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Thurston County outlines homeless-services and housing RFPs, details $18M funding pool and new vaping-prevention grants
Summary
County public health staff told commissioners the county expects just over $18 million for homeless-services activities and described a $7.5 million discretionary competitive pool and planned RFPs; the county also opened a $250,000 vaping-prevention grant from a 2023 Juul settlement.
Thurston County public health officials on Tuesday laid out how a patchwork of federal, state and local funds will be used for homelessness services and affordable-housing projects and opened a community vaping-prevention grant funded by a 2023 Juul settlement.
Jim Bridal, director of Public Health and Social Services, told the Board of County Commissioners that the county’s homeless-services funding portfolio includes federal HOME and CDBG allocations, roughly $13 million to $15 million in state funds and several million in local revenue, and that in total "we have about 18 a little over $18,000,000 that is funded for our homeless services activities." He said the county will issue two RFPs this week — one for homeless services and one for affordable-housing capital projects — with final awards depending on actual federal and state appropriations.
Why it matters: the presentation breaks down a complex funding matrix the…
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