Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution authorizes the City to accept a three-year grant, totaling $1.2 million, through the US Department of Justice Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-Based Program (COAP). The City will utilize these funds to create an Addiction Resource Team and expand the current Madison Area Addition Recovery Initiative (MAARI).
The funds from the COAP grant will be appropriated within Fire, Police, and Public Health operating budgets from 2020-2022. The annual amounts will be as follows:
2020: $241,014
2021: $469,677
2022: $480,696
TOTAL: $1,200,000
The funding will be used to create 3.5 new positions outlined below:
Fire Department: 0.75 Community Paramedic (Limited Term Employee)
3 Year Total=$172,933
Public Health: 0.75 Project Coordinator (Limited Term Employee)
3 Year Total=$206,362
Police: 1.0 Police Officer & 1.0 Data Analyst (Permanent Employees)
3 Year Total=$382,433
Grant funding will also support the following contractual expenditures outlined below:
Dane County Human Services: Peer Support Contract
3 Year Total=$215,644
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute: Evaluation Services
3 Year Total=$112,659
Finally, a portion of the grant will be used for miscellaneous supply spending outlined below:
Travel Expenditures: 3 Year Total=$38,400
Misc Supplies: 3 Year Total=$18,780
Naloxone: 3 Year Total=$44,175
There is no local match associated with the grant funds. Following completion of the grant, the LTE positions in the Fire Department and Public Health will be eliminated. The permanent positions in the Police Department will continue and be fully funding by the General Fund. The ongoing cost of continuing these positions is approximately $170,000 annually.
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THIRD SUBSTITUTE A Resolution amending the 2019 2020 Operating Budgets of the Police Department, Fire Department and Public Health Madison Dane County; and accepting a U.S Department of Justice Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-Based Program (COAP) grant award of $1,200,000 to create a “Pathways to Recovery Madison & Dane County” initiative to combat opioid abuse.
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WHEREAS the U.S Department of Justice, through its Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance has established a Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-Based Program (COAP) to reduce opioid abuse and the number of overdose fatalities, as well as to mitigate the impacts on crime victims by supporting comprehensive, collaborative initiatives; and,
WHEREAS, in Madison and Dane County, the opioid crisis is a public health emergency that threatens the wellbeing of individuals who abuse drugs and impacts the safety of communities, first responders, the criminal justice system, child welfare and foster care, and behavioral health systems; and,
WHEREAS, in 2018, Dane County experienced 77 opioid-involved deaths, 478 opioid-related hospital visits and first responders made 501 ambulance runs for suspected opioid overdoses; and,
WHEREAS, the Madison Police Department (MPD), in partnership with Public Health Madison Dane County, Madison Fire Department (MFD), Dane County Department of Human Services and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, applied for and were awarded a COAP grant for $1,200,000 to create a new “Pathways to Recovery Madison & Dane County” (PTRMDC) initiative that will support data-driven solutions to promote recovery, enhance public safety and support quality of life for individuals, families and communities throughout Dane County by developing and implementing protocols to improve public safety system emergency service delivery and prevention activities through the PTRMDC program; tracking program participant engagement; and tracking program impact; and,
WHEREAS, the Pathways To Recovery initiative will implement strategies at both the prevention and intervention stages and will incorporate aspects of all five pathways to treatment identified in the Police Treatment and Community Collaborative model, which are Self-Referral, Active Outreach, Naloxone Plus, Officer Prevention and Officer Intervention; and,
WHEREAS, the initiative will create an Addiction Resource Team,(compromised of a MPD addiction resource officer, a MFD community paramedic a certified peer support specialist, an assessment center clinician, a project coordinator, and a project evaluator; and,
WHEREAS, the Addiction Resource Team will facilitate the delivery of harm reduction messaging, distribution of naloxone, and a direct link to an assessment and treatment referral to individuals struggling with a substance use disorder through a combination of pre-arrest diversion, outreach and overdose responses; and,
WHEREAS, other law enforcement agencies in the county do not have the resources to provide this intervention and are eager for this expanded project implementation, and will be able to request active outreach/prevention visits by the Addiction Resource Team to people within their community they know are struggling with a substance use disorder; and,
WHEREAS, the Pathways To Recovery initiative will expand the existing MPD MARI pre-arrest diversion program to become the Madison Area Addiction Recovery Initiative (MAARI), start a Naloxone Plus opioid overdose reversal medication distribution program, and create Safe Stations, at fire stations and other public agency facilities, to provide assistance to individuals seeking help for opioid abuse; and,
WHEREAS, Pathways to Recovery aims to reduce opioid fatalities in Dane County by 25%, as well as reduce opioid involved EMS calls and hospital encounters by 25%.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and Chief of Police are authorized to accept a FY2019 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-Based Program (COAP) grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance for $1,200,000.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Police and Fire Departments and Public Health Madison Dane County 2019 2020 Operating Budgets, once approved by the Council, is are amended to appropriate any grant funds received to be used for the purposes of the grant, including modifications upon appropriate approvals from the funder, the U.S Department of Justice.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Finance, Department and the Police and Fire Departments and Public Health Madison Dane County are authorized to establish and/or maintain accounts as required for the administration of the grant funds.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following departments shall use grant funds to create the following Pathways to Recovery Addiction Resource Team positions:
• Police Department - 1 1.0 FTE Police Officer to serve as an Addiction Resource Officer
• Police Department - 1 1.0 FTE Data Analyst
• Fire Department - 1 0.5 0.75 FTE Community Paramedic 2 LTE
• An additional 0.75 FTE LTE Project Coordinator position for Public Health Madison Dane County will be created and filled by Dane County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Police and Finance Departments are hereby authorized to pass-through $390,000 $216,000 in grant funds to the Dane County Department of Human Services for the grant purpose of conducting a request for proposal process and contracting with and managing vendors to provide clinical assessment and peer support for the Pathways to Recovery Initiative; and that the Police Department is authorized to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with DCDHS for this purpose.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Police and Finance Departments, or purchasing agent designee, are hereby authorized to execute a purchase of services contracts with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute for $112,659 for evaluation services, led by Janae Goodrich.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Police and Finance Departments, or purchasing agent designee, are hereby authorized to execute a purchase of services contracts with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute for $112,659 for evaluation services, led by Janae Goodrich.