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Opioid advisory committee: awardees selected but contracts delayed; committee needs appointments and guidance on roughly $1.4M in settlement funds
Summary
County opioid advisory committee representatives told the Penobscot County Commission that awardees have been selected but contracts are delayed pending legal review, several committee members have resigned, the committee needs a law-enforcement representative per policy, and they asked for guidance on how much of about $1.4 million in settlement funds should be released in the next RFP cycle.
Representatives of the Penobscot County opioid advisory committee updated commissioners that awardees for the first funding cycle have been chosen but contracts remain unsigned because legal review is not complete.
"We are glad to be able to share with all of the awardees that they have been selected for award," Jamie Beck said, and added that the committee is "still waiting on the contracts to come back from our lawyer" so funds cannot yet be released. Committee…
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