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Pampa authorizes city manager to join secondary opioid manufacturers settlement
Summary
The Pampa City Commission authorized the city manager to submit a combined participation form to join the National Opioid Secondary Manufacturers settlement; staff said the city has received about $40,000 so far and funds are restricted for mitigation and prevention programs such as Narcan distribution.
The Pampa City Commission authorized the city manager to submit the combined participation form to participate in the National Opioid Secondary Manufacturers settlements, allowing the city to receive allocated settlement funds as they become available.
City staff explained that Pampa has already received roughly $40,000 from opioid settlements over the past two years. City staff (Shane) told the commission the amounts are "not a ton of money, but it is some money that we can use in PD" and emphasized that receipts are "very, very restricted on how you can use it." Shane and another staff member said the funds can be used for mitigation and prevention activities, including Narcan distribution programs and similar efforts to prevent opioid dependency.
Commission discussion noted the city already equips officers with Narcan through a different, state-funded pool. Shane said the department has not yet decided a specific program or line-item to spend the local settlement proceeds on and that the funds are currently held pending a spending plan. A motion to authorize submission of the participation form was made and seconded; the commission voted in favor by voice vote and the motion carried.
No amounts beyond the approximate $40,000 received to date were provided in the transcript excerpt, and no commission direction committing funds to a particular program was recorded in the provided text.
