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PUBLIC NOTICE—
Per Major Taylor, Chair of the CJMHSA Planning Council for our Reinvestment Implementation 2010 Grant, I am sending a notice of an invitation to CJMHSA Reinvestment 2010 Implementation Grant community stakeholders to meet on Monday, 5-20-13 at 1:30pm related to a new Florida DCF Request for Applications (RFA) for a Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Reinvestment Grant FY 2013. This was just issued as of 5-9-13 and emailed out to current Reinvestment Grant recipients as of 5-10-13. We realize this is a short notice, but the timeline dates of the RFA would require an extremely quick turnaround schedule for developing/processing/submitting an application, including Monroe County BOCC approval for applying, with the BOCC June Agenda deadline ending 6-4-13.
After reviewing the RFA with Major Taylor, he noted wanting to provide an opportunity for community stakeholders who primarily have been involved with the CJMHSA Planning Council / Reinvestment Implementation 2010 Grant to meet with him and current Reinvestment Grant lead MCSO staff to discuss feasibility and options regarding the Grant RFA. I am attaching the RFA to the email for your review.
The meeting will still be held in the 2nd Floor Conference Room at the Monroe County Sheriff’s Detention Center, 5501 College Road, Key West, FL 33040. The Conference Room entry is across the lobby from Main Control.
ADA ASSISTANCE: If you are a person with a disability who needs special accommodations in order to participate in this proceeding, please contact the County Administrator's Office, by phoning (305) 292-4441, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., no later than five (5) calendar days prior to the scheduled meeting; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call “711”.
Vehicle Auction
April 2013 vehicle auction results
PUBLIC NOTICE-- NEXT Meeting of the CJMHSA Planning Council of the CJMHSA Reinvestment 2010 Implementation Grant is scheduled for June 6, 2013, at 10am. The meeting will be held in the 2nd Floor Conference Room at the Monroe County Sheriff's Headquarters Building, 5525 College Road, Key West, Fl 33040. Please respond as to whether you will be attending as a Planning Council Member or your Alternate will be attending for you.
ADA ASSISTANCE: If you are a person with a disability who needs special accommodations in order to participate in this proceeding, please contact the County Administrator's Office, by phoning (305) 292-4441, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., no later than five (5) calendar days prior to the scheduled meeting; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call “711”.
Sheriff’s Office will accept any and all old or outdated medications, anytime:
Drug Drop program: Environmentally friendly way to dispose of medications
Note: The Sheriff's Office will not accept medications from commercial establishments
Monroe County – The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office drug disposal program has gotten off to a strong start, collecting close to 20,000 pills, and over 1,000 containers (including inhalers, boxes, bottles and droppers) of other medications for safe, environmentally friendly disposal since it began in February of this year. The Sheriff’s Office would like to remind everyone about the program, and the reasons why it is important to dispose of medications in the right way.
County-wide, citizens may bring no-longer-needed prescription drugs and other medications in for disposal, or call and someone will pick the medications up for disposal:
Caution: people who are going to bring their medications in themselves need to make sure to keep prescriptions in the prescription bottle to show proof the prescription is legitimately theirs.
People who call to have medications picked up can do so with no questions asked. "Our goal here is to dispose of this stuff properly, not to catch people with illegal pills," Alvarez said.
Proper disposal of prescription and over the counter medications is important. Flushing them down the toilet or sink can introduce dangerous and environmentally damaging substances into the water system; throwing them away in the trash can also introduce them into the environment, and runs the risk of them winding up in the wrong hands. The medications collected by the Sheriff’s Office are safely burned in the Sheriff's Burn Unit.