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the patients will stay clean. That percentage diminishes a bit after one or two years.- They feel the program is successful. He admitted that Mr. Sloan's daughter went through two programs and still went back to drugs. However, there are many people who go back to alcohol after they have gone through Alcoholics Anonymous, and you can't say that program is unsuccessful. Chairman Scurlock wondered if this was the drug program the County should support, or whether our tax monies would be better spent on law enforcement. Commissioner Bird felt all the experts will tell you that we need to have strong law enforcement, a strong education program throughout the community, and a'third program for the people that already are addicted. He asked how many additional beds this expansion would provide, and Mr. Mills advised that there would be 48 new substance abuse residential treatment beds, but they do not have any money to operate those beds. He estimated that $1 -million would be needed from the State to operate the 48 beds for one year. In addition, they would need to ask the 4 counties for matching monies, approximately $300,000 total. The amount from Indian River County would be less than $100,000, probably $75,000. Chairman Scurlock could not support that kind of expenditure, and felt the best approach would be for the 4 counties to get together and exercise some sort of option on this property that would allow the center to put all the unknowns together and then come back to each County Commission and present the full package. That way the Boards could decide whether they wanted to exercise the option. If Mr. Sloan is willing to do that, he would be willing to at least move ahead in that direction. He could not sit here and commit to $250,000 in this tight budget year without knowing whether all of the 4 counties will approve or whether the State will provide the operating expenses. s Boa 73 rnuc 212 ,JUL 12 i9��