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Lapeer County approves mental-health and health-department funding, contracts and appointments
Summary
The Board approved a $4,000 staff-wellbeing mini-grant, multiple Community Mental Health funding actions including a DocuSign renewal and nominations to the Community Mental Health Services Board, and approved Health Department budget amendments.
At its March 26 meeting the Lapeer County Board of Commissioners approved a series of public-health and mental-health items including grant acceptance, contract renewals, budget amendments and board appointments.
The board accepted a $4,000 MALPH LHD Staff Wellbeing mini-grant for the Health Department at no cost to the county general fund and approved a multi-page Health Department budget amendment (Motions 75-2026 and 76-2026). The actions, moved by Commissioner C. Ian Kempf and supported by Kevin Knisely, authorize department staff to sign required agreements and document them in the record.
On Community Mental Health matters the board authorized a three-year DocuSign subscription for 15 users at a total cost of $30,697.57 to be paid from Community Mental Health line items (Motion 79-2026), approved the FY25 Community Mental Health Annual Needs Assessment (Motion 80-2026) and approved a transfer of $149,256.67 representing the second of three installments toward the annual allocation of $447,770.00 (Motion 81-2026). The floor was also opened to fill four vacancies on the Community Mental Health Services Board; Commissioner Bryan Zender nominated Kay Morris, Donna Shelton, Cheryl Howell and Mark Bachman and the board cast a unanimous ballot to appoint them to three-year terms through March 31, 2029 (Motion 94-2026).
Commissioners said the budget and contract actions were intended to maintain operations and service continuity for county public-health and mental-health programs. The motions as recorded in the meeting minutes carried without roll-call tallies being transcribed.
The board’s actions affect program operations and vendor relationships overseen by the Health Department and Community Mental Health Services; dollar amounts and funding lines for the DocuSign subscription and the transfer were specified in the motions.
