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Drugs and addiction44
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  1. Wed, Sep 2 NC General Assembly · House — Session Convenes
    Two halves. The first draws drug-free zones 100 to 300 feet around homeless shelters and service facilities, making sale or possession of a controlled substance inside one a felony, adding penalties for operators who knowingly allow offences on their premises, and requiring signs marking the zones. The second bars loc…
    Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
  2. Tue, Sep 1 Town of Morrisville · Public Safety Advisory Committee
    Three minutes per speaker. One submission on a fentanyl awareness initiative is attached to the agenda.
  3. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A funding request against the county's opioid settlement money, with an amended spending authorization resolution and a matching budget amendment.
  4. Mon, Aug 31 NC General Assembly · House — Session Convenes
    Would make a drug offense within 300 feet of a homeless shelter or a publicly funded homeless service provider a Class E felony for anyone 21 or older, and would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for the operator of such a facility to knowingly allow one. A separate part restricts camping and sleeping in public spaces: a…
    Filed by Rhyne, Chesser, and Pickett. Last action: placed on the calendar for 4 August 2026. Changes Chapters 160D (local planning and development regulation) and 90 (medicine and controlled substanc…
  5. Mon, Aug 24 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2026-08-24 7:00 PM - Regular Session
    Appointments to the Durham-Wake Counties Research and Production Service District Advisory Committee and the Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee.
  6. Mon, Aug 17 Wake County · Board of Commissioners
    Redirects previously committed opioid-settlement funds to new appropriation.
  7. Mon, Aug 17 Wake County · Board of Commissioners
    Adopts a project ordinance governing how opioid-settlement funds will be spent.
  8. Mon, Jul 27 Chatham County · Board of Commissioners
    Proclamation or recognition Drugs and addictionHealth and human services
  9. Mon, Jul 13 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2026-07-13 5:00 PM - Regular Session
  10. Mon, Jun 22 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2026-06-22 7:00 PM - Regular Session
  11. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The fiscal 2027 operating budget, the county fee schedule, an opioid settlement fund spending authorization the state requires, and a resolution defining how occupancy tax is used. Built from decisions the board reached at a 4 June work session after a January retreat where the manager described an unprecedented $21 m…
    A motion to send the budget back to the manager for another 0.47 cents in cuts failed 3-3. The budget then passed 5-1, McKee opposed, saying he feared the beginning of a long line of tax increases.
  12. Tue, Jun 2 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    How to spend the county's share of the national opioid settlement. Orange County expects $12,748,445 over eighteen years from the $26 billion agreement all 100 North Carolina counties joined.
    Recommendations received unanimously; staff directed to bring a final spending authorization resolution on 16 June, where it passed on the consent agenda.
  13. Thu, May 28 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2026-05-28 9:00 AM - Budget Work Session - Day Three
    26-0304 Opioid Fund
    The county's Opioid Settlement Program presented FY2027 funding recommendations for how opioid settlement dollars should be spent.
  14. Thu, May 21 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A department-by-department walk through the public safety and human services budgets: courts, criminal justice resources, emergency services and the sheriff; then aging, Alliance Health, child support services, civil rights and civic life, the health department, housing, library services, social services and the opioi…
  15. Mon, May 18 Chatham County · Board of Commissioners
  16. Mon, May 4 City of Durham · Regular City Council Meeting
    The city directs how it will spend its opioid-settlement funds and joins a combined settlement with remaining defendants.
  17. Wed, Apr 29 Town of Chapel Hill · Town Council
    Authorising the town manager to sign the participation and release form joining the national opioid settlement with six remaining distributor defendants, which brings a one-time payment for eligible abatement and prevention.
    adopted · Pass · A motion was made by Mayor pro tem Berry, seconded by Council Member Miller-Foushee, to adopt R-4 authorizing the Town Manager to execute an agreement to participate in the National…
  18. Tue, Apr 21 Town of Wake Forest · Board of Commissioners
    Would add the town to a multi-jurisdiction settlement covering six remaining opioid-litigation defendants, bringing in additional remediation funds.
  19. Mon, Apr 20 Wake County · Board of Commissioners
    Authorizes the county's participation in a national opioid settlement with additional defendants, bringing in settlement funds for opioid response.
  20. Tue, Apr 7 Town of Garner · Town Council Regular Meeting
    Authorizes the town manager to sign onto a national opioid settlement with six regional distributors (the 'Remnant Defendants') ahead of a May 4, 2026 opt-in deadline.
  21. Wed, Mar 25 Orange County · Board of Health
    An update on the campus community coalition, which works on alcohol and substance use around the university.
  22. Mon, Mar 9 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2026-03-09 7:00 PM - Regular Session
  23. Mon, Mar 2 Wake County · Board of Commissioners
    Staff update the committee on county programs addressing the opioid crisis, including efforts funded by opioid settlement dollars.
  24. Mon, Mar 2 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2026-03-02 9:00 AM - Work Session
  25. Mon, Feb 16 Wake County · Board of Commissioners
    Adds a half-time position in the behavioral health department, funded by opioid settlement dollars.
  26. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Board of Health
    The media packet covered local families avoiding food bank services out of fear of immigration enforcement, federal funding for Hillsborough water treatment, a pediatric flu death in western North Carolina, a Medicaid change letting foster children stay enrolled across county moves, a measles exposure at RDU airport i…
  27. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Thirteen items approved together: five sets of minutes; motor vehicle and property tax releases for eighteen taxpayers; sixteen late exemption applications; a March 25 tax lien advertisement date; the 2026 listing period extended to February 13; budget amendment #6; ordinance execution for the impervious surface, wate…
    Approved unanimously
  28. Oct 27, 2025 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2025-10-27 7:00 PM - Regular Session
    Largest items: a $1,690,296 ARPA reallocation that pauses the DCo Thrives guaranteed income pilot amid pending state legislation and cuts $199,590 from an East Durham Market SNAP pilot, redirecting the funds to raise the Early Years childcare grant to $4,090,296; a $182,173 FST Technical Services commissioning contrac…
  29. Oct 13, 2025 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2025-10-13 5:30 PM - Regular Session
    Largest items: a $293,300 farmland conservation easement from Wesley and Cristan Poole, funded in part by $213,000 from the Army National Guard's Readiness and Environmental Protection program; a $142,415 sole-source SimuLab purchase for difficult-airway training equipment; creation of three new Sewer Utility Enterpri…
  30. Oct 6, 2025 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2025-10-06 9:00 AM - Work Session
    The consent agenda includes a capital project and budget amendment moving $80,300 to the General Fund and recognizing $213,000 from the Army National Guard's REPI program to complete a $293,300 purchase of a 25-acre conservation easement on Tilley Farm; a $14,470 amendment to RND Architects' contract (to $242,669) for…
  31. Sep 29, 2025 Town of Pittsboro · 1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)
    County public health staff presented the 2024 Community Health Assessment, covering key findings and strategic priorities including youth activities, healthcare access, and substance use treatment.
  32. Sep 29, 2025 Chatham County · Board of Commissioners
    County public health staff presented the 2024 Community Health Assessment, covering key findings, community priorities, and strategic plans on health impact areas including youth activities, healthcare access, and substance use treatment.
    received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  33. Sep 29, 2025 Town of Pittsboro · 1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)
    County public health staff presented the 2024 Community Health Assessment, covering key findings and strategic priorities including youth activities, healthcare access, and substance use treatment.
  34. Sep 24, 2025 Town of Chapel Hill · Town Council
    Authorizes the town manager or attorney to sign opioid settlement agreements with secondary manufacturer defendants and to participate in the Purdue Pharma/Sackler bankruptcy settlement.
    adopted · Pass · A motion was made by Council Member Berry, seconded by Council Member Miller-Foushee, that the Council adopt the resolution. The motion carried by a unanimous vote.
  35. Sep 22, 2025 Chatham County · Board of Commissioners
    Public health staff presented the 2024 Community Health Assessment's key findings, community priorities, and strategic plan for youth activities, health care access, and substance use treatment.
    received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  36. Sep 8, 2025 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2025-09-08 7:00 PM - Regular Session
    The consent agenda includes a $6,173,542 contract with Alliance Health to manage mental health, developmental disability and substance use services; a $932,221 Home and Community Care Block Grant funding plan for Social Services; three conservation easements totaling about $1.8 million on 119 acres from the Wrightenbe…
  37. Aug 19, 2025 Town of Fuquay-Varina · Board of Commissioners
    Authorizes the town manager to execute supplemental opioid-settlement agreements. Pulled from consent for discussion; Commissioner Harris proposed a local community advisory committee on substance abuse, which staff said the board could create independently even though Wake County controls fund disbursement.
    Approved unanimously, 5-0
  38. Aug 18, 2025 Wake County · Board of Commissioners
  39. Aug 18, 2025 Chatham County · Board of Commissioners
    approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Amanda Robertson, to authorize the County Manager to execute and submit all necessary participation forms and…
    Proclamation or recognition Drugs and addictionHealth and human services
  40. Aug 11, 2025 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2025-08-11 4:00 PM - Regular Session
    The consent agenda includes a $1,500,000 budget amendment to fund the Durham Affordable Housing Loan Fund, part of a $5 million push by the county, city and Duke University to grow the revolving loan fund to $30 million; a $656,331.78 purchase of Sheriff's Office FY26 vehicle equipment; a $562,240.31 EMS billing and c…
  41. Aug 4, 2025 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2025-08-04 9:00 AM - Work Session
    Alliance Health's CEO and finance leadership will update the board on its FY 2025-26 budget, including how recent federal policy shifts may affect funding and service delivery for mental health, developmental disability and substance use services.
  42. Jul 28, 2025 Durham County · Board of County Commissioners on 2025-07-28 6:00 PM - Regular Session
    The board is asked to fill seats by ballot on eleven boards, including the ABC Board, Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission, Durham Convention Center Authority, Durham County Hospital Corporation Board of Trustees, Juvenile Crime Prevention Council, Library Board of Trustees and Opioid Settlement Advisory Committ…
  43. Jul 21, 2025 Chatham County · Board of Commissioners
    adopted · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, that the 25-40 resolution recognizing Overdose Awareness Day was adopted. The motion car…
    Proclamation or recognition Drugs and addiction
  44. Jul 21, 2025 Chatham County · Board of Commissioners
    approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, that a three-year contract with Chatham Recovery for $246,018.75 for the treatment of o…

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