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Agency appeals to subcommittee to restore funding for three long‑service positions after federal cut
Summary
An agency briefed the Senate subcommittee that three long‑tenured positions (including an IT role and an office manager) were removed from the governor’s recommendation in the House budget after federal CP fund support ended; the agency asked for state appropriation to retain the staff.
A state agency told the Senate subcommittee it needs funding to retain three employees after a federal funding source was eliminated, and it urged restoration of a line‑item the House removed.
The presenter said the governor had recommended funding under line item 272 to cover the three positions and that the agency had relocated five of eight formerly federally funded positions into federal grants but could not find an allowable federal fund source for these three, which have agency‑wide roles. “These 3 employees have been within 8 to 10 year employees with the agency,” an agency official told senators, adding that the…
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