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Council clears package of health, safety and monitoring grants on consent (8-0)
Summary
The council approved a consent package of grant resolutions including funding for wraparound recovery services, the CHANT care coordination program, substance‑use interventions, PM2.5 air monitoring, fatality review technical assistance, VOCA victim services, Project Safe Neighborhoods and ICAC funding; the consent motion passed by voice vote (announced 8-0).
The Metropolitan Council approved a consent agenda that included multiple grant acceptances and program appropriations to support health, criminal-justice and environmental monitoring efforts.
Items read into the record included RS2026-2040, a $573,833 appropriation to Park Center Inc. for comprehensive wraparound recovery support services for individuals with opioid use disorder; RS2026-2041, a Tennessee Department of Health grant to provide Community Health Access and Navigation in Tennessee (CHANT) coordination services for families and children; RS2026-2042, funding to support public-safety partnerships to identify high-risk populations for substance misuse and deliver evidence-based interventions; and RS2026-2043, an amendment to an EPA PM2.5 ambient-monitoring grant to support local air-pollution monitoring programs.
The consent package also included a statewide fatality review technical assistance grant for the Office of Family Safety, a VOCA grant to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department to fund counselors and victim advocates, a Project Safe Neighborhoods grant to reduce gun-related violence including overtime for violent-crime investigations, and an ICAC grant application to continue funding for the internet crimes against children unit.
Council took a voice vote on the consent agenda and the chair announced the motion passed, "eight in favor, zero against, zero not voting."
