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County approves mental-health and early-intervention contract amendments; clarifies rental assistance terms
Summary
Lebanon County approved a FY24/25 amendment to cover a $12,699 emergency respite payment and seven FY25/26 amendments totaling $59,746 for mental health, intellectual disabilities and early-intervention programs; county officials clarified that rental-assistance and transitional housing counts and rents were not changing in beneficiary population, only contract line-item formatting and monthly rent rates.
Holly Leahy, administrator for Lebanon County Mental Health, Intellectual Disabilities and Early Intervention, told commissioners the board was considering one FY24/25 contract amendment and seven FY25/26 amendments.
Leahy said the FY24/25 amendment covers an emergency respite payment of $12,699 that will be paid from existing allocations for fiscal year 2024–25 and that no additional county tax dollars are requested. She said the seven FY25/26 amendments total $59,746 and likewise will be covered through existing allocations.
During discussion, a commissioner asked whether the Housing Authority item represented a shift in who is served. Leahy responded that there is no change in who is served. She explained the contracts consolidate certain line items (which led to an apparent numeric reformatting in the amendment) and confirmed the program includes scattered-site permanent supportive housing units and three transitional units for transition-age youth. Leahy corrected a transcription count in the hearing to say the total unit count should be 16 (13 scattered-site permanent supportive apartments plus 3 transitional units), and said landlords requested a uniform rent of $850 per month for those units (previously some units were listed at $800 and some at $850).
"There have been no changes in the population or anything of this sort, just solely in amount," Leahy said, explaining the amendment reflected formatting changes, not a policy shift.
Commissioners moved and approved the contract amendments by voice vote. Leahy said the FY24/25 amendment and the FY25/26 set of amendments would be the final amendments for those fiscal years and that the funds are available within department allocations.
