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| Less is more: ‘Shortage of staff’ at DOC cost Vermont taxpayers millions |
| By watchdog.org - Jon Street |
| Published: 12/20/2013 |
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Vermont taxpayers will lose out on $4.1 million this year, and it’s all because the Department of Corrections had one less employee keeping an eye on the budget, says the state’s director of health services. Vermont’s director of health services says the reason there was a $4.1 million shortfall in the inmate health care budget is because the Department of Corrections had only five employees to monitor the budget and not six. “With a shortage of staff in our central office, there was an immediate need to prioritize,” Dee Burroughs-Biron, director of health services for the Department of Corrections told Vermont Watchdog. “Our first priority, which is also a constitutional requirement, was to provide adequate health care to our inmates.” Taking care of other priorities, such as making sure the department wasn’t overspending by millions of dollars, would take one more person. “We typically have a full staff of 5-6 during some of the time in question. (W)hen we had a shortage there were only 4-5,” Burroughs-Biron said. “The importance of providing the services or risk of not having the services may exceed the risk of the costs of (health care).” Read More. |
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