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Skagit County presents NorthStar regional plan; Mount Vernon council pledges continued engagement
Summary
Skagit County’s NorthStar initiative updated Mount Vernon City Council on 2025 priorities, including funding searches, governance, and task forces for housing, recovery and coordinated emergency response; council members expressed broad support and asked for clearer avenues for municipal input.
Monica Negrila, director of strategic initiatives for Skagit County, told the Mount Vernon City Council on Jan. 22 that the NorthStar regional initiative will focus in 2025 on increasing funding, strengthening governance and expanding task forces that coordinate housing and behavioral-health services.
Nut graf: NorthStar, launched in 2022 by the county commissioners and the mayors of four Skagit County cities, aims to reduce homelessness and improve behavioral-health responses by aligning municipal, county and community resources. Negrila told council members the collaborative has attracted more than $40 million in funding to date and is preparing a 2025 workplan…
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