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Board approves funding and reserve reclassification to add 2 co‑responder positions for Olathe OPTIONS program
Summary
The board authorized the county to reclassify mental-health fund reserves to allow Johnson County to host two positions (a clinician and a case manager) for an Olathe‑led program targeting high‑utilizer residents; the city will reimburse most costs under a COPS grant and commit a third year of funding.
Johnson County commissioners on Sept. 25 approved the addition of one clinician and one case manager — both county positions — to support the Olathe Partnership for Transforming Interorganizational Navigation and Solutions (OPTIONS) program. The county will reclassify mental‑health fund balance reserves: $37,000 from FY2025 and $220,000 from FY2026, to allow the positions to be staffed and paid while the city of Olathe reimburses the county from a 2023 COPS hiring program grant.
Tanner Fortney of the county’s Mental Health Center described the program as focused on ‘‘super…
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