Mar 18, 2026 By Mike Jones 3 min read

The overseer of the state’s opioid settlement trust fund is asking Washington County to resubmit its report on its most recent round of grant funding after it was sent a day after Monday’s filing deadline and with incomplete information.

Brie Anderson, who is administrator of the Pennsylvania Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement Trust, emailed county officials Tuesday morning informing them they were delinquent in producing their report and giving the county until March 23 to complete the filing.

Less than 90 minutes later, county Human Services Director John Tamiggi responded to Anderson that they had not clicked the “final submission” button while attempting to submit their survey response on the latest grants from the opioid settlement fund. However, they did so Tuesday after they were notified about the situation, according to emails obtained by the Observer-Reporter.

But Anderson emailed Tamiggi back just a few minutes later, informing him that the report was “still incomplete” because it did not include the “Remediation Programs Survey” for several grants as required in the submission, meaning the county was still not in compliance. Failure to properly submit reports to the trust could lead to reduced funding in the future, or even grant money from the opioid settlement being withheld entirely.

County Commission Chairman Nick Sherman said in a written statement Tuesday that the county took the proper steps to submit the report and would make adjustments as needed.

“Washington County did complete all surveys last week for programs that were awarded last reporting cycle to the Opioid Trust,” Sherman said. “The report was successfully submitted (Tuesday) after a transmission error and the county is waiting on further clarification from the Trust on its needs.”

The delinquency notice comes less than four days after the opioid settlement trust fund’s Dispute Resolution Committee rejected four out of seven grants that Washington County appealed when they were deemed “non-compliant” by that board in December. Tamiggi and his department’s deputy, Tiffany Milovac, attended the hearing Friday afternoon through teleconferencing attempting to sway the committee’s earlier decision to reject the grants.

The committee voted to approve three of the grants – $25,000 for Shekinah Youth Ranch of the Mon Valley’s Youth Prevention Program; $45,000 grant for Washington STEAMworks; and $45,000 for Hancher Enterprises Success Readiness Framework – but rejected the other four under consideration. Those grants were $125,000 to LOYAL After School Programming; $58,500 for a study by The Hill Group’s Washington Co. OUD Services Assessment; $35,000 to Leadership Development LLC’s for 911 dispatcher training; and $18,000 grant to Regola Consulting Grant Management.

During the appeals hearing, Tamiggi and Milovac both said they were aware of Monday’s filing deadline and were prepared to submit the county’s report.

A liaison has been appointed to help county officials navigate the funding process after the committee raised concerns about the number of non-complaint grants in December. Eight grants were rejected at the time and another nine were listed as “still under consideration,” while 11 other grants were approved. All 22 grants from last March’s reporting reporting period were approved.

Washington County has allocated $4.7 million in grants from the settlement trust over four rounds since September 2024.