadiumhoax et a!." "Income tax - too diffeult for 100 manypeopieio prepare... . - "" 11'l " (.';:.-:

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tatively to retain in a new King sible, the charter is expected to board with an appointed direc-. County c h art e r the present propose: tor of personnel," the attorney; ,three commissioner districts, L An elected county executive explained, "and we set up a

with three commissioners to be who would be responsible for merit system whereby personselected from each district to county admii:istration, and, op- can be procured on a systemcreate the nine-member board erating und~r him, by appoint- other than the spoils system."recommended. ment, trained departmental ad- The first draft of theJames Curran, Kent attorney ministrators. proposed ne\v basic law for

and one of 15 members of the 2_ Expansion of the Board of the county also containsBoard of King County Freehold- County Commissioners from provisions which "enlargeers, told members of the Kent three to nine members, all stil the right of the people to,Rotary Club at luncheon yester- elected on a partisan political challenge the law," Curran

day the commissioner-district basis with three to represent explained.decision is one of several incor- each present commissioner dis- ,He said that in addition to

porated into the first draft of a tricL The expanded board then retaining citizen rights to recall,proposed new charter. would function primarily as the the initiative and the referen-

The actual draft wil be policy-making body. dum, the freeholders have putunveiled for the first time at 3. The number of elected into the document a processa meeting of the free hold- county officials now serving whereby "people actually caners in the courthouse Satur- primarily as administrators submit an ordinance if theyday forenoon. would be trimmed to two-the can't get it adopted any otherBefore Curran's disclosure of county.assessor and the prose- way_"

the plan to retain the present cuting a tt 0 r n e y _ Curran ex- Another change, he said, wilboundaries for commissioner plained that state statute re- shift county elections to coincidedistricts, there had been specu- quires that the county prosecu- with municipal elections.lation in some quarters that it tor be elected. Paul R. Meyer, executive sec-might be necessary to create Curran told his fellow Rota- retary of the Board of Freehold-nine new commissioner districts rians that the freeholders had ers, explained the background

to provide that one com mis- made a special effort "to solve of the charter and êlscussionsioner be elected from each this county personnel situation," sessions in which the freehald-district. . " , , ers have engaged for severalFor practical purposes, the months. He also showed a short

present three commissioner dis- motion picture depicting varioustricts split the county into a functions of county government.north district and a south dis- throughout Washington State.trict, with a third, or central Meyer said the freeholdersdistrict, embracing primarily expect to have the new docu-the City of Seattle. ment ready for submission toCurran prefaced his capsule . voters at the November generalpreview of the first charter election.'

draft by pointing out that one of It is considered likely thatthe first concerns of the charter several changes wil be made indrafters was to provide a way of the first draft of the documentseparating the county commis- after it is unveiled Saturday andsioners' dual functions of poli- before it is polished into finalcy-making and of administra- form for acceptance or rejectiontion. by the electorate.

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For practical purposes, thepresent three commissioner dis-tricts split the county intu anorth district and a south dis-

trict, with a third, or central

district, embracing primarilythe City of Seatte.Curran prefaced his capsule

preview of the first charterdraft by pointing out that one of

the first concer!1S of the charterdrafters was to provide a way ofseparating the county commis-sioners' dual functions of poli- Another change, he said, wil

cy-making and of admnistra- shift countv elections to coincidetion. with municipal elections.

To ma';e that separation pos- Paul R. Meyer, executive s,-r'-sible, th~ c;ia;-ter is eX2ected to retary of the Board of Freeh,ld.propose: . ers, explained the backgro:.nd

L An elected county executive of the charter and discu:.sionwho would be responsible for sessions in wmeh the freehold-cour~ty administration, and, .op- ers have engaged for severalerating under him, by appoint- months. He also showed a shortm~~t, trained d::partmental ad- motion picture depicting variousIDinlstrators: ' functions of county government2. Expansion of the Board of throuO'hout Washinaton State

County Commissioners from ,~ . b .thee to nine members all stil l\ej er said the freeholderselected on a partisan 'political expect to have the n~w. docu-basis with three to represent ment ready for submission toeach present commissioñer dis- vote.:s at the November general

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would function primarily as the ;:i~~""~~-",,,.._,,,...~ "'''~'' ~policy-making bedy_

3. Tne number of elected, county officials now serving

primarily as aòministratorsi would be trimmed to two-he'~ courty assessor and the prose-

.¡ cuting attorney. Curran ex-j plained that state statute re-

i, quires that the county prosecu-tor be elected.i Curran told his fellow Rota-

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made a special effort ':to solvethis county personnel situation. "

"W~ adopted a personnelboard with an appointed diec-tor of personnel, ': the attorn~y

Freeholders have decided ten-1ë:tively tu retain in a new King

. County charter the presentthrce commissioner districts,with three commissioners to beelected from each district to

i create the nine-member boardrecommended.

James Curran, Kent attorneyand one of 15 members of theBoard of King County Freehold-ers, told members of the EentRotary Club at luncheon yester-day the' commissioner-districtdecision is one of several incor-porated into the first draft of aproposed new charter.

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The first draft of theproposed new basic law forthe county also containsprovisions which "enlargethe right of the people tochallenge the law," Curranexplained,

He said that in addition toretaining citzen rights to recall,the initiative and the referen-

dum, the freeholders have putinto the document a processwhereby "people actually cansubmit an ordinance if theycan't get it adopted any otherway."

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ust be appointed byJune 1. 1!lr;9, and ril1('s f€'('om

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h.:rter gives emr,loyr ri~

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t'Cuiive and adinin:::trati\'~

branch and offcers. person.al S

L'I.'rttarii'S to c1c....t..d and appointed offcials. court and

hospit.tl pff:iOnlie!. C

harter would continue the sheriH

's civilS

::'"\'ice system in roree at least tw

o ycau. Thereafter, com

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i:,~ion('rs are c\1Ill\cd but not require to place system

undt'r county personnel board,

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iililii;;",iol\el"s, appoints directors or public works, uliltics

and tran~.porlation; pulilic sarety; public hcalth and wel.

rare; rci'o,'ds and elections; finance; public services andrcerelll ien; planning and zoning, and C

Olirt clerk.

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.OI10 dnd diÎcf executive $27,000 a year, Later ,com

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akin;; andconlinninó dcparrm

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ppoints auditor &nd clerk to board.

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ty iß\ï:ilving county elected orrcials.

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ans discrimination hascd on age,

sex. r-ice, national origin or religion in emplo)1lent prac-

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xecutive supervises administrative

and executive departments, rrepare.s Judget. appoints ad.

ministrator and has \'eto over legislation. C

omm

is.sionersm

:ty oVtrride veto by vole or six com

nisioners.A

dministrator appoints, w

ith confiimation of executive,

head! of budt:ct. personnel, ddla.prO(~

s5in¡;. building andpurchasing dt!partm

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pkted early in J'.II)'. ty Board of I'~~bol~tT

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borne to the courtn01'le JuneFR

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pINe .sl:dv oj a draft T

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flul it in (¡:i.1I form by July 9, hold Iy assessor, w

as the speakerpdblic. h('.lIln~s in m

id.July znd on the aganda for the evenir.g,:Llarr Ilk' jl:~

¡il propo.::l! by S£'picn' F

or over two hours he dis.

h,~r 4 T

h.-( \. fl,,1.1 pI t( t' tl;e prupoo;.:'l cussed the operation of theuiirtcr on tho :\in em

ber 5 st'nel.11 assessor's ortce. He started

e:C(llon h.dlN, with the field deputies and

If appcovi:d. (he drdft e,llIs for! their appraisal problems and

.r, (ial primary tJcclÌ'Jn of neol,' ofl¡. w

ent on through to the final,I' Fehi'",rv Ii. l~n1. ,ind a ¡;el1'l- w

ork done by the offce slaff.('eel,O

il ~IJr,-ii II. 11,, n" When he had finished, he an-

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,; liHo effect M

.iy " swered aU

01 the questions,~ asked by the board of free.

('\te PJ-e .jJ for oiher det.1Jb.! hoJders,. . When Barlow was through.

Dick W

elch, comm

ittee chilir-m

an, asked it an\'on~ of tiiP

visitors h::d an\'" cQmrr1tn!.~

they v.i.shr:d to 'maliO

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trey BuvY

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ished to nwb'

a report On 150 pt'ople tll¡.it

he had pollc'd in tli~ :.;:ir':j-

ville ar.:i'. l!i: s;!id t!l:it t:~i'

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to the lhl~~~,':. . .

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10 40.000 signaturEs now

. Provides focia Is.A

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peals board appointed by the exccuti\the eoiiiniss!onc-rs. tl' hear zoning vause pt"nnils tor I.utd and against taxboard!' of adjii~tm

t'nt and equaliiaticapp~als or ordc'rs or the txeclIti\'e ofrequested by the com

missioners.

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ries and complílints and gi\'e~

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líshment by appointm

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ember com

mittee to review

in 197th~

reaftei- the boundaries of county iH

s mem

bership cannot be more than 1

p¡¡rty. County com

missioners either

proposed bOlindary changes, but c.a

executive would not have the veto pt:

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age .i for otber IreehDlder

Everett. Wash.Herald

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JUN 18 ¡~-j

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. . '¿ I ~' '7On June 25. VOicIS tr Everett t a the existing commission answers to questions not includ-

. wil be asked to cast their bJl- form, A simple "yes" or "no" ed in this list may address them

lots on the charter proposal de- vote is required Clnd a simple to "Ask the Freeholders" inveloped by the E\'erett Board of majority wil drcidc the issue, care of The Herald and an effort

Freeholders. In an effort to assist voters in wil be made to publish a suit-The proposal calls for eslab- making a decision, the following

I

able answer.

li.-hment of a strong mayor-i questions and answers have Among questions prepared by-£uncil government as opposed i been prepared, Persons wishing the members of the freeholder

, ,I board to cover basic provisions.- - ,. _._- - ..,', "',', . ,,.lln the new charter are the fol.

'_ loidiig:-- \, Q. miat is the basIc difference

between the proposed city ehar~ter and the present cbarter?

A. The proposed charter wildivide the administrative andlegislative funetio!'s of city gov-

ernment between the mayor andthe city council as comparedwith the present system wherethe commissioners function inboth administrative and legisla-,tive areas.

Q, Is this division of adminis-

trative and legislative functionreally needed?

A. "This division of power wilparallel the division on the fed-

eral and state leveL. On theselevels we have seen the impor- ,tance' of having the legislativeboy review the policies of theadministrative agency and ei-fuer approving, modifying and~ejectíng them.

Q. What are the elected posi.tions under the proposed char- :rer? .

A. The proposed city charer :)rovides for election of a mayor 'Nho wil be charged with the job .)f administering city affairs on ¡

i full time basis and election of .¡even part - time city council:

nembers who wil deal with leg- jislative matters only. The coun- ;::il wil meet at least once a,week (including one night meet- ·

ing a month) or more if needed. JQ. Why bas the ma)'or been .

given so moch freedom in ad- :ministering city affairs? '

A, The freeholders felt thatany person charged with full re-sponsibility of administering acity the size of Everett should

be given the authority to get thejob done. The "tools to do the. job." Anything less could resultin excuses and alibies by a may-or for not getting a job done.

: Under the proposed charter, the imayor can and should be held ~responsible bv the voters for thk'type of job he accomp!iShesïÍIoffice.

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Get ToughKín~ C?unty Fre~h()lders last night vat,

e~ to pL.! ianguage into the proposed coun-ty chartcr which would stop the pay ofc?un!y commissioners if they failcd tò re-district.

Thi~ :vould mean that the pay of the~ ,commi~sioncrs would be hrld up each time

t~e.y failed t.o. com pi:' with the charter pro-V1SlOn requllng t~lat the nine proposed

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commissioner districts be.redistricted eve r y five iyears, "

DO~ :\lcDOX\LD, Bothellbuilding contractor an~ afreeholder, said he likedthat motion which was sub-;

-' mited by Norman Ackley,better than one previouslY ,offered. It would have pro- ,vided that no connty ordi-nances could be passed bycommissioners u n t i 1 theyhad complied witti the Hye-year redistricting require-ment" " -, That' proposal, McDonaldsaid, "would mean ~ountygovernment would grind toa halt; it would mean an-archy." -

McDonald poi n t e d outthat already the pay ofjudges of the courts can beheld up if they do not de-

cide cases, though this pro-vision is almost never used.

Ackley said the pay-stop-

ping provision sh~uld behighly effecti\-e in, in~uringredistricting, as, officials,lie everyone else have tomeet house payments and

. pay their bils.

ACKLEY had him s elfsucigested that the judges of

th; Superior Court appointa master of redistrictingand that the master's redis-trictind propo3al b~ ¡:ubmit-

ted to'" the judges for ap-provaL. This proposal wilbe researched by the free-holders' staff.

On another matt('r, collec-tive bargaining with county

employes, no freeholnrrs fa-vored mClking it mandatoryu p 0 n the coinmis::ioners;

all favored making it per-missive, ' l~ 1

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Bal~e Draft

Or C-:¡s' ll'f 11arrerBY 00:\ CARTER

King County's Board orFreeholders yesterday tookthe wraps off the first draftof a proposed county char-ter.

Has h i n g over majorpoints of the 33-page docu-ment, members of the 15-man board indicated therewould be many re...isionsbefore the charter is pre-sented to county voters inNovember.

THE PROPOSED charter- as it stands now -would:- Have tbe county gov.

erned bv a nine-memberlegislati..:e body, each mem-ber representing a separate

dis trict.- Create an elected "ex-

ecutive" positon parallel tothat of the city's mayor.- GÏ\'e the executive au-

thority to appoint an ad.minstrative assistant. Themeasure is a compronúsebetween the mayor.counciland city manager types oriovernment.- Provide machinerv for

periodic redistricting of the

countv.- -Eliminate the now-

elective offces of auditor,

clerk, treasurer and coro-

ner. Assessors, prÒSêcutors

and superior court judgC\s

would remain on the ballot.

!\OST OF the Freeholdersappeared to agree on thebasic structure of countygovernment detailed in thefirst charter draft. All nod-

ded assent when one mem-ber described it as "a moreresponsive government."But the specifcs' may

'change considerably duringthe next few months. Free-holders have scheduled ahaifwåozt:n nìt:etings beforeSeptember. Next meetingwil be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesda lIn Room 420, King Coun' vCourthouse.

Members differ on ho,man y commissioners th

legislative body should In-clude. Jim O'Connor saidthe n i n i' -m e m bel' bod vwould be "too large - myconstitutents have com,plainI'd about it." He sug,gested fii'e or seven mem-bers.Countered Robert Block:t. It should be on a parity

with Seattle city govern-

men t -t h e city has ninecouncilmen; we should havenine commissioners."

BLOCK SAID the Free-holders should make thec h art e r "work toward a

melding with city govern-

ment." Having a nine-mancommissi6n would "acceler-a1e dialogue" between thetwo, he concluded.

No matter how It turnsout in final form, the char-ter proposal wil doubtless

contain some concrete rules .for redistricting.

Block calls It "mandatorymaChinery. ..Freeholdi"s appeared ea-

ger to avoid the redistrict-ing throes which ha"e bog-

gled many state and countygovernments since the Su-preme Court's "one man-one vote" decision.

THE' GROUP hasn't de-cided if it wil provide newdistrict lines in the Novem-ber charter proposaL. lIrs. !Lois North suggested the,charter vote should be free :from "that emotional, polit- ,Iical hot potato."

Presently, the c h art I' rdraft provides that bounda-

ries of commissioner dis-

tricts be reviewed in 1971,

and at least every fiveyears thereafter. Redistrict- ning would be done by acommittee of five commis_'1 ~~'--",sioners appointed by the tchief executive. i,

But Freeholders hi n t e dyes t i' r day they mightc h a n g e the committee'scomposition. They debatedhaving a committee or five-two appointed bj' each ofthe major political parties'central committees, wi t hthe fifth appointed by thechief executive.

RODERT EBERLE fa-vored the idea as "the best iway of making redistricting Ibi.na.rtii:~n \t'Ifnl',tof ....H:__

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.2. ~.:::'~:::: r!J~:a""c r.:!::~¡, ,:';i;:1 Cou::ty cor.s;;?,:;,:ivc Rzpublicans sco;-d

a ::out at their cciinty C(¡:-..v~::::on a v/e~:~ ac-o of

the liber~l a¡"inics of Gov. Dan Evans e::.d ~tateGOP Ch~ir;::~n C. :t:or::';û:::.cry J ohason.

i :SvaI1s' co;:.t:ol cI' t;..~ Repl...blican St~¡e Com---iïlitt~e, \Vh~':¡1 in tt.rn sets t:-.e gro:.nè. rü:es for

the st~tc cÛr..vC¡4~¡on J~nz 21-22 aDJ~z.rs to bes:::.:,;y G.t t!lis tin:e. ;..r.;è. 3 7-7 division 0:1 the;i;,¡-~;¡s st:ite exec~tive bo;:rd co~:c: throw cOi1trolcf t~.: :v:~vc~ti~~ to ~h~ c?nser:va~ive \virig or thep.::-i:y L:.:t novi i::cli:aes Pierce, King, Snohomish~:1d S¿o~:aLc co~i:tics. The rnatt.er is of signiu-ca~c~ not so rauch in tcrI:S of2vans being elected;: t.~!ez2.:C as it is on whether he wil head theèclc6':¡~or. to :lIiâ;:i a~;.è/or ae a Î&vorite son., F':'~.:: w!:at ~.ad ?ee:1 expected .to be a color-

..~ss :'1:;.:r l~ :\llô.ni.l) thè GOP national n1cet isr:.ov/ s2~=.~i::;; to be o::e or t~e dec&l:e's big strug-:;,':3_ :'0 : a:', many GOP IZ2.ae:'s here w::::t to re-iil~i:1 r,eutral until it's a little closer to August 5...~..t L¡~is point) rnany SC~¡¡1 to re:;~rd Rcag~n as ast;:i:d-by cä.;:~iè.3.t:.. ir ~ixon fa~te¡-s, b.ut don'tbel:evc 1'e yiill ;::¡ici:liy put hirr,self into therace. Xever:heless, there is mucn undercover

. support fo: Califomia's gove¡-nor here that manybelieve woule: be of si;:ni:'iar.t conseQue::ce ifthere's ¡¡ deae:Iock between Xixo:: and Rocke-feller.

* * * * *:.:~C:;-~~::r ~.~2S .~~.~~r~?,_ un~au:::ed by what _ ha;ipened. ir; I.rdia:i!l,...~cCa.:'~::,y ~c:-ces he~e s:lll a:e o:;t¡r.llstic their

:-::::: .:.:-: :.::-c.s. ~o stay in t:,0 r~ce. .Seve:al personsc.:g.:: l~-: ~..:~ ,;.I,;cCa:"thy o:ganiz~:io:i here repo¡1;,"o'"e\',~'' t"'y'-e _r,- qu:." -'ole to ~..t do\'"n ru.... .. .';''' ~..4."" .. J...vl. ,LL.ii Gl.. pu... " ..Il10:S L:e ~d"nesot:: se:1ê.to: Ilay not go the dis-ta~ce. :\Iounting deficits, kids b2.c~ in school, and,SO~ê hez.lth ¿r0olems .fû:-\:in~ hii: to cancel somem:ijo: s¿eec~-J.es are fue~ing t::e ru:nors. 'They're

c:lso co:-:.:erned ¡;~ei: ef:'o:ts here a::d his else-wf.ere r.¡;y :1ave leaked too soor.. ?Ieanw;1Ile\r.:shi~g~o;i - sup;iorte:-s hê.va ma~tg\;(~ to ser:dS2,5Cci :0 Wisco¡-,sir:, Sl,e;;O to X eb¡-¡:s;.:a (watch:::-:~~ ::~"ens th_~re Tuesday) and Sl,5ûO fror..b~11:::;..:2.r: :0 Inai=:i:2.. ;.150 ne\\"s\vonhy: ..~ pilot0--""--:: or '-.'" co'ic~", S.,,4e--- \\'''0 '-e i',. O-'e.. ..voJ.."'..... .. _vV :....0"" ..i.U &li..; 1.. a.. .I.. ....gOL. t:..IS \"¡e~l.:e:;d ,:e.=~ir:g the d:Lu:: for :i:cCarthyin c:dv.:r.ce of the pri:ra:y . . . ~nd a Kennedy-¡,:CC¿::,~:i C:cbate at the Seattle CeLter. The latterwi!: be c. beer bust anà trar.smitted live (the

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debate - r.ot the beer) from the Center on theIrv Clark show on KING-TV.

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Local Demos are busting t:-:eir butto::s overwh¡¡t co-.!C: tu::n o:.t to be successful effoi.ts to

snag Vice Presièent Eubert Humphrey for theircOt.nty conve::tio:1 June 1 . . . ~.'e:Ùo!ders to thePost. . . Robert Ebede, w110 wil c1'Üillenge CongoBrock Aè.ams; Lois North, Seattle housewife whohas a::nounced for the Legislature; and possiblyRobert Block who is considering a spot on thecounty's new legislative body if the charter pass-es . . . c:'!t:~ot!gh L1any veteran poiitical =o¡"cc~s~~rsrega¡',: Govc:rnor ¡:vans as pretty well sure of a

second term, it's stil no fun to have your manturned down at your own county conver.tion:That happened to the liberal-minded governor at. the Tl1u¡-ston county convention right i:i theGovernor's bac!~yard . . . St::te D:imo Clia:rIlanRcl;e¡-t ::1.11 also got a turn-down last weeT,end atOcean Shores when he tried to get approval for aS30,080 co:nputer installation at headq,-.arters . . .The party stil is beset with financial problems. . .Sa::e ¿!::ce: a rrove by former Demo State Chair.man Herb Legg got no place when he tried for adelegate reallocation to the national DemocraticConvention that would be more favorable to Mc-Carthy . . . seems as if even 'the :ircCarthy peopleçJidn't want it, after all! New Demo co¡-:ir to ;::ie:iyour eye on: Alan l.lunro, son of South DistrictCommissioner Ed :i:unro, who survved a t.lcCar::~~.majority to win the chairmanships of both thecounty and state platform committees draftingthe party's state platform at Alder.QQ.niMunro is a Humphrey supporter. . . Accor':b.g to rCo¡-rrissione¡- Jehn Spzllr,1::n, activities of the \freeholders, leaving the future of incumbentcounty offcials cloi;ded at the least, is keepingcandidates and money out of the race. Spellmansays he doesn't blame potential aspirants if theydecide against running twice! . , . The rejection bythe Den;.ocratic State Committee last week atOcean Shores of Initiative_224. is causing som~not.so-slow burns on thë part of both parties~cour.ty officic:ls. The measure, sponsored by th~,Washingto:1 Association of County Comirission.'1"" " tcan,fer 2 mil" of the "ate propert t"'\to t:-:e county and approved by members of bothparties, would pour $4,000,000 into King Countyalone. _ . .'--"-------_._---- /'

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1~"-~--F;e~'hoÎderSays CountyAides \lVill N9~d Pay

John L. Fournier, PublisherDear ~rr. Fournier:

I appreciated receiving a copyof your May 26, 1968, editorialwith respect to the preliminarydecision by the Board of Free-holders to recommend a nine-member legislative body de-signed to operate on a full-timebasis.

No one of the Freehoiders hasthe authority to speak for the

group, but I belie\'e that mypersonal beliefs on this matterare representative of those of

the majority of the board. Wesiiare completely your concernfor the effcient administration

of King County government onas economic a basis as isconsistent with responsiveness

to the people. I think that manyof us hoped as we began ourinvestigation of county govern-ments that perhaps a part-timelegislative body would be suff-cient, and that the salariesnecessary in order to attractcompetent people into full-timepositions of government couldbe saved. However, I becameconvincl'd after listening tomembers of legislative bodieswhich were full-time and part- ~ __ ..time that the part-time bodycould not perform functions ade-quately for a county of the sizeand nature of King County. Oneof the first things which appearsto happen to counties with part-time legislative boies is thedevelopment of overwhelmingpower in the hands of theadministrative officer, whetherhe is elected or appointed.Strong opinions have beenvoiced to us, principally from.the 'sùburb.an parts of King

. , - County,to the effect that the';- people wished to hav~ an electe~. representative with a suffi-

ciently small constituency that. lie could be considered "Theirrepresentative." ,

I believe that if the legislatorsare part. time, the representa-tion which they can give their

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constituents is severely limited.Assuming that the county execu-tive is to be elected (which I'also believe to be necessary andde5¡lab!~ fot King County), his

authority and effective power in :King County government would .be close to total. In brief, what I iam attempting to state âs my (belief is that, for the system of tchecks and balances to work, rthe components of the system tmust be of suffciently compara- thIe stature that one is not edominated by the other. d

As the scope and importance Sof county government grows, I bhope that the me!Tbe~s. of the C

legislative bOdy Will utilize well dthe opportunity they wil have to tJbecome well informed and effec- tJtive members of the county cgovernment. We have, as you \point out, an outstanding Port \ICommission We should be ex- rtremely grateful that men as rfine as the current members of ~that commission are willng to ~

donate their time.James N. O'Connor

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Aides \III! Need PayJohn L. Fournier, Publisher constituents is severely IimiDear Mr. Fournier: ~Ssuming that the county eXE' I appreciated receiving a copy tive is ,to be elected (whico~ your May 26, 1968, editorial als~ believe to be necessary,wlt~ Tespect to the preliminary deslra?le for King County),decision by the Board of Free- a~thority and effective powerhOlders to recommend a nine- King County government V;Ot

n:ember legislative body de- be Close to t?tal. In brief, whasigned to operate on a full-time am attemptlOg to state as nbasis. belief is that, for the systemNo one of the Freeholders has checks and balances to wor

the authority to speak for the the components. of the syste.group, but r believe that my mUst be of sufficiently cOI?par

personal beliefs On this matter ble . stature that one is nare representative of those of domlOated by the other.the majority of the board. We As the SCope and importantsÍ1are completely your concern- of County government grolls,for the effcient administration hope t~at the members of Hof King County government on legislative b?dy wil utílize WEas economic a basis as is the Opportu~ty they will have'consistent with responsiVeness ~ecome well informed and effe,to the people. I think that many tive members of the COuntof us hoped as we becran Our goyernmenL We' have, as ycinVestigation of County govern- polOt ?ut; an outstanding Po:ments that perhaps a part-time Commission We should be e¿legislative bOdy Would be suff, tremely grateful that men a

cient, and that the salaries fine as the current members (necessary in order to attract that comm.ïssi?n are willng t

competent people into full.time donate their tire.

positions of government Could James N. O'Connobe sayed. However, r became 1313 Washington Bldg.convinced after listening to Seattle, Wasr.me_mbers of legislative bodies ,/~hich were full-time and part. ~__,~_ _ _ :.tire that the part-time bodycOl1ld not perfonn functions ade-quately for a County of the size

and nature of King County. One

of the first things which appearst? happen to ~oUnties with part-time legISlative bodies is the

- development of overWhelmingpOwer in the hands of theadministrative offcer whetherhe is elected or appointed.Strong opinions have beenvoiced to us, principally fromthe suburban parts of KigCounty, to the effect that thepeople wished to have an elected'representative with a suff-ciently small constituency thatlie Could be considered "Theirrepresentative. "

I believe that if the legislators~re pa~t-tinie, the representa_

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By Our Count)' /lews BureauKing County Freeholders may seek the advice or

experts in the final stages of draftng the new countycharter.

Under discussion is the employment of John H.Donaho, Baltimore consultant, to assist in the finaldeliberations before they OK the charter for the ballotnext falL. Donaho, who has acted as midwife to 20 of 37charters that have gone to the voters in the United Statesin the past 15, years, maintains an offce in Olympiawhere he has been a frequent consultant employed on

. state governmental matters.

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of the county, with added

information to- m a k e it

more understandable.-A county em p 1.0 y e Sf

merit system.

-That some elective posi-tions be made appointiveand settling uncontested po-

. sitions in the primary vote,-A home rule charter

free of statutory law, an en.I a r g e d commission andstrong county executive.

A LEAGtiE guest madethe news yesterday, also.

Mrs. Odette Guitard, as-sistant professor at the Uni-versity of Aixen-Provence

" in France, here to speak at

Saturday's League ofWom-en Voters International Af.fairs Instiute, said she was"surprised" by the studentrioting in her native coun. '

try.

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B)' Our County News Bureau .King County Freeholders may .seek the advice of

experts in the final stages of drafting the new countycharter. -Under discussion is the employment of John H.

Donaho, Baltimore consultant, to assist in the finaldeliberations before they OK the charter for the ballotnext falL. Donaho, who has acted as midwife to 20 of 37charters that have gone to the voters in the United Stat~sin the past 15, yeais, maintains. an offce in Olympiawhere he has been a frequent consultant employed onstate governmental matters. ,,~

"The rioting took every-one by surprise - including

the students," she said,

THE cmi:\HJNIST stu~dent group was a stabilz-ing influence, she added,and termed the issues atstake in the rioting "ab-surd. "Mrs. Guitard wil take

over a post in August as thecuI t u r a 1 attache at theFrench embassy in Ghana.

She is the first woman tohold such a position in a'French embassy, /'~

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ing County Freeholders got their first look yester.

day at the preliminary draft of the County'S new charter.

They have been W

orking on it for six months. T

hedocum

ent wjJ be ready for distribution to interested

persons or groups after Wednesday.

If this first draft Survives without m

ajor changes, itw

ill go to voters Novem

ber 5, and, if approved, King

County w

jJ elect new governm

ent offcials February II,1969, fOllOWed by a special general election March 11.

King C

ounty will then inaugurate its first new

govern_m

ent since 185,3 on next May 1.

Before that, voters w

ill get their say on the propOsed

document in foul' public heatins SC

heduled tentativelyfor July 9, 17,23 and 31, P

aul Meyer, executive secretary

for the Board of Freeholders, announced.

The first w

j1 be held in the King C

ounty Courthouse

at 7:30 p.m. The other three wj1 likewise be evening

hearings at three suburban CO

unty locations.The charter draft calls for a board of nine county

comm

issioners acting as a legislative body who w

ill servefull time at a salary of $18,00 c.iinually. Discussion

yest1?rday centered about draft recomm

endations thatcom

missioners be selected by nine districts in contrast '

to three as at present, Also discussed W

as the desirabilityof redueting the propO

sed nine Com

missioners to seven or

possibly five.The County'S other presently elected offeil.ls wiU

all be ¡IPp,lilitive with the eX

ception of the assessor,WllO wil continUe to be elected. By state law, the

prosecuting attorney is required to be an eleeted

COunty offcial,

The charter draft also proposes that a new elective

.£fiecr be added to function as the COunty'S chief

xecutive at a s:ilary 1% ti;r.es that of the legislators.

Inder his Control W

Ould be the ;ippointm

cnt of allresently elected COunty offcials other than the assessor

id prosecutor and the Operation of aU line agencies

'ovidiiig direct services to the public.These agencies WOuld include a department of public

irks and transportation, public safety, public health

d welfare, record~

and elections, finance, public."V

ices and recrì' n, planning and zoning, assess-

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ments, and jU

dicial administration.

The charter draft also prOpses retention of the

newly created post of county administrator who

WOuld head up all staff services, InCluded WOUld be

an offce of budgets and accounts, personnel, data

processing, bUildings and property, and purehasing. ,

A new redistricting committee WOUld be created, the

charter draft proposes, to decide the question of

comm

issioner-district boundaries _ whether created

before Or after the charter is approved. K

ingCountyalso

WOUld function under a new personnel system complete

with a personnel board, director, and m

erit systemprohibiting Politcal activity to all county employes

except for state and federal political offces.P

rovisions for referendum, initiative and recall

procedure!; are likeWise SpelJed out in the new charter

draft which inC

lUdes, also, a citzens' service bureau _ a

concept properly referred to as an ombudsman, to

prOV

ide redress of citizens righ.ts against executivedecisions.

Pres t county O

fficials, in the first draft, wil be

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allOwed to serve out their present terms of offce.

Incumbent county com

missioners w

il serve as fulJm

embers of the legislative body; others (w

ith theeX

ception of the asseSSor who w

í/ retain his presentpow

ers) wí/ act as C

)e-officio staff mem

bers of theirrespective departm

ents.

Discussion yesterday centered around the creation of

nine comm

issioner districts . . and whether they shO

Uld

be carved out before or after the charter gains approvaL.

There is sentim

ent among som

e of the freehOlders to'

retain,the present three comm

issioner districts as they.are presenl.y aligned, w

ith three comm

issioners thus to,be elected from

each of the three rather than one fromeach of nine districts as the first charter draft calls for.

Freeholders also considered yesterday the question

of shifting the appointment of the county clerk aw

ay fromthe SUperior COurt as is called for in the first draft and

placing it in the hands of the county executive.FreehO

lders wil C

ontinUe their deliberations on the

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By Our County l'ews BureuuThe Board of King County

Freeholders Saturday an-nounced it had retained twoconsultants to assist in decisionsstil to be made on the countv'sproposed new charter_ -The first draft of the doc'J-

ment wil be available for publicscrutiny Friday.

Pending a final decision oncommissioner districts, theboard retained Raj Joshi at asalary not to exceed -$1,O~O to

draft proposed commissionerdistrict boundary lines on thebasis of nine commissioner dis-tricts, and alternate proposalsfor a fewer number.

The board also announced thehiring of John A. Donaho &Associates, Baltmore consult-ing firm, at a fee not to exceed$1,745. to work with the boarddurin¡ the next month. Donahois exp~cted to arrive in Seattlenext week to begin work ac-cording to' Paul 1\Iever e~ecu-

tive secretary of the bo~rd.Meyer also said a decision

would be announced soon on t.hedate of three public hearings tobe held In suburban locations toobtain public reaction to thecharter's first draft. One of thehearings wil be at a Valleylocation.

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j?reeholder Offers 'Other'Sidel in CO~Jnly-Pay Issue

: /~t í/Mr. John Fournier, Publisher'Dear :'lr. Fournier:

Editorials are the Spice of Life

I read with care your editorial entitled "A Kin~County Sugar-Plum Tree?" at the time it was publishecin the regular issue of your paper, )'lay 26, 1968. Likewise, I reread it upon your forwarding it to me for m~consideration.

I would like to submit to you some information thaiI feel might be of value and might give you cause to reconsider the judgment that was represented by thEeditoriaL. I think you must realize, John, that we did tanto many, many people across the United States in thE

, field of county government and the decision which ha~tentatively been made to adequately pay the legislativEcouncil of the county government was not made withoulsome justification.

In this regard, I suggest to you the City of SeattlE, pays its councilmen in a comparable position S15,00C

annually and expects them to devote full time. Kin~. County, with a population of 1,200,000, is larger in population than 15 of our states. Many of our states are no\\paying rather substantial salaries to legislators, a~

_ follows:New Jersey, $15,000: Massachusetts, $16,800; Pennsyl

vania, $24,000; ~ew York, $24,000; l\Iichigan, $25,000MuItnomah County, Oregon, pays its five commis-

sioners $18,000 annually and they are full-time legis.lators. ' .As to the executive salary which has been tentatively

set at $2ï,000, consider these comparisons:County Population SalaryWestchester County, New York 900,000, $40,950Duvall County, Florida 455,000 $30,000San Francisco County, California 740,000 $38,365Davidson County, Tennessee 463,000 $25,000

You suggest that the legislators of King County shouldbe non-salaried, in effect, because the Port Commissionis non-partisan non-salaried. Obviously the Port Commis-sion performs a very limited function in comparison to acounty or city. Secondly, the Port Commissioners areonly on a part-time basis, all holding substantial jobsotherwise. It was the feeling of the Freeholders that itwas most desira ble to have the legislators of King Countyoperating and available to perform their public functionat all times and impose upon the legislative body certainfunctions which are now being handled by other non-;alaried commissions. If we were to accept part-time:egislators, obviously the salary could be reduced. How-~ver, we believe good government warrants full-time3ttention.

Please give some consideration to the findings of theFreeholders based on the tremendous hours that wereput in by them trying to determine what is the directionin count)' government elsewhere across these UnitedStates. A vast body of material has been assembled by theFreeholders on which to base a new charter. This materi-al is available in their office in the King County Court-house and has been carefully considered by them.

Prejudgment of a single tentative decision of thisgroup without the benefit at leastof the first draft of thecharter may not give full opportunity to full, fair andcomplete analysis of the end product.

James P_ Curran,King County Freeholder,Kent, Wash.\,

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By Our County News BureauThe Board of King County

Freeholders Saturday an-'nounced it had retained twoconsultants to assist in decisionsstil to be made on the countv'sproposed new charter. -The first draft of the docu-

ment wil be available for publicscrutiny Friday.

Pending a final decision oncommissioner districts, theboard retained Raj Joshi at asalary not to exceed Sl,OOO to

draft proposed commissionerdistrict boundary lines on thebasis of nine commissioner dis-tricts, and alternate proposalsfor a fewer number.

The board also announced thehiring of John A. Donaho &Associates, Baltimore consult-ing firm, at a fee not to exceed$1,745. to work with the boarddurinl the next mon~h_ Donahois exp..cted to arrive in Seattle

next week to begin work, ac-cording to' Paul l\Ieyer, execu-tive secretary of the board.Meyer also said a decision

would be announced soon on thedate of three public hearings tobe held in suburban locations toobtain public reaction to thecharter's first draft. One of thehearings wil be at a Valleylocation.

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~O wi-"ie r~ISE~ U L ll t:.t~:). r. . .- ..lEDITOR.f :-lO/E/Folio..ing is

the third in a series on King Count)'Fn'eholders and their efforts todraw up å satisf:i('tol)' count).charter to be presented to thevoters for their approvaL. The

writer. ~Irs. Amyes, is offcialobserver for the League of WomenVoters of Seattle at theFreeholders' sessions.)

BY MRS. EVELVj\ ..UIVESThe Board of Freeholders has

held more than 30 public meetingsor public hearings to date, in orderto gather information on what

might be included in the charter,and then to cnme to preliminarydecisions. -l These tentativeagreements viii enable the staff toassemble a first draft of thedocument.

This wil make it possible to seeeach section in relation to thewhole. as discussions leading to thenext draft are held.

Many of the hearings weredevoted to the offcers of the

present county departments and

divisions. The visiting official wasgiven an opportunity to present ashort statement in which'he wouldoutline for the Freeholders the

work for which his department wasresponsible, how it was organized,

the size of its yearly budget. the

number of its employees, and whatchanges, if any, he would like to seein the structure of go'.'ernment

relating to his department.Following the report, or

sometimes interrupting it, anyFreeholder present was allowed toask any question he thoughtpertinent. to help clarify ths facet

of governmental organization.Al of the elected offcials of the

county except the judges and theprosecutor appeared before theFreeholders. Those offcials were

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exempt because their position~cannot be changed or madeappointive by the charter.However. two deputies of theprosecutor did appear. Others whoappeared before the board were abud get d ire c to r for thecommissioners, two former budget

directors, the property ag,cnt. the'purchasing agent. the manager ofKing County Airport. the managerof Seattle-Tacoma Airport.Freeholders also heard the

county engineer. the director of thesanitation department. the'planning director, thesuperintendent of the ParkDepartment, the superintendent ofschools, representatives of some ofthe many special districts, the'director of public health. andothers.

For one meeting, all of theFreeholders went to Portland totalk with the Multnomah County

Commissioners and others active incounty government there. Until theadoption, less t1lan two years ago,of its home rule charter,l\Iultnomah Countv's structure, lik~Kig County's, wãs litte changedfrom the pattern set in the oldOregon territorial days. '

By going to Portland. theFreeholders as a group were able totalk directly with the people whohad been most involved ..ith thewriting. adoption, and subsequentadmnistration of a home rulecharter in a neighboring state very

simI:r to our own.

This trip was one of the twoinstances when the unpaidFreeholders have charged anypersonal expenses to the county.

The total expenses. including travel dand meals, for all fifteen!Freeholders for that trip was 7'.than $200.

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Snohomish County freeholders in the Freeholders on the worJ;last night voted tentatively to in- of his offce.

crease the size of the board of The discussion of the legislacounty commissioners. tive body wi! continue at thEUnder the preliminary plan next m~eting of the freéholden

, ..... ' next Wednesday at 7:30. ThEt?e mitial mcre~se wou!d. be to sessions, held at the Agricultun.five members with provisions to building, are open to the public.'enlarge the body with population ' ' _ d'_____,growth up to a maximum of

nine.

! Prevailing opinion was that,'the present three-member board,is too small to provide adequaterepresentation for a county of

nearly a quarter millon people.

The freeholders also felt thework load of the county legisla-tive body would grow rapidlyduring the next few decades.

The r e was also informalagreement at last night's meet-ing that the new county chartershould provide the county with

the broadest powers possibleconsistent with the state consti-tution.The freeholders met Wednes-

day night with representativesof the Snohomish - Island Coun-

, ty Fire Commissioners Associa-1i tion. Ed Garner, executive sec-jretary of the State Association

'told the board that there pro~ably should be some reductionthough consolidation in the-nUmber of fire districts in thecounty, but he expressed strong

,opposition to the concept of a:single county fire district~

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!;",r¡",. ('f !l1!('St!nriS ?'1å ari,w"r~ iri,iir", !lnt 'i"-i1ifj,,:1 ("H)rli.1~t..,,! \"id, )'.r::1r.1 In mil,t departmentdesigned to inform Everett vul-¡ ere e!ect~d. The voter decides! heads. . .1ers on the provisions of the fre I the fnte of any Îorm of govern- i Tiie excep~ions include theholder charter proposal to be mcnt. city attorney, whose appoint-yoted on June 25. Q, Has ilie mayor he en givcn nwnt is made by the mayor and

Q. Does ihis new ch~rter In- more or less authority under thl'll conrirmed by the cou.n~i!, andsure the vpters of effective guv- propo,ed charter? the newly created position ofernml'nt? A. \'.ït1i regard to selection of ¡ chief administrative assistant,, A. In a single word, No: ,There department heads, the mayor i whose appointment or dismissalis on form of government, or wil have - with two important I also must receive council ap-

charter or constiution that can' exceptions - the right to ap-I proi'al.guarantee this. The charter can point or remove department With regard to financial ~at-serve only as a format for good heads, subject to Civil Service' l('r~, the mayor has been given

_ government. It is the ta,s~ of the p~-o:'isions covcring spe.ci~ic in-Ile~s control in th~t, the council. '~-~ to take_ ~ responsibile ~~~~ I divid.lI~IS., The c~mmiss~ncrs. i ~\t~!~lle~~~d O;/~Ii~di:~~~-o~~dlt

. . --' present tlie comm,osioncrs es-tablish their budget and thenpass on it. -

Q. \Vhy was it necessary io es-tablish the post of adminis-trative assistant to the mayor?A. With complcxities of mod-

ern municipal government, par-ticularly in an area where the

i economy and popul~tion .are, booming, it would be impossiblet for one man - the mayor - to -. keep close touch on all details of

the city's operation. Because ofthis the freeholders included a

pro~ision in the charter to per-

mit the mayor and council to ap-point such an individual, one

trained in municipal govern-ment, to assist the mayor.

Q, Why did the freeholderssette on a full-time appointed

city at.orney rather than having f,him elected? v

A, Again, the complexities of 1;modern municipal government L-requires that the city have fulltime access to competent legal ¡aid, His appointment is made by fthe mayor and confiri:ed by the ~counciL. The salary will be nego- .

tiated. Making the position ap- :pointive helps_to insure that the .

'. city wil have a c?mp~tent legal 1'aid and not an individual who

won a popularity race,Q, What qualiications have

been established for various de-partment heads?

A: With the exception of thecity attorney, who must. b~ amember of the association,and the city engineer, who mustbe a reC1istered engineer, no spe-cific q~alifications have beenplaced on any department head.It is assumed that the mayor,

seekinC1 to establish an effective

team to administer municipalaffairs, wil pick qU,aliied indi-

.viduals to head various depart-ments. For example, the man'who heads the water depart-

- ment need not necessarily bei'an 'encrineer so long as he is a

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question the County Board of prosecutor or some other de- signature requirements for. Freeholders wil study be- partment would call an in- placing a referendum on the

fore completing a charter, it quest under those circum- baIlor.was decided last night. stances. The staff was asked to

. - _ Under the proposed char- draft alternative redistrict-.'tel', the sheriff and coroner F R E E H 0 L D E R S are ing provisions for considera-- both would report to the di- trying to wind up their delib- tion. One would allow therector of public safety. But erations on the preliminary county commissioners to re-

. Don McDonald, Freeholder, charter draft within a week. draw boundaries, giving the: contended this would put the But they remain uiisettled on job to a special commission,public-safety department in two other questions. On ein- if they failed. The other'the position of investigating valves the creation of auto- would assign the work di-itself if a death involved a matic machinery to redraw rectly to a special commis:,deputy sherif. çounty commissioner elec- sion. ,//~

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pl:ct' rt'ferendt:m and initia-tive measurèS on the ballotwere red:.i:e¿ !:is! night bytilt Count\' BOJrd of free-holders. but some frt'ehold-crs belie\"~ the board did notgo far enollbh.

The board is in the finalst:iges of putting together apreliminary draft of a coun-

ty charter. It plans to com-

plete thè work tomorrownighLR'Jbi:t Eberle and Don

:\kDunald kd the battle toreduce the sigii;otur§ require-ment for rderenàums andinitiatives.

THE FREEHOLDERSagreed to change the b,1sl:for obtaining signaturL's so

the requirement is lessened.The number of signatures

required wil be 10 per centof the number of votes castfor a county executive incour.t\. elections inst2:id of 10

per cènt of tli:i r.umber castfor governor.

The governor's race drew400.000 votes in 1964. Al-though it. cannot be predictedhow many votes wil be ,castfor the new position of COlm-

ty eXècutin-, freeholders es-

timated it would be ab'Jut200.()OO. '- Lea\'ing the siguatiire rE'-quirement at 10 per centwould mean siznatures at~O.OOO reg is t ere d ,'ote..s

- \I"otild ha\'~ to be obtained toolace a reterenèuin or initia-tive on the ballot.

Eberle urged the r;'quire-ment be 2 or 3 per cent.

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appoint a committee to re-district county-commissionerdistricts automatically. but

did agree to put téeth intothe redistricting r e qui r e -mcnt.

The staff is to make re-commendations on how toestablish a committee" Thepropo~ed chartE'r tentativelycalls for the chief executi'~e

to appoint one every fiveyears.

A number of freeholdersbelieve an ad hoc committeeof prominent persons or aspecial m:ister should be ap-pointed to reduce politicalconsiderations,

Freeholders did agree thatthose responsiblC for finallvadopting 'new b a un d a r ie's

. should have their pay sus-pended il' the did not do sowith;n 30 days after nt:wboundaries \\'ere presented.

King County Freeholderslast night voted that thebuilding inspection fun c-tion be removed from theDepartment of Planning inthe proposed county charterand established in a sep-arate Dep3.rtment of theBuilding.. It was pointed out thatthe volume of building per-mits now issued by thecounty is so great that a

s e par ate department isneeded.

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THE FREEHOLDERSalso approved a proposalthat the language of thecharter be amended to sub-stitute County Assessor forthe Department of Assess-ments. Under the charter,the assessor wil be elected

by the voters.They also voted, six to

four, to exempt "up to fourchief d e put y assessors"from the personnel system. or classifed sen'ices setup by the charter. Instead

, they wil be subject to gen-'"eal law provisions govern-

i n g assessment personnelpractices.

The freeholders set thefirst public hearing on thecharter for July 7. Before

that they wil meet withJohn Don a h 0, Baltimore Iconsultant. who wil put thecharter in final shape for ,I'the November ballot. ,/'/ . /

THEY ALSO agreed thecharter should specify thatdistricts be contiguous andcompact but defeated a pro.posal to require that popula- ition in districts not vary ~more than 5 per cent fromthe norm" Instead, the char-ter will state that the popula-

tions must be approximatelyequal.. Freeholders agreed thatthe charter wil anow, butnot require, collective bar-

gaining wit h county em-ployes, jThere is some question on

what state law requires inthis area. .The charter \'.ill say that

the countv commissionersmay assun;e or delegate the Iauthority to be bargaining iagent ..- ,

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For 20 years Wa5hinoton coun- iions and writing of warrants. Theties have 'been grantedbthe s:ime real auditing of a county's busi-right of home rule as cities al- nrss is done by the state Auditor's

ready enjoy, yet none of the 39 office, he said.counties in the state has taken ad- What are the advantages, Ù any,van:age of it. Today King, Sno- of a tome rule county govern-homisli and Clark Counties are ment?considering it. Mainly efficiency, Meyer said.

King County ,tried to set up a "We no\\ have nine elected chiefsnew charter in the 2-year period in the county including three coun-ending in 1952, when voters re- ty commissioners. All are inde-jected it at the polls. p~nctent of each other. It is very

Authority for such a charter is difficult to plan county businessprovided in the 2Ist amendment to and budget, purchasing or person-the state constitution, promoted by nel programs. Under the new.the State Grange and adopted in charter they would have the same1948. county personnel program for all

It calls for county-wide election departments, under civil service.of 15 to 25 freeholders or regis- There would be a director of per-tered voters, with 5-year residence sonnel to assist the board in set-in the county, to draft a charter ting . ~tandards of employment,for a new form of county govern- quaIifications,.tenure and employ-ment to replace the present com- ee rights."bination of three commissionersand other elected officials.

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KING COUNTY is well into thecharter-drafting process and aboard of 15 freeholders wiI pre-sent the document for adoption by. the voters in November. Snoho-mish County elected its freehold-ers in February and Clark Countyreportedly is considerina similaraction. '"

The main outlines of the pro-posed charter have been described

to Grange News by Paul R. Mey-er, executive secretary to theboard of freeholders. He is a for-mer executive assistant to theState Association of County Com-missioners. The association hastaken no position on home rule asyet but is waiting to see how thè

King and Snohomish County pro-posals work out, Mr. Meyer said.Tentatively the King County

charter would create a checks-and-balances form of governmentwith leeislative functions in thehands of a se\'en-member board ofcommissioners, each representinga separate district and elected on

a partisan ballot.Administrative functions would

be vested in an executive officerelected at large. He would haveveto power over measures ap-prove? by the legislative body butthey In turn could override with

a two-thirds majority vote.

50:\lE OFFICIALS n~w elected,such as sheriff and auditor, wouldbecome appointI\'e by the legisla-tors. The assessor would remainelective.

Mr. Meyer answered criticismof an appointive auditor by sayina,that the county auditor is not ;

policy making offcer but a "book- _ .1.keeper" whose functions includerecord keeping. issuance of licens-

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ANOTHER advantage would beto give the county many decision-making powers which now restwith the Legislature only, Meyersaid. In one instance a county hadto lobby a bil through the Leais-

lature in order to obtain autho~ity

for naming a county par.k, he ex-plained. "The charter would freestate legislators from a host oflitle details relating to counties,"

he said. "At the 1967 session, for

example, there were about 600bils directly or indirectly relating

to counties. At least 300 probably

could have been eliminated if allcounties were under home rule." .

All elective county offcers canbe made appoiiltive under a home:ule charter except the prose cut-ing attorney, superintendent ofschools and jud-es, Meyer said.Most other county offcers don'rset policy but merely performmangement functions, he said.

There is an "emotional fear thattaxes wil be doubled" if assessorsare appointed, Meyer said, addingthat this is groundless because theactu3.1 tax depends on the milagerate which is set by administra-tors, not assessors.

WHAT ABOUT rural represen-

tation in the legislative body un-

der the Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote rule?

In metropolitan counties it mightbe necessary to make a pie-shapeddistricting with adjoining city andrural or suburban areas within thesame districts, Meyer said. Insuch cases the city voters wouldmake the decisions. It might workout, on the other hand, that theapportionment would create en-tirely separate city and rural dis-tricts, or the present three countycommissioner districts mi-ht beretained.

Meyer said 40 counties havethus far adopted home rule chart-ers in the United States. The

movement is away from presentQ\;er-complex governmental forms,he said.

"There must be a clearer sep-aration of legislative and execu-

tive powers than we now have,"he declared.

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BEHIND the smokescreen or aproposed "refoff1" of - t hisstate's gi-and-jury system lies thedanger of weakening what thelate Senator Kefauver once called"a weapon which is closer to thepeople than any other instrumentof j iistice."

A i P e ci a I committee oj theStale Judicial Council ij urgingtTzai grand jurie3 be emFaneled iiiE'Cr;' county at least once a year.All u:ell and good. That recom-mendation has ImbstalllÏal merita& (l mCl!ll-5 of proi;idiltg morl:

effecfii'c assÎslunce to law enforce.ment in cur-biii;; crime, particll.larl)' that o/the "orgmii;;mr f;/J'riety.

But in its next breath, thecommittee mistires badly. It also

- recommends that grand-jury re-sponsibilties be confined to thecriminal field. As Dean Leo .1,O'Brien of the. Gonzaga LawSchool, committee chairman, andhis colleagues see it, the jury'swatchdog function to explore non-criminal matters should be left toothers-the state auditor. or somekind of ombudsman's offce.

HISTORICALLY, grand - juryinvestigations here have fuJ-filed 1\';0 vital tasks - not onlygathering evidence in situationssuggesting criminal violations,but criticizing public offcialswhose conduct, while not war-ranting criminal indictments.amounts to laxity, dereliction orneglect.

The existing system is in needof overhauL. That is why the Judi-cial Council undertook its studyat the behest of the Legislature.One improvement would be to es-tablish further safeguards a6ainstunwarranted innuendo3 involv-

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ing innocent persons involved ingrand-jury investigations. It isworth noting that a new state lawnow provides that \vitnesses mayhave their attorneys accompanythE:m into closer: grand.jury hear-ings,

ANOTHER needed change is toestablish more clearly theauthority for grand juries to issuereports commenting upon themanner in which officeholdersare discharging their trust.

After (I King Couflty grandjury ~repped 011 ~()ml' sf:,lsiril'l:políticrd tOI1$ iii an ini'e.~iigafhm

rim yenr~ agQ, ",ere dri'eloped iiiOl)'flpin a move to cripplp tit..t:riwcl.jury 6)'SrCm b)' limirillf; if"reportin¡: poi"'ers. FOl'tllUatr:y, (Jjii"y'~'atgin¡; bil irr.~ riefeared.

But the Judìcial Council's spe-cial committee now \vould grieven further, depriving the publicaltogether of its right to havegrand juries scrutinize the Rd-ministration of local-governmentaffairs, unless criminal violationswere involved.

SEVERAL years ago, New YorkState grand juries similarlywere stripped of many of theirpO'vers. The result was so dis-,astrous that public indignationresulted in a restoration or thesystem under which juries maymake presentments against of-ficeholders without indicting themfor crimes.

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asked today to order TheBoeing Co." to proceed witharbitration in its disputewith the count\' over ll'ntalchargi:d for - property inleases at Boeing Field.

James E. Kennedy, chiefcivil deputy pro see u tor,asked the court to dismissBoeing's ch~iiienge W thecounty's request for arbitra-tion_ A hearing was expectedto be set for 2: 30 p. m. Fri-day before Judge LloydShorett.

Since last Jul\', the countvand Boeing ha\:e been negó-tiating on rental paymentsfor 5.4 million square feet ofspace at the airport. Thecounty originally requested~8-13,i12-a-\'ear rental. Boe-ing now p-ays SI36.704.

BOEING CONTENDS therourt should prevent arbitra-tion because the countyfailed to give it a written re-

quest for renegotiation of the

lease.Kennedv said that a writ-

ten reauést was made morethan 30 days before the rene'gotiation period began July1, 1967.

He also said the relief re-quested by Boeing would bein \o;olation of the State Con-stitution and laws, that thecompany is in breach of thelease, and that Boeing isasking to pay in rent lessthan it would pay in proper-

ty taxes.

Kennedy also said Boeingbreached the lease by engag-ing in business as an oilcompany without obtaining alicense or permit from theairport manager. failed tomake reports of fuel a.ctivitvto the airport manager, andsublet paiis of the leasedproperty \\'ithout knowledge

of the county.

nlE COUNTY has a suitpending against the TexacoCo. and the Inland Transpor-

tation Co. to recover $ï92,OOO

in ('haJ'~es on aviation fueldeliverecl to Boeing at theairport.

Kennedy contended thecount\' is bound b,' law totake "into account" the fairmarket \'alue of propátywhen readjusting the rentalunder the 7:-vear lease. Hesaid Boeing prop(lses to payL.lì3ij cents for each squarefoot of ground, including im-provements."By contrast," Kennedy

dtclared, "the taxes for the

bare ground alone. as shownby the assessor's recordsand the affidavit of the chiefdeputy assessor . . . wouldbe 2.28G9 cents per squarefoot, or approximately half

again as much as petitionerproposes to pay in rent."

KEN NED Y SAID tJi;jtmuch of the area is coveredwith concrete and that taxeson a paved area would beabout 4.19 cents a squarefoot.Kennedv said the county

hilS learnèd that Boeing sub-let parts of the leased prop-

ertv to Western Hotels In-duštries Services, Inc., with-out permission_ He said thatthrough d i s co\' e i' y proce-dures in its suit on the fuelcharges, the county lean1edthat Boeing. has engaged inthe oil-company business atBoeing Field sinte 1959.

Boeing Aicle taudsRapid Road BuildiiigDespite highway-building

progress. "growth continueswith no ktiip in sight," JohnO. Yeasting, senior vicepresi.dent of The Boeing Co..said here today.

"M 0 rework miist bedone," Yeasting said. "Ourattention must be directed totraffic needs across Lake'Vashington . . . Planningmust be underway for thePuget Sound area."

Yeasing spoke at a lunch-eon at the Hvatt Hoiisemarking opening" or the Fos-ter interchange. a one-mile

con n e c t ion between thtFreewav and tl'e DuwamisliRiver (nterchange or High-way 99.

Linda Andrews, Seafairqueen, offcially opened the

S3-millon link by snipping aribbon ncar the Interstate :;end of the connection abol't11: 13 a. m. today.

Besides Yeasting, othersattending the brief ceremonyincluded Charles G. Prahl,state director of highways:

Thomas M. Forsythe, Tuh"wi-la city councilman; Repre-

sentatives Avery Garrett andGary Grant of the 4ïth Dis-trict, and John N. Rupp, amember of the Sta~e High-way Commission.

The opening of this inter-change "wil mean a signifi-cant time savings for em-ployes traveling both north

and south in this area,"Yeasting said. It wil be par-tic u i a r I y important forBoeing employes assigned tothe supersonic,transport pro-

gram at the DevelopmentalCenter. he said.Yeasting- praised the State

Highway Department forswift work in developinghigh\\a~'s to serve the newBoeing-i.l¡ assembly plant atEverett. The Casino RoadFreeway wil link the plant\\;th Interstate ~ by year's

end, Yeasting said,Yeasting also commended

highway officials for thecompletion of the' inter-change along Interstate 405that speeds traffc move-ment near the Boeing Ren-ton plants.

1~

C" " . D' , l

.~ n

eyon

TKing Cou'nty commission-

ers are not bound- to accept

the Stadium 'Commission's

reco

mm

cnda

tion

of a

site

'fo

r th

e m

ultip

urpo

se d

omed

stadium - but they proba-

bly wilL.

John O'Brien and John

Spellman yesterday threw

cold

wat

er o

n ho

pes

rais

edby Ed Munro,

Mun

ro h

ad s

airl

the

coun

-ty

com

mis

sion

ers

coul

d re

-fer the recommendation

back to the Stadium Com-

mission for "further inves-

tigat

ion.

"

But

O'B

rien,

a m

embe

r of

the Stadium Commission,

said he sees no reason to

hold up the decision unless

the consultants request a

dela

y.

AN

D S

pellm

an, a

noth

erm

embe

r, s

aid

he w

ould

vot

efor a delay "only if some-

one

com

es u

p w

ith $

25 m

il-lion or so for parking and

. acc

ess

faci

litie

s."

Bot

h ha

ve p

revi

ousl

y ex

-pr

esse

d th

eir

belie

f tha

t the

'county commissioners are

requ

ired

by th

eir

orig

inal

resolution to accept the Sta-

~ N

Sea

tte P

o~t-

Tnt

~m

gcnc

cr T

UM

" :r

UM

i- ~

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JOH

N O

'BR

IEN

See

s no

rea

son

to d

elay

dec

isio

n

ED

MU

NR

O

Hinted at "further investigation"

JOHN SPELLMAN

Vot

e hi

nges

on

$25

mill

on

dium

Com

mis

sion

's s

ite r

e-co

mm

enda

tion.

The Stadium Commission

meets at. 11 a.m. today,

with

the

decl

ared

inte

ntio

nof reaching a decision on

the

,rec

omm

ende

d si

te,

Consultants retained by

the

com

mis

sion

hav

e re

-co

mm

ende

d So

uth

Park

,

Central Asociation, Great-

er Sea t tIe and Seattle

Cha

mbe

r of

Com

mer

c e

have

all

aske

d th

at th

e de

ci-

sion be delayed to allow

mor

e st

udy

of o

ther

site

s,B

UT

TH

E C

ity C

ounc

il,

F5

r1¡~=-I a",' r:¡:iw

~ ~u /Q 0

. .es

peci

ally

Sea

ttle

Cen

ter,

The co u nty commission-

ers' resolution authorizing

the

~40

mill

ion

stad

ium

bond issue, approved by

vote

rs F

eb. 1

3, s

ays

in p

art:

,'The c 0 u n t v shall ac-

quire

, con

stru

ct a

nd e

qui;i

am

ultip

urpo

se p

ub 1

i c

sta-

dium

on

a si

te w

ithin

the

coun

ty to

be

reco

mm

ende

d'by the Washington State

Stadium Commission."

Spel

lman

sai

d ye

ster

day.

that if the county commis-

sioners do not accept the

Sta

dium

Com

mis

sion

's s

itere

com

men

datio

ns im

med

i-ately, they would have to_

refe

r it

back

for

mor

e do

cu-

men

tatio

n or

an

alte

rnat

ive

site

rec

omm

enda

tion.

WH

AT

WO

ULD

hap

per

ifC

0 u

n t

y co

mm

issi

oner

sas

ked

the

Sta

dium

Com

mis

-'si

on to

take

ano

ther

look

at

its sit e recommendation

and

it ca

me

back

with

the'

same one?

i\'ru

nro

said

, grin

ning

: ."W

e do

n't n

eces

sari

lyha

ve to

bui

ld a

sta

dium

."B

ut M

uilo

is n

ot c

onsi

d-er

ed li

kely

to r

ejec

t th~

Sta

- '

dittm Commission'.; recom-

men

dati"

n, p

artic

ular

ly if

itis

for

the

Sout

h Pa

rk s

itefa

vore

d by

the

cons

ulta

nts.

,That site is .in Munro's

dist

rict

.A

nd h

e fa

ce~

re-

elec

tion

in N

ovem

ber.

(EDITOR'S 1\OTE: Follo..ing is County Freeholders, giving theiithe fourth in a series 011 King dpiamic opinions of what count)

County Freeholders and their government is and should be.

efforts to draw up a satisfactory Attending the same !'ationalcounty charter to be presenteJ to Conference were four offcials 01the voters for their appro\'al. The Washington County, Oregon. Theywrttr, Mrs. Amyes, Is offcial had been instrumental in theobsa'ier for the League of Women franung and later adnnistrtio;i 01Voters of Seattle at the the recently adopted charter forFreholders'sNs!ons.) th county. They related their

By MRS. E\ 'EL YN AMYES ex¡ riences in another FreeholderThe limited budget of the mee;ng. \

Frehólders has not allowed them Vinen Mr. DJr.0ho, management

to visit offcials in other counties, consultant from raltmore, was innor to bring many expert to Seatte Seattle to give a lecture" hi;

for consult.tion. So far, a total of addressed the Freeholders. Mr.les than $200 has been spent by the Donoho made a comprehensiveFreeholders to reimburse survey of King County governmentconsultants for their expenses in for the Comnussioners ten years

traveling to Seattle, and no ago.consultant i. _. ~harged a fee. The freeholders have listened,

However, duri.g the six months al, to the wishes of the citizens ofthe Freeholders have heen Kig County. They have held fourmeeting, other organizations h:n'e public hearngs. These differ fro'nheld conferences and ha,'e brought public meetings in tha( the pub ie

county officials (nationally may USTEN at a meeting, hut mayrecgnized as outstading) to the TALK at a hearing. 'Northwest as, speakers or To insure the best possibleparcipant~. '1'!e Freeholders have attendance by making the hearingstaken ad'iar,tage of their presence, convenient for the public, they have

- meetiD3 \,-¡th them to exchange been held in four different places in(l vlev's or. what can or should be the county. One was in Seattle, one

10ne in count). modernization. in Bellevue, one in Kent, and oneJCN Mr. Hillenhrand, director of the in Shoreline. The meetings w"re

. :ational Association of County publicized in the 'papers. butùiicials, and ì\1r. Allen, c!airmafi written notices were also mailed to

,7Ille, ,-of the Tororito ¡,Ie ¡Op0litan tie more than 250 organizationsIt Council, attenc!ed ~he Pacific and individuals who had expressed

Lutheran University Conference on interest in being heard.County Government. They met These included. among others,with the Freeholders while at that civic servce organizations, politicalconference. On another day, many parties, legislators, governenta

Frholders attended lie all-day organizations withn the' county,

semnar on county government lahor unions, and community clubs.held at the University of Though each hearing had an

, Washington. anounced subject, no personrl The NaJonal Confeil"\nc of attending Vr~ho 'n1shed to speak on

/ County Offcers held recer:.ly at the another pertnent topic was

Olympic Hotel, brought to Seattle refused.

Mr. Michaelian, executive of The topic for the first hearigWestchester County, New York; was the legislative function, for theMr. Gleason, executive of secnd was the chief executiveMultnomah County, Oregon, and function. The personnel system was

(S Mr. McDonald, member of the the topic for another hearing. ThePresident's Board of establishment of functionalt"'---Intergovernmental Relations. departents, and the question of',

¡., ' These men met with a combined appointing versus election of';-,) \ grup of both King and Snohonush department heads was the topic of -

-. - ;;7irst may?r-c?un( -- Ì3~th ~;~.ii;~'sv"i;Cl'the aircraft , r. _.. ~n "ID ~ve~ett s _hlstOl faltered shortly after it took off , í

follo\\ino o.erwhelming a from the airport at nearby Ful-proval of the freehold. lerton accordin" to Samuelcharter proposal Tues~ay. Stewm-t 32 a m~chanic at theThe vote was 3,802 in f. a' port' ,

vor.and 40? against. IrSt . t sa'd the plane touch.Five minutes after tl ewar i .

POlls closed on the peci; ed ground, ~nd one engine seem-s ed to regain power. The craft

climbed to about 500 feet. Stew-art said the pilot then tried totun toward the side of the deadengine, apparently intending toenter the airport traffic patternfor a landing. .

"The ship stalled, rolled overon its back and spun right intothe ground," Stewart said.Witnesses reported the fallng

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By Our County News BureauThe public wil have its first chance to speak out on

the new county charter July 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the KingCounty Courthouse. .

Paull\Icyer, executive secretary of the King County

Freeholders, said Friday the first draft of the charter hasbeen completed and will be in printed form ready for thefirst of three public hearings.

'Ivo other hearings in suburban locations have beenscheduled for July 23 and 31, but meeting places have notbeen selected, he said. One of these hearings will giveValley residents an opportunity to tell freeholders whatthey like and what they don't like about their history-making effort.' ,

, . If the charter is approved November 5, King Countywil have its first all new form of government in itshistory next May 1.

Printed copies of the first draft of the charter areav~i1able to interested persons and organizations, Meyerssaid. They may be obtained in Room 905 in theCourthouse.~-----. - ./

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The public w

ill have its first chalice to spcak ou! onthe new

county charter July 17 at 7:30 p.m. ¡II till K

iiigCounty CourUiouse. .

Paul M

eyer, executive secretary or the King C

ountyF

reeholders, said !"riday Uie first draft or the charter has

been completcd aiid w

il be in printcd rorm ready for the

first of lIl1'e public hearings.'1\1'0 oiher heariiigs iii suburban lot:ations have been

sclwdiih'u I'lli' .liily 23 aiid :11, bill ineeling places have 1I0t

bi'en sd,'Cii'iI, he said. O

iie of Utesc heariii¡:s w

ill giveV

alli'y I''sidi'iits aii oppurtuiiily 10 tell freeholdcrs whal

lI11Y Iiki' aiiil w

hal tliey doii'l like about Uieir history-

m;ikiiig i'Hurl. '

il (hi' diarl"r is appl'ved Novt'm

ber 5, Kiiig C

ountyw

ill havi' its first all III'W form

of goveriineiil iii itshislory IiI'xl !\Iay i.

Priiillu copii's of the first dnifl of the charter areavailable lu hitert'stetl pen.oiis anti organizatioiis, M

eyerssaid. T

liey may be oblaiiied iii !toom

905 iii theC

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lection New

son Page 4A)

Politicians old and newbeg a n scram

bling thism

orning to organize forcesfor the first mayor-council

election in Evcrett's history

following overw

helming ap-

proval of ihe freeholder

charter proposal Tuesday.

The vole w

as 3,802 in fa-vor and 409 against.

Five m

inutes after Ihepolls closed on the special

. .-;

eleelion to decide whether a

strong mayor-council gov.

ermnent w

ould 'lake o\'erfrom the commission' form

in Decem

ber, candidates be-gan announcing their inlen-tion to scek offce in Sep.

tcmber and :-ovem

ber.Candidates for mayor an-

nouncing early includcd A.

F. Alcxander, pres"nt safely

commissioner and mayor

who w

il seek the new strong

mayor's role. He wil be op-

posed by C. Arvid Johnson,

freeholder mem

ber and for-m

er mayor and com

mission.

er. Johnson announced his

intention to seek the offcebefore returns had been reo

ceived from m

ore than fiveprecincts.

Also app.irently in the

race are Dr. W

illam L

ucas,chairm

an of the board offreeholders, and State Sen.

August iIardesich. N

eitherhave m

ade statements as to

.'

their intention to seek thenew

mayor's post, but both

have been mentioned in nu-

merous circles as possible

candidales. School board

membcr Robcrt Anderson

also has been mentioned as

a possible candidale.

At least one other m

embei

of lhe freeholder board ha,

indicated that he will seet-

eleclion as a mem

ber of lli~new

seven-man part-tim

~counciL. T

om C

allahan, long1

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ii

time E

verett resident, an.. 'l9U

n('ed aft';r" the polls, dosed that he w

ould fie in,S

eptember for P

osition NO

.1on the new city counciL.

At least five other memo

bel'S of the freeholder board

h a ve privately indicated

that they would seek council

positions.Filing opens M

onday, July29 for the city's primary

cleclion on Sept. 17. Prima-

ry survivors wil square off

on Tuesday, N

ov. 5.While voting in Tuesday's

election was com

parativelylight, ,it follow

ed the trendestablished in the originalfreeholder election when

voters created the board bya vole of better than eight toone.

Votin g In every city

precinct ran heavily in favorof the charter proposaL. In

no precinct was there m

orethan 30 votes in opposition tothe m

easure which called

for complete overhaul of the

city government

establishedin 1912.

Everett's city commis.

sioners wil operate city

government until Dec. 5

when the new mayor and

council wil be sworn into of-

fice. Section 17 or the newcharter provides for interim

governmental operation be.

tween now

and the date thenew

government takes ef.

fect.The exisling commission-

ers wil establish tlie budget

ror next year's operations

since the final budget must

be approved in October -

two months after the new

mayor and council take of.

fice,Everelt city commission-

ers were not overly Il-,

pressed by Tuesday's light

vote, 'Tey indicated that the

. p 0 0 i' t urn 0 u t perhapsshow

ed that most cily resi-

denls favored no change.

Snohomish C

ounty Auditor

(Contnnued on P

age BA

, Col. 2)

'Tuesdäy V

ote Toi'o/s

Unoffcial vote totals In

Tuesday's special e¡eetioll

were as follow

s:For the charter proposal:

3,802.Against the char

leI' pro-posal: 409.

For closing Spada Lake:

3,799.A

gainst closing Spa d aLa ke: 426.

For Annexation to Ever-

elt: 112,

Against A

nnexation toEverelt: 626.

For A

ssumption or Indeht,

edness: 45.A

gainst Assum

ption of In-debtedness: 385.

For Sewer R

evenue Bonns

in Olyin¡iiis T

errace Sewer

District: 52.

Against the revenue bond

proposal: 26. ___-! '

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By HERB ROInNSONAssociate Editor, The Times

Of i,he eight state-wide initiative proposals fiedin Olympia earlier this year, only one stands a better-than-even chance of reaching the ballot next Novem-ber 5, it appeared today.

The deadline for fiing initiative petitions is mid-night next Friday. State election offcials say spon-sors of all eight measures have experienced consider-able diffculty in obtaining the lOO,On valid signatures

of registered voters required to certify each proposi-

tion to the ballot.Prospects appear reasonably good for Initiative

,242, which asks the voters to enact an "implied con-sent" law. It would provide that a motorist shall be

deemed to have consented in advance to an alcohol-breath test if he should be arrested on suspicion of

driving while intoxicated.Sponsored principally by the Washington State

Medical Association, Initiative 24:! was in "trouble"for Jack of signatures only two weeks ago, But theproponents have closed the gap and now have ob-tained more than 99,000 names on petitions. It isconsidered likely that they wil bring in perhaps115,000 signatures before the fiing deadline,

(Initiative sponsors generally collect mor~ thanthe prescribed number of signatures as a ciishionagainst those that are thrown out because the signerswere not legally registered voters.)

The fate of the other measures is much more un-certain_ One signature drive that is lagging is thatin behalf of labor-backed Initiative 245, which wouldfix a 12 per cent limit on interest rates charged onall credit purchases. ¡

Two initiatives that appeared earlier to be likely -entries on the fall ballot, because they enjoyed well.organized sponsorship, now are regarded as havingonly precarious chances of survivaL.

They are Initiative 241, which proposes the call.ing of a state-wide convention to draft a new StateConstitution, and Initiative 244. The latter wouldshift from the state to the counties the authority tolevy two mils of property taxes within the 40-miIlimit;

While some sort of political miracle conceivablycould rescue Initiatives 241, 244 and 245, four addi-tional propositions must be considered moribund,

Two of them--Nos. 238 ánd2,iO-sought to abolishzoning regulations; No. 243 would have establishednew restrictions in the writing of Iife-insurar,ce poli-ci~s. anå No. 2.$& was airriCd at setting: up n1anr:atorycivil-serv",,, systems for county employes throughoutthe state. ,

~ The fate of the county civil-service measurewas seal.ed .when the Boai of Kl!!lLC~~nty Free-

s holders indicated that a county empìOfè's' meritg system would be included in a charter now being

d drafted for voter ratifcation, 'y . With King County's needs being given recognition

l!l the ~roposed charter, county employes here wered lit~le dispos_ed to work on the state-wide initiative.¡- Without active supp.ort in King County, there was not

much. hope of sustaining the initiative in the 38 othercounties. ,! _ COl\~l\~N:r: The merits and demerits of the

vario~s .initiat~ves to one side, there is at least onebenefit in having only a few of the measures reachthe ballot.

It is that a fewer number of iss~es wil c~nfrontthe voters next November.

In addition to electing candidates for federalsta~e and county offces, Washington voters wili~ecide the fate of seven constitutional amenrlmønt~

itdo1-

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. :&)' JERRY BERGS:lIAN,'. 11ic E')?,rà of Count\' Free--holders ,i-ii redraft-;;~tiiis

:,õfp;oposed county charter''dealing with planning, budg-,et and personneL.~ The proposed new sections':vil be considered Monday;night. In the ,meantime, John~A. Donaho, a consultant, wil

"'ork with the staff during

,,the weekend to come up with''the changes.: Donaho, who was hired to"review the proposed draft,,suggested at a meeting yes-dterday that those sections be

~trengthencd. He said those'sections in the proposed'charter do "not yet deal with

:either the traditional or'emerging concepts of gov~'ernmental administration toaii adequate degree:'

; HE SUGGESTED groupingbf 'budget and planning tobring together both long-:range physical and fiscal-planning and the cost-benefitanalysis, of long-range pro-'.grams.. He said the budget sectionshould include requirements-for a budget message by the.:County executive, prescribe

-the form of the budget,"amending procedures and~ubIic hearings, require bal-anced budget and limitationson adding appropriatio)1s,borrowing and executing'payments without an appro-_priation resolution.C He s aid the personnel

board's rule-proposing au-thority should be limited to'personn~l matters of a non.ÎInaneΡ,1 charilcter and duo

ties should be largely to hear

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~ B'è ß.'i r::f r~i l-"I r~ If jj ~.! Ii Iî ,-:;; ilappeals. Donaho urged tlprohibition against polithactivity of county employbe broade~d.The charter now b~ns J

Iitical activity only in ccnection with a county electoffcer.

DONAHO CONTEND(setting the pay of the COUI1

executive in relation to tcounty commission"rs c

cause problems. The chartrequires that the executi

be paid 50 per cent mo

than each commissione

The county executive's P¡should be in relation to tpay of his staff, Dona

said.Donaho proposed tha~

zoning ap;iealsboard be eipowered to hear ap;ie:against denials of licenses

pcrinits; that a zoning 1

hearing officer be consiGer

as a wav of handling ZOG;'

chanoe requests; that dutiof a~ auditor appointed :the commissioners be speU,

out, and that power be gjv,commissioners to make iqulries or statements of pulie policy.

In all, he said, the chartsubstantially alters' the pisent structure of gover¡

ment and provides for trseparation cf powers btween the executi ve' arlegislative bodies, he said

When the final draftcompleted, public hearin;wil be held on the propos,charter. The plan callssubmitting it to a vote in tlNovember 5 general eletion. /.

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Sea HIe, Wash.Posf-Infelligencer

198,812 Sat. Mar. 184,332Sun. 239,092)

JUN 2 9 1968

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BY DOX CAnTER

A top national consultant';csterdav told King Count vI-eehoi(iers the i- r basi-cicle;¡s for a new countycharter were fine, but somerough edges could use a lit-tle polishing,

Sa the' frecholders sched-

uled a not her session for

7: 30 p.m. l\Ionday in thecot'rthouse to hash oyer there:ïncmcnts_

Freeholders wil pay JohnDon a h o. Baltimore, l\Id.,management consultant, Sl,-745 for the charter criti-cism. Donaho has done sim-ilar jobs across the country,including a l!)j3 survey ofKing County ~o\"rnment..

Donaho told the freeholrl-ers he thought the charter'sb2sic form of go\'err.mentwould work.

ESSEXTL\LL Y, the char-ter would eliminate KingCounty's present three-com-

missioner go\'erning body.The troika would be re-

placed by a checks-and-balances s c hem e of ani:e - commissioner legis-

lative branch and a chi e fcounty executive,Freeholèers vesterdav

vot~d to consider'Donaho"s

recommended overhaul ofthe c;iartcr's budget and ii-

nance, personnel and plan-ning provisions.

Donaho called for budget.ing procedures which wouldgive county government amore responsive system- ofspending money. His elev-en-point accounting p 1 a nwould give the county a bet-ter financial rating, he not-

ed.The consliltant asked free-

holders ,to pro\'idc a person-nel svstem which would al-low ~iore definite detenni-nation of pay and classifi-cations, It should also pro-

vide definite channels foremploye complaints.

FREEHOLDERS carriedDonaho's personnel siigges-tions a step ahead and indi-cated they would seek aplan to insure quality per-

for man c e of county em-ployes. ~Iember Simo:i Wal-pold said: .

"We must work toward amerit pay system, wheremore we i g h t would beplaced on department exec-uti v e s' observations, and

less on standardized writtentests."Donaho's ideas on county

planning functions left theplanning department in lim-bo. l\ 0 n d a v. freeholders

pro b a b 1 Y \';ilI decide. onwhether they want zoning, ,, _ _".~, _ ;"______. _ _ J ._..~_

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variation appeals heard bycommissioners or an inele-pendent zoning comrrission,

o l' II E R revisions pro-posed by the l\IarJ'land con-sultant:-I.mit the number of

employe positions given ex-e m p t ion from personnelprocedmes. "You've got toconh'ol political patronage

- the county image wouldsuffer if the public cameinto an offce and saw a ci-gar-smoking 'Little Army'of politicians."

-:\Iake the "0 m bud s-man" responsible to thelegislative b i' a n c h ratherthan the chief executive,"1' h e Ombudsman's jobwould be to hear the cit-zen's complaints about theexecutive's work."

-Keep the charter flexI-ble. by not detailing exact

salaries, amount of experi-ence required fOI potentialexecutives, and other res-trictive specifics.

The freeholders' newcharter wil be subjected to

public critcism at a hear-

ing to be sch.eduled in .July, IFinal public test will be i i

at the polls in l\ovember, IIwhen \-oters are to decide :whether they want the new 'brand of coii'nty government

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Prosecuror

Mary Run

AloneIf the pro p 0 sed King

County charter is adopted

as it now stands, the prose-

cuting attorney would bethe enly partisan county of-ficer running for election ineven-numbered, 0 f f -yea i' .general elections.

This is beca\:sE' the free-

holders intend to switchcounty elections to the odd-numbered years, the sameas city elections, it was re-ported yesterday.

HOWEVER, the charterdraft does not even mentionthe prosecu~or because the

State Constitution provides ,that a home-rule charter i"shan not affect the elec-',tion of the prosecuting at-

torney" cnd certain other ,non-partin posts, such as ithe judiciary.

Some freeholders believethe election year for the

prosecutor may be changedto agree with that of other

county offcials without \'io-lating the con~titution. Theyara seeking legal advice,

for firs'Í 1Jrcr:t

Of Neiy Ciitlí"fei .The public '~il h'aye'its first I

chance to speak out on the new icountJ. charter July 1 j at 7: 30p. m. in the King County Court-house.

Paul Meyer, executive secretaryof the King County Freeholders,said that the first draft of thecharter has been completed andwil be in printed form ready forthe first of three public hearings.

Two other hearings in suburbanlocations have been scheduled forJuly 23 and 31, but meeting places,have not been selected. Thesehearings wil give residents anopportunity to tell freeholdenwhat they like and what the)don't like about their effort.If the charter is approved Xo

vember 5, King county wil hay'its first all new form of government in its history next May 1.

Printed copies of the first draf

12' ' of the charter are available to ii:r" terested per80ns and organizatiom

I Meyers said. They may be obtaiL.e'in RI. 905 in the courthouse.

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Th(" problem arose wlieiiit was learned the pro~ecu-

tor wmild be the 0:11y p:irli.san O)Unly offcer runningfor election in e-,'cn-nl.in-bered ofi-\'car geæral dec-tiOlts This h;i ,c;pened when

the freeholder,, transÎerred

cowity elections to the odd-

numbered y~ars, the sameas city ejections.

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Tlio fr('('h~ld~r, "'id l"nn-?ho wanled 10 l18kr ,urethp hHrl~21~ m~U1"\"\-' refkct.Nl Iil'a~ci",\ re?lit)' whileaho hcin.g mnrt' f)pxïrlethr'in present ril('r-~Òiirc;:,

Freeholc\r$ ,tin ?re soliton jiist how th~ coun!:,'S '.planning ofiice ,hniiiri fiinc.:tirm hut c\'erynn? ~::pmprI fn Ja;!ree it \I'oiild f II net innpl(lnty when it ~~t5 going. r~, .

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J\in" Cnun!)' fl'rel,n!rlol';poli.'hed lip dr?ÎI \'r,ion3

of thl'ír n~\r r()1irt~. ("h~rlet):3.,1 ni~;~l irnc1rr fhp ;:rh'ir.~or n?fional cnmii!t?nt .John

Donaho of Raftimorc.S pet ion s on prl',onnrl

lIerp re\'i,ed to kcep ra;:eal-it," do\\'n in count\' go\"ern~¡nrnt h,' liniiling'the num-her oÎ' joh, not iind~r the

coun'\' version of civil sen'.ice a~d by making ,ure eil'-i\ ,erYicP folk don't takepart in co'inty politics.

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ed only those positionsspecifed in the proposedcharter,

County ofiicers. includingthe prosecutor, now seckelection in even.numberedyears. But the State COJ;sti.

tution provides that a Jiome-

rule charter "shall not af-fect the election of the pros-

ecuting attorney, the COl!~ty

superintendent of schools,th¿ ji;dges of the Supeiior

Court and the justices oi thepeace or the jurisdictioil ofthe courts."

For ila ¡ re:ison, the Pros-ecutor's Oifce was nottouched or e\"en referred toin the proposed charter,

Several freeholders be-lieve. however. t hat theelection year for the pros-ecutor may be changeàalong with other county off-cials without violating the

S tat e Constitutio~_ Theymay ask their attorney,John Strasburger, to lookinto that.

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'date change, the freeholdersaimed to focus attention oncoun~y offcers and countyissues_ They felt this could

be accomplisheJ better byña\ing county "fficers seekelecticn when tr.Cv aTe i.icompetition onl\ "..:iti otherjocaI-electíon cãmpaigns.

Some counly officials nowseek election at th~ san:~tiute as tl!e Presicent and

srate oficials.Sho.ild the pro;iosed chur-

t~r be left unchanged, ¡heonly par¡j5ail ofÙcials run..ning in e\'en-numbered off.

year electioi,s would be con-gressional and stuie-legis.Iative candièates and theprosecutor. Three SupremeCoiirt jus:ìces, justices of

the peace and the superin-tendent of schools, all non-

partisuii po,itions. also areon the ballot.

Supèiior Coiirt judges runthe sam.: year a.- th~ Presi-dent and state oircials_

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JUL 4 1958

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~dget Procedure

. Chc:nge To ~c A~~~~Numerous d..1hgL, An ¡tbudget

procedure for King' County are

expected to be proposed Mondayby the Bo~_of ~oun~yFreeholders; among \hem s¡xUeû-

1,-,--, .._,.. en Is for a balancedou requirem .budget public hearings, making

copies' of the. ~udget ava~la?le tothe public, glvlOg comi:sslOners

Uie power to subpoena witn.esses atpublic hearings. and lett.ng thechief exec.utive ~eto porto~arpropriation ordiances. I

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budget procedure for King nel board. '. County was approved tenta-tively last night by theBoard of County Freehold-ers. - .-- -------... "-

The budget sedion in theproposed county charter wasdrafted on the recommenda-tion of John Donaho, a con-sultant. But several changes

; are expected to be proposedMonday.

The new section spells out,requirements for a balancedbudget, a budget message bythe chief executive, publichearings, a con tin g en c yfund, making copies of theproposed budget available tothe public at cost and a

budget form to include pro-grams, projects and objectsof e;xpense.

DONAHO SAID objects of_ expense are the same as line. items that detail amounts for. individual salaries, opera-tions and capital expendi-ture.

,James O'Connor, a free-holder, said he wil move atthe next meeting to allow theBoard of County Commis-sioners to alter revenue esti-

, mates made by the chief ex- ,ecutive. This is banned inthe section now.

Freeholders also adoptednew charter sections fOr per- .sonnel and planning.

On a motion by PaulFnedlander, a freeholder,the board agreed to requirethat personnel rules includea penalty for violation of aban on political activity bycivil-service em p i 0 yes ofcounty elected officials. Thesection also prohibits "flow-er funds,"

Simon Wampold. a free-holder, failed in attempts todetail in the charter that de-

partment-head recommenda-tions on hiring, firing andpromotion be given as muchweight as written examina-tions. The new section callsfor personnel rules to beadopted by the county com-mis~ioners while the ear1i~r i

THE NEW SECTION alsoincreases membership on apersonnel board from three'to five, four of them appoint-ed by the chief executive'and the fifth by a vote of .

county employes covered un-der the system. .The pIa n n i n g section

adopted is substantially thesame as one approved ear-lier, An attempt to give thecounty administrator solepower to appoint the plan-ning director was defeated.The section now says he wilmake the appointment, withratification by the commis-sioners. The f r e e h old e r sagreed to provide a sectionto permit future merger ofthe planning and budget of-fices.To be considered 'Monday ~

are proposals to give com-missioners the power tosubpoena witnesses and do-cuments at public hearingsand to allow the chief execu-tive to veto parts of appro- ~.'

priatio~ ordinances. ~"'

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, .' By Our County News Bureau Other suggestions made byBy Our Count;' News Bur~au Meyer, executive director of King County freeholders the consultant included theKing County freeholders the group, said yesterday. The Monday night turned down a proposal that a zoning-appeals

~ Monday night turned down a hearing is scheduled for July 17 proposal made to them by John board be empowered to hear'. proposal made to them by John at 7:30 p.m. at the King County A. Donah~, Baltimor.e C~)lsult- appeals against denials of li-

A. Donaho, Baltimore consult- Courthouse. , . ant they lured to assist in han- censes or permits, otherwiseant they hired to assist in han- . dling last-minute details of the the functions of the presentdling last-minute details of the new county charter, that county Planning Department anew county charter, that county em?l.oyes b~ .banned from all fast-growing, important factoremployes be b:inned from all political activity. in county government - shouldpolitical activity. Instead, the draft limits be incorporated into the char-I t d th d f r . political activity on the part of ter in approximately the same~s. ea, _ ,e ra t ¡mits county employes only in con- fashion in which it operatespolitical activity on the _part of nection with county campaigns. now. \cou~ty e~ployes only in .con- Donaho also suggested

nectlOn with county campaigns.. - strengthening provisions úf theDonaho also suggested proposed. county charter deal-..

strengthening provisions of the ing with county budgeting, andproposed county' charter deal- i has recommended that theing with county budgeting, and ' personnel board's authority behas recommended that the limited to personnel matters ofpersonnel board's authority be a nonfinancial nature - chiefly

_ limited to personnel matters of to hearing appeals.E a nonfinancial nature - chiefly° to. hearing appeals.

'Other suggestions made bythe consultant included theproposal that a zoning-appeals

° board be empowered to heari appeals against denials of li-~ censes or permits, otherwisethe functions of the presente Planning Department a

It fast-growing, important factor.0 in county government - shouldi., be incorporated into the char-!- ter in approximately the same

fashion in which it operatesnow.

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By Our County News Burea~King County freeholders

Monday night turned down aproposal made to them by JohnA.J Donaho, Baltimore consult-ánt they hired to assist in han,dling last-minute details of thenew county charter, that countye'mployes be banned from allpolitical activity.

..Instead, the draft limitspolitical activity on the part ofcounty employes only in con-nection with countycampaicrns.olD h ..ona 0 also suggestedstrengthening provisions of theproposed count\. charter deal.Ing with county"budgeting, andhas recommended that thep.ersonnel board's authority belimited to personnel matters ofanonfinancial nature - chieflyt,9hearing appeals.

Other suggestions made bythe consultant included theproposal that a zoning-appealsboard be empowered to hearappeals against denials of li-censes or permits. otherwisethe functions of the presentPlanning Department _ afast-growing, important factorin county government _ shouldbe incorporated into the char-ter in approximately the samefa'shion in which it operatesnow.

fi Freeholders wil hold oney more polishing session before; the first public hearing, Paul

Freeholders wil hold onemore polishing session beforethe first public hearing, PaulMeyer, executive director ofthe group. said yesterday. Thehearing is scheduled forJuly 17at 7:30 p.m. at the King CountyCourthouse.

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By JERRY BERGS;\lANA county-cha iter provision

requiring can did ate s forcounty offices to disclosecamp'aign expenses for bothprimary ane! general elec-tions will be considered bythe County Board of Free-holders. -

State law now requiresthat candidates disclose only

expenditures for primary, ekctions.

At a meC'ing last night,the board asked its staff toprepare a disclosure provi-sion for consideration. Thestaff also was asked to studythe effect of a provision inthe draft charter to prevent

county officials from accept-ing any gifts from any per-

son, firm or corporation hav-

ing dealings with the county.

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THE QUESTION wasraised whether this sectionwould prevent c amp a i g ncontributions.

Freeholders came close towinding up the details of thepreliminary charter draft.The aim is' to hold publichearings on it around thecounty July 31. August 7 andAugust 13. The freeholderswo~ld complete their workSeptember 4 so the chartercould be submitted to a voteof the people in November.

Plans call for completingthe preliminary draft July li

in preparation for the publichearings. .F R E E H 0 L D E R S last

night approved charter lan-

gua~e giving the Board of \ ¡County Commssioners the wpower to subpoena witnessesand documents. But after Si-mon Wampole!, freeholder,expressed fears that thiscould result in assaults onthe reputations of innocentpersons, the b03 I'd ag!eed tolimit the subpoena power tosit u a t ion s involving ordi-nances under considera tionand to require that witnesses

be allowed legal aid.The same limitation was

ae!ded to language dealingwith investigations by anombi.dsman.Áttempts failed to reduce

th.., proposed board of com.missioners from nine to sev.en and the salary froIT$1'),000 a year to $6,000Freeholders gave the commissioners the right to mak(revenue estimate~ for budgepurposes and gave the chieexecutive the power to makipartia i vetoes of appropriation measures.

FREEHOLDERS will rEquire competitive bids 0:public-works projects' eJiceeding $2.500.

Countv commissioners wibe giveJn the opportunity trevise countv - commissionedistricts in 1"9il and at fiVE

veal' intervals thereaftei

Should they fail to do it bthe end of JApril of the recti!tricting years. then the chiE

executive would appointfive-member committee trecommend a redistrictinmeasure. ~

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Simon Wampold, a Seatteattorney charging that the1966 King County grand jury

"assailed individuals' rep-utations left and right butindicted no 0 n e," Mondaynight persuaded his fellowcounty freeholclrs to restrictthe right o!1egislative sub-poena u n d e r the proposedcounty charter,

He also succeeded in limit-ing the extent to which the

citizens' service offce-theomsbudsman role - could'force witnesses to testiy.

HOWEVER, to win part ofhis battle to prevent thecounty commissioners fromunIimiting questioning ofwitnesses under oath, hehad to accept a compromiseamendment limiting use ofthe subpoena to witnesses'testifying about a particularpiece of proposed legisla-tion.

Wampold said after themeeting he compromised be-cause he felt he woiùd haveseen his original proposal

defeated,Th~ freeholders did acc~pt

the right of summoned wit-

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nesses to be accompaniedby their attorneys. Theomsbuclman, who W 0 u i dhave the power to investi-gate citizens' complaintsagainst county officials andcall witnesses, had his pow-er of subpoena restricted by .a provision now in force inthe State of New York,

THIS REQUIRES that b€:-fore ,any report of any in-quiry is made public, throoe'superior court judges mustfirst pass on its merits. Thiswould mitigate a g a ins t"star c ham bel' proceed-

ings" which could blackena defendant's reputation, he

said, although the testimonywell might be false.

Wampold heatedly toldhis colleagues:

"The last grand jury criti-cized (a certain indi\'dual)and damaged his profession-al reputation, and he was ashonorable a gentleman asever lived. I say it is wrongto give a legislatlre thepower to blacken the repu-tation of an individual or anorganization with no right c~

the defendant to answer chave a day in court."

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Eveni'SetFor Eberle

A fund-raising campaign din-ner for Bob Eberle, Republicancandidate for Congress from the'7th District, wil be held Sundayevening at illeeker's Landing inKent.

Eberle is a former state legis-lator and presently a member ofthe Board u; King County Free-holders.

Cochairmen for "Dinner withthe Eberles" are Bil Stinson,former 7th District congress-man, and Alex Doner, SouthKing County businessman.

Eberle was principal speakerat the Burien Fourth of Julycelebration and called for a"rededication of all Americansto the same spirit that promptedthe signers of the Declaration ofIndependence 192 years ago.

"Make no mistake," the can-didate continued, "the penalty

for weakness is just as greattoday as it was 192 years ago. If

we fail to protect the rights ofall our citizens. . .if we fail oursons fighting freedom's batte inSouth Vietnam. . .if wefail theresponsibility of enforcing lawand order and defending justice., .our penalty could be the lossof our freedom, if not our lives,fortunes and sacred honor." .

Seattle, Wash.Aurora Shoreline Journal

(ei.. W. 27,300)

JUL 1 0 1958

.AI!'" ~ p, e. 8. Est. 1888r-~___ -' -x,.. ------.-.¡YR Endorsenient¡For Lois North

\ The Young Republicans of King

County have announced theirendorsement of LO, is North for theState Le;;¡slature, 44th District,

I'Position NO.2. ... i ,"'.. Mrs. North. a 'Kin'g iCounty/Freeholder, is thi! oniy 'non-

ir¡cul1lC~~i1f IegL1JG..( Cdr-ll1iJ..ft~ .endorsed by the group, whichrecently announced its support ofGovernor Dan Evans. Secretary ofState Lud Kramer. and fiveincumbent legislators from KingCounty.

The Young Republicans of KinêCounty. the largest such group inthe county, is comprised of mer.and women ages 21 to 40. _J;"'''''

Seattle, Wash.Northgate-North Seattle

Journal(ei.. W. 25.240)

JUt 1 0 1968

All", ~ P. e. B. Est. 1888

/1R EndorsËmienti For Lois North

The Young Republicans of KingCounty have announced their

i endorsement of Lois i\orth for theState Legislature, 44th District,Position ~o. 2. :; ; ¡ 7

Mrs. Nort, a' King CountyFreeholder. is 1li--ñTfn--ínCuòêntTégislative candidateendorsed by the' group, whichrecntly announced its support ofGovernor D;;n Evans, Secreta of

State Lud Kramer, and fiveincumbent legislators from KingCounty.

The Young Republicans of KingCounty. the largest such group inthe county, is comprised of men

~~ wom~n ag~ 21 to 40. .-

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Two King Count)' redis-trkting proposals - one ofwhich would split the Val-le)"s Renton-Kent,Auburncombination - are sched-ulad to be considered bythe Board of King CountyFreeholders Wednesdaynight in the Courthouse.Redistricting and deci-

sion on the number of KingCount)' Commissioners tobe authorized in a proposedIlew eount)' ~hart(r arcamon,; major decisions stilfacing the freeholders.

Maps prepared by an ur-ban planning consultant of-fer a choice of seveii or ninecommissioner districts.

Freeholders had the mapsfor study at the weelwnd inpreparation for the Wednes.day decision mçeting.Wrail$ Removeù

Originai plans of the free-holder organization hadbeen to keep the maps "un-der wraps" unti a publieunveiling at the Wednesdaynight session.

This newspaper, believingresidents of the South KingCounty area ha\'e a right to,know tbe options under con-sitleration for their area, wassuccessful in obtaining a setof the maps, Reduceù ver-sions of the cliarts al'e pre-sented on this page,

The consultant's proposalror nine 'county commis-sioners puts Renton in a.eommissioner district sep-arate from that which wouldembrace Kent and Auburn.

The proposal for sevencommissioner districtsleaves the three Valleycities in the same district.

The ,map of the nine-dis-trict proposal sets Auhurnand Kent into a hu~e dis-trict that embraces ,'irtuallyall of the east half of KingCounty, bounded south andnorth by the Pierce andSnohomish county Iiiies.Besides the t",o Valley

. ~ities,' the proposed Dis-trict No. 9 would includesueh towns as Redmond.Duvall, Carnation, Snoqual;mil', North Bend, Issaquah, .Black Diamond and Enum-claw.District Bounded

The seven-d ¡strict mapshows the north boundary'of District 6 at about Ken-:nydiiJe near the south end~f Lake Washington, extend.:ing east along the Coiilfield-:Issaquah Road and South-e::;.~t 1GDth ~::'..~L :Ie ~i:liuversion, Renton and Tuk-wila are included in a dis-trict with Kent, A ubul'n,'Pacific, Algona and Enum-'claw. _

Map for the nine.districtplan !las.the west lioundarvoE District 9 stàrt at thè'Pierce Count)' Une at 51st;Avenue S'.!"ith, move north-'erly along 68th A venueSouth,. foliow in part the.west Kent city limits, thennorth alon;: the Russell'Road to South 180th Strc,,,t:'The .north boundary linet.hen IS extended east alon~South IBOth Street Soutii~east 174th Street ånd Pet-rovlts~"y Road to 140th Ave-nu~ SOllth~ast at whichpoint the hne again turnsnorth. From there the west'boundary of District 9 ex-tends roughly north alo~the Rcnton-Issiiquah Roalalong the, west side of LakèS,ammamJ"_h am! along 140th,.lvenue 1'ortheast to "he~nOhonijsh County ri~ie_

ast boundary of District 9would be the suiiimit of theCascades and K¡tsap Cou _ty Jme. n,G

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First Pubtiç'I=Jéc~ringOn Charier Set Jury 77

. By Our County Nrws BureauThe public wil have its first chance to speak out on

the ncw county charter July 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the KingCounty Courthouse.

Paul1\leyer, executive secretary of the King CountyFreeholders, said Friday the first draft of the charter hasbeen completed and wil be in printed form ready for thefirst of three pu blic hearings.

1\\' other hearings in suburban locations have been

scheduled for July 23 and 31, but meeting places have notbeen selected, he said. One of these hearings wiI giveValle\' residents an opportunity to tell freeholders whatthey Íike and what they don't like about their history-

, making effortIf the charter is approved November 5, King County

wil have its first all new form of goverruent in itshistory next 1\lay i.

Printed copies of, the first draft of the charter areavailable to interested persons and organizations, Meyerssaid. They may be obtained in Room 905 in the

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holders Criaìrniári Richard AI.brechtannounced the first pub.lie hearing date on the charterfor the county as Wednesday,July 31. The meeting wil startat 7 :30 p.m. in room 402 of theKing County Courthouse.

The quest!on of whether tohave seven or nine commiss-ioner, districts. or to postponeredistricting of the county rep.resentation units until 19iO

(per the new charter). will bedeliberated by the freeholdersat a work session tonight. The

first draft of the charter ingeneral wil be considered. also.

AJ/ sesssons of the board areopen to the public. This even.ings session begins at 7 :30in room 402.

The preliminary draft of the.charter wil be open to public,discussions at the heal'ngs_ A

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tentatively Dee!, "'c. w" Aut;. 7. ! Counfv Char.~pr JThe Board of Freeholders and J I vstaff have been drawing up thefirst charter for King for .the' Lle~ri.ng Setp"'t ""0 mooth,. I i a i : l-Further hearings wil be held "¡,' . . - .. 1

as nece~~ary to give all int~r- "Ri~hil~d I Albrecht chair.'ested citizens an opportunity man of the C nt' Rn :. fto be heard. Announcement of ou_) __ar. 0the time and place for addition. ieret:Olders, confirmed y.es- ,al hearings wil be made later. w.lday that a publIc hearin~

Copies of the charter draft ill be held on the prelimi-are being distributed to inter. na~ county.charter draftested citizens and organiza. July 31.. .tions_ Copies wil also be sup. The h~anng will be at 7: 30plied to all libraries in the p. m. in Room 402 of thecounty. .' Coun,ty Courth?u~e. A second

The Board will continue to heanng tentatively has beenmeet regularly, deliberating set for August 7. 'on proposed changes to the Copies of the charter draftdraft. ' are being distributed to in.

The freeholders expect to terested persons and to or.have the charter in final form gar.izations and to all libr~early in September so that it ies in the county. ~,can be placed on the Xovember, , , ,1963 ballot. . ~ .. .

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King County freeholderswil meet tonight at theKing County Courthouse todiscuss - changes and pro-posals for a seven-manboard of commissionersand the redistricting ofKing County to fi such aplan. That the freeholdersare going to take up a studyor make a decision of alesser number than ninewhich was originally pro-posed is indicative that theyhave received lots of reaction relating to the ratherabsurd nine commissioner,plan. Seven is better butstil too many; were they to

. reduce the number to fiveit would stil be better. '

At. any rate, the meetingtonight at 7:30 is a highlyi important one and as a

. ......public meeting it should'draw a big turnout of thosewho are interested in thefutu:ie welfare of thecounty.

As it,now stands, the longsought final draft' is farfrom finished, The free-holders wil have to hurryif they are to complete aworkable and acceptablepiece of legislation beforethe deadline date ofSeptember 4.

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alternative plans for redrawing¡ south segments approximately poliical implications of both the plan callng for a nine-man Both plans vary, population- i:raft has forced the postpone-

commissioner district lines. 'at Kent. redistricting plans which would commission on the basis of the wise, from a half per cent to one ment of the first public hearing

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both a sevclì- and nine-m¡¡n Snohomisb County line on the Freeholders m;-¡y decide be-redistricting pl;.n y:hich îrce- no;-Ui. cause of this arid in view ofhold(:rs \vHl ex~mine tonight. The controversial quesUòn potenti~l pub1ïc opposition toTh~ me,;:ting on the bombshell wil be examined tonight in onc or both of n-ie pbns, thf:?:propos;,! wiH be open to tt2 several lights: The intrinsic would prefer t.o postroDe untilpublic at 7:30 o'clock in the King 'merits of the various courses of after the charter faces the

County Courthouse in downtown action open to the freeholders - electorate the ded~jon as ~oSe",tte. induding the election of a nine- where the boundary !1les showd

man Board of County Commis- be drawn,Openly hostie to both plans sioners on the basis of the Meanwhile, a first. public

are Howard Bothell, Auburn, present three commissioner dis- hearing on a preliminary ch~r-and Terry McKenna, Kent, tricts (as freeholders pn:sently tcr draft bas been scheduled WI'while .Tames Curran, Kent, and favor) postponing until 1U7l the July 31 at7:3-'p:¡~L, again at th;eLyle Schneider, Auburn, fed toucliy task of redistricting. Courthouse. The infom1cd test!-that, of the two, the seven-man 1\lso slated for discussion Ìs mony by specially concernedplan might be satisfactory. wheth0r redistricting, 8S such, grüups which dominated pro-None, however, favor the nine- would impede the passage of the c,eedings o.t previc:us inron~1a-man plan which would spli the charter this fall as several of the tioii-gathenng liearmgs will giveValley into two sections. with VaUey freeholders believe. way, at this and s~bseau~ntthe southern part incorpór;Üed Battle lines alrei:dv arc form- heanngs to debate or: tHe merisinto a commissioner district in'" here since publicàtion at the of the proposed ch;rter, accord.extending from the Pierce Coun- w~Ùeiid of the proposed båund- ing to Paul I\lcyer, executivety bound;iry on the SO~ th to the ~ry lines of the two proposals.: secretary of the group. .

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wil meet tonight at the'King County Courthouse todiscuss changes and pro- jposals for a seven-manboard of commissionersand the redistricting ofKing County to fit such aplan. That the freeholdersare going to take up a studyor make a decision of alesser number than ninewhich was originally pro-posed is indicative that theyhave received lots of re-action relating to the ratherabsurd nine commissioner lplan. Seven is better but 1stil too many; were they to i, \

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At ani' rate, the meeting' .tonight at 7:30 is a highly' , ,important one and as apublic meeting it shoulddraw a big turnout of thosewho are interested in thefuture welfare of thecounty.

As it now stands, the longsought final draft is farfrom finished. :The free-holders wil have to hurryif they are to complete aworkable and acceptablepiece of legislation beforethe deadline date of~ePtember4. ~"ì

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By VIRGINIA BUJl~SIDE King County Freeholde.s draft- clusively in this n,ewspaper ofOur County ~ews Bur.:au ing a ,new cou~ty charter ~wo proposed ver~ions re,dra:v-

A split between the four Val- seemed in the making yesterday ing present commis,ion districtley members of thl' Boar~_ of follo:vinrr ni, Iication Sunday ex:_boundary lines,

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To the Editor:

Your editorial aroused thecuriositv of thf' undersigned tomake a' preliminary study as to"whether the planting of thi.sSugar Plum Tree" w~s a Consti-tutional act of the King CountyBoard of Freeholders, or,whether it was an act of embez-zling the inherent political pow-er of people of the state (whowere granted this Charter of¡Statehood by the govern~ent. of

the United States) by a minoritygroup. Its present course . ofstructuring a government y.ithmostly appointive and partisanoffices tends to imply that thefuture administration of KingCounty government wil. be, a"Sugar Plum" for a minoritygroup or groups_ .

Consequently, it must not be)verlooked that "Sugar Plumfrees" have to be planted on"solid legal ground," otherwise,they can not be fertilized andwatert'd with "public funds,"which can not be legally -although ofttimes are politically_ expended for purposes not"authorized by law,". .

Accordingly, the issue ~sraised as to whether pubIicfunds can be expended to printthe proposed Home Rule Char-_

ter when provisions thereof dono "square with the Charter ofStatehoold." In order for theKing County voter to cast an:intellgent vote on an issue, he..sould be informed on manyviewpoints.

W. H. Philipp,1210 Fifth Ave. N"

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Consul.Ú,t¡ have proposedboth a seven- and nine-manredistricting plan 'which free-holders will examine tonight.The meeting on the bombshellproposal wil be open to thepublic at 7:30 o'clock in the KingCounty Courthouse in downtownSeatte.

Openly hostile to both plansare Ho','1ard Bothell, Auburn,

and Terry McKenna, Kent,. while James Curran, Kent, andLyle Schneider, Auburn, feelthat, of the two, the seven-manplan might be satisfactory.None, however, favor the nine- /man plan which would split theValley into two sections, withthe southern part incorporatedinto a commissioner districtextending from the Pierce Coun-

ty bound8ry on the south to theSnohomish County line on thenorth.The' controversial question

wil be examined tonight inseveral lights: The intrinsicmerits (of t,,; various courses ofactil)n 01 :'. - fe, the freeholders -inc,udiri~ liie election uf a nIre-man Board of County Commis-sioners on the basis of thepresent three comrissioner dis-tricts (as freeholders presently

favor) postponing unti 1971 the

touchy task of redistricting.Also slated for discussion 1Swhether redistricting, as such,would impede the passage of the

. charter this fall as several of the

Valley freeholders believe.Batte lines already are form-

ing here since publication at the

weekend of the proposed bound-ary lines of the two proposals.

Freeholders may decide be-cause of this and in view ofpotential public opposition toone' or both of the plans, they

would prefer to postpone untiafter the charter faces theelectorate the decision as towhere the boundary lines shouldbe drawn.

Meanwhile, a first publichearing on a preliminary char.

ter draft has been scheduled forJuly 31 at 7:30 p,m_, again at the

Courthouse. The informed testi-mony by specially concernedgroups which dominated pro-ceedings at previous informa-tion-gathering hearings wil giveway at this and subsequenthearings to debate on the meritsof the proposed charter, accord- .

. ing to Paul Meyer, executive \. secreta!) of the group,

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To the Editor:Your editorial' aroused the

curiosity of the undersigned tomake a preliminary study as to"whether the planting of thisSugar Plum Tr~e" was a Consti-tutional act of tIie King CountyBoard of Freeholders, or,1- whether it was an act of embez-

:i zling the inherent political pow-er of people of the state (who

~ were granted this Charter oft Statehood by the government of

the United States) by a minority- group. Its present course of

structuring a government withmostly appointive and partisan

. offces tends to imply that the

. future administration of King

. County government wil be al "Sugar Plum" for a minority

group or groups.Consequently, it must not be

overlooked that "Sugar PlumTrees" have to be planted on"solid legal ground," otherwise,they can not be fertilized andwatered with "public funds,"which can not be legally -although oftimes are politically- expended for purposes not"authorized by law."

Accordingly, the issue israised as to whether publicfuds can be expended to print

':'whethei' tSugar Plurrtutional acBoard of'whether iti1ing the jer of peewere gr;

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group.structurmostlyoffcesfutureCountJ"sugagroup

Cor)verlfree"sorUie~wafwh!alt.,~

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the proposed Home Rule Char-ter when provisions thereof dono "square with the Charter ofStatehoold." In order for theKing County voter to cast anintelligent vote on an issue, hesould be informed on manyviewpoil1ts.

W. H. Philpp,

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Renton, Wash. 98055.

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gest charte'form~~;kii;;ludeì 'the county e:.:ecutive. the county"administrative offcer, the ( ,

county as~essor. the offcers itmd employees of admipJstrative.offices and executive depar-I:

ments established by th char- .ter, or created by th board of

commissioners. IThe county executive would

have veto power over ordinancesor any object of expense of an 'app ro p rIa r i on ordinance.Emergency ordinances could notbe vetoed. He would be elec-ted for a four-year term,

The county assessor, unclrthe proposed charter, would,continue to be an elective of-

fice. All other county offcers i

presently beIng elected would'

be appoIntive by the executive'officer, with the approval of

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-John L Fü!lrlier

0. FH't'holdrrs :'lretingOf ~t:jor Importance _..

¡':n.. County freeholderswill meet tonight at theKin~'Countv Courthouse todi~(,-uss ch~nges and pro-posals for a seven-manbO:1rd of commissionersand the redistricting ofKing County to fit such ap\:n. That the freeholdersare going to take up a studyor make a decision of alesser number than ninewhich was originally pro-posed is indicative that theyhave received lots of re-action relating to the ratherabsurd nine commissionerplan. Seven is better butstill too many; were they toreduce the number to five,it would stil be better.At any rate, the meeting

tonight at 7:30 is a highlyimportant one and as apublic meeting it shoulddraw a big turnout of thosewho are interested in thefuture welfare of thecou nty.

As it now stands, the longsought final draft is farfrom finished.. The free-holders wil have to hurryif they are to complete aworkable and acceptablepiece of legislation beforethe deadline date of

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The Bo:ird 0: King County

Frceholdai:sñaÝ'e I-ssiied apre-llminary working draft of thenew King County charter.

. A preliininary draft of the

:,new King County charterwUl'. get its first test at a public

hearing July 31 at 7:30 p.m.

in'Room 402 of the CountyCourthouse.The Board of King County

Freeholders wil consider thedraft on which it and its staffhave been working for the pastseven months. A second pub-lic hearing has been tentativelyset for August 7.

Further hearings wil be held

as necessary to give all inter-ested citizens an opportunity to

be heard. Announcement of thetime and place for additionalhearings wil be made later.

Copies of the- preliminarydraft are being sent to allinterested citizens and organi-zations, and all libraries inthe county wil receive a copy.

In it th~y have recommC,ndedthat the conttol of government

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-John L. Foiirnier

Freeholilers ~,leetingOflUajor Importance m

King County freeholderswil meet tonight at theKing County Courthouse todiscuss changes and pro-posals for a seven-manboard of commissionersand the redistricting ofKing County to fit such aplan. That the freeholdersare going to take up a studyor make a decision of alesser number than ninewhich was originally pro-posed is indicative that theyhave received lots of re-action relating to the ratherabsurd nine commissionerplan. Seven is better butstil too many; were they toreduce the number to five, !it would stil be better.At any rate, the meeting

tonight at 7:30 is a highly -important one and as apublic meeting it shoulddraw a big turnout of thosewho are interested in thefuture welfare of thecounty.

As it now stands, the longsought final draft is farfrom finished. The free-holders wil have to hurryif they are to complete aworkable and acceptablepiece of legislation beforethe deadline date ofSeptember 4.

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wil be placed directly with the

voters of this county,

They have made this platn withtheir recommendation that thecounty be split into nine dis-tricts, and that each districtshall elect its o\Yn commis-

~loner to represent them.However, the Freeholders are

not firm on this point, and ahearing was held last night inroom 402 at the King CountyCourtouse to declc1 whethernine commissioners werenecessary, or whether seven,

with slightly larger districts,would suffce.

They have further expressedconfidence in the voters of thecounty by making the offce ofthe county executive elective byal of the people of the King ~

County.The commissioners, mem-

bers of the legislative branch,

will be elected for a four year

term, if the charter is accep-

ted in its present form.The executive branch of coun-

ty government, under the sug-~

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KING COUNTY FREEHOLDERS REVEALED ALTERNATE PLANS FOR RE.SHUFFLING COUNTY INTO NEW COMMISSIONER DISiRf

One plan will be put beFore the votm in November, d spending, on constiutional siie._o.f proposed new board

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Wampold also noted Dem-ocratic leaders hai: protest-ed the districting p i a n swould "make King Countyforever ReEJublican."

,Mrs. Lois North ob-served: "We could argueabout districts unti Decem-ber." (The charter proposal

must be submitted for thel\ovember ballot by earlySeptember), -

She suggested the charterprovide that three commis~l-;l-"'''_fl J... ..1"',..L..,. _'- T.._.._

If-J\l ng County.

from each of the present,thrpe-commissioner d i s-tricts. The charter' draft

now requires p2riodic redis-tricting and the commis-sioners would ha\'e to do it.

~-'-least three bids, whenever

possible, on all purch?ses.of ---

more than $50, -Two public hearings' have

been scheduled for the char-ter drafts - July 31 andAiÌg, 7. Both wil begin at7:30 p,m.; the first wil bein the King County Court-house, and the second atPac i fie Science Center'sEames Theater.

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CH.,\IR:.I.:'t Richard Al-brecht had his doubts; "IfWe can't do it, how do weexpect nine commissionersto divide up their OWn dis-tricts?" ..Freeholders also chan"'edt1. . . '":e cnaricr draft to place

more rigid controls on thecounty purchasing office,, The proposed charter wil

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BY D01\ CARTERKing Count~; Freeholders last night revealed two pro-

posed plans for di\"ding the county into commissionerdistricts.

There ,1'jJ be plenty of arguments at future meet.ings, tll€ group indicated. delaying districting discus.sions .until a I\londay meeting. .

Proposed dislr¡cting maps were devised by Rajani-Kant 1'. Joshi, a Seattle urban T'l~nning consultant hiredby the group, -

ALTHOlGH THE FREEHOLDERS have generally-agreed upon a nine-commissioner nine-district 1cgisla-tÍ\-e branch, seyeral members are interested in a seven-commissioner plan. So Joshi was instructed to draw upboth sets of maps.

Joshi said llE had based the districts on April 1, 1968

population estimates, and had drawn lines along pre-cinct and geographical borders as much as possible,

Freeholder Simon Wampold argued against thelines:

''Im not sure Mr. Joshi has considered sociologicaland economic factors. Districts should be based on com-mon interests, not just population."

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lRE CITED LDIPI1\G Queen Anne, Magnolia andCentral Area into one district of consideration for "com- rY'

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. ÙNTY INTO NEW COMMISSIONER DIS'COUNTY FREEHOLDERS REVEALED ALTERNATE PLANS FOR RE-SHUFFLING ~O,' ' , d board"'./ - - L I'AI""" the voters in Ncvsmb",r, ci spending en constifutional size.o.f propo.e new .,~-. 'i ! 1""11 .. I' PI .

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mon a~piratil)ns, commoninterests and common back-grounds. "

"'ampoJd also noted Dem-ocratic IL'cllers h:id protest-ed the distrkting pIa n swoiild "makE' King Conntyforerer Republican."

1\rs. J", 0 is Nor t h ob-served: "\\"e could argue

iibout districts unti Decem-ber." (The charter proposal

must be submitted for theNo\''mbcr b;illot by earl.)September),

She wggrstcd the charterprovide tJí;it three commjs~sioners be £-lccled at large

from each or the presentthree,commissioner d i $-tricts. The chnrler', ijr;¡ftno\i- requires p;:riodic redis-tricting and the commis-sioners would ha\'e to do it.

~ 'least three bids. "¡,('never __" ,_possible, on all piirch,"st's '01more than $500.

Two public hearings havebeen scheduled for the char-tl'r drafts - Jiily 31 and

Aiig. 7. Both wil begin at7:30 p.m.; the first wil bein the King County Court-house, and the second atPac i fie Science Center'sEames Theater. ¡

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CH.mnL\X RicIi3rd AI.brecht had his doubts: "Ifwe caii't do it, holl do v;eeXDC'ct nine commissioners

to'dii-ide !lJ their o"-n dis-

tricts?" , -.Frct'iolc1cl's also changed

flie cìiar(cr draft to placemore rigid controls on thecaimly purchasing offce.

'llil? proposed cl¡¡rter wilpro\"irJe that the purchasingdepartment must have at

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Redis-h'ic+il1g. \\"re concerned that any, districting plan they de\-el-

or wil create em'mies 1)£the ('harter and hurt its

. chancE's or acceptance atthe polls in No\-embQr. -

l\lember Paul S. Friedlan-der worried: "I don't wantto stumble o\'er this block.We're not going to pleaseanybody with a redistrict-ing plan." .

But the majority of theboard agreed with Albrecht,who said the Freeholders'failure to provide nine newdistricts as a basis for thenew form' of go\'ernmentwould be "an abdicationof our responsibilty,"

AT THE BASE of the dis-tricting discussions is anine-district plan drawn byRajanikant Joshi, a Seattleurban consultant hired bythe board,Joshi sliced the county

into districts on the basis ofpo pula tion figures obtainedfrom an April 1, 1968, esti-mate,None of the Freeholders

is very pleased with theplan.

Simon Wampold. an out-spoken critic. argued thatthe plan didn't con sid e r i

geographicaL. s 0 cia I and

economic interests w hie hshould be unified in each ;

SEVERAL )1 E :\1 B E R S' district. ,--I/' ./,'

Kim; ('011 n \\. Freeholderslast ni:ht dc,l1t \\.¡th (In im-

passl" on redistrictin:; plandiscussions b\' se:ndir,~ thehilt political I-suc to a- ~iib-

=or¡imitee.: 'Richilrd Alb:-echt. FrC'e-

iolcL?rs' chairman. was in-striict£dto a¡i¡ioint a com-

mittee of five to do the job

,f preparing new districtingproposals for consideration

bv the entire 15-memberbDard,

Albrecht said last nightbe would appoint the sub-còmmiltee as soon as possi-ble, and he hoped it couldde" e lop some proposalswithin two weeks.

HE DOESX'T expect theproposals to be ready forthe first puhlic hearing on

the Freeholders proposedcount\' charter draft. That

heari~~ is to be at 7:30 p.m.-Julv 31 in the courthouse,

But Albrecht said the dis-trict plans may be includedin the charter draft bv an

Aug. 7 hearing. at 7:30 p.m,

in the Pacific Science Cen-

ter's Eames Theater.Last night the Freehold-

ers were split on whetherthe districting pro p 0 s a Ishould be included in thecharter or the job should be

done later by the countycommissi;:ners.

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'? I '" r.'. "" l-!How IÌ1any Kin; Countycom m i s s ion e r districtsshould there be and where'should their boundaries lie?

The Count\' LI):;trd of..ree-holders grappiêëf'biiêfly with

this politically imp 0 r tan tquestion last night, as aller-nate plans for nine-andsen:-n-cominissioner districtswerc presented,Fu:-ther discussion of the

plans, drafted by RajanikantN, J osh¡. a Seatte ia-ban-planning con suI tan t, waspos~poncd until 7: 30 p. m,I\Ionday, 'TODA Y, one of the free-

holders, James O'Connor,president of the Young Re-publicans of King County,said he believes the plansare fair politically, He saidthe nine-commissioner planmight seem to give the Re-publicans a one-district ad-vantage. The other plan, hesaid. might seem to give aone-district advantage to theDemocrats,Either plan, how eve r,

would provide enough swingdistricts to erase politicaladvant'lge, O'Connor said.

But i'l~t night Simon Wam-pold. v:ce chairman of thefreeholders, said he was toldbv Mrs. Jeanette Wiliams,chairman of the King CountyDemocratic Central Commit-tee. that either plan wouldmake the county "foreverRepublican,"

"THIS is THE most im-portant matter politically tocome before us," Wampold

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declared in moving that fur-ther discussion be pe1stponed

to enable study,

Mrs. Douglas 'North said:"We could argue about com-missioner districts iiitil De-cember and not decide. Thisis too time-consuming."

The greatest challenge inrectistricting, she said, is torepresent adequately fast-grO\\'ng South King County.

She suggested that the pro-posed county ch,:rter beingwritten bv the frceholdersprovide tiiat three. commis-

sioners be elect;,d at largefrom each of the presentthree districts, with provis-

sion for later redistricting.Now One ,commissioner iselected from each of theth ree districts. .

\Vampold found fault withany plan which \\'uld placein one district communitiesnot linked economically andgeograrhical!y and wit hcommon interests, He won-den:d why Joshi placed thecentral an~a and the Magno-li;¡ and Queen Anne Districtsin one commissioner district.He also said Shorelineshould be in one district.

MRS. NORTH told otherfreeholders the draft charter

is too long and too specific.She led a mo\'e that erased a

s,:ction concerning compre-hensive plans. These \\ierecovered in another section,she said.After criticism of the

county purchasing practicpswas heard, the boardchanoed the draft to providethat ~'hene\-er the value ofitems to be purchased ex-

1- ceeds $500, at last three bids

be obtained, if feasible. The

draft had set the money fig-ure at $2.500_ The charter isf to be refined and adopted bythe freeholders the firstweek of September. This wilpermit submission to voters

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THE lisT talking point for a noii-partisan Board of King County Com-missioners under a proposed countyc~eris the partisan poliical bicker-ing over the boundaries of future com-

missioner districts,A hiiit (0 (Iw idse usiially is sufficieiit,

There Ü more (11(11 a Mili for the fref"holders in (he C01111ents about the po-litical odmiitages created either by anine-commissioner or sei'eil-C011 m is-8ioiier board anr! the geographicalmakeup of the (listricts, _

Mrs, Jeanette Willams, chairman ofthe King County Democratic CentralCommittee, has expressed the beliefeither plan would make the county "for-ever Republican." James O'Connor, afreeh~Ld~l-and president of the YoungRepublicans of King County, is of a dif-ferent mind, but he can see how the

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. . I !The public wil have two ings. They wil be at 7:30ances to air opinions on a p.m. July 31 in the court-

oposed King County char- house, and at 7:30 p.m.

" before it goes on the Aug. 7 in Pacific Science

vember ballot. Center's Eames Theater.~ing County FreehoWers Freeholders were elected,oe scheduled two hear- last November to shape a

Boardnine-commissioner plan would give Re-publicans a one-district advantage onthe board, while the other plan mightfavor Democrats to the same degree.

We realize the diffculties inherentin any apportionment scheme, and wesympathize with the freeholders overthe complexities of trying to district thecounty so that all residents are servedfairly on the board.

let, it jiist seems tliat one majorprohlem rcoiild vaiiish if (he freehold-ers u"oiilrl rf'lIoi'e politics from (hecommissioners' jobs ancI maT.e the elec-tiori nonpar/ismi, as is the case Ii-th theSealfle City Coiiiicil.

Rather "than create a monster thatwould be an additional continual sourceof irritation between the Republicansand Democrats, the freeholders wouldbe well advised to take the commission-ers out of partisan politics,

~=k;:aring5plan to modernize the coun-

ty's government, \v h i c hsince territorial days hasbeen operating under stateconstitutional pro\'isions.

The Freeholderš' pIa nwould replace the prgsent

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three-commissioner govern-

ing body with a system of

checks and balances. Coun-

ty vúters would' elect a chiefexecutive and nine commis-si(\ners, to establish an ex-ecutive-legislatI-\'e balance.

The charter proposal awould eliminate a num~of now-elective 0 f fie (placing them under a coty personnel system,

" Seattle's best-inIonpeople read' The p.I.

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Job For

Counf~fA $30,000 remodeling of

the county commissioners'auditorium in the court-house was appro\'cd yester-day by Commissioners John

O'Brien and Ed 2\Iunro.C~ni_iiij~sjr !leI'...J Q b iiSpell-

man 0 b j e ct ~_d_çl1_t)ii!gfífDh'ãf1i.ïr.ther remod-eITIi'g,-ly be necessitated

foIl t0\- _I-n::'iClQPUnn '.ol.i-:coiiñi\' charti;r. 'A šépCio rehearing of arrzoning application for' anexplosives pIa n t on 250acres of state-o\\-ned land

near Preston, was orderedby the board. The PlanningCommission wi 1 I conductthe hearing at 1:30 p.m.

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.: Cü:DnSSIO~ERS agreed

. . to put on the primary cIec-;. tion ballot a proposal to'

, lease 16 acres of 1Iary-moor Park to Lake Wash-ington School District for a.

high school site.Thev also rounded out the

Forwárd Thrust Design Com- .mission with the addition ofLowell P. !\Iickelwait, Row-land Rose and John Esvelt.l\Iickelwait wil be chair~

man of the seven memberadvisory group,

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Republican forces tr)'ingto u n h 0 r s e King CountyGOP Chairman Ken Rogs-tad last night trotted out

their own candidate to suc-ceed Rogstad.

He is Jams N. O'Connor,

:32, Seatte attorney andpresident of King County

Young Republicans.O'Connor said he is seek-

ing the job "not to exclude

any group of persons from

party affairs, but to end thepresent exclusionary p.)li-.cies. "

O'CO~'XOR'S CAl\1)IDA-CY is being advanced by agroup callng itself the KingCounty Precinct Project.

It has close organization-

al ties with the forces of

Gov, Dan Evans, althoLghO'Connor insists the two or-ganizations are separa~eand distinct.

Robert W. Bra t ton,Evans' King County cam-paign chairman, heads theprecinct 'project's stecrir.gcommittee.The)' are engaged in a

red-hot precinct-by-pn:'.:inctbattle to oust Rogstad and'his alles when the countycentral committee reorgan-

izes in December.Latest figures available

show they have fied morethan 650 eandidates for pre-cinct committeeman since

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KEN ROGSTAD

The c:hairman

the f i I i n g period openedMonday.

BLT ROGSTAD for c e sfied 960 the first day, andthe Evans for c e s arescrambling to cat c h ,up.Their target is to fie candi-

dates in 1,500 of the coun-

ty's 2,263 precincts.

Rogstad himself has !l 'tsaid publicly whether he'll .seek re-election to the posthe has held for four yl!ars.But he is unhappy with

Evans' remarks at a June27 new s conference thathe'd be surprised to seeR06'stad run again.

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"THE GOVERNOR nasn't IIconsulted with. me at all on I

this," Rogstad said after- Iward. "Fortunately it is not !his choice or my choice,but the choice of electedprecinct committeemen."

Rogstad was elected cùun-ty chairman in 1964 over acandidate pushed by Evansand his legislative 'orces,Two years later he survivedan attempt to oust himthough a precinct commit-teeman election campai.gn,

O'Connor describes him-self as a "middle-of-the-roader" who has supported"rn 0 de rat e" Republican

candidates in the past."I am doing this because I

it needs to be done." hesaid, "People are fed up.

They've had a bellyfuL." i

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ElectionScene

:y A.1\DREA VOGELl\'loderate Republican Pre-

cinct Project forces lastnight named James N.O'Connor as a candidate tooppose King County Republi-can Chairman Ken Rogstadin December.

O'Connor. 32, an attorneyand president of King CountyYoung Republicans, wasnamed the projects candi-date in the interest of seek-

ing "greater party har-mony." He wil oppose Rog-stad, should he run, for thecounty chairmanship at anor g ani z a t ion a i meetingDecember 14.

O'Connor, a Yale LawSchool graduate of 1959, has

been active in RepublicanParty work since 1963.

"I'm convinced that I canbring harmony," O'Connorsaid. "If we're succe3sful in

my election as chairmanthere wiI come virually au-

Ínte5

tomatically a feeling of sin-gleness of purpose."

BILL MUNCEY, 39, of hy-droplane racing fame, saidin a statement he will an-nounce his candidacy for theRepublican nomination forlieutenant governor at 9: 30

a. m. tomorrow.Muncev, who has hinted at

. his candidacy for some time,said he will fie in Olympia,

tomorrow just before thedeadline.

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IrmcJ.nHe ~i\ 0 p p 0 s e Art' WO;\DERING - Seventh

Fletcher, the only declared! District Congressional cand~-

Republican candidc:te for date Robert Ejis.i:.eJ RepubIi-lie ute n ant governor and can, caITn Congressman

. . ' Brock Adams to "set the rec-Democratic Incumbent John crd straight" about reportsCherberg. that Adams had received "a

$500 campaign contributionin return for his vote sup-

porting n a t ion a 1 truckinginterests. "

A spokesman for Congress-man Adams termed thecharge "the most ridiculousthi ng I've ever heard," and

, said there has never been avote taken on a bill involvingtrucking.He saI-d the bill referred to

is now under study in theHouse Public Works Com-mittee.

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If Muncey files, the Fed-eral Communications Com-mission rules Would not per-mit him to appear on televi-sion broadcasts of the Sea-fair hydroplane races Sun-day without equal time being

given his opponents by thestation.

DEPLORE - State Sena-tor Jack Metcalf, Reoublican

candidate for United St':tesSenator, today deplored the"mass absenteeism" in theSenate when a bil authoriz-ing t i' U c k s on interstatehighways was passed.Metcalf said only seven

senators were present tovote on the bilL.

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under consideration by theB

oard of FreehOlders \~ill be

a prelimiary draft oîthe King

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hich theB

oard and its stal! have beenwo rldg for the past seven

months. A

5ocooo publiC hear- ing has teniatively been set for

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giISt 7th.

Further hearis wil be

held as necessary t¡ give allinterested citizens an oppor-1Uty t¡ be hear. Announce-

ment of the tim

e and place foradditional hearings w

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ade later,copies of the chartr draft

are being diStribute W inter-

ested citizens an organzat-ionS. copies "ill alSO be sup-

plied t¡ all libraries in the

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iúner disiricls. or to posipone al heanngs will be made later

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The B1ard of I\l!LÇq~i!!tyFreel'')lùc-rci1åirinan, Hich-ard "A1õf('~ht, announced toaythat a public hearing wil beheld by the Ixard on July 31stat 7:30 p.m. in Hoom 40:. oftheKi'" Countv Courthouse.

U~der c;nsideration by theBoarù of Freeholders \~ill 00a preliminary d raft oîthe KingCounty Charter, 'ìn which theBoard and its staff have beenworking for the past sevenmontts. A second piiblic he~r-. -,..'. \

(p~~ ~O~j¡rJ17Board of King County Free. plied to all libraries in the

holders Chairm:m Richard AI- county.brecht announced the first pub- The Board wil continue tolie hearing date on the charter meet regularly, deliberatingfor the county as Wednesday, on proposed changes to the'July 31. The meeting will start draft.at 7 :30 p.m. in room 402 of the The freeholders expect toKing County Courthouse. have the charter in final fom.

The question of whether to early in September so tha.t ithave seven or nine com miss- can be placed on the November,ioner districts. or to postpone 1968 ballot

redistricting of the county rep- .resentation units until 1970(per the new charter). wil bedeliberated by the freeholdersat a work session tonight. Thefirst draft of the charter in

general will be considered. also.All sesSSons of the board are

open to the public. This even.ings session begins at 7 :30in room 402.

The preliminary draft of thecharter will be open to public

discussions at the hearings. Asecond public hearing hastentatively been set for Aug. 7.

The Board of Freeholders andstaff have been drawing up thefirst charter for King tor thepast seven months.

Further hearings will be heldas necessary to give all inter-ested citizens an opportunityto be heard. Announcement ofthe time and place for addition-al hearings will be made later.

Copies of the charter draftare being distributed to inter.ested citizens and organiza-tions. Copies will also be sup-

, Seattle, Wash.West Seattle Herald

(eil'. W, 24,000)

JUL 1818GB

Jlllen's p, C, B. Est. 1888

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freeholdersSlafe!"'lear;nn., 'r'J -~ vThe "Dolrd, of ..K.ng._County

Freeholders chairman RichardAlbreciit: announced t~day thata public hearing wil be held

by the board July 31, at 7:30

p.m_ in room 402 of the KingCounty Courthouse_

Under consideration by t h e¡J'board of freeholders will be aprelimin¡iry draft of the King

Coui:!~,_c,harter, on which the'boar~ and its staff have been I

working for the past seven Imonths. A second public hear-.ing has tentatively been set forAugust 7.

Further hearings will be heldas necessary to give all in-terested citizens an opportunityto be heard_ Announcement ofthe time and place for addition.al hearings will be made later.

Copies of the charter draftare being distributed to inter-ested citizens and organizations.Copies wiI also be supplied toall libraries in the county.

The board wil continue tomeet regularly, deliberating onproposed changes to the draft.The freeholders expect to have~he charter in final form earlyin September so that it can beplaced on the November ballot.

All s~ssions of the board areopen to the public.

(j11 ~\l~~~rt~ring has tentatively been set f01' "August 7th.Further hearigs wil be

held as necessary to give allinterested citizens an oppor-tuty to be hear. Announce-ment of the time and place foradditional hearings wil bemade later.

Copies of the charter draftare beLrg distdbuted to inter-ested citizens a:'K1 orgi"zat-ions. Copies wiU also be sull-plied to all librari2s in th.3

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Marysville, Wash.Globe

(Cir. W. 2,470)

Jl!/ 1 8 1963

Jlllen ~ p _ C. B. F..~t' RR!?

Freeholdershear "Tacoma-

...eii y manager

iThe Snohomish County Board

of Freeholåers resumed theirweekly meetings after theFourth of July holiday. Guestspeaker of the evening was

Mr. Dave RO\..lands. CityManager of Tacoma. Row-lands gave a brief resume ofhis experience and places of

employment before he came toTacoma.On the subject of manager

government. he advocated: i.An appointed manager by theboard of commssioners; 2.

A five man board as an idealcommssion; 3. That the boardof commissioners be parttime; 4. That the managershould appoint all departmentheads and have the right tohire and fire the same.

Rowlands was definite on onepoint which was that the sal-aries of the manager's. staff

should be comparable to thecommunity wage structure.This would induce good people

to come in to county employ-ment. He also feels that thecounty auditor's offce could

be abolished and that the workcould be handled by appointed

personnel.The last half of the meetino

was taken up with discussio~on govern!Tenta1 structure. By

a majority, the freeholderboard voted to have a fiveman CQmmissioner boardelected by the people. This'

board would in turn appoint

a county manager. All otherelected offces would be ap-

pointed.A screening committee was

elected to interview and re-

tain legal help to draft"; acharter. ",/. HOUSE FINCH is a bird of

farms, highways and inhabitedareas wherever water is-available.

Marysville, Wash,Globe

(Cir. W. 2,470)

JUl 1 8 1$68

Jlllen~ P.C.B. Est_1888

Freeholders lo!(e prelhninaryp,;¡ii. of mem~ers' opinions

- i ~Snohomish Cou~ty' Board of Freeholders took a preliminary

pon of opinions at their meetingJulY 10, that showed a majorityof the members favored appointment of county departmentheads. The board supports a county administrator selectedby a five man board of county

commissioners, also.Dick Welch, chairman of the

15 member board elected Feb-ruary 6, 1968. reports that

meetings are about at a half-way point, with another fiveor six months of weekly meet-ings expected before final rec-ommendations may be made.

The board of freeholdershas the responsibility of ex-ploring the present countygovernment and making rec-ommendations for improve-ments. Any changes in govern-ment recommended by thefreeholders would have to bevoted upon by all county resi-

dents.The freeholders meet each

Wednesday evening at 7:30

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nearing on

¡ Chor~er Drafti ~J 7'7I The B03rd of King County

I Freeholders chairman, Rl.ard ~C'!ií, announced thisweek that a public hearing wilbe held by the board on July31 at 7:30 p.J;i. in ROom 40? ofthe, King County courthouse~ .

Lnder consideration by the.Boa:d .of Freeholders wil be apreliniinary draft of the KinO'County Sl.3rter, on which th;boar~ and its staff have beenworking for the past seven~onths. A ,second public hear-ing ,has tentath'ely been setfor August 7.

p.m., in the county agricul-

ture building. All meetings

are open to the public. Welchsays the freeholders want a

substantial sample of publicopinion and welcome all com-'ments and ideas the publicmay present. For this reasonthe freeholders have heldmeetings in Edmonds, Mon-roe and Snohomish, crying tomeet more of the public.

By state law the county courtsystem, schools. and prose-

cuting attorney are out ofbounds for any change by the

freeholders. AU other county

offces are being investigated.

Through expert and non-expert speakers the board offreeholders has been advised

(1) to keep the county off-cials elective; (2) to have

the county offcials appointed

by the county commissioners;(3) to have only the coronerand county clerk appointive

offces, etc.Several suggestions that

county offcials drop theirparty affiiations in compet-

ing for elective offces have

been made. Many suggestionsto have separate legislativeand administrative functions

ha vè been made and also thatemployees have some sort

i of civil service system or

merit system implemented.

Consolidation of road dis-tricts has been stronglyrecommended andconsolida-tion of some fire districtssuggested.

The board \.¡il continue to, have speakers from other

counties and cities to learnhow they have met their gov-ernment problems. Theyalso want the opinions of Sno-homish County residents andurge anyone with an honestopinion about the governmentto step forward and be heard.. .

Seottle, Wash,Shopping News(Cir. 2xW. 151,000)

JU 1 8 195a

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On (hurter Set

By FreG~l~lclcrs) ¡ ','-'- .'The "\\orkmg Draft" charter of

the Boar.ilor-l(ing__ CountyFreeholders v.ill be preseiitëc-tothe CitIzeIs' ör King Coun ty for thefirst time at a public hearing on

July 31st at 7:30 p.m. in room 402 ofthe King County Courthouse.

A second public hearing has beenannounced by FreeholderChairman, Richard Albrechtscheduled for Wednesday August

7th, at the Pacific Science Center'sAmes Theatre,òegîniíiig at 7:30p.m. ,The public wil have. an

OPportunty to attend either publichearing and present their views onthe proposed charter. Any citienwho wishešiïco-py of the draft maycall the Freeholder offce at l\1A 35556.

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Copies \\ill also be avaiiåble atthe July 31st and August 7thmeetigs. -"

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governor for the second time, former Gov. AlbertD. Hosellini offcially closed the door on anyplans to m3J.e another try. . . Despite this, theformer governor still commands a sizable fanclub. . . many of whom told him so during the('ourse of convention proceedings. . . Humphreylieutenants, bitterly disappointed their leaderwas too ill to make the scene, have entered intoquiet ne¡:otiations to bring the Vice Presidentinto the state within the next few weeks. Hum-phrey's absence was distinctly felt _ . . his sup-porters would have liked to match their musclewith some of the steam shown by the opposition.As television viewers saw, there was none,despite the valiant last-minute efforts of AdlaiStevenson III .. .**-****Spli Ahead Among Freeholders

Over Charter Districting Plan?Hopes that the IS-member Board of King

County Freeholders would end up in unanimousendorsements onhe final charter draft to be sub-mitted to the voters November 5 seem out thewindow. So far, deliberations of the group havebeen accomplished without much public notice-and perhaps interest- but that ended last weekwith the unveiling of a controversial plan to di-...ide the county into seven, and perhaps nine,commissioner districts.

The matter caused hot debate at last Wed-nesday's work session, and could end up causingenough storm to endanger (1) unanimous ap-proval of their efforts by the freeholders them-selves, and (2) eventual approval of the electorate_Many of ~he hard-working board (who have putin an estimated 150 man hours each on theirnonpa;ying job to date) are in agreement aboutmost of the charter's other provisions. But sev-eral, including two freeholders from the Valleyarea, are sufficiently hostile to the plan it couldbecome a cause celebre within the board be-tween now and the time the charter is slated forthe ballot. The Board of County Commissionersis scheduled to have the final document beforeit September 9_

ThI' divergence of views on the districtingplan unveiled last Sunday in this newspaperwas summed up last week by Lyle Schneider,Auburn attorney, and an Auburn automobiledealer, Howard Bothell. . _ SC'id Schneider: "Itcould end up being one of the finest county char-ters in the U.S. _ . _ a national model for othercounties to aim ae" " . Said Bothell: "1 don'tlike it"

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The Board of King CountyFreeholders chairman Rich-ard Albrecht, announ~ed thisweek that a public hearing wilbe held by the board on July31 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 402 ofthe King County courthouse.

Under consideration by theBoard of Freeholders \',il be apreliminary, draft of the KingCounty charter, on which theboard and its staff have beenworking for the past sevenmonths. A second public hear-ing hás tentatively been setfor August 7.

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By VIRGINIA BURNSIDEiurllU:J övvei uv.i ~",u.. .."'..___._.. .club _ . . many of whom told him so during thecourse of convention proceedings. . . Humphreylieutenants, bitterly disappointed their" leaderwas too il to make the scene, have entered intoquiet negotiations to bring the Vice Presidentinto the state within the next few weeks. Hum-phrey's absence was distinctly felt. . . his sup-porters would have liked to match their musclewith some of the steam shown by the opposition.As television viewers saw, there was nonedespite the valiant last-minute efforts of AdlaiStevenson III . . .

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Over Charter Districting Plan?

Hopes that the IS-member Board of KingCounty Freeholders would end up in unanimousendorsements of the final charter draft to be sub-mitted to the voters November 5 seem out thewindow. So far, deliberations of the group havebeen accomplished without much public notice-and perhaps interest- but that ended last weekwith th(~ unveilng of a controversial plan to di-vide the county into seven, and perhaps nine,commissioner districts. ~

The matter caused hot debate at last Wed-nesday's work session, and could end up causingenough storm to endanger (1) unanimous ap-proval of their efforts by the freeholders them-selves, and (2) eventual approval of the electorate.l\an;y of the hard-working board (who have putin an estimated 150 man hours each on theirnonpaying job to date) are in agreement aboutmost of the charter's other provisions. But sev-eral, including 1\vo freeholders from the Valleyarea, are suffciently hostie to the plan it couldbecome a cause celebre within the board be-tween now and the time the charter is slated forthe ballot. The Board of County Commissionersis scheduled to have the final document beforeit September 9_

The divergence of views on the districtingplan unveiled last Sunday in this newspaperwas summed up last week by Lyle Schneider,Auburn' attorney, and an Auburn automobiledealer, Howard Bothell. . . S?,jd Schneider: "Itcould end up being one of the finest county char-ters in the U.S. . . . a national model for othercounties to aim at!" . . . Said Bothell: "I don'tlike it!"

:rThe Board of King County

Freeholders chairman Rich-ard Albrecht, announ~ed thisweek that a public hearina- wilbe held by the board on 0 July.31 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 402 ofthe King County courthouse,

Under consideration by theBoard of Freeholders \,'il be apreliminary, draft of the KingCounty charter, on which thebo!lrd and its staff have beenworking for the past sevenmonths. A second public hear-ing has tentatively been setfor August 7.

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forme.r governor SUU CUJ1UUèUJUclub. . , many of whom told .." ...au." '''"course of convention pro him so during thelieutenants, bitterly disae;;d.intgsd. - . Humphreywas too ill to make the s oin e their leader~uiet negotiations to b ~ene, havi: entered into

into the state within tl:ing the Viee Presidentphrey's absence was d' efnext few weeks. Hum.p~rters would have lik~sd I~Ctly felt, . : bis sup-with some of the steam h 0 match their muscleAs tele\'ision viewers s s own ~~ the oppositon.despite the valiant la _ ~w, ere was none,S!e\'enson III . " st minute effort of AdlaI

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**..*.Split Ahead Among freeholdersOver Charter Districting Plan?

Hopes that the 15-m bCounty Freeholders woul~~n er Board of. Kinge~dorsements of the final char~ uPd in ;inanimous-m.ltted to the voters Novembe~r5 ra t to be sub-window, So far deliber ' seem out tbebeen accomplished With~~~::u~~ the group !iavea~d perhaps interest-b t th public notice-with the unv T u at ended last weekvide th~ cou~i;¡ifn~f a controversial plan to di-commissioner distri~s seven, and perhaps nine,Th 'neSday~s ~~~t:~e~~r:~.da~âtc~~~;~e ~t last W~d-

enough storm to endand n ~p causing

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Many of the hard.wor~i~r~val df the electorate.in an estimated 150 ma hoar (who have putnonpaying job to dale) an .ours each on theirmost of the charter' re in a~r7ement abouteral, including two ¡te:l~er pronslOns_ But sev. .area, are suffciently hOS~i~eti; t~omi the. Valley

become a cause celebre with' e p an it couldtween now and the t' in the board be-~he ballot. The Boar~moef l~e charter is slated for

~s scheduled to have the foultdY CommJsslOnersit September 9, ina ocument before

The divergence of .plan unveiled last Su:á~ws. on t~e districtingwas summed up last ~ in this newspaperAuburn attorne' week by Lyle Schneiderdealer, Howard Yi:o~~d an Auburn automobil~could end u b ' II - . - S..id Schneider "Ittel's in the t Seing one of~he finest county char.

counties to ai~ 'at';' a natsioi:dal model for otherlike itl" " _.. ai Bothell: "1 don't

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'Hopes llntt ,the 15_menihe?'Bo,(rd 6f KingilJunt.y F.iie.i:hrl:der-nyould eirlh~p in uñaniiñus,endo~t~iI1ih.e¡finai eharcmr draft to be sub.mitted to tHre I'ur Novenilmr '5 seem out the.,w,indow. :50 1m, ci,¡\ieratiori tif the grouP have

.beenaccomIUN;,wilhout much publiC notice-and :perhaPS itnteiiest-but that ended last weekwith ',the ,linv.eiIng æf a contv.oversial plan to di-vide .the -:aunty :into seven, :and perhaps nine,',commissiuner .distdcts.

'I'he ma!l.el' æ::sed hot debate at last Wed.;nsday:s ,worik,,-rsion. and could end up causingenough .storm :to !endanger (I) unanimous ap-pro"al"of'lheine'frts by the freeholders them.selves,and(2)~ventual appro\'al ofthe electorate.:Many ,of:lhe ,\iar.d.working board (who have piit.in an iestIn.a 1150 man hours each on their,nonpaying 'itib ,to ,date) are in agreement aboutmiost,of the :chair's other provisions. But sev-

,ei:l, .includin\~WO freeholders from the Valley:aFi,¡¡e,¡ufiiræntly hostie to the plan it couldbeeome'a x:ane -:elebre within the board be.tween'no.w,¡inö;the time the charter is slated forthe balld\. :liæ

ila I'd of Counly Commissionersis schediled \to !hve the final document beforeit Septeniber:9.

'!Ihe '.í.~ee of views on the districting.plan '..unveilid ìlast Sunday in this newspaper'wassumnruB un' last week by Lyle Schneider,Aùburn ;¡tlonii'i. and an Auburn automobilede.áler,':HJarJllBothell . . . S~id Schneider: ")t..couldOlU 1L-p\æÜng one of the finest county char.cters in ',the 'J)$. . . . a national model for othercountI,es tI ¡aim at!" . ..' Said Bothell: "1 don't

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To plot County O¡s)'dds;J i v'r

A five-member committee commissioners, Now thereof the BOuQ..DLKiiig,.\lnty are three.

, Freeholders wíI be ap- The first public hearing onpo;,\ìêõ a day or ,tvw to the proposed charter wil bedraw up a new plan'ior di- at 7:30 p. m., JUly 31 in theviding the county into nine courthouse.

county" commissioner dis- The freeholders approvedtricts_ a charter provision that all

Chairman Rithard R. AI. county construction projectsbrecht wil appoint the five, -shall be contracted out toit was agreed last night at a private finns, with the ex-ffeting of the 15-member ception of road projects 'board. valued at less than $15,000. /150The freeholders already , /' - -liave liefiire them redistrict- ~

Ì' ing plans prepared by Raja-r,!kn~t Jc:sh!, cQf!sultant.Joshi oHered a It ern ateseven- and n i n e .d i s t r i e t

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Albrécht led a move tokeep redistricting within the

- purview of the freeholders.

Simon Wampold, vicechairman, had suggestedthat an indepe:ident body dothe redistrictin~, with thefreeholders staying clear ofthe \iolitically sensitive mat-ter and getting on with theirjob of drafting a county-charter proposal.

Robert Eberle disagreed.He said a charter withoutprovision for new commis-sioner' districts would beje\pa rdized in the Novemberelection_

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I': CoUnty home~rulc ch.1t:~r. The i.s !:i:l"~'it,)~ôt:~'S h.r:~ ~-:~

which woi.Jd \'.2s:Jy Ò:'~e to decfd(' t~e lnHi.iJ l'.lr. Com..cO'Jr::y governmem. .H a Ju!y31 missior.cr ~fstrìct bQJ~:,.:"¡es.public heartni Cnder the prefimin.i:-y dr:ifr..

The hearings have been set present co:-:niss!onc:rs 'f'oulc!by the board or rree~oiders. be able to serve o~t their pres-ejected Jast year to mcdernize e:i: terms, servin¡ the n~w() 4 county government, for c:C'mmtss¡o~r districts in

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h nd bIt h i h distrICts, with Voters or e;idi.County C arler ~ .,:n ':~ouiid' ~y r::e~~I¿:~ diStict .lectin; it. co:n:n:.-To Be Cons.idered :halrman Richard Albrecht .loner, Presently ,h. three-

:ot 7:30 p.m. Aug. '1 at t!le, me.mber board, of commis-At P bl. H. ?acifc Science Center. sioN:rs are "sprzad too th:n:'U ie ,earing ¡ The preJJ:nlnory charter euh repre:en'ing too m"ny

The ~r& iil Kin" County ~raft would 'Hv~ce the. county ¡eople.FreholderšÏriñ~~Rfharëf inlo n.ne districts, With one The pr e l í m i nary chJrrerA-=,e'li--. .nn"oun"ed today that a ;'coum"' CQ:Tmi:;5íon~r. el~cted draft stipulates that commis.P"uub'"I:~' h'." "n"'n8 wi"!! be held by the for each. Presently there -âtc sloner distiÍcts be re...¡c...c(,u,- th each five ye.irs and. if the)Bord on July 31 at 7:30 pm in ¡ Th~ charter, 1f " reoved by have become une\'_n in ti¡:.!.rom 40 or the King County '-voters next Xovem~ri would brion. redistricted. If coum,Courthouse. . take effect May 1.. 1969. commissioners fail to cedis:Under consideratiòn by the ~ Also elected would be the trice within ~ sçicifed time

Bord of Freholders \\il be a county assessor and a coUnty the county e~ecut¡ve would r."\."1ipreliminary drft of the Kín~ executive. The latter wou!d he a committee to recommend.County Charter, on which Uie the chief administrator. with the redjstrictjn~ plan . .Bord and its staff have bee nine-member board of commis- P¡'Y' of the commissii'nerworking for the past seven monUi. sioners being the 'legislative. would be suspended, per.jir.A second public hearing has or policy makír.~,' brar:ch of enac;:ment of a redii:trictintetatively bee set for August 7. govern.'lent. ordinance. if the commis~i(:n

Fur hearings ,"ill be held as Freeholde:-s are still in the ers then failed to carry C'necesry to give aU interested process of decidin~ \\-h.:r. If red¡stric::n~. .citiens an opportunity to be heard. ; any, ot.her county department Set up ur:der the prelímin.irAnounceent of Uie tie and ¡ heads should be elect¡ve. The charrer draft would be a coumplaceforadditionalhearigswibe i preliminary charter draft calls o!fce of c!t:zen comDl:¡m:made later. ,for appointment by the cour.ty This offce wodd ha.ve the f'v,'e

Copies of Uie Charter drft are e."(ecutive of acàfef i.dmiriJstra- to subpona w:tr.esses -inJ docbeg ditributed to inteested ~ dve úffcer, subject to bo~rd cten:s in order :0 inv,:stte;\'1citiens and organÌ2tions. Copies , of co~miss!or.er confirm¡i.tion. an make reco:nmcr.d.it¡(ln~ cwi als be supplied to al libraries The admiiijStr2tive offi Ce:, complaints ínvoi\'ir.~ coi.;:;in the county. ,~would name non~eiectfve de- goverT1em.

J The bord wil continue to meet i ._ .-- Also sei: .up would be a bC',,~t l reg1ar1r. delibeating on propoed of aope.1ls which would h:we t~changes to the draft. Tbe final say_ excep:ìr1 for ~le Freholders expect to baVe the CQu:ts. o~ ~p~ais. f'e~Jrd::.. Chrter in fial form early in zorung V2rlances. b.r: use~:Q Setembeso tht it can be place mits, and Frote~ty ~31u~~.i":d onthe!'ovembe.I96baUot. .set by t~e .aSsessor S O,:iC.I The next scheduled deli~rating . A pers0!Ie1 SrStem ;i:rr,.ø seson of the board will be on July at inst,:dla::or. of ;: c":"e~r e:1e 17 at 1:30 pm -in rom 402 of the ¡iloye staff, free of tnlit:cK" g County Courthouse. All ..ould be set up uni.er the: pr.i ~ons of '&e bo ar ope to l1!tl.ir~' charter draft.r' uN.riJ'r .-

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-jo1in L Fournier:Charter DilemmaFaces Freeholders ,_:'d King County freeholders

~¡'re faring the pro bien, of:satisfYing their own ranks"as well as the rank £nd fileof the public in preparinga new charter. This is no

: easy task. Right now they~a:e caught On the horns of adtlemma from which they

. so far. !Jave been unable t¿~~xtricate themselves." . Freeholders have.more orcless ~oiiectiveiy agreed to a..multiple unit seven or nine; member commissioner or,legislative group. With it..hey have embraced the

::c.oncept, of dividing the- county into seven Or nine. districts. This, it seems is,where the mistake is made" ' A quiCk look at the pro:po.sed redistricting gives

: ,evidence it wil not work- very well. First of aU the. districts are nòt suitablegeographically nor politi.caUy - and the immediate,reaction is that they havebe~n. designed on purelyPOlitlcal boundaries. ThisOpens the door to a total~ontroversy Over redistrict_¡ng rather than a direct ap-1~''proach to the problem of-l-good gOvernment.

We believe it is not feas-ible and certainly unwise to

. trr to r"(H~trj('t 11:,: CO!'nh'at this time. It appears lI'o't

. any such clction would tendto be self-defeating.

We believe the frcchold-i er£ could best serve the

community b~' deferring orforgctting abom reclistrict,ing; by leaVing districtboundarics as thcy are and

- electing two commissionersfrom earh district and one

:at large. This would rctainboundaries as the~' are, if

. seven commissioners are--agreed Upon this division

:would give a better spread.. and opportunÎl)' for morerepresentative goi'ernment.

. It has been found in other. areas whei'e attempts were

made to obtain a ncw char. --.ter of count)' gOl'ernmcnt

"that in some cases these~.efforts failed berause ,'ot-

~rs had no choice. An anal,,is of a recent charterIiich failcd in Marylandidicated the proposals'¡ould have been presentedi various segments similarL the manner in which theorward Thrust election'as presented recentl)'~re in King County.l~!s !lur belief that half ~

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rl;iy to jnclt1l~ a f!PW_ ,,,iintydi,tric.tin¡: plan wilh thecounty charter p l' Ill' 0 S a I'..'hicli wilhp oncred to vot-e_s in K,wember, The n~\\form of go\''rnincnt pro\'Id- Icd by the c?art~r would IgÍ\'e the coun,y mne com- Imissionprs rather than the ipre,ent three. I

S~ the special commi~tce iwil divide the county into ;nine districts. Albrecht sa!d ,he expected the commit- Itee's recommendation, to:be presented 10 the 15-mcm- Ibel' Freeholders board in ,about two weeks. ./t.- "

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A ?c.l ~f t J eot ¿'King Simon' Wamrold., Bellevue:County freeholdeics today and James 0 Con.ior and Albeoan.tO"'foriiulate a plan brecht, both of seatt~e_ ,fo; n i n e county-conimis- They met ,today with RaJa,sioner districts. nikl'nt Joshi, consultant who

Richard Aibrecht, chair. drafted alterm:te plans f?rman of t'le Board of Free- seven and mne commis,holders, '"id the plan wil be s:oner districts. These wereready before the end of next found unacceptable by theweek. freeholders, although they

Members of the co!!mittee favor a nine-district plan..are James Curran. Kent; Albrecht said the princip.al

\ Howard Bothell, Auburn; objections to Joshi's nine-di~-\._ ". -- _.. , ; ,trict proposal are ~h~t it

'\ calls. for. one ,commissioner

distnct including the KentValley and all of East KingCountv and does not put all

\Of Seãttl~'s central area in a

single district.The freeholders intend to

include a plan for nine dis-tricts in the c~unty charter

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Fin' King Coiinty Free-h old e r s ye-terd",. wrrenamed to a ~ubc"inriii~cec h a r 1: e d willi d,?(tin,~ ~prop!!;.al to reó¡,lricl Km"Cotmt\'.

Richard _'\Ibrecht. Lynn-wood chairman of the r'1';e-holders, named the specialcommittee. He wil serve asits chairman. .Others on the committee

are .T"n1(" O'Connor. Seat-

tle; Terry .lcK"nna ..and\.,lames P. Cllrran, Kent;

'ç~. Simon \\'ampold, Belle-,

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I, By \"HG!:\IA liL'I;:\SII1E Plans Described cratic - becoming "forever af-

Oiir ('UlIllt\' :-i'" s Blln':!ll As prepared by a Sealte tel' Republican."SpeClii~:jon' mouii!:d at the consultant. the county would be "I am not saying I want the

weekend that lh~ tri:;ger-hot divided into seven or nine com- county divided in such a way asmatter of di\'idii,' tll(~'c.)unty missioner districts, ap¡iroxi- to favor either party, but itinto se\'cn, or !line-~:in cummis- mately equal in population, but should at least be fair," hesioner districts, now und~r con- varying widely in economic and declared, He urged that bothsideration by the Board of King political implications. The nine- county and state chairman ofCounty Freeholder,;, may fail member plan (currently favored each major political party befor lack of a majority for either by freeholders as the size of the solicited for their comments onplan. en;:rossed Board of King County the impact of the two plans onThe two proposals are due for Commissioners) would cut the the political balance' in the

an in-depth look at a spccial Valley into two parts, with the county. .meeting of the body cai:(.d for southern part of the Vallcy Concerned with the effect oflomorrow night at the King comprising one commissioner the two plans on Valley inter-County Courthouse at 7:30. The district exlending from the ests, Terry McKenna, Kent free-meeting, while not a public Pierce County boundary line on holder, charged that ,neitherhearing, is open to the public. the south to the Snohomish plan meets the needs of the

Wednesday, with all four Val- County line on the north Valey where, he said. the ma-ley freeholders concurring, the Political implications of the jority of the eounty's growth in

two plans were tabled unti plan drew the most fire last. the next 10 years wil occur. He¡members could, in the words of week when Wampold charged urged that neither the seven-nor

Simon Wampold, vice chairman that eilher plan, if adopted, nine-man plan be included in the

1 of the board. have the opportu- would result in King County - a new charter.

nily to digest the contents of ihe county \\'hich he said had been Project Endangered, two controversial proposals. regarded as traditionally Demo- Acknowledging the explosive

nature of the proposals before. them, most freeholders infor-mally agreed that adoptiongeither plan could endanger serio.

- ousIy passage of the new char-ter they have spent the lastseven months framing. Con-siderable sentiment was ex-pressed Wednesday to use thepresent three commissioner dis-tricts as a basis for electing niecommissioners and leave the'delicate task of districting the

icounty unti after 1971 - andafter the charter has been ap-

;proved.. Mrs. Lois North, Seattle free-

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JUL 2 4 1868

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Free:îo!clcrs SetPi;~!iC I'le:-ringThe Board or King County

Freeholders Chairman, Richard

Albrecht, anoounced today that apublic hearing \1111 be held by thebod on July 31 at 7:30 p.m. inroom 402 or the King CountyCourthouse.

Under con.sideration by the boardor Freeholders wil be a

, prelinuary draft or the KingCounty Charter, on which the boardand its staff have been working forthe past se\'en months. A secondpublic hearing has tentatively bçset lor August 7. '

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Albrt\fiC -announ~'~ toeJa)' thaI a

, T i. Y PUbiii' hCëlrin~ will be held b)' then I 5 ear &.rd on Jull' 31 at 7,30 pm in1-- . _4 room .lo: of (h(' King COunl)"J I ' / / Courth"us.,By HERB ROBINSON Und.. ,?n,idmtion by th,

Associnic Ediior. The Times Bmrdof freeholders will be aAhhoii~h I~\C. ~ity. Council now h,ns decided ~o ~i~~.in~~'ar~.~~ft o:f W~i~h K~:

iea\'t th(' ~hln!'ld~tion issue up to l~e \~~ers. theft' is Bord ilnd ib staff have bena stroll~ hkcllhood that the question \'111 not reach work.iig for the pas! st'\'en monththe hlll~t until somttimc in 1969. A second publit' h('itring ha~

In June. a Council majority signifed its intention tenlalJn'ly been set ror August 7,to CIH'cl 8 fluoridation ordinance wilh a 3D,day IIde~ Further hC'arings wil be held as'Ja\'('d actior:" clause. to provide opponrn~s with an Ij.eç~~r: to gl\e all interestedopportunity to circulate referendum petitions berore ('llJzem an 0pPCrtunlt~ to ~c he~rd.the measure actu.-lly became law. Announccmi'nl or the. time. and

This w."~k, howevcr, therc ~\'as R surprise shirt :~~ ~~~('~ddJlJonal heanngs will be

In the posllions or some Council me~bers and the Copie; or the Chart.r dralt ..ebod)' voted 6 10 3. 10 place Ihe. queslion before t.he bcmg ihstributed to interestedelectorate, an actl0~ .that clim~nnted the ~eC'es$ity CÎLicns and or¡:aniiilJons. Copiesfor 8 referendum.petitton campaign. (For Times edi.. willal'Õo be supplied to all librariestorial, SN' P,¡i~(' 10.) in th('count)..

In ahand1min;: the fate or fluoridation to the The board wil continue to meetvolers, thr Council did not sprll nut the date for an rf£ularl)', deliberatJng on proposed

election. "hat is to be studied h)' a Coiincil com- ,hang., to ihe draft ThemiUtt!, and a de('sion niade Jater. Frcdoldefs e:pel"t to have the

Looking ahr;id. however, there is evidence that Ch,rter 10 rinal .rurm earl)" inSeattl.c V?iCr~ wil not have a ch~ncc, to decide the :~~heen~~~e:~:\~a~al~~tI3i'edquestion in eiiher th~ Se~tember 1, primary election Th. next srhedulN de"i,"tJngor the general electJo~ November 5. seion or U1e boJrd \\;11 be on July

The Seplember primary wo~ld have bee~ ~ Jog- 17 at 7,30 pm m rom 40: of theleal time, but because or technical reasons it is aI- King Countl' Courthouse, Allready too late to certiry the measure to the Septem- ""ions or iJ. bord are open tober ballot. ' li publi" ./

As to No\'ember 5. King County election offcials ..believe that the general-eleciion ballot could well beso crowded with other prop05itions. there would beno room lefi on ihe voling machines ror inclusion orthe fluoridation question.

Edward J. Logan, county elections superin-tendent, noted that 12 state-wide propositions-on'stitutional amendments, bond issues and the like-already are eerla;n entries On the November ballotand two slate initiali\'e proposals evidenily havereceived enough signatures to join the list,

Logan said two remaining ballot positions tenta-tively have been "reserved" ror an expected SeattleSchool District special le\'y and for a proposed home-rule charter now being written into final form by theBoard of County Freeholders.

iriñë \\ c . are practically 'out or space' on ourvotin~ machi:ies." Lo~an said, "we have advjsedthe cii)' or the situaiion nnd have tried tn discour-age them from seeking a fluoridation vote this fall."

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OUTL001,: Under such circumstances. the flu-oridation proposition normally would be put off untilthe next municipal general eleciion, scheduled inNovember. 1969.

Yei opportunities .may develop for placing thequestion on the ballot earlier than that. .

For exml1p~c. U King Counly voters approve aproposed charter this ¡"ii, ekeiions would be heldnext Fehruarv and March to select the ollicialcalled for in ¡he new document. The fluoridationissue could be allached 10 the san,e ballot.

Similarly, thëre is a possibility that the FonvardThrust organization may submit new propositions tothe voters sometime next spring, alter adjournmentor the 1969 Legislature.

Whaie\'er course is decided iipon-and unlessfluoridaiion somehow could be "squeezed" onto No.vember's ballot-it appears the matter now wil gointo limbo for at least six months.

.P~_; '.~'-Notes and Comment

. In light or predictions that Lady Bird Johnson'scampaign to rrgulate outdoor advertising along the na..lion's highways is near extinction, Washin~ton State's o\...nbilboard-control law assumes evcn grcater significance.Thp. ftrl~ral control program reportcdly is in trouble be..cause or Vietnam war costs, intensÍ\'e lobhyin;; ~ nd otherpressures. The state law stil faces a challenge in thefedcr;tl courts... ."

. This week's episnde In the King County iail alop :the Courthouse provided a new argußlC'nt for compietion:of th~ Courthouse remndf'Jing project, The escape of four'prisoners became po~sihlc partly because of security,..aknesses ereoled b\' the renovation work. Part of the

Se.ffo, W.sh.. White Center Now.

(eir. W, 5.862 Paid 7,758 Free)

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.. rerhoJdrr:o \\ ill hoJd' lr:("first publiC" ttarini: on a('n.irier lor ttit" ('ount) on"d~t'sda)". July 31. Theniei'ii.",g ''¡ii Sl,ílrt at i:3tJ~.m. In room .:02 or tht" King(ounl.~ Court ILi.st'.

Thi' prdiniinal) dr:ift orthe ~h;Jrl~r ~ ill be Opt'ß topuhJ~(' dis('u.;siuns al thehrilrings. .. si'('ond is schrd.uled ror \\'i'dnl"sd;i). Aug. ;.

The ßrJ:.rd or Fret"holdi'rsand sti.ir.r h;l\e bl't'" dra"in~up the hrst i'harh:r for Kin'"('OUr.I) ror thr past St\ e~month...

Thl') e"'pt,(.t to h.n e the~hartf'r in fin;.l furm f'arl\rn St"ptt"mbrr !iO th:it it ranbe pl.u.t'd on tht :\o\ember1965 ballot.

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The controv'crsial plans before~lans (which he'~ put tOEetherthe King County Board of Free-;like .a mathenietician) withoutholders drawina up a new char-making the study ourselves,tel' which w~ild divide thelwe're endangering the charter,"county into a seven- or nine-man:Wampold emphasized. "We'vecommissioner district went back labored too hard. . . too long. . .to the drawing board l\Jonday: and too well to sacrifice our

night. i efforts to the proposals of a,consultant."Only this time freeholders . ,

decided to do it themselves. Job Is 'Explosive, Import~nt .The actions, approved by the. Wampold labeled the district-

three' Valley freeholders who ing proposal~ as not only theattended the meeting, came most explosive matter to beafter a lengthy debate at which considered bi' the freeholders,a series of counterproposals but the most imp?rtant.were offered to the group . .. Others.J¡ k e \y i se expressed

only to be withdrawn. concern, including Kent Attor-. h ney James Curran, who de-Thr?ughout ,the me~ting t ere clared' "I am disappointed this

was litt~e seniiment i~ ~avor. of thing has gotten into the realmpostponing the districtin~ Job of politics which hasl1't contrib-until after the charter is :p- uted to anything but dissention.

proved. Most relt freehold~rs I don't like political leaders. shou~d do the Job theriselves, callng 'wolf' before they know a

,predicated on the basis of a wolf is in the woods." Curran,mne-!Tan board of county com- referred to an analysis submit-

missioners. ted by Wampold by DemocraticBefore the decision wiis County Chairman Jeannette \Vil-

Ireached, both districting plans Iiams in which she said eitherdrawn by Board Consultant Ra- plan would lead to five Republi-jan ikant N. Joshi came in for can districts controllng King

extensive criticism, paricularly County.

from Simon Wampold, vice Aside from the political objec-chairman of the group, who tions to the two plans, mostcharged that the districts pro- criticism was voiced to thepo~ed by Joshi would make King inequities posed by the propos-

als to South King Count)" inter- that decision up to some blue-ests - particularly the Valley ribbon committee from Seatte'sarea. central area.

Noting that most complaints Also opposed to deferring theabout the two proposals came districting was Auburn Free-from the South County area, holder Howard Bothell, who toldChairman Richard Albrecht, la- board me m bel's they werebeling them legitimate ones, charged with trying to makedeclared he saw "no way to county government. more re-make everyone happy, but we sponsive to the wishes of thecan attempt to make as many people. "In view of the fadpersons happy with our work as neither of the plans before usp('ssible." does that, I believe we should go .Committee Approach Favored ahead and do the job

An alternate plan drawn and oursevles."submitted to the freeholders by Time Is Running ShortAlbrecht was withdrawn when it Although board members arebecame apparent the majority in apparent agreement theyfa\'ore.d appointment of a ~ub- should attempt to do the district-committe~ to redraw the lines ing job themselves, observersar.d submit them t~ the freehold- noted litte concern Mondayers at a later meeting. night for the time element in-

The decision was spurred by volved in their critical decision.Robert Eberle, 7th District ¡. . .conaressional candidate who \\ith a public hearing on theaccu~ed the group of "not ~vant- nearly complete charter .scned-ing to draw district lines be- uled for ~ext Wed~~sda) mghtcause you want to fool people. . at 7:30 in the King C?unty. just like in the stadium situa- C:0~rthouse, and the ~eactine to

tion." flllSh .the doc~e~t in time toOpposition to deferring the place it ?n the NO\ ember ballot

districting or placing it in the challenging their efforts, fre~-hands of another body was also hol~ers c;ou~d b~c?me snarled in

expressed by Curran who said their O\\B inability to draw ahe felt that "unincor'lorated plan that would please all mem-

areas ought to have so~ething bel'S.to say about what's done in But as of last Monday night,areas like mine without leaving they agree to try,

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Speculation mounted at the consultant, the county would be "I am not saying I want theweekend that the trigger-hot divided into seven or nine com- county divided in such a way asmatter of dividing the county missioner districts, approxi- to favor either party, but itinto seven- or nine-man commis- mately equal in population, but should at least be fair," he

sioner districts, now under con- varying widely in economic and declared. He urged that bothsideration by the Board of King political implications. The nine- county and state chairman ofCounty Freeholders, may fail member plan (currently favored each major political party befor lack of a majority for either by freeholders as the size of the solicited for their comments onplan. engrossed Board of King County the impact of the two plans onThe two proposals are due for Commissioners) would cut the the political balance in the

an in-depth look at a special Valley into two parts, with the county.' '.meeting of the body called for southern part of the Valley Concerned with the effect oftomorrow night at the King comprising one commissioner the two plans on Valley inter-County Courthouse at 7:30. The district extending from the ests, Terry McKenna, Kent free-meeting, while not a public Pierce County boundary line on holder, charged that neitherhearing, is open to the public. the south to the Snohomish plan meets the needs of the

Wednesday, with all four Val- County line on the north Valley where, he said, the ma-ley freeholders concurring, the Political implications of the jority of the county's growth in 'two plans wer~ tabled unti plan drew the most fire last. the next 10 years wil occur. Hemembers could, in the words of week when Wampold charged urged that neither the seven-norSimon Wampold, vice chairman that either plan, if adopted, nine-man plan be included in the

-. I i '\ /./;;; óf the board, have the opportu- would result in King County - a new charter.. I'..v \. _~_'. .. nity to digest the contents of the county which he said had been Project Endangered

l.. ~ two controversial proposals, regarded as traditionally Demo- Acknowledging the explosive

.. (~ _ ')j' I ~ ' nature of the. proposals before', , ,~'-:-.. \ \ . -- -- -~-"-them, most freeholders infor-d. ~":./~ 1::.' __ ~.-. : mally agreed that adoptiongOpinion and comment by ¡ . ¡ either plan could endanger serio,. h bl h' :ously passage of the new char-, ,_-! e pu is er - ,¡ ,tel' they have spent the last

;' . ~/7' ¡¡John L. Fournier l ,seven months framing. Con-i: 'siderable sentiment was ex-. Charter Dilemma i :pressed Wednesday to use theFaces Freeholders -- : . present three commissioner dis-Kin, County freeholders, . tricts as a basis for electing nine'are facing theprob-len: of commissioners and leave the. satisfying their own ranks . delicate task of districting theas well as the rank and fie ,;county unti after 1971 - and: of the public in preparing I after the charter has been ap-

0.,,' "h..,.t . Th' . ; proved.&. n~ er. ls ls no .' Mrs. Lois North, Seattle free-easy task. Right now they ¡holder active in the legislative-are caught on the horns of a :redistricting effort severaldilemma from which they, ¡years ago, cautioned freehold-

so far, have been unable to ,ers ü they want to involve'~xtricate themselves. ,themselves in the actual draw-" -Freeholders have mòre or ¡ing of new commissioner-dis-less collectively agreed to a ;trict boundary lines, they well-multiple unit seven or nine 'could be at work on the projectmemher commissioner or unti December before reachingI . i t' W' h .

agreement . . . ü then. Thategis a ive group, it itcharter is slated to go to thethey have embraced the voters Novèmber 5.eoncept of dividing the Earlier, several Valley free-eounty into seven or nine -holders expressed displeasuredistricts, This, it seems, is with either plan. From theirwhere the mistake is made. "remarks, and the off-the-record..A quick look at the pro- comments of others, it seemsposed redistricting gives 'clear that pressures - poliicalevidence it wil not work and otherwise -could causevery well. First of all, the both plans to be scuttled beforedistricts are not suitable ¡ the first public hearing on the. I new charter July 31. A secondgeographically nor, polii- r hearing has been scheduled for:C'állY - and the immediate August 7 at Seatte Center, after,reaction is that they have which time the freeholders wilbee_no degigned on ~ulêly pui the fínar touches on thepoliticai boundaries. This 1.5 ':'''document that now - except for

.. opens the door to a total Jthe controverisal districting~ontroversy over r~district- plan - is approaching fii~aling rather than a direci ap- form.proach to the problem of

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"ible and certainly unwise totry to redistrict the countyat thI-s time. It appears thatany such action would tendto be self-defeating. -.. 'We believe the freehold-ers could best serve the'community by deferring orforgetting about redistrict-ing; by leaving districtboundaries as they are andelecting two commissionersfrom each district and oneat large. This would retainboundaries as they are, ifseven commissioners areagreed upon this divisionwould give a better spreadand opportunity for morerepresentative government., It has been found in other

areas where attempts were.made to obtain a new char-ter of county governmentthat in some cases theseèfforts failed because vot-

èrs had no choice. An anal-. ýšis of a recent charter. ~hich failed in Maryland. indicated the proposals 1should have been presented

Jin various segments similarto the manner in which theForward Thrust electionwas presented recently~ere in Kjng County. ¡, ,It is our belief that half'aloaf is better than none, andthat the freeholders shouldbreak down the charterproposals into several sig-nificant areas and allowvotérs 'an opportunity tomake a choice.:~ Such an action may atleast provide a stepping

_ stone toward the total pat- itern of good government ,ànd any areas in which thevoters should dissent may ~

,be brought up at a laterdate. There is the potential,tp~n. that a good share of

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charged thaI the dislricts pro- can dislricts conlroUing ¡(ing Just hke in the stadium

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ereOur Count). S,,"s Bureau posed b)' Joshi would make King Coniy. lion," charged "iih Ifjlng 10 make

The controversial plans before C

ount)' "fore,'er Republican," A

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ler which woul divide the like a mathemelician) without inequiiies pOSL't by the pn,~os. expressed by Cumm who said nellher of the plans before us

count). into a seven. or nie-man m

aking Ihe sludy ourselves, als to South King C

ounty imer. he C

ell that "unincorprated does that, I believe We should go

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issioner district wenl back w

e're endangering ihe charter," ests - parlicularly the \',lUey areas oughi to have som

ethg ahead and do the jobto the drawin board ~(onday \\ampold emphasized. "We've area. ' to say about what's done in ouroevles."

night. labored too hard.. ,too long. . . Noting ihat most compl3ints areas like mine ii.ithoul le8\""8 n...i, ~"'.;Ii' Short

Only this U

me freeholders and too w

ell to sacrifice our about the two proposals tam

e that docision up 10 some U

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bers arededded to do iI them

selves. efforts 10 the proposals of a from U

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ounty "rea, ribbon comm

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SeIll., In appart'nt agreem

ent theyT

he actions, approved by the consull.ui." Chainnan R

ichard Albrecht. la. central area. shouJd attem

pt 10 do the district-ihree V

alley freeholders who Job Is 'E

xplosive Imporla.t' beling them

legitimate oiies, . A

lso opposed 10 deCerring iæ

ing jCb thi'm

seh'es, observersattended Ihe m

eeiing, CJle W

anipoU label~

't the district. deelared ,he saw "no w

ily ,to districting was A

uburn Fret noted little c(,ncern M

ondayafter a lengthy debale at w

hich ing prop"sals as not only the ma.~

e'wyone hapP

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oward B

olheJJ, who to nighl for U

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ent in-s series of counterproposaJs m

ost explosive matter to be can. iltl.e~

pi to ,niake as, :nany .-.."W

~ o/fered to the group. - , eonsidered by the freeholders, pen;ons !I,appy w

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ork as ,onl) 10 be w

iihdra" n. . but Ihe most im

portant. possibl.e.Thoughout ihe me~llng Ihere Others likewise expressed Committee Approach Fan,red ,

was hllle sentunent In fa,'or of concern, includiiig K

ent Attor. ,A

n ..lIernale plan drall:l and Burien, W

a..poslponing L

he dlSlnctmg Job ney Jam

es Curran, w

ho de- subnn~led ,~o tiie fn'.cholders by High/ine T

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unil! after the charter IS ap- e1ared: "I am disappoinled this ":b:echl "ös '\lthdralln ':

hen It (eic_ W, 9,200 Paid 1,700 I'

proved. Most feJt freeholders Uiing has gotten inlo the realm became app.ient the majority .

should do the Job Ihe~selves, of politics w

hich hasn't conlrib- favored appomtm

enl 01 a sub-predicated on the basts of a uted to anythíng but djssezition. com

miiic~

lo redraw the. lines

mne.!"an board of county com

. I don'l like political leaders and ,ubniit them t~ ihe freehold.

missioners. . . . callng 'wolt' belor~ they know a en; at a I,Íj.t.er me~~ing. .

Before !.e ~cc:is.ion was wolf is in the woods." Curran The dc.~l5Jón Yu~S SPU~lcd ,by

reachL't, boih distflcling plans referred 10 an anal!,sis subm

ii. Roberl E

berle, ,th, Dislrict

drawn by B

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emocr"lic c~?gressional canJ!.dale, ,W

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clte. Wil. ~((used the gro~p ~f n.o1 w

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s in \l.hich she said either ing (0 draw distritt hnt:s be

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valved in their critical decision. Challenging their efforts, free

\lith a public hearing on the holders c""ld become snarled in

nearly CO

mplele charter sched- Iheir O

lln inabilit)'. to draw a

uled for next Wednesday nighi pl.n thai w

ould please all m.m

-at 7:30 in the King Counly bers.

Courthouse, and ihe deadline to

finish the dOeom

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j Ne\A¡ ~~artor Gets Favorable React"ionby l.ci Yearoút

Last week the prellmlnaryworking draft of the proposed

"home rule" charter for KingCounty was issued to interestedcitizens by the Board of'Free-bolders,'T IS Freeholders bave been

studi1ng various types of countygovernents throughout the na-tion, and. on occasion. have usedpullc hearings as soundingboards. In order to find outwhat would be desirable In thenew charter. .

It I~ now apparent that "work-Ing draft" it wil be...because

changes In the first writing arestarting before the ink Is hardlydry on the 41-page document,

However, L. Joe Miler, Bel-

levue's city manager and cer-taInly the most qualified man inthis area to SIX" out on theInitial charter draft, was enthu-siastic about the work of the

Freeholders."OD the whole, It Is well

done," Miller said, "8 well-written charter."

With exceptions, of course.'T Bellevue cIty manager

expressed concern about a 45-day waiting period before countyordnances would become ef-fective, and questioned thereferendum section which wouldallow 10% of the county votersto petition the commissionersdirectly.

A critic of tbe elected countyexecutive, he labeled as a good

"second best" the appointment

of a qualified county admini-

strator. On the other hand, he

liked the veto provision of thecharær, with its override by asix commissioner vote.

When as ked about thesuggested nine commissIonerdlstrct plan he bad this to say:

"I think it is a dangerous

shattering ofthe area...wil leadto too much "log rolling.....andinvites urban-nial competi-110n, or which there Is too much.lready.. ..'T zoning provisions were

exellent, according to Ml1er.

Simon Wampold, Belle\lle at-torny who Is the only Free-bolder representing this dis-

, trct, has played a key role In

th drafting of the preliminary

charter, His present concern is

th reIstrcting of th county,

and how to make l.li nine com-ßÚssloner distrIcts reflect theIntent of the charter underartcle. six, section 630. which

plalDly states that the district

will be drawn up approximatelyequal ..pulation, and, as wam-"pold puts it, of common socialand economic interests as well.

Two hearings on this workingdraft have already been sched-

uled by the Freeholder Board,

for next Wednesday evening at

7:30 p.m., room 402 of the KingCounty Courthouse, and againthe followIng Wedr.esd3Y, sametime, at ~he Pacific Science

Center's Eames Theatre. Fur-t¡"r h~arl~gs wil be scheduled

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1his map shoVls how the Bellevue area (2) would fare in the redistricting of King County's com-missioner districts under the new county charter as presented by the Board of Freeholders. Thistenative map will undoubtably undergo a number of changes, however, before the districts arefinalized,

as necessary, if to give everyone

an opportunity to be heard" asto their thinking on this first

draft of the new charter.Next week The American wl1

carr a condensed article ex-plaining the first three articlesof the charter, dealing princI-

pally with the legislative andexecutive branches of theproposed county government,

how they wil be elected andappointed, their tenns of offce,powers, and how, under the newsystem, the two branches wllcompliment each other and actas a check and balance system,compared wIth the three com-mIssioner system now govern-

Ing King County,

ohhe charer. .A five man comnuttee !rm

th Boar of King County Free-

holders is now studyig there stlcting, and met for thfirst time Wedesday morng.Simon Wampold of Bellevue isservng OD t1s connittee,alng with Richar Albrecht.chalman of th IS-Freeholders

District 2 \\~uld be repre- boar, James N. O'Connor,sente on the boar of comns- Terr McKenna aI.d Jim Kern.sioners hy a man elected from Ths comßÚtte v.ill reoorttús ara for a four year term thei decisions to the F;ee-1. 51;In 1971. Th distrcts would holders an to the public at onecome under comßÚssloner e: the heargs, probably some-stdies every flve years, would time in August.

be adjusted as to size, shape'-a:id population in order to keep:'them equal, under arcle si I

Under the nie commissioneri.stricting plan outlned in thev.~rldng draf of the DeW King

County home rule charr, thedistrict dominated by Bellvuewould have a population of abouti 35,00 persons, representingabut 11.36% of the total countypopulation.

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\ Draftng of a governmental charter

Cor King County by the Board of Free-

holders h~s be com

e temporarily

i snagged on the issue of legislative dis-trict boundry lines.

The freeholders' im

passe is hardlysurprising, for even if a legislative ap-portionm

ent plan were di-afted in heav-

.: en there would be dissatisfied detrac-

tors.\\ho would question its divinity.

A few

of the freeholders have pro-posed ducking the issue, leaving finaldetermination of county commissioner

boundaries up to the nine commission-

" ers to, be elecl ed under the propos~d, charter. for fear of generating a cont.ro-

versy that could kill the charter itself.i.'rceholders' chairm

an Richard n.

Albrecht insists that failure or the frec-

holders to des i g n ate boundaries of

\ representation prior to this Novem

bei"s: vote on the charter would be "an abdi-

en \ion of our responsibility" and we

agl~c.W

hen county voters consider thecharter at the polls they are entitled toknow

l10W the geographiC

lines ofrepresentation inilially w

il be drawn.

The B

oard of Freeholders is nom

i-nf\lly a non-partisan hofty, far heU

cr" . .. ,I....ri " .....'c/wi;lhlv f'il1ilahle

.-'"1' 'l: :';

---,'-newly elected partisan commissioners,

whose natural proclivity w

il be to cre-ate districts designed to insure thatthey rem

ain in offce.,As for the reported comment of

Kin~ C

ountv Dem

ocr¡:tic Central C

om-

m i t tee Chairman Jeanette Wi11ams

that the apportionment plc'ls now

uu-del' consideration w

ould make the coun.

ty "forcver Republican," it should be

noted that the proposed charter canS

for automatic re-districting every five

years to remove inequities caused by

. pOP

Ulation shifts. T

his should gU?lC

ln.teë that the county becom

es neither Re- ,

publican nor Dem

ocratic forever,

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ay not beable to produce a perfect apportion-m

ent plan, but then perfection is arl3ther subjective com

modity, parlieu-

'larly in the area of legislative appor-

tionment.

Our recom

mendation is for the free.

holders to sette upon a reasonable plnnin the spirit of com

promise and then to

engage in a nnited effort. to sell it andt.he charter t.o the eler.l')1Ü

e. Prolongedhid,cring 0\'('1' hoii ry Jines couldundo the w

ork all 01 the fred10ldcls_ ,_ ,,0,,11 li\ r1'11n

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n Drafted C

harter~ T

he "Working D

raft" chart- The public w

il have an op-f er of the board of K

ing County portunity to attend either hear-

t Freeholçtcr$ wil bè'- prêsented ing and present their views of

r to tii citizens of King County the proposed charter,

~ for ~he first time at a publ~c Any citizen who wishes a copy

j,: hearing July 31 at 7: 30 p,m. in of the dr:l(t m

ay call the free-~¡: room 402 of the King County holder offce at MA 3-5555.

\\ Courthouse. ;J, I '// Copies wil also be available

~:: A second .public hearing has

at the July 31 and August 7

N been announced by freeholder m

eetings.~! chairman" Richard Albrecht, .."'_.-.-

L for Wednesday, August 7, at

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acific Scien:e (;enter's i

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. n i at¡~~ ~~~O~TIel) \f. il'¿ 1/BY LARRY 1\.CARTEN

P,I Staff

TACO)1. .. The Tacoma

City Council met as usual

Tuesday n i g h 1. Underline"as usuaL."

It's the best all-around

tragi-comedy in the PaciiicNorthwest, headlined byMayor A. L. Rasmussenand a supporting cast ofeight.

It plays every Tuesday toa full house and admission

1s free.

OXE AFTEnNOOX, eve-ning, night and next morn-ing last spring the ~nter-

t a i n men t spanned ninehours and 20 minutes. Ras-mussen and the c 0 u n c i iTuesday night seemed benton as long a 9 n e -n i g h tstand.But the curtain dropped

- after only four hours and 45minutes.

The first act was "MIN-UTES."It took the council onlv a

half-hour to decide that achange in the minutes oftwo pre vi 0 U s meetingsshould be called an adden-dum, not an amenq.ment.

ACT II: THE RISE AXDFALL OF POL ICE MO-RALE,The council sped through

this epic in 90 minutes.The question: Should the

requirement that new Taco-ma pol ice men be highschool graduates be amend-ed? '

The proposal was to ac-cept a passing grade on the

General Education Develop-ment (GED) test in lieu ofa high school diploma,

A couple, of councilmen,the head of the police uniol1

and others said use of theGED test would lower themorale of offcers who hadto complete high school toget on the force.Conversely, they added,

morale would tend to :!ise ,with the education.l level'of policemen.Several other councilmen

said passing the GED testmight indicate "higher mo-tivation. "

Ending: Catch the act intwo weeks - the issue wasput over until then,

ACT II: RATS.Rasmussen s aid Taco-

ma's rat infestation is theworst in 23 years. He asked

C: ·(), (c'\ 0 p ~ ~ ri~)1 .,~m": .~ ''-') '1 t( ;.1 tJ l! a~ ~ l::Jb. .~, 14 ü.

. ,¿Ù1

li

¡øo\ "I , .', '" f.

,.~£:, C ~ ~I úlhis arch foe, City ManagerDa\'id Rowlands, what heWas doing about it.

The mayor mentioned bu-bonic plague.

Rowlands said the RATi-cation program was pro-ceeding an.d federal funds

may come soon to end thebatte.

AèT IV: GAG RULE.This was the act where themayor uttered that immor-tal line :

"It all depend$ on whosenit you're pic kin g, Mr,(D e put y 1'1a)'or W, G.)Bott. "

The piece de resistancewas the letter sent in byLyle Green, who wanted topraise Rowlands. Rasmus-

t':'\:~~

sen had been tipped off thatGreen had not personallysigned the letter as re-quired by Council rules.

RAS:\IlSSEN declarM hehad not voted for the "gagrule" but refused to letGreen speak.Counciiman . C. llt John:

son appealed the ruling andthe Council vote'd five tofour to let Green speak, af-ter only 30 minutes of wran.gling. '

Green presented petitionssigned by 1,728 per son s,

praising Rowlands and urg-ing he be retained as city'manager,

Rasmussen's exit line: "Ididn't know anybody wasbeing fired,"

~'

Planners Agree Center Is'Pro~qbfy Best__..S_tadil)!l1 Site

r2 i '17 -~-" ...-City planning tommission- 1 '- '. ". ",

ers agre(.d yesterday that

the Seattle Center area"probably" is the best placefor a proposed dome sta.

dium.The planners-whose re-

pnrt is going to the state Sta-dium Commission - recom-

mended that no final site de-

i cis ion be made until more in-

_ formation is available.The P i ann i n g Commis-

sion's report did not consider- cost and took into considera-

tion only "the basic planning

criteria. "Missing information ele-

ments include:2, A design study and cost

analysis of a "true multi-

purpose stadium facility" ascompared with the proposedmulti-sports facility.2. An analysyis of the ex-

tent to which present down-

town parking facilities, cou-pled with the present mono-rail, could substitute for theadditional parking faciltiesneeded for the stadium werethe Seatlle Center site cho-

sen.3, An analysis of the extent

to which expected trafficcongestion at the Center site,resuiting from major eventsat the stadium, might behandled on a short-rangebasis through m~thods simi.lar to those used for footballgames at the University ofWashington stadium.

4. An analysis of the extentto which estimated costs ofproviding adequate access toa Seattle Center site includethe costs of projects alreadyproposed and which wouldbe necessary to relieve traf.fic congestion already exist.

. ing in the Center vicinity.The report adopted by the

Planning Commission wasdrafted by a special commit.tee of which Peter Best waschairman and Stephen Rich.ardson and Lyle Wilson werememtiers_ ~..,'_, .."

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~ CitÇ-Affa-i~~-~ ___.

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JUL 2 8 1968

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Or.budsman,

Needed Novir;~~r;":;lir;i~:::;i.:::~::;.¡i:i:~'::.~::n~::JG:i:::~:~;i!.':I!:i~:1i~:rIf:;:¡:r.lL:~.rij:i:r.nin~¡m:I::¡;~::~:~i~j.

When most political candidates indorse a con-troversial idea in the heat of campaigning and justas quickly drop it once they win seats, you know theidea must have considerable merit.

So it is with the ombudsman issue, which hasbeen blossoming regularly at campaign time andfallng to seed just as regularly immediately after

election day.

Why is it? Very simple. Politicians are actuallyafraid of the ombudsman idea because it is one ofthe most potent weapons yet devised b)' the litleguy to fight big go\'ernment. .

I have been writing "bout it from time -to time'for several years. 50 have others, But it "gets lost"on schedule as soon as the public lets down itsguard.

IT WAS REPORTED earlier this year by one ofthe news serYÍces that an ombudsman bil had beenintroduced in at least 40 of the 50 state legislatures,including \Vashingt0n's, within the past two years -a~d that not. one of them had passed an a~equatebill. California has come the closest; the issue isstil pending there.

An ombudsman has been under considerationby the Frep.holders framing a new King CountyCharter, but I'll lay you odds it never gets past therecommendation stage. \\11en the politicos get hold-of it, the issue wil slip mysteriously but quicklyfrom sight. ---

\\'hy the deathly fear of an ombudsman by of.ficeholders?

Listen to this from Alfred BexelIus, ombudsmanof 51'.'eden. the first country to adopt the system(back in 1809:): .

"The ombudsman cannot be concerned abouthis popularity. It is no secret that high offcials inSweden - all of tham - dislike the ombudsman.

_.1'hfL_~~.~_he_ _lS___:BJt.t"~~S. ..i!1terf~rhiig.J:i .!hir:g_s_

1.5~

.. doesn't know anytiiing aoou;, and that they COUld dO

their jobs better if he would stop meddling, and soon.

"But all their grumbling doesn't mean a thing,Everybody knows that it is necessary to have anombudsman. ..

FREEHOLDERS - Kin g ,Counir;'~noTders-; who are'drafting a county charter,were asked by the City Plan-ning Commission to includein the cha rter a provision

callin;: for the coordination

of plannng activities be-tween the countv and munic-ipalities within' the COU!lty,

including Seatte.

IT COULD BE 1ì,\TD with humorous logic thatafter 158 vpars of hinJr undcr an ombudsman, onlvthe publie likes the idr~ in Sweden. .

All the other Scaiidjnai'ian countries have hadombudsmen for many years. So have West Ger-many, England and r\ew Zealand, Canada is closeto adoption of the system. too, but is experiencingsome of the friction legislatures have seen in thiscountry, '

"'hat is needed in the United States is for thepublic to rise on its collcctive muscle and demandthe establishment of onibiidsmen - on the state lev-el, on the county lei'cl and on the city le\'e1.

The need grows by the month as go\'ernentpuffs itself into a bigger and more cumbersome pos-ture.

TELEVISION-Offcials oftwo tel e vis ion stationsK!)~lO and KING, met withthe planning group to speakagainst the city's allowing

any high-ri~e a par t men thouses on the top or QueenAnne Hil where telei'isiontowers are situated.

.. --

OXE XOTABLE SCHOLAR on the issue, Profes-sor Frank E, Cooper of the Uninrsity of !lic'iganLaw School, explained it tJùs way:

.., , : There have been created scores of admin-Istrative agencies to carry out the rapidly mush-rooming regulatory programs, 'The result has beenthat in some respects the agencies have to a sub-stantial extent displaced the legislatures and thecourts in the actual operation of state government."

Professor Cooper points out that only a trickleof citizen-versus-state cases are decided in court un-der prescribed l1iles compared to the milions ofdecisions m;ide by agencies against citizen inter-ests. Anti all but a few of those decisions are evertaken to court for review. Most citizen gripes can-not be taken to court.

Jolm Q. simply has no recourse-or he cannotafford to make a legal i,sne of a point that wil costhim more in fees than what he has to gain,

TI!AT'S 'YHSnE the ombuclsman comes ¡n.'HeIs, as the S\\edish tenn translates, the "agent ofjustice" for the ordinary citizen. He has power to gothrough any pnblic door to get answers to a com-plaint. He cannot be intimidated by any public off-cial because he is not subservient to anvone but thepublic. .

In the nations using the system, the ombuds-man is chosen by the parliament or legislaturefrom that group of men that is available to everyfree country - those retired statesmen and govern-ment leaders whose entire active lives have been atestimonial to their honesty and abilty.

For example, a retired judge with a brillant re-cord would be a superior candidate - as Bexeliuswas in Sil'eden. He could be a former head of stat.e,a goveriior, a mayor, a private businessman whohas sl1Oll'n exemplary skill as an administrator,

Above all, he must be a man or woman who hasindicated he has nothing personal to gain from theposition and no axes tq grind. Such men are inabundance. I can think of several who would makeexcellent ombudsmen for the state, the county and'the city. '

WHAT DOES THE ombudsman do? ProfessorCooper enumerates:

"Creation of the offce would prol'de an effec-tive means for examining. on behalf of citizens andof the legislature, instances of m:iladmiiiistration bypublic offcials. The mcans ...'ould include

"1. The power to disco\'cr the poJicips followedby the agencies and the details of their operatingmethods.. "2. The duty to form an opinion as to the valid.ity of charges that an agency's powers were beingabused, misused or nrt uspd.. "3_ Ti~e privilcge of consulting with agency off-

cials, urgJng upon them the de,il'abilìty of amE'nd-ing their 111es or rhangiiig their procedures.

'.'-1 The lì~~~t. to p~lh1i::h iÏJidings. criifcizing orrcplJ1l;inrting :idmiiii~tr;¡tii'e offci;iJs I'. hose per-forinaiicr faii~ 10 mert (le~lrable ót;;ndards,

"5: Thc power 10 m;ike offici,)1 l'Pcommcnda-tions to the 5(."1(" jc,gi~J"ture (or city e0111cil) forremròinJ lògi,J:ition."

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ut spver;:/ chilngCS

in Ih(-prnpos;¡J w

oii/d inCl-rase its

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ber 5 generalelrction.The survey W;IS conduCll"d

among the m

rmhers o( T

hc

Boeing C

o.'s Public-affairs

eour:;p in practicall'()litics at

the reqUf'St or Terry' Me-

((piina a (i-pehoieler. Mc-

Kenna ::¡¡id he w

i/I make a

.~eries o( Proposals for char-ter chAng!,s.

O( thp 1llR

stur/ellts in thec/;¡ssrs. (j2 have responded to1111' qUf'stinnnairp,

SEV

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Al (ree hn I de rs

qllf'S(jollrel 1I1P validity o( tIle

Survey, bui others feli the

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f)unr/a ri"'" for nine coun_tY

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mnils:;;onl"r d 1S

t l' i (' t sthat ¡nve each PO

litical partyan eVen brrilk were ;¡P_

proVed Ja:'i n~

lit for inrhi_.'ion in a Proposed i.ounty

ch;¡rtl?r,In C

0ntrast In a (lJ!!I'íol/splan w

hich ra/sf'dhf'iirl'rf de-b'll"', this one W

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;irilfp dlSlriC

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llghlYI'r¡iii/ pnpii/;ition hy IIsing

('f'll::iiS tr;¡rts ilnd to pre-

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.rononiir, niiini('ipalaw

l ::"o::rnpliic IInils.M

I\PS Wi/I he ;¡diusted

later to conform 10 precinct

hniindarìes.D

espite tlie apparent ease

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II?T

f¡1 ((, i)!1 !l!~ ~Qti ¡¡ '~lL¿¡ ¡,~ II ~w /Survey

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suI t s raised significantpoints. it w

as hased nn aprelim

inary . c1i;¡rter draft('om

p/e/eel July 18. Although

a nUm

ber of changes ha vebeen m

Ade since then, M

c-K

enna said Ile k e P t thecourse staff up to date.ThirtY-one per cent of

thOse anSw

ering (elt theCOunty AUditor should Con-

tinue'to be elected instead of,appointed by the B

oard ofC

ounty Com

missioners, T

his

stOod as the major area of

dis;¡grepment.

The tabulation shOwed 63

per C:€nt, o( those answ

pringWOuld oPPOse the charter as

it now stands, but thE

' (igureW

nii/r/ be reversed if' some

'Changes w

ere made.

Forty-seven per cent (('P

ithe m

;¡jority o( vOlers w

ilaprrnve the rresp.nt draft,a nel 1.1 pc/' C

ent, believe itw

oulcl he defeated.M

OR

E T

HA

N 5,000 B

oeing

Co. eO

lployp.s have t;¡ken theP

Ublic-af(;¡il'S

course offeredO

n a valuntary hasis duringnonw

orking hn"r.~. Partìc:_P;¡nts are consiclerpò tn rep-

reSE'nf ;¡ CTnss-Sertion of

IPchnic;:l, W

hite-cn/iil/', of,fi('~, supervisory ilnd execu_tiVe pcrsonnf'. SPOUses of

emplO

yes also partìC:ipate,

While h a I ( of thnsp re-

SPOnding felt the freehO

ldershave done il gO

Od nr f'xcP

I.lent job, and anothcL' 31 per

OK

'd for ProrJosed Charter

..with which it passed, Vir-

ginia Gunby and T

e/'ry M('-

Kenn;¡, freehOlders, serVed

notice thAy will ask the

Board o( Freeho/dei's to re- .

consider reducing the num-

her of Commissioners to

seven.M

rs, Gunby declared: "I

don't thinK the cha rter w

iIIpass w

ith nine, fUll-tim

e'. It

comm

issioners.Sim

on Wam

pold called for

a meeting to discl/s.., 1I1e

nUll1her of commissioners

and their lJay.Although the committee

report .~a irj Ihere is insuff_cipl1t reliAhe dAla From

which to predict the partis;:n

make-up of the districts, a

number of f'reeholders said

they helieve foul' each areRepublican and Democratic

and the other a Sw

ing dis-trict.

The rO

Pli!ation of the dis-tricts rangf!S (rom 129.100 to

/,16,700, but the smaIJer dis-

trict:: are in the al'er!S pro-

jected to grow fasip.~

t.The Shorp/iiie and Rothl"1J

r!('ca,s, roUghly nnl'//¡ of

Northeast 11.11 h S

ti'pet ;n theS

horf'line ;¡rf''1 anrf north ofNorthe;¡st 112th Street in the

ßOhp/1 arr.;¡, al'~ in Ol1e Oís-.

thr.t, con.~Íf1cred a SWing dis-

trict politicaiiy, .

cent consider it as avera,

the charter Was criticized

nearly Ol1e fifth (or givi

the C:O

unty f?Xecutive ill

'CO

unty gOverninl:nt in ge

eml too mUch POWer,

Thp report ,~hows that 1

)'eI' r.ent of those responrfin¡ff'el the charter nef'ds to bi('xplainl'd m

ore (Idly to thEP

iihlic a no Sliould r.ontain ell?-

tailed deFinitions of tlie pow

-P

rs anel rl1iticS of each offce

and officiaL.

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if a

limited Slll'ev is corrfe!,

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al't'

d to

day.

But severn i Ch.111ges in iiie

- pr

opos

al w

ould

incr

ease

its

.chances for approvaL.

' Freeholders plan to submit

the

char

ier-

to th

e V

oti:r

s at

the No"eniber 5 general

elec

tion.

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amon

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for

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clas

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llie

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sig

nifir

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poin

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bas

ed o

n a

prel

imin

ary

char

ter

draf

tco

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Ned

Jul

y 18

. Alth

ough

a number of ch"n;¡es have

been

m¡¡

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inre

then

, Mc-

Ken

na s

aid

he k

e p

t th

eco

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sta

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p to

dat

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lt th

eCOUntv audiior shOUld con-

tinue

-to

be

elec

ted

inst

ei/d

of

appo

inte

d, b

y th

e B

oard

of

COU?ty Commissioners. This

stoo

d as

l1ie

maj

or a

rea

ofdj

r-iiz

\"ce

men

t.T

/"e

tabu

latio

n sh

owed

63

per Cênt of ihose anSwering

WO

uld

oppo

se th

e ch

arte

r as

it noli stands, but the figure

WOuld be reversed if some

chan

ges

we'

re m

ade.

FO

rtY

-sev

en p

er c

ent f

eel

the majoi-ity of VOters will

apP

rove

the

pres

ent d

raft,

and

45 p

er c

ent b

elie

ve it

won

ld b

e de

feat

ed.

MO

RE

TH

AN

5,0

00 B

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g

SEVERAL freeholdf'rs

ques

tione

d th

e va

lidity

of

the

surv

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ut o

ther

s fe

lt th

e

Boundar;es for nine COun.

ty'c

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oMr

d i $

t I'

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sth

at g

ive

each

Pol

itica

l par

tyan

eve

n br

eak

wer

eiip

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oved

laM

ni.l

i for

inei

u-sian in a proposed county

Cha

11er

.In contrast to a previous

plan

whi

ch r

aise

d he

aled

de,

bate, this one Was appro\'ed,

12 to O.

The five-member COmmit_

tee of the freeholders which

dl'lf

ted

the

repo

rt s

aid

it is

desi

gned

to c

reat

e ni

ne s

ep-

arate districts of rou.~hly

equal popiila/ion by using

census tracts and to pre-

serve economic. municipal

and

geog

raph

ic u

nits

.M

APS

wil

be à

djus

ted

later to ronform to precinct

boun

dari

es.

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each

PO

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arty

an e

Ven

bre

ak w

ere

ap-

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ved

Wed

nesd

ay n

ight

for

incl

u~iu

ii in

a p

ropo

sed

coun

_ty chai tel'_

I:i contrast to a previous

plan

whi

ch r

aise

d he

ated

de-

bate

, thi

s O

ne w

as a

ppro

ved,

12 to O.

Tiie five-member commit_

tee of the freelJolders which

draf

ted

the

repo

rt s

aid

it is

desi

gned

to c

reat

e ni

ne s

ep-

arate districts of roughly

equal population by using

census tr"cts ,ind to pre.

sen'e economic, municipal

and

gc'o

grap

hìc

units

.

with whir1i it passed, Vir-

gini

a G

unby

and

Ter

ry M

c-K

enna

, fre

ehO

lder

s, s

en'l"

dnotice they will ask the

Bua

rd o

f Fr

('eho

lder

s to

re-

consider reducing the nUm_

ber of commissioners to

seve

n.'M

rs. G

Unb

y de

clar

ed: "

ido

n't t

hink

the

char

ter

will

pass

With

nin

e, fU

ll-tim

eco

mm

issi

oner

s. ,.

Sim

oii W

ampo

ld c

aIJe

d fo

r

a m

eetin

g to

dis

cuss

lIie

Jlumber of commissioners

and

t1le

lr pa

y. ,

A/though lhe committee

repo

rt s

aid

ther

e is

insu

ffi_

cient reliabe data from

whi

ch to

pre

dict

the

part

isan

mak

e.up

of

the

dist

rict

s, a

num

ber

of f

reel

iold

ers

said

they believe four each are

Rf'p

iiblic

an a

nd D

emoc

ratic

and the

othe

r a

swin

g di

s,tr

ict.

c.

MA

PS w

ill b

e ad

just

edlater to conforni to precinct

boun

dari

es_

Despite the apparent ease

with wliicli it passed, Vir-

gini

a G

unby

and

Ter

ry M

c-K

rnna

, fr(

chol

di,r

s, s

el'v

edno

tice

tJI(

Y-l

7k th

eB

O:ir

d of

Fl'c

f',nl

ders

to r

e.cGnsid('r r(-Iucin~ the null.

bu' of commissioners to

seve

n.~rrs. G

111 b

). d

ecla

red:

"I

dt'!1

't tli

i¡¡l

: tJ~

0 eJ

i:H'tc

r lii

Jjpa

~s

with

nili

c, fu

Jl.ti

me

CO

J..:m

i.'.$

Í(i:i

..:r$

. .,

--" "-;::d called for

a m

eetin

g tå

dis

cuss

the

Jlumber of commissioners

and

thei

r pa

y.Although the committee

repo

rt s

aid

ther

e is

insu

ff_cient reliabe data from

whi

ch to

pre

dict

tiie

par

tisan

niak

e-up

of

the

dist

rict

s, a

num

ber

of f

reel

iold

ers

said

they

bel

ieve

fou

l' ea

ch a

reRepublican and Democratic

and the otlier a swing dis-

tric

t.T

Iie

POpu

latio

n of

tiie

dis

-tricts ranges from 129,400 to

136,700, but the smaller dis-

tric

ts a

rc in

the

area

s pr

o-je

cted

to g

row

fas

test

.T

he S

hon:

line

and

Bot

hell

area

s, r

Oug

hly

iiort

h of

NO

i1he

ast 1

I5th

Str

'''t in

the

Shor

elin

e ¡l

I~a

and

nort

!i o

fN

orth

east

1I2

th S

tre'

et in

the

Boh

ell a

rea,

are

in o

ne d

is-

tric

t, co

nsid

ered

a s

\';in

g di

s-tr

ict p

oliti

cally

.

Cha

r14e

r . j

A n

umbe

r of

per

sons

ap-

plaU

ded

lie c

Jiar

ter

draf

t,bu

t tho

se r

epre

Sent

ing

coun

ty e

mpl

oyes

wer

e cr

lti-.

cal of the personnel system,

Contending it does not take,

empl

oyes

Out

0 fr

ie P

Olit

ical

aren

a.M

rs. B

ilie

Nic

liols

, a f

or-

mer

e 1

I ¡i l

oye

WII0

has

WO

rked

for

civ

il se

rvic

e,M

I'.s.

Pat

ricia

Van

Mm

kirk

,pr

esId

ent o

f the

Cou

nty

Em

-pJúye's Assoriation, and 111's.

Wan

da T

l:oiip

son,

sec

reta

ry,

expressed these views. But

Mrs

, Tho

mps

on a

lso

criti

-cized Provisions limitng 1'01-

Unta ry POliical activity of

empl

oyes

.Jo

seph

Mae

Don

ald

of F

ed.

eral \ray contended tiie

char

Ier

¡iii/c

d to

gÌi'

e ru

ral

resi

dent

s be

tier

serv

ice.

Ife

called ¡or deccntratlzation

of Coun/y go\'emiient so per.

saiis

in o

utly

ing

al'e

:is C

ould

hand

le (

'oun

ty b

usin

ess

inth

eir

lOca

l are

as,

Che

! Wlle

01,'r

, CO

unty

pla

n,ni

ng c

omm

issi

on,'r

and

for-

mer

cha

irman

, cal

led

for

mer

e us

e of

citi

zen

advi

sory

coiii

iiUl'c

s.S"

\'(l';

t! P

i';'s

oiis

fel

l the

iiS-

''',,;or should D(' apJiuiiited

r~ili

t'l. t

1li"

ln d

L'C

li;d

and

7, c

over

ing

Wcs

t Sea

ttle,

Beacon Hil and White Cen.

tel'. District 3 and 4 are Consid_

ered

Rep

Ubl

ican

, and

5 a

nd 7

Dem

ocra

tic.

Oth

er R

"pub

Hca

n di

stric

tsar

e 2,

Cov

erin

g tii

e B

elle

-vu

e, K

irkla

nd, R

edm

ond

and

Issa

quah

are

as, a

nd 8

,C

over

ing

Nor

man

dy P

ark,

Bur

ien

and

Vas

hon

Isla

nd.

Oth

er D

emoc

ratic

dis

trct

sar

e 9,

cO

~'e

ring

l!ent

, iiu

.bu

rn, E

num

claw

and

Fed

.er

al W

ay, a

nd 7

, inc

lndi

ngR

ento

n, M

aple

Val

ley,

New

,poit Hils, Skyway, Tukwila

and

Mei

eel

' Isl

and.

The

rej

ecte

d pl

an p

lace

dthe Kell1 Val1ey and SoUUI

Kin

g ou

nty

toge

ther

witl

i the

rura

l are

as in

Eas

tern

Kin

gCOUlltv frol1 thc northern to

the

SÓut

hern

bor

ders

of

the

county, connected Renton

wIt!

1 th

e S

eattl

e ce

ntra

l are

aan

d pl

a('c

d M

erce

r Is

land

with the Bel1evue area.

TllH

EE

DIS

mlC

TS

:Irc

who

lly w

itI,in

Se;

itte.

and

afO

urth

l;,c

gdy

\rith

in th

e ci

tylim

its. T

hcS0

inc/

Ildf

. uÎs

tric

t3,

CO

\'Cl'i

rig th

e G

recn

rak

e,Uniwl'oíty aiid $,1nd Point

area

s; .1

, CO

\"er

iiici

Ba!

l:ird

.Quc('n 1\l1ne ,¡¡nd :\b1~ntJJia;

5. (

:(j\"

(rin

ö th

e cc

nll\d

i:in

.:-.i,

11lE

I\E

W P

LA'\

was

Ull-

\'cíl(

'd b

efor

e th

e fir

st o

f tw

opu

blic

hea

rings

(¡n

iJle

pro

-P1hcd diart.:r. The n('xt wìl

he ill ï::O ¡i. Il. WI'lÌ1lCsdilY

iii th

e L

,mes

Tht

'ale

r at

the

PJc'

ìlic

SC;(

'nec

CC

l1kr

.

--'-w

'~\:i

vÆf.

'~~

Co.

t'm

plov

es h

ave

take

n th

eP

Ubl

ic-a

ffairs

Cou

rse

offe

red

on a

val

omar

:\ ba

sis

durin

gilo

il\O

I'~in

g òô

iirs.

Par

tici-

pam

s ar

e C

OnS

ider

ed to

rep

-re

S('n

t a r

ross

.set

.tion

of

tec1

inira

l, w

!iite

-col

lar.

of-

fice

, SU

Mn'

isor

y an

d ex

ecu-

tive personnel. Spouses of

empl

Oye

s al

so p

artic

ipat

e.While h a i f of those re.

SjJn

ding

fel

t the

fre

ehol

ders

ha \'

e do

ne a

gon

d or

exc

el-

lent

job,

and

ano

ther

31

per

The Popul~ticin of the dis-

tricts ranges from 129,400 to

136,700, but the smaller dis-

tric

ts a

re in

, the

are

as p

ro-'

ject

cd to

gro

w fa

stes

tT

he S

hore

line

and

Bot

hell

areas, rOUghly north of

Nor

thea

st lJ

5th

Str

eet i

n th

eS

liore

line

area

and

nor

tli o

fN

oi-t

Iieas

t lJ2

tIi S

tree

t in

the

Boh

ell a

rea,

are

in o

ne d

is"

trie

t, co

nsid

ered

a S

win

g di

s-tr

ict P

Olit

ical

ly.

160

cent consider it as average,

the

char

ter

was

crit

iciz

ed b

yne

arly

one

fifr

h fo

r gh

'ing

the county executive and,

CO

Ullt

y go

vern

men

t in

gen-

era!

too

muc

h po

wer

.The repo11 shollS that 13

per cent of those responding

feel

the

char

ter

need

s to

be,

expl

aine

d m

ore

fully

to th

e'pu

blic

and

sh.

iuld

Con

tain

de-

taile

d de

fini

tions

of

llie

pow

- ;

els

aiid

dut

ies

of e

ach

offc

eand offcial. . __ _

rL;

--" '. , . ~

¡ ~ndariesOutlirf~å7Boundaries ~stabiished

for the, pre - - -~d, nine-

eounty-eommi: : '~er dis-

lriefi in a coun:y d,arler

being drafted by theBoard of Freeholders areoutlined-rlìfS ma p, Dis-

tricts 5 (Seattle central

area), 6 (Renton, MapleValley, Tukwila, Mercer

Island, Newport Hills), 7(West Seattle and WhiteCenter) and 9 (Kent, Au:burn, Enumclaw, FederalWay) are considered Dem-ocratic. Districts 3 (GreenLake, University and SandPoint), 4 (Ballard, Magno-lia, Queen Anne), 2 (Belle-vue, Kirkland, Redmond,

Issaquah), and 8 (Norman-dy Park, Burien, Vashon

Island) are considered Re-publican. District I (Shore-

line and Bothell) is consid.ered a swing district, Thepopulation range is from

129,400 in District 6 to

(136,700 in District 3.L.-

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fulore Al;Jut fiieal'doHerse- F om Pagf' 1) lutoMmi)U~ b) (')icmpuni (our of(Conunu r his deputies fr..m uu.' pen;unnt'l

1M haeD' of ul rlC'ttd roupt)" rul~ apl'l~'in~ lø or.er county.lot~e prtl)" elette- officials e~;)~m(' rult" ammcndmcnl

..t' lunt\oo tin be altered sped1icall)' prr\'ents the

un borne rule' ammendint'nt II' FrcholdeOo from making anyth state constitution. only' Uie tl\nie In the o!hCh or the ('ount)'aør ,,ould suU be tlccteod. and IUP'rintaldcnt or icbools. lhebe wold be ('1('1t' on .3 p.rts.1n pro\."(utar. the $upeOT Coutbat. Ris o!f('(' is iuMM m;ite Jqi-. or the just~ of th~ '~I.-.~

cQnutUs.iQ(\crs., and lJdopiCd b)'orll'3nce or rejcdl'.

Ap::eals frorn rezoning dechtoDSttld &0 dire-cll)" to ibe courts. Aboard of appeals would be~.t'b\i~htd 10 bear the tast' DOWColli' berOft' ,he board of_equaltuiioD. the board ofadjU)tmcDt, aDd aD)" oib~r t)-p ofappt.l. procdure, ib) D\l, '1

$om.. Woo"..sippl"g Ne_¡g. '.W. 15.00)

woo ..in be el(...u..d in odd.numbered \t;irs "hilt' othtf count).OfCU:NS ..iii be clC':tcJ tn ~imDumbet ro )'e3P.

The prcs('ntl~ ellXled ofhcils..hose posu \li.U be e\uni.nated..-ould be allo..ed to H1'e thrt:under of their lerT in $Orneother rap.i:t)' for the cot) attheir pr~ent solarics so the C'unt.y~ill not be deprh'ed of then\'aluaLlt' experience' durin thir,a\tlM perloo to lhe new fo oft:t:nmentNo -- eleced _li.'ould be pr'atcd from ~for 'II!' ~,,'C "Uk~ -im4 1biIå.ltt.tI, 1

~Ming and zoning ..ould bedoe b)" a lit' dt"partnimt in theaeuti\'e branch of the countypemment. RecommtncUtions fori-ng would bo bead b)' lbe i

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-19r.~ 'pI Ixgot IpproprlUon butwold not adnùniter. They wouldal ca' on some of the functionsp...nU)' Iudl by Indepdetbord,

The count)' ieglat~ would ilsappint an auditor whose dutieswold be the finac~l pot. auditfuncton (where the mon~' went),'Audits \\iU rontiue to be done bythe itate aud.lOr as recuied byi..enllaw, Cotrl 01 lb. COlltyauditor wi be oae way thele¡i.tii wiD ti~ lbe poergi\-e to the exective,n. P""~.i -..-

for . å. dIef ntC\le &0 becatd me cout) eucudn. IDd &0bo deced by ii. eoiil) a' iae ii. pe eJProD for. foUl- yea&a ii II lDti sa of .1 le:o~ aDd ODe- ba li dii of 1M~"'..H. .. be _ted aD lb

eith'e power of the cowl£), andwould appoint a professionaladmtrtor to ast hi. Hewod alo have powe to appointan reO\'e aU no-etottd de:paent beads. subject to i..lative approval.

H. would bo liven lbe ii ofvet of ordinID statutes, thu¡hi vet C'utd be ovendden by a'"ate of 7 of the 9 totnontn,He woiid prep'" I unfied budgetreec lbe COllty p_ lortl yea. but .pef¡ing mojor

e:ditur b)' Spefic line item.Under the county admstntor

would bo tJ oioc of bii ai_b. of peel. ol tliipig. 01 COty pi, aiol pulu .LIDe dtpartiieati Ii ,'l

aditl..li",b wo.i4be lbDt¡mtnls of Public Work.' andTransporudoo, 01 PubU, s..I). ofPubllc Heaib IDd Welfare. 01Rttord ud Elttdoii. of flaice01 Parks and CoD1'T'IJ~\ty SeniC"..1 PI2.oll, .1 BøUdlgi, .,M1e-mtei:u. aDd of JudJd.iAdmdradoø.

(Erron's ' . . _ -Ot nhb lu a serif' OD $iC COOtyFrb(.lders and tlåt efforU -.4Iw a.p a sad.factry count)eb,'r 10 bf prueDitd 10 Uie \lot-m lor d:elr Ippro,,'aJ. The wrterII offttW obsener for &be Ltacue.f WomtD Volen of Seanle -i theFioldm' -i....ici I 'l7

Ill' MRS. EVL \' A.\rYESA drft 01 lb. propoed King

Coty CIer iw been prit,,jan maled to nealy 1.00 pensaDd organiiations expressingJiueret tn reeiving it. ThisaI a weo for prepation ofcoents before the fit publiclil. schediied lor lat ..eniD tbe Ki:i¡ Count)' Collouse,A sed pubuc bearig wi be

bd lbe eveni of Wedesd.)'.Aii, 7, pobly it lbe ~mes'lter. Settle Center, A thwI bo bold U pubU, ..powab.ii... -, st be _d. ..

ib chr, but lb. i\ dn lor... prpo dim.. ..... bo_pleied aid oerted by SepL $lor the So\l. S baot.

n. p",Umina drt of lbe King, Coty cler U ..iib\)' bacan brief, nw dr,os"bu.ed thecily". rit to emplo)' al homeru pr\isons the state bapated or wi grt in the futur.It grps t)¡e ¡eice of the

c:ty into depe:ts by logical, ~,:uon., 1\ ~Ublies a strng

eitoti\'e to admnister i unfiedprogram and p!m a un:lied bud¡etIl ..ialies i lei.iu 01eooner to repret the~vP. itt~ts of the peple iniie .. .1 the COIll¡'. anaiwu pronc for automatiretrol.i U. In lb. Iiiie. thepolation of the di5trcls expandsDneenly.A peDlel S)'Sltm ':aed on

mai ud ...oH,in: po\hScal spoiaIs ..tablWed. AD -.thcs ii

COenuDfDl" prdsJOD rC'¡ubtl¡ao ffu.i dI,dOSrt of sourc.f r-'mp1ga fuids Is iDdoded. aDdmeure. probiblilC toamtls orfidaJ mteresl of orne-C' of Ilel:nty lD salt or purt of count)'prper1)' or sC'niff.

The tentati..e charter includes aineasurt alto"ing copetion andcolr.ctg bet..ee !\ns Countyard other agcnci~ of go\'cmmentwrit.\¡in or outside the county. Thloks lO\\"3rd regional coperationin sohing of are¡'\1ide problenu.Th drft inctudei a m~ns 01addg. combinng or elinunati¡coty departents by acts of thecoty legsbture iC'nuj50'Sjonen~.

l11ndudes the right of titiens tous the initiath'e and rere:-er.dumto acrmpUsh eounty ie¡s!:ltion, Itincludes a citi~n ('omp!iin~ bure::1Jto inrre'Le ('unty r:.ipc¡,_~h'''''es'to citi~ns, and 3 5cnice bureau tohelp ciÜZns Hnd their wdol Uuoughthe mae of modern go\'ernmc:tt.By Uiese measurt Dew aad

exded P'",'en at CJitd to the..1) to d..l wilb I" Inoriproblems 'Ithoui \he Ð~ to waifor 5ptfic lutborhdoD 'rom ttu:ltte It¡latu.

Tbe County legislatureest¡bli!:ed bv the charer would be. iu- tie. rûne member grup ofcooner. nomin;ited andeleced in pa (:ampaigns. fromsingle- member districts fortUgger four yea tell. 1bIncre in represent3tion wa

reuested by seera organiztionsapperig at Uif" public hearigs.

Communties outsde SeatUe hadexreed at those meetings a neefor repreentath'es withn countylO'erent responsive to them aswP. as to the over-whelnglylarger central city. The Dew'eoionm wo\Üd legslate an

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Thi. Is desgned \0 iccmplish ilogicaL. understandable. aDdfunctonal grouping of Ute prtUyc1h..rsficd and Ir;gmented COlltyac\.¡ties,

A five- membe pennel bowould be responsible for6tabUshing personnel rules.including rules concerning ibappointment and promotion 0(IppUcants. and thei trniC andappreDtlceshlp. It non-c1scrrJnaUon ,JaIl' is Included iilb. poUc:. ne rules prpoed byii bo would be adopted or

. "'jeced wilbout dige by lbelegi,1atii.

Saares .oold bo ..bUshed eo. pat). ..1Ul other to\'enimeata:aoJ pchate eroJplo)'cn 11 Ibis aRL"Flower fUDds" would bepreuDled by problblthi¡ 'D,.COtrbudoD by .DY tmplo)' 10

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assi:l\d to ,1. b)' the tommh-sJoneiS,'--Af 'öfibe prescDt '-charte::pro\i51005 must bt. to.:side:rtdl-:t:the. e\'en though m3D)' h3\eh:id o\'er'Y..belmi:i¡: support of iheE~rd of Frec:loldi:ri, A.)' of theprtiCDt pro..isions Ululd sùn bechan;i:d U the pL"bUc rC'POiiSC at

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Bellevue. Wash.Amer.)Hom~maker & Shopper

(eire. W. 20,029)

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Editorial. J I 7 r/ By RICK HELBERG

It appears that the efforts to write a charterfor King County have been in vain. . --_._-

King County government has been the last bas-tion of party politics and political patronagein the state. The political nature of countygovernment has become distasteful to the citi-zens of the county.

The new county charter has done nothingmore than provide a new political arena' andmaintain the patronage system that has plaguedcounty government since the horse and buggydays. - '

The charter also provides for expanding countygoverament, but does not provide for makingcounty government smaller.

In tle political sense, under the proposedcharter commissioners would be elected on apartisan basis. The county executive would beelected on a partisan basis for a four-year term.He, in turn, would appoint a coUIty administra-tor, who in turn, would appoint chief officersof each administrative department. These ap-pointments wòuld be subject to confirmation ofthe nine county commissioners.Thus, county government would become an

arena in which political parties would carry outtheir battles. Further, with an elected countyexecutive who appoints an administrator re-sponsible for appointment of department heads,there would be no continuity of administration'of our county government beyond each electionyear.

In our opinion, county government shouldhave non-partisan part-tim commissioners,with an appointed county executive, and basedon the council-manager form of government as

, found in many cities.* * *

Over the past few years, there has been talkof a "Pugetropolis," or one unit of govern-ment for the entire county. .

Provincialism being what it is, one' govern-m~ntal agency for the county is not only im-probable, but practically impossible.

Suburban cities are growing and annexationsand incorporations are removing more and moreterritory from under the county government's 1. bdomain. The proposed charter should spell outprovisions for reducing county government as itsdomain is reduced, until the time comes thatthe county needs to provide no services, for ex- ,'ample, beyond tax collection for qistribution to :the cities and towns, and the court system.The charter, as written, does not make this pro-vision for reducing its scope. .i We'll predict that the voters

of King County,~ill nqt adopt the pOlitical, bureaucratic form'of government as proposed by the freeholder?

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A~des iui ~e~"j Dh~fr~ic~ P~(ÔHlA di'Stricting plan that ington area than of. the rest of partisanship in Washington. is' King County Planning Commis-

would give the Valley the Valley , _ , and on this the results of a partisan elec- sion, and Wiliam Philps, 1210two county commission- basis, logicaI~y belongs where tio~, there is a buil-in oppor- Fifth Ave. N., Renton.ers instead of one was we hav.e put it U,Renton were tunity ~or error ba~ed on the Wh i 'd hunveiled _ nd ' to be included with the other populanty of a particular can- ee er sai e was con-a unani- cities in the Valley in one didate without regard to his cerned that the broad powers.mously approyed 7- by commissioner district, this political affiiation. It would Eranted to the county execu-the Board of King County commissioner would represent appear, however, that the dis- tiv~ would. e~d~nger tn~ oppor-Freetlolders at a pu~lic North Valley interests rather trict boundaries (as they are tunity of. in~ividual citizens tchearing in. t.he. King than those ofthe South Valley. now drawn) are politically have a voice in government.,Cwounty C ò i. r t _h 0 use 'ñirercnt,n He Saj:s ,laÍi'," Alorêcht stated. The districting plan as wel

edpesdayevening, "i personally think people in Th s b i sion of th' - as other portions of the char. Renton are a different kind of . .e. urns e new t 'll b th b' t f.

. The plan, whic~ now. wil be people . . . and thev think 'di~tricting p~an came. as a s.ur- seercon\\dl puebli-c eheSuarJi.enCg °nex'

incorporated officially into the d'f .. .; prise move in a public hearing ," i ferently! he emphasized. h' h h . . f i Wednesday in the Eamen~w proposed county charter, In submittng the districting w iC eard a series 0 \llt- .still ~ivi.des the Valley into proposal to the other freehold- nesses. tell the b0!lrd wnat Theater at Pacific Scienct\~o districts, lumping Renton ers Richard Albrecht chair- they liked . . . or did not like Center, Seatte. It wil start ~with south Seattle, Mercer ma~ of the board as 'well as ,., about the temporary draft 7:30 and is open to all inte'Isla~d, and the 30utheasternchairman of the subcommittee of the proposed charter. ested persons, Paul Meyer, e:porti?~ .of l:ake Washington. which drew the new district Among those was Chester ecutive secretary of the boanTne division ~int: between Dis- lines, warned freeholders that Wheeler, Kent, member of the said yesterday. --.trict 6, and District 9 would be "it is important to keep in ~-'approximately halfway be- mind a number of factors af-tween Rento.n and Kent. . fecting the drawing. 'Of district

,The r~vl~lOn of the two Ori- boundaries. The same factors 'ginal districting plans consid- ,.ered and rejected by the free-holders several weeks ago also 'elI!inates a major objectionvoiced by Valley residents,against extending District 9,from the Pierce County borderon the south to the SnohomishCounty border on the north. .

ValIeyites ApproveTwo Valley freeholders,

James Curan, Kent attorney,and Auburn Automobile DealerHoward Bothell, were mem-bers of the subcommittee

i!hich reworked the districting-ies and voted for its inclu-sion in the charter.

,Bothell said yesterday that,be didn't particularly like di- '\Tdig the Valley, but thåt hesaw no other way in whichfreeholders could meet thegeographical and population'::riteria spelled out in the new::harter, The new districtsTar from 10.84 per cent ofhe county's total population:as in District 6) to nA6 per:et (in North Central Seat-Ie),"But o¡i the oiher hand'"

30theII declared, "I rega;dlenton as more a part of thelouth Seattle and_ Lae Wash-

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¡i Tö H~lpj~ Dra:. Unesi By Our County News Bureau1. The chairman of the Board of ,

King County Freeholders movedlast week Iö-"'ptotect Valleyinterests when he appointedJames Curran, Kent attorney,and Howard Bothell, Auburnautomobile dealer, as two of thefive members who wil drawcommissioner district lines. Oth-ers are James O'Conner, SimonWampold, vice chairman of theboard, and Richard Albrecht,chairman.

Appointment of the group'came after a week's grapplingwith the problem of what to do-about two controversial planssubmitted by an urban consult-ant that in one proposal would

. -have spli the Valley iñto two;

separate districts in the vicWty!of Kent., "1 ,... .. ' ~.Public outcr.y , - much of it

from outragea' Valley spokes-"fien'-prompted the decision ofthe freeholders to attempt todraw the lines themselves. Themove also was prompted bypolitical implications of the twoproposals which, according toWampold, could endanger theseven-month job of writing thenew charter. The docwnent isscheduled to go to voters No-vember 5. '

It is planned that the sub-'committee's work wil be com-

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The "workig draft" charter ofthe board of King. CountyFreeholders will be presented to~eei_tizens of King County for thefirst time at a public hearing at 7:30p.m. tonight, July 31, in room 402of the King County courtouse.

A second hearing has beenannounced by Richard Albrechtfreeholder chaiman, for 7:30 p.m:Wednesday August 7, at the PacificScience Center's Ames Theatre. .

The public wil have anop~rtunity to attend either public'hearing and present their views. onthe propoed charter. Any citienwho wishes a copy of the 'draft maycan the Freeholder offce at l\lA 3~ 55. ¿

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By \'mGI!'J.~ BVR!'SIDE the post, Allen Morgan (who term, said he wo~ld not cam-Our County News Burean was selected, incidentially, by paign actively against the effort'

The new county charter a~pointm~nt). said he has some to reform county government.

_ now in rough-draft minor obJect.lO~s to .th~ draft Williams voiced even strongerform _ got 0 I l~' cti~rter, particuiarly in its pro- obJection to the current draft,, ~ y a u _c- v~slOns to e~clude major super- stating that, in his opinion, the'~~rm reception from visory deputies from the person- effort would "disenfranchise the~ii:g Courity selected of- nel system. Otherwise, l\Iorgan people of King County."

ficials. this week as the;i' said, he would s,¡pport the char. Destruction Seen

exainined what the ter and intends to do so. "The original charter of thischarter propo~es to do to Reservations Told ; county was carefully drawn with, their respective posts. Not so either veteran County an effective check-and-balance, . Auditor Robert Morris nor system," Willams pointed out.

For the mosl part, their first County Treasur~r l\J..it. WiI- "The freeholders have com-!ook could mean some trouble is liams. Under terms of the pro- pletely destroyed this."In the wind in terms of passagc posed charter, both offces Likewise concerned is John,of the carefully tailored docu- would be made appointive ones O'Brien, chairman of the Board

ment. If the ~irst dr~fl sUf\'i\,es selecte.d by th~ new county of County Commissioners, who,'the two public hearings sched- executi\'e, and, in the case of from his observations yester-uled for tonight at 7:30 In the the auditor, by the new Board of day, may decide to sit out theKing County Courthouse and County Commissioners. campaign to approve -. or de-next Wednesday night at the "The auditor should be re- feat - the charter.Pacific Science Center, all but sponsible to the people and not "O'Brien has been an activeone.of th.e ~resent1¥ elected to. commissioners," Morris told opponent of eiilarging the Boardofficials wil find their current this newspaper. He said he of County Commissioners - nowjobs in highly altered form. That regarded his post as being in a composed of three members -of one - the county assessor - watchdog position guarding the to seven or nine. Freeholders,would remain \'irtually as he is: interests of the electorate. wil probablv sette on nine afterAn elected offcial, chosen on a Despite his feelings against the conclusion of their efforts topartisan basis every four years. the charter, Morris, who wil redraw commissioner district

. Even so, the current holder of retire at the end of his current lines - but O'Brien believesthere should be five at most.Furter, O'Brien pointed out

that he believes government: governs best when it is c1osest-:" and most responsive - to theIf electorate, and as a conse-, quence is at oJds with the

It charter's proposal to make thei1 majority of the county's pres-~ enlly elective offcials appoin-~ tive.'-. Power Shift

O'Brien also is concernedy about a massing of power in the"I hands of the new county execu-

tive created by the charter."It seems to me that concern

expressed by freeholders thatthe p~es~nt B~ard of CountyCommissioners is the seat of toomuch p,1wer has been shifted tothe placing of too much power inthe county executive," O'Brien

declared. "ì'ot only that, but thenew charter would increase thatpower. by granting the newexeculive broad appointi\'e pow-ers even the present Board of 'COllty Commissioners lack."

O'Brien's 2 colleagues were inWashington, D.C., attendina theN~tio:iai Association of C;untyO.ficials annual convention, butEd ;'!unro, outgoing president ofthe organization, has been aproponent of ordered restruclur-ing of county government foryears. John Spellman O'Brien'sRepublican comemb~r Df theBoard, has indicated pre\'iouslyhe would support the new char-ter in any reasonable form.,-. - -- -- .'" - ",_.. _..../:..1

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The chairman of the Board ofKing County Frceholders movedlast weck to protect Valley'interests when he appointedJames Curran, Kent attorney;and Howard Bothcll, Auburnautomobile dealer, as two of thefive members who wil drawcommissioner district lines. Oth-ers are James O'Conner, SimonWampold, vice chairman of theboard, and Richard Albrecht,chairman.

Appointment of the group'came after a week's grapplingwith the problem of what to doabout two controversial plan.ssubmitted bv an urban consult-ant that in -one proposal wouldhave split the Valley into twoseparate districts in the vicinityof KenL.

Public outcry - much of itfrom outraged Valley spokes-men - prompted the decision o~the freeholders to attempt todraw the lines themselves. Themove also was prompted bypolitical implications of the twoproposals which, according toWampold, could endanger theseven-month job of writing thenew charter. The document isscheduled to go to voters 1'0-vember 5.

The dislricting subcommittee'wil meet Tuesday in advance ofa public hearing scheduled forWednesday at 7: 30 p.m. at the,King County Courlhouse. A planis not expected to be ready forpublic discussion at the hearing.but the majority of the new~~rter now in draft form ~

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A districting plan that Bothell said yesterday that "it is important to keep in The submission of the new.would give the Valley. he didn't particularly like di- mind a number of factors af. ,districting plan came as a sui:- .

- two county commission-- viding the Valley, but that he fecting the drawing of district prise move in a public ~earingers instead of one was saw no other way in which bo~ndari,es, rh~ same factor~ 'which heard a series of wit-.unveiled. - and unani- freeholders could meet the w~I,ch will mInImize the. pOs~l- nesses tell the board whatmously approved _ by ge.ogr~phical and p~pulation bility of gerryrnandering in they liked. , . or did not likethe Board of King Cou t criteria spelled out i~ tl~e ~ew any lat~r. redistrictIng redùce ., , about the temporary draftF h ld t bni'y charter. The new districts the ri~xibility ay~il.able inlt~e of the proposed charter.ree,o ers a a pu . iC vary from 10.84 per cent of drawing of initIal . district :Among those was

Chesterhearing In the King the county's total population boun~aries. These are, sub- Wheeler, Kent, member of the,County Co u r t .h 0 use (as in District 6) to 11.46 per stantially. equal populatIon, use King County Planning Commis-

Wednesdayevening. cent (in North Central Seat- of established. census tr a c,ts, sion, and Wiliam Philps, 1210The plan, which now wil be tIe). . and preservation of economic, Fifth Ave. N., Renton.

incorporated offcially into the -.. ' municipal and geographic Wheeler said he was con-new proposed county charter, Seè Mop of Proposed units." .,. cerned that the broad powersstil divides the Valley into t Albr~cht, said he Judg.ed the granted to the county execu-two districts, lumping R~Í1ton tJew D.is~r.icts P917 new districts to ~e fair and .tive would endanger the oppor-'with south Seatte Mercer · - ones that would give balanced tunity of individual citizens toIsland and the so~theastern "But on. the other hanu,' representation to all persons in have a voice in government.portio~ of Lake Washington, Bothell declared, "i regard King County , , . inclu~ing The d,istricting plan as ".ell .The division line between Dis- Renton as more a part of the those members of,organized as other portions of the char-trict 6 and District 9 would be South Seattle and Lake Wasl1- political parties. ter wil be the subject. of aapproximately halfway be- ington area than of the rest ?f. Denying that the. ~istricting second public hearing nexttween Renton and Kent. the. Valle~ ' . , and on this would favor one political party Wednesday in the Eames

The revision of the two ori- basis, logically belongs where at the expense of another, Al- Theater at Pacific Scienceginal districting plans consid- we ha~e put it. If.Renton were b.retch ,said there is insurfi- 'Center, Seattle, If\vil.start atered and rejected by the free- to be Included with the other cient reliable data from which 7:30 and is open to all inter-holders several weeks ago also cities tn ~he Val~ey, in o~e on~ .canpredict ~h~ partipan ested persons, Paul Meyer, ex-eliminates a major objection com~is.sioner district, this P?lit~cal characteristics of anY.ecutive secretary of the board,voiced by Valley residents commissioner '':0uld represent districts as large as here pro- said yesterday. 'against extending District 9 North Valley interests rather posed. . ' '. Here's a brea"kwn of popu- 'from the Pierce County border !h~n th.ose;;f the South Valley. P~p~larity Is Factor lation figures assigned .to theon the south to the Snohomish D,I,fferent, He Sa~s ,~ince the ,only m~asure ?f nine proposed commissionerCounty border on the north, I personally ,thInk people in partisanship in Washington is districts:

, , _Renton are a different kInd of the results of a partisan elec- Dist. No,' Valleyitcs Approve people. , , '. and they think tion, there is a buil-in oppor.' 1

Two Valley fre~holders, 'differently!" he emphasized. - tunity for error based on the 2James Curran, Kent attorney, In submitting the districting popularity of. a particular can. 3 _

' and Auburn Automobile Dealer propos~l to the other freehold- did~te with?l!t .regard to his ,: .'Howard Bothell, were mem- ers, Richard Albrecht, chalr- politicál 'affiliation. It would 6bers of the subcommittee man of the board as well as appear, however,. that the dis- iwhich reworked the districting chairman of the subcommittee trict boundaries (as they are . 8lines and voted for its inclu- which drew the new district now drawn) are politically 9sion in the charter" lies, Y:arned. freeholders that fair,," Albrecht stated, .' . ' T.OTAL

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This map sho\\'s the newest of several proposals t" redistrictKing Coun~y to provide r(lr election of nine commissionersin connection \vilh a new county charter. The Board ofJ:Ong

County Freeholders prepared this plan -a'nd a~opted itfor inclusion in the chJrter draft - after two earlier plans

'Wen deem~d unsatisfactory to South King County.

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D rr(Qrif~ - (: ~ (oJú"'~~ rr ~ ~ (V) ~~ SBy VIRGIl\lA BURNSIDE the election department prob- vast multiplicity of items onOur County News Bureau lems in the future if enacted as which there is no possibilty of

If the Board of King County it is in its present draft form, standarizing purchasing proce-Freeholders expects a solid vote Logan said, because his depart- dures; that there is a gray area

of approval on the first draft of ment presently relies on a trans- involving personal-service con-the new county charter from fer of clerks employed by the tracts which are diffcult tokey persons filing major county auditor to his department at define; and because the lowestadministra ti ve posts, they're election periods. bid often betokens the lowestgoing to be disappointed. Manpower Pool qualiy. He said the huge ex-- Most, with the exception of "These people are experi- pense of preparing specifica-County Engineer Jean DeSpain enced and available," Logan tions on items the county knowswho approved their efforts but declared. "If we have to replace there wil be at most one andraised some major questions, them with untrained persons, it maybe no bidders would compli-have some serious doubts about wil place costly, time-consum- cate vastly the time and costthe adequacy of the document ing hazards on our operation." factor of the county's purchas-which is headed for the ballot in Likewise unhappy at charter ing operation_ .general election November 5. limitations of his county func- "I'd like to see this depart-

DeSpain noted that, in a re- tion, County Purchasing Agent ment set up to actually do a job.markably spare paragraph in Leroy Johnson declared the We cannot do it as it is now," hewhich freeholders created a charter should set no dollar emphasized. But what he im-Department of Public Works, amount at which competitive plied was that, under the termsUtilties and Transportation, the bids must be called for. Free- of the proposed charter, it would

charter would set up a supera- holders recently set this limit at not be possible then, either!. gency within county government $500-$2,000 under present state Most of the majór countythat would extend as far as requirements demanding com- administrative heads intend tosupervising the activities of the petitive bids on all items over fie written comments. on theKig County Airport. $2,500. charter with the Board of Free-"I don't know if that is what "It was the obvious intent of holders, including County Plan-

the freeholders had in mind. but the freeholders to avoid the rung Director Ed Sand who wa~ths extension of powers cer- pitfalls of the political spoils unavailable yesterday for com,

tainly hasn't been propounded system," Johnson declared, ment.",_by me," he stated ruefully. "but requiring that all county --~-~Flood Work, Too purchases over $500 be made as

The new department would a result of competitive biddingalso include the functions of is ridiculous."floo control (termed "com- "That vast majority of ourpletely logical" by Chief Engi- purchases are small purchases ____ ,

neer Brad Gilespie), and sani- on which our agents as a matter ".. tation. Although they have not of established procedure seek at _Y._,)stated so publicly, key county least two or three diferent price _ _-

officials probably would be re- quotations," he stated.luctant to relinquish their suzer- Johnson 'said that, whereverainty . . . and the credit for the reasonably possible, he believesdepartment's recent remark- all items should be competitive-able breakthrough in garbage- ly bid, but that wherever in thehandling methods. judgment of the purchasing off-

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TH~61~elhat adverse reaction to the evaluate the expenditure"s vvithout fearnew King County charter indicated or favor. If he owed his job to otherby a sampling of students from a Boei;ia politicians, he might feel more respon-Co. public-affairs class does not assiir~ sib!lity to them than to the public,that the document will be rejected by which could be the loser. .the voters at the general election No- The ¡Wili' 10t!Ïe dietl/Ips ihl/t el('ciionsvember 5. siiperi-ision sholild ("oiiiillI( as a func.

It does, ilioiigli, liL'(' ih(' fr(,(,IIOI¡(('r.~ iion of ilie wiililor's offif'e, raiher ihant!oorl rl'asoii to lal..e mlOih('r .~('ar('hii/t as a parI of a Ill/(- D('parlmi'1l1 of Ree-loo!. al Illfir pro¡(uci 10 dl'l'r1lili(' ords and 1~'l('cii01ls lluI('r an appointed

idietli('r it does indeed need morc administrator. The presenl arrarit!('-amf'lIlint. JFe cliinl.. it diU's. ment has spri'('¡( this co/lnty icell al/l is

saiisfaclory as ii slarirts. -Sixty-t\VO of the 408 students re- T . f .sponded to a questionnaire The 0 _ - actics a trying the charter out onposed the charter as framed.Bu! thl groups that are cognizai:t of. good gov-noted they could favor it with certai~ emment can ~e. productive if the free-changes. One they recommended was holders are \\ll1ing !O ackno\vledge thethat the auditor, who would be a _ cl~arter can stand 1mprsvement. Thepointed by the Board of Kina County Times ~ecommended beJore thi~ ,thatCo~missioners, be elected, as the audi- ~~~afu\~,~l~h:Oeo ~~~~edth' efOgrOvheer ImS ethtetor is now. , Co n n,

~he freehoiders, who debated this pointThe elected .auditor. i~ resp.o~sible to greãfength, should be wiling nowonly to tae pub1ic, He is In position to to examine it again. '/

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!ìlr:¡i1: i J~ Miller, Bellevue

city manager and presidentof the State City ManagersAssociation, said toda\' hefeels the proposed c~un~ycharter "is of unusua:iy

, good quality."But Miller expressed dis-

appointment that the BOr.rd

of Freeholde;'s failed to es-

tablish a county-managersystem and created sep,iratedistricts for each countycommissioner.

IN A LEITER to theboard, Miller said:

"As a çity manager I was

Cliorterdisappointed in the freehold-

ers' decision to recOl.1l1eiia

an elected executive. From ;1realistic point of view, how-ever, I must admit that tì,er2siden~s of Kir.g County areprobably not sufficiently pre-pared ta accep,t an appointedexecutive . . _

:-!i lieI' said the pro\'is:rl1for the elected executive \\'"swell-handled with an admin-istrative official to be ap-pointed "a useful techniquealthough it should not beconsidered as a substitute orthe counterpart of a countymana2er," ,

of the commissioners' to be

elected only by the wters inthe district he represents.

Miler recommended thatthe charter establish stand-

ards for action by a person-

nel board on er.-iploye griev-ances and s u g g est e d ato u gher penalty- againstcounty commissioners forfailure to redistrict county-

c\)mmissioner boundaries.Miler said instead of just

suspending pay of the com-missioners for failing to re-district in a specified period,

the freeholders should pro-vide for forfeiting the salary,

Lauded, HitHe urged reconsideration

of the make-up of tìie countycommissioners. Mil:êl said:"I think nine members is theproper number blil, I hopethat you wiì di':)p ti~e idea ofnine separate legisla¡ive dis-tricts. "

THE CITY manager sug-gested five commissI:nersrepresent districts and theother four be elected atlarge. Even those rep¡esent-ing districts, he said. shouldbe nominated by ãistrict butelected county wide.

The charter calls for each

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That age would be set bythe personnel board.. The freeholders deleted a

. from the charter'section . fl' t of inter-oncerning con ic .

~st of offcials or e~toi~~t'They intend .to P10VI ~afteda new section elater.

C H AN G i N G the titlef County Commis-B.oard °to County Council

sioners ' d by the'Was also 'aPb'0~er the pro-

freeholders. n e 'il besed charer there "

~ne commissioi:ers,.The investigation . of

d ths excluding those in-e~ . g a crime, should be

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~~bi~ Heatltht ap~tli~o~:re:Departmen 0 . dty, the freeholders decide,

C 0 u n t y freeholder.s lastnight refused to provide ad

. , . the proposeProvision in dit harter for can ~ ,.

. d~~~/toC fie as. indfepentents when running or 0,ficñiey also guarantee'd jobs

"lor elected oIfcial~ ~h~~å'offces may be eliminab the charter.y 1 S Friedlander voted;~~st ~ot allowing tnde-

;~ndents on county tickets,He said:

"THERE ARE manylified persons who would

i~ n as independents ~twho 'Won't run on a pa yline"

'The freeholders voted t?u'arantee an elected ?ffi-

~ial whose offce is eWtnated, a job with the c0:lhewith equivalent pay unti

Frca0t~ìoJclers I=Jear' of

CorOl1er'sTo E)-coone!By ¿~7BtRGS:\lAN Safety, the primary concern

h will be law enforcement."A county. coroner s ould He said the Department of

make medical as well as Public Safety should investi-criminal investigations of gate crime which would in-deaths. the Count\' Boara-pf elude some deaths, but theFreeholders was told last Department of Health and

rr:- Welfare should investigateDr. Gordon Lazerte. repre- unexplained deaths. ,

sentino the Count\' !\redical Planning was the sub.iectSociety. urged thåt a pro- of m.ost discyssion at th~ l~stposed county charter place public hearing th~ freeiio,d-the coroner's function in the ers plan to call on its. charti:rDepartment of Health and draft. Fr-ieh?lders Will beginWelfare instead of the De- meeting twice weekly to

. partment of Public Safety. complete the charter propos-

~. al in time for the Novemberi THE CHARTER already 5 '-eneral election,: proposed that a coroner be State Senator Wes Uhlman

appointed instead of elected. recommended creation of aBut Dr, Lazerte said: "Many department of inter-districtinvestigations of death have planning to adopt long-rangenothing to do with law en- approaches to governmentalforcement. If the coroner is services and coordinate pro-

t in the Department of Public grams with other levels ofI

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and Edward Sand, CountyPlanning Direc.tor, all op-posed the abolishiment of theplanning commission. Theycalled the corrmiIssion abdfer between the profes-sional :,taff and plitical con-')jder:.ii")ns of the countycommissioners.

SAr\D SAID the planningdepartment sl-ould be giventhe right to review capitalimplovement pr02rams. In aletter, !vile:; V. Blankinship,Chairman of the SeattlePlan11itió Comn'ission, askedthat the c: ""í~r provide thatplanning b': (:Jordinated be-tween thE' ~G.¡!1ty ,and, the

. cites.Br~wli-m 'Sh-orelin:e"'-" ,- -

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ment for reffTt:ndum and ini-tiative petitions should belimited to residents of un-incoroorated areas on lawsnot åffecting city res'dênts.

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Etitor's Colu;nn

,Flll~ ~tther SBde~ J '1 1 By Jim Fields

"One man. one "ote" is another one or lO catch-phrases. in this ageof slogans. wInch does not alway; mae sense in its application. ft wasused by the K!!inu!!re~~~ last Wednesday night, in an openm~ting at the. count)': ~olliouse. 10 describe the philosophy underlyingtheir g~graphical division 01 the county into nine commissioner districts.

The mne new distncts are a part state constitution was amended inof the o,'erall proposal. constituting 194B to allow such government ina new county charter dral~., which areas \\ith a population of 300.00~e ~reeholders. have so diligently or Dlre. Is some group pJamiig to\\orked upon in recent months. us tlus seldom-mentioned amend-,They hope 10 present the draft for ment?voter approval. or rejection, at the The Freeholder were elected togeneral election this November. represenl the citiens and have

We shall reserve comment on tiie scheduled their open meetings tore~ ~i the charter proposal as some hear public sentiment on thereisions are expecl~ to follow the charter draft. There is still time tosecnd ~pen meetine at. 7:30 express your opinions and obtain )toiught. in the Pacific &ience revisions to the draft belore it isCenter s Eames Theater. filized for ballot action.However, the nine districts as f'----'-

proposed may very well send the__A - -- ~total charter drft down to defeatin November. We have yet to findenthusiasm for their boundaries ortheir philosophy.

King County is presentlyadministered by threecommisioners whose distrcts.drfted yeas ago, are called Nort(Kig County), South (King County)and Centrl; the last-mentioned isin esence, the "old Seatte" area orpreWorld War n boundaries. . I

In the past 20 years, there hasbeen considerable growt in two'ars: Highline-Renton. and theeat side of Lae Washington' whiclbas been. "opened up" by twobridges which did nol exit prior to1940. Many feel that this should bereflected by a five districtalgnment 01 commioners whichmight look like this:

1. Sette (to its city limits).2. Nort Kig County (including

lbe city of Bothell.3. Eastside (including the cities

of Belle"ue. Kirkland. Redmond.Isquah. and smaller to\V in theCaade footJll).. 4_ Highle and Renton area.

5. South King County (includingFederal Way, Au~ur, Kent. andEnumclaw).

How",'er. the freeholders haveapplied the "one ma. one vote"slogan which has been used todescribe the supreme courtdecisio.n on congressional~Pts,~rt°thnmthent. It suggests di- i ==...c \\1 e same popul.tion '

for electig congressman. It did not Iapply to the election of U.S.'Seators nor. as far as we can tell .the election of countycommissioners. Yet thefreolders, guided by the sloganlie divided the county Into thè '

foUo\\ing nine ditrcts: , .1. Nort Settle Shrelie iBothell. ' , !2. Eastside lBeUe"ue, Kiklnd, ,

Redmond. Issaquah). '3: Northeast Seattle (Wallgford :

Urnversity, Lake City). i .4. Northwest Seattle (Quee ¡ .

Ane, Magnolia. Ballard). ¡ "5. Central Seattle (includig

downtown district). '

6. Southeast Seattle. Renton, and'Mercer Island.

7. West Seattle, Georgetown, andRamer Valley.

B. Highline area (White CenterBurien. Des Moines) and Vasho~'

i' Island.

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FreeholClers Mull Char)"er AloneAHerpublic Spealc Its Piece

sions be included in the char- èxistence or the present Com-ter to harmonize with 'Iegisla, mission but does not providetion the State Legislature wil for one.

be asked to enact to take the Publie hearings on rezoningsoffce out of politics. now conducted by the presentTwo other speakers spoke Planning Commission would,

against several provisions in he said, be the function of thethe proposed charter affecting Boarei of County Commission-

the county's present planning ers under the neiv charter.operations. These includedJohn Teutsch, presently a Ed Sand, head of the countymember of the King County planning department, said hePlanning Commission, who fa. felt the charter should eithervored retention of some form be more specific concerningof citizen-composed Advisory the functions of rus offce thanPlannng Commission. Accord- it is, or that it s h 0 u ld being to Richard Albrecht, chair- broadened to permit the de-man of the freeholders, the partment to take proper ad-c~arter does not .p~:.clude the mistrative action. .,_--

By Our County l",'ws Bun'auThe King County Board of

Freeholders wil go into aseries of stepped-up meetingsMonday to ready the county'sproposed new charter for sub-mission to the Board of KingCounty Commissions Septem.ber 4. The charter must becertified by commissioners bySeptember 20 in order to

, make the November 5 ballotFreeholders wound up the

last in a series of public hear-

ings Wednesday night at theEames Theater in the PacificScience Center preparatory toIr e fi n i n g the chrter's finaldraft .

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tricts. Others included spokes-man for the Seattle-King Coun-ty Municipal League and theLeague of Women Voters. Nei-ther the l\lunicipal League northe women's group have takenoffcial stands on the charterat ths point

Mrs. Harold Mozer, Belle-vue, said her organizationwould favor an appointiveassessor, and asked that provi-

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~dln¡n¡stration Provided BylC9Hpty Charter Outlined

BY JACK YEAROUT efit of counsel. al adiustratve an execu-"We, thepc-opleofK1ngCoun- Arcle 2 explais how ref- tive depê'.rtments establisheby

ty, in order to form a more erendum an iiutiative can be th charer or created by theorderly governent, establish used io efect ordnances and comnussioners.separate legislatve an execu- iiutiate enacttent of ord- . He wouId appoint th county

tive branches, insure respon- ances. adm1iustrator, who in tusibilty and accountabilty,pro- Th county auditor would be would appoint th cWef offcersmote the general welfare and appointed by the commission- of each adIUstatve offce.secur the benefits of home ers, would audit th financial Th elected executive wouldrule an self governent, in operatons of the county an appoint th clef executive off1-accordance with the Constitu- consult with the offce of bud- ce of each executive depar-tion of th State of Waslugton, gets an accounts concerIng ment except th county assessor

do adopt tls charter."th accounting procedures used (who wil stll be elected byThse are th words of th by th executive branch. th peple) and th memDe¡:s of

preamle of King County's new -TI EXECUTVE al boars and commissions.charer. ' '----'.. --Th county executive would - All appointtents by th exc-

. -S1iice-they ",;ere electe las be nominated and electe by utive would be suject to con-Novembr, th 15 Freeholders all of th voters of the county f1rmaton by a majority of thhave been stdying èõtjgo-v- for four year terms. His sal- comnussioners. Th apint-erents all over tls nation. ar wouId be "at least one ments of th county adiius-Th new charr reflects their an one-half times the com- trator would have to be approvedfidigs. and their considered pensaton paid to a county com- by th eXcutive.

. thught, on what should go into missioner." Under th charr. th couna home rule charter. He would have al executive 'adiiustratr an alcWefoff-

The 41-page document con- powers not expressly vested cers would be appointed on thtains nie arcles. divided into in specific county offcials by basis of abilty and qualics.

, 61 sections. Digestg th con- th charr, would superse tions for thr jobs. integrtytets of th proposed charr . an prior exrience in thin one gulp is a little more to. duties of th offce.than should be expcted from'" ADMIISTRATIVE OFFICESanyone except a PlulOOelpWa Th Ofice of Budgets andlawyer' . . . so tls series of Accounts, Personnel, Data Pr-arcles will endeavor to trans- cessing, County Prpert, an, cr legal language into every- Puhasing have defite dutiesday 'Arericanese.' assigned thm under th cha-Th most interesting of thie.. Heads of thse depar-arcles ar th first tlrd, ments ar appointed by th; an here we will deal mostly '" adiustrator.with Arcles 2 an 3, wWch QEPARTMENT REPLACEoutli the composition an du_ ELECTED OFFICIALSties of th legislative (9 com- - Appointents by the county

, DUssioners) branch of th new . excutive (or by th comnus-'county governent, an the Siorirs, in one càse) wouldexcutive branch. replac a rner of countyARTICLE 1 . offcials now elected by KingTh fist arcle outlines th County voters, under th new

geneal powers of the county, charer. .. stating that King County "shall ' Th Deparent of Pulichave al of the powers wWch 'Saety would enforce law' anIt is possible for a home rule ,order, investigate deaths, 00-county to have under th state nuIUster the county jail an beconstitution." respnsile for civil defense.: It states that the county may ni county s.l-er and the coun-contract or otherwise parci- ty coroner would be replacedpat jointly with other govern by executive sppointtents in,ments. governmental agencies __'___"m tls departtent. 171

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th right to share costs an,respnsiblities with thse "'.grups.Prv.sion is made for th:

new charer to suercede, with,ordnances enacted under it. ~any spedal an general lawswhich are inconsiste with thchr.

NIi\lE Cm..1!virSSIONERS

Makng up th legislativebranch of th new county gov_

erment would be a boar of (.nie county commissIoners, ';. elected one each from th nie':distrcts to be dedded, anelected by th voters of eacindiv.dual district. The com_.

missioners would serve four_

year terms.Ths nie-man boar of com_

missioners would be the pol_. icy-makng body of the county,

with all legislative powers. Itv.'Ould adopt an enact ord_ances, levy taxs, appropriatl

. revenues, adopt budgets, setan pay county sa1ares~ '

The commissioners v.'Ouldestablish (or abolish) admi_iStratve an executive deparments. Set their duties. con_'

duct public hearngs. .Th legislators ar empow_.

ered to supoena witnesses.documents and other evidence. 'provided th supoena poweris limite to propose ord_'ances under consideration anthat any witnss have th rightto counsel.

The boar meetings shall be .open to th public," an theminutes of its meeting a mat_ .ter of p_ublic record

Th commissions shalL. notissue orders to any officer.agent or employee of any othr

branch of county governentexcept thrugh enactment ofordnances uner the charer.Under ths arcle th veto

rights of the county exectivear outlined. He may veto anyordinance or object of expnseof an appropriation ordnance.TI county commissiones may''overrde his Veto or paralveto with a six vote majorIty.

Emergency ordnances. whichrequire a seven vote majority

of th boar. could not be ve_.

toed, howover.. COMPLAT BUREAUUnder th new chc.r, th.

boar of commissioners areinstructed to establish anoffceof citizen complaint concerngw.e operation of county govern_ime nt, giving it suficient pov.'eI'

to supeona v.itnesses. etc..to investigate and public17.e its'

findings. Th county offcialunder th writtn complait bya citizen Is also provided benJ .--- __ l, .1

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The county treasurer woulabe replaced by an appointee to

head the Deparent of Finance.Duties now performed by a

'citlzen's parkboar \\~)Uld come

uner th Depiu:tment of Parksand Commuty Seices headedby an execuve apInte off_cial. ., A new Deparent of Buld,,

'in would be set up uner i:charr, takng thse proces from uner th couneneer.

. Th county assessor. elecat lare by th voters, \\Qulè

head th DeparentofAssess-ments.

An excutive apinte clerk,selected from a list of thsuggestions by county Judges,

would head th Deparent 0:

Judicial Ad!istaton. HE~uld replace th electedcoun.

ty clerk. . .- Th deparent which v.'Oulcsee litt chane is that of Pu.

iic Healt an Welfar.The Deparent of pi~

would do away with the Planning Commission, which W3!

appointe by th commissioner!an will now be uner thexeutive.Comprehensive planng an

. zonig applicatons would he

under th jusdction of thsdeparent, with all zoplng orrezonig recommendatons go_ing clrecty to w.e comnu sS' on-ers.

Ths proposed charter \\'uldgive King County a governentof checks and balances. cling-ing only to thebi-parsanelec-tion of th executive head butmaknø' a trained adlÚstratr

a key °mernber of th executive

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/_ v"')"lCd n"". '" rce, 10, sub-_::,:';:;:::1 to th:.. è(t'arò of Kin;;

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in~~lud2 3. .9¿::~::;:!ej,it ch2.r~ed\~'ith cc. .'Jl"Gl:;C:'¿:".A.; the plannl;1gfo~ 2:~ .~"2 coun~~/s s:Jeciê.l èis-tric.... Ci.~1erS Incll1èed s~:)o~~es-

~-:~T. Ìc;:' r-:e SeatUe-Kir.g Co:.n-ty =,=",~::(:ip21 Leagi:e and the~2:'¿.:(; o~. rl~::£1 ,:oters. 1\ei-

t:ier- :'::2 ;'.lL-::¡C~::::: League no:'ol"e \"r'''er'' _..,.-. .- "-ve "ake'"L...... :" v...... .... ~ .::.. v~....J ~.:"" i. .... ..¡of¡¡c:~! scE.ncs ;:;: t:1e chanerat lilS po;:;"

:\Irs. Earo;d =\~;:::.:r, Belle-vue, ss.id Ì1er ol';;::::izationwould favor an o:-ncl:1tiveassessor, and asi(eò .t:~a~ ';rovi-

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,1\,'-:-', l.=~¡j'J~~sio:.:: ~e i::cìi.ded in the ch&ì'- existence oftel' to ha:-;::o;iIze with legis:a- mission buttic.;¡ t:,e S'_:Üe Legislature wil for one.~e ;;¿;.:ed tCl enact to take the Publie hearings on rezonÌligs0:::C2 out cf politics. now conducted by the p:ese:1,r..\'/0 ot:ier speakers spo!~e Planning Cor:1:1iss¡on wouìà,s::::.:;;st s2veral prûvisions in he said, be the function of thetì-;2 )ropcs2d charter affecting Board of ~OU:1ty ~ommission-Ü:¿ county's preSê!1t plannin6 ers under tne ne\v ci1a.~ter~opc:'S.tiOl:S. These included -John Teutsch, presently an:e¡-,::crcf the King Cour:tyPìa::;,ing Commission, who fa-\'o~-ed retention of ::.:rl_e formof citizen-ccmposcd ..~dvisoì'YPlanning Corr.miss:o:1. Accord-ing to Rich:::,d Albr¿cht, chair-man of the freeholC:ers, thecharter òo;:s, not prec;ude the

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Ed Sa;;d, head cf t!12 countyplanning ¿e?&:-tment, said hefelt the Ò2.r,er sho-.id either

be more specific cOl1cemi::gthe functior.s 0: his ofiice th:m

it is, 0, th~,t it ShOèlld bebroadèned to r~2rmit the d?oartment t;: :-::~e pro;:er ad-ministrative 2': .;0n_

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pC'lllJitkd to ,,ed; t'lectj\e of-fice on!\ if tli\.'\' L:"ke a le,l\'of absence fròni the-ir jobs,the BoarcJ of Kinl! COcnitvFn:eho!J(,l:: d e c i d I: d'Tašt.~---_..niglJt.

Thj,. pI(J'i:;ion \\C\'; ¡-,d(ice!

to a selection or the pi o;j()Sf'dCounty Charter b~,,,ni!1g el1.ploye;; from e;l~¡t~in," in po-litical adi\'jty i:i bl'hair of

othcrs s('.:king COUiHY oïfice.

The freehold\.'rs agreedthat coiillty eni¡:Joyes should

not be prohibited from _,eeh-

iiig otiïct:_ F ri;eholdt'r5 said

the question \1 as raisse! be-fore Stan lev Galiup, Boeinn

Field iriän;iger, decided t~

ruii for ottíce_ Count\. Com,

mi~síoner John Spcii~iidn isseeking to !w\' Gallup fircd.

Richärd Alb,'eclit fn'i'-holder chciirman, s:.¡id ~n-other discussion will be hL'd

to decide the durdtion or theleaye of ab~ejK'(:. Pre::unia-

bly. the reqiiiiemciit- nO\I isfor a ¡cäye of absence during

c",., r'\ J0#:~~ \;l'?' ;.~~.

election cdil!uii;ns on!v, A

number of COllnty ciipi(l_\c.~ha\'e been kgi,;¡:\tors. It isnot no\\ spelled out whctb'rthe ,leave of ,lo.c2ì1Ce s!1Duld

includi: the period ~l'r\':(i inthe Lc~isluture_

A 3-TO-;\ VOTE ddcatecl ;.pi opo;;dl to alJo\\ a cändi-

d¡¡te to fik for county oflicl'as em i n d e pc:: d e ii t notalignt:d with a politicdiparty. The proposal j, ex.pected to be made aoai;¡when freeholders vote unO' theChurter section by sC'ction.

In taking steps to shorknthe Charter, the freeholders:

Struck" a ~ectioii reauirin~candidates to list Cd iipaigl1l'.\pt~nsts. s li b s tit uti n g a

rt'\.rence to state L\';.Struck a detaìJ;:d conllict-

of-interest cl,\us,: ior ,'oiint)'employes but IlqJiïcd thl.'c\)iinty icgislati\ ',' body toadopt one.

Dropped a (Ì('k ili'd expJ¡I'nation of c()ni¡llt¡ti\".:.biddiii~

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rcqlll1emerits for ;'Wncni!

cmuiiy purchase,; and sub'iiitutf:d a n:I-rcncc to stcilt Jld\\.

T R A i\ S f L R RED the'investigation of dcaths frumthe Dtpartnient of PublicSafety to the Department ofPublic Health.

Liniited the guaninttc 01county employment fur o\ïi,çiab whose elective posts;(1'(' abolished bv the Charter'ì¡:' stating that the guanintei~will be good only up to a re-tÌíement age' to be set by a -~personnel board.

Included four supervisory',deputy assessors uncleI' theproposed personnel system. ,.

Changed the na11e \)1' tl1'~Board of County Coiiniis-sÌCll'rs to County CounciL.

Placed provisions for es-"tëblishiieiit of departments 'in the transitory section of"-

the Chai tel' so - county ott-Ciál can modify departmentsaltei' two years. ~

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By J.LRR,Y EEI:GS:\,\"I ~rs' st'hediilf enough 10 pre-~hc/rop...,~d County Ch~,r- "enl the diart"r from bcino

t~I. \,1;11 haw It, first meljor pre,¡enlcd to ilïe' 'YOiei's' a~ItS,' "'JOnd.iy whtn every ,;g, the NO\'cinb,'r 5 nel'" "iInilic3nt provi;;on \I.¡1I be re- e1e,.tl'on F'" b,. _l,. db '. iee10aers~.iew~ Id y the Bo.ird of _. pla!licd to cenifi' the ch'~:I~O ers. . .', -- (PI" to the Board .òf COUl;rJ\,

. ,!l\ . Sl1b.')tc1IJtJaJ ehange . Commissioners durin" thè(o_ild ~et back the freehold. fir~t lIeek of Septémb~'. , ,

Appro"a! of the charter ona section - by - section basis

was scheduled by the free-hJlders for August 29. Rich.a~d Albrecht, freeholderschair.man, saw thc Mondayrr.eeting as coming two\\'Ct-:'s earlier than expected.

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,th~ n112'bc:r,of county coni~ iey delt.ted froni the THE !lOAR!) "Dur';"ed1111551011°' i' - charter a provisiril1 aJlov:'Ì11(T claiise,-;; D13R.'n,,¿ t11C_' 'CO"11-'... .IS, wiet1lr thty;" ö _ c\\1.1 be, fu:I-:;ni(', their sula, ~~~ \~tr~;I;i~~~\Oi;ta brL~'!.t,.')ril:,:.~dia!!nll ~~~~~.:(:i\~~1~~~Si!~;t~is~b:.;..,.:,;~,,~ IC!(,;~".i:

ne.. GO-U wh;.thel' county go\'. "- "'" ...._~~-pnimtlJ! shouJçl be .partisan pee i t i (1 n sIgneTs have' a: ploycs 3!;('j' b'1r;?~inin(' if;or nonpartisan. - . vested intercst in it; reduced appro\'ed by the- (,fJ~ji):':

from 45 days to JO days the cOundl. .Others in die a ( e d ail\ I -h . I ' 10 en'af before a new ordi- .N,'e. ¡ther ,rI,le .motion eSCab-

fc ange ii "iese areas would nance takes effeci if notice lisiiing codc'ctl\'e barö"'ni'""o. rce a nell look at provi- of a f d '0" "cf ~e erl.1ì um campaign is nOr approvul of a;l ~nïe."',sions or electing a chief ex- not given; and refused to in- ment would be suiiject ctf -a

eC'utive. having .comniissÎon. sert a provJsion allowino .referendum.ers run by district and ap- only residents of. noninco; F 'poiitment of an auditor. t ' r.~ ~'h 0 Ide i' S apprO\'éCpora eG areas to file rcferen- conibinirg (Iw Ofiïc~s 01'

Cuttng b"ck the number dum and initiative petitionsof eommissio:i£:rs from nin£: on 1811S affecting only them. property and purchasing.to se\'en ':'oiild, at the ver" O. They appro"ed a stale.lea t I f 'J n a motion bv Robert n1°nt tl¡at fal'liire to nien,'i'or,ASP-CIA ' s . reqiiire t le reeholders BI k f J c .'" L agenda for the t d o,c -, reeliold£:rs asked the ir tite citarter the L"O' n Sti'(,i.

Monåay meeting lIas ap. 0 i-a", new lines for com- staif to repo! t on coiint t I -f' ,'- n1issioner.dj:;ti-c~ b 0 U n d a- f h . y Iontt or iees of the prûsecu-proved by freeholders at a ties. ranc ises, Block pro!losed tor, Superior and Justice

meeting last niglit. that no franchise shouid con- Coiiii judges and scheol su,~im('l Waiipold and Paul F R E E H 0 L D E R S las( tinue beyond five years with, pcrintEindent does not mean

Friedlander were successfu' n ht f' d out the. coiinty h.aving an op- the COlll1',,' does not h'w~ an. i ' ig re me provisions on t ". J _ u..In t ieiI' bids to place on the referendum aiicl . . . por unity to reVle\V or reoain oblicat'o t . . .=__~;,==- n '_ _ u"" iiitiatives thc franchisc ö. i' ,n 0 prOViC. fman-

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By Our County :\t'ws Bureau Among those appearing wereThe King County Board of State Senator Wes Uhln13n,

Freeholders wil go into a Seattle, who told freeholdersseries of slepped,up meetings he believed the charter shouldMonday to ready the counly's include a department chargedproposed new charter for sub, with coordinating the planningmission to the Board of King for all the county's special dis,County Commissions Sept em. tricts. Olhers included spokes-ber 4. The charter must be man for the Seattle-King Coun-certifed by commissioners by ty i\lunicipal League and theSeptember 20 in order to League of Women Voters. Nei-make the :'ovember 5 ballot. ther the i\lunicipal League nor

Freeholders wound up the the women's group have takenlast in a series of public hear- official stands on the charlerings Wednesday night at the at this point.Eames Theater in the Pacific l\rs. Harold Mozer, Belle-&ience Center preparatory to vue, said her organizationrefining the charter's final would favor an appointivedraft. . , , a~essor. and asked that proYi-

sions be included in the ehar- existence of the present Com-tel' to harmonize with legisla- mission but does not providetion the State Legislature wil for one.

be asked to enact to take the Publie hearings on rezoningsoffce out of politics. now conducted by the present

Two other speakers spoke Planning Conuission would,against several provisions in he said, be the function of thethe proposed charter affecting Board of County Comllssion-the county's present planning ers under lhe new charter,operations. These includedJohn Teutsch, presently a Ed Sand, head of the countymember of the King County planning departmenl, said hePlanning Commission, who fa- felt the charter should eithervored retention of some form be more specific concerningof citizen-composed Advisory the functions of his offce thanPlanning Commission. Accord- it is, or that it should being to Richard Albrecht, chair- broadened to permit the de-man of the freeholders, the partment to take proper ad-charter does not preclude the ministrative action.

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I;ot ene, Cut Tt':oTheRepublicans nomináted not one but two

men Wednesdny night: Richnrd 1\1. Nixon andHubert H. Humphrey. And, judging by Hum-phrey's hard-to-contain delight at the Nixon nomi-nation, it may seem to some they elected a Presi-dent at the snme time. But not Nixon!

Clearly, the Establishment prevailed inMiami Beach and, because of that, it is likely theEstablishment likewise v,:ll prevail in Chicagowith the noininntion of the Vice President. Real .trumper in this for Democrats: The selection byNixon of Gov. Spiro Agnew as his running mate. IfNixon had chosen ~IayorJohn V. Lindsay, CharlesPercy, or even l\Iark Hatfield, the ticket perhapscould have continued some vestige of appeal fordisgruntled Democrats. Now it has none. , . andmany informed observers feel numerically out-voted Republicans can't win without those votes.Nixon's strategy - generally excellent - couldstil prevail, but many, including disappointedmembers of the GOP, are openly questioning it.

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Gov. Dan Evans at what even his kindest criticstermed a "lukewarm" reception to his keynotespeech Tuesday night. Highly important to him,Evans had fashioned most of the document him-self (with some assist from usual speech aideJim Lane) and had done research on all keynotespeeches back as far as 1920 .. not excludingWiliam Jennings Bryan's famous "cross of gold"6peech_ So concerned was Evans that the addressbe just right, he invited 30 close advisers to themansion before he left to critique his efforts. _ .but most urged him onward with only minorchanges. During his delivery, the, governor suf.fered from audience inattention, the lateness ofthe hour, and some questionable TV cameratechniques which, to relieve the singleness 'offocus, cut away to various members of the audi-enCè in an assortment of irrelevant occupations.

Probably Evans suffered most, however, fromthe coolness of his image on that hot August nightwhich prevented his own undeniable sincerity. . .and that of his words _ . . from really turning onhis "udience. The speech did turn on some Dem-ocrats, however - and not favorably - particu-larly at portions of it in which Evans referred tothe nobility of the American dream, and, in thenext breath" . . . that to share in business, torealize a profit on investment, to run a factory ora shop, to produce goods and see the moneyreturn to the community _ . . that these are thethine' which made Ame.ica great, her peoplerich, and her opportunity unlimited." Out ofcontext, but that particular dream remindedmany Democrats of the Establishment's old poli-tics of what's good for General Motors is good forAmerica. ******Ru:icl:)~'!i on So:na Top State Races

'F~r Governor, the ho-hum campaign is expectedto pick up once the presidential conventions arewound up, 'p~rticu~arly, if as i;ow looks likely,Humphrey Joins Nixon as presidential nomineeand guessing stops about anything at that leveL.Here, key stafflrs in the Durkan campaign seemto be more satisfied with their candidate's effortsto date than do some in the O'Connell campThe AG's supporters seem to be concerned ~t~'Connell's inabilty to grab the necessary head-lines. Durkan's sides aren't saying it, but morean~ more it's beginning to look like a 1972 cam-paign for the legislative leader than one in thegeneral election of lS38. One factor that couldcause Durkan strategists some problems: A con-trol of the Senate by !tepublicans, in which case'Durkan could lack the prestige vantage point ofa key committee chairmanship from which hecould keep his candidacy alive unti 1972. Onedebate to watch: The preprimary television con.frontation between the two. . . '

The Atto,;1CY Gene¡-al:s Contest continues tobe a tough one to assess. So far, frontrunnersappear to be Re~ublican Slade Gorton and Dem-ocrat Fred Dore - both legislâtors _' althoughD~re's positi.on could be vulnerable to some last-minute erosion. Gorton claims to have twice asmany bar endorsements as any of his opponents

By VIRGISIA BURNSIDE

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and enjoys the embrace of Governor Evans in a:planned joint advertising campaign. On the Dem-ocratic side, the fact that four Seattleites are in :.

the race might seem to enhance the chance,S of 'former Pierce County Prosecutor John McCutch-eon. Reports indicate, hpwever, that McCutcheonis doing little work outside Tacoma, and the nom-ination could go to the swift in this one. All of theDemo candidates report state-wide organizations'in each county and all are filling stacked-upspeaking schedules. Old-time politics regard thisas one of the really wide-open races on this year's

- ballot - something that hasn't happened inmany years. ; - ******Briefly Noted

Keep your eye on the race for lieutenant gov-'ernor: Present long-time Democratic IncumbentJohn Cherberg faces stiff competition from PascoNegro Art Fletcher seeking the Republicannomination. Fletcher did himself nothing butgood in Miami Beach when he appeared beforethe GOP Platform Committee outlining his co-opplan for low-income persons reported to be work-ing well in the Tri-Cities _ . . Meanwhile, certainGOP leaders are casting a jaundiced eye at thecandidacy of Hydro-winner Bil Muncey - asurprise fiing on the Republican ticket which

. may, leaders fear, muddy the waters some forhand-picked candidate Fletcher. . _ Half serious-ly, others are wondering ifl\uncey's TV exposureSunday wil force local stations to give his oppo-nents equal time. . . An interesting twist: Cher-berg just happens to be a TV exec himself~ :'. atChannel 7 . . . Kathie Baker, Bellevue chanteuse'currently' appearing at the Lynnwood Elks, isplanning a fight against State Rep. Brian J.Lewis in the contest for the 41st District's newsenatorial'seat _ . . Kathie, active and popular inthe district and with the county organization, hasmanaged to attract the support of both McCarthyand Humphre,' supporters in her district. . _ FirstDemo to leave to go to Chicago is l\ary Lou Chaney,7th Congressional District delegate, who headedthe state convention's credential committee inTacoma and wil serve as Washington's rep on thenational committee. . . Meanwhile, other dele-gates are viewing with mixed emotions reportsthat the Chicago Amphitheater wil be guarded.by 6,000 police inside a high-wire enclave back- ,stopped by masses of FBI agents and 5,5000mobilzed National Guardsmen at the ready.Inside, 500 sharp-shooting special police havebeen assigned to the rafters. . . All this in a dem-ocracy, yet . . . 1'ht ..reeholders' RedistrictingPlan cQul~dlJce an-eimír,õùsi)~Tilíi'atrßTl ofValle., interestSln1ò1\võ'ãìitàgoñístiê- IÌorth-south

.dlsiricis . . . TIiE; posšTb¡Îitysurfacëdrècently incomme~1!p,\v.ei:d -lotlie.iCÄii b ÚiiC ar:deaiëi '. . , It's Doubtful Governor Evans wil R.s.V.P.to King County Chairman Kenneth Rogstad's in-vitation to hear California's explosive l\ax Raf-

ferty September 14 at the 'Seatte Center . . . thegovernor's been invited. . . Add Other Controver.sial, Conservative Visitors: Former Alabama Gov.George Wallace who wil be in Seattle Septem-ber 17, also at the Seattle Center, to organize hisAmerican Party preparatory to his third-partybid . . . Coincidentally, the Washington StateConservative _Party, which has endorsed Wal-lace's candidacy, wil convene separately thesame day . . . :\10st Controversial Q¡,¡ote of theWeek: Eddie ,Carlson's statement to the StateStadium Commission on behalf of the SeatteCenter site: "This plan relieves present conges-tion on Mercer and Fifth while providing easyaccess to the stadium. . . "Undocumented Rumour. . . Democratic State Treasurer Robert S. O'Brienis looking ahead to 1972 when he \vil make a tryfor the gubernatorial nomination. . . His re-elec-tion campaign this year is all sewed up. The y/ith-drawal of Orin Osborne from the race Îor SouthDistrict commissioner leaves most Democrats asbewildered as they were when he fied. . . no oneseems to know who he is or why he entered therace in the first place. . . Commissioner JohnSpellman's 110ve to oust Airport "'Ianager Stanley

Gallup expected tomorrow wil be the climax oflong efforts on Spellman's part. . . this time, as wepredicted last week, he just may have the votes.. _The real unknown.in this one is Gallup's surprisefiing for the state post of land commissioner.

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men \\'ednesd::y night: Richard :11. Nixon andHubert H. Humphrey. And, judging by Hum-phrey's hard-lo-contain delight at the Nixon nomi-natio:i, it may seem to some they elected a Presi-dent at the same time. But not Nixon!

CJearl~', the Estatilishment prevailed in:lIiami Beach and, because of that, it is likely theEstablishment likewise wil prevail in Chicagowith the nomination of the Vice Pi'esidenl. Realtrur.iper in this for Democrats: The selection byKixon of Gov. Spiro Agnew as his running mate. IfKixon had chosen ?',:iyor John V. Lindsay, CharlesPercy, or even :,Iark Hatfield, the ticket perhapscould have continued sor:e vestige of appeal fordisgruntled Der:ocrats. Now it has none. , , andmany informed observers feel numerically out-votcd Rcpublicans can't win without thosc votes.Kixon's strategy - generally excellent - couldstil prevail, but many, including disappointedmembers of the GOP, are openly questioning it.

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Gov. D:in Evans at wr.at e\'en his kindest criticsterl.1ed a "lukewarm" reception to his keynotespeech Tuesday night. Highly important to him,E\':ins had fashioned most of the document him-self (with some assist from usual' speech aideJim L:ine) and had done research on all keynoteSth:'cc:ies b3C~ ~s Îar as 1920 - not excludingWillia:n Jennings Bryan's famous "cross or gold"speech. So cor.cerned was Evans that the addressbe just right, he invited 30 close advisers to them:insior. bcfo~e he leit to critique his efforts. , .btlt most urged !:i:n onward with onl~' minorch:in¿cs. During his delivery, the governor suf-fc~cà irom ai:dience inattention, the lateness ofthe hour, and some questionable TV cameratech::ic;ucs whicl" to relieve the singleness offocus, cut :iw::y to Ya~ious members of the audioence in an ::sso;-::ner.t of irrelevant occupations.

Pruli:ibly Ev~ns suffered most, however, fromth,e coolr.ess of his i:ra¿e on that hot August nightwhich p:-evcn¡ed his own undeniable sincerity. . -,anC: ¡h~t 0; liis words. . . from really turning onhis auà~~nc~. 7::;: snc~ch did turn on some Dem-ocrats, l:owcv"r - ånd not Ïavorably - particu-larly :it portions of it in which Evans referred to-the nobnity of the American dream, and, in thenext brc;ith" . . _ that to shilTe in l¡¡¡;inC55, tore..!ize a profit on investment, to run a factory ora shop, to produce goods and see the moneyreturn to the community. . . that these are thethi¡:gs which made America great, her peoplerich, and her opportunity unlimited," Out ofcontext, but that particular dream remindedmany Democrats of the Establishment's old poli- ,tics of wh:it's good for General l,îotors is good forAmcrica_ '******r~un~c~.:n on $orr.d To!) StEte n~ces

For Go\'enior, the ho-hum campaign is expectedto pick u, once the presidential conventions arewound up, particularly, if as now looks likely,EU!:phrey joins Kixon as presidential nomineeand guessing stops about anything at that leveL.Hcre, key staffers in the Durkan campaign seem

,-.(,be-mo;'e sntlsfied with their candidate's efforts

to date than do some in the O'Connell camp, . _The AG's su?porters seem to be concerned atO'Connell's inability to grab the necessary head-lines. Durkan's sides aren't saying it, but morea:1d more it's begihning to look like a 1972 eam-

p¡iign for the legislative leader than one in thegeneral election of I9ò8. One factor that couldcause Durkan strategists some problems: A con-trol of the Senate by Republicans, in which caseDurkan could lack the prestige vantage point ofa key committee chairmanshio from which hecould keep his candidacy alivè until .1972. Onedebate to watch: Tha preprimary television con-frontation between the two. , .

Tjie Ai!o¡o::ey Ge::~r:ils Co~test continues tobe a tough o..e to' assess.' So' far; frontrunnersa;ipear to be Rcoublican SI2.de Gorton and Dem-ocrat Fred Dore - both-legislators. -- althoughDore's position co-.ild be vulnerable to some last-min:.te erosion. Gorton claims to have twice asmany bar endorsements as any of his' opponents.

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and enjoys 'the embra'ce of Governor Evans in ii"

planned joint advertising campaign. On th'e Dem-ocratic sidc, the fact that four Seattlèites are inthe race might seem'to enhance the chances offormer Pierce Cpunty Prosecutor John :\IcCutch-eon. Reports indicate, however, that McCutcheon

, is doing litte work outside Tacoma, and the nom-ination could go to thc swift in this one. All oftheDemo candidates report state-wide organizationsin each county and all are filing stackcd-upspeaking schedules. Old-time politics regard thisas one of the really wide-open r¡¡ces on this year'sballot - something that hasn't happened inmany years. . , ******Briefly ¡~o~ed ~

Keep )'our eye on the race for lieuter.ant gov-ernor: Present long-time Democratic IncumbentJohn Cherberg faces stiff competition from PascoNegro Art Fletcher Seeking the Republicannomination. Fletcher did himself nothing butgood in :\Ii¡¡mi Beach when he appeared befo~ethe GOP Platform Committee outlining his co-opplan for low-income persons reported to be work,ing well in the Tri-Cities . . . Meanwhile, certainGOP leaders are casting a jaundiced eye at thecandidacy of Hydro-winner Bil Muncey - asurprise fiing on the Republican ticket whichmay, leaders fear, muddy the waters some forhand-picked candidate Fletcher _ . . Half serious-ly, others are wondering if i\Iuncey's TV exposureSunday wil force local stations to give his oppo-nents equal tíme , . . An interesting twist: Cher-berg just happens to be a TV exec himself, . . atChannel 7 . . . Ii:athie Eaker, Bellevue chanteusecurrentlr appearing at the Lynnwood Elks, isplanning a fight against State Rep. Brian J,Lewis in the contest for the 41st District's newsenatorial seat. . . Kathie, active and popular inthe district and with the county organization hasmanaged to attract the support of both :,IcC;rthYand Humphrey supporters in her district. " FirstDemo to leave to go to Chic::g.: is Mary Lou Chaney,7th Congressional District delegate, who headedthe state convention's credential committee inTacoma and wil serve as Washington's rep on thenational committee. , . Meanwhile, other dele-gates are viewing with mixed e!:otions reportsthat the Chicago-Amphitheater wil be guardedby 6,000 police insid~ a high-wire enclave back- . ._'7'stopped by masses of FBI agents and 5,5000 .mobilzed National Guardsmen at the reaày.Inside, 500 sharp-shooting special police havebeen assigned to the raftcrs . . _ All this in a dem-ocracy, yet . . . Tne Frceholters' nc~istricti;:.gPl::n could produce an ominous polarization ofValley interests into two antagonistic north-southdistricts. . . The possibilty surfaced recently incomment by Huward Bothell, Auburn car dealcr, . . It's Douil:ful Governor Evans wìl R.S.V.P.

_ to King County Chairmmi Kenneth Rogstad's in-vitation to he¡ir California's explosive :II ax Raf-

ferty September 14 at the Seattle 'Center. . , thegovernor's been invited _ . _ A(:d Other Controver.si::l, Coi:scrvative,Visitors: Former Alaòama GOY.George Wallace who wil be in Seatte Septem-ber 17, also at the. Seattle Center, to organize hisAmerican Party'preparatory to his third-partybid ,'. . Coincidentally, the Washington StnteConservative Party, which has endorsed Wal-lace's eandid¡;c~', wil com'ene sep:;rately th~same day ~ . . ~::ist Controv~rsi~;.! C:...ic~~e of the i'~'eei" EdGie .Carlson's statement to the StateStadium Commission on behalf of the SeatteCenter site: "This pl:m relieves present conges-tion on ;',¡ercer and Fifth while providing easyaccess to the staàium . . . "Uni:ccunie:1t~::3.ur:our, . . Democratic State Treasurer Robert S. O'Bricnis looking ahead to 1\;72 w;,en he \\ril make a tryfor the gubernatorial no;nination . . . His re-elec-tion campaign thi)5 year is all sewed up. T:;c 'With-c;r:iwa! of Orin Osborne from the race for SouthDistrict commissioner lea\'~s most Democrats asbewildered as they were when he fied. . . no oneseems to know who he is or why he entered therace in the first place . , . C0::11issioi1er Jch:i

Spellrran's ¡;10Vi! to oust Airport lSanager StanleyGallup expected tomorrow will be the climax oflong efforts on S!iellman's part.. _ this time, as we

predicted last week, he just may have the votes, _ .The real unknown in this one is Gallup's surprisefiing for the state post pf..and ,~omr,1issioner.

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L1;' C 0//" ",1. ' i' is C!f ss: ç", iIVe i5ry --'r'....... .Lfl9:'1J7/IlC'1The KinCf C ~£'1's last iii'?ht ount,\" freehold_ veto bv the _ ,attention o~ cc¡,ntei:ed their fel"e/Jdu1ii-, executive or reogai¡¡i/Jrf . CD iectire bc.r- 'b '" ?na hÙìï it sh 1 - COlilcti\'e b n'" 'e carded out 1 I Diud agreemOn'ts ar",811Int'COUiit\' ad - , )(' ween the ' ' mUst b v :iinion.~, Ti1llStra lioii and pi O\-ed b\' ord - e aii-.0 by the ('ôuneiI 1lanc€' passedThey decided: ?lIbject to veto ~;.~ alttho¡¡:1i

- -That the COUlJt . F' Ject to refcrend _ IlO sub.tll'E' should act ,\ h ,xecu- The frr."lioldltnis.i;ainillCf ' as t e bar. c, crst.\', - '" agent for the COlin. a~ail1 Monda . II e e t

PtJoritr or b J: Ilight. The- ColIee/h'e b' (1) th USiness will 1._

sh Id r1r"'8Inf e J1linber th ~OUj he initat d . --U¡; t~' council (2) _¡on e cOlin-nanee of the ,e by ordi. eil election- t ietlier eDl1n.and should nof~in(.r ~ounciI tisan or 1'''0 s iou1~ be par-

. , e subJE'c~ to (3) sa1ar' i n-partisan andIE'S of councill110n.

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Associate Editor, The TimesTwo sections of (1 proposed county charter dealing

with campaign contributions and conflicts of interestwere deleted because of a belief that the chartershould not contain detailed points of law, the chair-man of the Board of King County Freeholders saidtoday. -----.-...-.-'.----,---'.,-,..

Richard Albrecht said the freeholders feel theyshould not become involved in drafting proposed laws,but should produce a "constitutional document"based on broad, general principles,

The 15 freeholders are putting finishing toucheson a charter to be submitted for ratiication byKing County voters November 5., -As drawn originally, the preliminary working

draft included one ¡:rovision to require detailed reoporting of campaign contributions and expendituresin all county elections and another to bar county off-cers or employes from holding financial interests inany firm doing business with the county. .

Both were dropped after lengthy dišcussion, Onthe conflct-of-interest issue, the freeholders substi.tuted a section directing the county's new legislativebody-assuming the charter is ratifed-to enact pro-hibitions against outside business dealings by officersand employes. including a ban on acceptance of gif.tsfrom persons or firms selling goods or services to thecounty.

"We have no intention of abandoning the prin.ç ciple," Albrecht said. "There should be a conflct-t of.interest ordinance in county government. But it

is not practical to spell out all the details of such

legislation in a charter, partly because the docu-ment would become too long."- In deleting the proposed section requiring full

~ reports on campaign spending-it would have dis-~ qualified candidates from holding office if violations:1 occurred-the freeholders instead drafted a brief~ clause making political candidates in county elec-~ tions subject to state Ia\vs relating to can1paign ex..

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.. Iiminarv draft is 41 pages long.

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for county pù1itical candidate,: to fie a~ in-deDend':'r~ts, The frrcholders recently re-

fused to make such a proYision, whichmilns cilndìdates mu~t continue to fie un-

der party labels.As one dissenting freeholder, Paul S,

Friedlander, point'2d out at a recent frE'2-holners' mrcting: "There are many quali-rid person;;, \\'ho would run as independ-ents, but who won't run on a pariy line."

About 27 per cent of the national popula-tion i5 indcprndent. (There are as manyindepe;1clents as thcre are Republicans, na-tionally) ,

PEH.L\PS even more thc:ln '2I per centof Eing County's population is composed ofíndependi:i1ts and independent Yoters. Acannidate should have as much right to de-clare himself as an independent as he doesto declare himself a Democrat or Republi-can.

JudgE'S, city councilmen and other elect-

ed officials run on a non-pilrtisan (inde-

pendent) platform, Why shouldn't otherelected officiels have the prì\-i!edge of run-ning as independents or non-partisans - in

King County and elsewhere?The freeholders made another impor-

tant decision at their recent meeting:Elected offcials wÌlose offces ma\' beeliminated by the proposed connty ch'arterwould be gi\"n a job with the county at thesame pay until they reach retirement age(which would be set b)' the county person-nel board).

Shouldn't it be necessarv for these ex-officials to compete with other candidatesfor jobs on a competitive basis, at the e5-'

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tabli3hcd pay scale for the jobs, rather

than at higher scales?

Many \'oters would probanl)' like toknow what the conflict-of-interc5t section1'emo\'('1 from tiie' proposed charter by thefreeholders was. Vat PI'S wm he interestedin seein,: what sort of conflct-of-interestsection pertaining to county offcióih oremp1o)'es is drafted by the freeholders at a

la~rr date, as they propose to do.J. J. ALBI,

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This Jetter is addressed to the man\'

thousands of Democratic \'oteTs who areappalled by the \'/ar in Vietii2D1 and lo~e

our party has played in making it. \Yhatare we to do when faced with the "choice"of ì\ixon-Humphrey in l\ovemb"r? Hum-phrey has been a totally committed mem-ber of the administration that is res')on~i-ble for the war and that was massiveÎy re-jected by Democratic \'oters in the prima-ries. l\ixon's chief comment on the warover four years, except for the last fewweeks, h2S been to demand escalation ofone or another feature of the military in-volvement. '

There wil be'some who wil urge us tovote for Humphrey b'2cause of his dom(:sticpolicies. But \yhal will tl~ese be \\-orth with

four more )'ea1's of Johnso:1-Humpn;-eyVietnam policies? Others wil say that the"true Humphrey" wil reveal himself afterthe election, Alternatively we may hopethat Nixon, a conservati\'e and cautious

man, might realize the futility a.nd wasteof the Vietnam adH~nture and negotiate asettlement, which at this date can hardlybe done "with honor."

RATHER than hope for the emergenc!of the "true Humphrey" or the "realis:ì(ì\ixon" we can do something to inf1uenciwhiche\-er of these two is elected. We caìwrite-in lllcCartJw or vote for a soi:cilissplinter party, A ñ1assive vote of this type

in Nowmher may well be the deciding factor in determinint! whether the "true Humphrey" or the "rêa1istic Kixrin" emerge irJanuarv. And if in the nex L t\'o \'.-eek~large il-iiJ1 bel'S of Democrcitic voters makE,it clear to the party leadership that y, c

~t'll have a choice, e\'en if they ignore t1:emessage of the primaries. they may gdsecond thoughts about nominati.ng a manwÌ10 is part and parcel of a discredited ad-

ministration,l\rARTI~ GOUTER:\!AX,4COô Pasaùena Plaee :\E

\"JWjCS cmd Pricøsi have read the editorial in the Aug. 12

edition of The P-I, entitled "White House:.bsc12" and I want to congralu~ate thepoI on its middle-of-the-ro'ad policy in re-

g::rd to wages and prices. This is as itshould be, but until each and €\-ery Oì'8 of

us makes a diligent effort in the fight tohold prices and \yages, the terrible nigh!-mare of inflation wil continue to plague usalL. It appeal' in these prosperous timesthat the only answer to curbing the fantas-tic price and ",'age war is wage and pricecontrol.

I urge everyone who has to earn a dol-lar the hard way or otherwise to voice hisopinion to his congressman, :i\aybe thenwe wil get some action,

VER;.E HEINIG,5239..1Sth Ave, SW

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.AI/'n ;P. C. B. Est. 188')

/'r~EV'J Klr~G CHARlER NEARS COMPLETION

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County home rule efforts arc nearingcompletion in King County, are stil in

preliminary stages in Snohomish Countyand have stalemated in Clark County.

The King County fregb.c:!.ers have re-leased à'.pi:ciJñiinary draft õl the.l\Y_

countYJ:h¡irtçr and hearings on a finaldraft are scheduled in late July. The

freeholders propose to submit the docu-

ment to the voters in this fall's generalelection.

Snohomish County freeholders, electedat the call of the county commissioners,

arc holding preliminary meetings on the

shape a future charter may take. Theprocess is in the fact-finding stage and

no decisions on a revised structure ofcoun:y government have been made.

rn Clark County a call for home ruleinitiated by the local newspaper, TheVancouver Columbian, stirred interestbut adequate support for immediate ac-

tion was not forthcoming. A citizen'sgroup has been formed to study the pro-posaL.

The King County charter draft callsfor nine elected commissioners and anelected executive. The county's chief ex-ecutive offcer would be elected at largefor a four-year term as a partisan. The

commissioners would be nominated andelected from districts on a partisan basisfor staggered, 4-year terms.

A transitional phase provides the pres-ent King County commissioners wil au-

tomaticalIy become members.of the nine-man board unti their terms expire.

The draft gives the executive a vetoover legislation passed by the commis-sioners. The veto could be overriddenwith six votes.

The charter eliminates all non-consti-tutional elective offices with the excep-tion of the assessor. The state constitu-

tion provides that the prosecuting attor-ney, superior and justice ~ourt judges

and the superintendent of schools remainelective.All other county department heads

would be appointed by the elected execu-tive, subject to confirmation by the com-missioners.

Other main provisions include a five-member personnel board to handle em-ploye grievances within the civil service.

If the charter is approved this fall,'nominating primaries would be held nextFebruary and a final election in March.The charter and the newly-elected off-cers would take effect on May 1, 1969.

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Artidc's 4, 5 .ind 6 of the

proposed new KL,g County Chc:r-ter de:,! wIth Financlal Pro..

ceêàures, provI~s for a Per-

sonnel System !'id sets up theground rules for ElectIons,

Perhaps the most Interest-ing of these articles Is the on~

which deals wIth the personnelsystem uncleI' the charr,

All COlL'1ty employees wouldhe selected, advimced and flréd

unc'.er einrit s)'5tem. The char-ter calls for the establlzhment

of e personnel system whIchwill assure recr:ultrr~nt, scbc-tIon and retcntlon of county

employees on the bi:sis of merit.Bmployees would be promotedon the basIs of demonstrated

abIlty, and compensatIon and

personnel practiccs would keepthe county system competitIve,establishing a county careerservice,A personnel board wouid be

composed of five me~rs.Four of these would be ap-

pointed by the county execu-tive, subject to confirmation

by a majorIty of the board of

county commissIoners. One. member would be elected bythe county employees who £iemembers of the career servIce.r._"

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at a priority meeting, that chief executive CAdmini:'m e m. b ~ r s of the County trator) in the charter and

Council SHould be full time the only way to provide aand receI\'e s a 1 a r i e s of balance of power is by hav-$18,000 per year. ing a full-time counciL."

They also decided thatthere wil be nine membersof the council and that they

should be elected on a parti-san basis.

Richard Albrecht, chair-m .a n of the freeholderssaid: '

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The boDrd members wouldserve for five years, one mem-bei' appointed each year. Ama-jority of th~ board of commis-sIoners could remove, a person-nel board member, (but thcoimty CX'Jcutive could not) forjust cause after wrItten char-ges and a public h.earlng by thecounty commIssIoners.

Uncbr Article 5 county em-ploye'Js covered by the careersen-ice and tr.e coun.ty admin-istrator are forbidden to en-

gage In any polItical actIvity,on behalf or, and cannot payorasked to pay MY assessin:mtorcontribution whIch wil benç.fltdirectly or Indirectly anyone

occupying or seeking appoInt-

ment, nomInatIon or electIon toany el'~ctive county offce.

Under Article 6, Blections,one major item under thechar-

tel' calls for a statement ofcampaign contrIbutIons and ex-penditues of every candidatefor nomination or election tocounty offce.

WithIn 10 days ~fter the pri-mary, general or special elec-tion each candidate must filean Itemized statement with thedepartment ofrccords andelec-

tIons on form.sfurnished, show-

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. 0 N AXOTHER priorityIlatter, the îrecholders de-~ided that the chief execu-

tiv~ should be elected andnot appointed.

A provision in the county

charter that would make the

county assessor appointivewas voted down by the free-holders.The draft of the proposed

charter provides that the

assessor be elected.The freeholders voted that

a provision be included inthe charter that would au-thorize the council to es-tablish regional county of-rices to make county .serv"ices more readily availableto outlying areas, '

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Ing all contrIbutions and pledgesmade to hlii or upon hIs rehalfand all campaign expenditures

and obligations Incurred by him.Theze statements would be a

matter of public record. VIo-latIon of t.lils sectIon woulddis-qualiy the candidate from hold-

ing county elective omce.Most important change under

ArtIcle 4 whIch sets out Fin-

anclal Procedures Is the pre-santation and adoption of bud-gets.

The charter provides for a¡nrform?!ICe budget. rather thana "lin3" bitc'~ct, giving the exe-cutive some latitude on budget-ed Items.

A budgçit message will ex-plain the budget in fiscal terms,and in terms of goals to be ac-complished. relating the re-

quested eppropria¡Ions to thecomprehensive plans of thcounty.

Prior to the public hearngon the budget, copies would ba

available for public Inspection,

,and the budget message .andsupporting tables would beavailable to interested personsupon request, with budget copIes

furnished for a reasonabh fee.~

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/By Our County News BureauNearly down to the wire, the

Board of King County Free-. holders has scheduled a spe-cial order of business nextl'vionday night to reach a final

decision on the size of theCounty Council (the renamedBoard of King County Com-missioners) and whether elec-tions to name the new council-men should be partisan ornonpartisan.

The decision wil be madebetween a seven- or mne-mem-ber. body, Paul Meyer, execu-tive secretary of the group,said.Freeholders also wil vote on

whether the new county chiefex~cutive designed to function

as county mayor should be ap-pointive or elective.In a stepped-up schedule of

me e ti n gs to ready the pro-. posed new charter for submit-tal to County Commissionersin order to place it on theNovember 5 general-electionballot, freeholders met twicet:-is week. They decided,among other things, to removea dollar limitation on county'purchases requiring competi-tive bids and approved merg-ing of that department withthe county's present propertydepartment.Perhaps under the impetus

of the firing of County AirportI\lanager Stanley Gallup, whohad fied for the post of stateland commissioner, freeholdersdecided the new charter wilprohibit county employes fromruriing for political offceunless that employe first re-signs. Specifically umnentionedis whether county employes

. may run for the office of pre-cinct committeemnn.

The new charter also placesthe investigation of deaths in

the county under the authorityof the King County Health De-

partment..'

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t~'r is WE'll on its way to get- Attempts to make comnii~- Freeholders also did notting on the No\'ciib::'r 5 gen- sioners part-time, count\. change a prO';ision to n.t~\iiicraI-election ballot. go\'rnment nonp8rtisan ¡ìli~¡ the assessor as an cli'cti:d of-

Erf I I' fic~al. There \\';1" an attem;;torts to rc\'ersc major t ,ie c iief excCliti\'c .appoin- to include a pro\'sion eal!iil"deí.sions \\ere turned back ti:-e rather than ejected fo~ t~c as~~ssf)r to be ap.

last night at a !1L,C'ili" of thE' failed by wide margins. A pr.intiw without a charterBoard of Frcehold oi~ T" _ 110\'E' to reduce the number amendment if the I ..."is1", .t~. Il" of count" . - -,~, ..means tJiat in the eomino f ..J commissione'rs ture at SQme future ~ dilte\\'cC': !an6U,\~e relïnC'ni('nt~ /?i:,' i i~ne to sewn also r.¡de aS5cssors appointive.can be made in the chaneI' ~i t:e tit. by a narro\ler It failed, i to ;~.òr¡! ft. \ ~te, 9 to 0_ Fre'C'ho!c1crs iiicluclrc! in

The Board of Frrchoicl'~rs ~ hus the c1.1aner st.ill CedIs tlli charter a provision au-pbiis to meC:t Aiigust 29 - t~ 1'.01 th~ elec:.t~~:1 of mile. full- tli(lrizing rcgiomil COiillt\' of-ado;)t the charter s~ction b' time, commls"ioncrs \\ith a fin's to make count\' šerv-. . t.) startino salary of "1S 000' - -s( ctlon and tlii:'11 September, eo , .'" ä ievs a\'ailabk to outh-iiin.' 10 c~rtify it to the county y.~ar, an electe.d. ~'h¡cf exceii- arcas, ì\Jcmbers kit' th~commiss¡one:rs for inclusion ti e . and p.u ti~an county chi! rtcr alIo\\''d it bv re-'

on the bal!oL . elections. _ nwining sih:nt, but a pósiti\'e'I~' Any major chanc:c coulel "t te" Jor tests of th d ft h ~ - ,ä me,n1. \\as.' scen as pass

i-.,~. e ra ~ve set back the cJiar~r b '

'erslOri h.id been expected time schedule and i,'ii)os.ibi~, ,y a~sistiii~ Il charter pcis-:.'::--::-,-:::_--- . sage l,n suburban alc¡¡~

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Board of King County Free- November 5 general-electionholders has scheduled a spe- ballot, freeholders met twicedal order of business ne.xt this week. They decided.l\londay night to reach a final among other things, to removedecision on the size of the a dollar limitation on countyOiunty Council (the renamed purchases requiring competi-Board of King COtL'ity Com- tive bids and approved merg-missioners) and whether elec- ing of that department withtions to name the new council- the county's present propertymen -should be partisan or department.nonpartisan, ' Perhaps under the impetus

The decision wil be made of the firing of County Airportbetween a seven- or nine-mem- Manager Stanley Gallup, whobel' body, Paul :\Ieyei", exeeu- "had fied for the post of state

tive secretary of the group, land commissioner, freeholderssaid, . decided the new charter wil

Freeholders also wil vote on prohibit county employes fromwhether the new county chief running for political offceexecutive designed to function unless that employe first re-as county mayor should be ai?- signs.pointive or e1ective_ _'__'W - ,.In a stepped-up schedule of J

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AUG 1 4 1968

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McDana ld Ru ns ',Fa r Si/!~ Sa."S e n a te

, Donald N. ",fcDonald, anInglewood resident, Seattle areabusiness-man and contractor hasfiled for Republican candidate forWashington State Senator in theFirst Legislative District.

:\IrDon31d further believes that

no new taxes or increases arenecessary because of the $140

million dollar unappropriated

surplus in the general fund at theend of this biennium. He belie,'esan income tax is not necessary.

:\lcDomilcl. as an electeò KingCounty Fi _eholder. has bë'eñ-Óii€ ofthe piTrcîp~1 -drafters of the new

County Charter.He has served on many

committees in the Seattle Chamberof Commerce and the Seattle AreaIndustrial CounciL. !llcDonald has

been president and nationaldirector of the Seattle :\lasterBuilders, vice president andnational comnùtteeman of theAssociated General Contractors,president of the Washington State

Construction Industry Council and

also treasurer and trustee ofInglewood Country Club. /'

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""f" hE King County freeholders 1;8.\'(: r('('od,underlzîT;eïi~-l"sllDSiTll1ti3lrisl; 'for th8 Obviously, the frceholders deC'dpc1 tocharter they are draftng by their deci- folio..'" the municipal government pat-sion to recommend a nine-member, full- tern c~tìd to disreGard the precedents ~,..:,ttime board of commissioners drawing by scho~)1 boards and the Port of Seat1e.annual salaries of $18,000 each. Explaining the freeholders' reason-

The risk is whether thG King County ing, their very able chairman, Rich8rdelectorate, when it votes -un the pro- Albrecht, says the purpose is to estab-posed charter in November, wili decide lish a balance of power in the countythat the central issue is "bigger govern- government, \'lith both a strong execu-ment" and summarily reject the whole ti\"e administrator and a strong board ofchc:rter proposition. commissioners serving ft'll time.

iYatu rafty, 518,000 public salaries Our view is that the freeholdersbpco1/(, n i'olotil(' political issue to ('/I- made the wrong choice. We suggestg('iider oppositioii to the charter prop- that, on balance, the nonsalaried direc-osition, S till. siich a salar\' lei-d is tors of the Port and various Schoolfiilly justified - if the iiiiil- coiI/mission- Boards have established the more effi-crs are to sen'c in full-time capaciti('s, cient pattern.

The crux of the matter, ho\vever, is Tlip Port COll1/isl'ioli and Schoolwhether the King County government Dow-ds !iai'e llcen relafiiely free ofrequires nine full-time commissioners. political _ lIWIPlll'(''i¡¡g (//11 have c(la-

The three-member Port Commission fiiied t!ip1/sell'es Ïli thp mrdii to leg.is,operates, very _ effectively on Sl-a-year latiiig lJo!ic~' matters, lraring. ndminis,salaries, a stipend established by the trritIic aff(iIrs largely to admi¡¡i.~tl'(l-voters sevE'ral years ago on recom- tors IdlO1/ tliey l¡nr'p ap¡J(Ilitcd,mendation by the port commi:;sioners The trend in Seatte's municipalthemselves, who then were receiving govcrillient in recent years has been$250 annual "honorariums." The theory toward stren:~then¡ng centralized ad-the commissioners advanced was that minis~latioii of city affairs in the may-the $250 honorarium tended to attract or's office, with the City Council relin-poorly qualified candidates for the of- quishing powers which had. in fact,fices-and that the token S1 salaries given the city a "commission" form ofwould attract qualified businessmen. go\'er:1ment with individual CouncilThe voters agreed by approving the members holding small kingdoms of in-proposition, fluence and direction by which the

School districts are governed by non- powers of the mayor were circumvented.salaried boards and, by and large:, hcive In short, The Times believes that theattracted sUDerior and dedicated di. freeholders' recommendation for an en-rectors. . larged, full-time boarà of nine comm;s-

011 the oilier haml, tli(' Cit). of sioners at $18,000 salaries is a back-SeaUlt's legis/aiit'e Iml1cll is mrirle lip ward step completely aside from theof fiill.tiii(', salaried coulici/lIC/I (¡mI, volatile political issue of the $18,000again, has estariis/ied a creditarJlc salaries. /'

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"""i HE King County freeholdei;s haveunderi¿:Ü:en a substantial rist: for tliecharter they are drafting by their deci-sion to recommend a nine-member, full-time board of commissioners drawingannual salaries of $18,000 each,

The risk is whether the King Couiityelectorate, when it votes on the pro-posed charter in November, wiJ decidethat the central issue is "bigger govern-ment" and summarily reject the wholecharte,- plopos¡tion.

i'.atir()lly, S13,OGO public salariesbecome a l'olatilc political h.mc to cll'g,?/lí1er oppos:!ÎOI1 to the clwrtcr prop-

ositio:i, S till. siicl! a sa!rir'l' h'lcl isfully justified

'if tlie nine coiiimis:;!on-

ers are to serve in full-timc capacities,The crux of the matter, however, is

whether the King County governmentrequires nine full. time coil1missioners.

The three-member Port Commissionoperatès very effectively on S1-a-yearsal2.ries, a stipend established by thevoters several years ago on recom-mendation by the port commissionersthemselves, who then were receiving$250 annual "honorariums." The theorythe commissioners advanced was thatthe $250 honorarium tended to attractpoorly qualified candidates for the of-fices-and that the token $1 salarieswould attract qualified businessmen.The voters agreed by approving theproposition, '

School districts are governed by non-salaried boards and, by and large, haveattracted superior and dedicated di-rectors.

On the otlier hand, the City ofSeattle's legisla6i:e branch is made upof full-time, salaried councilmen allI,again, has estabished a creditable

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r('('on!.Obviously, the freeholders decided to

follow the municipal government pat-tern and to disregard the precedents setby school boards and the Port of Seattle.

Explaining the freeholders' reason-ing, their very able chairman, RichardAlbrecht, says the purpose is to estab-lish a balance of power in the countygovernment, with both a strong execu-tive administrator and a strong board ofcommissioners serving full time.

Our view is that the freeholdersmade the wrong choice, We suggestthat, on balance, the nonsalaried direc-tors of the Port and various SchoolBoards have established the more eff-cient pattern.

The Port Coiiimission and SchoolBoards hare been relatii'eZ,. free ofpolitical manczH'ei-lIg and liat'e con-fiiied tli('mseli'es in the main to legis-latinfi: polic:r matters, Zearing arliiiiiis-trafii.:e affa:rs largely to administra-tors 1t"101I they Jiai-e appointed.

The trend in Seattle's municipalgovernment in recent years has beentoward strengthening centralized ad-ministration of city affairs in the may-or's office, with the City Council relin-

quishing powers which had, in fact,given the city a "commission" form ofgovernment with individual Councilmembers holding small kingdoms of in-fluence and direction by which thepowers of the mayor were circumvented,

In short, The Times believes that thefreeholders' recommendation for an en-larged, full-time board of nine commis-sioners at $18,000 salaries is a back-ward step completely aside from thevolatile political issue of the $18,000

salaries.

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Clal~50 inBy JERRY BERGSMAN'A pro\'ision ior nine full-

time Cl)Lnty co U n c i I mencould be a fatal weakness in

the proposed Count\' Char-ter, Dr. Brewster Deñn~! said

yesterday.Denny: director of the

Graduate School of PublicA.ffairs at the University ofWasliington. discussed theproposed Charter in a talk tothe ì\lunicipal League's lo-cal-government committee.He auestitmrd that nine full-time councilmen would haveto do as legislators only.

"The Charter," he sa'jd,

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does not quite deliver. It Charter needs a statement of

does not separate the legis!a- "fundamental aspirationstive and e.x e cut i ve and rights." He called forbranches." more flexibility in the per-penny said that having sonne! system, reco;;nizing a

nine full-time councilmen new type of public servantwould be an invitation for who could be moved fromthem t\J become part of the joh to joh as needed withoutexecutive branch. He said it being Jocked into a civil- Jis difficult to get Ieoislators service t~'pe of procedure,

out of the exeCliti\.e'" bra nch But Denny said the free-of g?vernment once they holders did an "excellentstep In. jO?" in estalbisliing the exec- (Part-time councilmen with utive branch and he voiced i

good staffs wo~ild be better, support f()r the concer,t of aiihe said. I. s.elected chief executi\'e.18

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I i V ~~" a i "i:..J. .. "" ~ I'''.. I \.~ t~ iP/'7 'í_-' Bv JERRY BtRGS:\lAN Charter calls for partisan. elections.A la;;t-ditch efrort to retain \VampolrJ, spe"ldl1g for an

the county auditor as an elected auditor, said, "1 heelected offcial in the pro. auditor should be the walch

Posed Charl~r failed last do;: or the Tr('a,u:'y, the con-science of the- count\' and no:night. The audiwr woulò be buhservirnt to any 'man b':tappoiPted hy the County his m~st~r, the pt:hlic whoCouncil und'èr 'an~uage ap- eJe~ts him."pro\'ed hy the Board or F~e' That mo\'e was defeated, ri

to 2. Other Irer/iol,!,,:" cn:i,holdNs. tended it is the 'lo(("S rcs, FREEHOLDERS also:The freeholders virtua iiy ponsibility to make the final Guaranteed count\' com,

wound up tl,eir work. They audit. They argued ¡hilt tiie missioners they couid COI1-wil meet next Thursdav to County Council must appoint plete their terms of offcI"appro';e the Charter seetion an auditor if there is to be a but not be assured a posití:n

bv section and then the fol. .. ,-- ----- ',--------,---iòwing week to certify it tothe Board or Kin;: Cot:ntyCommissioners for the i-ov-emb~r ballot. '

Most freeholders expectthe section-by-section ap-proval to be given swiftly. iSimon Wampold, freeholder,after his try to keep the au- :ditor elected, rem a i' ked:"We've already "ored on ev-erything. "

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balance of power with theexecutive branch.

Don ~lcD~,il~ld, who sidedwith Wampold, nio\'d tocombine the orfice or aneh.ted auditor with that or acitizen.complaint d e p a i' t-ment. The motion failed on a4 to 4 vote but McDonald in,dieated he mav try the ap-pro:\ch again." ~

with county government af(-er that.

The Charter now guaran-tees elected offcials, except

commissioners, jobs withcounty government until re-tirement age.)i\lade the deadline for

adOi)tin;: h 0 u n d a r i e s forcouneíl:iien districts April 30every five vears beoinnin~ in

19ï1. . '" '"To ugh e n e d the penalty

against councilmen for fail-ing to redist rict on time forforfeiting half their pay untithey do.

Gave the first elected chief ,executi','e a four-year termby having it expire in 19i2.

Requircd an employe seek-ing an elected public officeto take a leave of absenceduring the campaign and, ifelected, during the term oforiice. County em p I 0 yeswould be allowC'd to serve asprecinct committeemen with-out taking a lea\'e.

Banned a referendum oriritiative on employe woi'k-ing conditions, hours andfringe benefits.

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Freeholder? de~ided Mondayto stick with mne councilmen

(the I?re~ent board of countycommissioners expanded tonine members and renamed"councilmen") and make theirpositions - as well as allcounty elective positions _partisan.. The group also agreed tohold to their original decision

by which the new post ofcounty executive would be anelective one rather than ap-pointive_

Both decisions were regard-ed as pivotal before the char-ter is adopted, section by sec-

tion, August 29.The final adoption wil come

approxiately one week later,

A decentralization of countygo\'ernment, already partly un-

der way, freeholders decidedshould be encouraged by itsinclusion in the charter. Dis-

cussion Monday centered onthe possibilty of new countycouncilmen offcing in branchcounty offices to provide clos-er liaison to voters on county

problems.

O~,'E QUESTJO:\ will bediscussed next week. Thestaff was asked to present'alternative proposals to al-Iowa nonpartisan candid~te ,to seek offce. Basically, the

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changes to the priipOSl'J countyclwr\tr were ri;ide \\'eclriesdclvnight in last,riinute efforts b)'the Kin" Count \. freeholders toQ -make the doC'uinent sound andattracti\'e to a majority of thevoters in ;'ovember.

The most significant move atthe final working meeting wasrejection. six to two. of a mo-

tion to include an elected audi-

tor in the new form of govern-ment. The charter drclft nowprovides for 11 elected offi-cials-nine county commission-ers (by district i. a county exec-utive (at large i and, assessor.

The last-named post as an elec-tive versus appointi\'e officehas drawn the most fire be-tween the conservative and lib-eral blocs on the 15-memberfreeholder board.The board has been working

six months to draft a home-rulecharter.

Board Chairman Richard Al-brecht. at Wednesdav's meet,

,ing. asked that a-ny final".changes be in a formal form

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when presented for section-by- by an cxecutive-appointed com.

section adoption. tOf1orro\l. . miUef'.The all-d;iy meeting will begin The deadline for redistrictingat 9 a.m, at the Washington was spelled out as Ap:-il 30Athletic Club. every five years beginning inThe Freeholders. represent- 19ï1

ing all parts of the county. willthen \'ote to appro\.e the docu-

ment as a whole Sept. 5. on aschedule for inclusion on theNovember ballot.

One change to be consideredtomorruw will be provision fora nonpartisan candid:.te to seekoffice. Freeholder Don :\lcDon-aId indicated \\ednesd;iv hewould also move th;it the rhär-tel' provide combin;ition of anelected auditor's office with acitizen-complaint department.

The eight freeholders presentWednesday voted in stricterprovisions assu ring redistrict-ing by county commissioner dis-tricts even' five veal's.

The penãiiy fõ; not complet-ing the redistricting job iii thefirst four months of the requiredperiod will be the retention of

('ount\' commissioner salariesduring the time the redistrict-ing ordinance is being drawn up

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time C\unty co u n c i i mencould be a fatal v.c~il.¡ess inthe propose(L.,Ç.llElJLLhar-

tel', Dr. Brewster Denny saidyesterday,

Denny, director. of th~Graduate School of PublicAffairs at the Uni\wsitv ofWashington, discuss;?d. theproposed Charter in a talk tothe ì'vlunicipal Lez.fue's lo-cal-government committe'2.He questibi1ed that nir.e tuIl-time councilmen would havcto èo as legíslatJls only.

"The Chartcr," h~ said,

"promises to dJ something itdo;!s not quite deliver. Itdoes not separate the Je~isla-tive and ex e cut i v ebranches."Dennv said that having

niné full-time councilmenwould be an invitation forth~m tlJ become part of theexecutive branch. He said itis diffcult to get legislators

out of the executive branchof government once theystep in.Part-time cou:1cilmen with

good staffs, would be better,he said,

The professor said theCharter nzcds a statement of"Iundai:ientaI aspirations

and rjg1i!s." He called formore flexibiJty in the per-sonnel system, recognizing anew type of public servantwho could be moved fromjob to job as nê'eded without

being locl-ed into a civil-service type of procedure.

But Dennv said the free-holders did" an "excellentjob" in estalbishing the exec-

utive branch and he voicedsupport fur the concept of an

elected chief executive. /, /'

The freeholders also removeda guarantee that count\' com-missioners would be asšured aposition with eouiity gOHrn-ment until retirement. The'charter does prO\ide that thepresent commissioners maycomplete their term of offce.

Initial term for the chief exec-

utive_ a new branch of ~o\'ern-ment created bv the èharter.was extended to -four veal's. ex-piring in 1972. In a u-nanimous

decision the freeholders madeillegal the use of the referen-

dum or initiati\.e to change em-ploye working conditions. hoursand fringe benefits. saying thiswas a management matter.

The board decided that anelected official can be remo\'edfrom office for commission ofa crime onl\' after com.ictionand after all åppeal proceedingshave been exhausted.

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or-among freehl)lders favoring the cons~ltant, made the final row is preliminary to final

larger num ber of commis- drawings. approval expected September

sioners has shilled, accordi:ig "We've got a problem," was 6. ...' t

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en specified by the charter a provision for nine the way they (lid previously,

pro p 0 sed c\)unty chartE'r full-time county councilmen the rE'duction to sewn Would

probably wil be reduced w

ith beginning pay of Sl8,OO

O be appiu\'ed, 8 to 7.

from nine to sei'en tom

01'- a vear. Both O'Connor and Geof-

row. The new language prob¡i- froy said' many persons

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reactivated a councilman- the county's pop 1\ I a t ion G

eoffroy said his earliE'r

districting committee after reaches ¡.j milioii. That is thinking was inriuenced by

two freeholders told him expected to oceur in about thE' number of people who

they were planninr, to reo 19ij. felt they were unable fl

verse their earlier stands James O'Connor and Jack reach anyone in county gO\"

~te fur the -,eduction. GE'offroy are the two free. ernment witb their problem!

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lI~\\ plan fiil' district bounda- intend to adopt the chart!".

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21 intervic\.'(;u"'-a candidatefor charter legal adviser. '

i The candidate is Bil Bark-fer, an attorney. He was in-t e r vie wed by Freehold-

ers Chairman Norma Bruns.Members of the countyboard also heard a reportfrom Gordon Maxwell re-g a r din g apportioning the

. county into five districts. Afí ve-district county, governedby five . man councils, hasbeen propos(;d.

The freeholders are point-ing for Novcmber 15 as adeadline for completing arough draft of the proposedcoiinty charter. /,

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~ft' 'Ct:~ " IS, Q i,,~ I! /-"" 'Ç\f'" ~ " tF:J ¡f'U' /~ r;t '- /?\i i: 0\.. Ii I:'ß \. J ,'- d '\h ~ ~ (,. VJ iJ ~By Our County Ncws Lureau also wil begin shortly, ~, said,

l. Efforts madë by the Board- of King County Freeholders, The chairman would male. woi'king with a citize¡Ú com- no advance guess as to thmittee to "sell" the new coun- charter's likely fate at th

i ty charter, could be hampered polls November 5, lld t.h~rby a shortage of funds. . had been no public-opinio

sapling - ofÏcial or nonoff

This waš the statement cial - to indicate whether thTuesd:iy of chairman Richard public approves provisions iiAlbrecht, who said he foresaw the new charter.no large-scale campaign ~hest The doci;~;e;i he not"d wilavailable to the promotlOnal share space on fIie long~st bal-effort for the ~harter such, as lot in King County history, and

was available il the Forward share the spotlght with a hotThrust eff.ort presidential race and a stateThere is just slightly over general election that coiùd

two months available for the emerge from the doldrumstell-and-sell campaign, Al- into a tightly fought CO!ltest.brecht noted,. whic~ \~i11 de- "It is our hope that the focusmand a, major ehor. from of the camp,Ügn cn govern-b?tl the fre(;~:oldels. ?nd t~e ment issues could generatecihzen commi.tee v. h.ch v, il similar interest in what I thinkbe formed ~hortly. ~e said are some remarkable new di-freehoiders wil p,rov,ide the rections spelled out in thenu~lcus ?f a spea;1.ers bureau charter" Albrecht said.which wil be available for de- .bates, presentation~: panel ap- Speakers on the charter maypearances and the hke. be obtained by calling the

An endorsement campaign, Board ?f King County Free-,supporting the new charter holders In the Courthouse. /'

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A r!'(¡\'sicll ;1110".';iig candì- nine county cQlincilrien rc- change.dates n(\t aflìíiatcri with a presc'nti..g'specified districts S f 1 1'" r- 1 i J

arid' an aSseSSO¡', ,All othei's . even 0 t i8 - - rce )0.( .political ¡v!'!y to sed, county _. ,'1 ,arc aj,¡)ointed. ers present went alan;; withofrce was inscrtrd vcstcr- _

(by ìl)() th:' prop0sed county A last minute cha~ge the red u c t ion, hut thech~!rcr_ pa\'es the way for appoI!t- Bocird's rules require cight

Thr new eklil'l1t in count\' .ment t!f An ci55(';;sor in the affirmative votes for finalelections came in the finii future, but only if the State adoption of each sonion.ni;.iutos as till Board \)f LC'gislature adopts a meas- Simon Wcimpold, a Frce-r- i I' . II ure li'quiring the ap¡)oint- holder, tried to effect a com-. ree ii)..:~~'a.~.!-tua y com-pleted liS 1\ ,Il'". mrnt instrad of election of promise, first calling for

al! assessors in the state. dropping the salary fromThe Frrcholdcrs turnedback dforts to reduce thl" $18,00 yearly to sa,GOO andnlll1h('1' of ('ouncì!'lìen from THE PROVISlON allO\ving later to S~,400 but both ef-

non-partisan candiates to forts failed.9 to í, to maLc tiirll part- f ff I tl "\"c're Si)e~ki'n~ on th~time ;:ncl to elect the auditor run or (1 ic(' a on,; wi 1 par-y n.~ 'and the sheriff. tisan office seekers was ap- life or death of this charter,"

,proved at the urging of Rob- \VRnipold said. "With nineert Block, a Freeholder. full-time commissio!lrrs thiõ

Multnomah County in Ore- charter wil not pass. I pleadgon provides for a similar l- \.mechanism, ..It works like this: lA candidatf' files as ;:n,

"independent." If the total'primary \'ote for cil! thosefiing as independents equals

at least 20 per cent of theentire vote cast for all those

sceking the position, tlie in-dcpenden candidate withthe largest number of votes:;oes on the general electionballot with the Republicanand Democratic nominee. Anindependent candidc,te can-not seck election on a parti-san ticket.This difers from candi-

dates fiing on minor parties.l\inor p~rty candidates are

ccrtifi::d to tl1e ballot follow-ing a convention held on pri.mar)'-elcction day and afterobtaining a petition signedby IOO registered voters.Thus, the names of minor-party can did ate 5 appaaronly on the general-election

ballot.Failure to reduce the num-

Qer of county councilmen tosc\-en was mainly the resultof three Freeholders beincoabsent. Two of them wer~

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TIlE r:O.\RD will J1C'et aweek from today to certiyH:e P1'(lp\.)scd chet r!er to the

Hoard of King Cm:nty Com-missioners for submittal totfi.~ vot.:rs No\'r'~)bcr 5. Theniòly qucstion rel1~iining ishow m;:nv of tll( 15 freehold-

,.ers \\'ill sign the ch¡¡rt('r.F i' e f' h 01 n e r s wound up

_ their \'.'or/.,.a task that begilnin earne'st in February, withcl lO-hl)l!l s'.'SSi(:,l that brokeonly for lunch.

If the charter is adopted in

No\'emhnr_ it \\'oiild go intoeffect ;\1;1': i. That would re-Qiiire a s¡Ìrcial priimiry elec-tion Februar-y II and a gen-

erill ck.~tÍîn 1\b :-ch i i.Candidate fjJi;i~ would be

the 'week of D"ce!lb~r Hi.The folhwkg W2e!, wl111ld be

re';ern;~d fer filing only if

one of the in:,ul1b'::it COUlIt\'Co:~ir.ijss¡cn~r5 SC2~:S a nc\v

p(lsition under the cliilrter in-s:c:id of rcm2.ining as aCO!!!:\" Cfli:ndli,liin for theduradon of his term.

The extra week for fiin;;\\'a~ estnb;¡shcc! because ofthe' widespread speculationthat CO~!!1t\' Coinin¡~s¡oncr'

Ed Muii¡'o \':'i seek thf' chief

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for the life of this eliilrLer. II'm sincere. Wc've playrcl Iwith this too long to lose it. I

"We've done too many good :¡things to lose it," iiBut Jcil1CS O'Connor and

others felt the whnJe conceptof the chaner was based on ia full'inÙ: L.egislature r('pre-!

senting districts and C(\'ail-able to residents of those diS-¡triets. I

NEW EFFORTS to c1cct acounty auditor ann a sheriff ,hath falI"d by g \'ot('s to 3 ivotes. The audita!', who will Ibe ,limited to auditing the ex- ,_ecutive branch, is appointed ;by the CounciL. The sheriff is Ipart of the Department of~iiblic :;atety whose director Iis appointect. ,

A strong measure requir- !ing the listing of campaign I

contrihutioiis and expcndi- I

tures was reinserted in the 'charter. The Cliil rter re-quires the County Council toenact a confIict-of,ìnterestlaw, and Frcelioldcrs bannedan elected official frombeing appointed to any other

'~OUi1ty position during histerm of office.;: -¡

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King Countr's proposednew government wil havenine councilmen, Freehold-ers decided yesterday.Charter writers spent' an

entire day going over eacharticle of a count v - ",'mu.lion which \I'm ~e put be-

fore \'oters at the Ko\". 5'general election. Freehold-Iers will t~. ~ a last lOok at I

the entire plan next Thurs-

day., In a lively session at the

Washington Athletic C1t1b.

the Freeholders failed byone \"ote to reduce the num-'bel' of County Councilmenfrom nine to seven.

FRE;'HOLDEr. .'. m e sO'Connùr declared that "agre;it deal of adverse criti-cism" was d eve lop i n gamong V(' '~s. mostlv be-cause of the S18.COO ánnual

salary attached to the .iobs.and seieral others suadest_

ed that the char: -.. ~~uldgain greater acceptance if ithe n'.'mber of offce ho~ders

was cut.Attorney Simon \Yamoold

questioned \I h e the l' full-time C 0 u n t y Councilmenare needed. He offer ed asubstitute proposal calIngfor nine council:nen but at

a salarv of S9.6D . vear"The"life or death of 'this

charter is at stake," hepleaded. "Already ¡i~opieare asking what are thesecouncilmen going to do with IUieir time?" .

FOmlER State Rep. ì\or-man Ackley said the :ediic-tion from nine to sevenCouncilmanic di~,:ricts wouldcut the Burien-Hi"h'ine dis-

. t'J¡;~ iltt" ii\\'tt4 r rêetioldei1did not attend the niee:~ng.

They were Lyle Schneider,Bob E b e r I e and TerryMcKenna. Supporters could

. muster only seven votesand eight affrmatives arerequired.

The Board ran into anoth, Ier snag when another move Jdeveloped to make the King ,~ounty Assessor an appoin-tive position ur.:br a Coun-

ty Executive - a job Latmay develop into a p(liti-cal power second in thestate only to that of the go~'-ernor.

A CKLE\' argued that toretain an elective auditor

"is .to retain the present ar-Ch.a1C system."

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A last-minute effort toreduce the number ofnew county commis-sioners in a proposedKing County charterfrom nine to seven mem-bers failed yesterdayafter exhausti\oe debateon the issue by the Boardof Freeholders.

¡"inal vote on the key issue Iwas seven favoring the reduced l,number and five opposed tothe change. An affrmative vote .of ei,¡ht was necessary to reoduce the nine commissionerdistricts previously agreed on ~to a seven-member board. Ii

The vote was by voice, andtally of individual freeholders'positons on the reduced boardwas not recorded. 'Present from the South .

. County area and voting were .James Curran, Kent, andHoward Bothell and LyleSchneider, Auburn. Not pres-ent was Terry McKenna, aKent member of the group.The seven-member plan

would have enlarged the com-missioner district inelUdingff iKent and Auburn to take in thesouthern part of Normand)' !S_Park and extended the com-missioner district including i!Renton i!1to Southeast Sea/tIe. f

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By Our Caimty News B\\TeaURichmd AILed,:, chairman

of the Board of Ki~g CountyI"reeliolders, said I"riday he,wil ask county commissionersto keep the freeholder offce in

the county courthouse open asan informational center unlithe general election Nov. 5.

Freeholders wound up all tbut the formal presentation of

the finished charter in an cx-haustive, day-long anysis ofa1\ sections in the documentThursday. The group wil meetagain Friday morning to for-mally OK the charter for sub-mittal to the Board of King tCounty Commissioners Sept. 9,but no changes wil be madeat that point, Albrecht said. '

"I feel we have a duty to I'provide information about thecharter to the public and tooffer a headquarter's facilty Ito those persons and groupswishing to schedule freeholders,as speakers to explain whatwe have done," Albrecht de-Ielared.

He sad he viewed the coun-ty orclnance that created thecharter effort as one that.encompassed an educationalprocess on the docent once~ it was completed. t. Albrecht said all members'of the freeholders ¡;oup have (serve as a nucleus for a speak- ter bureau to tell and sell thecharter throughout Uie county. 1He said he also would an- inounce next week further de- itails of the promotional cam- ipaign designed to win voteracceptance of the group's ef-;:

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Ki~g County's propôšed

new government wil havenine councilnien, Freehold-

ers decided Thursday.Charter writers spent an

entire day going over eacharticle of a county - instiu-lion which wil b~ put be- .,fore voters at the Nov. 5

general election. Freeho~d-

ers wil t2" 3 a last look atthe entire plan next Thurs-

day.In a lively session at the

Washington Athletic Club,the Freeholders failed by

one vote to reduce the num-ber' of County Councilmenfrom nine to seven.

FREEHOLDER' ,T 'I m e sO'Connor declared that "a

great deal of adverse crit-cism" was d eve lop i n gamong yoters, mostly be-cause of the $18,000 annual

salary attached to the jobs,and several others suggest-

ed that the chart:: wouldgain greater acceptance ifthe number of offce holderswas cut.

Attornev Simon Wampoldquestioned w h e the r full-time C 0 u nt" Councilmenare needed. He offered asubstitute proposal callngfor nine cOlincilmen but at

a salary of $9.60 - year."The life or death of this

charter is at stake," hepleaded. "Already peopleare asking what are thesecouncilmen going to do withtheir time?"

FOR:\lER state Rep. Nor-man Ackky said the reduc-tion from nine to sevencouncilmanic di~.:ricts wouldcut the Burien-High'i~e dis-trict Into three parts andendanger passage of thenew charter.,Supporters of .the seven-

councilmen propos~l pro))?-bly had the yo!l's for paS-sage but three Freeholders

did not attend the mc~"-ig.

They were Lyle Schneider,Bob E b e r I e an:l TerrvMcKenna. Supporters couldmuster' only seven yotesand eight affrmatives arerequired. .

The Board ran ìnto anoth-er snag when another movedeveloped to make the KingCounty Assessor an appoin-tive position unbr a Coun-ty Executive - a job t :'t'may develop into a pcJiti-cal power second in thestate only to that of the gOY-

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After two fearsome weekends on the highways inwhich 40 persons died in traffc, the state got throughthe three-day Labor Day holiday with only a relativehandful of dc,aths.

State-wide 'weekend highway fatalities 8.re com-puted flOm 6 p. m, Friday to midnight of the follow-ing Snicby. Three weekends ago, the death toll was22, the blackest such period of the year. Eighteendied the next weekend. . '

But over Labor Day, only four deaths were listed,even though the holiday added 24 hours to the re-cording period. Why?

The anomaly is not suhject to rea(;y explana-tions. But S(ate Patrol Chief \Vii! Eachofiier be-lieves multiple fcictcrs may have been in..olved, flotthe lenst of which was the large force of trooperspatrollng ma,;or travel routes.

Starting last Thursday and continuing throughthe holiday, all leaves and (bys off were canceled,which permiLted the Patrol to muster a force ofnearly 600 men, about 200 more than are on dutynormally. Among those assigned to duty were 49cadets from the Patrol academy at Shelton.

"I can't help but believe that the mere sight ofall those patrol cars on the road served as a deter-rent to the kinòs of violations that cause accidents,"

Bachofner said,At the same time, Bacliofner added, Sundcw's

cloudy and coor \veather evidenlly caused many iño-torists to return home a day early, thus reducing thecongestion tllat ordinarily \vould have occurred Mon-day night.'_ I\Ioreover, it is reasonable to assume, the chief

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ponder whether increases in local-level traffic-en-forcement manpo\';cr might be in order for areasoutside State Patrol jurisdiction.

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o A lengthy package of proposed bils has been com-piled by the newty organized Washington Em'iroiiinentalCouncil for presen~ation to the 1969 Legislature. One of the

most controversial measures advocated by the group is aproposal that would compel residential subdivisions toallocate a specific proportion of their acreage to public-

park space. . ,o In a l:'st-minute move, the Bo¡irrl of I\;L~r.I;inty

Freehnl(lers has remedied wh:-i would have been a cru-cìaI-eakncšs in the proposed COl!r.ty charter to be sub-mitted to the voters in November, An earEer draft omiltcd

a strong regulation on reporting of political-campaign

contributions. But the board later reinserted the provi-sion, thus streiigtheniiig the document considerably , . .

o The defeat of Senator Eriest Gnicniiig in' Alaska'sDemocratic primary election is belie,'ed to have been lessthe result of Gniening's criticism of Vietiiam-war policies.

than his advanced age-Sl. The campaigning abilities ofhis opponent Mike Gravel, Alaska speaker of the House,also were a factor. ,,

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lìllSSlcl.n ,:nd iOl'ìHllly ask the,commissioners to phice thecharteronthebdllnt. '(:'" I!~ ~rl-!i"A':'"

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a DSC!1t members are expect-ed to. sign the resolution ofadoption by :.lciiiclay.

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Emp!oyee~(Qr.cliddiés IThe.King""S;ounty Board of

Freeholders has passed aregulation requiring countyemployees to take a leave ofabsence from their jobs if they seekelective offce.

The provision was amended to aporton of the proposed CountyChrter banning employees from

campaigning in behalf of someone iseeking c~unty offce. /¡

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Cliarter and Freeliolders"The Charter. Freeholders program wil be open for ques-

t and You." a discussion of the tions from the audience.propo~ed King County Charter Regi~tration begins at 11 a.m.I IS ~eing sponsored b?- the and luncheon at 11 :30 a.m.. the.L~ao~e of \\ omen Voter:) from pr gram will be at 12 :30 p.m.

Highline. Renton and South 0King County. Reservations May be made

The 'luncheon meeting wil by callng ;-Irs. Harold Briggs,be held at l\leekers Landing, TA 4-1917 or Mrs. Robert A~

i Kent Sept. 11. A $2.50 registra- son, CH 4-6312. ~, tion wil include buffet lunch. .James Curraii. Virginiai Gunby and Rich;" j Albrecht,

Freeholders, wil explain theCharter.

A "Meet the Press" wilfollow the discussion withanswer questions posed byMarsha Biue, Highline Times;Ray Kelly. Federal V;ay News

I and Virginia BU:-lIside, ValleyTimes.

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Notes and Cor:~m9nto The proven success of highway median barriers in

other parts of the country has been such that the CityCouncil should move promptly to approve l'vl:iyor Braman'srequest for a safety barrier in Alaskan Way South. Bramanhas recommended that the city share with the State High-way Department the $235,000 cost of a b:irrier dividing thestreet from the viaduct south to South Nevada Street. Itwould resemble a similar installation completed recently inthe RO?nol;e freeway approach to the Evergreen PointFloating Bridge, . , .

o Alth~ugh the search for a De;', Sentte park super-intende'1t exto.-d:!c1 thr;:'.l¿,r:out tlie nri.thn. ì\hyor Bramanchose from "inside the ranks" yestorday in appoint¡~gHans A. Thomps0.n. Th:i,.1p!'on hU5 been recre'\tion õi-redor in the ~eatte PC'.r", Department since 1905. Theappointment is ~ gr.od one on two counts-first, Thom:Json

evidently is an d)le and experienced Tnan in his fi21d and

second, the prorr,(lHon from within the (~e!Jartme!1t is bene-.ficbl to employes' morale throughout municipal govern-ment . . .

o The draftng of a proposed King ç~inty cl-;irter truly'wa.s ?_ labor of love. The 15 nonsahried members of tl;~county Board (.f-E:f~olders. elected last falL. .gave morethan 2,000 hours of their time in theIr deliherations. Thecharter now wil be submiaed for voter ratification in theNovember 5 electio!L It requires only a simple majorityfor approval. (For Times €'(Etor::l,' s:'e Page ie.) . . .

o With siimrr~r givin? way to e~r1y autumn, the dayson the ci'l":l1dar aDL'2"!r to e!R'lSe w~th in~re¡;~ing s,-,,,,,d.It nwy come as â 'm:ld s!1oc1,: for e~;ampJe, to 'd;sèo-o'erthnt Ôe Se~te;nh2r t':'m1rv elcrt!ri'1 is o!'Jv seven ¿a-o'sawav and th¡;t t~e njashi~~ton H'i~',ies' fOGt1:¡;l1 opener:"a.ga1í-lst Rice-wil be pbyed a wed; from Sat'Jlday . . .

() If the dreams of rapid-tr:mit planner;; O:1e day are

realized here, Seatte patrons of a nvss-tnnsit system mayfind themselves riding in uJtram0dern sub'\'ay cars likethose olanned for Washi¡i:trin. D. C.'s "i\Ietro" system. Aprototi'Pe of the car. urivèi1ed this we2~. includes air cor,-

ditionIng, tinted-glass windo',vs (for surface-route travel),bucket-štyle serrtš and a piiblic-aèdress system o'!er wIliJ~a tape-recorded voice wil announce each stop. /

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Humphrey Or Nixon?Amid the swirls of subsiding reaction to what

happened in Chicago, here's how local leadersare assessing the chances of each party's nomi-nee to win in November;

Kenneth Rogstad, Republican county chair-man: "I believe the polls wil continue to showNixon the front-runner. . . and nothing that tookplace' at the Democratic convention alters myopinion. The high degree of disunity and dis-sension among the Democratic delegates wil in-evitably be translated back to the districts fromwhich they carne. That's, where e!~ctions are wonor lost." . .

Robert KuIl, Democratic state chairman: "Isee no choice between Nixon or Humphrey, . .Although I believe Humphrey wil campaignhard and ably, the question is, do we have enoughtime to heal our wounds. ,_"

C. Montgomery Johnson, Republican state chair.man: "There was no question in m)' mind beforethe Democratic convention Richard Nixon wouldbe the next President of the United States. Thereis none now!

Frank Keller, Cormer Democratic state chair-man: "Both parties were hurt by over-exposure. . . and both wil lose volunteer workers norm-ally available after the conventions are over,What happened in Chicago dirtied the process. . , and in so doing. , . could hurt Humphrey'schances _ . ."

John Barnard, Cormer Republican eounty chair.maud and Evans' campaign aide: "For Republi-cans to feel that the Democratic convention didgreat damage to the Democratic nominee and,conversely, greatly improves Republican change_sis erroneous. There's already too much Republi-can complacency involved in the presidentialcampaign now!"

Democratic County Chairman Jeannette Wil-liams: "We've got a lot of work to do. While it'sstil too early to accurately assess their long-term impact, events at Chicago stil aren't goingto help Humphrey win the presidency."

* * *The Oefegates' Side of the Story

As Democratic delegates to the convention re-turned to the state last week, some slants onlocal involvement in the Chicago story emerged,Among them:

There seem to be Cew complaints from mostdelegates about the convention site. It was boundto happen, seems to be the consensus, at leastamong the pro-Humphrey groups which com-prised the majority of the warring elementsin the Washington State delegation. Delegates,housed approximately two miles from the ConradHilton Hotel where the unsclieduled part of theproceedings took place, never were in any physi-cal danger, according to reports. Dilgent in theirattendance at the late-running sessions, mostwere unaware, except via TV coverage,or eventsat the park. Nevertheless, most seemed apprecia-tive or police protection and approved, not con-demned, the action of Mayor Daley and Chica-go's finest . , . including Democratic NationalCommitteeman Luke Graham who also was amember of the convention site committee whichselected Chicago in the first place.

Conspicuous by his absence: President John-son, either by verbal references or by signs,banners, or other party hoop-la by which notables

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l~~~Jmake their presence felt. As to his control of theconvention itself or the platform approved by theparty, many delegates feel Johnson's hand wasinvolved but not paramount, particularly in thefor0igri-policy sections of the platform.

Denying the Vietnam plank was dictated bydirect line from Texas, Mrs. Wiliams (a memberof the convention's platform committee) declaredthe war plank ref1ected a compromise but noblanket endorsement of Johnson policies.

"The only portion orthe platform bearing John-son's signature was that section devoted to thepeace negotiations in Paris," she states. Thatsection is highly complimentary to the Presi-dent's actions in getting peace talks started.

Others who failed to make the scene: SenatorHenry M. Jackson, 6th District CongressmanFloyd Hicks, and 3rd District CongresswomanJulia Butler Hansen. The same trio likewise wasno-show at the Democratic state convention inTacoma. Chief loser then. , . Hicks, who Demosreasoned should have been there.

State delegates to Chicago were, to a man, im-pressed by the performance of Georgia NegroLegislator Julian Bond. Many noted, not inciden-tally, the complete absence of Negro participantsin the violence, pointing out that Negroes choseto work (and creditably!) within the politicalprocess rather than tr)'ing to break it _ . . some-thing that marred the Republican convention inMiami.

* * *Party Preprimary Endorsements Coming?A joint endorsement by 2nd Congressional

District chairman of Republican CongressionalCandidate Wallv Turner that locked out Birch-man Mike O'Deii may be the shape of things tocome in Washington State politics. Action yes-terday b)' the newly formed Washington Democra-tic Council in Seattle indicates that; althoughRepublican State Chairman Johnson noted thatit's one thing for any auxiliary to do it and an.other for a party to do it. Republican actionThursday had no offcial blessing of the Republi-can state organization, but It could be a trend inthe making. ,

One interesting sidelight: A lawsuit on appealto the State Supreme Court fied by a 1966 6thDistrict candidate for Congress seeking to re-co\'e:- appro¡¡imatel)' $9,000 iii campaign costs.He alleges the state part~' backed his opponent.

* * * t9~Briefly Noted: 'It hatl to happen: Warren Chan, candidate for

the Superior Court bench, warns that "the silentman is often worth listening to." Inside a fortunecookie, yet! , . , The Fourth Party got a name na-tional!)' last week, . , Citizens for ParticipationPolitics, No comment from McCarthy forces herewhether the jaw-breaker wil be their choice. , , or whether tltey'll even go in that direction.Many local McCarthy supporters are well-knownDemocrats who probably would prefer to workwithin the party to accomplish a change , , -The Carroll affair rumbles on, with the appear-ance of Seatte Magazine apparently adding lit-tle speCific fuel to the fire lit by the Seattle Post-IntelligenceI' which linked Carroll with PinballEntrepeneur Ben Cichy, , , The matter heats uptomorrow when both Senator Martin Durkan'slegislative Subcommittee on MuniCipaliies con-ducts a public hearing, , . and members of the. ... ... _'I . ~ ___.. i. . ~.

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c30 years too løte ARGUS _September 13, 1968'

New Charter Is OutdatedFor Present-Day Needs

The County Freeholders have completed their workand have unanimously adopted a new charter for KingCounty. It will be on the November ballot for voters' ap-provaL .

The Freeholders spent many long hours drafting thenew document and have, from first glance, developed acharter which will strengthen - country government. It cre-

ates a strong executive department, givesbetter representation, and separates the exec-utive/legislative functions. The Freeholdersshould be thanked for all the time and laborthey have spent preparing the document.

The only thing wrong is that such anapproach to metropolitan government is al-ready outdated. While King County votersare passing on this measure, voters in Ore-gon wil be voting on a constitutional amend-ment which wil lead to the consolidation of

the governments of Portland and Multnomah County.Oregon voters are expected to approve, t~~ ,amend-

ment 'byã j~rg~ '';àio~ity;'andthe ~ortl¡m~ M~tropoli!an JStudy Commission is drafting enabling_ leg.I~la!lon.,whlchwould allow consolidation of the two entities. I wou!dthink that Portland and Multnomah County are headed in

i the right direction. We are asked to approve a charterwhich cannot meet the needs of the coming years_

It seems nearly incompr.ehensible that w~ s~ould sad.dIe ourselves with a new county charter at this tim.e' whenevery metropolitan need cries out for an area solulion. lawand order is the tocsin now being sounded ~y ,all, ~uthere we have a police department and a sheriff s officeboth working expensively and ofte~. at cross purposes.Taxes now are sliced up between cities ~nd the. county,often in a hodge podge manner. The quest~on of highw:a¡sand roads, to say nothing of rapid transit, can certain'yonly be solved on a county-wide or larger area. :rherE! isduplication in the school system, he~1th, and engineeringdepartments, to say nothing of pla~nlnSl, parks ?nd recrea-

tion, and in the executive and legislative functions of thetwo present governments_ . .It is hard to oppose the proposed charter, for ~t ~i.li

hopefully give us a better county government. But if it ISthe wrong approach to modern needs, it might _be betterto reject it, and work towards a modern, streamlined, con-solidated government, l'

If Portland and Multnomah are ready, we are too.

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Casca9~. Park Bill No 'Compromise' :Editor, it timls: -IN the editorial on the need for Congress to act on the NortCascaèes National Park issue (Te Times, September 3)you refer to the bil wrtten by Senator Jackson as a "rea:

sonable compromise settement." .I find it impossible to regard Senator Jackson's bil as a

compromise. The issue inthe North Cascades has beenover whether the ForesService should log the scenicvalleys on the western and

souUiern sides of the spec-tacular \\~Iderness core of

the Cascades. It was out ofthe effort to save those tim-

bered valleys that the pre-sent park movement grew 11years ago.

Conservationists wanted aI.3-miJion-acre park thatwould protect the drainagesof the Cascade, SuiattIe.\Vhitechuck, Sauk, White andCJiiwawa Rivers. Jacksonhas offered a half-milion-acre park made up entirelyfrom lanCl the Forest Servicehad not planned to log any-

. way.In other words, Jackson's

bil saves noth;ng that was. not going to be saved any-way. In a compromise eachside gives up something. Inthe park bil Congress is con-

sidering, the timber interestsgive up absolutely nothing,

as Jackson has so proudlynoted in all his remarks oniL.,

The park we are likely toget . . . is not a compro.mise: it is an alarmingly in,adequate part of the Cas-cades and it represents onlythe areas without market-able timber.

-RICHARD WARD,Seattle_

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countv charter if it is voteon ín the Nó\~ember electionVoters wil not accept the

huge increase in' cost ofcounty government it wouldentaiL. Nine (or seven) coun-cilmen at a salary of $18,000

a year each. . _ would not be'the whole story. Each coun-cilman would require anelaborately furnished office"'~th ,secretaries, stenogra-

phers and assistants plusan automobile maintained atpublic expense.

Each offcial would natur-ally find it necessary tomake inspection tours andattend conventions in distantparts of the country. ïAlso, voters should have i

some choice other than justlyes or no. They should, forinstance, be a II 0 wed 'Í¡choose between a partisan-and ninpartisan forni of go~1ernment.

Seattle nonpartsan CiCouncil government works iiharniony compared to thecokntv governent in whichthtl ivelfare of the part!comes ahead of that of thei!community.

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SEATTLE. Sept. 7 - The Sky River Rock Festival3nd Lighter Than Air Fair drew 13,000 hippies, yippiesmd others at its three-day musical event in Sultan, Sno.iomish County. It rained. But participants celebrated:he heavenl)' liquid by rolling in the mud. The whole af-:air was termed a siiccess (at S4 a head) and may be-~ome an annual Be-In.

Later in Ihe week. some of the same Lighter ThanAir Fair party-goers attended a "fish-in" staged b)' In-,dians plolestir.g their fishing rights on the 1\isqually

River near Olympia. Demonstrators caiight eight fish(with nets) and ate them (baked). Sei'en persons werearrested

Elsewhere in Olympia, a small group or local teen-agers and some Olympia !ironen were takinS( stan-ingroles in a tJ'il'er license testin;: fim which wil be usedon Tacoma motorists - a pilòt project and the first ofits kind in the world.

ix SEATTLE and waypo:nts. ~õ9.1io shining facesshowci up for the first day or school throughout King

Counti"" Seatte school district noted a decrease in enroa-ment 'of ~.3 per cnt.

A charter giving King County government its firstmaio:: oye~iãm-ltJ-~-:e-ar-s- '~'åš appro\"ed ur-an¡mously

jl)s "c~ek J2)=t1~d~ç~~f,!y,Xrècholdei:; who æ-ew it up.The charter - if a:o;i,-oI'd b'." the' \'oters - Il'Quid doã.\\=-av ~\\'ith. n105t -tl.the' cD:.nh:'s 'e!~cti\"e' o;fices andili-a-k'e-theñ"..åp-¡)Jintive-.-' ._.- -- ---.---- -- -_.~- .._- .._. -- - Lõ~aT. L:¿'~íL~--\\-':.ië- kçl'~ bti:;-'- wh-cn t',';j p..i:'::::::~sb:.oke out ôf the King Coiin~y jaB "using 1:0jS~1??i5 tied to-gether for a rope. Th~y \\e:e apprehended.

And S~Eit:le p:1:k\:: h.~1;1~d in heroin. mariiïur.~ :i~~ctsu1tcases and w,:5;;ti:~'5 fi!~l of n10ney in WIiat' t:~('j' saidwas a reëord li2rcotiC5 raid for the city.

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S,300 in the red biit sUi! 0rÙ¡iIi:i~., And at the lni';ersity or lIas!iin;:ton, a n"i,' ~:. pol-

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AU~'. C,~n. lJO:ì~ .1. ü'Conli::)l latlnci~od h!5 Oi';n ¡iill.scaie i~1\-':.ìtj~:1t:l)n inti) what he c"1¡;~d "Ch.1:-:i"'''3 :irdallegations oi organized vice in Sea t tIe and Ki!lg

County"l\!è~nwhile, political candidates are in the news as

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For one, ~l;'e ~iirfent fie1d sur-vey of HighEnc I~nd use by theCounty Planning Departmentshows that sl;,ect~ in the neigh-borhoods of the Highlinc areaare substandard by county defi-nition.

But, savs Rob~lt Edimmdson,in charg,~ of the six-moot:: ini.tial survev. it's common insubmb:m parts of the county tofind narrow streets with noshouldi'rs. which puts them in asubstand3rd category. "Thesurfacing is generally good,"he said.

The survey team has set theirown standards for road andhcusing eva!u:iti(ins, but thosefor the streets foliow cio.'E'lythose published in the l!),:ì9 rocidprogram. One i¡eighborhoodsurveyed, out of 22 completed-Seahurst-showed no road thatmet the minimum standard of22-foot-wide paving and eight-foot shoulders.

The study reveals tbat typicalcharacteristics of Sl1:)urbia are

overhead wires. no sidewalks,mixed ¡and uses, vacant lots.

Edmundson said that. becauseof the ap2.rtment boom in thearea, building standards aregenerally higher than depart-ment records had shown. Man\'of tl',e new structures replaceolder bujlèings_

The m2.ín ot.iecti\'e of thestudy-a measuri? of the h'Jus-ing conditions ii1 Kir.g County-is manifested in figures on thebuildings. In Sediurst. for ex-

ample, which covers 243 acres.l45 of the 3£3 structures are

'.'sound," 19 are put in ~he "ba-

sicalJy sound category," twoin the "deteriorated" class and

none "deJapidatecl," the finalcategory. 'The survey, funded by the

county, is halfway through forthis first area of the county tobe covered. About 17,000 of the30,0.;û homes in the area en-compassing the Highline andSouth Central school districtsand land west of Renton havebeen categorized.

Teams of two men view resi.der:ces and other buildings fromthe street only. Not too manyresidents have complainedsince the s'udv started at thebeginning of the summer, Ed-mundson reported. The High-line area stud\' would, he said,be out by the "first of the year.The team wil then move toother unincorporated areasuntil the ambitious study iscomplete.

Edmundson commented thatif the County__Cb'lrter goes into

,effect the' col!.p!eted surveyshould be helpful to many morçagencies. The main reason forth~ study is to bring buildings

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ards and provide for futureplanning.

Other land use areas coveredby the survey are special dis-tricts, parks, transit facilities,shopping facilities, and thesocial structure of the neighbor-hoods.

Census reports and statisticsfrom other county departmentsare used in the study, besides.the daily field trips by the;Plaiining Department.

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See Editorial. Page 4After'eight monthsof intensivework drafting a new countycharter, the Board of KingCounty Freeholders Mondaysubmitted its efforts to theBoard of King County Commis-sioners for a ballot date,

That date wil be the na-tion's general election Nov. 5.

The proposition's ballot ti-tle wil read:

"Shall the proposed HomeRule Charter for King County,providing for the separation ofle8'islatÏ\'e and executive pow,er~ and for functional adminis-

, tration, be adopted?"FOR Home Rule Charter. ."AGAINST Home Rule

Charter. . ."Although none of the three

commissioners had fine-toothed the finished document,al! three expressed praise for ajob, in Commissioner JohnSpellman's words, "well andcreatively perîormed."

Spellman warned against"nit-picking" specific details inthe charter, declaring "thiscould damage its passage. i be-lieve the charter wil be aliving organism of governmentequipped with a good amend-ment process suffciently sim-ple to permit change when andwhere necessary."

"It's a strong document, welland carefull)' written, . . and Idon't believe a better one couldbe achieved," he stated.Draws Additional Praise

Further praise came fromCommissioner Ed ~Iunro, longan advocate of modernizationof county government, particu-larly in the separation of legis-lative and executive powers.

"This has been the basicproblem of government here in

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King County since its incep.tion, but recent ~ro\\th, p~',rli- .cularlv in the suburban areasof the' county, have made thisseparation even more urgènt,"Munro stated.

More qualified in his sup-port, Comniissioner John O'-Brien commended the free-holders, but objected pendingfurther reading, to certain l:eyportions of the document. Hehas objected in the past to thenine-member legislative bodyand has stated repeatedly hefavors the election, rather thanthe appointment, of county off-cials,

"I am also inclined to be-lieve the new charter centerstoo much authority in thehands of the county executive,"O'Brien declared. "I thinkmany voters wil object to turn-ing county government over toone man."Charter Proposes Big Changes

The new charter provid~sfor a count)' exec-,itive, a nine-

man, full-time legislative body.appointive county officialswith the exception of the asses-sor, who wil be elected, and astream.lining of present countydepartments. The charter alsowould set up a county person-nel board to handle hirings andfirings and establish a meritsystem.

Formation of a citizens'committee is expected to beannounced within the week byPaul Friedlander, named byFreeholder Chairman RichardAlbrecht to coor'dinate citizenefîorts on behalf of passage ofthe charter.

Interested persons and or-ganizations may obtain a freecopy of the proposed charter bytelephoning the freeholder of-fice in the King County court-house.

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