NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Board of County Commissioners approved on Wednesday fronting the money for gap funding for childcare to the United Way of Reno County instead of doing it as reimbursement.
"This doesn't change our allocated amount," said commissioner Daniel Friesen. "It's just a timing thing."
The reason the change was asked for was to comply with ARPA fund requirements.
"There's a company called IParametrics that the county has hired as a consultant from the very beginning to review our processes and make sure that we are in compliance with the ARPA program," said County Counselor Patrick Hoffman. "When IParametrics was just reviewing our programming, they identified this area and said, you know, we'd really like you guys to have a bit of extra documentation on record as to what you're doing here to make sure you comply. That's why staff have put it in front of you."
It's a significant amount of money for the United Way to front itself, so that's why they asked the county if they could change that.
"There's two for Buhler, one at $80,000, one at $306,000, Nickerson has one at $114,000, Pretty Prairie $72,000 and Haven $260,000," said Reno County Administrator Randy Partington.
The commission approved the change on a 4-1 vote with Commissioner John Whitesel voting against.