The funding formula gives the state power over funding, even for activities originating on the local level.
The appointment of a full-time project coordinator to manage Hawaii’s opioid settlement trust fund has set the process of allocating money to the counties for drug treatment efforts on a faster track, according to a member of the settlement advisory committee who previously described the pace of spending as “painfully slow.”
The hiring of Grant Giventer at the Department of Health’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division in December improved communication, according to Tim Hansen, a committee member and executive assistant to Hawaii Mayor Mitch Roth.
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