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Worcester County commissioners unanimously back health department request to seek adjustment to state core-funding match

2838309 · April 1, 2025
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Summary

County health officer asked commissioners to support a request to state public health officials to adjust the local match required for the state's CORE funding. Commissioners voted 7-0 to authorize a letter of support.

Worcester County commissioners voted unanimously April 1 to back the county health officer’s request that the Maryland Department of Health and the state budget office adjust the county’s required local-match share for state CORE public health funding.

The health officer told the board the county faces a “significant financial impact” from the state’s local-match requirement and that last year’s health funding process withheld $250,000 of a general fund appropriation pending a state report on how local match is determined. She said that report, submitted…

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