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FtEASE oirrkTHE Number BEFORE REDIALING... 4 Lawmen Seek to Salvage Alcohol Plan Local law enforcement planners wiUtry to salvage an alcohol and drug counseling program being abandoned by Salt Lake County March 31. it was agreed Friday wilh alcoholics and their problems the me lev for the detoxification effort Probation Program lcohohsm counseling was one of the cuts recommended by County Auditor Gerald R Hansen and made by commissioners last December when they trimmed the 1974 budget $4 5 million to just over $52 Tne counseling operation was started by Salt Lake City in 1905 as part of a special probation program County to commissioners agreed merge it into their social services several years ago afier city officials refused to appropriate mote m, nev because there was no way of show mg a success ratio. Emphasizing that the problem seems to hinge more on politics than dollars and tents, the volunteer group known officially as Region 12 Law Enforcement Planning Agency, scheduled an emergency meeting for Tuesday Specifically, the group that doles out federal money to law enforcement m Salt Lake and Tooele counties wants to know what is being done by local government agencies dealing Last year the county split between the counseling and detoxification arms of its Alcohol and Drug Problems Division This year the figure is $247,000 with most of $.101,000 million Mr Hansen still feels it was the right decision because most of the 400 drunks that went through the program last year were arrested in Salt Lake City and put into the system by the city court Pay Fair Share His solution Have the city pay its fair share" of the Utah ms Seek Grant Emergency Network Viewed Emergency assistance fi should be as simple to get as dialing 911, representatives of Utahs medical organizations told three investigators from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Friday. - The goal get a 5300,000 plus grant from the Foundation to help install 911 emergency telephone service along the Wasatch Front and improve the emergency communications web serving the rest of the state. i impractical, but the satch Front would Wa- How do you define your service area7 Are you aware its a criterion that equal services be provided to the geoboundaries9 Mr. graphic Sdjhs asked Intermountain Regional Medical leader Program Lionel Drague explained the difficulties but said the state is trying to upgrade its communications systems Major questions developed when Steven F Sachs. Johnson representative, asked if the grant would provide equal service for the entire state. If we wanted to hang you it would be very easy to do it, Mr Sachs declared He pointed out services would not be equally distributed throughout the state Officials said the Navajo Reservation would not get 911 service because it is financial- - three stressed their questions are asked only for information so the foundation Besides, Mr Odell noted, the city ls nearly three quarters of the way through its budget year anti would have a tough time contributing to the program now He is negotiating with the city for a contribution when a new budget year starts in July. Salt Lake City Judge Maurice D Jones doesnt see counseling as a city chore These people are medically indigent sick and poor Its the county's responsibility to take care of the medu ally indigent He pictured three alternatives if the program ls can pick recipients funding program for its The 911 system, incorporated into the design of the Salt Lake Countys Emergency Op- erations counseling cost That could be 70 - Si) percent of the total counseling bill, according to Kenneth L Odell, division director could be where the meeting was held, operational by June, 1975. Mr Drague said Center, Officials sad after the meeting the grants approval is a tossuD They were told extensive evaluations of other requests would be undertaken before the foundation approves any grants abandoned Order police not to make arrests for public commit the drunkenness, drunks o an already overcrowed jail or send them to the University of Utah hospital where county social services records show the bill would be $105 a day for a bed, counseling and some therapy I'1J Will Exceed Budget order every ill pel son sent to University Hospital, the judge declared, predicting that bill would far exceed the $78,900 Mr Odell said the program needs to get through the last nine months of 1974 Come In at I Let a Registered Gemologist Tell You About . . . 'THE ROCK!" 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