PORT ANGELES — The bare outlines of a mental health crisis center for the North Olympic Peninsula began taking shape Monday afternoon in the Clallam County courthouse basement.
Peter Casey, executive director of Peninsula Community Mental Health Center, presented a preliminary report on how the county might spend revenues from a one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax on such a facility in Port Angeles.
The sales tax was approved in 2006 by county commissioners without a vote of the people and is controlled by the board.
It is designated for those with mental health-chemical dependency problems of crisis proportions
Casey’s audience Monday was the Clallam County Chemical Dependency/Mental Health Program Advisory Board, chaired by Clallam County Commissioner Steve Tharinger, D-Dungeness.
Casey, an advisory board member, also heads a board subcommittee.
