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Taos County moves to enable Rio Grande ATP to reopen regional detox; approves lease submission and $350,000 contract
Summary
Commissioners authorized submission of a lease to the State Board of Finance and approved a $350,000 county contract for Rio Grande ATP to provide detox and related behavioral-health services; staff said State Board of Finance approval and a recent appraisal are required.
The Taos County Commission at its Aug. 19 meeting approved a resolution authorizing staff to submit a proposed lease of the county detox facility to the State Board of Finance and approved a contract to fund Rio Grande ATP to provide adult substance-use detoxification and related behavioral health services.
Chris Madrid, speaking for county staff, told the commission a State Board of Finance approval is required for leases over specified thresholds and that the county package must include a current appraisal. "We had to have an appraisal that's within one year," Madrid said. Staff said Taxation and Revenue Department review was pending but that the State Board of Finance would accept the package and wait for the tax-and-revenue review to be completed.
In a separate agenda item, county staff presented Taos County contract TCC2024-41, a contract previously awarded to Rio Grande ATP. The contract request before the commission sought authorization to allocate $350,000 for the fiscal year to support Rio Grande ATP’s operation of detox, residential treatment and outpatient treatment services for eligible county residents who lack insurance or cannot cover costs.
Commissioners praised staff work to clear hurdles and approved the resolution to submit the lease package to the State Board of Finance and approved the contract funding on roll call votes.
Why it matters: reestablishing local detox services restores a missing piece of the behavioral-health continuum in north-central New Mexico and provides indigent residents with a local treatment path.
Staff said further approvals and administrative steps remain: State Board of Finance approval of the lease package, Taxation & Revenue review of the appraisal, and Rio Grande ATP completing operational steps before service reactivation.
