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Jul 22, 2021 / 07:55 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The $507 million awarded to Indiana from the $26 billion national settlement with opioid manufacturers will be cut in half due to local cities and counties opting out of the settlement money.
Richard Shevitz an attorney with Cohen & Malad, the firm representing the city of Indianapolis and other cities and counties in their own independent lawsuits against opioid manufacturers –says the state will likely get $269 million in settlement money because over 56% of the state has chosen to opt out.
When I-Team 8 spoke with Shevitz last month, he pointed how large amounts of settlement money have been handled by the state in the past. For example, the majority of the money from the Tobacco Master Settlement in 1998 was not used toward tobacco-related programs.
Budget workshops
Martinsville Mayor Kenny Costin told members of the council that the city would host its budget workshops for the 2022 budget from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on the evenings of regularly-scheduled council meetings in July and August.
Those meetings will take place on July 12 and 26, and Aug. 9 and 23 in council chambers at Martinsville City Hall.
Funds transfer
Members of the council also approved two fund transfer resolutions during Monday s meeting.
One transfer included $1,000 from the city engineer s professional fees line item to office supplies and $1,000 from the council s safety program line item to janitorial supplies.
The other transfer was for $2,000 from the building inspector s other line item to its gas line item.
Jun 22, 2021 / 08:01 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Every year Indiana receives an estimated $120 million from the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Fund (TMSF), but only .06% of that money specifically goes toward the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program.
“There’s a lag between the bucket of money and the process,” State Rep. Greg Porter said.
Currently, only $7.5 million of TMSF is spent on tobacco use prevention. The Center of Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation on how much
A majority of the fund is spent on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The funding from the settlement for CHIP will end in 2022.
“We needed to take care of our children,” Porter said. “There were a lot of children that were falling by the wayside that did not have health insurance.”
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