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Residents urge county action on behavioral‑health facility; commissioners say coordination is underway
Summary
Several residents urged Cowlitz County commissioners to pursue a local behavioral-health facility and to clarify funding sources. County leadership said they are coordinating with the sheriff, judges and drug court and plan further conversations and a future report back to the board.
Several residents urged the Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners to pursue development of a local behavioral-health facility during the meeting’s public-comment period, and asked the board to clarify how existing prevention and settlement funds could be used.
One speaker said they “just wanna continue to speak in support of the mental health facility that we would like to see built in our local community,” and asked commissioners to examine prevention funding in the…
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