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Harrison County board moves to authorize diversion-center contract; funding sources and operations remain under discussion
Summary
The board moved to authorize the president to sign a contract with JW Puckett Company for a diversion center and discussed funding options including opioid-settlement funds, ARPA rules, and operation-and-maintenance responsibilities, but the transcript does not record a final vote.
Harrison County board members discussed authorizing a contract with JW Puckett Company for a diversion center and debated how the county will fund and operate the facility.
A board member said on the record that the board should “authorize before president to sign the contract with JW Puckett Company on the diversion center.” A motion to approve that authorization was moved during the meeting and discussed; the transcript does not record a final roll-call vote or tally.
The contract timeline discussed was 300 days. Board members asked how long the contract work would take and were told, “300 days.”
Funding and operations dominated the discussion after the motion. One board member said opioid-settlement funds had been released—“125,000,000 or so to the AD’s office”—and that the county was pursuing a grant application: “We are submitting for 10,000,000. That’s the…
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