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The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency is being forced to rescind last week’s public-health order requiring that employers, educational institutions and persons in Branch, Hillsdale and St. Joseph counties quarantine after a close-contact exposure with a person infected with COVID-19 – or face a loss of approximately $1 million in state budget funding.
The order was rescinded as of Thursday night.
The decision was made after Gov. Whitmer on Wednesday signed the 2022 state budget, which contained language that threatened the loss of funding for essential local public health services.
Although Whitmer stated after the bill signing that this language is unconstitutional, BHSJCHA legal counsel has advised that it stands until proven otherwise in a court of law.
The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency cannot risk losing this essential, local public funding that supports vital community programs and services, its officials said.
That’s your Republican legislature at it’s finest. /s
If there is anything that will help the people of the state it must be removed. Kind of like the so-called “ballot initiative” on absentee voting which is simply an end run around Gov. Whitmer by collecting 340k signatures on a petition. These obstructionists need to be held to account for these foolish actions.
About time Gretch relinquished her grip on the health dept as her henchmen.