Last fall, Spokane community leaders created the Safe and Healthy Task Force. Its goal is to improve Spokane’s response to its public safety and public health-related problems.
The group was announced at the end of September. Since then, subcommittees have convened to research issues and offer recommendations to local elected officials by the end of May. Though meetings of the task force and its subcommittees are available for viewing, most of its work has mostly been done out of the public eye. Today, we invite two of its members to tell us more about their discussions.
We’re joined by Dr. Melissa Mace, the executive director of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, and Chud Wendle, executive director of the Hutton Settlement Children’s Home. Mace is a member of the Custody Strategies and Courts subcommittee. Wendle is a member of the Facilities, Infrastructure and System Coordination subcommittee…