Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee spent its figure-setting session for the Department of Labor and Employment carving a 15% general fund reduction out of the agency, but the marquee item — a proposed special purpose authority for the popular disability license plate fund — stalled after staff revealed the branches disagree on whether the move would lower the TABOR cap. A vote to zero out the Hospitality Education (ProStart) grant drew the day's only dissent.
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“these have become wildly popular. And we are like, we now can't spend $15 million on K12 public school funding because there's $15 million that's required to go towards this particular purpose set up in statute.”
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Sign in to subscribeRight, Mr. Thomas. All right. The Joint Budget committee will come to order. We have figure setting for the Department of Labor and employment today, Ms. Kanagaraja. Thank you, Madam Chair. For the record, Phoebe Canagaraja, JBC Staff and I am presenting figure setting for the Department of Labor and Employment. I'll start the committee off at page two, which is the summary of staff recommendations. We'll just dive right in. There are nine requests to go through. The two set of R1 requests are going to be the most complicated and then everything else is a reduction for budget balancing. Yeah, unfortunately R1A is complicated and then it's a downhill from there. So actual summary write up start on page three in the table on page two. I'll just point you that staff recommendation results in a 15% reduction to the department's general fund of about 5.3 million. Most of that is coming through a temporary refinance through the department's R7 request of General fund into the Disability Support fund of about 4.1 million. We'll talk about it when we get to R7, but my projections say that that could last for about four fiscal years depending on how…
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