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Jefferson County panel debates using opioid settlement funds for ambulance radios, sober-living repairs and prevention programs
Summary
At a Jefferson County opioid committee meeting, members weighed requests to use settlement money for ambulance radios, repair county-owned Jackson Point for possible sober-living housing, and expand youth and family prevention programs; no formal vote was taken and the fund's total receipts and timeline remain uncertain.
At a Jefferson County opioid settlement committee meeting, members discussed how to spend settlement dollars, including a request to buy radios for the county ambulance service, a proposal to renovate county-owned Jackson Point for sober-living housing and several prevention and training programs. No formal motion or vote was taken.
"I asked the Board of Supervisors to delay making a decision on that until I'm going to start participating in the government practice committee that the AG's office has," Speaker 2 said, explaining they want to learn how peer counties allocate opioid settlement monies before authorizing a local expenditure for radios. The committee agreed to place opioid settlement items on the government practice committee agenda for further guidance.
Why it matters: committee members said the county currently holds what they estimated as "upward between 250…
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