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...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b or schizophrenia - would share household expenses and upkeep and pay rent based on their incomes.

Residents would have been required to take their medications and work or volunteer one to five hours a day.

A coordinator would have been on site 40 hours a week and on call at other times.

The occupants likely would have been Perry County residents served by the mental health system.

The grant application will be set aside, Commissioner Warren VanBuskirk said.

The county supports the Fairweather Lodge project and will help New Visions look for another site, he said.

"We are in the process of looking at other alternatives," VanBurskirk said.

"We believe that a Fairweather Lodge and the services it will provide to the clientele are important to the county and some of the folks who are from the county and living elsewhere." Commissioners Chairman John Amsler has abstained from the discussion and voting because he is the acting superintendent of the Newport School District.

The school board opposed the New Visions plan for the Campbell Drive property.

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