HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93011_1667• Mobile crisis personnel may remain with a patient 23 %z hours. (This is at the patient's
residence.)
• Crossroads is measured and monitored by the usage of state hospital services.
(It is difficult to hospitalize patients at Broughton Hospital, and many times, bed space is
unavailable from a Friday mornings through Mondays.
• Inpatient detoxification hospitalization is the most intensive or highest intensive type of
detox service. Prevention providers (INSIGHT) work in both of the county school
systems. INSIGHT is based in Winston-Salem and provides service in all three
Crossroads counties. ADATC (Alcohol, Drug Abuse Treatment Center) in Black
Mountain, NC provides detox services as does Broughton. At the present, construction
is occurring at Black Mountain on a 30 -bed -acute -medical detoxification facility.
Crossroads will have access to the 30 beds, and they should be ready by the spring of
2008. Crossroads also has medical non -hospital detox contracts with SYNERGY
(Wilkes County) and ARCA (Forsyth County). There are also short -tern contracts and
halfway houses available, along with "scattered leases" (apartment rentals up to a year).
• Intensive outpatient substance abuse services (at least 12 hrs. a week) along with
periodic services are also provided.
• During the last fiscal year, 204 Iredell citizens were involuntarily committed to
Broughton, and 25 of them had a primary or secondary diagnosis of substance abuse.
• Last year, 47 Iredell County citizens were provided detox services at Frye Medical
Center, SYNERGY, and ARCA.
------CONSENT AGENDA----------- --
by Commissioner Tice to approve the following 17 consent agenda items.
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays — 0.
(All items were explained during the briefing session.)
1. Request from the Fire Tax District Board for a Discussion and/or Approval of a
Proposal in Regards to Trinity VFD's Insurance Rating Reduction (Request for
Reimbursement from the one -cent tax set aside in Capital Reserve for the Performance
Based Program): Approval was given to appropriate $377,621 to the Trinity VFD as specific
purchases are made in an effort to reduce the department's insurance rating from 7 to a 6, or
better. (See briefing minutes for additional information.)
2. Request to Call for an Election on the Question of Creating the Troutman Fire
District in Accordance with G.S. 69-25.1: Approval was given for the staff to send a letter to
the Board of Elections requesting that an election be held on November 6 regarding the
establishment of a Troutman Fire District. (The VFD requests for the ballot to stipulate that this
will be the Troutman Fire District rather than referring to it as the Barringer & Fallstown or B &
F Fire District.) Specifically, the board of commissioners called for the election as follows:
CALL FOR AN ELECTION
FOR THE PROPOSED TROUTMAN FIRE DISTRICT
Having received a petition of thirty-five percent (35%) of the resident freeholders living in an
area lying outside the corporate limits of the Town of Troutman, which area is described in the
petition and designated as the Troutman Fire District, the Iredell County Board of
Commissioners calls an election on November 6, 2007 in said district for the purpose of levying
and collecting a special tax on all taxable property in said district, of not exceeding fifteen cents
(150) on the one hundred dollars (3100.00) valuation property, for the purpose of providing fire
protection in said district.
(Additional information about the election may be found in the briefing minutes.)
3. Request from the Sheriffs Department for Approval of Budget Amendment #8 for
the Acceptance of the 2007-2008 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) from the U.S. Dept. of
Justice: Approval was given to accept 524,108 in JAG funds, and to appropriate the funding for
a stereo microscope, E -ticket printers, and 800 Mhz radios.