Commissioners commit to $150,000 for DART addiction-recovery program and will take paperwork to council

The Owen County Board of Commissioners told residents it will encumber funds to support a local DART addiction-treatment and recovery program for women, committing $150,000 from commission funds to help launch programming.

The chair described earlier presentations about a women’s rehabilitation program connected to the DART initiative and said the board had discussed the proposal with county council leadership. A commissioner moved to encumber $162,646 from account 1000‑68, with commissioners stating the actual planned expenditure would be $150,000 to cover the program. Discussion clarified the accounting line (30100 other services) that the funds would come from and stressed the need to present paperwork to the council to complete the appropriation.

Commissioners expressed clear support for the program as a public-safety and social-services investment and noted the council had already signaled approval for an additional appropriation in a related matter (radio project funding was described earlier). The board committed to forwarding the encumbrance paperwork to the county council for formal approval and to track the funding transfer process.

The transcript shows the motion to encumber and the subsequent acceptance of the plan; a formal final tally of votes for the encumbrance was not recorded verbatim in the transcript, and the board indicated they would coordinate documentation with the council.