, which will add 23 new positions and provide services citywide every day. City leaders also committed $14.5 million to fund new health initiatives to address the fentanyl crisis and expand treatment options.
“We feel like the city is listening a little more than in the past. It’s been a little more collaboration to make sure we can all be heard,” said Samuel Hilbert, the owner of Aluel Cellars, which has a location in Capitol Hill. "I love this neighborhood. I don’t want to give up on this neighborhood.”“Things have gotten much more extreme,” Hilbert told KOMO News. “It’s happening very openly. Even in the last few weeks groups of five have expanded to groups of 20 doing drugs.
“It’s basically a room full of people who love Capitol Hill,” said Thomas Goldstein, who advocates for Capitol Hill businesses. “The problems we have are big, but when we work together it feels like we have a chance of addressing it.”“I think for a while we watched things happen on Capitol Hill that went over the line,” Goldstein said.