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Governor’s Office of Community Service proposed to move into Labor Department; funding switch would use employment security account to match AmeriCorps grants
Summary
Commissioner Swanson and LFD staff briefed the committee on a proposed relocation of the Governor’s Office of Community Service into the Department of Labor and a funding switch from general fund to the Employment Security Account to sustain AmeriCorps match requirements, contingent on draft legislation LC0463.
Commissioner Sarah Swanson and Legislative Fiscal Division staff told Section A that the Governor’s Office of Community Service (the state’s AmeriCorps program) would be administratively relocated into the Department of Labor and Industry and funded via state special revenue in the Employment Security Account (ESA) if committee and legislative action proceeds.
Swanson said the office currently operated on roughly $488,000 in general fund for the last biennium, and that…
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