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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 14, 2023 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-b <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution to Amend Involuntary Commitment Transportation Plan <br /> DEPARTMENT: Sheriff's Office <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> A Resolution Supporting Involuntary Sheriff Charles S. Blackwood, <br /> Commitment Transportation Services 919.245.2900 <br /> by the UNC Health Care System to Jennifer Galassi, Legal Advisor to the <br /> Youth Behavioral Hospital (Butner, Sheriff, 919.245.2952 <br /> NC) <br /> Involuntary Commitment Transportation <br /> Plan <br /> October 24, 2023 Consent Letter from <br /> UNC Health President Janet Hadar <br /> PURPOSE: To approve a resolution amending the Orange County Involuntary Commitment <br /> Transportation Plan. <br /> BACKGROUND: On March 10, 2020, the Orange County Board of Commissioners adopted the <br /> Orange County Involuntary Commitment (IVC) Transportation Plan pursuant to North Carolina <br /> General Statutes § 122C-251(g). This statute permits the Board to designate law enforcement <br /> personnel, volunteers, or other public or private agency personnel to provide all or parts of the <br /> transportation services required by involuntary commitment proceedings. <br /> The UNC Health Care System (UNC Health) will soon begin operating a new facility in Butner, <br /> North Carolina known as "Youth Behavioral Hospital," which will operate as an inpatient <br /> psychiatric facility, providing treatment and care to minors who are experiencing behavioral health <br /> crises. In anticipation of the high volume of patients at the facility, UNC Health desires to conduct <br /> certain transportation services through its law enforcement officers, security personnel, and other <br /> staff by providing transportation of certain involuntary commitment respondents between the <br /> facilities it operates in Orange County and the Youth Behavioral Hospital. <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: The provision of the transportation services by UNC Health from UNC <br /> Health's Orange County facilities to the Youth Behavioral Hospital in Butner will be at no cost to <br /> Orange County. <br /> SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPACT: The following Orange County Social Justice Goals are applicable <br /> to this item: <br /> • GOAL: FOSTER A COMMUNITY CULTURE THAT REJECTS OPPRESSION AND <br /> INEQUITY <br />