DEPARTMENT: Public Health
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Ratification Of Joint Powers Agreement With Independent School Districts And Charter Schools To Expend Opioid Settlement Funds And Execute Joint Powers Agreement with Independent School District 199
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RESOLUTION
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WHEREAS, opioid settlement funds are distributed and governed by the Amended Minnesota Opioid State-Subdivision Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), which sets forth authorized strategies in MOA Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 24-256 (May 21, 2024), the Dakota County Board of Commissioners authorized the Community Services Director to execute a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) with Independent School District 199 (ISD 199) in an amount not to exceed $4,000 using opioid settlement funds for MOA Exhibit A strategies G.8, G.9, G.10, H.1, H.3, H.4, H.6, and H.7, for a term from April 25, 2025, through January 1, 2027; and
WHEREAS, by prior resolution, the Dakota County Board of Commissioners authorized an amendment to the 2024 Non-Departmental Budget to allocate up to $80,000 in opioid settlement funds for reimbursement of up to $500 per school building in Dakota County for eligible activities consistent with the MOA, including storage for mandated nasal naloxone, training, and support for community education and outreach; and
WHEREAS, in connection with that allocation, staff recommended entering into JPAs with Independent School Districts (ISD)s 192, 194, 196, 197, and 199, and Special School District 6 (SSD 6), to support eligible opioid awareness activities, opioid response training, and training equipment, with terms beginning upon execution and originally anticipated to end July 1, 2025; however, the executed JPAs have terms that run through January 1, 2027; and
WHEREAS, the JPAs provide the same funding opportunity, and ISDs 192, 194, 196, and 197 and SSD 6 have spent, or expect to spend, their allocated funds by January 1, 2027; and
WHEREAS, ISD 199 requires additional ti...
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