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Housing group occupies Fife motel Tacoma housing group occupies motel A motel in Fife is housing dozens of people experiencing homelessness. A housing group is fighting to keep them there. FIFE, Wash. - More than 40 homeless people are staying at the Travelodge in Fife as advocates call on Pierce County to pick up the cost of housing them there during the cold winter months. The group moved in on Christmas Eve. Tacoma Homeless Now, the advocacy group behind the occupation, paid for that night...

Josephine Peterson: Pierce council to consider tax increase to fund behavioral health services, revamp Medicaid News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 12/22/2020 Josephine Peterson, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) Dec. 22—A Pierce County Council vote Tuesday to increase taxes could bring funding to behavioral health services and change the entire local Medicaid system. Vice Chair Dave Morell (R-Lake Tapps) has co-sponsored a bill with Democratic council members Connie Ladenburg of Tac...

Proposal to disband Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department fails after stunning split vote Pierce Co Counsel does not pass ordinance to disband health department PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. - Tuesday nights Pierce County Council meeting came to a shocking conclusion after a tense and emotional seven hours primarily discussing the councils move to disband the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.  The ordinance did not pass after a split 3-3 vote. The councilmember who tipped that way was none other...

UpdatedWed, Dec 16, 2020 at 6:43 am PT Reply Both the health department and the City of Tacoma have issued statements opposing the dissolution. (Shutterstock) PIERCE COUNTY, WA — The battle over the future of the Tacoma - Pierce County Health Department has ended with the department intact after a surprise turn of events late Tuesday evening. Over the past few weeks, the Pierce County Council has been mulling over a proposal to sever the countys agreement with the City of Tacoma and dissolv...

Submitted by Pam Roach. I first signed on to 2020-136 (Making the Pierce County Council the county board of health), because the measure would provide “one-man-one-vote” representation to the people of Pierce County in matters of their healthcare. In signing onto 2020-136 as a sponsor, I had wanted to follow the one-man-one-vote spirit and legal decision of  Cunningham v Metro (1991) in King County.  There are higher orders of constitutional government, however. I believe the need for an...

Gov. Inslee puts brakes on breakup of Tacoma-Pierce County Public Health Department The Pierce County Council has proposed dissolving the 50-year-old agreement to manage the health department with local cities. Author: Perrise Thomas (KING 5) Published: 11:49 PM PST December 14, 2020 Updated: 5:07 AM PST December 15, 2020 TACOMA, Wash. — The future of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has been uncertain for weeks since the Pierce County...

Debate rages over proposal to dissolve Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department partnership (Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Facebook) With a proposal to dissolve the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s city-county partnership making progress toward passing, a hotly-contested debate has emerged among local leaders. The legislation would effectively terminate the 38-year-old interlocal agreement Tacoma has with the county health department, a move that would cut off $1.1 million in ...