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Board adopts timeline, scoring rubric for county opioid‑settlement grants; committee to pre‑screen eligibility
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved a timeline and application process for distributing opioid settlement funds, endorsing an 18‑month first round that would award up to $750,000 and establishing tiers and reporting requirements aligned with Attorney General guidelines.
The Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors voted on Sept. 30 to adopt the timeline and application process recommended by the opioid settlement fund application committee. The committee — represented at the meeting by Caitlin Emmerich and colleagues from public health and finance — had proposed a competitive application process aligned with the attorney general’s opioid allocation memorandum of understanding and recommended that the board authorize the committee to make a preliminary eligibility screening of applications prior to board scoring.
Caitlin Emmerich and colleagues described a tiered scoring matrix that prioritizes abatement strategies identified in the statewide MOU. The committee recommended budget and reporting rules designed to meet the state MOU’s…
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