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- 13:46space for community you know meetings for yoga for classrooms and small offices for hopefully DSS or county mental health to come and provide some services. I do want to stop here for one second and just because I've heard from folks asking me well is this there's um apparently a planned um some planned services on the church on Green Street right now. how they do code blue …
- 44:05You can put a policy in place like the FDA policies the NIH had policies and they threw them out the window. Okay. Vaccines, you know, had to go through a freaking period of testings. They threw them out the window. Right. So, I'm just saying you can put all the policies in place you want, but when someone wants to break the rules. Okay. Well, go ahead and do it.
- 2026-09-17CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Governance and Nominating Committee Meeting 9/17/262 passages22:14… really well for property management because it was lacking here in Hudson and it was the number one move to address in the country during COVID. So we kind of went from there and uh happy to be here.
- 55:43from our my company mental health, it was illegal. So that's why they didn't get back to you last year. Oh, I took the band transport us and that scene to the fair. So when I talked to Mr. Nette, it was kind of like a goaround. When I talked and I had told her to email Mr. Doson back, he's legit, you know, and they said, "Well, he's not part class." Yes, I understand that. But …
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20266 passages longer discussion5:03So, this synthetic cratom does affect the opioid receptor. So, it is much like any other opioid. Uh people that go through withdrawal of of cratom see the same exact side effects of somebody taking any other opioid. Um, a lot of people are also taking it in between using maybe treatments that they're getting um for an opioid use addiction that if they are seeking to get a high …
- 2026-09-15HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 9/15/2026 Board of Education Meeting2 passages33:31… at a daycare and eventually became a lead teacher for two years, or for a two-year-old classroom. From there, she transitioned into mental health counseling as a clinician for a nonprofit organization that provided counseling services within New York City's Department of Education.
- 27:48… it's asked for. It's just more of the same in terms of a runaround. And second, we need to send a message to future applicants that yes, COVID was a a moment in time, but we're six years out and he's not had his equity an equity lender replacement in a number of years.
- 8:21Okay. Uh body one cam reports for August indicated no training needs. Um number of defensive action reports for August were zero. Number of arrests were 44 for 75 charges. Number of emotionally disturbed person calls were seven. and zero incidents involving drug overdose or suspected drug overdose. Total incidents for August was 795.
- 10:12… here tonight? Okay. Uh we will convey this on to them. But I'd also like to recognize Columbia Countyy's own director Dan Almasi of our mental health services who brought this in front of the home committee quite some time ago now. Uh we had his he had our support let's say as boards of supervisors for moving this ahead and this is a terrific program. So thank you very much …
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- 1:05:05… council anyone okay i guess you can move on please okay so this is just taking a look at something we've been tracking uh you know to see covid um impact of covid and this is looking at non-property tax revenues and the reason why we're looking at non-property tax revenues
- 8:22our local paper the mayor of philmont state that um one overdose is um entirely too many and our entire county should be thinking the same that one overdose is too many um our county is often in the leading in the race of deaths around uh new york state we've already seen over 35 suspected overdoses in our county this year alone the need for short-term crisis stabilization …
- 18:03… our respective one house budget resolutions this week these resolutions are a statement and reflection of each house's policy priorities vaccines getting the copic 19 vaccine distribution process fixed and working efficiently and effectively has been a top priority for me the vaccines are so vitally important to finally putting this deadly pandemic behind us and getting our …
- 2026-03-10HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 3/10/2026 Board of Education Meeting10 passages longer discussion1:51:49… of it's contributed to kids not having that exposure to peers when they were young. You got a lot of parents who had young kids who Yeah, COVID who like, you know, even when COVID was kind of going, they weren't they didn't want their 1 and 1/2 year old or 2 year old being around another child cuz, you know, they were worried they're going to get sick. So, they didn't have …
- 33:48… know he was offered that but you know maybe he was i'm not sure yeah malachi as a point of information i was working with dss before the pandemic on establishing a code blue um i think that's what they were calling it right station for the city and it just it's it just became impractical during the pandemic but i'll let you know when we get that back on track um commissioner …
- 4:12… going to be a couple rounds of cdbg the other way to think the other thing that's happening here is with the uh our emergence from the pandemic coupled with the fact that the uh the latest round of stimulus money really made the state whole is that there is a
- 2023-07-31*CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Workforce & Education Meeting 1/13/228 passages longer discussion10:00them from organizations in California and Europe the the pandemic has well it's created a situation where we can now we're truly International truly virtual Workforce um so where the the top talent in our areas is being recruited at businesses that don't exist here um so that's another thing for us to kind of think about in the back of our heads is we may have really talented …
- 1:06:09… and 10 instances of emotionally disturbed people calls which is about average and very happy to report that there was no instances of drug overdose or suspected overdose or use of narcan
- 13:50concern with the covid surges and then the mental health person would be somebody in charge of like um when people don't want to open the door for pest services because of something maybe their anxiety or depression is preventing them um or the the fear that their house is not in good enough condition and something else will come behind over the opening the door somebody that …
- 38:22… out our evps throughout the city especially as the bad weather is coming in the best news i have from this report is that we had no drug overdoses in october no uses of narcan in suspected overdoses so that bucks the trend we know that overdose deaths are up around 30 percent for the nation this year so to have a month uh with no overdose
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- 48:15because I think that one of the things that's been the hardest during COVID is to not have the access to live music, to not really be able to experience live music. So I just love this concept very much. Thank you. Can I, Tom, may I? It's Jane, may I ask a question? Is that Jane? Yes. Okay. Couple of questions. It's scheduled for September, right? For the month of September. …
- 8:36to issue a positive declaration and trigger the kind of review that the city deserves. I also wanted to say that in this time of pandemic, we should also address the issue of open public space, something our city is frankly starved for, and I think now that we're in this period, we all recognize that. More than ever, we should consider the impact of a busy gravel depot with …
- 13:46space for community you know meetings for yoga for classrooms and small offices for hopefully DSS or county mental health to come and provide some services. I do want to stop here for one second and just because I've heard from folks asking me well is this there's um apparently a planned um some planned services on the church on Green Street right now. how they do code blue …
- 44:05You can put a policy in place like the FDA policies the NIH had policies and they threw them out the window. Okay. Vaccines, you know, had to go through a freaking period of testings. They threw them out the window. Right. So, I'm just saying you can put all the policies in place you want, but when someone wants to break the rules. Okay. Well, go ahead and do it.
- 2026-09-17CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Governance and Nominating Committee Meeting 9/17/262 passages22:14… really well for property management because it was lacking here in Hudson and it was the number one move to address in the country during COVID. So we kind of went from there and uh happy to be here.
- 55:43from our my company mental health, it was illegal. So that's why they didn't get back to you last year. Oh, I took the band transport us and that scene to the fair. So when I talked to Mr. Nette, it was kind of like a goaround. When I talked and I had told her to email Mr. Doson back, he's legit, you know, and they said, "Well, he's not part class." Yes, I understand that. But …
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20266 passages longer discussion5:03So, this synthetic cratom does affect the opioid receptor. So, it is much like any other opioid. Uh people that go through withdrawal of of cratom see the same exact side effects of somebody taking any other opioid. Um, a lot of people are also taking it in between using maybe treatments that they're getting um for an opioid use addiction that if they are seeking to get a high …
- 2026-09-15HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 9/15/2026 Board of Education Meeting2 passages33:31… at a daycare and eventually became a lead teacher for two years, or for a two-year-old classroom. From there, she transitioned into mental health counseling as a clinician for a nonprofit organization that provided counseling services within New York City's Department of Education.
- 27:48… it's asked for. It's just more of the same in terms of a runaround. And second, we need to send a message to future applicants that yes, COVID was a a moment in time, but we're six years out and he's not had his equity an equity lender replacement in a number of years.
- 8:21Okay. Uh body one cam reports for August indicated no training needs. Um number of defensive action reports for August were zero. Number of arrests were 44 for 75 charges. Number of emotionally disturbed person calls were seven. and zero incidents involving drug overdose or suspected drug overdose. Total incidents for August was 795.
- 10:12… here tonight? Okay. Uh we will convey this on to them. But I'd also like to recognize Columbia Countyy's own director Dan Almasi of our mental health services who brought this in front of the home committee quite some time ago now. Uh we had his he had our support let's say as boards of supervisors for moving this ahead and this is a terrific program. So thank you very much …
- 2026-08-18County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || August 18, 20261 passage14:46We don't we don't require them to pay. Uh again, New York State has enhanced the reimbursement to article 31 clinics. Uh OMH, Office of Mental Health license clinics like ours. They've enhanced the reimbursement. We can make a a much better financial go. Historically, we pulled out of uh the six districts because we approached them and said, "Look, help us financially. Help us …
- 25:27So when you look at the mental health building, a brownfield project, right? When you start looking at uh up by the Little Build, a brownfield project. When you look down [clears throat] by Mil Street, a brownfield project, we have tons of brownfield projects in this city. And this matter fact where this towers is sitting now was a old junkyard. So it's not like we're we're …
- 26:17Interest rates went up, construction costs went up, lenders got very skittish about investing in hotel properties during the COVID. Remember COVID at that point was a year and a half.
- 15:34This is a free service. No health insurance is needed. It is fully funded by um office of mental health in New York State and our success rate um by doing this work directly with families and youth in their home environments. were able to prevent psychiatric hospitalization out of home placement in more than 90% of the families that we serve.
- 22:56… adjustment to the fence appearance and speaking with Mr. Fox wanted to present that to this group and then he reminds me on the original COVID that we agreed to show you sort of spec sheets of the windows and doors.
- 22:21… EIDL loan. And you'll recall that we had taken $100,000 when we weren't sure if the county was going to reduce our appropriation during COVID the second year. uh and we've been paying it off on a 5-year schedule rather than the uh 30-year schedule that
- 2026-07-14County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || July 14, 20262 passages5:04… and reintegration. What those mean is, of course, stabilization. A person can come in, get stabilized. That might mean in the case of an opioid dependence, a a
- 2026-07-07HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 7/7/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage28:19District designates. Uh make a motion to to the following designations for the officer, Medicaid compliance officer, children and youth, opioid program services, and HIPPA compliance officer.
- 6:34… a subject and then he fled. He was apprehended and taser was displayed and pointed but not deployed. Um the other one we responded to a mental health incident involving a subject who expressed a desire to harm herself and refused to voluntarily go to the hospital. So officers had to take her into custody so that she could be brought to the hospital.
- 18:55Yeah, it was it was it was a good time. Um you know, again, I was just really excited to to get that back. Um I've been going there. Um the last derby took place uh well before um COVID and [clears throat] so um with the the of the uh Bauer family um we were able to make it happen. Uh there was there was breakfast available, there was lunch available.
- 30:29… in the county clerk's office too people have left and I haven't backfilled some of the positions so we are smaller staff now in DMV um COVID came and you all remember the lines out the door people coming from all over the state to come to my DMV because we were doing takeout and waiting and waiting
- 2026-06-16HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 6/16/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage53:09Under Tabitha Beain, the previous business person, plans were discussed to create a dedicated approval process, reorganizing competitions as team events rather than field trips. COVID relief funding also allowed us to attend Harvard Mall UN in 2024.
- 8:03… a um document that was created by the um the committee on open government um which is a division of department of state um and and during COVID uh there were several executive orders profession that allowed us to hold meetings not fine. I mean, after co um the legislature adopted um some provisions for video conferencing, but they're very limited. Um they require a whole bunch …
- 16:11Uh, so the body warn camera report didn't indicate any training needs. Um, we had zero defensive action reports, 34 arrests for 50 charges. We had seven emotionally disturbed person calls uh and zero calls involving drug overdose or suspected drug overdose.
- 2026-05-26County Economic Development CommitteeEconomic Development || May 26, 2026 HD 720p4 passages longer discussion15:29… skill sets to either bring their children back into their home, maintain their children in their home again. So saving families um mental health, their their stress, their uh disconnection. It saves the county money when families can stay together and be healthy. and learning those parenting skills that a lot of folks don't learn
- 1:04:16take out of county, but then they changed during COVID.
- 2026-05-19County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || May 19, 20266 passages longer discussion0:20Yeah. I want to give credit or credit to you. So I don't know what do we have quite a few today. Start with financial resolutions, I believe. Um, first of which is to accept money from the nearest state office of mental health for student loan uh, forgiveness program.
- 2026-05-05HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 5/5/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage1:04:40The last thing I'll say is the district unquestionably has been faced with that for a long time. Before COVID money, but definitively around COVID money, where every district received millions of dollars, where they invested in human resource and technology resource and different resources. And when it ended districts had to choose, do we continue to do these things, to have …
- 6:44… arrests, we had 50 arrests for April and 59 charges related to the arrests. We had 11 emotionally disturbed persons calls and we had zero overdoses or expected drug use calls. So no um no OD deaths or arcan was administered. Also for April, HBD responded to 9 922 incidences.
- 15:36in in 2019, it seemed like a long time closed during COVID for evictions from it's 7 years ago, but in in in this they've made a whole bunch of changes to lot of it is in recognition of there's you know, wages are going like this and can't afford places. So, I I think that they they make it I I don't know if I want to say more it's just a it's a more fair process for um yeah, …
- 0:57… All in favor? Opposed? Carried. Resolution number seven, authorization for the board of supervisors to appoint a new chairperson to the mental health subcommittee of the community services board. Move it. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Opposed? Carried. Resolution number eight, authorization for the department of human services to contract with Columbia County …
- 2026-04-21HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 4/21/2026 Board of Education Meeting2 passages17:42So 23-24 marks the end of the COVID money which I don't know what Hudson's allocation was. Mine in my former district was $9 million? That went an awful long way to add to program and in some instances maybe supplant some program. In other words, we used that grant money to pay for things we would have ordinarily paid for including technology. So, at the end of the year, all …
- 2026-04-14County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || April 14, 20261 passage13:02other groups and nonprofits from the mental health association and others that might come on site to provide host of therapeutic processes and and opportunities for people to meet both individually and in group.
- 2026-04-14HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 4/14/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage28:38All right, this the reason I asked that is because I hear a lot that when we were in COVID, students suffered by only doing virtual. So, I'm just wondering how much are they going to be set be behind by doing that?
- 7:34… three separate incidents and we spoke before there were three separate people three separate incidents number of calls involving a drug overdose or suspected overdose was one um and that was one of the the calls but it wasn't no Narcan administered or any transport to the hospital uh for the body cam reports uh review of those indicated no training needs at this time um I sent …
- 48:36… and obviously you are going to make less demands on in your insurance if you I mean I understand there kids with diabetes and kids with mental health issues but for the most part our experience with healthy kids is they they use a lot less uh
- 33:18… found a path and when they came to us uh and said how do we address affordable housing? We started with a uh public forum. It was during COVID. Uh but we uh and we also contracted with pattern to to do a study
- 1:25Okay. Okay. Resolution number seven, authorization to enter into an agreement with Patrick O'Neal for the provision of mental health consultations.
- 9:14… Uh we found out that they had u we helped them originally build a farm stand on their property. Uh things started to slow down after the pandemic. They decided to put