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Mayor says city will reevaluate Be Well contract and mental-health services as state funding ends
Summary
Mayor Alex Renaghi said the Be Well contract, previously funded largely through a state appropriation, will lose that state money and the city will evaluate delivery options for mental-health and homelessness services before the contract ends.
Mayor Alex Renaghi said the city will review the Be Well contract and its broader approach to mental-health and homelessness services after state funding that previously supported the program ends.
"We're not gonna get that money from the state going forward," Renaghi said, referring to the state appropriation that largely funded the Be Well contract. He said the city will evaluate Be Well and the overall service delivery model "to ensure that we're doing it in the most effective, and cost effective way, moving forward."
Renaghi said that review will take place over the next few months ahead of the contract's end and that he will meet with Be Well representatives as part of that review. He described this as an important public-policy decision and said the goal is to identify the most cost-effective way to deliver mental-health services to the community.
The transcript does not record a council vote, a decision on replacement funding, or a specific alternative service model. Renaghi also referenced an upcoming Saturday meeting with Be Well and said he would be working on the evaluation ahead of the contract expiry.
