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Health director warns FY26 will require flexibility after federal grant cuts; seeks corrections and targeted restorations
Summary
The Department of Health told the Budget Committee May 14 that recent and proposed federal grant cuts remove at least $2.2 million from FY26 planning and that the department needs flexibility and targeted restorations to sustain core services.
The Department of Health told the Budget & Public Employees Committee on May 14 that sudden federal grant terminations and proposed reductions require an urgent, flexible response to preserve core public-health services.
"I am doctor Matty Futchwire Davis. I'm the director of health for the city of Saint Louis," Dr. Mady Davis said at the start of her presentation. She outlined a set of grant reductions and recommended internal adjustments in a staff-driven "maintenance" phase for FY26, asking the committee to correct several line items and to avoid transferring inmate-medical oversight funding away from intended sources.
Davis said the department is 55% federally funded and described a series of cuts: roughly $2,214,272…
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