Board of Health Oct. 8 packet lists 10 grants and contracts, including $1.56 million TB control award
The packet also lists a $1.47 million Samaritan Recovery Community opioid grant and a WIC amendment adding $251,199.
NASHVILLE - The Metro Board of Health's Oct. 8 advance packet lists 10 grants and contracts for board approval, according to the packet's grants and contracts summary. The packet does not record how the board voted.
The largest is a $1,562,900 Tennessee Department of Health tuberculosis control and prevention grant for July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. A $1,469,770 opioid grant to Samaritan Recovery Community would sustain a 16-bed respite unit for Oct. 1, 2026, through Sept. 30, 2027. A $251,199 Women, Infants and Children amendment brings that grant's total to $16,249,786.
Others include a $696,500 HIV surveillance and prevention appropriation, a $765,200 grant in aid, a $375,000 community safety grant to Why We Can't Wait, a revised $521,331 anti-human trafficking opioid grant, a $41,693 My Father's House opioid grant and a $299,319 sexually transmitted infection services amendment. A right-of-entry agreement with Tennessee State University for the health department's mobile unit runs through June 30, 2031.
Source: Metro Board of Health, Oct. 8, 2026 advance packet (https://www.nashville.gov/sites/default/files/2026-10/Board_of_Health_October_8_2026_Advance_Packet_ADA.pdf), opened Oct. 11, 2026.