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Legislature approves opioid-settlement fund reallocation and budget correction; advisory-board appointments and minutes cleared
Summary
Tompkins County Health & Human Services Committee voted unanimously to repurpose an opioid-settlement grant awarded to CARS for electronic health-record costs and approved a budget timing correction for Whole Health opioid-housing funds; the committee also confirmed several advisory-board appointments and approved minutes.
Tompkins County’s Health and Human Services Committee on Jan. 15 approved two resolutions related to opioid-settlement funding, then completed a slate of advisory-board appointments and administrative approvals.
The committee approved a request to amend contract ID 12965 under the Tompkins County opioid settlement fund to repurpose previously awarded funds to Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS). Jessica Jansen, who said she works for Cayuga Health System and was representing CARS, told the committee the organization can obtain a Narcan vending machine at no cost through a statewide program and instead wants to apply the awarded funds to replace or support electronic health-record costs now that CARS has joined Cayuga Health. Jansen said some of…
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