JAC Index 01-30-17am1
Monday January 30, 2017
Chairman Nicholas is the chair of the day
Motion is Governor’s recommendation
Governor’s recommendation can be amended
Format is agency, unit, and page number

1/30/2017 8:01:11 AM
Roll call by Richards; quorum is established
Going agency by agency
Richards – reduced by $31M, endow program
Nicholas – does not include potential cuts 
Richards – section 320, hard freeze on vacancies, $12M savings, DOH – salaries for vacancies can be shifted for other salaries, DOC – authority to expend funds for other filled positions for overtime, etc. Governor must make 75 additional position cuts; June 29, 2017 could be target date or program reductions, in addition to reduction already in place. Cut 67 full time employees, not state employees, they are commission employees.
Governor’s office, page 7, new footnote 3, JAC reduced by half, $80K, requiring a report,  
Agencies 2, 3, 4 adopted Gov’s rec; pg. 11, 
Burns – pg. 9 discussion, marijuana,
Richards - pg. 11 and 12, unfunded positions, eliminated one vacant position, correction only
Section 7, pg. 14, reduced 1 part time position, reduced youth Challenge program by $500K, school foundation dollars, footnote #4, military department reduction dollars only, Pg. 16, Gov’s rec followed, penny plan super flex, public defender, capital case funding, dollar increase, line 3, took $00K form DOC, Agency 9, pg. 17, reduction $220K, 900 series contracts, line 24/25, section 10 Dept. of Ag, actions, took out of administration, pg. 17,  grasshopper outbreak, modify 200 series, state fair, pg. 17, predator management program, Dept. of revenue, agency 15, AG, 5 actions, line 23, changed funding from GF to oil/gas revenue, agency 51 moved investigator, 2 vacant positions, added 1 position, livestock board position, line 23, 
Agency pg. 22, 23, DEQ, positions, 
Agency Dept. of Audit, vacancies, Gov’s rec used
Agency 24, Parks and resources, Gov’s rec used, line 7- 10 footnote, artwork – matching funds
Agency 29, Water Development Office, Water 1 funds, applied 8% reduction, no GF, no penny plan application
Agency 32, Infrastructure authority, no JAC changes, Gov’s rec
Agency 37, pg. 28 state engineers office, 1 vacant position gone, board of control, moved to water 1, Gov’s rec used, no footnotes

1/30/2017 8:38:29 AM
Richards – Agency 39, Wildlife Natural Resource Trust, Pg. 30
Agency 40, pg. 30/31, Line 16/17, 1 vacant position gone, reduced $770K, vet services, $1.8M, 3 FTE’s  sage grouse, 1 FTE in wolf management, 4 AWECs position, no GF funds,  $4.8M/year
Agency 41, pg. 32, Gov’s rec used, 1 vacant FTE gone
Agency 42, no changes from Gov’s rec
Agency 44, pg. 34, no changes from JAC
Agency 45, WYDOT, changes, JAC reduced $900K WYOLINK, eliminated 2nd year funding from GF, pg. 35, line 16, S 7 funds, highway fund, discussion Nicholas, restrictive use of alternative funds i.e. AML dollars, discussion, Driskill, Wilson
Agency 48, DOH, pg. 37 – 43, add’l footnotes, 1FTE gone, flex within agency, added $2M,  1 part time position gone, 600 series footnote, 10 vacant positions gone, total - $700K added, $1M federal funds, impacts – Director Forslund, handout 139, discussion, questions from Nicholas, Larsen, Landen

1/30/2017 9:14:48 AM

Agency 049, DFS, pg. 44 -46, 2 vacant positions gone plus others, $1M 
Agency 51, Livestock Board, moved 1 position to AG/DCI, reduced $500K GF, footnote, 4 positions
Agency 53, DWFS, 
Agency 57, WCCC, pg. 48/49, added $600K Vets tuition program, JAC $590K in GF, section 320 that didn’t apply
Agency 60, OSLI, denied $5m request
Agency 63, no changes, 
Agency 66, Dept. of Tourism
Agency 67, UW, denied GL #1, footnote #10, pg. 58, JAC reduced $1M
Agency 69, WICHE, no changes
Agency 70, pg. 59 
Agency 77 ETS, 
Agency 80, pg. 61/62$700K savings
Agency 81, Board of Parole
Agency 85m, Business Council $191k saved, section 313, no double funding,  
Agency 101, Supreme Court/district courts 
Agency 167, UW – Medical Ed, no changes to Gov’s rec, pharmacy program, 
Agency 205, Ed - School Finance, JAC reducing $2.25M, pg. 81, discussion Larsen, Wilson, SL #1 added $70M
Agency 206, Dept. of Ed, reduced $250K, JAC 1FTE gone, 
Agencies, 211, 220 and 037- no changes from Gov’s rec
Series 300 discussions, Burns, Larsen questions on tips to GF
Subsection N – stops tips, $0
Subsection O – moves money, exhausts account $570M
Subsection P – school foundation tips stopped $70M left, no action
Pg. 91, section 305, retiree health insurance, 8% but no penny plan, Wilson – impact on retiree – number of retirees going done, no impact, Larsen adjustment in numbers
Pg. 92 Flex for Governor - Higher Education Excellence Endowment – Wilson, question, LSRA, Burns – bill in senate – don’t need footnote
Section 313 endow association
Section 320 – review needed pg. 93 – 95, Nicholas question, pass through funds, FTEs, 
Subsection B – position eliminations/reductions, refers to section A
Subsection C – super flex for positions (Governor), can add to any agency as long as he reduces form another agency, Nicholas, questions on hard freeze of FTE’s, DOH, DOC

1/30/2017 9:47:39 AM

Adjourned until 10 minutes pass noon recess