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Health Department Scales Back Expansion After State Funding Cut; Council Presented Plan to Preserve Core Services
Summary
Vanderburgh County Health Department told the council that state reductions to a local public-health appropriation required cutting or deferring positions and reducing planned expansion; the department proposed using fee-funded Medicaid pre-k revenue to shift one public-health nurse and submitted $1.8 million of requested repeals for 2025.
The Vanderburgh County Health Department presented a set of budget adjustments after the state sharply reduced an appropriation intended to expand local public-health services.
Joe Grease, speaking for the county health department, said the state reduced the direct appropriation to local health departments by about 73 percent. The department had previously budgeted roughly $4.6 million for 2025 in that fund but has now submitted roughly $1.8 million in…
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