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DeKalb County health department faces large HFI funding cut; county approves reduced 2026 plan
Summary
County health director told commissioners federal/state HFI grant funding will fall from about $846,000 in 2025 to roughly $226,000 in 2026; commissioners approved the department's reduced budget and plan to retain core public-health services.
DeKalb County commissioners voted to approve a reduced health funding plan after the county health department reported a major cut to its Healthy Families Indiana (HFI) grant.
At a meeting where health department staff presented the changes, Cheryl, a health department official, told the board: "For the 2026 budget, we are gonna get 26.7% of what we have this year. So our funding went down from, like, $850,000 to ... $226,000." The commissioners voted to accept the HFI budget as presented.
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