Title
Resolution to Amend the City Council Approved Fiscal Year 2025 Budget to Accept and Appropriate a Grant Award from the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority for the Hampton City Jail Substance Use Jail-Based Medication Assisted Treatment Services Project
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
There have been multiple national settlements where opioid manufacturers and distributors have agreed to pay funds to state and local governments which are meant to help those governments abate and remediate the opioid epidemic. In Virginia, each county and city signed a memorandum of understanding with Virginia's Office of the Attorney General, which established an allocation plan for opioid settlements within the Commonwealth. In accordance with this plan opioid settlement funds will be disbursed with 15% is going directly to the Commonwealth; 30% going directly to cities and counties based on a per capita within the county or city; and the remaining 55% being deposited into the Opioid Abatement Fund, to be administered by the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority ("OAA"), much of which will be distributed to localities through a grant application process.
In addition, OAA offers an optional "Gold Standard" Incentive program that provides a 25% increase to a locality's Individual Distribution allocation provided the locality agrees to apply the "Gold Standard" to in the usage of 100% of the direct funds it receives. The City of Hampton has opted to participate in this program.
Discussion:
The OAA operates a program through which it awards and pays Individual Distribution and "Gold Standard" Incentive grants to individual localities to fund efforts to treat, prevent, and reduce opioid use disorder and the misuse of opioids. Through those programs, the City of Hampton applied for and received an award of $156,347.00 to fund the Hampton City Jail ("HCJ") Substance use Jail based Medical Assisted Treatment ("MAT") Services project. This project is an extension of...
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