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Board approves Trillium drop‑in teen center award amid questions over Prop 64 language
Summary
Del Norte supervisors approved the consent agenda that included an award to Trillium for a teen drop‑in center using BHSA innovation funds; public commenters requested clearer language about Proposition 64 and funding leverage, which county counsel clarified as innovation funds under Prop 1/BHSA rather than direct Prop 64 allocations.
The Del Norte County Board of Supervisors approved a consent calendar that included an agreement to award funding to Trillium for a drop‑in teen center and related mental‑health programming. Before the consent vote, several public speakers voiced concerns that the staff report implied Trillium would receive Proposition 64 funds before those funds were formally awarded.
A community member who attended the local behavioral health board meeting said he had been unable to obtain a recording and questioned the extent of collaboration between probation, behavioral health and First 5. County counsel and members of the Local Behavioral Health Board clarified that item 11 uses innovation funds from the Mental Health Services Act (recently retitled to the Behavioral Health Services Act via Proposition 1) and that roughly $1,000,000 in innovation funds had been identified; staff noted unallocated funds from a prior year required returning $200,000 and that the Trillium proposal targets youth ages 10–14 and 14–18.
Denise Doilschnecker, Trillium's director, emphasized that the Trillium mental‑health drop‑in work is separate from Teen Court (which Superintendent Jeff Harris has indicated he intends to fund) and that the proposal focuses on prevention services. Parents and a youth speaker described the center as a place for early intervention and connection, not formal therapy.
The consent agenda, including the Trillium award and a corrected program start date for one consent item, was moved and seconded and approved with Supervisors Starkey, Howard, Short and Chair Borges voting yes.
Next steps: Trillium and county behavioral health will continue outreach and the county will administer the innovation funding as allocated in the consent action.
