Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) — According to a new report from the New Mexico State Auditor’s Office, some New Mexico counties and towns aren’t spending enough money. More than three years after they received the first installments of a nearly $1 billion opioid settlement fund, almost half of them had failed to report any spending by July of last year. Counties and cities with large populations had better success spending the funding. For example, Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, formed a partnership to improve efficiency and had spent about $10 million of the roughly $60 million in the three-year period the office analyzed. Smaller counties and towns were often found to be in a stalled status.
