BROOKINGS — The Brookings City Council will consider a funding request this week from the City/County/School Mental Health Task Force for a Mental Health/Behavioral Health Guide.

The council meets in the third-floor chambers of the Brookings City & County Government Center starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The meeting is open to the public.

The guide would be produced by the 211 Helpline Center and would provide one location for mental health professionals in the community to be listed. By creating a separate directory and searchable database, interested parties are able to go to one place to find information, and 211 Helpline specialists utilize the guide to assist individuals looking for mental health care, according to the attachment to the agenda available on the city’s website.

The funding proposal is the City of Brookings financially supports a two-year contract with 211 for a Comprehensive Mental Health Resource Listing for Brookings County, the attachment said.

Total cost of the two years is $3,200. The requests is for $1,850 in 2017, which includes a $500 startup cost, $600 portal cost with online search fee, and $750 based on the number of agencies provided; and $1,350 in 2018, which includes $600 portal cost with online search fee and $750 based on the number of agencies provided.

The Mental Health Task Force will continue to collaborate with community organizations and agencies to find this project a home. That entity will then take on the continued responsibility of the Comprehensive Mental Health Resource Listing for Brookings County, according to the attachment.

In other business, the council will look at the Brookings County and City Joint Jurisdictional Committee Charter and consider action on city appointments.

State legislation authorizes municipalities to exercise a certain degree of zoning and subdivision authority within a three-mile jurisdiction outside existing city limits as a means of proper planning for eventual growth and development.

The City of Brookings and Brookings County are updating their comprehensive plans, and recent development activity has caused both entities to consider an update in the Joint Jurisdictional Committee Charter. The City Council will also designate two council members to serve on the committee.

“This charter would be the first step toward establishing a temporary, intergovernmental working group to analyze and make recommendations to update the planning provisions of the joint jurisdictional zoning area.

“It is anticipated this committee would forward such recommendations for final adoption by the city and county for improved tools to manage and facilitate growth and development in areas around the City of Brookings identified as being transitional from rural to urban,” according to the attachment.

In other business, the council will consider:

• Revising the right-of-way section from 60-foot to 55-foot in Sweetgrass Drive in the Prairie Hills Addition;
• A temporary liquor license for the Disabled American Veterans’ 727th Poker Run at the National Guard Armory on Sept. 2;
• Appointing Justin Borns to the Board of Adjustment as second alternate.

Contact Jodelle Greiner at jgreiner@brookingsregister.com.