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to interro. Okay. Thank you. I knew it sounded kind of different. Yes. So, all right. Have Chief Chief Matthysse is present and Mr. Matt is present. So, all right. And uh of course the chair uh Miss Katherine White is out today. And um was the meeting advertised? Yes, the meeting was advertised in the Pensacola News Journal on
April the 2nd in the board's weekly meeting schedule. Thank you, ma'am. And so we look uh need a approval of the previous uh board meetings from February 18th. So, have we had time to look over the the minutes from the previous meeting? And is are there any changes or amendments to the to the uh minutes?
Yes, finger. I'll make a motion to uh approve the minutes as they are. I second the motion. Okay. Got a motion and a second. So, move. Y'all ready for the vote? Okay, let's vote. I I Okay, all in favor as that motion carries. And so now, do we have any public speakers? No public speakers. This one going to go pretty quick. I here. Okay. Now,
let's talk about the U contract extension for the request from Lake View of Opus Program. Do you want to do the budget review first? Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay. Yes. Opioid budget. I'm sorry. Jump right over that. So, the opioid abatement budget to date, um, we have received 7,146,13955. We have um obligated or committed 5,422,2129.
So that leaves us a remaining balance of 1,723,91826. And just a reminder, our notice of funding availability will go back out June or July of this year for additional community partner applicants to be able to apply for that remaining funding. Um, and then our first fisc year notice of funding availability awardees are coming to an end. Um,
their year to complete their funding requirements for a lot of them is May, which kind of leads into your next agenda item. Okay. So, that was the first trunch that we did two years ago, correct? Yes, sir. All right. So, contract extension request for Lake View Opiates Program. So, and I'm going to have them come on up and explain to you guys why they're requesting this additional time.
Before they do, what was the original um time that we May of 2026, I believe. Nope, I'm sorry. The notice to proceed was issued April 9th of 2025. So, it would have been April 9th of 2026. Okay. Good morning. Hi. Uh we're requesting the extension because OPUS was funded through SAMA previously before abatement funding began and SAMA funding ran through May of the year that
we were funded ran through the end of May. So we didn't start using abatement funding until June. So basically, we haven't used the last two months of the contract and that's why we're asking even though it was signed the beginning of April if we can extend it to get the rest of the funds that we originally were awarded. Okay. So, so on here I see the the funding the extends it you want extension until June. Is that what I'm getting? Through the end of May. Yes. Through the
end of May. because it would actually uh expire at the 1st of May. Is that correct? Yes. So, their funding they actually did not apply for this next fiscal year for any opioid abatement funding because the their original funding is back. No, we're looking for SAMA funding to return. Not it's not definite. Okay. Um short explanation. Uh Dr. Williams, uh, my previous supervisor, um, he, uh, thought that since there was we, we we kind of had a heads up that SAMA was going to re-release
the risk reduction funding, um, that Opus was awarded under previously. So, he thought versus um, the program being committed to doing opioid funding for another year to allow other agencies to be able to access some of that money since we would probably be a good shoe in for the SAMA funds. And of course, that was all before the current HHS head and all of the the changes that they're making with which uh grant notifications they're allowing to go through. So, that's up in
the air. Okay. So, um just to make clarification for any people that's listening to the public um to get understanding of this is that the only reason why you basically did the the extension is because under the the agreement it had to been used by the 1 of May. Is that correct? April the April 9th, 2025. By April 9th of 2025. So, yeah, I I don't see a problem with that. I just wanted to, you know, just clarification because people that may have questions that may be watching in the
public and there are people that watch. I get get stopped all the time and say, you know, hey, we've seen you in the board meeting. There are people that actually in, you know, that watches this and pay attention to what's going on. So, I'll make a motion that they they receive the funding uh extension through May of 2026. Well, you can't make the motion because you're the boss man today. All right. I'm a little little little ahead of myself. Okay. So, can we get a motion or there? I'll make the motion that we extend to opus. Madam finger second.
All right. First second. So we have any any other discussion about it? Okay, call for a vote. I I Okay, motion carries unanimously. So congratulations and thank you for what you do. Thank you very much. Okay, so now we have the reporting for the fiscal year of 2024 to 2025 funding availability awardes. So this is where Yeah. So all right. So, we have Community Health
of Northwest Florida come up and and uh you know, tell us about all the great things you did. Well, um I'm I'm happy to say we uh I believe Thursday or Friday submitted our final invoice uh for this funding cycle. We are graciously giving back a little over $1,000. Um couldn't back into that and couldn't make the numbers work. We wanted to use it all, but we couldn't. Um but no, happy to to turn it back over. Um, and then I also sent over our holistic Q3 um, report. So,
it it covers um, from June of 2025. I I'm got three fiscal years rolling in my date from June to 2025 through um, end of March. Um, and so that showed cumulative numbers um, of individuals that we've got in our care. Nice. So um ju so from the first time that you come here until now. I mean this is the first physical year um just so what is great some of the things that
you basically was able to accomplish with this with this funding since we um since inception because we've been been hammering through this thing for about what three years now. So so we've actually accomplished a lot. So thinking back when core started um you know our the first year year and a half out the gate and Joey can attest to this it was kind of slow rolling and then really when the opiate abatement funding um came on we had just cracked the 200 uh person mark as far as our impanelment. So um we define impanelment as active patients who've who've been in our care
um for an appointment at least once in the last 90 days. Um, in Escambia County alone, we're up over 350 um, in our Escambia can county impanelment. Um, and then this is not to do with the Escambia opiate abatement, but um, the reality was for a while Escambia County had core, Santa Rosa didn't. And so we had a lot of people that were coming across the, you know, one step over the line, Lord Jesus. Um, and getting care in Escambia County, sorry, song reference. Um and we launched Santa Rosa Core on January 1 and actually split all those patients
and immediately moved them over. Um and so that um just a one, you know, where we're going to serve everybody um but the fiscal responsible the the fiscally responsible thing to do was to go ahead and move those over and and properly allocate them um in order not to supplant funds. And so that impanelment is up over I think it's 78 or 79 um in Santa Rosa County. Um and then we're up over 350 um in Escambia County. Um we've we've had several uh we call them our our core children, you know,
pregnant mothers that come in um that are that are still with child get stabilized, cared for um and and all of them are doing s just being very successful. So, um, we've learned a lot through this process. We've grown a lot. Um, you know, we've got our mobile site. We've got, um, care delivery at our waterfront site, our Palifox site, our Jackson Street site. Um, we're in the early stages of kind of diving into the data to see where the blank spots are in the county. Um, we
know that the north end of the county needs more resources and we know that the west side in D2, um, when we look at the the data of where the core patients actually live once they're stabilized, they're all out in D2. Um, on the west side moving towards Purto, um, and then if you map out all of the resources for Matt services and substance use services, there's really not a whole whole lot over there. So, we're we're doing our thing. We're we're putting our thinking caps on and thinking, you know, where's where's the need at? You know, okay, we've stabilized. You know, people know
who we are. They know what the core program is. They know that Escambia County supported it. So, where's that that next move? Um do we need to expand or um just continue to maintain what we've got? Thank you, sir. Thank you for all you do and thank you for your team. I know it's um you know, it's a definitely a um a task every day. So, thank you all. um excited to where we are and uh where we going from here. So awesome. It been it's been a great development.
So awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you board. Okay. Next up is uh Mistry Village. Got that big bit got that big building erected yet? Uh wishful thinking. We have started turning in some receipts for it though. Uh so slow progress uh a long process that we did not expect but we're moving forward. Hopefully we'll be pouring the foundation for the CARES House uh
within the next three months. Yeah. Sounds good. Sounds good. So waiting on uh paperwork as usual. You guys understand that. I hope understand. So good. Hope everything else is going well. It is. Everything is going well. We're seeing record numbers coming in uh with ladies graduating. We just had a graduation uh a couple of weeks ago with four ladies graduating and before that was six. Um so we're we're seeing some great things happening with some great community partners that's around us here in the background and uh amazing things happening. Absolutely. Again,
thank you. Hopefully next time I'll have a whole lot more to report. Well, you know, it's it's it's like that sometimes that's a pretty pretty serious undertaking. So things happen in construction that um you know sometimes just the wheels turn slow. So absolutely. But guys on your progress like Yep. Thank you. This guy's amazing to me that they can tear down a whole shopping center and erect a Costco faster than we can pull permits. I don't So what do you what are you finding the most complex thing that's that's engineering that type of thing? Drawings
mechanical drawings and all of that. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yep. All right. Thank you, sir. Okay. Uh I think we just heard from Lake View Opus. So, you're back up uh to you know to give a report on your your um your progress. And I think you guys when you came up you had added uh staffing or whatnot to your program to uh we haven't added any staff. We still have the same original um three staff uh on uh we have our um test site coordinator, our um environmental
specialist and our peer educator still. Okay. Um and for the February and March report, the ladies distributed 62 boxes of Narcan, um 44 packets of um fitnel test strips, which we pack those in twos. um and uh four of uh wound kits, wound supply kits and um they conducted only conducted two hepatitis kits and three HIV uh tests rather uh and three HIV test um this for this reporting
period because we're packing to move offices. Lake View is moving us to main campus from the office that we're currently in because the city bought that office, that building. So, uh, were being relocated. Um, they did conduct, um, excuse me, uh, eight education sessions, um, which included the county jail sessions that they do and, uh, two of Lake View's programs, um, our SRT program and our Villas, uh, location. And, um, believe Oh, and 73 total contacts for outreach, for street
outreach. 73. So, okay. Your your your team deals with the adult side, correct? Yes. Okay. Yes. All right. And mostly on the street, you know, uh we do a lot of uh homeless uh interventions, prevention with them. Um uh infectious disease education as well as uh OD and opioid education. So, we kind of, you know, mix them together and provide the free testing and hope that kind of brings them out. So when you do do the uh the um noran and the test strips, are are these
people that when you say you distributed, are you have like designated places you go or are these are people that you have come into contact on the on the street? On the street that you're basically outreaching and Yes. Yes. that wouldn't necessarily come into an agency to access those supplies. Okay. So boots on the ground, right? Okay. Yes, sir. That's what we do. But thank you, ma'am. God bless and God speed to you all. Thank you. And uh the CAT team, Lake View Cat.
Good morning. I'm Patty Hyde with Lake View and the uh AIM Adolescence in Motion and CAT team. Um we are uh we have nine clients right now. We're we just lost a case manager, so we're have that position. um uh applied for or posted. Um we're doing a lot with interns, social work interns, um teaching uh substance abuse group for children uh for adolesccents. Um that's about it. We have
I say nine clients right now. Uh we have our weekly substance abuse group for them. We have a therapist who sees several of them in their home to include their family for therapy as well as the group. Um, and we the groups continue to uh consist mainly of like kids from the department of juvenile justice who have been referred for substance abuse treatment. Okay. um just
in a generalization. What type of age groups are you seeing there that you're you kind of dealing with? The old uh the last um award was for five to 18 year olds um because we want to be able to work with kids whose family are the problem with substance abuse rather than themselves as well. So, uh, but this this new contract is for, uh, 13 to 21 year olds. We wanted to really capture
that young adult, uh, once they've turned 18 and kind of left home and partied some, maybe want to come back and get, uh, get some resources for employment. So, in this um, so would you, because of this of the new contract, would you stop seeing the ones from 52? We we never really had any from that age group. So I didn't feel okay like we would lose anything even from the previous uh substance abuse group that we had trace. We uh we also changed that um age group at at about
the same time. And so this group of nine that you're you have right now what kind of ages are you kind of they're 13 to 18 right now? 13 to 18. Interesting. And so what we've done uh is uh we've had to break up the groups into two different age groups just so we don't combine that. Um we one of our interns, our social work interns just um went out to all the middle schools. We had gone out to the high schools of course and and made contact, but she went around to the uh the middle schools
in Escambia County. Okay. Thank you, Miss Patty. appreciate. Anybody have any other questions for Miss Patty? Thank you all for what you do and um appreciate you and God read to you all. Thank you. Thank you to y'all. Okay. So, um you know, I just want to before we move on to this number nine, um just want to say thank you all to everybody that's uh in that first that first um two years that uh we was here and battling it out and uh that we was trying to get some structure to this
and some and some uh and some footing to this and that stepped up and and uh for the call of duty cuz I know what you guys do is not is not uh not Easy. So, thank you all for all you do and thanks for hanging in there. Appreciate you all. Hey, vice chair. I think we skipped EMS. Did we Oh, no. EMS core. No, you can't. We Oh, Joey, you think? I'm sorry. I get See, I get you and and um Yeah, Walter together cuz y'all, you know, you guys right there in the same situation. I always I
always kind of since Walter came Joey, I always forget about you, Joey. My bad. Uh, no problem. So, um, we've had been extremely successful. Um, in fact, there's about to be a press release, but we have officially transitioned over 600 patients into long-term care. Um, we have maintained our relapse rate at 87% success for us. Only 59 have relapsed to return. So we have still continued uh what we have started and what we have set out to do which is to help
the citizens make better choices to get into the continuum of care and to um beat addiction. It's a lifelong struggle but a lot of our patients have proven that with the right investment um it is possible. And I believe that when the ME data comes out, we're going to show that we've reduced fatalities because of the work of this board and because of the people behind me. So that's for everybody. Thank you, Joey. Joy, you were like the one of the first people that I've met when
uh we first started this. I came went over and met with you and the former chief and uh and it was eye opening and you know when you offset over there and gave that you know that aggressive idea of starting from encounter all the way through treatment and beyond, you know. Um, I thought that was a serious tall order and that you said that you was going to you only had at that time I think it was like maybe three or four people that you're going to go and do all these calls and then you're
going to take them and you're going to meet meet with them and you're going to call them every day and you're going to walk them all the way through and then you're going to do this. And I was like, "Okay." You know, and uh here we are couple of years later, two or three years later and and uh you all are doing it. You expand. You get your you get your um your new vehicle last uh the PO goes before the board on the May agenda. So we get the approval and then we still because we're a county agency still have to go back. We still haven't gotten Yeah, they still waiting on
us. It's not our role. What? Yeah. So um but we will We're getting there. You know, and I tell this story all the time, but from a person that actually personally after they, you know, came here, I actually had to personally call them for a friend of mine's son. And their response time was uh unbelievable. Matter of fact, I think um I think he asked me, "Hey, you want us to go out today? You want us, you know, and and I called him back and they said no." So they get out the the
next day. And uh the young man, he's, you know, it's been a been a rocky study uh rocky roll, but he's he's uh getting his footing back, you know. So I talk to his dad all the time. He's getting his footing back. But, you know, I thought it was just super um super special to be a part of this situation. And I probably would have never known about your core program or your response team had not been for this particular board. and being in this environment. And so it was super special.
And so you're hitting 600. Is it 6? It's actually 614 this year or when? Uh that's since we started back at the end of 2023. Okay, man. And you said your percentage of um recidivism is 13%. 13%. Man, that's that's that's outstanding. Awesome job. Y awesome job and you all are one of the greatest boots on the ground team that's we have even though we have some other ones out here and we
got some new ones coming aboard which is always exciting. Um and so kudos to you all man. Tell the team because you guys did some staff expansion also. Didn't you guys bring on a nurse or two? Not as of yet. We have uh four nurses. They're doing great. we had a a lead nurse to help kind of offset my workload. But yeah, it's it's been the greatest honor to be a part of this and it's it's not me, it's it's the team. They're amazing and our patients. Well, God bless you
all and uh God keep you, man. So hopefully next time we talk that number's been doubled and and everything is great. So that's my goal. Awesome. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you, Matt. Okay, so um update on the fiscal 2025 2026 funding availability awardees. So I see some of the great ones out there in the audience today. So, so just to give you an update um on them, just to
remind you who got awarded, we have BreitBridge Ministries, EMS Corps, Health and Hope Clinic, Hope Above Fear, the Lake View, AIM team, Ministry of Village at Olive, Offensive, Reap, and then the YMCA partnering with Community Health. So, they were issued their notice to proceed at the very end of March. So, um, April, this month is really going to be their first day or first day, first month of activity. So, um, they probably don't really have much to report right now, but they
have the green light, they have the go. So, at the next meeting that we have, they should all be able to report on, um, what they're doing and and how it's going. So, in that particular the notice of proceeding, so they can proceed and then they have to submit for reimbursement. Is that correct? So, um are are they still kind of so in this up and cominging um county commissioner meeting? So, they will be then kind of like given the green light for funding also or they've that's already
happened. Okay. So, so we already have the uh board of county commissioners have already approved your guys' funding recommendations. Okay. We already have fully executed contracts with all of them. Um so they are just ready to go and actually two of them have already submitted reimbursements just for the last week of March. Okay. Um and payment is currently being processed. So they are full go. So what so what is Joey waiting on? So he's saying he has to wait on some
funding. Oh Joey that's because we're it's county. So, we have to do a purchase order which allocates the funds for them to actually go out and order the vehicle. So, that's just an extra step we have to take. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Nobody else has to do that. All right. All right. Okay. Okay. Awesome. Anyone have any questions for his or do we know when we'll get any more money or we I know it randomly comes in but it does randomly and kind of looking at um when we have received previous
payments. It looks like we did receive a payment uh the last one was September 10th of 2025 but we actually received two payments in 2025. We got one January 2025 and we got one September 2025. Um, so we haven't received any in 2026 yet, but I'm assuming we will receive at least one if not two. Um, but when I look at the dates, the first one was July, the second one was February, then January, then Sep. I mean, there's no method to the madness. Um, but with that being said, we do
have 1.7 million just sitting there for our next round of notice of funding availability. Okay, awesome. Is there any um so can I ask one one thing because we're getting these numbers of of um assistance and people that people are helping all at once. Um could it be possible if we can kind of like get a total from everyone and kind of like add that up to say you know to the public hey uh
from this board action. This is the total number that we've are impacting or have been in contact or helped throughout the this last you know from the physical year you know because everyone comes up and they give this number this number this number and it's kind of hard for me to keep all in my head you know ones that's you know so just say like as a total like this is what this is how many people totally that we have helped affected in Escambia County. um with this funding or whatnot.
Um so yeah, so we could probably do that by fiscal year and then an overall total. So in 2023, this is the number of people we've touched, 20, 24, 25. The other thing that Lauren and I are working on um is annual reports. So right now, our very first awardy group is about wrapping up. So what we're going to do is put together a annual report of those awardees to be able to share to you guys. And then we'll have our CMR do a a press release, which usually the city of Pensacola picks up on too. Um, and then we'll do another one for the next group of individuals. And then kind of
keep a a master so that we can kind of keep track of what we did with all of these funds. Cuz I get asked that sometime when I'm out and about and I say people and they say, "Okay, exactly what do you all do?" do and I try to explain it to them like well we're just we're not some people get us thinking that we're the ones that are putting all this in motion like we manage all these people and we manage these agencies and things of that nature and I try to no that's not what we do because um and then they said well well who do you help cuz I don't ever and then I have to go down the
list of well this this agency this agency and this and they well well where they at cuz I don't ever see them out in the community that's you know things of that nature and what and then I get that question well how many people y'all you know you've you've helped and that's where I get stuck so yeah so we can put together we could probably even just do a we could do a comprehensive report but also even maybe just a one-page summary that just you know these are the agencies that were awarded during this year this is just a quick snapshot of what they do and then here's our total
people we've touched probably would be easiest for talking points and the people at the city, they really like that too from last time I had to go down and give a report. So they, you know, so that would be exciting to know also. Sure. Okay. Any new business? Okay. So on this date, they have a projected date of June 8th as the next meeting. Um, Chief Matthews, I know you, you know, you're selling around the world a lot. So,
with the June June 8th work for you, okay, Matt, Miss Rodriguez, she's going to be out of town. Um, only other person that we would have to check with is Miss Katherine White. Um, so yeah, we can do that behind the scenes and then if we have at least a quorum, we'll we'll be okay. Okay. Would you be okay with that? Okay. We shouldn't be voting on anything.
All right. It's probably be just some reporting whatnot. So, welcome Miss Miss Rodriguez. So, and your with that said, so we'll uh let everyone know uh when the next date once we check with Miss Katherine to see if we have a quorum for June 8th. With that being said, God bless, God speed, and you all have an awesome awesome day. With that, meeting is adjourned.