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Counties and staff urge sustained DCYF operating funds as SSIS modernization gets $40 million
Summary
County leaders and state employee union representatives told the Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee that the DE1 appropriation for SSIS modernization is necessary but must be paired with sustained operating and transition funding for DCYF implementation.
County officials, social-services associations and union representatives used the committee hearing to press for sustained operating and transition funding for the new Department of Children, Youth and Families and to support the SSIS modernization appropriation included in the DE1.
Dakota County Commissioner Lori Halverson, speaking for the Association of Minnesota Counties and Minnesota Intercounty Association, said counties are currently compensating for obsolete systems and that the $40,000,000 House appropriation would help address long-standing technology shortfalls. "We have staff that are working on systems that were built in 1989 and the workarounds are taking staff away from serving…
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