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Attachment 3 1 1 DRAFT MINUTES 2 ORANGE COUNTY 3 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 4 LEGISLATIVE BREAKFAST 5 March 21, 2024 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 Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. at the Whitted 10 Human Services Center in Hillsborough, NC. 11 12 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Jamezetta Bedford, Vice-Chair Sally 13 Greene, and Commissioners Amy Fowler, Jean Hamilton, Earl McKee, Phyllis Portie-Ascott, 14 and Anna Richards 15 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None. 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 and Representative Renee 21 Price 22 23 Chair Bedford called the meeting to order at 8:44 a.m. All board members were present. 24 25 Chair Bedford welcomed the legislative delegation. 26 The Board of County Commissioners, legislative delegation, and staff introduced 27 themselves. 28 Chair Bedford thanked Commissioner Fowler and Commissioner Hamilton for working 29 with Greg Wilder on the list of legislative priority issues. 30 Commissioner Fowler, Commissioner Hamilton, and Chair Bedford highlighted new 31 items on the list of legislative priorities. 32 Chair Bedford reviewed the first item on the Board's list of priority legislative issues: 33 34 Mental Health Behavioral Health and Substance Use Issues — Seek legislation to develop 35 and fund mental health and behavioral health facilities and services at the state and local level 36 that: 37 • Ensure adequate State-funded mental health, developmental disability and substance 38 use disorder services and facilities are available, accessible and affordable to all 39 residents; 40 • Include dedicated resources for community para-medicine projects and enhanced 41 mobile crisis response; 42 • Support Medicaid reimbursement to EMS for behavioral health transport to crisis 43 centers; 44 • Reimburse behavioral health urgent care services at a sustainable rate; 45 • Reduce the number of people with mental health issues in county detention centers; 46 • Ensure that state resources fund service provision costs, inclusive of crisis intervention 47 and treatment; 48 • Provide assistance to NC residents, especially youth, who are dealing with the impacts 49 of COVID;