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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 18, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ,$`- rh <br />SUBJECT: Scheduling a Public Hearing on Establishing the Orange-Person-Chatham <br />Local Management Entity (LME) <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Interlocal Cooperation Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT <br />Gwen Harvey, Asst. Co. Mgr., 245 -2307 <br />Tam Maynard, OPC Director, 913-4013 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider scheduling a public hearing date to receive public comment before <br />entering into an Interlocal Cooperation Agreement (ICA) to form athree-county public entity to <br />serve as the Local Management Entity (LME) for ensuring mental health, developmental <br />disability, and substance abuse services (MH, DD, SA) in the Orange, Person, and Chatham <br />County catchment area. <br />BACKGROUND: The Mental Health Reform Steering Committee of the Orange-Person- <br />Chatham (OPC) Area Program, comprised of Commissioner representatives and County <br />Managers from the three counties, consumer liaison, and OPC management has been leading <br />and guiding efforts to address the requirements of reform legislation adopted by the state <br />legislature in 2001, Commissioner Margaret Brown serves as the Orange BOCC <br />representative. <br />In October 2002, the BOCC adopted a resolution that set forth its intentions to join with Person <br />and Chatham counties to create by an ICA a new three-county public entity that would serve as <br />the LME to fulfill the requirements of the Local Business Plan (LBP) for the management and <br />delivery of services. Person and Chatham counties are also conducting public hearings prior to <br />the adoption of the agreement. The BOCC, in December 2003, approved submitting the LBP to <br />the state for approval. The Plan provided detailed information on how the multi-county program <br />would meet State standards, laws and rules for ensuring quality services. The State approved <br />the LBP in late winter 2004, <br />Under the ICA, the OPC Area Authority would be dissolved and a new governing board <br />established comprised of 7 members (including one Commissioner from each of the three <br />counties) and a citizen advisory group. Under the state reform, the LME is a purchaser of <br />