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RESOLUTION NO. 82-1 RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA REQUESTING A FULL REVIEW OF THE FUNDING AND SERVICE ALLOCATION PRACTICES OF MENTAL HEALTH BOARD NO. 9 INC. WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County was advised by the Executive Director of Mental Health Center, Inc. that the Center would have to close its fifteen (15) bed inpatient unit due to inadequate funding, and WHEREAS, the County Commission has now learned that after repeated requests for assistance from Mental Health Board No. 9, Inc. and the State Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services additional funds became available for the temporary continuation of inpatient services, and WHEREAS, the distribution of inpatient care in the five (5) County area is inequitable; the fifteen (15) bed facility serves four (4) Counties while three (3) inpatient receiving facilities exist and serve Palm Beach County with a one hundred and sixty (160) bed capacity, and WHEREAS, the inadequate distribution of these services place additional burdens on the governmental bodies in the four (4) County area causing the expenditure of tax funds for patient transportation and supervision in route, and WHEREAS, the Mental Health Board No. 9, Inc. should dis- charge its funding and service allocation responsibilities in such a manner as to equitably distribute the services to all the residents that provide tax dollars to operate the programs, and WHEREAS, it appears that the per capita allocation of State Funded Mental Health Treatment Beds is weighted in favor of Palm Beach County to the detriment of the remaining four (4) Counties, and WHEREAS, it appears that the District Board has utilized discretionary State funding for institutional care in FY '81-'82 in the amount of $4.57 per capita in Palm Beach County and only $1.99 per capita in the remaining four (4) Counties,* and -1-