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Morrow County adopts supplemental budget to create behavioral‑health deflection fund, moves opioid abatement revenue
Summary
The board approved a supplemental FY2025 budget establishing a special revenue fund for a behavioral health deflection grant program and transferred opioid abatement revenues into an existing special revenue fund after staff and auditors determined the county is the grant recipient.
Morrow County commissioners on Tuesday adopted supplemental budget resolutions that create a dedicated behavioral health deflection grant fund and move opioid abatement revenues into a separate special revenue fund.
Kevin Hintz, the county finance director, told the board the change follows an audit and grant‑agreement review showing the county is the actual recipient of behavioral‑health deflection grant dollars rather than serving only as a fiscal agent. The adjustment requires establishing a special revenue fund so the grants are accounted for separately, he said.
Justin Nelson, Morrow County district attorney, spoke in favor, thanking the finance department and describing early work on the deflection program: “We are getting our deflection program working right now,” he said, acknowledging the county has recently met on the program and urging the board to “vote in favor of it” (SEG 183–203).
Hintz said staff also identified opioid abatement revenues that should be recorded in the county’s opioid abatement special revenue fund rather than the general fund; moving those dollars exceeded the 10% threshold for a simple resolution and required the public hearing and supplemental budget process. Commissioners voted to adopt the resolutions and separately moved to make the appropriation adjustments as presented.
The board’s action included two linked steps: formal adoption of the supplemental budget resolutions and a follow‑up motion to adjust appropriations to effect the transfers. No commissioners identified conflicts of interest before the vote. The resolutions were carried by voice vote.
The moves do not change project purposes; finance staff described the adjustments as housekeeping steps needed to align accounting with grant terms and ensure future reporting and spending are restricted to the intended programs. The county will retain the opioid abatement fund until revenues are exhausted or the county determines the fund is no longer needed.
