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Public safety committee agrees to seek council vote to join expanded opioid settlement
Summary
The Public Safety Committee agreed to bring 2026 R15 — a resolution to opt into an expanded opioid class-action settlement adding six defendants — to full council for second-reading before the May 4 opt-in deadline. The city’s estimated additional share is about $9,000 to go into local opioid response funds.
The Public Safety Committee voted to bring 2026 R15 to the full City Council for a vote after the administration said the city must opt in by May 4 to receive additional settlement funds. The resolution would add six defendants to the city’s opioid class‑action participation and allocate any proceeds to the city’s opioid settlement fund for training, direct services, education, awareness and prevention.
Public Safety Committee Chair (referred to in the meeting as the committee chair) summarized the change as a straightforward expansion of the settlement and said the city’s incremental recovery from the newly named parties is approximately $9,000. "There's basically $97,000,000 more dollars in the pot for this settlement," the chair said, and staff estimated Greene’s share would be modest but usable for local services.
Committee members received background on the litigation’s scope — that manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies were implicated in practices that contributed to widespread opioid addiction — and asked whether more defendants might still be added. Counsel had provided a memo to council and the mayor summarizing options and timing; the committee agreed the administration’s request for second‑reading passage was reasonable given the deadline.
The committee had no objections to moving R15 to tonight’s council agenda. If adopted by council, the city would direct any funds from the settlement to the existing opioid settlement fund for locally governed prevention and response work. The committee discussion did not include a final tallyed vote on R15 itself; the action recorded at the committee level was concurrence to bring the resolution to the council docket for formal consideration.
