Agenda - 04-04-2023; 8-a - Minutes

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Attachment 3 1 1 DRAFT MINUTES 2 ORANGE COUNTY 3 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 4 LEGISLATIVE BREAKFAST 5 February 27, 2023 6 8:30 a.m. 7 8 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a breakfast meeting with the Orange 9 County Legislative Delegation on Monday, February 27, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. at the Orange 10 County Solid Waste Administration Building (1207 Eubanks Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27516). 11 12 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Jamezetta Bedford, and Commissioners 13 Sally Greene, Jean Hamilton, Phyllis Portie-Ascott, and Anna Richards 14 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Vice-Chair Earl McKee and Commissioner Amy 15 Fowler 16 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts 17 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager 18 Travis Myren, Clerk to the Board Laura Jensen, and Assistant to Manager for Legislative 19 Affairs Greg Wilder (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) 20 LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION PRESENT: Senator Graig Meyer, Representative Renee Price, 21 and Representative Allen Buansi 22 23 Chair Bedford called the meeting to order at 8:40 a.m. All board members were present 24 except Vice-Chair McKee and Commissioner Fowler. 25 26 Chair Bedford welcomed the legislative delegation. 27 The Board of County Commissioners, legislative delegation, and staff introduced 28 themselves. 29 Chair Bedford said that Vice-Chair McKee and Commissioner Fowler both had work 30 conflicts this morning and could not attend. 31 Chair Bedford noted the list of Orange County's 2023 Priority Legislative Issues is 32 consolidated from previous years. She said the legislative delegation already supports many of 33 them. 34 Chair Bedford reviewed the first item on the Board's list of priority legislative issues: 35 36 Mental Health & Behavioral Health Services — Seek legislation to develop and fund 37 mental health and behavioral health facilities and services at the state and local level 38 that: 39 • ensure adequate State-funded mental health, developmental disability and 40 substance use disorder services and facilities are available, accessible and 41 affordable to all residents; 42 . include dedicated resources for community para-medicine projects and 43 enhanced mobile crisis response; 44 • support Medicaid reimbursement to EMS for behavioral health transport to crisis 45 centers; 46 • reduce the number of people with mental health issues in county detention 47 centers; 48 • ensure that state resources fund service provision costs, inclusive of crisis 49 intervention and treatment;