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Spokane is considering collecting a utility tax that has been on the books for more than a decade. Other local governments strongly oppose the idea.
Spokane city leaders are considering collecting a utility tax on sewer plant revenues that has been in place since 2009.
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More than eleven years after approving it, the city of Spokane is considering whether to collect a 20% utility tax on the county’s wastewater plant. If it moves ahead, other local governments say they may sue.
According to Spokane city code, the city may collect 20% of the gross income from a wastewater treatment facility.
Emails between Dr. Bob Lutz and Spokane Mayor Woodward show tense, but not dysfunctional relationship By Adam Shanks, The Spokesman-Review
Published: January 28, 2021, 11:01am
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SPOKANE Exchanges between Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward and former Spokane County Health Officer Dr. Bob Lutz were dotted by moments of friction months before Lutz’s ouster in November.
But emails between the two that were released last week don’t show an all-out breakdown in their relationship in the months leading to Lutz’s controversial firing.
After helming the county’s pandemic response, Lutz’s dismissal and the subsequent change in leadership received Woodward’s ringing endorsement.
Partners Establish Young Adult Shelter Plan, Funding
Brian Coddington, Communications Director, 509.625.6740 Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 11:23 a.m.
Nearly $3 million in state grant money is coming to the Spokane community to begin a phased approach to a regional solution that meets the unique needs of the young adult population and keeps their experience with homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring.
The three-year grant, secured jointly by the cities of Spokane and Spokane Valley and Spokane County, will eventually pay for operation of a specialized shelter with up to 44 beds specifically for adults between the ages of 18 and 24. Volunteers of America (VOA) will operate the young adult shelter, initially establishing a minimum of 15 beds in separate spaces designated for young adults beginning in April. Beds for women would be located at the new VOA campus beginning in April and VOA will work with other operators to subcontract additional
Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward stands beside the Seattle officers recently hired by the Spokane Police Department.
After a long day working at the Coeur d Alene Tribal Court, Boots Faletogo comes home on Dec. 15 and puts on KREM TV s 10 pm newscast like she usually does. But that night, she sees a story about the Spokane Police Department hiring four officers from Seattle. There s Officer Josh Zuray, a former pastor and then Officer Bryan Weber, a trained chef. There s Officer Jesse Cahill, a WSU grad married to a Spokane native. And then there s Jared Keller. I was like Jared Keller. Jared Keller. Jared Keller, I
Young Kwak photo Fawn Schott, CEO of the local Volunteers of America, the nonprofit that would operate a young adult shelter if there were one. S
ince the city of Spokane was awarded a $2.7 million grant this summer for a young adult shelter, city and regional leaders have agreed on one thing: The shelter is urgently needed. What they can t agree on is where to put it. That s frustrated Fawn Schott, the president and CEO of the local Volunteers of America, the nonprofit that would operate the shelter. This is NIMBY at its core, Schott says. Nobody wants a shelter in their backyard.