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Commission for Behavioral Health approves 2024–25 expenditure plan and contracts
Summary
The Commission for Behavioral Health voted to approve its fiscal year 2024–25 expenditure plan and associated contracts after a midyear budget update from staff; commissioners recorded an affirmative roll call and staff outlined remaining balances and planned reallocations.
The Commission for Behavioral Health voted to approve its fiscal year 2024–25 expenditure plan and associated contracts following a midyear update from administrative staff.
The decision came after Deputy Director Norma Pate briefed commissioners on the commission's current-year spending, unspent balances and a set of requested reappropriations tied to active grant work. Pate said the office had absorbed higher-than-expected information‑technology and legal costs and adjusted operating line items to meet a state spending reduction requirement of $1.5 million.
Staff framed the motion as approval of the midyear spending plan and recommended contract actions, which included reallocation of an existing $3,000,000 appropriation to expand EMPATH emergency psychiatric observation site grants and the re‑use of an…
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