What we don’t miss MEET THE Ron Judd on 20 things that can stay gone MUSEUMS PACIFIC NW > INSIDE They’ve been missing you; Shots in the wild as doors reopen, see what’s inside Vaccine comes to Washington’s most remote THE MIX > E1 villages, along Lake Chelan NORTHWEST > C1 APRIL 11, 2021 MOSTLY SUNNY High, 52. Low, 37. > A15 $4.OO seattletimes.com/weather WINNER OF 11 PULITZER PRIZES At Chauvin In Seattle, employers pay wildly different trial, key COPS FOR rates to hire off-duty officers. One of the biggest customers? The city issues come itself. And it does little to into focus monitor the moonlighting. $1,000 A DAY By WILL WRIGHT The New York Times The first week of the Derek Chauvin trial was marked by emotional accounts from by- standers who witnessed the 9½ minutes that the police pinned George Floyd to the ground. But the second week struck a differ- ent chord, highlighting testimo- ny from medical and law en- forcement experts that focused on the conduct of Chauvin and the cause of Floyd’s death. Those witnesses hit on the key issues of the trial: what exactly killed Floyd, and whether Chau- vin violated police policies on use of force. The answers to those two questions will be cru- cial for Chauvin, the former See > TRIAL, A10 Seattle’s new Chamber of Commerce leader wants City Hall truce By PAUL ROBERTS Seattle Times business reporter STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES After years of escalating hostil- A uniformed off-duty Seattle police officer is on hand to help with traffic at a Seattle City Light job site in West Seattle. Off-duty traffic control ities between Seattle’s business work for city agencies and private companies can be lucrative for officers. community and its political es- tablishment, at least one busi- ment’s payroll. On Sundays and holidays, of a much larger market, where officers ness leader says she’s ready to TIMES WATCHDOG when City Light pays $139 an hour, not equipped by the public wield their police call a truce. even the interim police chief earns more. powers to serve private clients. Rachel Smith, By DANIEL GILBERT But City Light is not paying the officers Many U.S. cities allow cops to supple- the new presi- Seattle Times staff reporter directly. It is hiring them off-duty through ment their incomes with moonlighting dent and CEO of mong police departments, Seattle’s Finest Security and Traffic Control work. But few have less control than Seat- the Seattle Seattle pays the highest wages LLC, a for-profit firm that has collected tle, where working off-duty is written into Metropolitan in Washington state. But with- $13.7 million from the utility over the past the police union contract, and the city’s Chamber of Ain city government, the elec- decade. It isn’t clear how much Seattle’s efforts to overhaul it — including a law and Commerce, says tric utility pays even more for Finest pays officers, but it is likely a premi- an executive order in 2017 — have gone she’ll avoid the their services. um over SPD, where most officers make nowhere. hardball cam- Rachel Seattle City Light pays $90 an hour for less than $60 an hour. “To limit it in any way would take a tre- paign tactics Smith cops to direct traffic, a rate earned by only The city of Seattle’s practice of hiring its mendous amount of courage,” said Pierce that the cham- the top 2% of the Seattle Police Depart- own cops for off-duty work is the visible tip See > POLICE, A13 ber has sometimes used in previ- ous elections. “I think we have to really put down our dukes,” says Smith, who has run the chamber since Jan. 4, after more than 15 years in nonprofit and government Republicans dance around Trump’s lingering presence roles, including the No. 2 spot in King County. By JONATHAN MARTIN, ald Trump determined to keep his The same man who last month ence on the political scene. See > SMITH, A12 MAGGIE HABERMAN grip on the Republican Party and sent the RNC a cease-and-desist The delicate dance between AND SHANE GOLDMACHER The New York Times the party’s base as adhered to him letter demanding it stop using his Trump and the party — after losing as ever, the gathering of the Repub- likeness to raise money will on the House, the Senate and the © 2021 Seattle Times Co. Our newsprint contains recycled The first spring donor retreat lican National Committee’s top Saturday evening serve as the par- White House on his watch — will fiber, and inks are reused. after a defeat for a political party is donors in South Florida this week- ty’s fundraising headliner. manifest in some actual shuttle bus typically a moment of reflection end is less a moment of reset and “A tremendous complication” diplomacy Saturday as the party’s and renewal as officials chart a new more a reminder of the continuing was how Fred Zeidman, a veteran top donors attend a series of recep- direction. tensions and schisms roiling the Republican fundraiser in Texas, tions and panels at the Four Sea- SUN But with former President Don- party. described Trump’s lingering pres- See > GOP, A10 7 59423 32000 3 BOOK NEW SAILINGS FROM ATHENS THIS SUMMER Lets’ GO Be first to experience new Celebrity ApexSM, debuting June 19 with Eastern Mediterranean sailings of 6–8 nights. 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E2) | Small-town museums preserve their communities’ stories (pg. E4) | Exhibits, galleries and museums picked by staffers (pgs. E7-10) Also in this section: Enumclaw (the band from Tacoma) makes waves before playing a show (pg. E12) | A new book of essays and recipes with Seattle roots, plus new fiction, audiobooks and more (pgs. E12-13) REACH THE EDITOR | Stefanie Loh, Features Editor, [email protected]; Janet Tu, Arts & Entertainment, [email protected] ILLUSTRATION BY JENNIFER LUXTON / THE SEATTLE TIMES E2 The Mix | | SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2021 MUSEUM GUIDE ELLEN M. BANNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES Amada Cruz, director and CEO of the Seattle Art Museum, stands in front of “Middle Fork,” a sculpture by John Grade. For Cruz, dealing with the unknown presented one of the biggest challenges of running an institution like SAM during a massive public health crisis. By MEGAN BURBANK Seattle Times features reporter etween lost revenue, layoffs and furloughs, and changing statewide health directives that Keeping ended visitation over- night, 2020 was a year Bof struggle and adaptation for museums and arts organizations in Washington state and across COVID-19 the country. “Well, let’s state the obvious, which is that the crisis really has had a serious financial impact on out of SAM,” said Amada Cruz, director and CEO of the Seattle Art Muse- um. It’s a common refrain throughout the industry. Leslie Anne Anderson, director cultural of collections, exhibitions, and programs at the National Nordic Museum, described the pandem- ic’s impact on the museum’s busi- ness model as “massive,” one that COURTESY OF NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM spaces necessitated philanthropy efforts and COVID-19 relief funding. Leslie Anne Anderson, director of collections, exhibitions, New data from Seattle’s Arts- and programs at the National Nordic Museum, says the Lost income, empty Fund shows that this isn’t unusu- museum reduced its budget by 25% due to COVID-19. al. Local arts and culture organi- galleries and pivots: zations’ total earned income for How local museums 2020 was 39% less than in 2019 and 65% less than in 2018. Arts- survived the pandemic Fund also found that 56% of re- dried up overnight following last museum’s special exhibition bud- sponding organizations as of Jan- March’s statewide lockdowns, but get was cut by two-thirds. uary 2021 still had staff fur- even when the economy began to In April, SAM took out a $2.8 loughed or laid off. gradually reopen last summer, million Paycheck Protection Pro- And according to a frequently rising case counts meant the con- gram loan “that really helped us cited national survey of COVID-19 stant threat of closure and contin- keep staff for months,” and leaned impacts on American museums, ued loss of revenue. SAM usually on private gifts, the biggest of conducted by the American Alli- drafts one budget every year. In which was a $2 million closure ance of Museums and released in 2020, dealing with constant relief fund gift from the Friday June, 33% of surveyed institutions change meant “a budget every Foundation. Senior staff took said that either they would face “a quarter,” said Cruz. initial salary cuts, and in July, significant risk” of permanent Financial impacts were signifi- furloughs and reductions were closure without financial assis- cant. Ingrid Langston, head of implemented across the board — tance, or they didn’t know if they communications and content 78% of staff were affected, said would.