Sunday, November 20, 2011
Mahoning Developmental Disabilities OKs $25.8M budget for 2012
Staff report
AUSTINTOWN
The Mahoning County Board of Developmental Disabilities has approved a 2012 budget of $25.8 million.
Board Superintendent Larry Duck said the 2012 budget includes a reduction of $1.4 million in local levy revenue and state subsidy receipts, because of the loss of tangible personal property tax and state funding cuts during the most recently passed biennium state budget.
The 2012 budget was passed at a recent board meeting.
Duck said that the 2012 budget continues two client- care initiatives that began in 2010.
He said matching funds were included in the budget to fund Medicaid waivers for children (clients under 22) with intensive needs. Eighty waivers for children have already been obtained and plans are to seek an additional 80 to 100 waivers over the next two years for children on the waiting list. The funding will enable families to receive additional assistance in the form of in-home respite care, equipment and home modifications such as ramps and accessible bathrooms.
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