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Committee forwards multi-county workforce budget after allocation questions
Summary
Saratoga–Warren–Washington workforce board leaders defended a multi-jurisdictional FY2025 budget and a recent Department of Labor reallocation analysis; Washington County supervisors pressed for clearer allocation data and earlier budget review before voting to forward the budget to the full board for final approval.
Gretchen Stephan, executive director of the Saratoga–Warren–Washington workforce board, asked Washington County supervisors to approve the board's program-year budget and endorsed a recent Department of Labor analysis that reran allocation formulas by county.
"There's an allocation process that we go through," Stephan said, explaining that funds flow from the U.S. Department of Labor through the New York State Department of Labor and are allocated based on population, unemployment, poverty and other factors. She said the board asked state statisticians to rerun formulas at Washington County's request and that the new run shifts some…
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