With a brand new county government taking the reins of King County authorities after 16 years of the identical management, it’s to the county’s benefit to have an skilled and oftentimes dissenting voice on the County Council. Council member Reagan Dunn could be that wanted voice for the ninth District.
Dunn, who lives in Bellevue, has been a member of the council for 20 years. Throughout that point, he has served as chair of the Transportation Committee and the Regional Transit Committee. As the present vice chair of the council, he repeatedly known as for an audit of the Division of Neighborhood and Human Providers after he had obtained inquiries about how grants had been awarded and potential improprieties. The audit, which was launched this summer season, revealed a number of cases of questionable practices at the price of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer {dollars}.
“I don’t suppose you must simply ring the alarm bell, ‘Hey, King County’s doing one thing horrible look, look, look.’ It’s, ring the alarm bell, this isn’t good, let’s do an audit after which suggest an answer,” he advised the editorial board.
Dunn’s answer was to suggest an ordinance that may require DCHS to carry out a threat evaluation of its contract businesses not less than yearly and to go to every company not less than as soon as each three years.
Ought to he be reelected, Dunn stated he’ll push to have King County workers return to in-office work not less than three days per week.
“One of many causes we now have poor oversight is that folks aren’t there, they’re not collaborating, they’re not sharing information. It’s not working and it’s not wholesome,” Dunn stated.
Dunn was the lone “no” vote this summer season on a 0.1% gross sales tax enhance that was designed so as to add extra funding for felony justice, together with for extra sheriff’s deputies and public defenders.
“There was a gross sales tax handed with none form of a spending plan for our felony justice system. I wish to make certain it’s narrowly targeted to stabilize our felony justice companies,” Dunn advised The Occasions editorial board.
Dunn stated if he returns to workplace, he needs to observe the effectiveness of the 5 behavioral well being facilities the county shall be opening within the subsequent few years “to verify they’re lowering psychological sickness and lowering incidents of drug overdose.”
Dunn’s opponent, Jude Anthony, seems enthusiastic about enhancing the lives of King County residents and supplied considerate concepts on homelessness. However his scant political expertise is not any match for Dunn’s.
For his daring management and stewardship of tax {dollars}, residents of King County’s ninth District deserve Dunn as their council member.
