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During its meeting Tuesday morning, Mower County Board of Commissioners heard from Mower County Health and Human Services a report about the end of COVID pandemic funding from the Federal government.

According to Pam Kellogg, the county lost $142,966 in remaining funds after the Federal government in March rescinding available money related to the COVID funding.

However, the county’s impact was less than some counties as Health and Human Services had been forward thinking in its spending of money, which was to total $776,000.

It did impact the department’s immunization drive as well as some positions funded by the money, but Kellogg said they were able to find alternative money streams to continue with those areas.

The Minnesota Department of Health was also affected by cut Federal funding and experienced a loss of $220 million, resulting in the laying off of 170 positions with more alerted that their jobs were in jeopardy.

Kellogg said that the county shouldn’t be impacted too much by the cuts to MDH other than slower response times for requests of data and information.