A proposal to allocate $1.8 million from Roswell’s opioid settlement fund for addiction prevention and treatment was referred for additional committee-level review.

The funds would be used to “identify organizations or agencies to respond to the opioid crisis through opioid response strategies such as, but not limited to, prevention, treatment, recovery, harm reduction, and/or education,” as stated in a staff report created for the Roswell Public Safety Committee, which met last week.

The wording stresses that multiple organizations “may be selected for funding contracts.”

The initial contract would last until the end of the current fiscal year, which is on June 30, 2026. The city would then have options to continue for up to three more years.

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