Joint Budget Committee
With the March revenue forecast still days away, the Joint Budget Committee spent grinding through capital priorities, staff comebacks and budget-balancing placeholders — denying a youth mental health funding shuffle, holding a behavioral-health refinance until the forecast lands, and pressing the Judicial Department and Treasury on how they've actually spent appropriated money.
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“So every year it's like this. It's like you have six children and you just give one of them a bag lunch and tell the rest of them, be on your way, go find something to eat someplace else, come back next year year. Because we just don't have the money to, you know, serve you.”
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Sign in to subscribeA little bit. Obviously we know that we are in a difficult budgetary situation and the list is not as robust as we've sent you in years past. Trying to recognize the situation that we're in that specifically you all are in and some of the difficult decisions that you have to make. Just jumping into the list, if you look at it, obviously controlled maintenance, level one is top priority. That's pretty consistent. It's been relatively consistent throughout my time on cdc. That, that that's usually a pretty high priority. The Clark building renovation in addition, was prioritized as number two. A lot of that comes from the fact that they did delay their project to help with some budgetary situations last year with a commitment that we would be supportive for them being able to do that. You have the campus utility infrastructure upgrade at the Colorado Mental Health Hospital down in Pueblo. And then where it comes a little differently is you start looking at the corrections projects. We didn't really change anything with the electronic security system replacement at the Colorado State Penitentiary. It's relatively small project this year, $748,000. But we did take down the…
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