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Residents urge council to involve people with lived experience in opioid abatement decisions
Summary
During public comment, multiple residents called for greater community involvement — particularly people with lived experience — in deciding how Holyoke’s opioid abatement funds are used.
Several community members used the public-comment period at Tuesday’s Holyoke City Council meeting to press the council for a larger role for residents affected by the opioid crisis in planning how abatement and remediation funds are spent.
Speakers and central points - Claire (Linwood Avenue) and Paul Alves (216 Homestead Ave.) urged the council to involve people with lived or living experience in decisions about opioid remediation funds and to form a committee that includes them. Alves said he had attended a…
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