Chair Stevens questions OmniCard spending and distribution tracking
Stevens asks about actual spending for the $11M OmniCard budget. Officials report approximately $4M spent on 80,000 cards for 40,000 SYEP participants, distributed to 90 providers with tight tracking policies on distribution and storage.
It was about these dog ones.
Oh, here it goes.
Sorry.
Okay, so my next question is just around what is the actual spending for the Omni cards, budgeted at $11 million for the Omni cards, and how many providers have received the cards?
I'm sorry, I should have had you.
We were really trying not to do the shuffling.
It didn't work out the way we hoped.
Can you repeat that?
You're asking about the OmniCards.
What was the actual spending for FY26 budgeted for the $11 million for the OmniCards?
How many providers in you have received those cards?
And does the agency receive any reports from providers on a distribution of those cards?
So I will let Valerie speak more to the distribution and providers and receive, but I can tell you that in last year we spent approximately $4 million towards the
The Omni cards.
Yeah, and that funding went to about 80,000 cards.
Participants need multiple cards to get through the summer, so it was for about 40,000 participants that we purchased cards for, and they were distributed to 90 providers.
And we have very tight policies around the provider's responsibility of tracking which participants get the cards, how many cards they've distributed, where they store them, and they report all of that back to us on a regular basis.
And then we use that information to take into account the need for each.
Following program cycle.
Okay.
Advocates have been, and this is,
Oh, it's 2.16.