Committee strikes proposed reporting and funding-disclosure items after debate

The subcommittee considered a proposal to require recipients of opioid settlement funds to submit reports twice per year on spending and program outcomes and to develop more standardized reporting. Members debated cadence, who would receive the reports, whether the reports already exist in contractual reporting to departments, and whether a formal recommendation to require disclosures of other funding sources should be forwarded to Health and Human Needs.

After extended discussion about feasibility and procurement implications, the committee moved to strike the reporting item and then moved to strike the disclosure-of-funding-sources item. One member summarized that staff (including the opioid settlement coordinator) could summarize existing contract-level reports for the committee instead of imposing a new contract requirement; the committee agreed that more work on standardized reporting could happen as a follow-up rather than as an immediate recommendation to HHN.

Both items were struck and removed from the set of recommendations forwarded by the subcommittee; members noted that staff capacity and procurement rules would need to be addressed before imposing new contractual reporting or disclosure requirements.