Collin County is set to accept a quarter-million-dollar state grant on Monday for VALOR, a substance abuse treatment program in the county's detention system tied to a state fund for veterans.
The item is on the consent agenda for the Commissioners Court's 1:30 p.m. meeting on Nov. 16 at the Jack Hatchell Administration Building in McKinney. Consent items are usually approved together in a single vote.
What the money covers
The award comes from the Office of the Governor's Residential Substance Abuse Treatment program and is listed under the name Texas Veteran Rehabilitation Substance Abuse Treatment Program. The county would receive $256,502.77 for the year that began Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 30, 2027.
According to the auditor's budget notice on the same agenda, the state money supports residential substance abuse treatment inside correctional and detention facilities, for people held long enough to complete treatment and aftercare.
The county's share
The grant requires a local match of $86,411.68. Budget staff say the match will come from the salaries of employees already assigned to the VALOR pod: a supervision officer who will spend 75% of the year on the program and a lieutenant at 2%. Their pay and benefits for that share of the year come to about $282,081, according to the human resources note.
The auditor's office calculated the match at about 33.7% of the award, above the 20% the state's funding announcement requires.
The auditor has already set up a $256,502.77 budget for the program, which appears separately on Monday's agenda as a notice to the court.
