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Alishia Topper

WA · Clark County Treasurer

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Alishia Topper is the Clark County Treasurer, elected in 2018 and reelected in 2022. She previously served on the Vancouver City Council and the Washington State Housing Finance Commission and holds public-funds investment and government-finance certifications.

Where Alishia Topper stands, based on their records

Supports

Government Efficiency (2 records), Government Spending Reduction (1 record), Housing Affordability (8 records)

Track record

Track record — Government Efficiency

Government Efficiency · 2 support

  • Earned a Washington Public Treasurers Association Certificate of Excellence for the Clark County Investment Policy governing the county's roughly $1.1 billion investment portfolio, after a statewide review panel judged the policy against 23 criteria categories.

    August 13, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

  • Opened a pilot drive-through property tax payment kiosk at the Public Service Center parking structure for the April 30, 2019 first-half payment deadline, adding a payment option after customer feedback about parking.

    April 23, 2019Supports Government Efficiency

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

Track record — Government Spending Reduction

Government Spending Reduction · 1 support

  • Closed a refinancing of three Clark County Limited Tax General Obligation refunding bonds and executed two additional early payoffs, producing aggregate net present value savings of $857,586 and preserving state sales tax credit revenues for another 15 years.

    July 14, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

Track record — Housing Affordability

Housing Affordability · 8 support

  • Concluded an eight-year appointment to the Washington State Housing Finance Commission, during which she chaired the Commission's Audit Committee and partnered Clark County with the Commission to create a $2 million down payment assistance program that matched up to $15,000 per loan for first-time homebuyers.

    October 23, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

  • Requested and secured Clark County Council approval of an interlocal agreement with the Washington State Housing Finance Commission that established and administered the county's first homebuyer down payment assistance program, with the Commission contributing $666,666 toward the $2 million county investment.

    March 8, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

  • Announced implementation of the House Bill 2512 interest-and-penalty waiver that she and fellow Washington county treasurers championed during the 2020 legislative session, and directed outreach to the roughly 500 Clark County mobile and manufactured home owners who qualified for relief from distraint.

    June 9, 2020Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

  • Extended the Clark County first-half property tax payment deadline from April 30 to June 3, 2020 for individual residential and commercial taxpayers, waiving interest and penalty charges for those who paid by the extended date.

    April 10, 2020Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

  • Ceased all delinquent property tax collection activity and opened penalty-free monthly payment plans for business personal property taxes at the start of the COVID-19 closure orders, directing staff to contact distressed Clark County business owners.

    March 17, 2020Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

  • Testified in support of House Bill 2512 before the Washington House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee as Clark County Treasurer; the bill delayed distraint of mobile and manufactured homes and waived interest and penalties for qualifying low-income owners, and passed the House 96-0 and the Senate 48-0.

    January 31, 2020Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

  • Criticized Vancouver's unlawful-camping ordinance at a City Council workshop as a councilmember, objecting that the city continued to displace homeless residents and that misdemeanor charges added burdens on people already financially vulnerable.

    August 29, 2017Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: opb.org · researched July 24, 2026

  • Argued in support of the proposed $42 million Vancouver affordable housing property tax fund at a City Council session, telling colleagues the fund addressed housing needs the private market did not meet.

    May 3, 2016Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: opb.org · researched July 24, 2026

Track record — General

General · 2 records

  • Elected president of the Washington State Association of County Treasurers for the 2021-22 term at the association's mid-summer legislative conference business meeting in Ellensburg.

    August 2, 2021

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

  • Reinstated disbursements from the Lura M. Crass Estate charitable trust as its new trustee after the fund's contributions had been halted, and selected Bridge the Gap as the recipient of the trust's interest earnings.

    July 23, 2019

    Source: clark.wa.gov · researched July 24, 2026

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Profile last researched July 23, 2026.