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RCW 27.34.370 Responsibility 1


(1) Organizational and fiscal planning, management, and oversight;

The Washington State Historical Society provides the staff for the Women’s History Consortium. The Board of Advisors met five times in 2006:

  • March 15
  • May 17
  • June 28
  • August 15
  • November 8

The Board of Advisors adopted rules of procedure, elected a chair and vice-chair, and established four committees. The Board reviewed and helped to develop the 2007-09 biennium budget requests for the Women’s History Consortium for presentation to the Board of Trustees of the Washington State Historical Society who forwarded the requests to the Office of Financial Management, the Governor, and Washington State Legislature.

Outcomes:

  • Staff support for Women’s History Consortium in 2006.
  • Budget development and oversight for WHC for 2007-09 biennium.
  • Initial organization of the Advisory Board.

Planned Outcomes:

  • Meeting preparation and staff for quarterly meetings.
  • Budget monitoring and oversight.
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.