Kevin Altheimer is known as a “thorn in the side” for King County council members during meetings over the current budget. Altheimer’s latest grievance was over a massive discrepancy in the Department of Community and Health Services audit, which previously was allocated $17 million for juvenile diversion, but the audit has since expanded to $1.8 billion.
Altheimer joined “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio to detail his concerns over the legitimacy of the new ordinance, how it may be a potential waste of taxpayer dollars, and why he has a personal passion for diving into the statistics.
“I’m a taxpayer, and we’re taxpayers, whenever taxpayers are being given information about what happens with their tax dollars, and then you end up creating a whole new ordinance where you’re spending way more money than what was so-called spent,” Altheimer said…