CLEAN v. City of Spokane

(concurring) — Reluctantly I concur with the majority. My greatest reluctance is with issue seven (Majority at 468-70) regarding unconstitutional gifts of public funds and issues eight and nine (Majority at 470-73) which grant this court’s imprimatur to the preposterous notion that a new parking garage for Nordstrom’s is "necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety. . . .” Spokane County Charter art. Ill, § 19(a)(1); compare Const, art. II, § 1(b) (amend. 72). But this result is compelled by the majority decision in CLEAN v. State, 130 Wn.2d 782, 928 P.2d…