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Board hears recovery and reentry update as members warn funding cuts may force priorities
Summary
Staff reported program participation and wait-list figures across recovery, DUI, mental-health and reentry programs; members warned a roughly $800,000 anticipated funding reduction will force prioritization and urged seeking state grants like Project RISE.
Board staff provided counts and service updates for recovery and reentry programs and discussed how impending funding reductions could affect ongoing services.
A program presenter reported 167 people currently participating in the county’s primary recovery program with 144 in the application process; the federal court recovery program has 49 participants and 65 in process. The DUI program operates a day program with 18 participants and a night program with 24; mental health court reported 53 participants; veterans court reported 23 participants. For reentry services, staff said 61 people are participating in the work center and 46 in the jail, with 22 people on the work-center wait list and 169 on the jail wait list.
Board members discussed how reductions to the county’s opioid-abatement allocation — one member described an anticipated cut of about $800,000 — could force difficult choices about staffing and which programs to preserve. Members also flagged opportunities to pursue additional state funding, including a state opioid-abatement RFP that opens March 2 and a Project RISE pilot set-aside (maximum $500,000) aimed at reentry-oriented programming if submitted by county or municipal jail staff.
Staff noted reentry and recovery services also face operational challenges: several smaller subrecipients delay reimbursement requests (often for cash-flow reasons), which complicates administrative processing and may require contract language changes to standardize quarterly reimbursement requests.
What’s next: board members asked staff to continue outreach to grantees about reimbursements, to seek state funding opportunities, and to prepare budget scenarios for April–June deliberations.
