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Johnson County staff ask board for spending authority from opioid abatement fund
Summary
At a Jan. budget work session, grants staff said Johnson County has opioid settlement dollars on hand and asked the Board of Supervisors for permission to use roughly $740,000 of the balance in FY 2026 to launch a funding round; no formal vote was recorded.
Allison Wells, grants manager for Johnson County, told supervisors at a budget work session that the county has settlement money in its opioid abatement fund and is seeking authority to spend part of it in fiscal 2026.
Wells said the county is sitting on about $1.6 million in the opioid abatement account and expects to receive “a little over $331,000 in planned payments,” though the exact total could change if additional settlements are finalized. She asked the…
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