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Finance committee hears plan to amend 2025 books with roughly $7 million for Gracedale shortfall
Summary
Acting director of fiscal affairs Brandon Dunstan told the finance committee the county needs an approximately $7 million 2025 budget amendment to cover Gracedale Nursing Home's revenue shortfall driven by lower census and Medicaid pendings; he said this is a prior-year closing journal entry and should not affect 2026 budgets. The DA asked that opioid funds be transferred back to the office and that element was included.
The Northampton County finance committee on Feb. 18 reviewed an ordinance to amend the 2025 county budget to cover an approximately $7 million shortfall at Gracedale Nursing Home and to transfer opioid-related funds to the district attorney’s office.
"The budget amendment you have before you is for 2025, not for 2026, just to be clear," Brandon Dunstan, acting director of fiscal affairs, told the committee. He said the amendment covers a…
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