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So actually he's got a position
posted. In almost every. No
longer covered by. I just

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recently did something like.
That and. And so. And what did
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Heard this. I'm forcing them
out of their comfort zone. Yes,
yes. He said, I don't I'm going

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to be speaking when I get to
the Pace center for girls. No
idea what you just said. I said,

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sure, probably not. Yeah, he
did a great job. Good. I'm glad
you take your first. So I

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appreciate that. So. Great.
It's amazing to treat it right,
right. We're going to go ahead

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and call the meeting to order.
We'll start with the Pledge of
Allegiance, please. Pledge

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allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to
the Republic for which it

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stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. As we go

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forward, please turn your cell
phones to the vibrate, silent
and offsetting the Opioid

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Abatement Advisory Board allows
any person to speak regarding
any item on the agenda. The

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speaker is limited to two
minutes, unless otherwise
determined by the chairperson,

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to allow sufficient time for
all speakers. Speakers shall
refrain from abusive, profane

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remarks, disruptive outward
protest and other conduct which
interferes with the orderly

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conduct of the meeting. Upon
completion of the public
comment period, discussion is

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limited to the board members
and questions raised by the
board. Was the meeting properly

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advertised? Madam chair, this
meeting was advertised and this
can be of some press on July

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30th and August 6th. Thank you.
Did everybody have an
opportunity to review the

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minutes for the meeting? Yes I
did. Do I have a motion to
approve the minutes? So moved.

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Second. All in favor I next we
have public speakers. Do we
have anyone signed up to speak

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this morning? There are no
speakers. Okay. The next item
on the agenda is the budget

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review. Good morning. Right now
for the opioid abatement
funding, we have obligated

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$6,379,095.59. Of that. 829,000
was for the core emergency
management team, which are two

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years out. So I'm not going to
count that. So for this notice
of funding availability period,

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we have $1,854,560.87 to
allocate. And then once the end
of the year for the fiscal year

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2526 ends, any funding that any
organization has remaining will
just go back into the pool of

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funding. Perfect. Thank you. So
we have a number eight on the
agenda, the project amendment

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request for the YMCA to add
bright House ministries, and
we'll have them come up and

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talk about this. So there is no
additional funding request for
this. They're simply asking to

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add another partner to the
program. Okay, great. Oh yes.
Anything you want to add? No.

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Yeah, that's pretty much pretty
much sums it up. Okay. Do we
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well? Okay. Do I have a motion?
So moved and a second. Second.
All in favor. Aye, aye. And the

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and motion passes report and
wrap up for the 2425 funding
availability awardees. Ministry.

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Village at Olive. Good morning.
Drayton Smith with Ministry
Village. We are well underway

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with getting all of our permits
and moving forward. The
tractors are on the ground to

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dig the holding pond and also
do all the site work at this
moment. That's good news. Got

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movement? That's great. All
right. Are there any questions?
Thank you. The next report that

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we have is from 2526 funding
availability, awardees, EMS
Corps. Do you have anything for

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us to. Our mobile van clinic
slash I guess everything is
already in production. We're

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expecting to take possession of
it in November. We have already
received our Zole Xenix monitor,

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which is for the internal
inside of the truck that will
be used for vital signs, EKGs,

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etc. everything else. We're
still going strong. We're over
738 patients transitioned.

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We've also seen a significant
decline in overdoses in
Escambia County this year. To

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date, we're over 450 versus
last year. We were at, I think,
1700. So we this community and

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the work that everybody's doing
has definitely made a dent.
That is incredible. That's

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great. Great news. Thank you so
much. You're very welcome.
Bright bridge, do they have any

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updates? Health and hope. Hope
above fear. Oh, sorry. Health
and hope. Didn't give you time,

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did I? Good morning, good
morning, good morning. So we
are currently doing well. One

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of the things that I'd like to
point out to this group, we've
had a 27% increase in our life

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recovery support group. Those
classes are held every Tuesday,
and we have 57% increase in

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patient attendance. That group
is open to not only our clinic
patients, but also open to the

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community as well. We currently
also have a great partnership
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CARES House for their
participation in our reclaiming
Hope support Group. Our mobile

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outreach team is going strong
with our Narcan distribution,
as well as our outreach events

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and our screenings. And we're
continuing. We did participate
in Hope day to both sites, and

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that was a great opportunity
with our community. And then
from a emergency room

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perspective, we're continuing
to follow up on all of our
patients that are seen in the

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emergency room. We have three
of our behavioral health team
members that have completed

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their substance peer
certification training, and we
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health director that is in the
process of getting eMDR
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then we completed our internal
family systems training and
continuing to offer our CPR,

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BLS, as well as our hands off,
hands off CPR with our
community members and our

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patients and our health and
wellness classes. We also have
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conducted last month and then
offering with our translation
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being able to participate in
the health and wellness
activities as well. And last

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month we conducted or
distributed 180 boxes of Narcan
and provided education. Along

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with that, in addition to 97 of
our behavioral health and
social determinants of health

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screenings and 167 counseling
appointments. So we are doing
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And thank you. You're doing a
lot. And congratulations on the
peer certification. That's a

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big thank you as well. Thank
you, thank you. Anyone have any
questions? Okay. Hope above

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fear. Good morning. Good
morning. Let's see. So I think.
Did your questions. No I'm

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going to do just like what was
just done and just explain
everything to you. Right? Yeah.

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So I think right now our
biggest program over the summer
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to date in 2026, so far, we've
hosted 18 experiences. We've
had 200 teens register of that,

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236 attended more than or
between 2 and 16 times. So we
had a significant increase in

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our repeat students. And then
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through. And so we over the

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over the summer, we hosted one
every single week. And now that
school is back in, we'll go

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back to twice a month. And our
diversion program has launched
its new branding. So our the

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new name is reset and that our
first class begins in two weeks,
and then we will be having new

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orientations every. I think
it's I think it's scheduled out
for every two weeks. That is in

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partnership with all of the
high schools in Escambia County.
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discussion on having students
referred to us also through
justice involved students

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referred to as from JPS as well.
So. That's good. Thank you. Do
you have any questions? Next we

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have Ministry Village. Oh I'm
sorry, do you have anything
else you need to add? We're

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almost at full capacity so we
do need this new building quick,
great offensive. Good morning.

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Brad Bishop with offensive. So
July July held a lot of of of
new things that we're really

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excited about right here. These
are the first legal xylazine
test strips being distributed

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in our community. A little over
a month ago, these were illegal.
And I wrote a bill that was

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sponsored by Rep Salzman and
Senator Gates and signed into
law July 1st that

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decriminalized these. So now we
can detect this in our supply
before it shows up in the

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medical examiner's report. So
if anybody would like any.
We've got plenty. So we'll

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start off with that. Last week
we had our big O Street forum.
We had quite a bit of our

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community partners here
participate Escambia County
Court. We had a speaker, Wendy

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Shine, from Cor Shoe. She spoke
as well as she was on our panel,
Denise with Ccdc. She was there,

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made the comment, Denise is the
only data center I would vote
for in Escambia County. So

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thank you all for participating.
Unmasked our Resocialization
program. So we just completed

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eight weeks. We're handing out
certificates today. This is to
overcome the barrier of

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communication and relationships.
So once we've got mental health
stabilized, once we've got

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substance use stabilized,
there's still a barrier of
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society as we do on a regular
basis. So that's focused on
teaching offense mechanisms and

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managing defense mechanisms. So
we've reached eight weeks on
that, and we're about to start

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it again. On this second round,
we're going to be doing two
versions. One is going to be at

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camp and one's going to be open
to the public. Also last week
this was a big deal to me. I

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met with Sergeant Burkhart at
the sheriff's department. He's
the lead for the Co-responders

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unit. After a long talk, he he
he agreed to bring us in and
give us a two hour block at

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their crisis intervention
training. So originally it
started out as 30 minutes. But

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as I got to tell them about it,
he's like, well, I'll give you
two hours. This is something

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that was funded by the opioid
abatement funds. And so now not
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now we're now we're becoming a
regular part of the crisis
intervention training with

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hopes to get into the academy.
And to explain what Xylazine is
so they'll understand the

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importance of the. Okay. So.
Xylazine. Xylazine, we're
actually a little bit behind

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the curve now because now
there's Medetomidine as well.
But what we're talking about is

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veterinarian tranquilizers,
sedatives that are being added
to fentanyl to make fentanyl

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last longer, like it's heroin,
but it's really two different
things. Fentanyl is fast acting.

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It's in and out. So adding
these tranquilizers extends the
half life. And they're kind of

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not really, but it just makes
it last a little bit longer to
what they know. Right. But it

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comes with a whole lot of other
side effects. Xylazine has
these skin wounds that they

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take years to heal. But, you
know, if they're not treated,
you know, it looks like an

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alligator took a bite out of
somebody's limb, right? So
that's in it. Medetomidine.

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It's a, it's another version of
it. It doesn't come with all
the wounds and everything, but

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it's still a veterinary
tranquilizer. These things are
being added to the fentanyl

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here in America. It's not
something that's coming across
the border. It's black market

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veterinary deals that that's
taking place that that is
getting this into our our

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community. And it's showing up
in the medical examiner's
report. Xylazine at a high rate

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and Medetomidine also. But up
until now, we couldn't test for
it out in the streets like we

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do with the fentanyl test
strips. And we're able to
identify fentanyl and all this

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other stuff. The Xylazine test
strips now allow us to detect
the xylazine that's in the

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system. Next will be
Medetomidine. One thing to note
about these two things that are

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being added is they do not
reverse with naloxone, and
currently there is not a

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reversal agent for humans for
this. For these two things
there is for animals so far. So

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I don't know, hopefully coming
soon. But so yeah, that's a
little background on those

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things. Thank you so much.
Anybody have any questions?
Thank you, thank you thank you.

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Next we have three. Good
morning. Vinnie Whibbs,
Executive director, Reentry

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Alliance, Pensacola, reporting
on our particular program. Some
some good news. We have both a

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men's and a women's house. Each
of them now only have one space
available for them. We've

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quickly learned that the
benefit of peer support
specialist. And so now we have

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one completely certified peer
support specialist and another
one that is in the process of

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getting that certification,
which will be expected within
the next 30 days, kind of a

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deal. We also actually had our
first graduate come through the
house, had been in our program

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for about three months,
complied with all the, you know,
the restrictions, requirements,

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the training and stuff like
that secured a permanent
position and job working full

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time. We have actually followed
up a couple of times since they
left our program. So so we're

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very excited. Keep moving
forward. No particular problems
that we're aware of. Basically

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our budget right now, we've
we've expended about 25%. We
would anticipate some some of

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the, some of the items that we
had listed in the in the budget.
Medically assisted treatment,

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some some funding for that and
some funding for computer
printer kind of a deal. We

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probably do not anticipate
using that. We don't know
whether or not the process for

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transferring the funds that
were allocated for that. If we
could use that, we're certainly

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going to be short on funding
for our housing. Both the
utility costs have gone up and

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the residential costs, so we
would probably submit a request
for transfer those funds. But

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nothing, nothing important.
Thank you. Questions? No.
Congratulations on The graduate.

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Thank you. We're we're excited
about the program. We're
working well. Lakeview AIM.

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Quite a weekend of gardening.
Patty Hyde for Lakeview
Adolescents in Motion. We are

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fully staffed now. It's taken
us a little while to get there.
Our groups, we're holding them

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every week. The attendance is
anywhere from 6 to 9 people,
adolescents. And so we're

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hoping now that we're fully
funded to go up to at least 15
per week. And we're that's

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about it. We're in the middle
of reapplication for our
salaried people. Great

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questions. No thank you, thank
you. And the YMCA. As of right
now, we put the program on hold

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because we wanted an increase
to core patients and non core
patients. I think now that we

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have it approved, we can
definitely get started with
Bright Bridge and attending it

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there and Northwest Florida as
well. Thank you. Next we have
the 2627 opioid Abatement

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Notice of funding availability
update. So as of right now, the
it has been advertised, the

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application has been released.
We had our pre-application
meeting on July 9th in which we

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had eight nonprofits
participate. So we're seeing an
increase every single year with

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who, who shows up to these
meetings, which is very, very,
very promising. The application

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due dates are September 11th,
and then we will go through the
evaluation performance

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committee process, and it
should be brought back to you
guys on the gosh, the next

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meeting, October 12th, October
12th. So we will bring forth
the applicants that we've

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received for this funding year,
for you guys to have a chance
to review it, talk to them, ask

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questions, and then hopefully
get another round of funding
out the door. Great. Thank you.

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Is there any new business? All
right. Our next meeting is
scheduled for October the 12th

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at 10:00. The meeting is
adjourned.