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Miami County Health Department seeks funding to replace shrinking grant support; highlights lab revenue growth
Summary
Health Department Director Christina Beere told commissioners the department faces a post‑pandemic grant funding decline and requested county dollars to sustain positions and core services while noting growing revenue from a LabCorp lab partnership.
At a Miami County budget hearing Health Department Director Christina Beere outlined a budget that reflects a shift from pandemic-era grant funding toward more traditional, typically smaller grants and fee revenue, and she asked commissioners to consider county funding to maintain service capacity.
Beere described the drop in grant support and the department’s proposed response: staffing built out during the pandemic has increased capacity but some of those positions remain partially grant‑funded. “We went from 6.4 FTEs to 11.6 FTEs, which is an 81% increase in workforce capacity,” Beere said, noting the percentage of staff time funded by grants has fallen…
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