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Local providers ask Crawford County to convene work group to clarify mill levy funds for intellectual and developmental disability services
Summary
Representatives from local disability-service providers urged the Crawford County Commission to convene a work group to clarify allowable uses and accounting for mill levy funds earmarked for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Representatives from several local providers and operators urged the Crawford County Commission to assemble a work group to clarify how county mill levy funds intended for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) should be allocated and accounted for.
Bob Davis, identified in the meeting as president/CEO of one provider, said the provider’s service population does not fully overlap with Special Olympics participants and warned that a transfer of mill levy funding exclusively to Special Olympics would leave part of the served population without services. "The numbers that we do serve, not 100% of those people participate in Special Olympics," Davis said, and proposed forming a work group "to come to an equitable solution to present to the commission." He offered to provide unduplicated client counts…
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