File #: 24-624    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 9/26/2024 In control: Audit and Finance Committee
On agenda: Final action: 10/15/2024
Title: AMENDING THE 2024 DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH BUDGET: EXPANDING CLINICAL SERVICES
Sponsors: Audit and Finance Committee
Attachments: 1. TMP 5912 - RLA letter from DMH 092524

RESOLUTION NO. 624

 

AMENDING THE 2024 DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH BUDGET: EXPANDING CLINICAL SERVICES

 

Introduced:  10/15/24

                     By Audit and Finance Committee:

 

                     WHEREAS, By Resolution No. 469 for 2024, this Honorably Body amended the 2024 Department of Mental Health Budget in order to expand its clinical services by adding two Mental Health/Addiction Peer Specialists with lived military experience to the Department of Mental Health team, and

 

WHEREAS, The Director intends to add these positions to the 2025 Department budget at a higher salary rate to better fill the positions, and has requested that the previous budget amendment be rescinded, now, therefore, be it

 

RESOLVED, That the 2024 Department of Mental Health Budget is hereby amended as follows,

 

and, be it further

 

RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the County Legislature is directed to forward certified copies of this resolution to the appropriate County Officials.