Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee worked through the Department of Natural Resources budget, advancing new parks, range-rider and water-grant staffing while Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer pressed a running campaign to pull DNR programs off the volatile severance tax operational fund. The sharpest splits came over State Land Board staffing and a new tribal-consultation coordinator, and members deferred all severance tax and wolf-related decisions pending the March forecast and further detail.
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“we need to start figuring out where we're finding some big chunks of money this year for this budget. And this is the place. This is one place where we can make some changes.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We are figure setting on the Department of natural resources with Ms. Shen. Thank you, Madam Chair. Kelly Shen, JVC staff first, I just want to point out I have a memo for you all that has two additional line items that I left out of the figure setting document, but they relate to common policies and you're deciding on those somewhere else. So I won't talk about those too much, but for completeness, they're there. Okay, to the actual document then. I think if we start on page one. So it has a summary of staff recommendations. And I think just the thing I want to point out on the table here is that if you look at all the decision items, none of them have any general fund increase and there's a slight general fund reduction. And then all the general fund changes are coming from common policies kind of towards the bottom of the table. I'm not going to go into each one right now. I think in terms of buckets of changes, the one I just wanted to highlight was technical adjustments, just so you all are aware.…
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