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Key takeaways:
- Snohomish County Council passes ordinance that prohibits housing funding from prioritizing Housing First projects and deprioritizing Treatment First projects
- Council will rework an ordinance that would have created a dedicated fund for behavioral health facilities
- Council passed an ordinance that would make it a gross misdemeanor to permit a child or dependent person to have contact with a controlled substance
After three-and-a-half hours, the Snohomish County Council during a Wednesday public hearing passed in a 3-2 vote an ordinance that would create a new section on the county code regarding housing funding.
Ordinance 26-019 would prohibit housing funding from requiring, incentivizing or prioritizing subrecipients or contractors that offer temporary or permanent housing that have little to no entry or participation requirements.
The ordinance would also forbid housing funding from prohibiting, discouraging or giving lower priority to those that offer housing with requirements for sobriety, treatment, counseling or illicit drug testing…