Tobacco Settlement Committee Report - November 11th | Co-Chair, Rep. Michael "Sarge" Pollock

I'm Michael Sarge-Pollock, State Representative for District 51, and we just completed our Tobacco Settlement Committee meeting here on November the 12th. So, to start it off, we had the Executive Director, Brandon Reed, talk about the investments of what those dollars look like. And so, he breaks down from communities Each dollar and each event, each project, and how that's engaging our agriculture. and projects, talking specifically. Next up was the Volunteers of America, and they went into talking about how those juveniles who get in trouble, how they can provide that source of help, counseling, not just only for the juvenile, but for the families as well. And then lastly, we heard from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the HANDS program. We talked specifically about the lung screening process and what those dollars and those scans are looking like. As a chair, I wanted to make sure not only in the lung screening process, but all of our processes, that the funding that we provide through the tobacco settlement is engaged in the impact of the people here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. So I appreciate and honor to serve and to chair this committee. We have one more left. And it is going to be the University of Louisville, University of Kentucky, cancer screening mobile units. And so I'm always engaged in that conversation. And that's on December the 10th. And look forward to that final meeting here in 2026.