What: How the Town distributes its share of national opioid settlement proceeds (about 71,441 dollars available), at least 70 percent of which must go to opioid remediation.
Where it stands: On 2026-10-29 the Public Safety Committee approved a solicitation form for outside agencies and voted to recommend that it receive the requests and recommend spending to the Town Council.
Next: The Town Council decides whether to assign the process to the committee; if so, staff will solicit applications (about a dozen expected).
Details
The form is modeled on the one used for cannabis revenue requests in the budget; follow-up reporting is required of recipients.
Open questions: dollar versus percentage cap per agency, whether recipients must be Groton-based, and how to judge opioid relevance.
Funds are handled outside the budget process; spending ultimately needs Council and Representative Town Meeting approval.