Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee worked through Public Safety figure-setting and a batch of budget-balancing bills, clearing most staff recommendations unanimously but splitting 3-2 over spending authority for the state's Digital Trunk Radio System. Members also introduced four balancing bills and a DTRS support measure, several with palpable reluctance.
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“Not knowing whether we are going to approve the extension of them as basically new FTE at this point, I find that as a very dangerous precedent and I wonder if these individuals knew that the discretionary fund would end at the end of the fiscal year and there was no guarantee that we would pick up on that.”
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Sign in to subscribeHe will come to order. We are we starting with public safety, Ms. Curry, or were we picking up on the Comebacks? Madam Chair? CRAIG Harper JBC Staff we had, we had been thinking public safety, but she could do her public safety. Come back. Let's do it. We'll get the Comebacks later. Yeah. All right, Ms. Curry. Thank you, Madam Chair. Ms. Curry, joint budget. Ms. Curry. Michelle Curry, Joint budget, Commercial Staff Teacher Teacher things so I'll be presenting the figure setting document for the Department of Public Safety for all of the divisions except for the Division of Criminal Justice. So jumping in, you have the department overview on page one and then finally followed by a summary of staff recommendations. There are a total of 20 decisions in this document, quite a few staff initiated and then similarly quite a few from the department. The ones that we will be talking about today are highlighted in blue there and marked with the one on page three. You'll see that the staff recommendation is a total of $33.6 million below the request. And I will note about half of that is from Division of Criminal justice. And…
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