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City staff outline opioid‑abatement funding streams and proposed MOU with Roads to Recovery
Summary
City staff described three separate opioid‑abatement funding streams — direct distributions to Lynchburg, locally‑applied funds and a competitive statewide grant — and said they will ask the city manager to execute a memorandum of understanding to pass $193,422 to Roads to Recovery for an eight‑bed recovery facility run with Horizon Behavioral.
City staff told the Lynchburg Finance Committee on March 25 that money from the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority (OAA) is arriving through three distinct channels and that the city plans to route some of those dollars to local recovery providers through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Roads to Recovery.
Donna Witt, the city’s finance staff lead on the item, described three “pots” of OAA funding: (1) a direct distribution to Lynchburg that arrives annually, (2) a pool of funds restricted to projects for which local applicants must apply, and (3) a competitive statewide grant program. Witt said the city participates in the statewide settlement distributions and has used some direct…
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