Youth Services Director on county agenda
The Hays County Commissioners Court will consider committing funding for a Youth Services Director related to the City of San Marcos’ Youth Master Plan.
The court will discuss and take possible action to approve funding not to exceed $20,000 for the Youth Services Director during Tuesday’s meeting. The funding is a part of a “Core 4 Partnership” between the county and the City of San Marcos, San Marcos Consolidated ISD and Texas State University.
According to the agenda item, “Community Action, Inc. will hire the Director Position with funding from the Core 4 Partnership. The City of San Marcos will fund 50% of this position and the other three entities equally funding the balance ... All other agencies have committed funding for this initiative and are now seeking a commitment from Hays County for this program.”
The role of the Youth Services Director will be to research programs that produce positive mental health outcomes in young people, collect relevant social statistics, and develop indicative longitudinal metrics to gauge efficacy of programming; establish best practices for working with youth around the intersection of mental health and school safety; pilot a juvenile diversion program that incorporates preventative mental health programming; and local research on issues pertaining to mentoring, poverty, family, at-risk youth and children.
In other business, the commissioners will discuss and take possible action on a memorandum of understanding between the Hays County Veteran Service Office and the Austin Vet Center to provide counseling services to veterans at the Hays County Courthouse.
According to the agenda item, the MOU between the two entities will enhance veterans services in the county by establishing on-site counseling at the Hays County Courthouse.
The court will also consider authorizing the execution of an interlocal agreement between the county and Texas State University to be performed by the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment related to the 2020 Hays County Feral Hog Program.
The Meadows Center will provide services associated with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Feral Hog Abatement Grant program, including, general project management, website development and social media campaign, two landowner outreach events, Hays County Feral Hog removal tracking including a county level damage assessment, remote-operated feral hog trap sharing cooperative, cost-sharing incentive program and the development of final report.
Tuesday’s meeting begins at 9 a.m. at the Hays County Historic Courthouse.
