A Danville committee has approved spending 25 thousand dollars to help start a new program to deal with opioid overdoses.

Vermilion County Mental Health 708 Board Director Jim Russell is seeking to develop a Recovery Oriented System of Care. The program would involve people from throughout the community. A coordinator will pull together information on local services, and support groups to coordinate with all those providers to provide more help for people.

Russell is looking for 100 thousand dollars to start the program.  The county board has already approved 75 thousand dollars for the project.  Russell hopes grants will help fund the program in the future.

The public Services committee also approved a plan to transfer certain sewers to the Bunge Milling company.  Assistant Engineer Eric Childers told the committee that this is for an expansion of Bunge

          This plan would give the sewers to Bunge, who would have to operate them instead of the city.

The committee also discussed the idea of changing hours of operation for most city offices.  Mayor Rickey Williams says the new hours would be a four day work week.

He says the current hours of 9-4:30 with an hour for lunch are difficult for working people to get to City Hall for business. The hours are just a discussion for now.  City unions would also have to okay the plan.

The actions of the Public Service Committee will go to the full city council next week.