Seattle planned safe injection site needs another $2.5M in funding"Plans for safe injection site in Seattle may be moving forward, but as of now, the city is in need of more money to fund the project.
...The City of Seattle has already put $1.4 million in to cover “one-time costs associated with establishing a CHEL,” according to Johnson’s memo.
King County also pitched in $500,000 to cover the cost of the Mental Illness and Drug Dependency tax that allows the purchase of the vehicle Seattle plans on using for its site.
That money still doesn’t cover an estimated $2.5 million annual operating cost for a CHEL, that currently has yet to be allocated by either the City of Seattle or King County..."
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