JAC Index 1-19-15 pm1 Chairman for the day is Senator Ross. Agenda: 046 – Mixed martial Arts – Dicky Shanor 040 – Game and Fish Department. Scott Talbott, director. Vice-Chairman Perkins and Vice-Chairman Moniz. Perkins is the chair for the day. 1/19/2015 5:31:00 PM Martial Arts –Bryan Pedersen, introduced staff. Cost issues – transportation costs. Reimburse travel for 50 miles, reduced cost by 1/3. Statewide inspector position, administrative assistant, papal for fee receipt and payments online. We were operating on a cash basis. Consistent log with A and I... 1/19/2015 5:33:35 PM Pedersen: Issues – South Dakota is hosting MMA. Looking for new promotor at Camflex. Pinedale is doing lots of contests. Cheyenne contests gets good numbers but no consistencies. Being hosted in Ft. Collins draws Wyoming fighters. We sent our officials over to help in Nebraska and South Dakota. We do not regulate tough men contests. Take off gloves; remove wrestling so it is a bare knuckle fight. We don’t regulate that. That fighting is now in Casper and Riverton. Fighter Safety, blood tests, trained refs, hand wraps checked. Guys wet their wraps. If you fight in unregulated state, you can be barred or banned. We enforce contracts between promoters and fighters. Now require fighters to have insurance. Pay Mrs. Oman 500 per fight for services provided. We get fees and 5% of the gate. 20 hrs. of work per fight. 1/19/2015 5:39:13 PM Oman: Promoter contacts me, surety bond, calendar, event permit, security, inspector, health insurance, fighter licenses, and blood work. It is not an 8 to 5 job. Look at bout match-up, including training time of fighters. Upload info to national website. Appropriate officials> I am liaison between promoter and board. Check emails. Look into suspensions. Want fights to proceed, want them to be safe. Lots of phone calls. Pedersen: We have a small budget. 300 to AandI per month to do our acting work, 60 per phone call for IT help. Get about 700 in net revenue from each bout. People provide services without charging. We spent 10000 to buy equipment, scales, etc. We were short $100. I bought back shirts and donated them. We can’t control the number of bouts. We have the lowest fees of any state. We do not charge a television fee. Our request for you to consider is to remove loan or the footnote. Repayment of loan of 2500. Unless we get a surge in scheduling we will be 1700 short for on paying back the full 10000. Connolly: Flag is legacy of Rep Pedersen. Confused about how exception request is coming through. Why are we hearing this now and there is nothing in the budget book? 1/19/2015 5:46:07 PM Pedersen; because we were looking at year end, major change in the camplex. It is important because we cannot carry debt. If we run out of money then this no longer exists. 1/19/2015 5:47:09 PM Stubson: If we forgive the 10000, does it put you in a position of being self-sustaining. Pedersen: I think so. The biggest bill is the 3600 from AandI for accounting. It is not an hour payment. It is an average. About 360 per month. No commissioners get paid. Sara Oman is the only person who gets paid, as well as the referees and judges. We do not reimburse travel over 50 miles anymore. 1/19/2015 5:48:51 PM Burns: confused, what are you asking for? Pedersen” it was a GF originally. Bebout- if boards are profitable so should pay back so I offered to pay back the 10,000. We were profitable the first year. Burns: appropriation or loan Pedersen: it became a loan the second year with a footnote. They said we made money so we should pay back. Burns: Have you paid any back? Pedersen: no we have not, Burns; Just change it back to an appropriation. You will be happy. Pedersen: yes. We are no asking for more..Just the 10, 000 1/19/2015 5:51:36 PM Game and Fish: Scott Talbot, introductions, shall present annually. Wood: funding sources total $70,500,000. 50% of revenues generated thru licenses and fees. FY 15 $76,733,193 for 6 divisions. Greatest expenditure is for personnel services. $5.3M for director’s office budget for 7 programs. $7.6M fiscal division budget for 6 sections. Moniz: Damage claims? Talbott: Increased significantly over the past 4 years. Wood: Services Division, $12.9M for 6 programs. Greear: Property rights, is for? Woods: 3 full time employees, capital outlay, tax paid on properties. Wood: Fish Division, $14.4M for 4 programs. Wildlife Division $29.3M for 13 programs. Greear: property rights access total spent and for what? Wood: reduction in FY14 budget, maintaining at those levels, but additional coordinator. $800,000 for leases, not walk in and hunter accesses Perkins: trends in access yes? Talbott: held stable in contributions. $100,000 fund. Wood: Grant $7.1M budget. Competitive grants. Stubson: federal or private? Wood: Variety of grant funding partners. Wood: Big game received largest expenditure. Nicholas: roadkill enforcement? Talbott: Not performed yet. Connolly: aquatic invasive species update. Talbott: Shift in program to ports of entry for out of state boats as opposed to boats utilizing bodies of water in state. $700,000 generated annually. Harshman: Budget over last several years has been in crisis mode. How is it? Talbott: Cost cutting over past 2 years, restructured administratively and merged some smaller programs. Some programs, general fund, are holding their own. Difficulty filling game warden positions due to rigorous requirements. Working cash balance of $30M. 40,000 boats inspected; found 12 with dead mussels. Infected reservoirs in South Dakota could potentially affect northeast WY. Burns: AES, SF5 bill. Updated 900 series. 5 year total miles driven per year update. 5 year comparison of license sales update. Hastert: damage to landowners? Talbott: reasonable access. Burns: state lands in Sheridan County to sell inholdings to various owners and purchase a ranch which has a large elk population. What happened? Talbott: Still moving forward. Will check with State Lands. Harshman: Rundown of employee numbers of last 10 years, categorized. Talbott: reduced employees since 2005, 381 employees currently. Authorized 402 employees. 2010, authorized 425 employees.