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A city official read a proclamation noting that Alzheimer’s is a brain disease and the most common cause of dementia, listing common warning signs and the absence of a cure while noting available treatments. The proclamation cited statewide prevalence estimates presented in the reading and designated June 2025 for awareness activities on behalf of the mayor.

An Alzheimer’s Association representative urged residents to “wear your purple this month” and encouraged attendance at the North Central Walk to End Alzheimer’s, to be held at Meadowbrook Mall on Oct. 5, 2025, with registration and a 2 p.m. opening ceremony. The representative also provided updated prevalence remarks and thanked the council for the proclamation.

The proclamation was ceremonial; no municipal policy change, appropriation or program was announced in connection with the proclamation.

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Dean said the DAR appreciates city staff’s long-running installation of an American-flag flower display and the provision of trash receptacles and repairs to rotting boards at the site. She described the cemetery as the burial place of founder Daniel Davidson and other early residents and urged continued municipal support to keep the site accessible and well maintained.

No formal request for new funding or action was made at the podium; the comment was entered as public comment during the meeting’s communications and public-hearing segment.

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Council members asked staff to clarify recent changes shown in the revision packet, including a roughly $135,000 increase tied to the 2% utility tax on natural gas, a $15,000 decrease in cell-phone franchise receipts and a $100,000 drop in cable-TV franchise fees. A council member suggested the cable-fee estimate should be lowered in the next revision given the ongoing shortfall.

Discussion also focused on the fire department: a member asked whether the recent fee increase for fire protection — approved in December and effective Jan. 1, 2025 — had raised collections; staff said revenue reporting has shifted to quarterly, producing timing differences. Council members additionally raised a calculation concern: one line showed an apparent $1 million reduction in the fire department’s “salary and wages” number, while Social Security/Medicare tax lines rose; staff said they would verify those figures and the methodology for overtime accounting.

Other items discussed in the manager’s and department reports included 81 building permits issued with a total job cost of about $2.5 million, $600,000 in business and occupation (B&O) tax receipts and just over $21,000 in hotel-tax receipts for the reporting period, and a fire-department response total of 265 calls in May and more than 2,000 police calls for service that month. Council also approved the first reading of an ordinance establishing salaries and compensation for municipal officers and employees for fiscal 2025–26; council recorded support for the staff-recommended cost-of-living adjustment.

Councilors asked staff to run follow-up reports on franchise-fee trends, utility-tax receipts and line-item calculations before the next formal budget revision; staff agreed to provide the requested details.

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Saunders summarized the center’s work and recent national reaccreditation and said the program handled more than 500 forensic interviews in the current fiscal year and served thousands of children through prevention, medical and mental-health services. “VOCA is being cut 70% across the board this October,” Saunders said, warning the reduction directly affects staffing: “VOCA pays for four of my staff fully” and the center currently has six employees where Saunders said the workload supports about 10.

The center provides single forensic interviews, court-accompanying advocates, a clothing and hygiene closet, trauma-focused therapy contracts and medical partnerships. Saunders described the center’s multidisciplinary-investigation team — led by prosecutors — that reviews cases until they are sentenced or closed. She said the center uses a nationally accredited Child First protocol for interviews and partners with a children’s advocacy clinic and local SANE services for medical exams.

Saunders outlined demand and outcomes: she said Heroes Haven conducted “over 500 interviews this fiscal year,” that 65% of referrals came from Harrison County and about 20% of those referrals were from Clarksburg, and that 26 newly served children were exposed to drug endangerment (a figure she contrasted with a 13% statewide rate). Saunders also said the center has achieved higher prosecution and conviction outcomes than statewide averages, and is working to expand on-site therapy capacity; she said there is currently about a month wait for trauma-focused services except in emergency cases.

Council members asked about the center’s biggest challenges. Saunders reiterated staffing, therapy capacity and staff vicarious trauma as primary concerns, noting turnover pressures and the need for additional trauma-focused clinicians and respite for staff.

Council members thanked Saunders and the center for its work and urged continued local support as federal funding uncertainties continue.

Saunders did not request a specific city appropriation during the presentation; no formal vote or budget directive was made at the council meeting.

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