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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1713 |
| Alachua County Community Change Center |
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| Requester: |
Randall H. Reid, County Manager |
Organization: |
Alachua County |
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| Project Title: |
Alachua County Community Change Center |
Date Submitted |
1/3/2008 2:10:29 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Oelrich |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Reduce statewide expenditures for healthcare, law enforcement, corrections, emergency housing, treatment centers, domestic abuse shelters, and other programs that serve the chronically addicted, mentally ill and/or homeless residents of the state. |
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| Recipient: |
Alachua County Board of County Commissioners |
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Contact: |
Cyndi Morton, Court Services Director |
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PO Box 2877 |
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Contact Phone: |
(352) 338-7390 |
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Gainesville 32602 |
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Contact email: |
cbm@alachuacounty.us |
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| Counties: |
Alachua |
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| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
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| Project Description: |
| Alachua County, the City of Gainesville and other local government entities propose to implement new, and enhance existing programs, projects and services in the field of health care, mental health care, housing, social services, drug and alcohol treatment, vocational training, job placement, court services and institutional discharge planning and coordination as part of a multi-year plan to combat jail overcrowding, homelessness, chronic addiction, mental illness and unemployment in Alachua County. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| 1. Prevent or reduce homelessness, addiction, unemployment, mental illness and incarceration among individuals and families who are clearly headed toward that outcome. 2. Intervene with individuals identified with needs in the target areas, to reduce the cycle through the criminal justice, treatment and social services system. 3. Treat chronically homeless, mentally ill and/or chronic substance abusing individuals through a comprehensive assessment, treatment and case management approach to provide supportive services necessary to maximize self-sufficiency, establish permanent housing, sustainable employment, and on-going aftercare support. 4. Implement a Crisis Management Housing Unit at the Alachua County Jail to house inmates who are acutely mentally ill and/or those who are suicidal and in need of close observation. 5. Reduce jail inmate recidivism. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$4,000,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$10,000,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Construction |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local |
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Cash Amount |
$500,000 |
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In-kind Amount |
$300,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations, Construction |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
Unknown |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
"GRACE for the Homeless" Report December 2005 (Gainesville Regional/Alachua County Empowerment) |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Alachua County State Legislative Delegation |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
