It doesn't make sense to have money appropriated that we can't spend and is, therefore, withheld from other worthy needs. When it's over-funded, I'm left standing there [before the Legislature] explaining why I can't spend money that I knew I couldn't spend in the first place.

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For the past few months we've been researching where to concentrate our marketing efforts to make sure we're reaching the families this program serves. With our numbers down, we thought the best approach would be to target the communities and populations with high numbers of uninsured children.

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