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Yakima County staff say year‑end subgrantee reallocations prompted contract increases and decreases
Summary
Human Services staff explained reallocations among subgrantees after asking grantees to report underspent and overspent contracts; commissioners asked for detail on which contracts gained or lost funds and requested follow-up materials.
Human Services staff told the Board of Yakima County Commissioners on May 5 that the department conducts a year‑end review of subgrantee spending and reallocates underspent funds to other grantees that requested more funding. Esther (staff) said the process uses a template email to ask each subgrantee whether they will spend awarded funds by year end and whether they need more money in other contracts.
"It has all of their grants listed out, the amounts that they've spent down ... and then we just ask, do you think you're gonna spend all the funding?" Esther said. She described a reallocation process that aggregates voluntary…
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