JAC Index 012216pm1 Chairman for the day is Co-chairman Harshman Requires motion to open and close agency. Requires motion for amendment. Format is agency number, code, action on motion. Round Robin 1/22/2016 12:48:47 PM 080-DOC – opened Connolly: Stripped money from substance abuse treatment. Dept. had accepted Gov. Recommendation of cutting programs in half. We gutted those programs. My motion is to restore that funding to each of the five divisions and to use GF money to do it. Total 1.4M Perkins: Are you talking about denying gov recs or just the ones we did? Connolly: accept gov rec and restore the ones we did. Harshman: Against motion. Trimmed 30 to 50% of tobacco trust funds only. Did not gut anything. Agency has ability to move funds. Drug Courts are my priority for trust funds. Connolly: Motion failed. Perkins: footnote for DOC to maintain these programs Nicholas: Do they already have that flexibility? Richards: Boundaries last year on Series 100. You can add restore Tobacco Trust funds or remove footnote. Perkins: Motion to expand the flex authority in the department Greear: Department can come back to us. Perkins: the concern is that do you want sex offenders to complete sentence without treatment? Nicholas: They had 2.5. WE cut to 2 Williams: substance abuse, outpatient and residential, not used for sex offender Motion failed. Nicholas: How much does DOC revert? Richard: low tens of millions Nicholas: Vacancy totals Harshman: Take up bill on Saturday before session begins. We will not hear school cap con today. We will run out of time today. Members can’t be in town tomorrow. Burns: Any member with any substantial change to the cap con, please get it to Tanya or Matt before the Feb 6 meeting. Greear: So we will start with Gov rec, not the commission bill. Harshman: correct. Greear: I think it will be easier to do it off the committee bill. Richards: 17.1M GF. If you limit to 5 month threshold, number is 11.8M Nicholas: Motion to reduce the total amount for division 100 series by 5 million for the biennium Richards: longest open vacancies Nicholas: fine, they can B11. Perkins: Clarification of motion Motion adopted DOC closed 1/22/2016 1:05:01 PM 081 – WPB 085 – WBC – opened Perkins: Confusion about rural development council earlier. Pages 16 and 17. $744,435 zeroed out in unit 1201. Move to defund rural development council. Motion adopted Connolly: technical correction on page 26 $774,435 Richards: Was that elimination? Perkins: yes Burns: Business ready communities, what is the source of that money? Richards: GF Burns: move to drop down to 40M Richards: clarification. Reduced by 4 m, your motion is to reduce by 4.9 M Burns: yes Motion, division, Chairman Ross returns from capitol oversight committee Burns: restated motion. Motion failed on a tie vote Burns: move to reduce by $3M Nicholas: move to amend to drop to 2.5M Burns: friendly amendment Motion passed on division Perkins: page 19 in table, unit 0101, professional fees and services. Move to remove money in fund. Money that goes to UW and is farmed out to individuals. Constitutionality issues. Harshman: Is this fund the incubators? Perkins: Not this amount. Greear: What is the fund number? Not fund 491? Harshman; What fund number Burns: SDR grants are federal. Perkins: 608256 dollars Motion, division, failed Greear: Fund 491 for STEFA program. Set up as a loan and has not been used. Minerals committee testimony. Move fund from fund 491 to the GF. Put funds into GF, appropriate properly. Motion- approved Agency closed 1/22/2016 1:17:48 PM 101 –SC - opened Perkins: Reversions of about 1.5 m and higher amounts. Motion to make a reduction of 1.1M to the judicial budget with directions to Chief Justice to find those, come back on May 1. Richard: We would embed these in the agencies and give them the flex to move it Motion adopted Stubson: Learning center amount was reduced. Inaccurate numbers given. I move to increase that with $50,000 in GF. Nicholas: used 50,000 from sanction fund. What is balance? Harshman: Stubson: my notes say not much more than 50. Richards: They don’t separate it out the way. Burns: Did that vote count? Harshman: yes Agency closed 02 – BLE 103 – CJCE 120-142 – JD 151 – DA1 157 – DA7 – opened Burns: motion to move figure up to 5000 for shelving Motion adopted Agency closed 1/22/2016 1:22:36 PM 160 – CP ATTY 167 – UW-ME 205 – SFP - Richards: On agency 205, clarification for staff. Global reductions to School foundation plan. I took it to mean penny plan and travel Harshman: I think it did apply. Clarification needed is penny plan and travel. Because it is foundation funds, it should not apply. Nicholas: I say it should apply. Harshman: We did the Penny plan Richards: Clarification needed Perkins: in agency 205? Nicholas: I think it should be both Harshman: Currently have the Penny plan. Travel and 900 series cuts in doubt. Ross; Move to include the global amendment of Travel and 900 series Perkins: regardless of School Foundation dollars or GF? Harshman: Correct Motion passed Agency 206 Richards: reminder; handout 207 relates to outside general council, Handout 174 and says 201 Nicholas: clarification of what this is and what it was spent on Williams: contracts paid for attorneys outside of attorney general office, all for special education project s and paid for by federal funds. 1531 fund is where it will reside. Nicholas: AG testimony Williams: believe so Nicholas: In process of doing so. Do we need to take action? Williams: just a request for information. Greear: Direct them to use the AG office Perkins: We probably can’t direct that. Restrict funds or change control to stop it from happening. Greear: give them spending authority. Tell them to go to the AG office. Move that expenditures for council by agency would have to be to AG office. If expertise is not available, then go to outside. Nicholas: Restate motion. Obrecht: It is prescriptive but is tied to appropriation. Nicholas: I move a footnote to that effect Greear: Nicholas Motion: All funding for costs for special education mediation, including outside council will first go to the AG office to provide those services before outside counsel. Motion adopted. Harshman: That is on agency 206 Harshman: Motion to undo action Wasserburger: dept. had not problem eliminating this position. Motion failed. Nicholas: move to cut positions two positions (00220 and 00209?) Motion adopted Agency closed 211 – BOE 220 DEQ 270 - OAH Nicholas: move to open agency 220 Move to cut position 00010 Motion adopted Agency closed. 1/22/2016 1:38:11 PM Stubson: Need to confirm Governor’s decisions on two actions. Harshman: Round Robin on Governor’s letters Motions to open GL: Connolly: open GL 16 , bring back funding at 250,000 Burns: in favor of. Harshman: in favor of Motion, division, passed Governor letters closed Wasserburger: move to open agency 206 – adopted Move to replace #0026 employee (restore it) Connolly: my vote yesterday was a mistake. Motion failed. Nicholas: Agency 206 eliminate 01400 office position specialist Motion adopted Motion to close agency – agency closed. 1/22/2016 1:44:19 PM Stubson: motion to approve Governor’s rec on water development accounts Outlined in governor’s budget presentation in budget book. Connolly: what are we doing procedurally? Harshman: corrections. Issue is they were in the message but not necessarily profiled and some were done with Governor’s letters. Stubson: budget letter page 2 paragraph a – intercept 10M from water account 3 Greear: 10M from water 3 – accounts are statutorily funded? Stubson: no, this was an extra appropriation to water 3 in last appropriation as catch up. Governor has intercepted this as a budget balancer. Move to accept all of his actions except the 46M diversion from SPRA. Motion adopted Stubson: Made motion with respect to 48M. Richards: SharePoint under pre-session information- 48M Harshman: Explanation of history Stubson: motion restated Perkins: Procedure issue. Harshman: Motion: adopted 1/22/2016 1:56:06 PM Break 1/22/2016 2:22:39 PM Harshman: $36M deficit in operating budget. $104M statutory reserve. Exchange of AML for WYDOT $$, one-time projects, including state facilities LSRA drawdown and replenishment $149M, UW Science Engineering $60M, Casper office, forestry building, Casper AG NWTech $6M. FY17 SIPA $83M, grows to $87M $20M Capitol, State facilities $25M, UW Science $24M $10M State Office FY18 SIPA $87M Capitol, $20M, state facilities, $20M, UW Science $24M, State Office $10M Suspend 1% statutory severance deposit into a special severance account instead of permanent fund, about $100M annually. Wasserburger : Request upgrade from Garner Lake Road to Highway 59 using capcon/AML funds. 8.25 miles. Impacted by mineral development. $34,252,000. County and 1 coal company will provide combined $10M. City, county roads affected. Maintained by county. Nicholas: need more information prior to consideration. Requested more specific information. CAP CON Ross: Motion to move ahead with Harshman’s presentation bills, seconded. Wasserburger: Motion to put Garner Lake Road extension at top of list; seconded. $24M. Failed. Greear: Motion to postpone capital payment in FY17, seconded. Obrecht: Probably against the law for specific road, Article 3, section 27. Wasserburger: $24.1M to SLIB for impacts due to mining on Highway 59, agreed to by Greear, seconded. Failed. Motion adopted. Local governments funded from LSRA $90M. Burns has amendment to school cap con. Will send e-mail over break. Richards: Shortfall in operations and statutory reserve account. Shortfalls will come from LSRA. Authority to make global cuts to agencies down to specific codes. 1/22/2016 3:14:21 PM Meeting adjourned.