Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee ground through a stack of supplementals spanning Education, Public Health, Labor, Law and Human Services — most cleared unanimously, but a $3 million cut to local public health agencies drew the day's lone dissent, and members repeatedly wrestled with cuts they called necessary but unpleasant.
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“none of the cuts that we will be making in this supplemental or in this budget are going to be great. Maybe a couple are going to feel great, but they're not going to be great. Most of them are going to feel, feel like this one.”
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Sign in to subscribeBridges is online and Senator Mobley is getting her book. So we have a series of supplemental requests to consider today. Ms. Bickel, you are first to tell us about the Department of Education. Take it away. Very good. Amanda Bickel, JBC Staff. You'll note I put a little extra memo on your desks because I had failed to include a table showing the impacts driven by other agencies. I know this is something you were waiting for with bated breath, but it is there. So that detail is now there. So there's the department. There's just a few issues to discuss with you in this department. You can see the summary on page three of the packet, but I'm going to jump to page five and start walking through what were the requests and what is my recommendation. So the first item is sort of the true ups related to Healthy School Meals for all and the fact that ballot measures or referred measures LL and MM passed. And so therefore there's enough money to fully fund this program and fully fund the meals in 2526. So just as a note, I may well need to true up the…
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