Mental health millage to beauty Ottawa Co. ballot

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OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. (WOOD) — Ottawa County electorate are approaching to confirm a first-of-its-kind millage when they conduct to a polls Mar 8.

The 0.3 indent list offer would lift taxes to assistance account Ottawa County’s mental health agency.

The list offer would move in an estimated $3.2 million a year for a organisation in any of a subsequent 10 years.

Community Mental Health of Ottawa County pronounced it is confronting a appropriation crisis. The state altered a approach a organisation was funded, slicing scarcely $7 million from a budget.

“We’ve already been looking for ways to turn some-more fit with a dollars, widen a dollars. But really, during a finish of a day, it’s going to be reduction dollars accessible to yield support and programming to a people who need it a most,” pronounced Lynne Doyle, executive executive of Ottawa County Mental Health.

The organisation already reduced or dropped some programs.

“In some cases we’ve had to disenroll some people totally from a services and assistance them try to get services in a community,” combined Doyle.

Friends of Ottawa County Mental Health is a adults organisation seeking for a “yes” opinion Mar 8.

A representation chronicle of a Mar 8 list for Ottawa County voters.

“Thirty percent of Ottawa County adults we would hold to be in a bad mental health state do not now accept diagnosis for mental health. That’s thousands of people in a community,” pronounced Patrick Cisler, a group’s spokesperson.

Community Mental Health pronounced a income would be used for a series of resources, including pursuit and travel assistance, amicable and recreational programs and providing use to people on a wait list. The organisation also skeleton to boost a medicine services in Ottawa County schools, a jail and with law enforcement.

“With these additional millage resources, Community Mental Health can start to do prevention. It can get into a schools and start articulate to kids and teachers progressing and assisting them brand what mental health looks like and when involvement is needed. It can assistance law coercion brand when an particular has an underlying mental health condition and maybe forestall them from committing a crime after on. So that early involvement we consider is so critical,” Cisler told 24 Hour News 8.

Ottawa County says a owners of a home with taxable value of $100,000 will compensate about $30 some-more per year if a millage passes.

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