Opioid abatement plan and regional funding approval

39:02And so the second item that we bring before you today is the County Administrator, which is one of the requirements for us to qualify as a qualified county to obtain regional funding from the state. The opioid abatement plan is based off of exhibit B from the proposed state's memorandum for understanding. This includes a compilation of wish list items from the community that were submitted by subject matter experts and members of the opioid task force. This plan

39:32is not inclusive of all needs, as we're still working through the data and information from our. stakeholders in our community, but we are planning on evaluating this plan on a quarterly basis and bringing it before you for any approval down the line. The deadline by the state, just as a reminder, is January 1st of 2022. This plan is divided into three sections, specifically referring to treatment on section one, and really just about supporting our communities, their needs, and connecting them to resources.

40:04Part two really specifically referring to prevention, uh, how to um connect with our Subject matter experts to prevent the over prescription of opioids and creating additional harm reduction strategies in our community. And section three, specifically relating to first responders leadership, planning and coordination at local government entities to help us uh provide wellness and support services as they deal with this epidemic on the

40:34ground. And with that, uh, we recommend approval.

40:39Mr. Just yes, Mr. Ronald.

40:41Just real quick. Um Paula, thank you for all your work and effort on this. I know this this came to you at kind of at the last minute, so you had to put a lot of time into it. There

40:49was

40:49a lot of moving parts and and uh option to bring this together. And then the county attorney's office, I know Jordan Wolfcram worked very hard on this as well and helped make do a lot of the heavy lifting. So I know the commission appreciates everything you've done on this.

41:01Well, thank you very much.

41:03Mr. Chairman Mariano. Um Yeah, I'm glad to see this coming forward. As as I say, when we have future money down the road I wanna take a look at how legislative they may change how the disagreement is, but to get this out so quickly is fantastic. I think the people that sir that are gonna be serving on are great. I think the communities behind it. As a matter of fact, there's uh a couple of people, I'm just gonna pull their name up here. that are very interested. They're with the Calvary Church. They have a community center. I just played in a charity event they had this weekend. And afterwards she came to me, uh And

41:34it's um the Estelle Kirsh Keshok and her husband Don who ran the tr ran the event and says, you know, we'd like to go do a fundraiser coming up to try to get money uh to help those that are you know, maybe Narcane and other things. I says, You know, we've got a program running right now, the opioid task force, which we're gonna be approving on Tuesday, that let me put you in contact with our people. And instead of raising money for that, where we have money available hopefully. Um you can work on the you know, feeding the people through your community set instead. So

42:04if you want to if you don't mind, I'll give you their their information. You can reach out to them and you can try to see how they can help this program serve the people I guess design as well.

42:12We'd love to collaborate.

42:14Thank you.

42:15Thank you, Commissioner.

42:17We have a motion. So move. Motion second. Oh.

42:20Yeah, got a motion second. All those in favor say aye.

42:23Aye.