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Steering committee flags operational funding and terminology for Behavioral Care Center, asks for scenario planning amid federal/state funding uncertainty
Summary
Committee members urged clearer wording for the proposed Behavioral Care Center, warned that capital funds may not include operating dollars, and debated asking the finance advisory board to model funding scenarios amid sales-tax, tariff and Medicaid uncertainties.
Steering committee members raised operational-funding and terminology concerns for the proposed Behavioral Care Center (BCC) and debated whether the IPRTF should ask the finance advisory board (FAB) to run scenario planning in light of possible Medicaid cuts, sales-tax shifts and tariff-driven construction-cost increases.
“We have this money to build it, but we have no guarantees of money of operating it,” said Satpal (steering committee member) while reviewing Project 7 and Project 8 language and urging the report to document operating-fund uncertainty.
Satpal and others also pressed for consistent wording in the implementation plan. Satpal said the word “treatment” implies a hospital model and recommended the plan use the term
