This week, I was honored to visit Project Be Free, a growing organization that provides services and supports to people in domestic violence situations. Their innovative model includes dispatching licensed mental health providers to accompany law enforcement on domestic violence calls and connecting those in need with carefully-selected partnering organizations.
These are the kinds of services we need to sustain and expand if we want to support the healing of everyone in these situations. I look forward to future partnerships with Project Be Free and other organizations that are taking innovative approaches to addressing domestic violence in our community.
Next week, the King County Transportation District, which I chair, will hold our second meeting to get briefed on a proposal to invest in our ailing county road system. King County is responsible for a system that supports more than one million trips per day on roughly 1,500 miles of roads and 188 bridges in unincorporated King County but our budget to maintain and improve them is woefully under-resourced to fulfill our responsibility. Under current estimates, funding will be exhausted by 2028 and Roads may be forced to eliminate its capital program altogether.
Last month, we held a public meeting to explore the possibility of a new sales tax to procure additional resources to maintain safer roads, where we heard details about why this is needed and robust public input about if and how to implement new investments.
And on Thursday, March 19, at 9:00 AM we will hold a hybrid meeting to discuss the proposal of a 0.1% sales tax for our roads. If you wish to provide input or hear the conversation, you can join the meeting in person at the King County Council Chambers, or virtually on the Zoom application with the webinar ID 824 2548 1663, call 1-253-215-8782 and enter the webinar ID 824 2548 1663, or tune in to King County TV online or on channel 22. You can also submit testimony by email. Please write “Transportation District Public Testimony” in the subject line, include your full name in the message, and send to TransportationDistrict@kingcounty.gov.
Child care can cost almost as much as college tuition, putting families into impossible decisions and forcing many women out of the workforce. We may be able to help! If you are a King County parent with a child 12 or younger, check out the Best Starts Child Care Subsidy.
You can fill out a quick eligibility form to see if you qualify. If you do, you’ll be invited to complete the full application. Please visit the Best Starts for Kids Child Care Subsidy Family Portal and share with others who may be eligible!
Questions? Contact support@bskchildcare.org or 206-208-6865
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