The Kewaunee County Board will go behind closed doors during its regularly scheduled board meeting on Tuesday as a part of its role in ongoing litigation surrounding the opioid crisis. Like over 80 Wisconsin municipalities, Kewaunee County is receiving funds from national opioid case settlements, which are expected to bring $780 million through 2038, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Kewaunee County has, in the past, used the funding for things like wellness screenings for law enforcement officers who go on calls related to overdoses. Later in the meeting, the board is expected to vote on a resolution concerning adding additional defendants to MDL 2804, the National Prescription Opiate Litigation. In that case, municipalities allege that the manufacturers of prescription opioids grossly misrepresented the risks of long-term use of those drugs for persons with chronic pain, and distributors failed to properly monitor suspicious orders of those prescription drugs, pinning the defendants with causing the opioid crisis. The Kewaunee County Board is expected to hear from Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Ben Nelson and vote to approve the three pieces of equipment purchases when they meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Kewaunee County Administration Center.