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Forsyth County staff recommend $4.5 million in opioid-settlement spending and maintain $4.03 million behavioral-health baseline for FY26
Summary
County staff proposed allocating $3 million expected opioid-settlement receipts for FY26, recommended $4.5 million in program awards next year, and recommended maintaining a $4,026,677 annual baseline for behavioral-health continuation funding.
Rhonda Tatum, interim director of Behavioral Health Services for Forsyth County, told commissioners at the May 5 briefing that the county anticipates receiving a little more than $26 million in remaining opioid-settlement funds over the next 14 years and expects about $3,000,000 in FY26.
Tatum presented two related items for the Board of Commissioners: a resolution to appropriate FY26 opioid-settlement funds and a resolution to appropriate the county's annual behavioral-health “maintenance of effort.” She said the county is recommending full appropriation of the maintenance-of-effort figure of $4,026,677 and is recommending $4,500,000 in opioid-settlement awards for FY26 across 30 applications.
The maintenance-of-effort items reflect a continuation approach: staff said the HHS (Health and Human Services) review committee and the full HHS board reviewed…
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