The King County Board of Health is increasing in 2023 to incorporate extra members of the neighborhood it serves.
Applications to join the Board are welcome from King County residents who share a dedication to public health principles and addressing racism as a public health crisis, together with public well being and well being care suppliers, folks with expertise with public well being applications, residents who’re working to handle well being inequities, and others who’ve permits with Public Well being.
Purposes are due June 30, 2022.
Open homes to be taught extra
To be taught extra, please go to our website and be a part of us at one in every of our on-line open homes through Zoom on Saturday Might 21, 2-3:30 p.m. or Tuesday Might 24, 6-7:30 p.m.:
Concerning the Board
Presently there are 8 elected officers and three well being professionals on the board. The expanded Board will embrace 8 elected officers and eight non-elected individuals who characterize the general public, healthcare, and different neighborhood stakeholders.
The Board of Well being has a number of duties. Its mission is to advocate for the preservation, promotion, and safety of public well being. It really works to stop the unfold of illness, set native public well being laws and a few charges and licenses, and implement state and native public well being legal guidelines. The Board doesn’t have price range authority.
Previous Board actions have included passing a regulation banning trans fat in eating places, regulating e-cigarettes, and establishing a drugs take-back program.
The Board points pointers and suggestions. For instance, the Board issued pointers for a mannequin tobacco-free parks coverage to advertise a tobacco-free expertise for guests to all King County parks.
The Board additionally creates resolutions to specific assist for insurance policies or methods. For instance, The Board handed a decision encouraging the Washington State Legislature to handle local weather change and its well being impacts, with a concentrate on communities disproportionately impacted by well being inequities.
The Board takes a racial fairness strategy to its work and expects its members to be dedicated to racial fairness and ending the impacts of racism on well being.
Board member expectations
- Attending and taking part in month-to-month conferences held on the third Thursday of every month at 1pm
- Nonelected members shall have the flexibility to vote besides on laws pertaining to charges
- Participation in subcommittees as wanted
Compensation
Board members who aren’t being compensated for his or her participation by way of their employer shall be paid $225 for every full board assembly they attend, to not exceed $225 per thirty days.
Go to the website to be taught extra concerning the roles and duties of the Board of Well being and the appliance course of.
Initially printed 5/13/22
