New Chair appoitned to the Board of Ethics

Former County Councilman will serve through 2012

Laing has a long history of public service. He served on the King County Council from 1979 through 1995. During his time on Council, he also served on the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority Board, now known as Sound Transit; the Executive Board of Puget Sound Regional Council, PSRC; and on the Council of Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, METRO. In addition, Laing has been a professional urban planner for more than forty years. Mr. Laing currently resides in King County Council District 9.

Laing will serve along side the existing the three board members: Roland Carlson, former Washington state legislator and former Boeing executive, Anne Watanabe, City of Seattle deputy hearing examiner, and Gunbjorg Ladstein, former Transportation Planner for King County and former Program Consultant for United Way of King County.

The King County Board of Ethics, created by ordinance in 1972, is a five-member citizen advisory, administrative, and quasi-judicial board. The purpose is to ensure proper implementation of the Code of Ethics, to interpret the code through advisory opinions, and to manage a disclosure program of financial and other interests for employees and elected officials.

The Board of Ethics' mission is to ensure the highest standard of public service by developing, disseminating, and promoting readily understandable ethics requirements for King County employees and agencies. Its first goal is education through its teaching program, which extends throughout King County helping employees understand their obligations and guiding them when faced with ethical decisions on the job.

For more information, visit the website at http://www.kingcounty.gov/ethics.