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Carter County awards $865,000 in opioid settlement funds to local treatment and prevention programs
Summary
The Board of Commissioners voted April 21 to disburse opioid-subfund dollars: $65,000 to the Child Abuse Prevention Agency, $300,000 to Families Free and $500,000 to NETN Recovery Center to support local substance-use treatment, prevention and recovery services.
The Carter County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved three disbursements from the county opioid subfund during its April 21 meeting, directing a total of $865,000 to local treatment and prevention providers.
The Budget Committee’s slate, moved by Commissioner Robert Acuff and carried on an electronic roll call, included $65,000 to the Child Abuse Prevention Agency, $300,000 to Families Free and $500,000 to NETN Recovery Center. Each motion passed on a 20–0 electronic roll call.
Commissioners framed these allocations as locally controlled uses of opioid settlement dollars to expand services and supports. The motions included brief presentations and were approved without recorded substantive debate in the meeting minutes; commissioners did not record conditions or programmatic deployment details during the public portion of the meeting.
Next steps: county finance staff will issue payments from the opioid subfund and record the disbursements; program-level usage, reporting and monitoring obligations will be managed by the recipients and county finance as appropriate under grant or fund rules.
Funding details: the motions reference the county’s opioid subfund; the meeting record does not provide further restrictions or performance reporting in the body of the minutes.
