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Committee approves Commerce requests to reallocate funds and carry over remaining grant dollars for federal matches
Summary
The committee approved two governor's letters from the Department of Commerce to allow intra-department resource reallocations twice yearly and to carry forward remaining ARS/DSB funds to serve as matching funds for federal grants.
Hugh Macdonald, Secretary of Commerce, explained two governor's letters authorizing internal resource changes and carryover for matching federal grants. Letter number 32 would permit the Department of Commerce to reallocate resources within the department up to two times per year. According to the department, the requested language would remove or streamline the previous requirement to initiate transfer documents through the Chief Fiscal Officer of State, allowing more direct intra-department transfers.
Letter number 33 asked that any remaining funds in ARS and DSB be carried over to be used as matching funds for federal grants. Macdonald told the committee the carryover authority would help the department use unobligated state funds to match federal awards. Committee members asked clarifying procedural questions and then moved and adopted both letters.
Both letters were adopted by the committee after department presentations; no roll-call tallies were provided in the transcript excerpt.
