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Health department plans fund swaps to meet federal cap on administrative spending for substance-use grants
Summary
Department officials said federal guidance put Idaho on corrective action because personnel spending on the substance-use block grant exceeded a 5% administrative cap; the department proposes shifting state liquor-control and other sources to cover personnel while allocating more federal dollars to trustee and benefit payments.
Alex Williamson presented the Division of Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention budget and told the committee federal guidance recently prompted the division to request net-zero fund shifts to comply with a federal 5% cap on administrative/personnel spending for the substance-use block grant.
"The federal organization doesn't necessarily have a preference on how much is spent, just how much of it is used for personnel dollars — as long as they're not using the federal dollars for more…
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