• Three new full-time employees in the Office of Grants Management in the Department of Administration.
• A first-of-its-kind study to build a grants management system that will be used across executive agencies.
The Metropolitan Council Governance Task Force will study reform, accountability and transparency for that powerful and oft-troubled agency.
We will require nursing facility owners and operators to report related-party transactions to ensure public funds are improving facilities and care, and not for undue profits. Financially distressed nursing home funding ($100 million) and long-term care workforce incentive grants ($94 million) are subject to direct audit and recovery.
These and other safeguards, which were regularly opposed by Republicans, were enacted and funded well before recent OLA reports and news stories. Because of their passage and enactment, all future Minnesota budgets will be safer and better protected from corruption. Acts of good government don’t often get credit from our critics or coverage in the press.
