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Over the last week, Snohomish County has been celebrating the impact of our federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) enabled investments in the community! We’ve seen significant milestones on projects related to small businesses, connecting youth with jobs, addressing broadband access, and more!
Executive Director Lacey Harper recently attended the most recent graduation ceremony for the Snohomish County Business Basics Course, which is part of our Small Business Innovation Assistance program. We are proud to fund this important program which helps our economy and creates connections between neighborhoods and people!
Later that week, we paid a visit to Advanced Manufacturing Week at Everett Community College. This ARPA-funded program helped an estimated 600 high school students – including a significant majority from more rural areas – learn more about local high-wage, high-demand careers in various advanced manufacturing fields, including welding, precision machining, composites, engineer tech design, and mechatronics.
 We were also excited to join Representative Rick Larsen and our partners at Sno-Isle Libraries to discuss the County’s $1.5 million ARPA investment to increase the Sno-Isle Libraries loanable computer with hot spots program by 800 devices and 500 hotspots. Learn more and check out a laptop and/or hotspot: https://www.sno-isle.org/computers-printing/#to-go
 Finally, we attended the ribbon-cutting for the new PAWS Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Snohomish! The County contributed $1 million to this facility, which will help address the need for wild animal care, which has increased significantly in recent years.
Snohomish County hosted an Earth Week Recycling Event at the Evergreen State Fair Park on Saturday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. More than 270 cars lined up to drop off items to be recycled or disposed properly! Thank you to all those who helped make this great event possible.
Snohomish County is accepting applications for an estimated $3 million in behavioral health facilities development projects that improve, preserve, or create behavioral health capacity, with a focus on new capacity. This is the first funding opportunity to come from the County’s Housing & Behavioral Health Capital Fund, which will preserve and construct emergency housing, permanent supportive housing, and affordable housing, alongside investments in behavioral health facilities.
 “Across our community, there is consistent agreement around the need to expand affordable, high-quality behavioral health capacity serving all parts of the county. To address that need, Snohomish County continues to advance holistic, comprehensive efforts to address issues related to behavioral health and substance use,” said Executive Somers. “These new local funds will help us take a step forward in increasing behavioral health capacity, and I encourage eligible organizations to apply.”
Details of eligibility, workshop dates and times, and other program requirements are available in the applications materials.
The Snohomish County Health Department wants to learn more about how safe it is for kids to walk or bike to school in our county. Please take 5-10 minutes to fill out this online survey. The info helps the County and our partners create solutions so more kids walk or bike to school.
Take the survey: https://forms.office.com/g/DGZ9qC31NF
Snohomish County Public Works is being recognized nationally for an innovative project that changes the way the County handles wetland mitigation and saves millions of dollars in future taxpayer funds. The creation of Little Bear Creek Advance Mitigation Site (LBCAMS) has been named a national 2024 Public Works Project of the Year from the American Public Works Association in the Environmental under $5 million category.
“Our Snohomish County Public Works team is full of creative, dedicated professionals who work hard every day to ensure we have safe, maintained, and well-designed roads, waste disposal, and recycling,” said Executive Somers. “This is an incredibly well-deserved honor and I’m grateful to everyone who had a hand in bringing the mitigation site to life.”
Learn more: https://www.snohomishcountywa.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2839
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