TO: Mayor Bien-Willner and Town Council
FROM: Andrew Miller, Town Attorney
DATE: December 3, 2020
CONTACT:
Staff Contact Andrew Miller, 480-348-3691
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AGENDA TITLE:
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Authorize the Town of Paradise Valley's participation in the One Arizona Opioid Settlement Memorandum of Understanding, a multiparty statewide governmental agreement related to the opioid class action suit against pharmaceutical supply chain participants.
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution Number 2020-39.
Background
BACKGROUND:
The Town of Paradise Valley ("Town") received notice on November 3, 2020 from Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel that Maricopa County and all of the other county attorneys in the State of Arizona ("State") had entered into a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") with the State Attorney General Mark Brnovich, said MOU entitled the "One Arizona Opioid Settlement Memorandum of Understanding." Along with a copy of the MOU, the notice from County Attorney Allister Adel encouraged the Town and other cities and towns in Maricopa County (each a "Local Government") to also join the MOU and become part of the "One Arizona Plan" for settling certain class action litigation related to the opioid crisis (against three "Pharmaceutical Supply Chain" defendants, McKesson, Amerisource Bergen, and Cardinal Health, and one manufacturer of opioids, Johnson & Johnson) as well as signing on to receive access to funds that may be used by a Local Government unit for certain "Approved Purposes" that are aimed at stemming the opioid crisis. The Town received a similar notice on November 8, 2020 from Attorney General Brnovich encouraging all of the cities and Towns in the State to join the MOU; and setting a deadline of December 15, 2020 for the cities and towns to execute the MOU.
Both the initial class action settlement that has been proposed at the national level as well as the "One Arizona Plan" provide incentives for all of the Local Gov...
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