Certified year-end sober living months as a new program

The County certified Recovery Supports at 6,833.00 for FY2024 and 10,630.00 for FY2025. Each figure is to the cent the Maryville Inc sober living checks charged to the opioid account in that year, for November and December 2023 and for October to December 2024. The County's vendor history shows it has paid Maryville for the same sober living service every year since 2018 from its alcohol and drug abuse accounts, and that the opioid account was charged only for the last months of 2023, 2024 and 2025. Asked how the program was procured, the FY2024 report says sober living funding comes through a DMHAS funded contract, and that settlement money was used once the previously allocated funding was exhausted. Settlement money may not replace existing funding. This project reads the pattern as months the County's own accounts would otherwise have paid. The record does not show whether the County's allocation for those months was reduced or would have been increased.