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A resolution appropriating $350,000.00 in American Rescue Plan Act funds from Fund #30216 to the Metro Nashville Police Department to expand the Partners in Care pilot program and to create a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training program.
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WHEREAS, on June 15, 2021, the Metropolitan Council passed Resolution RS2021-966, a resolution which accepted grant funds for local government support from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds established by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ("ARP Funds") from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson Count, which was subsequently signed into law by Mayor John Cooper on June 16, 2021; and,
WHEREAS, Resolution RS2021-966 established a COVID-19 Financial Oversight Committee ("the Committee") whose role is to collect, consider, and recommend appropriate uses of the ARP Funds as designated by the Metropolitan Council disbursement plan. The Committee will submit its reports and recommendations to the Mayor, the Director of Finance, and the Metropolitan Council not later than June 30, 2025; and,
WHEREAS, there are federal requirements for use of ARP Funds that require that these funds be expended or obligated on or before December 31, 2024; and,
WHEREAS, the Committee recognizes that MNPD officers regularly respond to mental health emergencies and that the development and expansion of MNPD crisis intervention teams ("CITs") using clinicians and officers trained in mental health emergencies is a critical priority for the city; and,
WHEREAS, the Committee recognizes that the negative financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have emphasized the need to expand the number of police precincts using the Partners in Care pilot program over the next several years and that doing so will require additional mental health, crisis-related trainings for police officers; and,
WHEREAS, to accomplish this goal, MNPD has developed a mental health training program to...
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