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Board allocates $397,030 in opioid settlement funds to local programs for FY27
Summary
Deschutes County approved $397,030 in FY27 opioid settlement allocations for sober housing beds, bus passes, naloxone purchase, and corrections nursing, after staff presented departmental requests and discussed naloxone supply and overdose trends.
Deschutes County commissioners approved $397,030 in allocations from opioid settlement funds for fiscal year 2027 during the March 11 meeting.
Budget staff outlined FY27 requests totaling $397,030 out of about $400,000 available: community justice requested $60,000 (including $50,000 for sober-housing beds and $10,000 for bus passes), health services asked to reallocate $70,000 in underspent prevention funds (35,000 to a mental-health associate embedded in community justice and 35,000 to naloxone purchases) plus a $37,030 FY27 naloxone request, and the sheriff’s office requested $300,000 (covering 1.15 full-time corrections registered nurses and $20,000 for Narcan and medication-assisted treatment supplies). The total requests after the sheriff’s increase reached $397,030.
Commissioners discussed the balance between funding immediate service capacity and investing upstream. Holly (health staff) said overdose deaths fell slightly in 2023, ticked up in 2024 and data for 2025 remain pending; she committed to provide precise overdose-death figures to the board. Commissioners stressed the importance of naloxone availability and supported funding the corrections nursing positions and other requests that shore up existing services.
A motion to approve the allocations as discussed — described by a commissioner as "totaling $397,030" — passed unanimously.
