It's been an amazing program and had a huge impact on Washington County, and I believe it's important to highlight this, and obviously, it'll be related to the budget in the coming months, so...

So this is showing that we have the need within our county, but also that we have the support of our police departments, our sheriff's office, the county, and obviously the county board.

Oftentimes, there's a wait list or things take its time to kind of come into place... So how can we help those people get connected to other resources in the meantime? And oftentimes, we, as the CRT social workers, are that resource.

We bring Riggs out on active crisis calls. It's pretty crazy on how he's able to handle a situation, deescalate things. He's got 100% success rate. We can talk about numbers on the next slide, but it's pretty amazing to see what these guys do.

My way of thinking is having this role of the embedded social worker is getting to problems, family problems, individual problems, at a sooner time when the problem's less magnified, less costly, more legal, maybe more dangerous. Are you seeing by this program savings in the community by that early intervention versus not having the program and waiting till later?

From our social service side, we very much think that it's a preventative piece because it allows us to get to these individuals a little sooner than we would with them coming through the system... and sometimes then we reduce those frequent 911 mental health calls because they can call directly to the team.

The National Recreation and Park Association identifies three main values that make park and recreation an essential community service. As stated in their reports, parks are vitally important to establishing and maintaining the quality of life in a community, ensuring the health of families and community, and contributing to economic and environmental wellbeing of a region.

I couldn't help but as you were doing your presentation, think about the impact that our Land and Water Legacy program in Washington County has had on our park system. You talked about the economic benefits, you talked about the public health benefits, the equity benefits of our parks. And what an impact the voters allowed us to make in expanding parks and providing those opportunities here to our citizenry...

So based on this review, a county-passed moratorium would only be binding in the areas that we control, shoreline and mining areas, and data centers are already not allowed in those areas.

I would just remind you, as we talk about the core mandates, or the core function and mandates discussions we're having, you can see here, this is where you heard about the importance of this program and the prevention it provides, but it's not something we're required to do.

I did hear a lot about data centers and concerns about that. And so I'm glad that we got an update today. Was hoping that it would be in writing, but I understand that it was verbal. And I have some other questions about that, because there is not just the water concern, but also the energy concern that data centers bring.

The issue being that if there's a decision made to not do this, that could affect jail populations, it could affect prison populations, and it could create more victims in the community.

My question is, and I don't expect an answer now, but maybe to follow up, what is the reality that some of the money that we are able to receive from that is decreased, because theoretically, there'll be fewer youth in juvenile delinquency programming?

I know as a board, we really believe in that program. Our residents, I have always had residents laud about that... I think it is an excellent program. I think really it helps those people that otherwise would be incarcerated to get back into society and give back to society.

I understand it can be a little bit shocking... WIC is not a mandated service. Or, we talked recently about family health, specifically our public health home visiting program, not mandated services. And it can be a little shocking to think about them, that they're not mandated. However, they are definitely core services, core functions that this board has certainly supported throughout the years.

The disease that we're hearing from East Coast is severe. The allergic reaction you can have to meat is forever, and what we're seeing is a continuation through more tick population... This is a public health threat to many of us, to babies all the way to seniors.

I will say that our epidemiologist is Chris Keller. Thank you. He is an amazing resource. I do think we're very fortunate to have our own epidemiologist... Really, public health works at the speed of trust, and having an epidemiologist on staff, it just helps with all of that education and building that trust.