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Council approves IPCA contract amendment and new mental‑health corresponder for CIT team
Summary
Clive City Council approved two resolutions to amend an Iowa Primary Care Association contract and to create a city mental‑health corresponder position for the Crisis Intervention Team, with staff saying combined savings and restored grant funding reduce the city’s net cost to a modest amount.
The council on June 25 approved two measures to strengthen Clive’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT): an amendment to an Iowa Primary Care Association (IPCA) contract to restore funding levels and a new job description to create an in‑house mental‑health corresponder position.
Police leadership told the council the department plans to reorganize administrative staffing—reducing administrative FTE from 3.7 to 3.0—and to bring the mental‑health corresponder on as a city employee. Staff said administrative savings plus the IPCA amendment (which restores the contract to $120,000 in the near term) substantially offset the cost of the new position.
"If we do this, ... that makes up quite a bit of the cost ... and the additional cost will actually drop to about $11,600" in the first year under one scenario, the chief said; under a different reading of drawdowns and offsets staff estimated a higher net city obligation of roughly $36,000 depending on future amendments.
Council moved and approved both resolutions (IPCA amendment and the mental‑health corresponder job description) by recorded votes of 5-0. Staff said, if approved, they would post the position immediately and aim to have someone in place by mid‑ to late July.
Staff also noted potential future negotiations with IPCA for assistance with a mental‑health practitioner component if the city brings both pieces of the team in-house, but said any additional funding for the practitioner role is not guaranteed.
