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Council approves amendment to transfer Healthy People/Healthy Communities grant back to county
Summary
Council approved an amendment to end the town’s Healthy People/Healthy Communities (CHOP) grant contract and transfer administration back to the county, citing staffing needs and overlap with county services; one council member recorded an opposition.
Nora explained that the Healthy People/Healthy Communities (CHOP) grant contract — a public-health program the town took on years earlier — requires staffing and administration the town no longer wishes to sustain. She said the county offered to pick up the contract and that Arizona Department of Health Services has been engaged to support a closeout and transfer.
Councilors who spoke said the program had been valuable in areas but was now duplicative of county services and had become a financial and administrative burden for the town. One councilor described previous years’ staffing and overhead concerns and supported moving the contract back to the county; another expressed that if the program had been run correctly it could have delivered important mental health and prevention services but that in practice the town lacked the specialized staffing to maintain the grant-funded program.
Council moved and approved the amendment to end the town-run contract and transfer the program to the county effective at the end of the grant cycle (June 30). The vote was recorded with one councilor stating opposition on the record; no other dissenting votes were identified in the transcript.
