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Spokane Valley agrees to rejoin regional Safe and Healthy Spokane planning; city to appoint staff to task force
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Spokane Valley will rejoin a regional Safe and Healthy Spokane planning effort and assign staff to the task force planning team, council members agreed Tuesday after months of the planning process proceeding without the city.
The Spokane Valley City Council agreed Tuesday to rejoin the regional Safe and Healthy Spokane planning effort and to send city staff to participate on the task force planning team, Mayor Haley and several council members said during a discussion led by City Manager John Homan.
Homan told the council the task force started as a regional effort after leaders visited Whatcom County to study a combined incarceration/treatment approach. He said private funders including Avista and the Waters Meet Foundation (formerly Empire Health Foundation) and the Greater Spokane Incorporated and Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce have provided planning support and that VISTA is providing consultant funding to develop mapping and an action plan. Homan read the task force charter language included in the meeting packet: the group is "committed…
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