The Public Health & Safety Committee approved multiple grant resolutions to fund local recovery court enhancements, Spanish‑language victim‑witness coordinators, supported employment expansion for people with serious mental illness, community traffic‑safety enforcement and a research partnership, and approved an application for a mental‑health transport grant to support transport to hospitals or treatment resources. Two homeland‑security grant applications were deferred for one meeting so departments could confirm possible changes to award amounts.

On the consent agenda, the committee approved:

- RS2025‑1511, a resolution accepting a grant from the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to support Tennessee Highway Safety Office recovery court enhancements to supplement recovery court programs and/or implement new recovery courts in unserved and underserved communities (sponsors Toombs, Huffman, Welsh).

- RS2025‑1512, a resolution approving Amendment 2 to a grant from the Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs to provide partial funding for four specialized victim‑witness coordinators to work with Spanish‑speaking victims within the crimes‑against‑children unit (sponsors Toombs, Huffman, Welch, Hill and Styles).

- RS2025‑1531, a resolution accepting a supported employment expansion grant from the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to provide staff to promote individual placement and support/supported employment programs for people with serious mental illness (sponsors Toombs, Huffman, Welsh).

- RS2025‑1535, a community‑based traffic study, safety enforcement and education grant from the Tennessee Highway Safety Office to fund highly visible enforcement and outreach to address impaired driving and other unsafe behaviors (sponsors Timbs and Huffman).

- RS2025‑1536, a resolution approving an agreement between Vanderbilt University and the Metropolitan Government for Vanderbilt to serve as the research partner for the violent crime intervention fund (sponsors Toombs, Huffman, Welch, Hill).

- RS2025‑1537, an application for a mental‑health transport grant from the Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs to assist in transporting a person to a hospital or treatment resource for emergency mental‑health care (sponsors Toombs, Huffman and Welsh).

Councilmember Nash asked who would perform transports under the mental‑health transport grant, citing concerns that marked police cars and uniformed officers might increase stigma for people being transported. Deputy Chief Chris Gilder of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said the warrants division will handle transports and that the grant requires use of an unmarked vehicle and that officers either not be in uniform or be covered to lessen stigmatization: “The grant actually requires them to be in an unmarked vehicle, and to either not be in uniform or to be covered up so, to lessen that issue around stigmatization,” Gilder said.

Two homeland‑security applications (listed as agenda items 5 and 6 in committee materials) were deferred for one meeting at the committee’s request so the sponsoring department could confirm grant award amounts; Director Darby confirmed the reason was that the amount could change and that the fire department needed additional time to finalize figures.

Most consent items were approved by voice vote; the record does not include a roll‑call tally for those items in the transcript.