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FEB 1 nclK. 21.0 P,1;c 6651 division, but he has been fairly quiet about this, hoping it would be worked out. It seems, however, that this may be the appropriate time to raise his questions. Those questions relate to the fact that we have had to work out an arrangement for payment of the monies owed to us in order for them to enter into this new facility and, in addition to that, he believed the Health Department has overestimated revenues and that is a significant problem, especially in view of the fact that the State is saying we are in a very tight time and must cut back and not fill vacancies, etc. We are funding almost $490,000 worth of programs and his concern and question is: are the programs we chose to fund, above and beyond those funded by the State, the ones being cut and suffering because of the State's shortfall, because he does not want to cut services to the people we are trying to provide for. Commissioner Scurlock had questions about the restaurant section that is being taken away and the related positions and whether we are keeping these positions and cutting back, through turnover, head nurses and other vital positions. He wanted to be sure they have their mess cleaned up before we pay them another $400,000. He did realize, however, that Commissioner Eggert is working very hard with Mr. Chandler to work out some of these problems. Commissioner Eggert agreed there have been all the problems noted by Commissioner Scurlock but stressed that a lot of what we're paying for are matching funds for programs that have been mandated by the State, such as Primary Care, and Prenatal is part of that. Dr. Berman has been tracking very carefully with the District office on all this and she has been working with them, too, and feels that we've got a handle on what's happening there and she suggested that Commissioner Scurlock talk to Dr. Berman personally about this. She further believed that, although it is very necessary to track all this very carefully, it would be a mistake to get all this too intertwined with the building that we as a County are required to provide. Commissioner Scurlock stressed that he has gone through the Administrator and our Budget Officer requesting information about all this and, although all these requests have been forwarded on, and Dr. Berman and Mr. Galanis are fully aware of the questions he has been asking, no one has ever phoned him with any answers. Administrator Chandler reviewed the funding difficulties relating to the $500,000 allocated through the State towards the Health Department project and how we worked out an arrangement to have these funds provided in increments where they would not create a problem for us with the cash flow in funding our project. He 40 _ M