John Spady, Citizen Councilor Coordinator and CCF lead, announced that private funding is not available to support CCF in 2012.  As a result, we’re placing the program on hold. The Auditor’s Office plans to use residual funding to conduct an evaluation during the hiatus. Please stay tuned for more announcements and opportunities for great conversations about your [...]

You spoke! In fact, 1,440 county residents weighed-in on Metro Transit and county budget issues — a new participation record for Countywide Community Forums and double last year’s record of 766 for Round 6 in October 2010! For Round 8 we added a special survey for unincorporated area residents to provide feedback on the county’s [...]

According to the findings of the King County Budget: Achieving Sustainability Together report, as a community we value public transportation. That is why creating a sustainable budget for Metro Transit is so important. So, we asked, “how do we do that?” And, 1,440 county residents shared what they believe are the best practices to keep [...]

What are the best illustrations that let you know the county is listening? How will the new boundaries for the Community Service Areas be setup? What issues motivate you most to share your opinions with the county? These important questions were a few of the topics covered during the special Unincorporated King County Round: New Framework for [...]

Tim O’Reilly, founder of technology publisher O’Reilly Media is the man who coined the phrase Gov 2.0 to define the Open Government Movement. He features CCF in his blog at CivicCommons.org.