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RCW 2734370


Responsibilities of board of advisors.
Key responsibilities of the board of advisors include:

  1. Organizational and fiscal planning, management, and oversight;
  2. Adopting criteria and procedures for consortium membership and member responsibilities;
  3. Identifying short-term and long-term priorities of the consortium, with special emphasis on short-term priorities relating to preserving historical information from the last several decades before it is lost;
  4. Appointing special committees and task forces including people from consortium members and nonmembers to assist with the consortium's tasks;
  5. Developing recommendations for statewide commemoration of the centennial of the adoption in 1910 of the fifth amendment to the Washington state Constitution, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
[2005 c 391 ยง 4.]
Finding -- Intent -- 2005 c 391: See note following RCW 27.34.360.
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Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.