Certified event food and ice cream as harm reduction

The FY2024 report certifies a program named Hanging with Heroes at 4,797.76 expended, recipient Sparta Police Department, primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention. It describes a night open to the community to spend with first responders, geared towards youth with activities, where vendors such as the Center for Prevention and the municipal alliance bring opioid information and naloxone kits to hand out. The FY2025 report certifies 4,482.25 more for the same program. The reserve payments whose descriptions name the event total 6,445.55, 2,321.36 in October and November 2023 and 4,124.19 in October and November 2024. They reimburse restaurant supply, meat market and farm purchases, supplies, a Batman appearance and kid crafts, and pay for barbecue supplies, food, 1,439.00 of ice cream, cookies and juice boxes and card purchases of supplies. No naloxone, test strips or other harm reduction supplies were paid from the reserve through 06/30/2025. The first harm reduction purchase from the reserve is a vending machine paid on 06/25/2026. An order for medical supplies, 3,976.35, was open on 08/25/2026. The print does not state its contents. The report places the naloxone at vendor booths. None of it was bought from the reserve. The fund paid for food and activities.