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Spokane County Commissioner Amber Waldrep summarizes 2024 accomplishments, outlines 2025 priorities
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Commissioner Amber Waldrep highlighted opioid-settlement spending, mental-health response funding, housing coordination efforts, environmental health planning and energy-efficiency investments while listing goals for a regional homelessness memorandum and a PFAS task force.
Commissioner Amber Waldrep summarized her 2024 accomplishments and laid out goals for 2025 during recorded remarks at a Spokane County meeting.
Waldrep said the county has directed significant funds toward public safety and behavioral health. "Commissioners allocated over $7,000,000 in opioid settlement dollars to sobering facilities and treatment organizations like Maddy's Place," she said. She also said the county "funded $650,000 in mental health sales tax to increase joint paramedic and mental health response in Spokane and Spokane Valley." Waldrep added that she "was excited to vote to approve a balanced budget for 2024 that includes increased funding for public safety, including our prosecutors and…
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