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A resolution approving a grant contract between the Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Metropolitan Board of Health, and the Mental Health Cooperative for the provision of emergency psychiatric care for individuals in crisis at the Mental Health Crisis Treatment Center and staff to support the Metro Nashville Police Department co-response model known as Nashville Partners in Care and the Nashville Fire Department co-response model known as Nashville Responders Engaged and Committed to Help.
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WHEREAS, Substitute Ordinance No. BL2025-833 appropriated $5,990,900 of funds to the Health Department for a grant to the Mental Health Cooperative; and,
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Metropolitan Board of Health, wishes to contract with the Mental Health Cooperative for the provision of emergency psychiatric care for individuals in crisis at the Mental Health Crisis Treatment Center and staff to support the Metro Nashville Police Department co-response model known as Nashville Partners in Care and the Nashville Fire Department co-response model known as Nashville Responders Engaged and Committed to Help; and,
WHEREAS, Metropolitan Charter Section 10.104 provides that the Board of Health has the duty to contract for such services as will further the program and policies of the board, subject to confirmation by Resolution of Council; and,
WHEREAS, it is to the benefit of the citizens of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that this grant contract be approved.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1. That the grant contract by and between the Mental Health Cooperative and the Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Metropolitan Board of Health, for the provision of emergency psychiatric care for individuals in crisis at the Mental Health Crisis Treatment Center and staff to support the Metro Nas...
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