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Clermont County mental health director asks Loveland council to note levy renewal's role in local services
Summary
Leanne Watson, executive director of the Clermont County Mental Health and Recovery Board, briefed the Loveland City Council on a 0.75-mill levy renewal she said would preserve crisis hotlines, mobile crisis teams and school-based services that reach about 25,000 residents annually.
Leanne Watson, executive director of the Clermont County Mental Health and Recovery Board, told the Loveland City Council the board’s 0.75-mill levy renewal will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot as a renewal that she said carries no new taxes and would continue funding crisis hotlines, a mobile crisis team, school-based mental health services, drug-prevention programs, suicide-prevention work and medication-assisted treatment for people with opioid addiction.
Watson said the levy brings in about $3.3 million a year to the county behavioral-health system and represents “over a third” of the board’s roughly $8 million annual budget. She said levy-funded services reach about 25,000 residents annually — “one in five Clermont…
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