VT Dept of Health Terrorism Funds Audit

Where and how does the DoH spend its money? The audit has been underway since April, but the story was in today's Free Press.

"We've got some important lessons to learn from this audit," Moffatt said. "I think the state auditor's office is helping us work through those lessons. The most important thing is we, the Health Department, take very seriously the responsibility for the strict monitoring of these precious resources, be they state or federal." ...

There is some question about appropriate accounting of how the money was spent," Gibbs said.

What lessons? What's going on?

Thabault said that since 2004 the Health Department had received $5.7 million in grants as part of the National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program.

This money is given to second-tier funded sub-recipients

Recently there was the announcement that the tech assistance program for Town Health Officers was being cut from the departmental budget. These programs are crucial to the smooth running of public health programs in smaller cities and rural towns.