Pierce County

Pierce County’s annual Art Grant program works to enrich the community by supporting arts education and programming for lower-income youth and underserved individuals. This is a great funding opportunity for nonprofits art organizations serving greater Pierce County. The application period opens December 2. For eligibility details, resources and to apply, visit: https://lnkd.in/gRsBR-gg.

We need your input! 📝 The Consolidated Plan - Needs Assessment Survey is designed to help Pierce County understand its housing, homeless, and community development needs. Your help today will ensure the County allocates its resources in the most effective manner to address those needs. Take the brief survey by visiting https://bit.ly/4fSFImh.

Pierce County Superior Court announces Lise Schumacher and Alex Kirigin have been hired to become our newest Commissioners starting in Jan. 2025. Commissioners Schumacher and Kirigin are filling vacancies after Philip Thornton and Ingrid McLeod were elected to the Superior Court bench. Their official swearing-in will occur on Jan. 6, 2025. 🔗 More information: bit.ly/3AUwpUa.

Congratulations to Pierce County Superior Court Judge Timothy L. Ashcraft who is the recipient of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) Washington Chapter’s 2024 Trial Judge of the Year award. 🎉 ABOTA is an invitation-only national organization of the finest trial lawyers and judges in the country. With over 7,300 members, ABOTA is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the civil jury trial, judicial independence, and civility in the legal profession. The Trial Judge of the Year award recognizes judges across Washington state who excel as jurists while promoting professionalism and civility.

This week, we were thrilled to break ground on Tacoma Rescue Mission's Good Neighbor Village in Spanaway, which will provide 285 units of permanent housing and care to Pierce County’s chronically homeless neighbors. The Good Neighbor Village will restore dignity, purpose, and stability to struggling individuals in a safe, supportive, and healing community. Additional services will be provided to residents, including health and dental care, mental health counseling, and addiction treatment. Thanks to many community partners for making this happen, including the City of Lakewood, Washington. This is a proven solution for bringing individuals out of homelessness and is modeled after the Community First! Village in Austin, Texas. We encourage you to learn more about this project by visiting PierceCountyWA.gov/Village.

Did you know there's a 200-acre mountain bike park on the Bonney Lake plateau? 🚲 The Trek at Tehaleh faced numerous legal, regulatory and organizational hurdles, but Pierce County Parks partnered with Brookfield Properties, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance and many others to create this mountain bike park for enthusiasts and beginners to get outdoors. Learn more about the project in this video! 📽️

Our Human Services department is requesting applications for eligible public facilities projects that benefit low-income communities, such as: 💧 Water and sewer line improvements 🚗 Street improvements 🏢 Property acquisition 🌻 Neighborhood facilities Applications are due no later than 2 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. 📆 Learn more about this funding opportunity by visiting https://bit.ly/3ZdAJXR.

Housing Hilltop from Tacoma Housing Authority offers 231 units of affordable housing in the heart of Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood, providing a space for people and the community to thrive. 👏 They lease modern apartments for people at or below 60% Area Median Income (AMI) and prioritize households who have been displaced or at risk of displacement to keep the Hilltop community whole. Pierce County Human Services is proud to have invested over a million dollars to bring this project to fruition. The apartments are leasing now! Visit www.HousingHilltop.com to learn more.

The Pierce County Community Development Corporation is awarding $750,000 to a resident-owned cooperative for the purchase of Olga Dor Court, a Mobile Home Community (MHC) for seniors aged 55 years or older in Parkland. Olga Dor Court residents were notified earlier this year that the property owner intended to sell the community, which is a five-acre, 100%-occupied MHC consisting of 48 manufactured housing pads and a single-family residence. With the assistance of the ROC Northwest program at the Northwest Cooperative Development Center, a nonprofit specializing in cooperative development, they formed a resident-owned cooperative to purchase the property to continue its use as affordable housing. Learn more about what Pierce County is doing in the affordable housing space by visiting www.PierceCountyWA.gov/AH.

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