Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee ground through Corrections, Human Services, capital and natural-resources supplementals, denying the prison system's request for more beds and repeatedly funding contested Corrections items at half, while a fraught competency-services package won unanimous but heavily-caveated approval and a pine beetle funding fight ended in stalemate.
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“until there is a plan or plans to address why the releases are lagging, the admissions and why that's changed and what we can do about that, it's very hard for me to support more beds.”
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Sign in to subscribeJoint Budget Committee will come to order. We are continuing with our consideration of supplementals. The first on the agenda for the day is the Department of corrections with Mr. Bracke. Please tell us what you've got for us. All right, thank you, Madam Chair. JUSTIN Bracke Joint Budget Committee STAFF I think we'll start on the table of contents on the first page here. We do have nine decision items to deal with, which is relatively a lot for supplemental. With your permission, I'll probably start on S4 and S5, which deal with compensation and contract services and stuff like that, which can give you a sense of the picture of what total compensation in the department looks like. We're not voting. Just started. I saw you come in, so we started. So I'd like to start with S4 and S5 because it gives you a picture of some of the issues with vacancies and might put some other things in perspective. I've also included an appendix B here that shows inflation adjusted change in the DOC's general fund budget in almost every line item. So that can help folks understand where the budget may or may not have…
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