Meeting of May 2, 2023

education and lead us in the pledge please father thank you for the opportunity for us of our community we pray father that you would guide and direct each one of us that we have pure hearts and do the things that is best for the people that we represent we pray to watch over each one of us our families the ones that are over serving in countries to give us the freedom that we have here today and we give all the praise and glory to you in Jesus name amen amen and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God thank you Jim at this time Sam would you call the road to bring the court theater please yes thank you the treasure is transferred to man 420 or 30.

I'll make a motion that we accept the treasures transfer report that's presented second I've got a motion by second district magistered logiston a second by fourth district meds to bring milk to prove the treasures transfer reports as presented Sam Carlo place yes Johnson yes yes yes thank you the presentation improve of our bills yeah second got a motion bad processary nights with Sanders the second my second district emergency log team to approve the bills is presented Sam Carver please yes yes yes yes thank you um we've had approval needs for the April 18th of 2023 Bullitt County Fiscal Court maybe then also the special lady making them will do them separate way of April 20th of 2023 for the purchase of the property uh the first one will be April 18 2023. I'll put in the form of emotion to go

through got a motion that fourth district managed to bring more a second by Third District mayor District Johnson to approve the minutes of April 18 2023 both San Francisco Court meeting as presented Sam Carlo place yes yes yes thank you secondly if the special meeting we had on April 20th of 2023 which involved the purchase of the property on Preston Highway That Emotion by first district magistrate Sanders the second by Third District Magistrate Johnson to approve the Memphis on April 20th or 2023 the bullpen Fiscal Court San Carlos place yes yes thank you all right um presentations around the world government Affairs and public policy about the opioids settlement funds and an opportunity to

be presented to our professional course good morning my name is Ryan Underwood I am representing net recovery I have Rebecca much with me she is also with net recovery I came here today to speak to you all about the opioid settlement funds that I'm sure you all are aware of at this point they have started being appropriated from the federal administrator and are headed to local governments net recovery uh just to give you a little bit of background is a non-pharmacological opioid abatement treatment it has been studied here in Kentucky for the last 10 years they've treated a little over 500 patients with this treatment I've given you all a summary brief that gives you a little bit of background about how the device works it's basically very light electrical stimulation it attaches behind the ears and essentially what it does is it rewires the brain and starts creating the chemicals in your body and stop getting produced when you start when you become addicted to opioids that's that's the 30 000 foot view of what this device does what net is

wanting to do is to continue that research here in Kentucky and expand uh on what they've already done we've looked at efficacy we just finished a 100 patient double-blinded study uh in conjunction with Wayne State University and Dr Mark Greenwald um we recently presented in front of the FDA we should have some uh indication of approval on that sooner than we actually had anticipated before but what we want to do is work with local governments as well as the state government and these opioid settlement funds we've requested 3.7 million out of the state settlement from the opioid abatement advisory commission we've submitted that Grant we're waiting to hear back from them the other part of that is a request from multiple counties combined 1.7 or 1.3 million dollars Beyond researching the the efficacy of this device what we would like to do is look at the societal benefits of of this different treatment we know what we can do with buprenorphine methadone Suboxone drugs

like that traditional methods of treatment what the sober study wants to do is look at the effectiveness of this and how it affects people after they leave treatment as far as employment criminal recidivism education wages transients basically housing we have agreements so far in place with KY stats which is one of the best in the country as far as taking metrics and putting together studies as well as the University of Louisville to help us facilitate this we have worked with Isaiah house as far as our rehab facility where we do all of this so all of our patients are under you know strict Medical Care um what we're and I'll just jump to the chase what we're asking for from Bullitt County what we will be asking for uh is a total of fifty thousand dollars thirty six thousand in year one 12 000 a year to twelve thousand a year three this is a three year longitudinal study [Music] we have their areas that are very interested in this I think there's a lot of people

waiting to see what we hear back from the OAC but right now things are looking promising for that fifty thousand dollars we would be able to treat and track 18 to 20 Bullock County Citizens who are suffering from opioid use disorder as I said I'd like to keep this brief and again I have Rebecca with me um from net she she works at Isaiah house fournette and she is also a former patient so we were happy to take any questions on the specifics of the study or how this works or kind of where we've been where we're going thank you for the presentation but also this is the same presentation that you gave at the magistrates conference as well and I please accepted our invitation to come to the court because career administrates were there and myself when y'all presented it but for like Miss Baker the sheriff he and the rest of the team Sean okay got all the Mayors sitting here six largest cities yep so so um yeah so um like I said I just kind of wanted to

give give a refresher uh on on what we're doing but again if you all have any specific questions that weren't able to be asked uh during the Master's meeting um or thought of anything we were again happy happy to answer those but um you know we would like to stay in contact with the court as far as when you all start making those decisions because I know there are more and more people coming forward that are going to have requests for appropriations of funds for programming and the things of that nature so um you know when you all start making decisions on Appropriations we would definitely like to be a part of that process okay how do you determine uh those 18 to 20 possible people who do you work with locally in the county here in Bullitt County department so that's going to be a partnership with net and you all to help determine that um you know it could be with law enforcement urologist Health Department people our idea is to get people that you all see far too often that end up in county jail or that the police departments see on two frequent bases and determine that those are the kind of people that we would like to put in these treatment programs to continue you know this research but really it's it's ultimately uh to the County