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By CHERYL MERRITT
Last Updated: July 25, 2006, 06:40:42 AM PDT

Most people have heard the saying, "The devil is in the details." This is definitely the case with the complex financial crisis facing the Stanislaus County Health Services Agency.
This leads us to the gloss-over and misinterpretations in The Bee's July 3 editorial ("Grand jury report gives little aid on health crisis").

The Stanislaus County civil grand jury spent about 10 months looking into the operation of the HSA. Our job was not to duplicate the county chief executive officer's efforts in coming up with "creative solutions" for the HSA, but to look for failures to comply with state law and to identify shortcomings in the administration of the people's business.

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