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Commissioners ask for more detail on multi‑county substance‑use coordinator proposal; Roscommon temporarily removed from request
Summary
Roscommon commissioners withheld support for a Northern Michigan Children's Assessment Center proposal to fund a multi‑county SUD coordinator from county liquor‑tax SUD funds, citing unclear representation, benefit levels and how work would be divided; the chair said she voted to remove Roscommon pending further information.
The board discussed a request from the Northern Michigan Children's Assessment Center to use county liquor‑tax substance‑use disorder funds to support a coordinator shared across six counties.
The chair said she voted to remove Roscommon County from the multi‑county funding request pending further discussion with the board, citing unanswered questions about how the coordinator’s time would be divided among the counties and how the per‑county budget was calculated. Supporters said the center provides valuable services, but several commissioners flagged a lack of clarity about representation and whether Roscommon taxpayers would be subsidizing another county’s staff. One commissioner called the proposal’s compensation and benefit assumptions “a big red flag” given county practices for employees.
Commissioners asked staff to invite a representative from the Northern Michigan Children's Assessment Center to present a fuller breakdown of the proposal — including hours per county, projected caseload impact in Roscommon and whether opioid program funds could be reconfigured to cover some or all of the position — before the board makes any appropriation decision.
