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Commissioners approve opioid-funded mental-health case manager, buy replacement dump truck and sign speedway beverage license
Summary
Montgomery County commissioners approved a one-year $56,002.23 opioid-fund allocation for a 4-County mental-health case manager, accepted a bid for a replacement dump truck and signed a cereal malt beverage license for Caney Valley Speedway. All recorded votes were unanimous.
Montgomery County commissioners voted unanimously to approve three separate items during a regular session: a one-year allocation of opioid-settlement funds to continue a jail-based mental-health case manager, purchase a replacement dump truck, and sign a cereal malt beverage license for a local speedway.
The board approved $56,002.23 in opioid-settlement funding to continue a case-manager position that works with inmates during booking and after release to link them with housing, health insurance and treatment. County staff said the program previously received $55,121 covering salary and benefits for the case manager and that outcomes tracked under the earlier grant included 63 percent of participants leaving custody with stable housing and roughly 40 percent gaining health insurance or…
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