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Council allows application for SAMHSA mobile crisis partnership to continue GLOW response
Summary
Council authorized staff to apply for a four-year SAMHSA grant to support the GLOW mobile crisis and mobile integrated response teams; if awarded the city will return with an ordinance to accept funding and appropriate it.
Council members voted as part of the consent agenda to allow staff to apply for a SAMHSA behavioral health mobile crisis team partnership grant that would fund the GLOW mobile integrated response teams. Laura Hill, who presented the item, said the grant would "continue basically what we're currently doing with GLOW and our mobile integrated response teams" and described the award as a four-year, $750,000-per-year grant that would support existing staff.
Hill said the award is not a matching grant and would replace other funding that is phasing out. Council member Sydney asked whether the city would return to council if the grant is received; Hill said yes and that acceptance would come back as an ordinance to appropriate funding.
Next steps: staff will apply for the grant; if Longview is selected, council will consider an ordinance to accept and allocate the funds.
