The Pierce County Council will be considering a one-tenth of 1% sales tax for behavioral health.
The following three actions regarding behavioral health will be discussed at the council meeting on March 10, at 3 p.m.
Proposed Resolution No. R2020-20 A Resolution of the Pierce County Council Requesting the Regional System of Care Committee Deliver to the Council by October 1, 2020, a Strategic Plan for Behavioral Health System Improvements to Inform Future Behavioral Health Tax Expenditures; Specifying the Council’s Intent to Act on an Ordinance Imposing a Behavioral Health Tax No Later than December 31, 2020. (Request for Strategic Plan for Behavioral Health System Improvements – Statement of Intent Relating to Imposition of Behavioral Health Tax)
Proposed Resolution No. R2020-24s An Ordinance of the Pierce County Council Amending Chapter 2.51 of the Pierce County Code, "Chemical Dependency Advisory Board," to Replace the Chemical Dependency Advisory Board with the Newly Created Behavioral Health Coordinating Commission; Amending Chapter 4.28 of the Pierce County Code, "Sales and Use Tax"; Amending Section 4.48.020 of the Pierce County Code, "Special Revenue Funds"; Authorizing the Levy and Collection of an Additional Sales and Use Tax of One-Tenth of One Percent for Behavioral Health and Therapeutic Courts; Providing for Allocation and Use of Taxes Received; Making Declarations and Findings Related to Behavioral Health Disorders and Establishing County Goals and Priorities; Providing for Administration of Taxes Collected; Prescribing Violations and Penalties; Directing Tax Collection to Begin at the Earliest Date Consistent with Revised Code of Washington 82.14.055; Adopting a Planning Framework for the Behavioral Health Coordinating Commission; and Establishing a Sunset Date. (Sales and Use Tax for Behavioral Health Services and Therapeutic Courts - Behavioral Health Coordinating Commission Created)
3. City of Tacoma
Tiegan Tidball, City of Tacoma, told us she thinks the planned March 12 community meeting on the development of Neighborhood and Community Services Strategic Plan will be rescheduled. Here's the link to the Santa Clarita plan developed by the same consultants working with NCS - Analytic Insight. Click on the button on the bottom of the page to go to the Santa Clarita plan. https://www.analyticinsight.org/housing-and-homelessness. I know there are many good consultants and lots of ways to develop plans and present information I just happen to like this one. I like the network analysis and it seems to me we have the basics of that in the TPC Coalition to End Homelessness.
Enough for now, thank you for your work and watch for alerts forwarded from the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance,
Maureen