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Washington County outlines 2025 legislative priorities, flags $20M budget gap and capital funding requests
Summary
County government relations staff presented the 2025 legislative agenda emphasizing no new unfunded mandates, workforce and behavioral-health funding, preservation of 569 affordable housing units, and capital requests including $1.25M for courthouse planning, $700k match for Scoggins Creek Visitor Center, a $20.2M Walnut Street Center ask and $15M for Westside Commons fairground improvements.
At the Dec. 4 meeting, government relations staff briefed the Washington County Planning Commission on the county's 2025 legislative agenda and a slate of capital funding requests.
Staff said the county faces an approximately $20,000,000 budget gap this fiscal year and emphasized an agenda that seeks stabilized, sustained state funding for services the state requires the county to provide. The priorities highlighted included preserving affordable housing stock, workforce development (with emphasis on behavioral health and licensing barriers), modernizing 100%-consent…
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