MEDIA ADVISORY: 1st District legislators to hold telephone town hall

Who: State Senator Guy Palumbo, D-Maltby, together with State Representative Derek Stanford, D-Bothell, and State Representative Shelley Kloba, D-Kirkland

What: Telephone town hall meeting

When: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Where: Calls will go out to thousands of homes throughout the 1st Legislative District. Residents will be able to listen live and ask the legislators questions. Those who do not receive a call can participate by dialing 877-229-8493 and entering ID Code 116308. Alternatively, the telephone town hall can be live-streamed:

https://video.teleforumonline.com/video/streaming.php?client=16308

https://vekeo.com/whdc01/

Why: Sen. Palumbo and Reps. Stanford and Kloba will give a brief update about the status of the 2017 legislative session, currently in the second special session. The majority of the live town hall discussion will be spent answering questions directly from constituents.

Under the telephone town hall format, thousands of constituents will receive automatically generated telephone calls to their homes in the 1st Legislative District just before 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 30. Constituents may ask a question by pressing *3 on their phones during the call. Volunteer screeners will take questions, and the legislators will answer as many questions as they can get through during the one-hour call. For those whose questions are not addressed during the town hall, there will be the option to leave a message for the legislators.