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Pittsburg County Health Department Business Manager Cheryl McElhany looks over some papers after asking county commissioners to approve the health departmentâs termination of TSET grant obligations.
The Pittsburg County Health Department is terminating its grant obligations with TSET, the stateâs Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust.
In addition, all of the county health departments with TSET programs in Southeastern Oklahoma that are overseen by District 9 Regional/Pittsburg County Health Department Administrator Juli Montgomery are also terminating their TSET grant obligations.
Montgomery said the plan is to move forward with hiring additional health department personnel and beginning projects that will be paid for through funds from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021.