The Opioid Abatement Funding Advisory Board voted to accept REAPs transitional-housing proposal after an extended discussion about program length and participant fees.

Vinnie Webb, introduced in the transcript as "Vinnie Webb, executive director of Rietje Alliance Pensacola," presented REAPs plan, describing a short-term stabilization model with an expected program length of about six weeks and described intake housing and dedicated case management. Webb said program design assumes individualized case management and the ability to charge participants a program fee once they are stabilized and earning income.

Several board members pressed REAP on a proposed $12.50-per-day fee that the proposal said would start after the first two weeks of intake. One board member said a two-week window for participants who "come in totally messed up" would be unrealistic and asked what would happen to people without income. Webb responded that case managers would exercise discretion, that staff could "back off" the two-week trigger, and that reporting could track tenant-level details (when people entered housing, when they started paying and source of rent) so the board could monitor how funds were used.

After debate, a motion to accept REAP as proposed was moved and seconded. The transcript records two recorded ayes and one recorded dissent; the chair declared the motion passed. Board members asked staff to require tenant-level reporting to ensure accountability and to include program-length and fee expectations in contract documents.

The board's acceptance means REAP will be included among recommended awardees to present contract details to the Board of County Commissioners in the next stage.