Council Legislation

Ordinance No. O2024-543s3

Title: An Ordinance of the Pierce County Council Amending Ordinance No. 2023-44s2, the Biennial Budget of Pierce County for Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025.

Status: Vetoed

Sponsors: Councilmembers Ryan Mello

Final votes

August 27, 2024
Nay Nay Nay Aye Aye Aye Aye
September 10, 2024
Nay Nay Nay Aye Aye Aye Aye


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Public Comments

Name Date Comment
John Leslie 8/26/24 12:01 PM This proposal is rife with "housing first" spending. Most notably 2.5 million for the proposed tent encampments the Executive just vetoed. Please vote no on this resolution. Rewrite and revise the expenditures on this cruel approach to drug addiction.
April Smith 8/27/24 1:05 PM Please pass this budget as is proposed. We need this money for homeless housing in Peirce County areas other than Tacoma. Tacoma has shouldered the brunt of it and is out of space. We need the rest of the county to step up and help. I had a city sanctioned tent encampment in my neighborhood which I was not excited about in the beginning, however they were wonderful neighbors and I wish the city had the funding and the property to bring them back. They were wonderful neighbors, helped clean the neighborhood and keep the kind of homeless who cause issues away. Now that they are gone the neighborhood has gone downhill. Please pass this budget and help the homeless. It could be your grandchild someday. Thank you.
Andrea Haug 8/27/24 2:18 PM Greetings Pierce County Council! I am writing to you today in support of Ordinance No. 2023-44s2, the Biennial Budget of Pierce County for Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025. I currently chair the South End Neighborhood Council. We are in a crisis right now with housing, homelessness, drug addiction and mental health. The slow wheels of partisanship and bureaucracy cannot cloud the judgement of ones who are in charge and elected to be in charge of our greater good. The South End is at peak capacity and has watched our vulnerable populations grow and grow. Especially as of recent. The Lakewood camping ban only pushed more people out way and with Tacoma providing a majority of the services we are carrying a majority of the weight. Our humble little outreach committee cannot sustain this.We need proactive systems in place to mitigate this crisis and we need to orchestrate this while fixing the systems that caused us to be here. This will take everyone’s cooperation to make happen.
Steven Peluso 8/27/24 9:09 PM There are too many tents, trailers and people living in cars in easements. Its disgusting to see we keep finding ways to fund keeping them there because it lets someone feel like they are doing good for the homeless when in reality we are keeping them trapped in filthy conditions. This is appaling to see approval for more of the same.