Gov. Kay Ivey announced Monday that Davis would resign at the end of the year. The governor had asked the state board to remove him.
One day after Gov. Kay Ivey announced that Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Kent Davis was resigning at the end of the year, Davis released a statement about the decision.
In response, Ivey released a letter from Alabama Department of Mental Health Commissioner Kim Boswell to Davis, written in April, severing a cooperative agreement between Mental Health and the ADVA to manage $7 million in ARPA grant funds. Boswell cited several concerns about the ADVA’s handling of the grants that she said would put Mental Health, which was responsible for monitoring the funds, at risk of negative audit findings or other bad consequences.
In his statement on Tuesday, Davis did not address the concerns raised by Ivey and Boswell. Davis, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral,“I remain proud of the great work and propriety that the ADVA team has accomplished over the past nearly six years of my tenure as Commissioner,” Davis said. “Governor Ivey summed it up best when she spoke of the challenges of fulfilling our respective roles, and I am very grateful for the great discussion we had on Monday.
“This has been a seven-year project that I am grateful to see through the ribbon-cutting of this incredible facility,” Davis said. “The care and accountability of our Veteran community within our great state, consisting of over 400,000 Veterans, has been exceptional under the leadership and devotion of Commissioner Davis.
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