Burien 2025 State Legislative Agenda

The City of Burien is a vibrant and creative community, where the residents embrace diversity, celebrate arts and culture, promote vitality, and treasure the environment. Healthy and Thriving Communities • Dedicate current funding to address needs across the housing continuum. • Advocate for additional assistance for arriving migrants and asylum seekers including centralize state efforts to provide case management resources. • Support efforts to reduce impacts on cities that are experiencing high numbers of unsupported asylee and migrant arrivals. • Support efforts to increase affordable childcare access statewide, including reducing barriers for providers; construction of new facilities, increasing workforce development, and increasing access for state subsidized childcare slots. Quality of Life and Economic Development • Revise the property tax cap to tie it to inflation, up to 3%, so that local elected officials can adjust the local property tax rate to better serve their communities. • Advocate for direct investments in traditional local infrastructure (such as drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems) for operations and maintenance of aging systems, including expanded and reliable funding for the Public Works Assistance Account. • Enhance officer training through continued state funding of 100% of Basic Law Enforcement Academy (BLEA) costs. • Support gang prevention and intervention policies. • Support efforts to get Washington World Cup ready by making critical readiness investments in venues, small businesses, and security. Behavioral Health • Support efforts to increase behavioral health workforce, including additional training opportunities for co-responders. • Expand funding for grants to establish and support ongoing…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]