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Board rejects proposal to send broad ‘funding at risk’ notices to federally funded program recipients
Summary
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted down a motion to instruct the chief administrative officer to notify county program recipients that federal funding may be at risk after a recent $40 million clawback to the public health lab was disclosed.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors rejected a proposal April 9 to notify recipients of federally funded county programs that their funding may be at risk amid federal budget uncertainty.
Vice Chair Tara Lawson Reamer, who brought the item to the land use session, told supervisors the step was intended to give program recipients advance notice after the county learned $40,000,000 in federal funding for the public health laboratory was “clawed back and has been terminated.” She said the money had been slated for lab equipment and community hepatitis A testing among unhoused populations.
Supporters argued the notices were a prudent,…
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