2021-08-01 VA Opioid Fund MOU PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
RESOLUTION # 2021-08-01
The following Resolution was adopted at the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors'
Regular Business Meeting on August 17, 2021:
WHEREAS, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ("County"), through their elected
representatives and counsel, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, through the Office of the
Attorney General, are separately engaged in litigation seeking to recover costs incurred and to be
incurred in abating the opioid addiction epidemic that plagues Virginia communities;
WHEREAS, the County and the Commonwealth of Virginia share a common desire to
abate and alleviate the impacts of the opioid addiction epidemic and to maximize litigation
recoveries from those third parties responsible for same;
WHEREAS, to advance their common interests, the County, and the Commonwealth of
Virginia, through counsel, have extensively negotiated the terms of a memorandum of
understanding relating to the allocation and use of such litigation recoveries;
WHEREAS, the County's outside opioid litigation counsel has recommended that the
County approve the proposed Memorandum of Understanding; and
WHEREAS, the County Attorney has reviewed the available information about the
proposed memorandum of understanding and concurs with the recommendation of outside
counsel.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the County, assembled on this day at
which a quorum is present, that the County hereby authorizes and approves, or confirms
authorization and approval, of the Virginia Abatement Fund and Settlement Allocation
Memorandum of Understanding attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference thereto as
Exhibit "A", and directs the County Administrator to execute and enter such Memorandum of
Understanding on behalf of the County.
Given under my hand this 17th of August,
2021.
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\\ obert("Bob") W. Warren
Chairman, Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors
Attest:
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M. Smi erman
Clerk, Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors