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Barry County commissioners adopt opioid-settlement agreement, approve budgets and program actions
Summary
The Barry County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved Resolution #25-24 to enter a state–subdivision agreement for opioid settlement funds, adopted the 2025–2026 Child Care Fund Plan and multiple CDBG actions, and approved a set of consent items including a budget amendment and a trial change to the board meeting schedule.
The Barry County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 26 unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing entry into a state–subdivision agreement that allows the county to accept and allocate opioid settlement funds, the board’s official minutes show.
The action, adopted as Resolution #25-24, was moved by Commissioner Bob Teunessen and seconded by Vice-Chair David Hatfield. The roll call vote was 8–0 in favor. The resolution authorizes the county to enter the allocation agreement with the state so that locally directed opioid-settlement expenditures can move forward.
Why it matters: opioid settlement dollars may fund prevention, treatment and recovery services in Barry County; the board’s approval clears a procedural step necessary to accept and distribute that funding under the state’s allocation framework.
In other formal business, the board approved the 2025–2026 Child Care Fund Plan and Budget as part of the consent agenda. Bill Matteson, executive director of the Child Abuse Prevention Agency in Barry County, spoke in favor of the Child Care Fund plan during the public-comment period. The consent agenda motion, moved by Commissioner Bruce Campbell and supported by Vice-Chair Hatfield, carried on a unanimous roll call (8–0).
The board also approved claims totaling $191,196.59 and took three CDBG actions: adoption of the CDBG Emergency Homeowner Program and Guidelines, and the CDBG Program Income 2023–2024 closeout. Each CDBG item was moved and seconded as recorded in the minutes and passed unanimously.
Other consent items approved included Budget Amendment 25-B, disposal of a 1990 Georgie Boy motorhome used by the sheriff’s posse, and a trial adjustment to the board’s 4th-quarter 2025 meeting schedule to meet only on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays; the schedule change will be reviewed at the organizational meeting on Jan. 2, 2026.
The county administrator, Eric Zuzga, told the board that upcoming employee health and safety trainings may require closing the Courts and Law Building and the Historical Courthouse for a day; no board action was recorded on that item.
