CIVICS | A holiday means a light week for CIVICS, but RANGE still has big news for you.
Remember a little over a year ago when we announced we had graduated from Substack to an actual news website?! Well, we’ve outgrown that system now, too. We’re excited to announce that starting Monday, RANGE is going to have a more robust website that will allow us to really spread our wings! We still don't (and never will) have a paywall and you’ll still get the same killer journalism in your inboxes and at rangemedia.co.
In order to make the switch to our new site, we’re bringing you CIVICS a day early (it also helps that the holiday week means fewer meetings to cover). We have to go dark during the transition, but it should only take one business day, so by Tuesday morning our long national nightmare of no RANGE should be over and — unless you’re obsessively checking for new RANGE content on a holiday weekend — you shouldn’t miss a beat.
If you have any issues accessing your RANGE member account after Tuesday, please email valerie@rangemedia.co.
We’re stoked to take this next step of our journey and so thankful for our readers and members who have supported us along the way.
Spokane Board of County Commissioners
Working Session
The morning meeting of the Spokane Board of County Commissioners is often where the commissioners get briefed on what they’ll be voting on later in the day. These agendas don’t have additional information or context in them, so we can only point out items that look interesting and might be worth tuning into:
- At 9 a.m. Spokane Valley Assistant Police Chief Kevin Richey is set to give a briefing on an MOU between the Sheriff Department and Whitworth University about access to surveillance cameras.
- At about 9:40 a.m., the Senior Director of Law and Justice for the county, Mike Sparber, will give updates on the Law and Justice Center, a new $305 million jail complex. The county commissioners in December voted to put a sales tax measure on the November ballot to pay for the new jail. Read about the plans from the Spokesman’s Quinn Welsch here.
Agenda here
Tuesday, May 30 at 9 a.m.
ARP money changes
At their regular meeting, county commissioners are set to approve a slew of changes to how they allocated American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money throughout the county. There are seven resolutions detailing the changes totaling about $17 million, which include reallocating funds for projects where funding was found elsewhere, reallocating funds to higher priority projects and reallocating funds to different projects when not enough applications were submitted for specific expenditure categories.
A summary of all the changes can be found in the last resolution and the county’s public policy advisor Jeff McMorris will also be giving a briefing on the county’s ARP obligations in the working session at 9 a.m.
Agenda here
Tuesday, May 30 at 2 p.m.
Public Works Building
1116 W Broadway, Spokane, WA
Commissioner’s Conference Room, First Floor
Spokane Human Rights Commission
Agenda here, eventually
Thursday, June 1 at 5:30 p.m.
Council Briefing Center in the Lower Level of City Hall.
808 W Spokane Falls Blvd, Spokane, WA 99201
