The State of New York approved the Collocation Program and provided the Erie County Department of Social Services with a $4.2 million grant that will fund the program over a three-year period.

The project was approved by former county executive Joel Giambra, but seems to not have found favor with Collins. The project did find favor with the Erie County Fiscal Stability Board, was scheduled to be in place in April 2008 and was already in operation.

Quote from Lee's front page article:

Erie County Medical Center Corporations Division of Chemical Dependency, which has been recognized for the past several decades as a leader in providing substance abuse services to the community of Erie County, was informed last Friday that the worthwhile program was being cancelled.

Considering the project is being funded by New York State, has potential enormous benefits to a community suffering socio-economic issues and has no virtual cost to the taxpayers, its termination is questionable.
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No disrespect meant , but did you actually mean to say , "No virtual cost to the taxpayers"


Where does the 4.2 Million dollars come from ?
Who pays after the first few "subsidized years" ?


Maybe I misread something ?




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