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Finance committee reviews health‑department budget revisions, including elimination of community health worker and proposed truck purchases
Summary
The Gary City finance committee heard proposed amendments to the local health maintenance budget on May 29 that would reallocate funds to buy two trucks for health inspectors and formalize personnel moves after the immunization budget was eliminated; the committee asked staff to return corrected line items the next day.
Councilwoman Linda Barnes Caldwell opened the Gary City finance committee meeting on May 29 and introduced ordinance CPO 2025‑36, which would approve the 2025–26 partner services grant budget and revisions to the 2025 local health maintenance budget.
Collins Ellis, a health department representative, told the committee that the department is revising several line items after the immunization budget was eliminated in March. Ellis said she and the department’s nurse manager, Felicia, were moved onto the local health maintenance budget from the immunization funding. "We eliminated the…
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