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County lobbyist: state budgets largely protect local services; sobering center gets $733,000 in senate capital list
Summary
Spokane County lobbyist Mike Burgess told commissioners the two chambers’ budgets preserved key local programs: Joya funding was maintained, BECA received partial backfill and the senate capital budget included $733,000 for a county sobering center. Burgess said several other county-priority projects were not funded in this supplemental year.
Mike Burgess, the county’s lobbyist, told the Spokane County Board of County Commissioners on Feb. 24 that preliminary operating and capital budget proposals in Olympia largely spared local human-services programs and maintained selected county projects.
Burgess said Joya funding — for early infant support programs referenced by county staff — was retained in both the House and Senate budget language, and that legislators provided a partial backfill for…
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