With a brand new county govt 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 can 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 referred to as for an audit of the Division of Group and Human Companies after he had acquired inquiries about how grants had been awarded and potential improprieties. The audit, which was launched this summer time, revealed a number of situations of questionable practices at the price of thousands and 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 instructed the editorial board.
Dunn’s answer was to suggest an ordinance that will require DCHS to carry out a danger evaluation of its contract companies no less than every year and to go to every company no less than as soon as each three years.
Ought to he be reelected, Dunn stated he’ll push to have King County staff return to in-office work no less than three days per week.
“One of many causes we have now poor oversight is that individuals aren’t there, they’re not collaborating, they’re not sharing knowledge. It’s not working and it’s not wholesome,” Dunn stated.
Dunn was the lone “no” vote this summer time on a 0.1% gross sales tax enhance that was designed so as to add extra funding for legal justice, together with for extra sheriff’s deputies and public defenders.
“There was a gross sales tax handed with none sort of a spending plan for our legal justice system. I need to make certain it’s narrowly targeted to stabilize our legal justice providers,” Dunn instructed The Occasions editorial board.
Dunn stated if he returns to workplace, he desires to observe the effectiveness of the 5 behavioral well being facilities the county will likely 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 keen about bettering the lives of King County residents and supplied considerate concepts on homelessness. However his scant political expertise isn’t 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.
