Health committee amends 2025 budget to recognize additional opioid-settlement funds totaling $217,884.04
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Summary
The Health and Human Services Committee combined three streams of opioid-settlement receipts and voted to amend the 2025 operating budget to appropriate $217,884.04 in additional revenue for mental-health-related uses, detailing the three source categories as OASIS money, direct share, and regional abatement.
The Health and Human Services Committee voted to advance a resolution amending the 2025 county operating budget to reflect additional opioid-settlement revenues earmarked for mental-health services and related programs. Committee staff explained the change combines three separate sources of opioid-related receipts into one budget amendment.
According to staff, the three sources include OASIS money received in 2023–24 that included a cost-of-living adjustment not previously resolved; a direct-share distribution; and a regional-abatement disbursement tied to opioid-settlement proceeds from pharmacy and distributor litigation. Staff reported that some receipts from settlements came in across multiple small disbursements (examples given ranged from $12,000 to $70,000) and that county records showed roughly $150,462 in previously unrecognized receipts for 2024.
After reconciling the three streams, staff reported a combined total of $217,884.04 to be added to the 2025 operating budget for opioid-related programs. Committee members reviewed the line-item breakdown in the attachments; a staff member acknowledged the attachments had an access problem in the packet but offered hard copies of the receipts and spreadsheet to legislators.
The committee voted to move the resolution to the full board for final approval.
Ending: The committee advanced the budget amendment; staff said they would distribute detailed receipts and the reconciliation spreadsheet to legislators in hard copy and by e-mail to ensure the record matches the amendment.
