Contract with S.A.M. renewed...
by News Department on 07/02/15Schuylkill County commissioners have extended the over $6.03 million purchase of the service agreement with Service Access Management, of Pottsville, for another year.
SAM, first hired in 2004 to replace ReDCo, oversees mental health, drug and alcohol, and disability services for the county. It was hired after commissioners learned of a $3.2 million cost overrun in the county's mental health/disability services budget in 2003. There had also been hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost overruns in 2001 and 2002.
Commissioner George F. Halcovage Jr. said the money for the services comes from the state.
