Meetings and launch of website set up for public input.
The public is invited to offer feedback and help draft assessment criteria for Seattle’s next Police Chief during several upcoming public forums and through a new website and telephone line.
Here are the questions Mayor Mike McGinn’s Police Chief Search Committee is asking of interested citizens:
• What qualities are you looking for in a new Police Chief?
• What is the most important public safety issue in Seattle?
• What does the Seattle Police Department do well?
• What changes would you like to see?
Remaining public hearings are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, at Franklin High School, 3013 Mount Baker S., Seattle; and 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, at New Holly Gathering Center, 7054 32nd Ave. S., Seattle. At the New Holly meeting, language interpreters will be available in Tagalog, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Laotian, Amharic, Oromiffa, Khmer (Cambodian), Somali, and Tigrinya.
In addition to the public meetings, citizens are invited to find background material on the Police Chief search process, including links to online input, at a new website, www.seattle.gov/mayor/spdChiefSearch. To provide input, go directly to http://www.ideasforseattle.org/forums/40210-police-chief-search/.
Citizens also may call 206-684-CITY (206-684-2489) to offer answers to the Seattle Police Chief Search Committee’s four questions for the public, listed above.
For those who are interested, the Seattle Times covered the search process in an article on February 10th, 2010, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011027775_policechief10m.html.
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