A spokesperson for the governor's office confirms to 10 Tampa Bay that Hope Florida Foundation executive director Erik Dellenback is resigning, a day after he faced tough questions during a house subcommittee hearing on how the non-profit is run and coordinates with the Governor’s administration. Tuesday, the board chairman for Hope Florida admitted that “mistakes were made” with the foundation’s record-keeping, as a skirmish over the group’s finances continued to escalate. Joshua Hay appeared before the House Health Care Budget Subcommittee amid a widening probe into the nonprofit’s receipt of $10 million as part of a Medicaid managed-care company’s $67 million settlement with the state Agency for Health Care Administration. After receiving the money from Centene — the state’s largest Medicaid managed-care provider — last fall, the foundation made $5 million in grants each to Secure Florida’s Future, a nonprofit organization linked to the Florida Chamber of Commerce, and Save Our Society from Drugs. The groups received the grants while they were making contributions to Keep Florida Clean, a political committee headed by James Uthmeier, who was then Gov. Ron DeSantis’ chief of staff and is now state attorney general. Keep Florida Clean fought a proposed constitutional amendment in November that would have allowed the recreational use of marijuana. Tuesday’s hearing was the latest in which House Health Care Budget Chairman Alex Andrade, R-Pensacola, has challenged members of the DeSantis administration about the foundation’s alleged lack of transparency about the $10 million settlement and subsequent grants. “I'm a little shocked that you are unaware of that, not prepared for that, warned about that,” he said to Dellenback referring to questioning about Hope Florida’s claimed role as a manager of certain Medicaid services. Dellenback is no longer head of the embattled non-profit led by first lady Casey DeSantis and set up by her husband's administration with the goal of getting families off welfare, with a spokesperson adding that Dellenback will soon be the new CEO of Florida Family Voice, which advocates and lobbies for, “pro-life, pro-family values in the public square.”