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Kittitas County board approves ordinance removing sunset on mental‑health sales tax
Summary
The Kittitas County Board of Commissioners approved an ordinance to rescind the sunset clause for the county’s 0.1% mental‑health and chemical‑dependency sales tax after staff presented enabling documents; the ordinance number was not specified in the transcript.
The Kittitas County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved an ordinance rescinding the sunset clause for the county’s one‑tenth of 1 percent mental‑health and chemical‑dependency sales tax.
Chelsea Lepers, public health director, told the board the commissioners had previously voted in December to rescind the sunset clause and directed staff to prepare enabling documents; those documents were presented and Lepers invited questions. A commissioner then moved to adopt the ordinance amending county code 3.040.09; discussion followed and the motion passed.
The enabling documents implement the board’s prior direction and allow the county to continue collecting the tax beyond the previously listed sunset date. The transcript does not include an official ordinance number or a roll‑call count for the vote; the motion was recorded as passing during the meeting.
The action follows a public hearing conducted in December and is intended to preserve an ongoing local funding stream for mental‑health and chemical‑dependency services. Lepers provided the enabling documents to the board but did not quote specific projected revenue amounts in the transcript. The board did not set a new sunset date in the recorded discussion.
The ordinance’s adoption was recorded as the most recent procedural step; the transcript does not show a timeline for publication or when the ordinance takes effect.
