By MIKE COURSON
Great Bend Post
Having extra funds is always a positive. At Tuesday's Barton County Commission meeting, Juvenile Services Director Marissa Woodmansee asked for approval to carry forward some unspent funds from fiscal year 2023.
"The Kansas Department of Corrections allows us to retain the monies we have received as reimbursements for program fees, urine collections, (and other) fees, and things like that," she told the commission.
The carryover includes $72,831.93 from Core programming, and $19,058 from immediate intervention. Core programming funds will be used to fund contractual services, training, and the purchase of supplies. Immediate intervention funds can be used only for evidence-based curriculum, incentives, or outside service referrals for youth. The commission approved Woodmansee moving forward with the $91,889.
"It is a growing pool and that's because we've been in a fortunate position that our state block grant does cover us, and we haven't had to utilize these funds, at least under my leadership," Woodmansee said.
The commission also approved an expenditure of $12,500 for Juvenile Services' contract extension with Learning Tree Institute at Greenbush, the single-source provider for grant data analysis for the Drug-Free Communities Support Program Grant funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.