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Vermont Health Department outlines $150M-plus budget, warns of federal funding uncertainty
Summary
Health Department Commissioner Mark Levine told the appropriations committee the department now manages roughly $150 million and that about 40% of its budget comes from federal funds; he urged caution given uncertain federal grant futures and described vacancy-savings and position changes from the COVID era.
Mark Levine, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health, told the House Appropriations subcommittee on health that the department's total budget has grown from about $150 million when he first appeared before the committee to a substantially larger figure today and that roughly 40% of the department's funding comes from federal sources.
Levine said the department is “an overwhelmingly federally funded enterprise” and that the relative share of general-fund dollars is small: about 11 percent, with a mix of federal grants and special funds covering the rest. He told members that this federal reliance increases departmental…
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