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Council authorizes negotiations with Smart Initiative and creates working group to assess county payment of consulting fees
Summary
After extended debate, the council confirmed staff authority to negotiate with Smart Initiative and voted to appoint a small exploratory committee to determine whether counties will opt to pay for a Smart consulting contract rather than use council administrative funds.
Council members debated whether the Opioid Abatement Council should pay for a proposed consulting contract with Smart Initiative — a University-affiliated program the office says has established relationships with counties — or whether counties should directly pay any consultancy fee to help them plan spending of their allocated funds.
At the October meeting staff had presented and the council recorded a motion authorizing the executive director to “engage…
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