The Legal Unit provides legal advice and services as needed to all other DVHA units and the Commissioner’s Office.  The Contracts and Grants team within the Legal Unit assists with all departmental procurement needs from requests to contract through contract execution, manages vendor and subrecipient invoice processing, and conducts subrecipient monitoring.

The Legal Unit serves directly all other units within the department and, indirectly, all Vermonters receiving or benefitting from the services, programs and projects DVHA funds and supports.

The Legal Unit make an impact by facilitating the business objectives of the other units within DVHA.

SFY21 priorities are:

• Roll out Best Practice Procedure guidelines for procurement and successfully implement for any new procurement, agreement, or amendment.
• Implement Invoice Process Improvement Project outcomes, and process invoices on-time within the agreement payment terms.
• Move to a remote file system to negate the need for hard files, which are not easily accessible to staff.