“How can you say you have a healthy community when there are homeless on your streets?” Richard LeMieux, author, Breakfast at Sally’s Kitsap County Proposition 1 ~ Veterans and Human Services Levy 7 Compassion, Collaboration, Common Sense Paid for by KitsapCares POB 102, Bremerton, WA 98337So where did this idea come from? King County Population 1,913,289 2010 Census Veterans 131,873 2005-2009 census estimates* Veterans 7% Kitsap County Population 251,133 2010 Census Veterans 35,616 2005-2009 census estimates* Veterans 14% *2010 Census did not ask residents if they were veterans. King County?! In 2005, King County passed its first Veterans & Human Services Levy with a 58% approvatrating. Last month, King County renewed its Veterans & Human Services Levy with an overwhelming 69% approval rating in the primary. Kitsap County using best practices County human services staff researched the king County process, reviewed their ordinances (resolutions in Kitsap County government] to put their levy on the ballot and enact it once it was approved. County staff took the “best practices” from the King County experience and incorporated them into a levy resolution suit the needs of Kitsap County. Page 3Major Goals \f the Veterans and Human Services Levy is passed, Property taxes would be increased by five cents per $1,000 of assessed value for each six years. Estimated annual proceeds of the Veterans and Human Services would be $1.3 Levy split 50-50 Lewy proceeds would be deposited into two special funds: Fifty percent of the proceeds will be placed in one fund to provide regional health and human services to a wide range of low income people and the remaining fifty percent of levy proceeds will placed in fund designated to provide regional health and human services for veterans, military personnel, and their fa ‘Tax increase estimate per value of Property A $150,000 home would Pay an increase of $7.50 per year ‘A $250,000 home would pay an increase of $12.50 per year ‘4 $350,000 home would pay an increase of $17.56 per year ‘4.$450,000 home would pay an increase of $22.50 per year the three over arching goals: 1, Reducing homelessness 2. Reducing emergency medical and criminal justice involvement; or 3. Increasing self-sufficiency for veterans, military Personnel, their families, and other individuals and families in need. Activities to advance the above goals include a range of regional health and human services to a wide range of low-income people in need of such services, including, but not limited to se veterans, military personal and their families, services for children and youth, the elderly, the unemployed and underemployed and for services specific to veterans’ needs such as treatment for post- traumatic stress disorder and specialized employment assistance, but not limited to: * Capital facilities + Housing assistance * Homelessness prevention + Mental health counseling ‘+ Substance abuse prevention and treatment + Employment assistance * Strengthening and improving health and human services system infrastructure to provide greater access to services ‘+ Better coordination and integration of re and human services nal health