Dane County set to approve $15M in funding for small business grants
May 6, 2021 12:56 PM Logan Rude
MADISON, Wis. The Dane County Board is expected to approve $15 million in funding Thursday night for a small business grant program meant to help local small businesses recover from the pandemic.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi initially announced the additional funding for the county’s Small Business Pandemic Support Grant Program in mid-March.
“So many of our businesses are continuing to struggle to make ends meet and rebound from the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year,” Parisi said. “While recovery will not happen overnight, these grants play a crucial role in helping our local economy and area businesses bounce back. A huge thank you goes out to Dane Buy Local for partnering with us on this effort and working to get these grants out and into our community as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
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With suicides and overdoses on the rise amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi on Wednesday convened the first meeting of a task force aiming to prevent such deaths.
Preliminary 2020 data from the Dane County Medical Examiner show increases in both suicides and overdoses. In 2020, the county reported 75 deaths by suicide, compared to 60 such deaths in 2019. Additionally, the county recorded 127 fatal opiate overdoses in 2020, an increase from 113 in 2019 and 98 in 2018.
Emergency medical services agencies in Dane County responded to a 23% higher volume of suspected opioid overdoses in 2020 compared with 2019, with peak volumes occurring in May 2020, as job losses from the pandemic mounted.
Dane County school districts to get combined $1.5M in funding for mental health initiatives
May 4, 2021 10:55 AM Logan Rude
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MADISON, Wis. A dozen local school districts may soon get help from the county to provide mental health services for students amid the ongoing pandemic.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Tuesday the county plans to spend a total of $1.5 million in federal funds on grants that will support mental health initiatives by providing materials, trainings and other resources to area school districts.
“We know the behavioral health needs of young people will outlast this pandemic, so this assistance is designed to get extra supports in place prior to heading back to school this fall,” Parisi said. “This work enhances the school-based mental health teams the county and 10 school districts already partner on, known as ‘Building Bridges.’ This is further reflection of the county’s commitment to improving the we
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The menâs shelter dilemma
Former Fleet Services Building for city of Madison
The city s former fleet services building now serves as a temporary men s shelter. The site is slated to serve the future public market.
Letâs start out by giving Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and County Executive Joe Parisi some well-deserved credit. The relationship between the city and county has always been a contentious one, and yet they came together and worked out a deal to cost share on a new homeless shelter for single men at the vacant Gander Mountain store at East Towne.Â
That was a good deed. Now it must be punished.Â