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Committee recommends accepting $381,394 in state public‑health grants
Summary
A Nashua Board of Aldermen committee voted to recommend final passage of a resolution to accept $381,394 from the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services to support regional public‑health network services, emergency preparedness and volunteer management.
A Nashua Board of Aldermen committee recommended final passage of Resolution R26030 on a motion introduced during its meeting, authorizing the city to accept $381,394 in grant funds from the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.
Bobby Bagley, the city’s public health and community services director, told the committee the total is a combination of several grants administered through regional public health network services. He said the funding supports volunteer management, the city’s continuum-of-care work addressing opioid and other substance use disorders and behavioral health, a public health advisory council, public health emergency preparedness and substance misuse prevention.
Bagley broke the total down in the meeting: $128,230 supports continuum-of-care facilitation, $208,734 is for public health emergency preparedness, $30,000 supports the public health advisory council for a community health assessment and improvement plan, $10,000 funds volunteer management (including Community Emergency Response Team and medical reserve team coordination), and $4,430 is allocated to substance misuse prevention. He said some lines are flat-funded year to year, which effectively reduces buying power when salaries rise.
"This combination of funding across the different grants actually is dollars 381,394," Bagley said, adding the grants support staffing — including a public health emergency preparedness coordinator and a behavioral health strategist — and several hours for an administrative program assistant.
Committee members asked whether the amounts were typical. Bagley said most of the listed grant lines are the usual amounts the city receives, but the substance misuse prevention allocation has declined from prior years. He said staff work across multiple grants so that positions approach full‑time equivalent coverage despite flat funding.
After questions, the committee voted to recommend final passage. The motion carried.
The resolution will move forward to the full board for final action; vote counts at the committee meeting were recorded as "Aye" and the chair stated the motion carries, with no formal tally recorded in the transcript.
