Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee worked through a long supplemental figure-setting docket, clearing most requests unanimously but killing two Department of Public Safety items on tie votes — a wildfire code enforcement build-out and a school-construction inspection increase. The sharpest fights were over childcare freezes, a new SNAP payment-accuracy team, and a staffer's admission of a $5.3 million base-building error.
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“Greatest barrier to work is childcare. So the longer we have a freeze in our most populated counties across the state, the longer we have barriers, bigger barriers, and people can't get to work because they can't get child care.”
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Sign in to subscribeAndrew McClear, JBC staff the first item I have for you is a memo I dropped in front of you just now. This is just a memo regarding the Office of Information Technology's request to transfer $11 million from the IT Revolving Fund to the the general fund. This is a table you have seen before, reflecting the the projected fund balances for the fund, showing that this $11 million transfer can be made under current revenues. Staff is recommending approval of this request. Anyone? Vice Chair Burgess? This one, yeah. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move staff rec s1. Is there any objection seeing none. That passes on a vote of. Sorry, Are we clear? Sorry, not clear. Okay. That passes on a vote of 5 to 0, with Kirkmeyer excused. Mr. McClear. All right. Thank you, Madam Chair. All right, so this I will now start on the supplemental requests for the office of the Governor. Flipping ahead to page two, this is the summary table showing the four highlighted items I will be discussing today. These are all different kind of revenue enhancement options the Governor's office has provided for budget balancing purposes. So this is why…
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