DISCUSSION ITEMS:

-Centennial Mental Health Update: Dr. Elizabeth Hickman reported that they serve about 700 individuals in EC - that number has remained steady over several years; reviewed specific prevention and outpatient services/early interventions/crisis responses they provide (5,700 per year). Will soon be able to provide more jail-based services (mental health) due to increased state funding.

-2018 Audit Report (Rubin Brown, External Auditor): essentially performs 2 separate audits (one of the county funds and one of the federal funds county receives); across-the-board, the county received a “clean” opinion; complimented county departments for their competency and accessibility. Accomplishments: filled finance manager and assistant county manager positions, implemented/updated grants policy, issued PID for Sun Country, inventoried parcels of land. Material weaknesses: previous issues with grants downgraded to less serious (still not completely corrected); new standard required for reporting on gathering and distributing tax revenues to various departments; cyber security needs to be addressed. County provides documents to auditor who prepares the audit. (Audit is available on county website.)

Citizen comments on audit: congratulations to county for improving systems over the past several years; revenues from property taxes are increasing but county continues to spend in direct proportion to increased income - county needs to put more into reserves (per the audit, long-term debt has increased).