LEGAL NOTICE
FROM: ELISA TINTI, CITY CLERK
RE: THE COMMON COUNCILOF THE CITY OF KINGSTON, NEW YORK, HAS SCHEDULED A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE MOBILE MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
DATE: MONDAY, JUNE 3RD, 2024
TIME: 6:30 PM at City Hall 420 Broadway Kingston, NY
This public hearing will also be live-streamed at the City of Kingston Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CityofKingstonNY
Please click the link below to join the public hearing:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82841214778?pwd=Q2hpbEhuRzAzSlRjTGppK05lNHRjdz09
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Or dial:+1 646 558 8656
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Written comments can be sent to the City Clerk at [email protected] or dropped off at City Hall to the Clerk’s Office or left in the drop box located at the side door entrance of City Hall.
Written comments will be received until 1:00 pm, Monday, June 6, 2024.
The Common Council of the City of Kingston will hold a public hearing on June 3, 2024 at 6:30 PM at Kingston City Hall Council Chambers, 420 Broadway, Kingston, NY and livestreamed via YouTube for the purpose of hearing public comments on the City’s Mobile Mental Health program funded by Community Development Block Grant CV CARES (CDBG-CV CARES). The CDBG program is administered by the New York State Office of Community Renewal (OCR), and has made available to eligible local governments approximately $78 million for the 2022 program year for housing, economic development, public facilities, public infrastructure, and planning activities, with the principal purpose of benefitting low/moderate income persons and to prepare, prevent, or respond to impacts of COVID-19 and potential variants or future pandemics.
The City of Kingston will have received approximately $321,000 in CDBG-CV CARES funds by project completion to support a Mobile Mental Health Co-Response Team program, which pairs a mental healthcare specialist with a Kingston Fire Department Emergency Medical Technician to staff a mobile response unit. The team has a dedicated ambulance and provides person-centric crisis response to mental health emergency calls. The team works weekdays from 10:00am to 6:00pm, and responds within the City of Kingston. In 2023 the program supported 288 people with assessment of safety and risk, behavior modification and activation, case management, empathetic/emotional support and validation, motivational interviewing, relaxation and DBT techniques, safety planning, psychoeducation, and supportive counseling. The program will continue in 2024. The team can be dispatched through the County’s 911 system, direct calls to the program, and from follow-ups on individuals discharged from the hospital.
The hearing will provide further information of the CDBG-CV CARES program and will allow for citizen participation. Comments on the CDBG-CV CARES program will be received at that time. The hearing is being conducted pursuant to Section 570.486, Subpart I of the CFR and in compliance with the requirements of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended.
Kingston City Hall is accessible to persons with disabilities. If special accommodations are needed for persons with disabilities, those with hearing impairments, or those in need of translation from English, those individuals should contact Emily Flynn at (845) 334-3909 to allow for necessary arrangements. Written comments may also be submitted to Elisa Tinti at [email protected] until June 6, 2024.
Individuals who wish to speak at the hearing are asked to sign up in advance by emailing Elisa Tinti at [email protected]. Please visit the City of Kingston website for the meeting link at www.kingston-ny.gov. (See Upcoming Meetings on the homepage. Click the June 3 Public Hearing link.)
More information about the program can be found at www.engagekingston.com/mobile-mental-health-program. Please contact Emily Flynn at [email protected] with any additional questions. |