The Washington Department of Veterans Affairs is partnering with the Spokane Parks Department to share infrastructure costs for a new veteran home replacement project located next to a sports complex. Because the Parks Department is already updating the sports complex and surrounding parks using recently passed levy funds, the two agencies plan to collaborate on shared water, sewer, and power upgrades. Additionally, state and federal park passes were briefly highlighted as existing recreational benefits available to Washington veterans.
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Clark County Veterans Advisory Board · May 14, 2026 · 19:28–19:37 · Watch on CVTV ↗
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18:27 We still have to come up with a 35% matching fund. So that will be the next future asks that I will be submitting to the legislature in the next cycle to ensure that we continue moving forward with this. Currently because of the money that we received, the 10.9, we're gonna currently continue to work on offsite improvements so the things that we have to do is the pre-design work for that structure. Right now, we've got a really good collaborative partnership with the city of Spokane, the school district, especially the Parks Department because they are currently working on updating the sports complex there. They've passed a levy at Together Spokane recently. As a result of that, they're going to be making some infrastructure upgrades. We are gonna partner with them. We should be invited to a couple meetings starting at the end of May, early June as we work on this. So what we're trying to do is we recognize that as a state, when it comes to replacing this home, we're gonna have to do a lot of infrastructure work,
19:24 water, sewer, gas, power, internet, all of these things. Currently, the city of Spokane and the Parks Department are going to be doing that as well when it comes to updating their parks. So what we wanna do is make sure that we're working smartly and if there's things that we can share some of the costs, we'd like to do that and they are working very well with us and they're inviting us to the table so that we're gonna be having some really good conversations about trying to figure out how best we can share the cost for some of the infrastructure work that's going to be needed. The other thing that I wanted to share about is our existing structure, the current Spokane veteran home. Some of the ideas that we're contemplating right now are turning that into a transitional housing program. We do not have transitional housing over on the east side of the state. We do have transitional housing on the west side and I'll talk a little bit about that. Another potential idea that the VA's encouraging us to consider is adult day healthcare. What that means is that we would be providing healthcare
20:24 and services for veterans and residents that can come in. We would either pick them up or a family member could drop them off or we would, again, charter with vans, go by the residents, pick them up,
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