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Resident urges public audit and real‑time dashboard for opioid restitution funds
Summary
Shawn Major told commissioners that roughly $1.5 million in opioid restitution funds is not reaching street‑level services and demanded a public audit and dashboard; commissioners said the spending plan was previously presented and state rules limit spending options.
Shawn Major, the lone public commenter at the meeting, told the commission that people in the 6th District are still not seeing street‑level services funded by opioid restitution money and called for a full, public audit and a real‑time dashboard showing how settlement dollars move from the check to front‑line services.
"We demand immediate, transparent, and public audit of the ORF," Major said, adding that $1,500,000 is on the table but frontline services remain under resourced. He urged that peers, families and community health workers be given meaningful roles in allocating funds rather than relying on internal memos.
A county official responded that the spending plan for the opioid restitution fund had been presented to commissioners last June, that the allocations are posted on the county website and that state rules govern how the funds can be spent. Commissioners said that the spending‑allocation group will meet in coming months and that the item will be revisited during that process.
The exchange left the basic disagreement intact: Major pressed for a public, accessible accounting and more immediate redirection to street‑level services; county staff pointed to an existing spending plan and state guidelines that frame allowable uses.
