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Thurston County says monitoring found no intentional malfeasance in PIPE contract; county and nonprofit agreed to terminate contract
Summary
County managers described fiscal monitoring of Partners in Prevention Education (PIPE) rental-assistance work, noted corrective actions and repayments, and said PIPE and the county mutually ended the contract after staff determined termination appropriate; county will not comment on ongoing legal proceedings.
Thurston County officials told the Board of County Commissioners at an agenda-setting work session that monitoring of Partners in Prevention Education (PIPE), a nonprofit that ran an eviction-prevention rental-assistance program, found no evidence of intentional malfeasance but did identify fiscal-management weaknesses and incomplete documentation.
County Manager Leonard Hernandez summarized a timeline of oversight dating back to October 2023, when Public Health and Social Services and the Office of Housing and Homeless Prevention began monitoring PIPE’s Eviction Prevention Rent Assistance program. Hernandez said Public Health staff later requested formal fiscal monitoring, and a fiscal monitoring report…
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