The Joint Budget Committee approved a $1.9 million community corrections supplemental and three Department of Treasury supplementals while rejecting a $35,000 Department of Revenue GenTax request that members said a half-billion-dollar agency should absorb; a key theme across Treasury items was whether vacancy savings in personal services lines could be captured as immediate general fund relief amid a roughly $370 million budget shortfall.
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“I'm talking about grabbing that general fund savings in this current fiscal year that we're $370 million essentially in the red.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe Joint Budget Committee is back and I am back in the chair's Chair for a couple of hours here. Hopefully not many. Mr. Bracke, what do you got for us? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Got a presentation here for the Department of Public Safety's Division of Criminal Justice. I'm going to go straight to page three. There's only one request to deal with, but there's some stuff here to think about. So it's S1BA1 community corrections caseload. The department requested about 1.9 million general fund. And I'm recommending that you approve that. I agree that it meets supplemental criteria. Mid year caseload adjustments for caseload related purposes are not unusual in this space. And additionally, there was a third party budget evaluation of community corrections providers that came out in June. So there's some information there related to rates that was not available last spring. So what they're asking for, there's two components here. In the current year, there's 1 million for community corrections beds. That's basically equal to an increase of about 39 standard residential beds at the current per diem rate. So we're on page three, about midway down. The second component in the current year is…
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