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Idaho Health and Welfare director outlines reorganization to align budget and operations
Summary
Director Alex Adams and Legislative Services analysts told JFAC the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reorganized internal divisions and leadership to align operational lines of work with how the legislature budgets programs.
Alex Williamson, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, and Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Jan. 13 that the department has reorganized its internal structure to align day-to-day operations with legislative budgeting.
"How you structure that organization matters," Adams said, describing an agency that "does everything from Medicaid and SNAP to vital stats, the regulation of public swimming pools, to the repatriation of citizens." He said the department now has 3,000 employees, 74 buildings at 37 locations and broad statutory duties.
Key changes presented to JFAC: - The department split Family and Community Services (FACS) out from…
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