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Health department’s grant-funded hiring draws council scrutiny over lease and grant risks
Summary
Vanderburgh County’s health department asked to fill several grant-funded positions; council members pressed for documentation of grant terms and lease obligations and tabled most requests pending review. The council approved one early-learning grant hire.
Joe Grease, director of the Vanderburgh County Health Department, told the Personnel/Finance Committee the agency sought to fill multiple positions tied to state and private grants, including WIC (Women, Infants and Children) and other programs. Several council members expressed concern that many of those grants are pass-through funds from the state and could be paused or reduced under current state budget pressures.
“If the grant goes away, that rent portion that they're paying, helping us with our health department rent would go away as well,” Grease said,…
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