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Councilmember Jan Drago, Lead
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Biographical Information |
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Rachel Ben-Shmuel |
Consultant – Land-use issues,
permit coordination & expediting, community relations Member, past
president, Denny Regrade Business Association
MA, BA, University of WA |
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James Kelly |
President, Urban League of
Metropolitan Seattle
Former Director, WA St. Commission on African-American Affairs
Former Special Assistant to Secretary of Dept. of Health & Human
Services
MSW, University of WA |
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Roger Kelly |
Sr. Vice-Pres./Partner, Kennedy
Assoc.
Pres., 1st Hill Plaza Assn.
Past Board Member, Virginia Mason Hospital, Salvation Army, Seafair,
USO, Forgotten Children
Past-Pres., Mt. Baker Community Club
Graduate, UW |
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David Okimoto |
Executive Director,
Atlantic Street Ctr.
President, Minority Directors’ Coalition
Board, Puget Sound ESD
Chair, Asian Pacific Islanders Task Force on Youth
Member, Youth Council of the Workforce Development Committee |
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Bob Rohan |
Attorney/Sr. Partner –Rohan,
Goldfarb, Rasel, Shapiro
Former member, Board of Directors, United Way of King County, Planned
Parenthood of King County, AIDS Housing of WA
Special Counsel to Governor Booth Gardner, 1991-1992
UW School of Law, J.D; Adelphi University, B.A |
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The WTO Invitation Panel will examine Seattle’s decision to host the WTO
Ministerial Conference. It will review informal and formal contacts by officials
of the City, Port of Seattle, King County and other community agencies to
determine what lobbying, negotiations, and briefings took place and what
agreements were reached. The panel will work to determine the following:
- The date when the possibility of hosting the WTO Ministerial Meeting was
first known to City officials, the identity of persons involved in those
contacts, and the nature of their contacts.
- The identities of all City, county, state and federal employees, and
others who participated in the decision to seek to have the City of Seattle
serve as host city for the WTO Ministerial Meeting.
- The participants, dates, places, and duration of all meetings involved in
seeking to become host city.
- The roles played by city, county, state, and federal officials, and
private individuals and organizations, and any contacts with non-US
nationals that preceded the decision for Seattle to host the WTO.
- The criteria, judgements, and bases used in making the decision to host
the WTO.
- Details of any budgets, estimates, spreadsheets, or predictions about the
costs or fiscal impacts of hosting the WTO meeting, and how those costs
would be borne.
- The questions or deliberations about fiscal and legal responsibility for
the WTO Ministerial Meeting, the results of those deliberations, and the
nature of any assurances made by any city, state, or federal officials about
financial responsibility.
- The texts of all correspondence, agreements, and communication between
city officials or employees and the Seattle Host Organization (SHO), the
WTO, and any county, state or federal agency, including Congress, the
Department of State and the White House.
Additional areas of inquiry may be addressed with agreement from ARC.
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