(The Center Square) – A Seattle City Council Committee is directing Mayor Katie Wilson to make a recommendation by Aug. 1 as to the fate of the troubled King County Regional Homeless Authority. The resolution approved by the council’s Human Services, Labor and Economic Development Committee on Friday mirrors action taken by the Metropolitan King County Council on May 5, which directed King County Executive Girmay Zahilay to make the same decision. Wilson could recommend
(The Center Square) – The city of Spokane may delay a local funding opportunity for behavioral health and homelessness service providers as the federal government prepares to issue new guidelines on June 1. The proposal is listed on the Spokane City Council’s Urban Experience Committee agenda for Monday. If approved, the decision would delay a funding opportunity, financed by a .1% local sales tax that the council approved in 2020 without voter approval until 2027.
(The Center Square) – More than nine years after a legal battle began between a Grant County family farm and the Washington Department of Ecology, the two sides are waiting to find out if the Washington State Supreme Court will take up the case. The fight for Ron and Robin Fode and Fode Farms centers around water use on their farmland near Moses Lake, and Ecology contending the family had no right to tap into
(The Center Square) – Despite sitting $34.5 billion short on a 2016 voter-approved system expansion, Sound Transit still has millions to spend on billboard advertising. The Board of Directors will consider punting billions of dollars in projects and extending ST3’s financial plan through 2052 at the end of the month. This isn’t the first time Sound Transit has moved the goal posts; the board realigned the plan in 2021, pushing the potential completion date from
