Joint Budget Committee
Colorado's Joint Budget Committee spent a marathon day drilling into the Department of Corrections budget, with the sharpest exchanges over slashed calorie counts for young offenders, an opaque parole risk-assessment tool, and whether the state should expand prison capacity at all. No votes were taken; the department's decision items were briefed for later action.
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Sign in to subscribeThere we have our hearing for the Department of Corrections and then the Parole Board. So beginning with the Department of Corrections, Director Stancil, I will turn it over to you. Good morning and thank you, Madam Chair. First of all, happy holidays, Happy New Year to the committee. I'm going to be brief. We have a lot of information we want to try to get to today. So on behalf of the over 6,000 staff and the 20,000 individuals that are in our care, we thank you for the opportunity to present this morning. And if I could turn over to Mitch. Mr. Carsons. Good morning, Madam Chair, on the committee of the Joint Budget Committee. My name is Mitch Carson. I'm the Director of Finance for the Colorado Department of Corrections. And we will be going through some requests and some data that was requested of us to jump right in. Slideshow's not going. There we go. So first, what we want to do is start with our R3.3 requests, which is food service and laundry inflation. We want to highlight this one in particular. The request is for $648,000 of general fund dollars in ongoing food service…
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