Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee reconvened after adjournment for a marathon run of supplemental reconsiderations, OSPB comebacks and staff figure-setting items, with the Department of Corrections' plea to fund prison beds over a swelling county-jail backlog dominating the night. The committee split openly on the governor's executive-order-driven cuts to higher education, with Barbara Kirkmeyer and Rick Taggart both objecting.
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“if you need all 1.2 million this year, you shouldn't need a two year spending authority. And if you need a two year spending authority, then you don't need all those dollars all at once. So it's gotta be one way or the other way.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We have an agenda of supplemental request comebacks today. We will get to our staff comebacks later. So now we are going to start with agency requests and we've got the judicial branch with us to start. So who would like to begin? All right, Mr. Vasconcellis, thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Stephen Vasconcellas. I'm the State Court Administrator for the Colorado Judicial Department, and with me Here today is Mr. Luis Colon. He is the department's Chief Financial Officer. I'm here today to respectfully request that the Joint Budget Committee reconsider their vote denying the Department's supplemental request S01 regarding courthouse furnishings, along with audiovisual and network infrastructure to support the second year of new judges and staff under Senate Bill 25024. Specifically, I'm requesting that the JBC approve funding for the request at the level recommended by your staff at $1.2 million. I'd like to begin by providing the committee with a very brief overview of the fiscal policy and practice issues that have led to today's discussion. I realize there is some disagreement currently over the statutory interpretation of the financial responsibilities regarding furniture, fixtures and equipment,…
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