Boulder City Council voted last week to send a letter to the Boulder County Regional Opioid Council urging a shift in how the county allocates its share of opioid settlement funds: away from a piecemeal approach and toward a few, large transformational projects. It comes as Boulder continues to see a troubling rise in overdoses.
The letter argues that Boulder County’s past response to the opioid crisis has been incremental. The roughly $30 million available to Boulder County from settlement funds between 2022 and 2038, councilmembers say, represents a rare chance to invest in “systemic change, rather than isolated interventions.”
“We probably won’t see it again,” Councilmember Tina Marquis told Boulder Reporting Lab…