[Director Loving] Hey.
How are you?
-I'm well. How are you? Fine.
Fine.
- How did you think that went?
- It went really well.
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What I do here is
bridge.
I guess would probably be a good way of putting it.
Trying to be a bridge between what we must do and what we should do,
and the expectations from the mayor and the executive, city council.
A well-functioning human resources department, quite candidly, is
is the core to the well-being of our city government.
I solve problems.
I help people solve problems.
That's what it feels like most of the time.
We are really here to ensure that your experience
as an employee is one where you feel supported
and you have all the resources you need in order to perform your job.
I grew up in Portland, Oregon.
I am a Pacific Northwest native, born and raised.
There's a great deal of community
service and teachers in my family.
And so there's always been this spirit of community service,
and I've connected with that industry.
Oh, how's the
all-staff meeting, the all employee meeting coming along from Monday.
- Oh, it's going great. Yeah.
- H.R. in general for the city provides benefits.
We have our labor relations team that work with all the unions that we have.
So we work in partnership with your leaders.
[Mayor Harrell] Her spirit is one of collaboration.
One of joy.
She has she has a get things done attitude.
She maintains a calm presence.
[Director Loving] I am hopeful that in addition to supporting the mayor's
initiatives and expectations we’ll partner across the city with all of our customer
departments in a way that, this is the place that people want to come.
And Seattle is an employer of
desired choice.
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