Legislative Council

The Legislative Council will come to order. Ms. Kurtzphelin, please call the roll. Senators and Representatives. Barone. Presente. Basenecker. Here. Duran. Here. Brazell. Here. Gonzalez. Excused. Johnson. Here. Lukens. Here. Marchman. Here. Martinez. Excused. Pelton B. Present. Rich. Here. Richardson. Here. Roberts. Here. Rodriguez. Here. Simpson. Present. Boudreaux. Excused. Mr. President, let's do this. Madam Speaker. Here. We do have a quorum. Good morning members. Today we are reviewing the budget for the legislative Council staff. Director Castle, good morning. Thank you for your good work. Please take it away. Thank you so much, Madam Chair. For the record again, Natalie Castle, Legislative Council staff It's my pleasure to be here this morning and I want to thank you all for being here this morning also to review the budget request for Legislative council staff. As LCS's oversight committee, this is part of your statutory responsibility. You should have in front of you a budget request memorandum and a copy of the slide deck that I'll be presenting today. To start out, usually I give you a picture of our amazing folks and I thought this time what I would do is give you an impossibly hard to read organizational…