Whatcom County’s Housing Advisory Committee next meeting is next week on Thursday, February 13, 2025. What the HAC is doing right now is significant for two reasons, among others. First, they are the only County government appointed advisory group providing ongoing direct focus on homeless sheltering services through their shelter subcommittee. Second, the HAC is in the beginning stages of planning and gathering public input to create a 5 year Homeless Housing Plan .
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January 10, 2024 Dena Jensen
Here’s a little update on part of the January 8, 2023 Bellingham City Council Committee of the Whole meeting related to a couple community areas of interest.
Old and New Business (for which topics are not shown on the agenda ahead of time) took up most of the hour-long meeting. This was where the first 3 items on the Consent Agenda for the evening were pulled out for further discussion by Council Member Stone, including the one about a contract for a Bellingham Police Departement Drug and Crime Prevention Officer that is housed within the Bellingham Housing Authority.
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July 26, 2023 Dena Jensen
Last month a number of local political organizations were engaging with candidates running for office in the November 2023 election who were seeking those groups’ endorsements. On June 10, I attended the meeting of the 42nd Legislative District Democrats to hear the statements of those candidates who were present.
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May 4, 2023 Dena Jensen
The quote on this post was part of a brief comment given by our current Whatcom County Executive near the end of a March 15, 2023 discussion about adopting public comment guidelines for the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force (IPRTF) a couple of months ago.
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November 6, 2021 Dena Jensen
On October 20, I sent an email to Mayor Fleetwood, Bellingham City Council, the Whatcom County Executive, Whatcom County Council, and Bellingham Police Chief Flo Simon, providing links to the completed segments of the review I had written, “Whatcom Barriers to Equity, a review for 2021 candidates.”
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September 1, 2021 Dena Jensen
9/1/21: This project is a work in progress, will be updated daily until transcription of public comments is complete, and will include transcriptions of public comments from Bellingham City Council meetings before the Council started restricting their public comment periods to 15 minutes on March 22, 2021. The public comments transcribed will be for regular City Council meetings earlier this year, from January 11, 2021 through March 8, 2021.
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Click the graphic to access Sandy Robson’s post “Obstructive behavior from Senator Doug Ericksen’s office.”
September 3, 2018 Dena Jensen
Day #9 of Doug’s Got to Go, marks one very frustrating aspect of having Republican Senator Doug Ericksen as a representative: for progressive constituents, his staff throws up serious road blocks to finding out anything you might need to know, and thus to having, with their help, even the most minuscule chance of experiencing representation or counteracting the lack of it. Continue reading
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