Item 33 — Thursday, March 26, 2026

Current official agenda wording

Authorize negotiation and execution of an amendment to the agreement with Communities for Recovery to provide peer recovery counseling services for community intervention to prevent opioid overdoses by using evidence-based practices in opioid stewardship, opioid use disorder, and opioid harm reduction, to extend the agreement with a 12-month term ending on March 31, 2027, in an amount not to exceed $250,000, for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $500,000. Funding: $250,000 is available in the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Austin Public Health Department’s Opioid Settlement Fund Budget. Funding for the remaining years of the agreement is contingent upon available funding in future budgets.