State: insufficient planning, funding pauses summer meals program

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Indiana Gov. Mike Braun’s second-in-command, along with a key executive branch agency, pointed to a lack of planning under Gov. Eric Holcomb’s administration as the reason hungry Hoosier schoolchildren won’t be able to use a summer meals program.

“The previous administration did not file for SUN Bucks in the way they should have,” Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith told a crowd at a Zionsville town hall on Tuesday. “I’m working with Gov. Braun to get those SUN Bucks dollars back.”

That “lapse,” along with other perceived failures of Holcomb, were part of what propelled the duo into office, Beckwith continued…

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