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City outlines plan to use opioid-settlement funds for workforce program tied to Mansfield Cemetery restoration
Summary
Director Stone told council the city plans to use a small portion of OneOhio opioid-settlement funds to finance a workforce-development contract that would employ people in recovery to build trails and restore Mansfield Cemetery on city-owned land; the city has solicited proposals and is close to contracting with a group called The Gathering Place.
At the June 1 meeting Director Stone briefed council that Athens expects to receive a small share of OneOhio opioid-settlement funds over 20 years and that the administration is proposing to use a portion of those funds for a workforce-development program tied to conservation cemetery work.
Stone said the city plans to issue an RFP to hire a contractor to employ people in recovery to perform trail-building and restoration work on an approximately 80-acre tract purchased with Clean Ohio funds that contains Mansfield Cemetery. He said the work proposal received one submission and that staff were close to contracting with an organization called The Gathering Place to provide supervised crews.
The project, Stone said, is intended to provide employment and training for people in recovery while improving public access to and restoring Mansfield Cemetery in a way consistent with the property’s conservation-easement restrictions. Stone said the city would use the contract structure and oversight to ensure work meets the easement and public-access goals.
