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Wright County HHS director outlines state budget developments and potential local impacts
Summary
Health and Human Services director briefed commissioners on recent state-level proposals and what appears omitted; major proposed county cost-shifts were removed from current proposals, but the legislature created a work group to seek long-term human services savings and other items remain under discussion.
Wright County's Health and Human Services director briefed commissioners Tuesday on pending state-level budget proposals and the likely effects on county services and levy obligations.
Jamie, the county HHS director, said several high-dollar proposals that counties feared this year are not included in the current legislative package as understood on Tuesday. "The waiver rate exception county cost share... has been removed so that's no longer in the budget as we understand it right now," Jamie said, calling that omission a relief for counties.
Jamie said the legislature included a requirement to form a work group charged with identifying…
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