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Public Health asks to renew treatment‑sales‑tax contracts and warns of state funding risk
Summary
Public health staff requested renewal of three treatment‑sales‑tax‑funded contracts — Northwest Resources (intensive case management), a peer program and a co‑responder team embedded with the sheriff — and warned about potential state budget shifts that could leave county programs underfunded.
Melissa (speaker 5), representing Public Health, asked the commission to renew three calendar‑year contracts paid from treatment‑sales‑tax funds: Northwest Resources (intensive case management), the JL peer program through health and recovery services, and the sheriff‑embedded co‑responder program.
"The co responder program has been...a game changer for them," Melissa said, describing how the…
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