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MARCH 17, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 11
Resetting Seattle’s vision Burgess shares ideas on how to solve or improve homelessness, policing in city
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Photo by Jessica Keller In the photo from December 2020, tents for unsheltered people line a street in Uptown. Queen Anne resident and former City Councilmember Tim Burgess said in a presentation last week, to improve the homeless situation in Seattle, mental health and drug addiction treatment services should be provided to the chronically unsheltered, while more housing opportunities are offered. sues impacting the neighborhood. Burgess said both homelessness and policing are both complex and difficult problems that must be addressed if Seattle residents are going to have a kind of city
they want. He said, at last count, there are an estimated 3,738 unsheltered people in Seattle. “That’s almost half of the city’s total homeless population,”
Burgess said, adding King County statistics indicate the vast majority of them are living with addiction or mental health problems.
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King County Council to pass sixth COVID supplemental budget By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor In its continued response to providing relief for the coronavirus pandemic, the King County Council is gearing up to pass another supplemental budget. Councilmember Jeanne KohlWelles, as chair of the county’s budget committee, said the council will likely approve its sixth supplemental budget for COVID relief March 23 based on the $92.3 million package proposal
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While he did not provide any definite solutions, Queen Anne resident and former City Council member and interim Seattle mayor Tim Burgess shared his insight on how to improve two hot button issues in Seattle, homelessness and policing, in a community presentation March 10. His presentation, Let’s Do a Seattle Vision Reset, was the third topic hosted by Queen Anne’s Initiative on Community EngageBurgess ment, aimed at informing Queen Anne residents about is-
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issued by Executive The funding packDow Constantine. age includes: Kohl-Welles said • $45.2 million these funds are from for rental assistance existing sources through the 2021 and do not include Consolidated Apnew money — revpropriations Act, a enue coming to King supplement to the County from the Coronavirus Aid, American Rescue Act Relief, and Economic Kohl-Welles will be addressed in Security Act of 2020 another supplemental • $29 million for budget that will come public health response on the heels of COVID 6 supple- and county operations funded by mental budget. re-appropriating unspent corona-
virus relief funds • $11.2 million for vaccination efforts for 60 days from state grants • $5 million to establish a revolving fund for upfront payment for grants to community-based organizations that cannot wait for reimbursement • $1.9 million to extend JustCARE and Co-LEAD programs through March For COVID-6, the Department
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