Today I had the opportunity to address the Kiwanis at their weekly meeting. The side conversations at the table where I was setting during lunch confirmed to me that folks in Fremont County are in tune to the events impacting Wyoming.

I shifted some prepared thoughts to provide more detail to those attending on impacts to our state revenues when the prices of commodities like coal, natural gas and oil move up and down. I brought them up to date on the progress on Natrium’s nuclear demonstration project in Kemmerer, and visited briefly on the potential development of hydrogen. The remainder of the time was informing the group on our legislative efforts to address the mental health challenges we have across the state. I updated them on the progress of the behavioral health redesign efforts impacting our community mental health centers to provide services to priority populations plagued with mental health challenges. I also shared with them our efforts to develop a policy to define the state’s role to provide mental health service to adolescent kids with high behavioral needs.

I appreciate very much the opportunity to inform people about all the things we are doing to move the state forward, thanks Kiwanis for the invitation!