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The Joint Budget Committee worked through figure setting for the departments of Agriculture and Education, zeroing out an agrivoltaics grant over one objection and confronting a blunt staff warning that Colorado's new school finance formula isn't sustainable if the economy turns.
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·Opening remarks and consent calendarAction
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“And I'll tell you, the quickest way to get the answer is just cut it. And then they'll come back and tell us why they think we shouldn't cut it or we can't cut it, and then we'll find out for sure.”
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The joint budget committee will come to order. Congratulations and well done, Senators. Thank you. We are now. Thank God for the consent calendar. Just gonna say I'm jealous. So much better. Vice chair Bridges. Thank you, madam Chair. Just because we're talking about it and we gaveled in already, so might as well say it on the mic. The. The consent calendar is a blessing. And I think it was more than half of the departments. It was. We only did like six bills. So there were like two pages of bills that were on consent calendar and like six that weren't. We only did public safety, corrections, department of natural resources, which were nothing burger but health department and Dora. So the only reason we did Dora was because one of our people just loathedora. He just hates him. Otherwise it would have been uncomfortable. The B and R was like five seconds. We just talked about good things. Well. Well, yeah. You did it faster than we did. Corrections could have gone quicker. All right, we have Mr. Rickman here today to present figure setting for the department of agriculture. Take it away, Mr. Rickman. Thank you,…
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