Pierce County Councilmember Derek Young joins Evelyn Lopez to talk about the County’s $158 million plan to fight COVID 19, stabilize the economy, and support our community. It’s a lot of money, and it won’t have the oversight of most county spending. The Council will get weekly reports, but transparency and accountability will be up to the County Executive.
Everyone knows that this public health emergency is crippling our economy, and that our state (county and city) will be especially hard hit because we fund a significant amount of our government through sales and business taxes, Getting people back to work is the path toward recovery, but we won’t be able to recover at all if more and more people become infected. So, figuring out how to reopen and restart our community is a delicate balancing act. Derek shares his thoughts on the process.
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