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County board welcomes new Northern Lakes CMH CEO; requests financial update
Summary
Grand Traverse County commissioners heard from Linda Zeller, the new CEO of Northern Lakes Community Mental health, who described recent cash-flow stabilization and committed to provide fiscal and programmatic reports to the board in February and fuller FY2025 data in March.
Linda Zeller, the new chief executive of Northern Lakes Community Mental Health, introduced herself to the Grand Traverse County Board on Jan. 7 and asked for cooperative oversight as she begins a multi-county effort to stabilize services and rebuild the agency's finances.
"Right now, we are really driven by entitlements ... Our flexible funding, our general fund is a total of $3,000,000. Last year, we expended $6,000,000," Zeller told commissioners, describing two years of declining cash and steps taken by prior interim leadership that she said leveled the…
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