The Indianapolis Veterans Court board approved a request to transfer funds within a Veterans Court grant from drug-testing expenses to salaries, a change staff said was prompted by lower-than-expected drug-testing use.

At the meeting, the chair summarized the request as a follow-up to a presentation made at the prior meeting and said the transfer would move money previously budgeted for drug testing toward salaries. A board member asked whether there had been a reduced premium for testing or a decline in demand. Marion County staff responded that the change appeared to reflect fewer clients requiring testing than anticipated and that the program had budgeted for more tests than were used.

Paige Bova, a circuit/county court appointee representing the juvenile detention center, spoke during roll call but did not add substantive comment on this item. Dan Cikini of the Marion County Prosecutor's Office noted he had not been present at the earlier meeting and asked that his abstention be recorded on a separate vote (the abstention applied to the minutes vote earlier in the meeting).

A motion to approve the grant-fund transfer passed after the chair called for a vote; the transcript records an "Aye" and no opposing votes were recorded. The board did not specify dollar amounts for the transfer in the meeting record; staff materials had been shared in advance and were discussed at the previous meeting.

The board did not adopt any additional conditions or reporting requirements on the transfer at this meeting.