Fiscal Responsibility.
We have just saved $4M in potential costs to the citizens of
Weber County!
Several months
ago, I was asked to put together a community board to help an organization
called PAAG. PAAG is a private
non-profit that provides housing for 101 chronic and persistently mentally ill
individuals in Weber County. Many of the residents have lived in the same area
for years. PAAG was providing a critical
service in the community but due to changes in medicaid funding, PAAG was on
the brink of closing. Had PAAG closed, the cost to the citizens would have been
$4M annually.
With good
leadership, relationships of trust, and by working with community leaders,
legislators and state agencies, we have been able to find funds to allow PAAG
to continue to fulfill its mission to provide housing for those who would
otherwise be homeless. We have and will continue to care for those in need
without raising taxes.
