Remarks by J. Patrick McLaughlin
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“It doesn't go on your record. Nope. Nobody knows about it. Your supervisor doesn't even have to know about it. It's completely confidential. Completely confidential. And it's designed that way to your point that you'll share if you're going through a struggling time.”
“Yes, yes. And we'd like to thank Commissioner Wilson for being on the FEC and spearheading this and working with.”
“So a couple more questions, you don't get away that easy. Is VAMSA, are our veterans getting great care? Right, I mean VAMSA was, it wasn't just for mental health issues, it was for benefit issues. It was for paperwork issues. It was for Fred would know, you know, sometimes it's really tough for veterans to ask for help and then to go through the system of the grinding of the government.”
“Oh, great, great. Well, Commissioner Moran was very instrumental, as were the rest of the commissioners in getting that done. Last thing I'm putting you on the spot about, well, two things for services in our schools. How can we get mental health specialists through your company into our high schools?”
“And the last thing is, is it true that if a, and you're going to say I can't answer that, but I'm just planting the seed. If a teenager is having trouble and they go to talk to somebody in the school, someone like you or another healthcare provider, that they might have to have insurance. And if they don't have insurance, they can't be seen. That's not really resonating well with the commissioners. So can someone dig into that and find out about Is that true? And what can we do to rectify that? That is very concerning.”
“in school care and out of school but i don't know about in queen anne's county but what i can tell you is if someone from queen anne's county needed help tomorrow and they called into open access and they could not afford to pay they would still be seen as i'm as i'm talking with kids that have gone through some of these struggles that's one of the things they're talking about the other thing is is having being able to be seen having a location at the school where they can get they can have a therapy I'm struggling with words right now, but once a week with the same therapist. So who can we…”
“So access and consistency, seeing the right person for that student and they have the space at both high schools. So if you could let us know about that, we'd appreciate it. Thank you so much. You're doing God's work and we're very grateful.”
“Would you like to say anything about this? Any thoughts about it? You're in support of it, obviously? The township?”
“Yeah, sure. Come on up. Commissioner McNeil, you want to come up?”
“Any update on the sewer sewer plant? 2031 2031. There will be a party. Thank you.”
“I'm good. I just want to send our respects to the Thompson family and it's a tough thing to go through.”
“You know, and he always picked up the phone. I mean, if you call him, he always picked up the phone. Very responsive.”
“This can't be good. Wilson's got him on speed dial. Oh, yeah, yeah.”