City of Milwaukee - File #: 250874

• File #: 250874
• Version: 2
• Type: Resolution
• Status: In Council-Adoption
• File created: 9/23/2025
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE
• Title: Substitute resolution authorizing the expenditure of opioid settlement funds.
• Sponsors: ALD. PEREZ, ALD. JACKSON

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/10/2026	1	PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Ald. Taylor moved to accept Proposed SUB A before committee. Ald. Burgelis objected.	Pass	4:1
4/10/2026	2	PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Appearing: MHD Commissioner - Dr. Totoraitis MFD Chief Lipski EMS Medical Director - Milwaukee County - Ben Weston Pres. Perez asked to be added as Co-sponsor. Proposed SUB AMENDED the read as follows: This resolution authorizes the expenditure of up to $1,679,792 in settlement funds for the Milwaukee Fire Department’s Milwaukee Overdose Response Initiative.	Pass	3:1
3/26/2026	0	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Perez
3/3/2026	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO
10/29/2025	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR; Minutes note: Appearing: Bryan Rynders, Budget Office	Pass	4:0
9/23/2025	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
250874

Version
SUBSTITUTE 2

Reference
211799, 220562, 221904, 240557, 240813, 240787

Sponsor
ALD. JACKSON AND PEREZ

Title
Substitute resolution authorizing the expenditure of opioid settlement funds.

Analysis
This resolution authorizes the expenditure of up to $1,679,792 in settlement funds for the Milwaukee Fire Department’s Milwaukee Overdose Response Initiative.

Body
Whereas, On January 29, 2020, the City of Milwaukee joined the National Prescription Opiate multidistrict litigation; and

Whereas, Common Council File Number 220562, adopted August 12, 2022, authorized City officials to accept an initial settlement payment of up to $2,000,000, and to accept future settlement disbursements arising from the same litigation of up to $18,000,000 in aggregate, into a segregated account; and

Whereas, Common Council File Numbers 221904 and 240557, adopted April 18, 2023 and July 30, 2024, respectively, authorized the proper City officials to opt into additional opioid settlements for which the City is eligible for new settling defendants in the settlement of the National Prescription Opiate multidistrict litigation in United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division, case no. 20-op-45044-DAP; and

Whereas, The City has received settlement payments totaling approximately $12.7 million to date; and

Whereas, Common Council File Number 211799, adopted March 22, 2022, directed that settlement funds received in the opioid litigation be used to fund the Milwaukee Overdose Response Initiative and other harm-reduction strategies; and

Whereas, To date, the Common Council has allocated approximately $3.8 million of Opioid settlement funds towards harm reduction programs created and operated by the Milwaukee Health and Fire Departments; and

Whereas, Common Council File 240787, adopted November 11, 2024, allocated $1,845,026 to the Milwaukee Fire Department for their Milwaukee Overdose Response Initiative...