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Commerce director's office defends indirect-rate increase; lawmakers press for detail on ARPA positions and working capital
Summary
Deputy Director Mandy Rambo and department budget staff told lawmakers the director's office indirect rate rose because ARPA-funded modified positions dropped out of the base and the Board of Investments no longer pays the shared-services charge; lawmakers asked for more itemized data and documentation.
Deputy Director Mandy Rambo, Montana Department of Commerce, told the appropriations subcommittee that the director's office shows a planned increase in its indirect rate for the next biennium because prior pandemic-era, modified positions that had temporarily increased the rate base are no longer present and because the Board of Investments will not continue to pay the shared centralized-services charge.
Rambo said the department previously benefited from a larger base of modified personal-services funding (largely ARPA-funded positions in other…
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