Agenda 04/22/2025 Item #16D 6 (Accept Year 3 Opioid Settlement Funds totaling $1,942,240.64 ($399,277.79 City/County and $1,542,962.85 Regional Abatement) and authorize the necessary budget amendment.)4/22/2025
Item # 16.D.6
ID# 2025-1122
Executive Summary
Recommendation to approve and authorize the Board of County Commissioners to accept the Year 3 allocation of Opioid
Settlement Funds in the amount of $1,942,240.64 ($399,277.79 City/County and $1,542,962.85 Regional Abatement)
and authorize the necessary Budget Amendment. (Opioid Abatement Grant Fund 1850 and Opioid City/County
Subdivision Grant Fund 1852)
OBJECTIVE: Utilize the funds received from the Florida Opioid Settlement Fund to address the opioid epidemic,
including prevention, treatment, and/or recovery services for Collier County residents to support the county’s strategic
objective of promoting access to health, wellness, and human services.
CONSIDERATIONS: A local, state, and national crisis arose because of the manufacturing, distribution, and over-
prescribing of opioids, and resulted in opioid abuse, misuse, overdoses, addictions, and death throughout municipalities,
counties, states, and the nation. These activities contributed to the public health emergency and crisis commonly referred
to as the opioid epidemic. Collier County and the municipalities therein have suffered from this crisis which has caused
and is causing an undue strain on local government finances to implement programming to combat the opioid epidemic.
These funds may be used to mitigate the harmful effects of the opioid epidemic in the community and increase
educational campaigns to counteract misinformation about the addictive nature and harmful effects of opioids and
opioid abuse.
The National Opiate Litigation filed by the State of Florida and various local governments against pharmaceutical
companies has resulted in numerous settlements, to be distributed to the State of Florida over multiple years. At the June
22, 2021 (Agenda Item #16.K.8) meeting, the Board of County Commissioners (“Board”) approved Resolution No.
2021-136, authorizing Collier County to join with the State of Florida and other local governments as a Participant in the
State Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and enter into formal agreements to participate in the Florida Plan for the
Florida Opioid Settlement.
As part of the settlement, there are two (2) allocations that will be received annually over the next eighteen (18) years:
City/County and Regional Abatement. On April 11, 2023, the Board approved the initial City/County allocation in the
amount of $289,151.06 (Agenda Item #16.D.5) and the Regional Abatement fund allotment in the amount of
$2,628,842.15 on June 13, 2023 (Agenda Item #16.D.3). On June 25, 2024, the Board approved its second year
allocation (Agenda Item #16.D.7), in the amount $633,277.95 for City/County and $1,241,219.04 for Regional
Abatement received on January 1, 2024 and recognized and interest payment of $1,310.30 for Regional Abatement
received on April 24, 2024. An amount of $16,741.88 in additional City/County funding was anticipated and not
received. This will be reconciled in Year 3 after the funds are accepted.
The County received Year 3 allocations in the amount of $1,542,962.85 for Regional Abatement on January 28,2025
and $399,277.79 for City/County on February 14, 2025.
Supports the county’s strategic objective of promoting access to health, wellness, and human services.
FISCAL IMPACT: Budget amendments are required to recognize Year 3 revenue from the State of Florida-Regional
Abatement funds for $1,542,962.85 and $399,277.79 for City/County. The funds will reside in the Opioid Abatement
Grant Fund (1850) Project 44059 and Opioid City/County Subdivision Grant Fund (1852) Project 44085. Collier County
will utilize five percent (5%) of these funds as approved by the State MOU for administrative purposes. There is no
match requirement for this item.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT IMPACT: There is no Growth Management impact associated with this item.
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS: This item has been approved as to form and legality and requires a majority vote for
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4/22/2025
Item # 16.D.6
ID# 2025-1122
Board approval. -JAK
RECOMMENDATIONS: To approve and authorize the Board of County Commissioners to accept the Year 3
allocation of Opioid Settlement Funds in the amount of $1,942,240.64 ($399,277.79 City/County and $1,542,962.85
Regional Abatement) and authorize the necessary Budget Amendment. (Opioid Abatement Grant Fund 1850 and Opioid
City/County Subdivision Grant Fund 1852)
PREPARED BY: Carolyn Noble, Grant Coordinator, Community and Human Services Division
ATTACHMENTS:
1. BA Year3 Revenue 44059
2. BA Year3 Revenue 44085
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