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Votes at a glance: Regional Housing Council — Feb. 26, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal motions and outcomes recorded at the Regional Housing Council meeting on Feb. 26, 2025, including elections and approvals of funding and advocacy actions.
At its Feb. 26 meeting the Regional Housing Council took the following formal actions (voice votes unless noted):
• Elect leadership: Commissioner Classe (Klaus) was nominated and elected chair; Michael Althausen (Michael) was nominated and elected vice chair. The council conducted nominations, seconds and voice votes; no formal roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript.
• Approve agenda (as amended): The council approved the meeting agenda as amended (voice vote; one abstention noted by the chair because of a legislative-letter item).
• Approve minutes (Jan. 22): The council approved the Jan. 22 meeting minutes (voice vote).
• Emergency fund request: Approved $16,700 to Olympia mutual aid partners to purchase supplies for people living outdoors (mover: Carolyn Cox; second: Emily Closs). Council members noted HSAB had reviewed a line-item budget before recommending the approval.
• LOTT affordable housing support: Approved drawing $125,000 from LOTT’s shared regional pool to pair with an estimated $60,000 from the City of Olympia for the Franz Anderson permanent supportive housing project (voice vote; meeting audio recorded four ayes and one abstention). This recommendation will be forwarded to LOTT for final action.
• Legislative letter of support (Boulevard Road Habitat): Approved signing a joint letter with the City of Olympia supporting a $5,000,000 state capital-budget request for the Boulevard Road project (motion by Danny Madrone; one recorded abstention by Michael Althausen).
Where the meeting transcript recorded recorded specific movers, seconds or abstentions those are noted above. In many cases the meeting used voice votes and did not provide a roll-call vote tally in the transcript; where the audio noted counts those counts are recorded.
