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OMC Already Got the Big Tax Increase. Now It Wants the Next One.
In 2024, Clallam County commissioners formally urged voters to pass Olympic Medical Center’s levy lid lift. Voters did. Property-tax collections for Hospital District 2 doubled. A newly released consultant report — and OMC’s own board discussion about taking another 1 percent hike — show why more tax money was never going to fix empty clinic slots, unused buildings, and years of losses.
Two years ago, the Clallam County commissioners took sides.
On July 16, 2024, they passed a resolution supporting OMC’s levy lid lift — the ballot measure that asked voters to raise the hospital’s property…
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