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okay I have 10 o'clock so we're going to go ahead and call the meeting to order um please turn your cell phone to the vibr and Silent or offsetting the opioid abatement funding Advisory Board allows any person to speak regarding an item on the agenda the speaker is limited to two minutes unless otherwise determined by the chairman to allow the force suff sufficient time for all speakers speakers shall refrain from abusive and profane remarks disruptive Outburst protests and any other conduct which interferes with the orderly conduct of the meeting upon completion
of the public comment period discussion is limited to the board members and questions raised by the board at this time we will go ahead and start with the Pledge of Allegiance okay we have one speaker signed up so far Patty Hyde just a report on the program okay so we'll go straight into um are there any other public speakers is about it okay next
item on the agenda is the budget review do we want to pop back to approving the minutes uh sorry about that yes we do need to approve the minutes do I have a motion second second all in favor all right next item on the on the agenda the budget review so we did actually get another trench of opioid abatement funding in January um we got an additional 1,334
39539 you guys want me to repeat that so it was 1 million $334,000 $395 59 so to date we have actually received a total of 5 million 369,000 663881224
, 62989 so when we go into the next fiscal year and we open up the notice of funding availability again that will be the additional funding that will be available great thank you any questions on the funding I just have one one question that wasn't expected was it well we know that we're going to be getting it every year we have no idea when we're getting it or how much we're getting it it it does look like though in 2024 and 2025 it came around the end of January
beginning of February so that kind of might be an idea when we'll start to get these every year okay thank you and so the uh next cycle of funding I guess we put those when we did those what around summertime or something so we're going to actually go through and you guys are going to approve when you want us to put that back out and get them back in okay but last year we release the notice of funding availability in June June okay um but then that's kind of the plan to do it this year but we'll go through that and you guys can can approve it or change it up however you
want okay all right all right the next thing we have on the agenda is the review and approve of revised um ask from Waterfront missions scope of work um their original application came in and they asked to do some new construction from additional beds um after doing um some additional uh due diligence the cost to build from scratch is quite a bit more expensive than they originally planned that so they have put in a letter here to ask instead of building
from new to purchase something and remodel it to fit the same number of beds that they had originally asked for and I know they are here if you want them to come up and answer any questions are we at that scope so are we at line item number six we're at six now y okay uh yeah they're here to uh good morning I'm Marcus Bell the vice president of PR and development for Waterfront mission so
our uh scope of work requests for the letter basically as we start doing our due diligence meeting with uh contractors and Engineers about constructing a new facility uh on existing property uh the the cost per square footage had just even increased dramatically since we began the the grant process last June uh and as we began looking at options we felt uh coming off of a renovation last year of a a already owned project that would be more cost beneficial for us to just
purchase a property and renovate that to meet the the needs of the grant so that's our scope of work change request have you identified that property yet uh we've actually uh have already began discussing two properties with owners um one is next to a property that we're currently leasing um and one is uh just a couple of properties down from units that we already own so it's still going to be within the same general area that's the goal of of where our current properties are
that thank you thank you yep any other questions does anybody have any questions all right thanks thank you and I think um that one will require a vote do I have a motion I motion that uh we approve the change of scope of work for the Waterfront mission so they can achieve their intentional objective of supplying the beds needed I'll second that all in favor
I so we're on number seven discuss desired reporting from Community for the aies so I Had Each awarde put together a report and it's should be kind of in front of you um but I thought this would be a good trial run opportunity for them to give us their report and for us to tell them what
they're missing what else we'd like to see kind of along those lines so um if you'd like them each to come up and report on the report um as you know we we have currently have two executed agreements meaning that both the scambia county and the Community Partners have signed so we have Ministry Village have we have a fully executed agreement with them they have a startup call this week and then Community Health we have a fully executed agreement with them
Waterfront mission we had to bring back to you guys because they wanted to change the scope of work and we just received both Lake View um signed agreements that will be on this Thursday's agenda to allow the chairman from Escambia County to sign them so they're all dra Agreements are drafted pretty much signed from the Community Partners and they're all moving forward um once we have the executed agreements and we have the startup call with the community partner they will be able to begin actual work so these reports really are what they're currently doing not necessarily what
they're doing with the opio de batment funding but it gives us an idea of what what you could see for reporting or if there's additional things we want them to add would you like to come up been report on each of them yes yes okay um we'll start with the scambia county core program either one Beauty before age or we go together I thought you were both well a little bit of both goe
Joey Kerman is scambia County EMS from the prehospital perspective since our Inception we have um evaluated about 326 patients 285 of which we have transitioned care 194 of those have gone with uh Community Health Northwest Florida 75 with Lake View uh 11 more have gone through detox and five have gone through other programs throughout the state we continue to see a rise in
need um and access to care uh Community Health has been a wonderful partner for us as far as making sure we can get these patients um into a good long-term care and we have also uh worked with other Community Partners uh to ensure that even um if a patient has missed an appointment that they don't go back and to the cycle of addiction we will help bridge them until their next appointment we've done that with with Community Health as well as Lake View um so we've been very pleased
with the progress uh of where we're at with our program any question thank you any other questions thank you um Walter Arrington Community Health Northwest Florida um so we've made a lot of progress um first I want to um say you know EMS um at the county has been an amazing partner um they've been very patient with us as we've gone through this um scaling process um it
has been an experience and I I can't speak highly enough about Joey um and his team and just uh the amount of communication we have back and forth as we bring on additional staff and and work through kind of what that looks like um first I you know some Highline numbers I just just ran the data we've got 26 active core patients at Community Health um so we Define active as they're in they're seeking care um we have had significantly more that have come through the program but again
those are the ones that that are active um within the core program um some Milestones that we hit um we actually hit um these really in January of this year um right after the last meeting um our Waterfront Clinic is up and running um and that's been a really valuable uh resource to the community um if if a patient misses an appointment um we find out they've missed at a walk-in clinic they just show up uh Ryan biano the provider there is able to bridge that patient um and then we reschedule them a week out with their typical provider um we're also able to use that as kind of
a pressure relief valve if EMS starts getting um a significant number of admissions that we can't keep up with our our our primary point of entry we can then pivot them into um the walk-in clinic they can get them that onee bridge we can take it them take the patient off of Em's hands and then we just pass L I'm straight in um again palifox Primary Care continues to operate at capacity we brought on some new um staff um we've got a nurse Navigator now so does the peer support um
navigation but he's also an RN and so that brings a level of of understanding that you know when I was doing it as a social worker I just didn't have um group sessions at Behavioral Health Jackson Street Primary Care um we're actually really starting to to drill in and focus in on our hepsi and our HIV care delivery we know that that's a um a huge comorbidity um and so we actually have an additional provider that specializes in that care that that we consult with um with those patients
um Mobile Medical units available so each time the Mobile Medical unit deploys um it is core capable so the a patient can come in that's a core patient that's already established meet with the provider and we can get them to that appropriate um level of care and address those needs um and so historically that that mobile unit deploys in the last year is deployed exclusively to the 32505 and that's going to continue um in in 2025 um wellness and peer support as I as I mentioned um you know
Dave Pasquel um the new nurse Navigator but we've also brought on Justin nut um and so he's being brought on full-time he's a um uh wellness and peer support so he does yoga breath work grounding meditation and so we're going to be using him um in conjunction with our Justice involved persons Grant um and he's going to kind of double duty so so being able to teach some coping skills but also have that peer support perspective um I have any questions I don't anyone have any questions
the last time that you were we were here and we were doing funding and I know um she was saying at the the um the Agreements are just getting signed how are you um with your search as far as Personnel that you said you needed the additional I think you needed a um a a psychiatrist was it psychiatrist and a few other Staffing how corre so the only position um that we're we're working on right now is the the MD position we are currently engaged with so um there's a service that provides
MD um consult um because again in the budget you can't get a psychiatrist for $100,000 a year um but we can bring somebody in that both provides subject matter expertise and consult um as well as uh chart coverage for our mid-level providers um that are doing the day-to-day Clinic um delivery and so um those negotiations I spoke with our CMO just late last week and those are moving forward we should see that um pretty soon yeah um this this question may be you are Joey are you all providing any services in the
North End of the county yes we are um and so um what we're we we ztrip people um so EMS still provides services and does it I think all the way up in McDavid and we cab them in we we've dosed from Puro key all the way to Century uh we've had at least six patients through that we've seen in Century uh prior to their transition of care and again that's one of the
things you know when we get them so far north a lot of times transportation's a barrier and so for that first 90 days of care um it's it's like $200 round trip for a z trip and um the the grant support helps support and cover that and so giving that patient that bridge that 90 days to kind of get their feet under them and figure it out how the transportation's going to work and then again the bus does run once a day to the North End of the county um and after that 90 days we provide bus passes if that's the the transportation op option
that they want to use to then get into their appointments and we schedule them so they can get everything they need done in one day um so they're not coming back and forth all the time thank you thank you Ministry Village good morning drton Smith Ministry Village uh we are currently still waiting on a civil engineering we're waiting on topos and things like that uh so that's um I guess there's a lot of people
doing that right now uh that should be ready they were out last week doing all their finalizations so we should be ready to move forward with architectural uh we've already solidified a building contractor and those type things so we're just we're sitting on go we're just waiting on the process uh currently we have uh we're at capacity our capacity is 22 we have 18 but because of the way our system works uh we're at capacity until some ladies move up to our transitional housing we are also currently looking uh at hiring a mental health uh addiction recovery specialist
uh that'll be in our future last year in 2024 we had 400 applicants uh 39 of those actually entered into the program so we are we're ready to go we just uh we need bed space so you said how many applant you have we had over 400 in 2024 and that's ladies from 18 over and how many because you only can can receive 20 is it 22 we have a 22 bed capacity right now so with
the with what we're doing with the grant we'll that'll increase to about 50 okay and so out of so basically out of the 400 you're only able to receive at 22 or So currently right now yeah well there's many reasons that those well obviously the bed capacity is one we don't have a 400 bed capacity uh but some of those could not enter the program for uh background things like if they have um severe mental illness we cannot help those we do not have the capacity for that uh if they have
children or if they're pregnant uh then that would disqualify them as well and then uh some other reasons as well that we could not take some of those and some chose not to come in they chose other options it's I mean it's it's great that you had that many applicants and so they're applying kind of like applying on their own this is kind of like hey I need it's actually uh there's a lot of things we have a great uh opportunity with Waterfront that we when those ladies come into Waterfront and they seek recovery then we're helping uh move that forward through Waterfront
uh we have a great Community relationship with uh the jails and prison Ministries uh the chaplain that are in the jails and then we also community outreach uh through other organizations and entities as well as our website okay thank you sir all right uh Lake View C program hi Patty Hyde director of family based intervention services at Lake View
uh so we're just getting started with our program we do have have a name adolescence and motion so like views about uh acronyms so we're aim um we are in the hiring process we've posted positions uh for those three uh uh posted hiring um for those three positions um working on just some systems things getting everything in place to be to support that program and networking a lot of networking a lot of people are really excited Ed that
there's some substance abuse um treatment in or and care coordination in the area for teenagers great any other questions thank you you're welcome all right and then Lake View Opus program hi Cindy mclin I'm the program manager for specialy programs Lake View Center which
um includes the Opus program um we like she mentioned earlier haven't actually started using the abatement funding can you speak up I'm sorry we haven't actually started using the abatement funding yet because um the program was funded by uh SSA and that funding ends in May uh and they're not they're not renewing that funding because um previous administration had had a lot of issues with funding opioid Services long story but uh we'll begin using the abatement funding
when the Sams of funding ends after the Sams of funding ends um with the report uh I just try to give a general overview of how much the staff is Distributing of things like Naran and uh T fitel testing strips um that section will also include mobile unit Outreach which we restart in April during the winter months you know it's too difficult to to do mobile Outreach or to get people out for it uh and we'll also have we have two vending machines one of them is about to be
functional we've had software issues we've had people cutting wire issues so um the one that we have at our onsite at our office that one uh will be up and running this month April um and the one that we have on Lake View's main campus we hope to have that up and running also by the end of the month and so we'll be able to include the numbers distributed from the vending machines as well um and I tried to also include the team does HIV hepatitis
testing so include those numbers to give you an idea they do education in the County Jail uh for males and females uh and for uh they do four session series and for this past month they had 17 females and 15 males um total and they go through all four sessions first sessions on opioids and overdose reduction risk reduction uh second sessions on STDs HIV and hepatitis um so
they kind of get all of the connected issues from the four sessions and um I think that's about it any other questions thank you thank you and then Ministry Village they just provided um and estimated of if they could purchase the building all that good stuff but they I will need to take their new ask to the BCC uh so I'll try to get that on this Thursday's agenda as well that way I can get their contract amended and all that good stuff um and get them rolling as
well um I will say for additional reporting once we have executed agreement and they've moved forward with utilizing our funds I will ask that they provide a budget and what they actually specifically accomplished with the funds that we gave them so that will be a breakout that will be added to whatever they provide thank you you're welcome all right we have one other speaker Denise
good morning Denise Manassa cat Behavioral Healthcare so something that Lake View brought up was networking so sedak is sponsoring a networking luncheon in in this realm so we've invited providers uh nonprofit and for-profit providers in the area on April 15th to say this is what we do this is the insurances we take or not if we provide transportation or not do we service adults and or adolescents so I have providers coming even from Alabama and um even east of us for
the networking lunch and so hopefully this will we'll be able to provide some more information to the abatement uh committee after this um lunch do you have any questions yes April 15th what time and where 11 to1 um that it will be down at Sanders Beach thank you the city of Pensacola for helping us sponsor that that's one of our sponsors um in the small meeting room there's space for 75 providers and we do have a couple of treatment facilities that are
providing lunch so I think everybody in the room has been invited plus so I've also invited some um uh law enforcement so PPD and uh scami County Sheriff's Office is as well because they have the mental health team as well that works very closely with core and and some of the other providers in the room so they've also been invited okay any other questions thank you
okay so number seven do we need to discuss any additional reporting requirements nope that's it moving to the next item we need to discuss the opioid abatement implementation plan and any changes that we want to make for the 25 26 fiscal year so you should have the what we
approve for 2024 um and the main categories that you guys voted to focus the funds are was treatment and Recovery prevention and criminal justice I think in in 202 before we accomplished some of those goals I don't think we accomplished all of them I know that we had some additional applicants that we kind of had go back rethink about how they applied and hopefully apply again next year that would address some of these additional things um but you guys have the choice to keep this the same or to make any changes that you that you wish I move
we continue with the plan I second that um I think we can uh all agree that um there's more treatment fac you know that needs to be done more bedding that needs to be uh acquired um so it's a hard you know it's a complex thing it's a seriously complex things when you have to put these facilities together so I kind of I agree with that keeping it the same until we can try to get our capacity up
um to where um we can definitely make a serious impact in the situation so yeah all in favor I I I okay did we ever hear back from the one organization that was going to work with the school resource officers I did not um but before we enter into next year I would like to reach out to her because I think that their program was really great and something we're lacking um but
just to you know remind her that it was a good application we just needed her to consult with some school board members and the in the police department um but I'll reach out just to make sure thank you all right the next item on the agenda is to discuss the um timeline for the funding availability and for this one I just looked at what we did in 2024 and then just lined the dates up with 2025 um so as it sits uh we would release it on Thursday June 5th 2025 and
applications would be due September 12th 2025 uh we did give them three months in 2024 I'm recommending we do the same but you sure certainly have the ability to shorten that if you wish do we have any motions or any discussions on this at this time I uh I motion that we um we keep it the same as as you I think that was a great timeline I think things rolled out pretty good now there's one thing there's one thing that I did get some push back on or feedback on from
a number of applicants and that was the and I know it's the county I think we discussed this that um the reimbursable uh clause in there um is there a way that that could be improved upon so unfortunately especially with funding outside of the county and honestly even with funding inside the county everything we do is reimbursement basis the issue you get in when you don't do it on a reimbursement basis is let's just say it's a smaller nonprofit they
don't have those funds up front so we front them money and then we don't get the documentation that we need now we're on the hook to the state or the federal government and the county will personally have to pay that so we just always try to stick with the reimbursement basis now we can be flexible it doesn't have to be they don't have to spend it all and then send it to us they can do whatever increments if they are good with Froning you know $2,000 and then have to submit that for reimbursement and then do another that's okay so it can be in smaller increments if that's
what they need I think with these folks that were awarded the first time um we're going to do at least once a month submit what you've done let us pay you put it back in your pool of money and keep going but we can work with them on that basis to allow them smaller increments if they need to right so they you know I think there was some confusion some people thinking like okay if we need this amount of money to run our program a lot of a lot of people are thinking that they need all of that like they need to have that on hand up front and then in order to get moving and I was trying to explain to them like no you can move with what you have
it's just it's a reimbursable system you you do it you know whatever you can do and then you get and you continue to move for and we can put some CL language in the notice of funding availability to try to clarify that a little bit that they don't have to spend it all and then seek reimbursement we will pay them along the way we will reimburse them along the way okay yeah we can add that I Got U some calls about that of like how how are you supposed to you know do these things if you know if you um have to have it all and I was trying to explain that especially smaller
nonprofits it's a little more challenging so we'll we'll clarify that in there okay thank you any other discussions for that do we need to vote on that we okay um we had a motion in a second all in favor I I all right now we're moving to the next item number 10 and this really is goes with number nine it's just we'll average ize it on Thursday June 5th okay um we'll post it on our website we'll put a press a news release out and I will have um last
time we tried to do uh just a new news release at least once a month to remind everybody um and then I do have a nonprofit list of like 350 people that I send this stuff out to to make sure that they're aware of so we'll we'll just start pushing that as much as we possibly can okay so we don't have any other items on the agenda we need to go ahead and schedule our next meeting make sure I have this one down
pack that would lead us into Jun so we should be able to schedule the next meeting for June June or do we I don't think unless we have something that yeah I think you've been doing either once every 3 months or every other month we have something pressing if we did it June 9th the notice of funding availability would
be out and I would have the advertisement and all of that information for you guys okay looks it's good for me it's good for me all right we'll schedule our next meeting for June the 9th at 10 o'clock all right we're adjourned thank you I know we adjourned let me just one last note and this has nothing to do what we need
to discuss I just want to thank everybody for coming today and actually speaking with us and uh giving your your information your reports that's really great help um especially being from a city representative because I do get asked from time to time to go and report to the city about what are we doing and how are we doing it so I so now I can go there with some uh details and say hey there's a dirt's going to be moving and some things is going to be are happening so thank you all for coming and thank you all for being so diligent and helping us uh deal with this uh epidemic thank
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