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Council approves $355,200 health grant for downtown clinics with one abstention
Summary
The council approved a $355,200 appropriation from the Metropolitan Board of Health to United Neighborhood Health Services (Neighborhood Health, Inc.) to provide medical, dental, mental health and substance use services to homeless individuals at clinics near downtown Nashville; one councilmember abstained.
The Metropolitan Council approved RS2025-1530, appropriating $355,200 from the Metropolitan Board of Health to United Neighborhood Health Services, Inc., DBA Neighborhood Health, Inc., and authorizing a grant contract to provide medical, dental, mental health and substance abuse services to homeless individuals at two or more clinics located in or near downtown Nashville.
The item was pulled from the consent agenda for an abstention by Councilwoman Suarez; she asked whether she needed to pull the item if she planned to abstain. Staff instructed the chair and the council subsequently voted on the resolution; the record shows one abstention and the motion carried by voice vote.
The resolution was moved, seconded and approved; the transcript records an abstention by Councilwoman Suarez but does not specify additional names for the mover or seconder.
