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state money.
The Supervisors can refuse to appropriate local funds for optional welfare programs. They have no choice when mandated programs are involved. They have to come up with the local match.
Regular foster care is a mandated program.
‘‘If our foster care caseload increases, I will have to go back to the Board of Supervisors and ask for additional funds,” Mrs. Buntin told her Board members just before they voted authority to transfer funds. She added that she had talked to Col. E.P. Luke, Chairman of the Supervisors, since his Board had turned down her request for more money.
Not Underhanded
“This is what he told me to do...I asked him if he wouldn’t regard it as underhanded if I had to come back and ask for more money and he said ‘no’”, Mrs. Buntin reported. Mrs. Buntin told the Welfare Board members that she had also talked with county auditor Walter Cox. According to Mrs. Buntin,
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