HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-03-22 21-130 Resolve
04/12/202121-130
04/12/2021
21-130
Health & Community Services
Resolve
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Title, Resolve
Accepting and Appropriating $194,700 of Grant Amendment Funds for the Overdose Prevention and Naloxone
Distribution Program.
This Resolve will allow for an amendment to an existing grant, increasing the funds by $194,700 in
FY21. On July 13, 2020 resolve 20-203 was passed to accept and appropriate grant funds in the
amount of $212,500 to the Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution Program from the State
of Maine. These additional funds will be provided by the state of Maine.
All of the additional funds will be directed to the purchase of naloxone which will be distributed in
the program's five-county naloxone distribution area of Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington,
Aroostook, and Hancock counties.
The Public Health and Community Services Department has been a recipient of the overdose
prevention portion of this grant since 2008; the contract was expanded in 2020 to include naloxone
purchase and distribution.
Government Operations Committee
03/15/2021
Recommend for passage
50
First Reading
04/12/202121-130
CITY OF BANGOR RESOLVE
04/12/2021
21-130
Dubay
Accepting and Appropriating $194,700 of Grant Amendment Funds for the Overdose Prevention and Naloxone
Distribution Program.
Whereas, On July 13, 2020 resolve 20-203 was passed to accept and appropriate grant funds in the amount
of $212,500 to the Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution Program from the State of Maine, and
Whereas, This Resolve amend the existing grant, increasing the funds by $194,700 in FY21, and
Whereas, All of the additional funds will be directed to the purchase of naloxone which will be distributed in
the program's five-county naloxone distribution area of Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington, Aroostook, and
Hancock counties.
Be it Resolved by the City Council of the City of Bangor that, the City Manager is authorized to accept and
appropriate $194,700 in grant funds for the Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution Program.
IN CITY COUNCIL
MARCH 22,2021
Cr 21-130
Motion made and seconded for First Reading
Vote: 9—0
Councilors.Voting Yes: Davitt,Dubay,Fournier,Hawes,Nichols, Okafor, Schaefer, Sprague,Tremble
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
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IN CITY COUNCIL
APRIL 12,2021
CR 21-130
Motion made and seconded for Passage
Vote: 9—0
Councilors Voting Yes: Davitt,Dubay,Fournier,Hawes,Nichols, Okafor, Schaefer, Sprague
Councilors Voting No: None
CIT V CLE