JAC Agency Hearings JAC Index 01-17-17 am Tuesday January 17, 2017 Agenda: AM Governor’s Letters Livestock board Department of Family Services 1/17/2017 8:12:01 AM Hearing Called to order Co Chairman Nicholas Roll Call: Quorum established Governor’s Letters, Kari Gray, Chief of Staff, Mary Kay Hill, GL 1, enrollment management program Landen: no progression in software programs Boswell: non-sufficient efforts in the past, outside look in management and practices, shortfall in recruiting Nicholas: $475K, one time funding, ongoing costs, joint effort return Boswell: haven’t determined system to be used so cannot predict future costs, follow up info Schwartz: net gain with new system, enrollee prior to enrollee cost after implementation Boswell: difficult to calculate Burns: personnel vs hardware/software Boswell: adjustments to personnel, most $ spent on hardware Hill: investment in UW science initiative $500K, one time funding Burns: one time funding effect Hill: follow up info on effect for use of money Burns: No personnel costs – science initiative Boswell: one appropriation to enhance science program enrollment Hill: GL 3 State Board of Education Coordinator, one year funding, continue for one more year or make it permanent Sommers: Joint education supported this position, liaison position update Hill: Liaison position discussed 1/17/2017 8:39:53 AM Hill: state wide assessment system, science content standards Larsen: Liaison position Hill: Governor hasn’t taken that position Dockstader: well qualified folks within the department, growth Hill: funding Nicholas: funding coordinator salary vs job description/lobbying Hill: deferred to state Board of Ed, lobbying vs coordinating Burns: coordinator double dipping? Gray: GL 2, Local governments – emergency situation grants, no coal lease bonus payments Wilson: Used last biennium and $ reverted Gray: sewer rupture, water contamination, info to follow Larsen: balance of fund, statutorily in place reference Gray: info to follow Kean: quarterly distribution, $33M biennium Gray: more requests than money Nicholas: list of what’s been funded over the past few years, and balance of account Kean: GL 4, contingent appropriations from LSRA, Title 25, DOC funds Larsen: DOH for current year or next, $4M, county draws on dollars Kean: for projected year, $4M biennium Hill: fluid for contingent dollars, 3 counties Richards: Handout 67 for info 1/17/2017 9:19:01 AM Live Stock Board, Steve True, and Anne Enright, refer to handout 112, Driskill: who handles, LE or brand inspector True: combination of the two, mostly LE investigators Driskill: animal cruelty discussion Sommers: eliminate LE $’s back to FE, animal welfare – mandated by statute, impact of money moving True: specify different office in statute, shifting brand program off GF, moving LE – can’t speak for them, info to follow, brand inspectors can’t site for cruelty or brand violations, workload shift to where? Funds increase to fund for brand inspections if moved off GF, fee raising Larsen: LE staffing vs calls True: 4 officers, 6 counties each, reporting Sommers: brand laws Nicholas: funding overview Hamilton: Taskforce, fee raising Magagna: producers burden in carrying fees for brand inspectors, don’t eliminate LE portion of board, and relook at efficiencies Hays: Sheriffs and Chiefs Assn, LE needed, investigators are experts Hendrikson: Bull Growers Assn, livestock investigators crucial to PETA tape Eisley: livestock producer and on board, LE enormous help on I-80 corridor, livestock theft 1/17/2017 10:01:26 AM Department of Family Services, Steve Corsi, Director, Child Support Revenue and Enhancement Account Nicholas: management for funds question, Larsen assigned TANF follow up, overmatching of funds Corsi: fund discussion, funds mangers moved, better handled now, Crisis beds, Power SASFA, Tribal Information, Prevention, WY Quality Counts, impacting of cutting those funds 1/17/2017 10:15:11 AM Adjourned