Council votes to operate local homeless housing program

SPOKANE VALLEY — The City Council unanimously approved a motion to pass Resolution No. 23-009 declaring their intention to operate a local homeless housing program at their regular meeting on July 25.

The motion also included authorization to allow the City Manager to take such action necessary to begin operation of such homeless housing program, and hiring a new accountant.

If the city assumed control over local recording fee funds, it would receive a share of the budgeted funds from the state.

From 2019-22, the recording fee funds the City would have received ranged from $658,000 to $1,060,0...