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Sumner County panel debates expanding opioid oversight committee from five to seven members
Summary
Members and community speakers debated proposed bylaws to expand the county opioid oversight committee from five to seven seats, add more county commissioner representation, and change attendance/removal rules; changes will be forwarded to the budget committee and then the full county commission.
Sumner County’s opioid response committee spent much of its meeting debating proposed changes to the committee’s bylaws, including a plan to expand membership and increase county commissioner oversight.
Speaker 3, who identified himself in the record as Troy but spoke to the committee as a member during the discussion, said he opposed a five-member board and argued for a larger, more representative panel. “I’m opposed to 5. I think it needs to be 7 members,” Speaker 3 said, adding that he wanted more elected commissioners involved and fewer “unelected bureaucrats.”
Proponents argued that adding commissioners…
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