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Developmental Services NWK asks Ellis County to hold funding and consider increase for KidLink and ACCESS transit
Summary
Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas told commissioners it faces a county gap of roughly $167,000 for local DSNWK services in Ellis County and asked the county to hold funding at last year’s level for core services and consider additional support for ACCESS public transit to cover growing shortfalls.
Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas (DSNWK) requested continued county support for its regional programs and asked commissioners to consider additional local funding for ACCESS public transportation during a June 3 presentation.
"We were asking for the, if you can hold the line on that, that would be great," Jerry Michaud, executive with DSNWK, said as he described program budgets for the 2024 reporting period. Michaud told commissioners DSNWK has 173 full-time-equivalent employees in the region, serves primarily through Medicaid home- and community-based services, and showed a county-specific shortfall of about $166,000–$167,000 for…
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