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PAGE 2 - MESSENGER - January 9, 2022 We are the BEST community newspaper! Need advertising? Call the Messenger at 614-272-5422 today. Prepare for unexpected power outages with a Generac home standby generator REQUEST A FREE QUOTE! 866-643-0438 FREE 7-Year Extended Warranty* A $695 Value! Limited Time Offer - Call for Details Special Financing Available Subject to Credit Approval Serving Your Community Malek & ATTORNEYS AT LAW Malek Proudly Announcing Adding New Attorneys To Serve You! WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PERSONAL INJURY WRONGFUL DEATH SLIP & FALL INJURY DOG BITE INJURY *To qualify, consumers must request a quote, purchase, install and activate the generator with a participating dealer. Call for a full list of terms and conditions. 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High St., Columbus, OH 43206 www.columbusmessenger.com Commissioners approve 2022 county budget Budget adds to rainy day fund At their final meeting of 2021, the Franklin County Commissioners voted unanimously in favor of a budget for 2022 that is balanced and contains no fee or tax increases. “The past two years have been challenging, both for our residents and for local governments all over the country,” said Board of Commissioners President, Kevin Boyce. “Franklin County has been able to weather this tough period well because we entered the pandemic in a strong financial position due to smart, conservative planning in years past.” The commissioners oversee 14 county agencies directly and are responsible for the entire county’s budgets, including those of other elected officials and agencies. Next year’s all funds budget is $1.99 billion, an increase of about 7.9 percent. The all funds budget includes the general fund as well as state and federal funding, and about 40 percent of it is used to fund human and social services such as the Office on Aging, Job and Family Services, ADAMH, and Children Services. “We’re proud of our reputation for financial prudence, and to be able to continue to invest in things like affordable housing and economic development in order to keep our county on the right track as we recover from the pandemic and its health and economic impacts,” said Commissioner John O’Grady. The commissioners held three public budget hearings this fall to consider an original budget proposal from county administration. The final budget incorporates a few changes from that proposal, including adjustments for additional contracts to use American Rescue Plan funding in 2022 and to account for higher-than-expected sales tax revenue. The county’s final 2022 general fund budget is about $543 million, a 1.75 percent increase over 2021. The general fund is mostly made up of sales tax revenue and is largely used to support public safety and justice initiatives such as the sheriff and prosecutor’s offices, 911 call centers, and the court system. “Many central Ohio families were already living paycheck-to-paycheck, and the pandemic has only exacerbated the barriers that already excited,” said Commissioner Erica Crawley. “I’ve always said, show me you budget and that will show me your values. Our value is to invest intentionally in our people. Our efforts this year have been focused on helping our neighbors survive and meet their basic needs, such as staying in their home.” The budget will allow the commissioners to add to the county’s “rainy day fund,” which has been steady at $62.5 million for some years. Information about the 2022 budget can be found at budget.franklincountyohio.gov/Budgets/2022. Library partners with ADAMH The Columbus Metropolitan Library , along with the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County (ADAMH) and other local agencies, announced a partnership to supply the lifesaving overdose reversal medication naloxone at key locations throughout central Ohio — including all 23 CML locations serving Franklin County. The partnership comes in response to increasing overdoses in Franklin County: overdose deaths climbed 47 percent in 2020 to more than 800 deaths. With $242,442 of State Opioid Response Funds made available through the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, ADAMH is purchasing 150 NaloxBox kits and installing them in public spaces in ZIP codes experiencing higher numbers of overdoses. “Many individuals in recovery from addiction are here today because they had another chance. Recovery is only possible if someone is still alive to take that step,” said ADAMH CEO Erika Clark Jones. “Columbus Metropolitan Library and other community partners are helping ADAMH save lives with this commitment to ensure naloxone is easily available in public spaces.” “Right now, our communities are grappling with not one, but two deadly health crises,” said Columbus Metropolitan Library Chief Community Engagement Officer Donna Zuiderweg. “As a public library with 23 locations throughout Franklin County, we’re uniquely positioned to respond — and act — in the event of an overdose. We’re proud to be a partner.” The first 50 NaloxBox kits are being installed in locations at CML, Columbus Recreation and Parks community centers and St. Stephen’s Community House. The kits are currently available at 12 CML locations — with plans to install them at the remaining 11 locations in the coming weeks and months. They will be available at the community centers by the end of December. Additionally, ADAMH is working with community partners to install an additional 100 NaloxBox kits in ZIP codes with high incidents of overdoses in the first quarter of 2022. To oversee the NaloxBoxes, ADAMH has identified two providers — Southeast Healthcare and CompDrug — to install them, train staff on their use and maintain the supplies within them. Southeast Healthcare will serve in this capacity as it pertains to CML’s NaloxBoxes. Each NaloxBox contains: one clear UV-stabilized box; two doses of naloxone (nasal spray); an English/Spanish instructional guide; a QR code linking to a page on the ADAMH website that includes a naloxone administration instructional video and resources for someone looking to start recovery; one rescue breathing barrier device; and ties to close and open the NaloxBox. Naloxone is a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose and is easy to administer. Naloxone only works on overdoses caused by opioids. This family of drugs includes prescription painkillers like OxyContin, fentanyl, methadone and Vicodin, as well as illicit drugs like heroin. Naloxone will not reverse an overdose resulting from non-opioid drugs, like cocaine, benzodiazepines (“benzos”) or alcohol. A victim of a non-opioid overdose, or an overdose caused by a mixture of drugs, will not be harmed by naloxone. ADAMH offers life-changing possibilities to individuals and families living with mental health or addiction issues. A DAMH, a levy-funded county agency, partners with more than 30 nonprofit agencies located in neighborhoods throughout the county to provide accessible and affordable behavioral health services. Visit adamhfranklin.org for information.
www.columbusmessenger.com January 9, 2022 - MESSENGER - PAGE 3 SWACO celebrates Save More an Food initiative Sing along Z Q H L J N S B T A C S Z W S P W S P A W S J B E C X K O I Z A R C Y Q A Y A I T I P H G I N O G M U B Q R R T R I L P P W M Y B S A Y I O A H P I O X O N E R E L L T N M D T Z G D W Y G L T L L O Y U C Z E T E N T N V O A T N A H C T E E R L P A I N D O E O S H J K U D I B R B N M Y R P O W O O D C S L R R R O U Z S L R D A C K M K F A L S E T T O S C R J U Q D H T W I G L N K N V A L G P W W O E I Z E F K P B K L Y R Y O D E L T S I H W L H K Puzzle solution on page 9. Franklin County mental health assistance Franklin County has launched a new online tool to connect residents and families with national and local resources to address their mental and emotional health challenges. FranklinCountyOhio.CredibleMind.com, allows residents to take a self-paced approach to learn about more than 200 different emotional and mental health topics and find mental health providers in Franklin County. The website was funded by the board of commissioners and supports the work of the Rise Together Blueprint to Reduce Poverty in Franklin County by increasing access to mental health services. It was developed in collaboration with county health and human services agencies, including the Department of Job and Family Services (JFS), and the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County (ADAMH). The website offers more than a dozen different selfassessments to help visitors get a better idea of their mental health profile. After completing the assessment, visitors are referred to a variety of resources — articles, videos, podcasts and more — all tailored based off their results. All the resources are vetted by experts and all the assessment tools are confidential. The site provides direct links to ADAMH’s network of more than 30 local behavioral health providers. Residents can also get information about obtaining Medicaid, which covers mental health and addiction treatment, through JFS as well as resources from other health and human services agencies like Office on Aging, Child Support Enforcement and Justice Policy and Programs. Messenger Word Search ALTO BALLAD BARITONE BASS BELT CHANT CHORUS CROON DOOWOP DUET FALSETTO HARMONY HUM KARAOKE LYRICS MELODY NOTES PITCH RANGE TRILL SCAT SOLO SOPRANO TENOR VIBRATO WARBLE WHISTLE YODEL SWACO is celebrating the first anniversary of the Save More Than Food initiative, a public education campaign launched in fall 2020 as a way to help homes, schools and businesses reduce their food waste and contribute to a Franklin County-wide goal to cut food waste in half by 2030. Central Ohio’s efforts are being noticed nationally. Last year, SWACO received a $60,000 federal grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency to study food waste behaviors and the positive benefits education programs like Save More Than Food can have. Under the grant, SWACO partnered with the city of Upper Arlington and The Ohio State University to study the behaviors of hundreds of central Ohio households receiving Save More Than Food educational materials. Not only did the city capture and divert 138,000 pounds of food waste from the landfill since the start of the campaign, the partners also documented a reduction in overall food waste being generated by families and residents when given Save More Than Food resources. “Food waste presents one of the best opportunities to increase our diversion rate in Franklin County, further reducing our reliance on the landfill,” said Ty Marsh, executive director for SWACO. “I’m thrilled at the progress we’ve made as a community, but this is only the beginning. We have a responsibility as community leaders to invest in initiatives that not only support and strengthen our local economy but that help protect the health of our environment for generations to come.” Every day, central Ohio residents, schools and businesses discard nearly a million pounds of food which arrives at the local landfill, making it the largest portion of the local waste stream. In many instances, that food can be used to feed hungry families or returned to the earth in the form of compost, a nutrient-rich soil enhancement. To help tackle this, SWACO created the Central Ohio Food Waste Initiative (COFWI), a collective of more than 150 non-profit, education, government and businesses who have come together to address food waste in the Columbus region. The Save More Than Food campaign was a priority included in the Central Ohio Food Waste Action Plan published by COFWI. The Food Waste Action Plan laid out 20 specific initiatives for preventing food waste, rescuing and redistributing usable, edible food, and recycling food through composting and other technologies. SWACO’s successful leadership of the COWFI earned the organization an award for Outstanding Recycling Organization for 2020 from the National Recycling Coalition. Later this year, SWACO and COFWI will release an update to the Food Waste Action Plan. “The Central Ohio Food Waste Initiative is a truly unprecedented example of a collective impact model that’s working toward a significant reduction in food waste in our region,” said Kyle O’Keefe, director of innovations and programs at SWACO. “More importantly, recognition of our food waste diversion work at the national level is evidence of a best-in-class model for communities across the country with similar issues. It’s thrilling to see leaders across central Ohio have a leading voice in an issue that impacts every person on this planet. The possibilities are limitless, and we look forward to reporting out on future progress.” Be a Part of Our Local Worship Guide Our upcoming Worship Guide is geared toward celebrating faith and helping readers connect with religious resources in our community. Make sure these readers know how you can help with a presence in this very special section distributed to more than 20,000 households in the South area. The cost is $20 per issue. (must run twice) Contact us today to secure your spot in Worship Guide. 614.272.5422 • kathy@columbusmessenger.com Messenger South
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