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Governor’s Office for Children defends ENOUGH initiative as DLS urges restraint; grantees deliver public testimony
Summary
DLS recommended reducing the ENOUGH grant appropriation amid fiscal pressure, but the Governor’s Office for Children said ENOUGH produced measurable local results and should expand; community leaders and grantees gave multiple public testimonies urging continued funding.
The Governor’s Office for Children (GOC) defended its ENOUGH place-based anti-poverty initiative before the Education and Economic Development Subcommittee after Department of Legislative Services analysts recommended constraining some fiscal 2027 appropriations because of fiscal pressures and special-fund accounting concerns.
Madeline Miller, the DLS analyst, explained the governor’s fiscal 2027 allowance for the GOC totals $92.9 million but noted that, after excluding a double-counting effect in the ENOUGH special fund, the agency would have approximately $60.9 million available to spend. DLS recommended reducing the general fund increase for the ENOUGH grants by $15 million in light of the state’s fiscal condition and asked GOC to clarify how much additional state-agency funding ENOUGH communities had received in…
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