The City of Seattle Seattle Animal Shelter takes part in the 2023 Pride Parade as part of the City of Seattle contingency.

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ADA Title II team members Holly Delcambre and Autumn Harris joined other City staff to take part in an Inclusive Tech Lab tour at Microsoft in late June. Microsoft staff shared new and existing adaptive and inclusive technology.

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FAS joined Innovation and Performance, Seattle City Light, Seattle Public Utilities and Seattle Department of Transportation along with Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab i to discuss procurement process mapping at an all day retreat on June 30. The retreat was part of the two-year Bloomberg Procurement Transformation project.

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FFAS Staff pose in front of the Ballard Customer Service Center window. Visit the Ballard Customer Service Center, or one of our six other Customer Service Centers, to find information about Seattle city services and programs and make various in-person payments.

FAS joined Mayor Bruce Harrell, 1350 humans and hundreds of dogs for the annual Furry 5K Fun Run and Walk event held by the Seattle Animal Shelter Foundation to raise funds for the Seattle Animal Shelter.

Walkers and runners enjoyed a beautiful day in Seward Park on the waterfront loop trail. Event highlights included the Mayor counting down the event, a animal costume contest, and awards going to the fastest male, female and non-binary runners. Attendees saw live agility and search and rescue demonstrations and interacted with sponsors and vendors at the finish line pet expo. The photo to the right is Mayor Harrell posing with Vedder, Seattle Animal Shelter Director Esteban Rodriguez’s dog.

The Foundation reports the event raised over $100,000 – thank you!!!

 

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Mayor Harrell’s One Seattle Day of Service, was held this past May 23. Staff from FAS joined thousands of volunteers across the City to take part in service opportunities to support our communities.  This photo pictures staff from FAS and their families taking a break from planting flowers at Seattle Municipal Tower.

 

 

 

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FAS’ ADA Title II team members Holly Delcambre and Autumn Harris joined City Attorney Office staff member Sara O’Connor-Kriss to present a training on service animals to 15 new and returning Seattle Parks and Recreation rangers as well as FAS/SAS staff. The trainees went through a series of scenarios on how to work with people with service animals and also learned about City laws for service animals.

 

 

 

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Fleet Management‘s mechanics maintain the 4,000 vehicles the City owns, from fire engines to Chevy Volts. Maintaining these vehicles require specialized skills for each vehicle type. This photo pictures FAS’ aerial team (L to R: auto mechanic’s Carolyn Arnold, Chris Swift, and Andy Hackenmiller) removing an aerial to be overhauled.

According to FM’s Division Director Chris Wiley, “The project will take hundreds of hours to disassemble and rebuild. All of the electrically-insulated fiberglass sections are stripped of paint and inspected, using an extremely bright light to look for cracks. Each metal weldment is mag-particle inspected for flaws prior to reassembly. All bushings, hoses and other wear parts are replaced.”

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The Purchasing Team of Purchasing and Contracting held a day-long retreat at El Centro de La Raza on April 25. Team members did exercises on writing effective procurements, sharing skills and joining up with the procurement transformation project. The retreat featured guest facilitators from the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab and the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation.

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The Logistics and Emergency Management (LEM) division leads leads emergency planning/procurement, security services, access management, janitorial services, warehouse operations and mail distribution for the City.

LEM celebrated Scottish American and Arab American Heritage months at their April all-staff meeting by sampling culinary arts including Dolmas and shortcake cookies. Team members learned of the centuries old contributions Scottish Americans have made in America going back to the founding of the United States and the colonies beforehand while Arab American Heritage month was just recently formally recognized by the President and the US Congress within the last two years, the culmination of decades of work by the Arab American community to obtain designation of a cultural heritage month by local and federal governments. In both cases, the team learned about the fight for civil rights and social justice in both communities.

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FAS staffers Layne Cubell (Real Estate Services), Luisa Madrigal (Facility Operations), Alex Rao, Chris Johnson and Queena Stone (Capital Development), along with Mary Mitchell, Division Director and staff from HSD Aging and Disability Services (ADS) Division, connected to discuss space planning. During the walkthrough, the FAS team provided valuable insights and recommendations on fitting office spaces to HSD ADS Division needs. FAS is committed to supporting our partners at HSD ADS Division in their efforts to provide quality services to the community.

Whether out in the community or at a job site, FAS teams work daily to serve the residents of Seattle. This feature spotlights those behind-the-scenes moments of good work.

The ADA Title II team, Joy Jacobson from Purchasing and Contracting and Alex Rao from Capital Development participated in a walkthrough with members of the Supported Employee Workgroup and Seattle HR. In this photo, they are seen demonstrating the accessibility features of the new SMT elevator touchscreen controls and providing suggestions to make the elevators more accessible and user-friendly. Pictured (from left to right) Joy Jacobson (PC), ASL Interpreter, Heather Weldon (SHR), Alex Rao (CD), Michael Allen (Seattle Fire Department) and T.J. Maciel (Seattle City Light).

 

The ADA Title II team works to ensure the City of Seattle provides people with disabilities an equal opportunity to access City services, programs and activities.

 

 

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The Customer Service Bureau team held a day-long retreat to plan for the year ahead and learn more about each other’s work styles.

Whether your contact concerns a compliment, complaint, comment, request for service or suggestion, the Customer Service Bureau is committed to listening to what you have to say.

 

 

 

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FAS Change Team members attended the Seattle Office for Civil Rights “Healing, Belonging and Unity” Summit on March 24, 2023.

The FAS Change Team works to:

• Promote equity, diversity and transparency in department transactions.
• Seek ways to further incorporate racial equity into FAS lines of business, through the racial equity toolkit as well as other means.
• Grow the community of FAS employees who bring a racial and social justice lens to the work they do every day as public servants for the City of Seattle.

Featured here are Change Team members (from left) Lisa Tran, Zebedee Hill, Meech Pelletier, Mignon Morris and Katy Tassery at the RSJI Summit held at Seattle Center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whether out in the community or at a job site, Facilities and Administrative Services (FAS) teams work daily to serve the residents of Seattle. Here’s some efforts we worked on in February and March.

FAS’s Capital Development (CD) division plans, designs and builds City structures, facilities and work spaces in a manner that is fiscally responsible, environmentally sustainable and responsibly compliant with equal access for all.

CD is currently working on several projects in the Seattle Fire Department Headquarters building on March 7. The SFD HQ is a historic building that requires regular maintenance and asset preservation work to keep it functional. The photo to the right shows a group of Capital Development staff doing a site visit of the SFD HQ freight elevator replacement project and roof replacement project scheduled to start in a few months.

 

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The Customer Service Centers staff in FAS’s Customer Service Division held a retreat earlier in the year at the Central District Customer Service Center (left). The group talked about their work, enjoyed team building exercises and networked across centers. Customer Service leads the City’s 311 phone service and serves constituents through its Customer Service Bureau and seven customer service centers.

 

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Krista Diaz, the Interim Deputy Division Director for Purchasing and Contracting (PC) presented to a delegation visiting Seattle from City of Detroit in early March (right). Krista and others on the PC team shared information about the City’s green, sustainable and equitable procurement efforts. Purchasing and Contracting manages contracting needs that include bids, public works and over 1200 blanket contracts for goods and services. The division also supports the City’s race and social justice initiative by expanding contracting equity for women- and minority-owned businesses and supporting labor equity on City construction projects.

 

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FAS’ Acting Department Director Kiersten Grove visited the management team of the Seattle Animal Shelter (SAS) in late February to learn how she can support SAS efforts. SAS promotes safety and animal welfare by enforcing animal laws, operating sheltering and adoption programs, managing a spay and neuter clinic and providing care and services for over 5,000 animals annually.

 

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Kiersten Grove also toured the Bakun Building, an over 100-year old building the City recently purchased from WSDOT. The photo to the right pictures her standing in the space with colleagues with Capital Development (CD) and Facility Management (FM). Over the next few years, CD will lead a building improvements project. The City will then provide most of the space to original stewards of the land, the Muckleshoot Tribe, to open a Tribal Interpretive Center.

 

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Whether out in the community or at a job site, Facilities and Administrative Services (FAS) teams work daily to serve the residents of Seattle. Here’s just a few of these moments of good work that took place so far this year.

WMBE Advisory Committee

FAS supports the City of Seattle’s WMBE Advisory Committee, which provides guidance to the City of Seattle regarding practices in support of equity, inclusion and participation of women‐ and minority‐owned businesses (WMBEs) in City of Seattle contracts.

On Jan. 11, the Advisory Committee met with Mayor Bruce Harrell to share their recommendations on how to better serve the WMBE community. Their recommendations can be found in the End-of-Year Report.

Accessibility Tour

FAS manages the City’s Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act compliance program. This program ensures people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to access City services, programs and activities.

As part of this work, FAS team members Autumn Harris (in the black hat, looking down) and Holly Delcambre (in the white hat) recently accompanied Seattle Department of Transportation staff on a recent accessibility tour of downtown. They looked at curb ramps, crosswalks, construction blockage and more. FAS team members focused especially on the experience of DeafBlind community members navigating Seattle’s streets. Photo from Greg Spotts’ Twitter.

Seattle Animal Shelter

On Wednesday, February 1, SAS got a call about a fire at The Dog Resort in Seattle where approximately 100 dogs were being housed/cared for. Thanks to the Seattle Animal Shelter’s assistance and coordination 75 dogs were transferred to other boarding facilities. Several dogs were treated by SFD on scene and four were transferred to a veterinary facility for ongoing care. The rest were picked up by their owners from the scene.

Field Services Manager Don Baxter said this about the responding officers, “They were responsive, patient with the chaos, professional and compassionate. I could not have been more proud of the way they handled themselves.  They are an asset to City, FAS and the Shelter.”

More info: Dozens of dogs rescued from Seattle doggy day care fire  – Seattle Times

UW Career Fair

FAS’ Human Resources division actively reaches out in the community about great career opportunities available at FAS. Recently HR staffer John Blackmore (right) represented the City at the University of Washington National Society of Black Engineers/Diversity Career Fair on Jan. 25. He’s pictured here talking with a participant.

Interested in a career with FAS? Check out our job opportunities.