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Welfare Board for a decision on companion services.
“Can’t we leave it up to you?” asked Latham.
His suggestion was greeted with dismay and protest from the entire Welfare staff.
Latham maintained that Welfare Department personnel have the authority, once the Supervisors appropriate funds for the budget, to spend the money where they want.
“If we don’t get any more foster care cases, we may have sufficient local funds” to cover the deficit in companion services, Mrs. Buntin said. She disagreed with Cox on the legality of using funds from anywhere in the budget to make up for the short fall in companion services. “Unless the county budget accurately reflects the amount of local money involved in the welfare budget, I think we’re in trouble,” she maintained.
“I don’t think Cox has the final say,” Latham responded. He suggested that Mrs. Buntin spend the Welfare budget “as far as you have local money to support it...When it runs out, then you’d better look for an additional appropriation,” he advised. Since regular foster care, with its 50-50 state and local match, carries enough local money to cover the local share in companion services, the Welfare Board unanimously approved transfer of funds between the two categories.
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