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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 23, 2004 Action Agend~aM Item No. SUBJECT: Approval of the Interlocal Cooperation Agreement Establishing the Orange- Person-Chatham Local Management Entity (LME) DEPARTMENT: County Manager's Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Interlocal Cooperation Agreement INFORMATION CONTACT Gwen Harvey, Asst. Go. Mgr, 245 -2307 Tom Maynard, OPC Director, 913-4013 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To approve an Interlocal Cooperation Agreement (ICA) to form athree-county public entity to serve as the Local Management Entity (LME) for ensuring mental health, developmental disability, and substance abuse services (MH/DD/SA) in the Orange, Person, and Chatham counties catchment area. BACKGROUND: The Mental Health Reform Steering Committee of the OPC Area Program, comprised of Commissioner representatives and County Managers from the three counties, consumer liaison, and OPC management, has been leading and guiding efforts to address the requirements of reform legislation adapted by the state legislature in 2001. Commissioner Margaret Brown serves as the Orange BOCC representative. In October 2002, the BOCC adopted a resolution that set forth Orange County's intentions to join with Person and Chatham counties to create by ICA a new three county public entity that would serve as the LME to fulfill the requirements of the Local Business Plan (LBP) for the management and delivery of services. The BOGG, in December 2002, approved submitting the LBP to the state for approval. The Plan provided detailed information on how the multi-county program would meet state standards, laws and rules for ensuring quality services. The State approved the LBP in late winter 2003. Under the ICA, the OPC Area Authority would be dissolved and a new governing board established comprised of 7 members (including one Commissioner from each of the three counties) and a citizen advisory group. Under state reform, the LME is a purchaser of services and must privatize the service system -divest direct service responsibilities -with three years, or by 2006. The new role of the LME will be to manage the provider network, create and maintain a service access system, evaluate regional system performance, tailor the deployment of state resources to meet local identified needs, mobilize community response to meet identified needs, advocate using state and other resources to meet local community needs,