(Le Mars) — By a vote of five to zero, Plymouth County Board of Supervisors formally approved of rescinding a letter of intent to join the Northwest Iowa Care Connections Mental Health Region. The county supervisors took that action during Tuesday’s weekly meeting. Supervisor chairman Don Kass says since Lyon County Board of Supervisors agreed to join Sioux Rivers
Mental Health Region, it was no longer necessary for Plymouth County to search for another mental health region.
Kass then read his letter addressed to Bill Leopold, the chairman of the Northwest Iowa Care Connections Mental Health Region to the other supervisors.
The Plymouth County Supervisor chairman continued with the reading of his letter.
After approving the letter to rescind the membership with the Northwest Iowa Care Connections mental health region, the supervisors then approved Lyon County as a member of the Sioux Rivers Mental Health Region. That resolution was also approved on a five to zero vote. Beginning July 1st of 2019, the new fiscal year, Sioux Rivers will still maintain the required three-county minimum participation with Woodbury County seeking membership with Rolling Hills Mental Health Region, and Lyon County will leave the Northwest Iowa Care Connections Mental Health Region to be a member of Sioux Rivers. Last week, Kass had mentioned to KLEM news that Northwest Iowa Care Connections is looking at
including up to five additional counties into their region. Some of the supervisors were wondering if the Northwest Iowa Care Connections attracts other counties from the eastern edge of the region, if that may prompt some existing bordering counties with Sioux and Plymouth Counties to look at joining Sioux Rivers Mental Health Region. Kass informed his fellow supervisors that at this time, he wasn’t aware of any other counties looking
at joining the Sioux Rivers Mental Health Region.
