Potential WSAMA Civil Topics submitted for Fall Conference ...



WSAMA CIVIL TOPICS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED TOPICS

SPRING 2021 CONFERENCE

Note: For Fall 2020, the civil schedule had a total of 12 topics – 3 on each day – Oct 14, Oct 15, Oct 21, and Oct 22 – for a total of 9.25 credits.

|RECOMMENDED TOPICS |

|No. |Potential Topic |Suggestor |Speaker |Notes |

|8. |Intro to the New 2020 UETA legislation (Uniform Electronic Transactions |Del Kolde |Del Kolde plus a potential partner? |Need a potential second speaker |

| |Act). |Assistant City Attorney | | |

| |What has changed? |Federal Way | | |

| |How can cities now utilize electronic signatures for internal business |del.kolde@ | | |

| |and for public facing business and contracting? | | | |

| |What are best practices for implementation? | | | |

| |What are the eSignature alternatives? Does it require use of Adobe, | | | |

| |Docusign, etc? | | | |

| |What are the advantages, disadvantages of eSigs vs. wet sigs? | | | |

| |How has lawyering in the time of Covid affected the use of eSigs? | | | |

|9. |Council Meeting Basics and New OPMA Legislation |Rajeev Majumdar |Brett Vinson |Need to confirm speaker |

| | |Prosecutor | | |

| | |City of Blaine |Alternative: Scott Snyder | |

| | |rajeev@ | | |

|10. |What the City Attorney Needs to Know about Bonding |Conference Survey/Topics Committee |Lee Marchisio | |

| |What is Debt/Conditional Sales Contract | | | |

|11. |Employment Investigations – How to Approach Investigations; PRA |Conference Survey/Topics Committee |Foster Garvey |Emphasize PRA and union issue; don’t |

| |Implications; Overlay of Union Issues | | |replicate fall 2020 presentation – share |

| | | | |slides with Foster. Include new PRA |

| | | | |employee notification requirement |

|12. |PRA Update |Topics Committee |Matt Segal | |

| | | |Adrian Winder (?) | |

|13. |Ethics: Who is the Client? (Council, Mayor/Manager, Directors, |Topics Committee |Jeff Taraday |Game Show format |

| |Employees; Members of the Public) | | |Need to do a run-through to make sure the |

| | | | |voting software works via the GoToWebinar |

| | | | |platform |

|Topics Not Selected by Committee |

|14. |Addressing Unconscious Bias in the Court System |Sheila Gall |Speaker from WSBA or Court Workgroups| |

| | |Association of Washington Cities | | |

| | |sheilag@ | | |

|15. |First Amendment and Protest Issues for Cities |Sheila Gall |TBD |Last presentations: |

| | |Association of Washington Cities | |Spring 2020: Civil Unrest Inside and Out: |

| | |sheilag@ | |Managing Controversial Employee Speech and |

| | | | |Volatile Protesting (Pacifica) |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Fall 2019 First Am. Principles for |

| | | | |Traditional Public Forums, |

| | | | |Limited/Designated Public Forums and |

| | | | |Nonpublic Forums (Ramsey Ramerman and |

| | | | |Adrian Winder, Foster) |

|16. |Ethical Issues and Considerations |Eileen Keiffer |Eileen Keiffer | |

| |when Representing Public Agencies |Madrona Law Group, |Madrona Law Group, PLLC | |

| | |PLLC |eileen@ | |

| | |eileen@| | |

| |First Amendment + Protest Issues for|1.00 hour |TBA |Sheila Gall suggestion – no speaker –will need help from the civil side for speaker(s) |

| |the City Attorney and City | | | |

| |Prosecutor | | | |

| |State v. Gelinas + CrRLJ 3.4 |1.00 hour |Round Table Panelists |Confirming Panelists. Want to be more of an interactive session. |

| |Presence of a Defendant – impact on | |from: | |

| |present and future hearings | |City of Vancouver | |

| | | |City of Spokane | |

| | | |City of Ellensburg | |

| | | |City of Kent | |

| |Prosecutor Ethics: |1.00 hour |TBA |Joe S to coordinate |

| |Being a Prosecutor Can You Relate? | | | |

| |Alternatives to Incarceration, the |2.00 hour |TBA + |Miriam Norman is lead coordinator on this |

| |Vendors + Probation Violations | |Seattle Probation | |

| | | |Department | |

Notes from Joe S:

- We will need some technical training to expand the virtual format to allow either: (1) the Chat box to be viewed by all participants; and/or (2) allow an open mike to facilitate discussion or both.

- Do we need to find and train a moderator for the criminal topic presentations?

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