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Vermont Public Safety requests $777,000 in general funds, warns criminal-history fund faces more than $1 million shortfall
Summary
Department of Public Safety staff told the Appropriations Committee Jan. 29 they are proposing $75,000 to maintain a legacy records system and $702,000 to cover contracted ValCore software costs, and that the criminal history record check fund is projecting a shortfall of slightly over $1 million.
Rick Hollenbeck, director of administration at the Vermont Department of Public Safety, told the Appropriations Committee on Jan. 29 that the department is proposing general‑fund shifts totaling $777,000 to cover a legacy records system and contracted software costs and warned the criminal history record check fund is projecting a shortfall of “a little over a million dollars.”
Hollenbeck said the requests appear in the department’s Budget Adjustment Act submission and reflect two separate pressures: a shortfall in revenue drawn under the department’s negotiated indirect cost rate and a widening deficit in the criminal history record check fund used by the Vermont criminal-records system.
The proposed shifts include a $75,000 general‑fund increase to maintain…
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