Joint Budget Committee

The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We are figure setting for the Department of early childhood today. Ms. Kanagaraja, take it away. Thank you, Madam Chair. Phoebe Canagaraja, JPC Staff the summary of staff recommendations for the Department of Early Childhood figure settings starts on page one and really bleeds into page two. There are two things in that first big table that I'll note for you. One is that we have 15 items to discuss today so there's no really downhill point where it will get easier. Just so you know. I'm sorry. It kind of just cascades throughout the whole thing. Just to set expectations. Staff recommendation results in a very negligible increase in general fund of about 95,000. Staff recommendation is $11 million less than the department request when it comes to General Fund and $10 million less than the department's request. A lot of this is driven from things related to early intervention that we will talk about when we get to that request. To go through the summary. R1 is revisiting what we discussed during supplementals, which is a reduction to appropriations for the CCDF so that one might be a bit easier.…