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Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing asks appropriators to restore interpreter coordinator and cover interpreting shortfall
Summary
Kyle Meers, newly selected executive director, asked the Appropriations Committee to reinstate a previously eliminated interpreter coordinator position (about $73,000) and to reallocate funds to cover contracted interpreting services after the agency exceeded its budgeted amount.
Kyle Meers, executive director of the Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, told the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee that he is seeking to reinstate an interpreter coordinator position that was eliminated after a vacancy and a state hiring freeze.
Meers said the commission had $73,000 in funding for that position before it was removed under a governor's hiring mandate and that the agency contracted about $167,000 for interpreting services in the last year while budgeting only $25,000.…
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