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Board continues opioid settlement items; Supervisor Ronan seeks closed session and debate over overdose prevention centers
Summary
Supervisors continued two resolutions on proposed opioid‑related abatement settlements with Walmart and CVS and Supervisor Ronan asked the board to meet in closed session with the city attorney to discuss use of settlement funds and to press for consideration of overdose prevention centers as part of the city's response to overdose deaths.
Supervisor Dean Ronan moved on April 4 to continue two resolutions tied to proposed opioid abatement settlements — one with Walmart and one with CVS — and the board agreed to continue the items to the next weekly meeting.
Ronan told colleagues she plans to ask the board to sit in closed session with the city attorney to discuss how any settlement money would be used and to resolve an apparent split with the city attorney’s office over legal versus policy decisions. “There is a difference of opinion on what is a legal decision and what is a policy decision,” Ronan said, and she said she expects to raise that difference with the city attorney in closed session.
Ronan framed the request in…
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