The Seattle City Council’s Human Services, Labor, and Economic Development Committee chaired by Alexis Mercedes Rinck is slated Friday morning to begin shaping a resolution on the city’s next steps after a forensic audit revealed major financial problems around the King County Regional Homelessness Authority.
The audit revealed the regional authority has a $44.7 million spending hole with millions unaccounted for.
The audit commissioned by city and county officials last summer as concerns rose around the authority’s finances showed the organization bleeding funds with a negative cash position of $44.7 million.
The council resolution is hoped to set a June schedule for Mayor Katie Wilson’s office to provide Rinck and the committee an initial assessment of the corrective action plan submitted by the KCRHA.
The resolution could also set a firm summer deadline: “No later than August 1, 2026, the Mayor or designee makes a recommendation to the Chair of the HSLED Committee on whether the City should terminate its participation in the Amended ILA and dissolve KCRHA, restructure KCRHA, or continue it as is,” a summary of the proposal reads.
Under the proposed resolution, if dissolution or restructure is recommended, the mayor would be called on to provide a plan no later than August 1st including plans for the possible re-bidding of homeless service contract, according to a presentation (PDF) on the proposed resolution.
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