May 15, 2023
There is a proposed regional cooperative partnership, where each county would get a grant for the Rappahannock Area Community Service Board (RACSB) to provide crisis services and also provide mobile medical assisted treatment for various medical emergencies.
Counties would, if agreeing to be a part of the cooperative, potentially receive a combined $695,000 for these various services. Stafford county for example, as it makes up 32% of calls which involve the services provided, would receive $247,000.
The county at this point would only have to opt into applying for this grant, with no further action needed at the time. However it is time sensitive, and if interested the board was advised to meet a decision shortly.
The first vote on the subject was to deem it “time sensitive,” and the board unanimously voted in a 7-0 decision in favor of deeming the resolution time sensitive.
Immediately after the two resolutions both needed for the application were approved unanimously.
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