The Bartlesville City Council voted to accept a Memorandum of Understanding between the city and Grand Mental Health to form a Crisis Intervention Response Team Program.  Teams would be comprised of mental health case managers and police officers paired to respond when a situation would call for more than just a law-enforcement presence.   Police Captain Kevin Ickleberry told the council that the mental health professional would help to de-escalate situations when emotions run high.  Vice-Mayor Jim Curd says police activities sometimes aren’t as simple as people would say they used to be.  The city committed to set aside 100 thousand dollars a year, starting this month, to fund the program.