The Flint Hills Regional Council is roughly 70 percent complete with it’s HUD grant project and has only used approximately 54 percent of it’s funding.

During Friday’s meeting the Regional Council board elected to begin the process of realigning funds from areas that are coming in under budget to areas that are over budget.

William Clark, FHRC Executive Director said that the funding is split up into six different categories.

“In four of those categories we are under spent, three of them significantly, while two of them were just a little bit past the glide path we are on,” Clark said.

By realigning the funding it will provide flexibility in the future.

“For example we’ve had some personnel costs that we need to increase that category to continue to pay people to finish the project. While from a fringe benefit perspective we’ve not come close to the spending we thought.”

The changes must go back up to the federal level to get approval. They currently have $915,315 to get them through February of 2015, and have under spent $324,015.