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Assembly committee recommends Children’s Cove operating budget to finance committee
Summary
The Cape Cod Regional Government Assembly of Delegates’ standing committee on health and human services voted 5-0 to recommend the Children’s Cove operating budget, after staff explained a recent jump in salaries was driven by a compensation study, grants and an internal promotion.
The standing committee on health and human services of the Cape Cod Regional Government Assembly of Delegates voted unanimously to recommend the Children’s Cove operating budget to the finance committee on March 24, 2025.
Committee members pressed department staff about a large increase in the salaries and wages line for FY2026. Stacy Gallagher, director of the Children’s Cove program, said the spike reflects several discrete factors: a long-vacant grant-funded mental-health position that had been temporarily covered by general-fund staff in FY2023, implementation of a countywide compensation study on July 1, 2023, a staff promotion to a manager role,…
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