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Local public health directors ask Senate panel to restore $2 million in state aid
Summary
Directors from multiple North Dakota local public health units told the Senate Appropriations Human Resources Division that flexible state aid helps cover gaps in federal grants, emergency response and everyday services and urged increasing biennial state aid from $8 million to $10 million (House proposal 10.12).
Multiple local public health administrators told the Senate Appropriations Human Resources Division on March 17 that flexible state aid is critical to responding to local needs and emergencies and urged the committee to restore a $2 million increase that the House omitted from the governor's budget.
Sherry Adams, Southwestern District Health Unit administrator, told the panel, "State aid is our most flexible funding that we have." She said local units use it for a wide range of needs from communicable disease response to suicide-prevention screening and environmental health work that licensing fees do not cover.
Why it matters: local health units said state aid lets them pivot when federal grants end or are delayed. Adams said, "For our health unit, our federal grants are 40% of our budget. Our state aid is only 6% of our budget," and warned that recent federal…
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