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Supervisors weigh how Johnson County can use opioid settlement funds; county attorney stresses MOU limits
Summary
Assistant County Attorney Nathan Peters told the Johnson County Board of Supervisors at a June 18 work session that the county must target at least 75% of opioid settlement funds to Schedule A “core strategies,” and cautioned that many GuideLink activities may fall under the more limited Schedule B.
Assistant County Attorney Nathan Peters told the Johnson County Board of Supervisors at a June 18 work session that the county’s participation in the Iowa memorandum of understanding for opioid settlements requires strict accounting for how settlement money is spent.
“Schedule A of the Iowa MOU ... is called the core strategies. And in that MOU, we've agreed we will spend at least 75% of the opioid settlement funds that we receive on those core strategies,” Peters said. He added that Schedule B contains permissible but limited uses and that administrative spending is capped.
Why it matters: the county is receiving multi-year settlement payments from national opioid litigation; how officials classify local programs will determine whether funds can reimburse current county costs such as jail treatment, ambulance runs and detox services or instead must be spent on prevention…
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