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| Drugs and addiction | 91 |
| Health and human services | 66 |
| Budget and appropriations | 29 |
| Police and public safety | 22 |
| Grants and outside funding | 16 |
| Public facilities | 10 |
| Litigation and settlements | 8 |
| Contracts and procurement | 7 |
| Fire and EMS | 6 |
| Homelessness and shelter | 6 |
| Appointments and personnel | 5 |
| Environment and sustainability | 5 |
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Accepts $88,000 for the Sheriff's Office from the 2026 High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area grant held by the City of Durham, and authorizes the manager to sign the use contract.That the Board of Commissioners: 1. Authorize the County Manager to sign the contract for Use of the City of Durham 2026 High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Grant by Wake County. 2. Accepts…
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Moves $1 million in unrestricted opioid settlement money into a new fund to buy a seven-bedroom house on Holloway Street, appraised at $770,000, from a supportive housing nonprofit for the Justice Services Department's transition house. Staff found renovating the current house too costly, and $739,041 in county cash s…
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Adds emergency and transitional homeless shelters that take public money to the places where drug offenses carry enhanced penalties. It also bars camping or sleeping on public property unless a local government designates a site, with Department of Labor rules due by June 2027. Residents and businesses could sue a loc…Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
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House Bill 437 creates drug-free zones within 300 feet of publicly funded homeless shelters and transitional housing, making drug sales there by adults 21 and older a Class E felony. It also bars cities and counties from allowing camping or sleeping on public property. A local government that designates a camping area…Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
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A presentation on how the county is spending its opioid settlement money, framed around overdose prevention.
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A proclamation naming September National Recovery Month. The Recovery Community of Durham holds its tenth annual event on 26 September at Elizabeth Street United Methodist Church.Adopted.
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Appropriating $1,649,000 of sewer utility capital fund balance for the Triangle Wastewater Treatment Plant rehabilitation and upgrade, with a matching amendment to the engineering contract with Hazen and Sawyer, taking it from $1,053,026 to $2,702,026 with a ceiling of $2,912,635.Approved on the consent agenda, unanimously.
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Appropriating $48,919,120 to the new emergency operations center capital project and authorizing a construction manager at risk guaranteed maximum price contract with Bordeaux Construction Company, not to exceed $45,422,037 including alternates and owner's contingency.Approved on the consent agenda, unanimously.
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The board would approve one new Peer Support Specialist position for the Justice Services Department, funded by the Opioid Fund. The position would help clients recovering from substance use connect with treatment, transportation and community support.Approved on the consent agenda, unanimously.
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Two halves. The first draws drug-free zones 100 to 300 feet around homeless shelters and service facilities, making sale or possession of a controlled substance inside one a felony, adding penalties for operators who knowingly allow offences on their premises, and requiring signs marking the zones. The second bars loc…Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
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Three minutes per speaker. One submission on a fentanyl awareness initiative is attached to the agenda.
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A funding request against the county's opioid settlement money, with an amended spending authorization resolution and a matching budget amendment.
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Would make a drug offense within 300 feet of a homeless shelter or a publicly funded homeless service provider a Class E felony for anyone 21 or older, and would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for the operator of such a facility to knowingly allow one. A separate part restricts camping and sleeping in public spaces: a…Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
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Appointments to the Durham-Wake Counties Research and Production Service District Advisory Committee and the Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee.
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Redirects previously committed opioid-settlement funds to new appropriation.
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Adopts a project ordinance governing how opioid-settlement funds will be spent.
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The year's service contracts and capital housekeeping. Up to $2,364,862 with a managed care organisation to arrange mental health, developmental disability and substance use services for county residents. $1,258,760 with a nonprofit to run the county animal shelter. $225,000 with a chamber of commerce for business rec…
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Whether to solicit offers to buy county land at 6823 Millhouse Road.Approved 4-1. Portie-Ascott opposed, saying the county has a practice of selling land well below market value. Another commissioner noted the board can stop negotiations at any point, and a member as…
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Commissioners discussed helping the Board of Elections identify additional early voting sites after NC State's Talley Student Union was dropped, though no vote was possible because it was not on the agenda. Commissioner Stallings reported Wake County will receive more than $67 million in opioid settlement funds over 1…
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Includes adoption of the 2026-27 opioid settlement fund ordinance and spending resolutions totalling $2,209,689 - $1,465,886 to human services and $743,803 to public safety, with an opioid program manager post at $165,000 and $369,860 to a treatment provider inside the human services share - as approved by the opioid…
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The fiscal 2027 operating budget, the county fee schedule, an opioid settlement fund spending authorization the state requires, and a resolution defining how occupancy tax is used. Built from decisions the board reached at a 4 June work session after a January retreat where the manager described an unprecedented $21 m…A motion to send the budget back to the manager for another 0.47 cents in cuts failed 3-3. The budget then passed 5-1, McKee opposed, saying he feared the beginning of a long line of tax increases.
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Final design and guaranteed maximum price for the Crisis Diversion Facility, an amendment to the Gilbane construction manager-at-risk contract, and the budget amendment raising capital authority to match.Approved unanimously. The financing resolution for it, up to $27 million, followed on 9 July.
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Proclaiming Pride Month.Adopted unanimously — a vote Pittsboro's board took 4-1 six days later.
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How to spend the county's share of the national opioid settlement. Orange County expects $12,748,445 over eighteen years from the $26 billion agreement all 100 North Carolina counties joined.Recommendations received unanimously; staff directed to bring a final spending authorization resolution on 16 June, where it passed on the consent agenda.
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26-0304 Opioid FundThe county's Opioid Settlement Program presented FY2027 funding recommendations for how opioid settlement dollars should be spent.
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Courts, criminal justice resources, emergency services and the sheriff.
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approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Franklin Gomez Flores, seconded by Commissioner Katie Kenlan, that the Emergency Operations Center Phase II Project Ordinance, Goldston Library Renov…Ordinance Drugs and addiction
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Proclaims May 2026 Treatment Court Month, recognizing the county's adult, family, juvenile and mental health treatment courts. Listed to be acknowledged only.
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The city directs how it will spend its opioid-settlement funds and joins a combined settlement with remaining defendants.
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Authorising the town manager to sign the participation and release form joining the national opioid settlement with six remaining distributor defendants, which brings a one-time payment for eligible abatement and prevention.adopted · Pass · A motion was made by Mayor pro tem Berry, seconded by Council Member Miller-Foushee, to adopt R-4 authorizing the Town Manager to execute an agreement to participate in the National…
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Would add the town to a multi-jurisdiction settlement covering six remaining opioid-litigation defendants, bringing in additional remediation funds.
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Authorizes the county's participation in a national opioid settlement with additional defendants, bringing in settlement funds for opioid response.
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Recognizing $5,000 from the Durham Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for the Durham Recovery Court.Approved unanimously on the consent agenda (voice vote, per the recording)
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26-0177 Budget Amendment Appropriating $441,419.41 for Sheriff's Office Medication-Assisted Treatment GrantAppropriating $441,419.41 of restricted fund balance to the Sheriff's Office medication-assisted treatment grant, which funds treatment for opioid use in the jail.Approved unanimously on the consent agenda (voice vote, per the recording)
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Authorizes the town manager to sign onto a national opioid settlement with six regional distributors (the 'Remnant Defendants') ahead of a May 4, 2026 opt-in deadline.
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An update on the campus community coalition, which works on alcohol and substance use around the university.
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Staff update the committee on county programs addressing the opioid crisis, including efforts funded by opioid settlement dollars.
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A $30,000 amendment from the state's opioid settlement fund would buy more naloxone to reverse overdoses in county facilities.
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Adds a half-time position in the behavioral health department, funded by opioid settlement dollars.
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Accepts and appropriates High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area grant funding for the Sheriff's Office.
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IX.A Media ItemsThe media packet covered local families avoiding food bank services out of fear of immigration enforcement, federal funding for Hillsborough water treatment, a pediatric flu death in western North Carolina, a Medicaid change letting foster children stay enrolled across county moves, a measles exposure at RDU airport i…
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Thirteen items approved together: five sets of minutes; motor vehicle and property tax releases for eighteen taxpayers; sixteen late exemption applications; a March 25 tax lien advertisement date; the 2026 listing period extended to February 13; budget amendment #6; ordinance execution for the impervious surface, wate…Approved unanimously
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Introduction of the new manager of Durham County Memorial Stadium, and a resolution marking the 25th anniversary of Together for Resilient Youth.
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Any consent item a commissioner asked to take separately, followed by a closed session.
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Largest items: a $1,690,296 ARPA reallocation that pauses the DCo Thrives guaranteed income pilot amid pending state legislation and cuts $199,590 from an East Durham Market SNAP pilot, redirecting the funds to raise the Early Years childcare grant to $4,090,296; a $182,173 FST Technical Services commissioning contrac…
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The board acted on Opioid Advisory Committee recommendations, moving one member into the substance-use treatment provider seat and appointing three others, after two commissioners asked for a conflict-of-interest opinion on the move.Board agreed by consensus to move Elizabeth Johnson to the substance use treatment provider seat and appoint Richard Cooper, Breana Montgomery and Victoria Menz
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Largest items: a $293,300 farmland conservation easement from Wesley and Cristan Poole, funded in part by $213,000 from the Army National Guard's Readiness and Environmental Protection program; a $142,415 sole-source SimuLab purchase for difficult-airway training equipment; creation of three new Sewer Utility Enterpri…
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The consent agenda includes a capital project and budget amendment moving $80,300 to the General Fund and recognizing $213,000 from the Army National Guard's REPI program to complete a $293,300 purchase of a 25-acre conservation easement on Tilley Farm; a $14,470 amendment to RND Architects' contract (to $242,669) for…
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County public health staff presented the 2024 Community Health Assessment, covering key findings and strategic priorities including youth activities, healthcare access, and substance use treatment.
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County public health staff presented the 2024 Community Health Assessment, covering key findings, community priorities, and strategic plans on health impact areas including youth activities, healthcare access, and substance use treatment.received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
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County public health staff presented the 2024 Community Health Assessment, covering key findings and strategic priorities including youth activities, healthcare access, and substance use treatment.
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Authorizes the town manager or attorney to sign opioid settlement agreements with secondary manufacturer defendants and to participate in the Purdue Pharma/Sackler bankruptcy settlement.adopted · Pass · A motion was made by Council Member Berry, seconded by Council Member Miller-Foushee, that the Council adopt the resolution. The motion carried by a unanimous vote.
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Public health staff presented the 2024 Community Health Assessment's key findings, community priorities, and strategic plan for youth activities, health care access, and substance use treatment.received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
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The consent agenda includes a $6,173,542 contract with Alliance Health to manage mental health, developmental disability and substance use services; a $932,221 Home and Community Care Block Grant funding plan for Social Services; three conservation easements totaling about $1.8 million: 119 acres in five parcels along…
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Authority for the town manager to execute supplemental agreements for additional proceeds from new national opioid settlements, covering the Purdue and Sackler settlement and one with smaller manufacturers. A commissioner asked for the item to be pulled from consent.Approved unanimously, 5-0
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approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Amanda Robertson, to authorize the County Manager to execute and submit all necessary participation forms and…
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The consent agenda includes a $1,500,000 budget amendment to fund the Durham Affordable Housing Loan Fund, part of a $5 million push by the county, city and Duke University to grow the revolving loan fund to $30 million; a $656,331.78 purchase of Sheriff's Office FY26 vehicle equipment; a $562,240.31 EMS billing and c…
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Alliance Health's CEO and finance leadership will update the board on its FY 2025-26 budget, including how recent federal policy shifts may affect funding and service delivery for mental health, developmental disability and substance use services.
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The board is asked to fill seats by ballot on eleven boards, including the ABC Board, Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission, Durham Convention Center Authority, Durham County Hospital Corporation Board of Trustees, Juvenile Crime Prevention Council, Library Board of Trustees and Opioid Settlement Advisory Committ…
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adopted · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, that the 25-40 resolution recognizing Overdose Awareness Day was adopted. The motion car…Proclamation or recognition Drugs and addiction
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approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, that a three-year contract with Chatham Recovery for $246,018.75 for the treatment of o…
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The 2024 report showed no substantial change in morbidity or mortality since the 2023 community health assessment. New work included an opioid response coordinator, a post-overdose response team in county EMS, vaping cessation at Orange High School, and a zoning change restricting new tobacco and vape shops near youth…
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The budget ordinance sets the countywide rate at 63.83 cents per $100, 1.19 cents above revenue neutral. Adopted with the fee schedule and a spending authorization resolution for opioid settlement funds.Approved unanimously
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Reports from the Board of Health, including narrowed child fatality review rules that drop perinatal deaths, and an opioid settlement allocation. Extended comment on the revaluation and vertical equity between commercial and residential property, and on a budget shaped by federal and state cuts arriving in the same ye…
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From July 2025 local teams stop reviewing every child death and every child protective services case, and review nine categories instead. Perinatal deaths and birth defects, which made up most of the ten cases the Orange County team reviewed in 2024, are no longer required. Members objected that birth defects are ofte…
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Orange County chose the more structured of the two spending frameworks and receives $12,296,286 over eighteen years; the state keeps 15 percent of North Carolina's settlement and the 100 counties share 85. Five programmes are funded for 2025-26 from fourteen applications, up from four, starting 1 July. The department…
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The settlement schedule is frontloaded, which delays the point at which programmes need a county subsidy. Restoring a coordinator contract at about $90,000 a year would bring the break-even point forward to roughly 2030 or 2031. The money runs over eighteen years rather than ten, and staff confirmed there is a plan to…
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Twelve items, including opioid settlement fund spending authorization for FY2026, a license agreement with TABLE Ministries, the health department refresh construction contract, fourth-quarter transit work program amendments, changes to Orange Unified Transportation Board policies, a resolution authorizing sale of pro…Approved unanimously; item 8-f pulled and then approved separately
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The county expects $12,748,445 over 18 years and has spent $376,438 since 2022 across eight Option A strategies. Of fourteen community applications, the committee recommended five: Piedmont Health $50,400, El Futuro $50,000, Freedom House $72,000, UNC SHAC $37,600 and the Reintegration Support Network $20,000.Recommendations received; final resolution set for 20 May
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$1.29 million in opioid settlement funds across fiscal years 2026 to 2028 for collaborative strategic planning, evidence-based addiction treatment, recovery support services, early intervention, naloxone distribution and recovery housing.adopted · Pass · A motion was made by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, seconded by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, to adopt a Resolution 25-16 to direct the expenditure of $1.29 million in Opioid Settlem…
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A presentation from Vaya Health, the county's managed care organization for mental health.received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
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Mental health and substance use funding, community paramedicine and mobile crisis response, Medicaid reimbursement for behavioural health transport and urgent care, fewer people with mental illness in detention, innovation waiver slots against a waiting list of about 17,000, and better pay for providers. Regulation of…
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Support for the state racial equity in criminal justice recommendations: legalising marijuana possession and licensed retail sale, policing reforms on use of force and community oversight, county money for diversion and restorative justice, lower court fines and fees, and an end to automatic licence revocation for fai…
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A request for proposals for spending the city's opioid settlement money, which has to go to treatment and prevention.Other Drugs and addiction
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One speakerProcedural Drugs and addiction
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IX.A Media ItemsThe communications manager presented the media packet: the Bridging the Gap initiative to reduce adolescent vaping, digital literacy classes at local libraries, the Horizons program and maternal mortality, an urgent care reopening in Hillsborough, and a rabies case in the county.
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Health Director Quintana Stewart reported North Carolina's first 2024 measles case, in Mecklenburg County; said updated COVID and RSV vaccines are available at the health department regardless of insurance status; and said the county's first Opioid Settlement Funds Impact Report was due that week.
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Resolution 2024-48 would authorize the town to sign onto the Kroger opioid settlement and a second supplemental agreement directing additional settlement funds to local governments. The resolution cites more than 37,000 opioid overdose deaths in North Carolina since 2000.
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The council will issue a proclamation recognizing National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day.Proclamation or recognition Drugs and addiction
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A resolution would authorize the town to sign the second settlement agreement with the state and other local governments over opioid litigation against distributors and pharmacies including Teva, Allergan, CVS and Walgreens.
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Proclamation or recognition Drugs and addiction
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Would adopt a grant project ordinance for opioid settlement funds. It would also authorize a grant agreement with Lincoln Community Health Center for opioid abatement work through June 2027, up to $992,082.
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The council would accept an amended HIDTA grant and adopt a revised project ordinance reflecting a decrease from $434,439.92 to $275,033.22.
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