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Cookeville council authorizes MOA to continue community crisis response program
Summary
The council authorized a memorandum of agreement with Volunteer Behavioral Health to continue the city’s Community Crisis Response (CCR) program; the city will pick up EMT salary and operational costs through the end of the fiscal year, an estimated additional cost of about $14,000, and include ongoing funding in next year’s budget.
The Cookeville City Council on March 5 authorized the city manager to execute a memorandum of agreement with Volunteer Behavioral Health to continue the Community Crisis Response (CCR) program.
City staffer Mr. Mills told the council the CCR agreement is needed because current grant funding from NAMI ends at the end of the month. He said Volunteer Behavioral Health will continue to provide the clinician…
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