Jac index 020916am1 2/9/2016 8:02 AM Agar took roll Harshman: Early Childhood programs Connolly: Would like to revisit the funding cuts. Wyoming early childhood, Harshman: Corsi: Director of Family Services 700000 appropriated by legislature. Overview of agencies working together. Legislature said no to setting up an early childhood office but make an appropriation for 740,000 dollars. 75,000 for administration Harshman: Give us a history, 10 minutes per agency Corsi: document provided two weeks ago and another one provided today. JAC is proposing to cut the 740,000. We will adapt. Toby Keith: document provided “Wyoming Early Childhood, Wyoming department of”. Program of partnering of state, fed, local for locals to decide what happens in early childhood. Harshman: Corsi: example – Amy Reddy in Hot Springs, Thermopolis. Impact of grants. Quality rating system. Early childhood advisory council is a federal mandate Harshman: Compromise budget amendment two years ago? Thought it was one time to form partnerships and get it off the ground CorsI; Not aware one way or the other Connolly: Committee thought it was one time money Toby: This is not a duplication of funds. Way for state to invest dollars in early childhood system. Mechanism is provided to work across all the entities. Harshman: How is this different than why quality counts? Getting adults on track to take care of the little guys. Toby: correct. Referred to handout. Focuses on trainer in early childhood facility. Why quality counts educates parents. Seems like duplication but is piggyback Harshman: WCCC Dr. Rose program Rose: Commission inherited the program. We agreed to assume from the dept. of workforce services. 8 centers operating. Requested additional funding with GF to sustain those centers. Unique to our program is that it is a partnership with adult education, mandates that parents and students participate together. Children are in licensed day care centers. Children are significantly more successful, graduation rate above state average. Data provided on one sheet handout 057-184. Program does not overlap with headstart and other programs. Program is totally reliant on state funds. Harshman: length of time family is in program Corsi: parents determine length of time, usually about a year. Once parents have achieved a high school equivalency, tenure with center stops. Harshman: When did we start using federal dollars –even start? Corsi: 2002, component of no child left behind. Rescinded in 2009 (federal component) Harshman: handout 485 different adults and 590 children. 360 families. Per biennium Connolly: How do families come to the literacy center? Corsi Centers go into the community and make families aware of the resources. We do not use conventional media. Flyers in grocery stores, flyers on windshields. Work with state agencies. One center goes door to door. Connolly: English learner families, immigrant population? Corsi: depends on the center. One has a very high population of ELF. Fairly high component of adults needing to learn English. Corsi: Early childhood funding. Duplication. Our department has been tasked with ferreting out duplication of funding within departments. This is one of the best places where state government works together. Ross: Have you been able to cut or ferret out duplication? Corsi: I do not have specific examples. I am not aware of any duplications of dollars in early childhood education. Dollars are being used for specific things. Hastert: Workforce services – Lisa – Wagner-Pasner grants and 500,000 cut to employment services center. Outline of grant. Why the additional funds are needed. Lisa: proposed reduction in budget is critical to operation of 23 work force services around the state. Supplements federal dollars, most visible dollars in the state, help people laid off or looking for work to find employment. Unemployment rate has significantly increased, esp. in Sweetwater, Campbell. Will negatively impact us serving. Hastert: number of people served Lisa: Number of walk ins has doubled. Clients have more significant barriers, like a 60 year old miner who is laid off. Number and level of service required has increased. Over 8 years, there has been a reduction in federal dollars. Ross: You have not had opportunity to present. Harshman: want to make sure you have got everything. People shook heads. 2/9/2016 8:32 AM Department of Corrections: Bob Lampert Lampert: Repair of WSP and capcon. Budget issues Ross: talk about the budget first. Lampert: Global cuts and target cuts will cause a lot of problems. Governor recommendations reduced std. budget 1% in GF and x% in tobacco funds. 1.4M additional reduction in tobacco funds to help restore funding out of the dept. of health... 0442,0452,0492 units: cuts in those units will reduce capacity in residential facilities by 17%. We will have vacant beds in those facilities and we need those beds. Highest risk individuals. Unit 2016 drug court activity support comes in that unit. We will have drug courts and no ability to support them. Budget 2020 cuts would result in no funding for a statutorily mandated program. Would cut funding for program and reduce staff by two. AOA program. Would have RIF and remove all funding for the AOA program. Need restoration of the funding of the 1.4M IN TOBACCO funds. Global cuts to service contract services. 22% of budget goes to service contracts, medical care for inmates, sex abuse treatment, 100 bed facility in Casper, We are jeopardizing contracts for those services. Our contract is for 40 M and cut would reduce money to 38 M. No ability to pay for offsite services and put us out of contract. 5% cut to 100 bed will reduce number of be3ds able to utilize. ACC and split sentencing are primary alternatives to incarceration. We are asking for expansion. Asking for global cut of 5% to not be applied to DOC (900 series). If positions were frozen, rather than removed, we would have vacancy savings and ability to reopen positions. Asking for positions to be frozen ‘Stubson: If we were to leave those positions in place, freeze them and not fund them, would that meet the needs you have? Lampert: if we remove these positions, we will have to come back and ask for new positions. Burns: How many new positions do you anticipate? Lampert: 42 positions will cover both facilities. Harshman: question for staff. How much was reverted in 15-16. Richards: 20 M, 15 M in January and 5M in March. Harshman: 20 M reverted and we cut 13M. WE give this agency a lot of flex. Every line in the budget is cut. We gave Governor and executive branch super flex to go through and add money. We reverted 20M and cut 13 M so 7 M overfunded agency. Transfer of inmates will be ongoing process. We are trying to get these down to actual expenditures. Lampert: Good stewards and operated to our needs only, which resulted in reversion. We are only one emergency away from expending those dollars. In medical, we have spent 600,000 in offsite expenses today. Extreme situations can run seve3ral hundred thousand dollars easily. Needing to shut women’s center during flood. Out of money reverted, 14 M was vacancy savings. Difficulty recruiting for positions. Positions needed for accreditation and safety. Staff is working hard and working overtime. Makes more sense to to retain flexibility. 65% tied to operational. 22% contractual, remaining is support services. In response to Governor request to trim budget, we did so. My primary concern is if you take 5M for staffing 500,000 out of sex offender and 1.4M out of tobacco and then an additional global cut. All of our flexibility is gone and we will face RIF. Three ways to meet demand is close an entire facility and shift inmates out of state, only program left with any funding is elimination of sex offender program, which we fought hard for, only remaining programs is substance abuse funding. I am concerned that we will not meet mandate to the citizens. We have not used money because we have not been able to recruit. Eliminating positions tells current staff we don’t care about them, they will have to suck it up. Stubson: Tobacco funding cuts. 400,000 reduction in drug testing for drug courts. Is there somewhere else you would see more appropriately to get that funding? If we give you some flex on tobacco trust fund, would that help> Lampert: Cuts offered up to governor request left funding only for two highest risk offenders. The only way to shift funding would be change between those two programs. Addressing highest need but reducing the number served. Before cuts, serving 1000 per year. 2.6M cut in gov rec will change number to 400 and absorbing these cuts will change number down to 200. Stubson: You do not see flex within tobacco trust funds as helping you? Lampert: that is correct. Cuts will cause burden on communities. Ross: Lampert: In terms of impacting the most inmates, substance abuse impacts the most inmates. In terms of victimization, it may not be the most. Greear: Shifting of priorities. We are looking at how many are we preventing. Looking at that priority. If drug courts go away, what would be the impact? Lampert; I understand that. It is a catch 22. I did not make the decision to cut the drug court funding. I made the decision that within the funding we had. I would urge consideration of the restoration of that funding. Nicholas: You reverted 20m, we cut 13M. What is your plan for that 7M difference? Lampert: I would disagree that it is money unneeded. I would spend it as it is appropriated for. We move funds within agency to cover shortfalls like overtime. We spend it as it is allocated and appropriated. I do not see it as extra money. Perkins: At the end of each budget cycle, actual expenditures versus budgeting, we come up with a 20M difference. How do you make those adjustments within your budget? No one is arguing that you did not do a great job. Areas underspent and overspent. Where was the 20M? Why don’t the reconciliations help you recognize those areas? Lampert: Bulk is due to vacancy savings. Perkins: What change do we anticipate in the next 2 years? With the change in the economy, maybe those jobs would be filled Lampert: We had approval to increase spending on recruitment and we are seeing the benefit of that. Huge risk to cut operational and statutorily required beyond where we are at now. I do not want to take a risk on staff safety and constitutionally. I guess if you are going to take money, take positions and understand the impact on our staff. One court case could wipe out more than any savings. Perkins: Looking at budget, top priority is inmate medical care. Is the amount the contract amount? Lampert: 40M is for contract and additional is for out of site care. Lampert: 210. Eliminating 80 positions with the cuts. Nicholas: 35 positions = 1.5M Lampert: no that is not correct, saying 1.5% Ross: If we give you flex, would that solve the problem? Lampert: It would help. Ross: We will look at that. Connolly: with flex, could you backfill the sex offender and substance abuse programs? Lampert; Replace tobacco funds with GF. Problem comes in with 5% 900 series, to make u whole with contracts in place, would not bring us to contract amounts. Exempt us from the global cut. Ross: Thanks. Connolly: Expansion of Torrington, what if we don’t do that this year? Lampert: letter to Rep., Nicholas (Handout 080-183) Discussion of the building. Electrical room, mechanical room, gym total cost. Fix settling of soil costs approx. 4M, could be deferred one year. Once we start into inmate housing units, need a place to displace those inmates. My recommendation is to move forward with funding for electrical, then fy 18 repair of CPF and K units (food, laundry, housing). To displace the 160 inmates, completion of WCMI facility would allow that Harshman: medium security add-on, transfer inmates, what is point of replacing the space. Place is sinking into the ground. Lampert; we will need those beds. Our recommendation is based on the Martin report. Perkins: Has this been taken to the state building commission? Lampert: SBC is up to speed. Placeholder denied. Perkins: Martin report Lampert: they are. 85M for full repair, can be phased over two biennium. Some issues at WSP, to ensure short term and long term functionality. Harshman: electrical and gym breakout. Lampert: 2 m is for gym. Remainder is for the electrical. Corridor wall supports the roof of the gym and the wall is moving, could jeopardize the structure. Burns: How old is the facility? 15 years Lampert: Burns: Has the ground stopped moving? Will mitigation take care of the ground moving? Lampert: Forensic review, building was not constructed to design. Explained the problem. Burns: covered in the 17M Lampert: just the gym, electrical and mechanical Burns: mitigation Connolly: Subject to continuation Lampert: Incarceration rate in the middle of the pack. Joint Judiciary legislation addresses some issue. 2.5M or 2.7M for that. Would take pressure off for increased demand for beds. Would have to look at our system. Burkhart: Electric room and gym wall is irrespective of beds? Lampert: Correct, without electrical room, we have no facility. 2/9/2016 9:23 AM 2/9/2016 9:27 AM Amendment to Section 12. Bill moved and seconded. Harshman, page 8. Nothing will happen until federal funds received. Greear: June 2017? Richards: will take several years to receive funds. Must coordinate with priority list. Nicholas: DOT timeline? Richards: FY 17/18. Connolly: monies available from feds? Richards: on invoices, totally completed projects Ross: Section 3 Hastert: page 6, amendment, delete lines 17-20 general fund, seconded. Can fund social program if delete construction, also line 1, page 7. Harshman: false comparison. Not one RIF, just vacant positions. Most vulnerable people inhabit deleted facilities. Greear: using one time funds to cover costs. Connolly: monies can be used for social programs. Delay building for one year. Failed. Stubson: Page 6 and 7, line 1, page 7 be moved to priority 1 on page 6. Seconded. Richards: Does affect when funded as to priority placement, essentially one year delay for other projects. Burns: Would hold up other educational facilities which are shovel ready. Stubson: Actually timing is perfect for design. Greear: to help delay title 25 costs. Nicholas: amend not $70M, but $45M for priority 1, remainder at existing position. Funds already available for level III, seconded. Harshman: paying with one time funds in this budget, no control. ROSS: amendment to amendment passed. Motion, as amended, carried. Burkhart: page 7, line 2, balance of land fund? 7M? Perkins: $7.2m Burkhart: authorization for repairs to pen, use land fund monies, seconded. Richards: slow refill of land fund Harshman: amend to $5M, seconded. Perkins: #3 priority, $4.1m to remediate building. Burns: If not do gym, calculations? Lampert: doing all Ross: amendment failed. Motion carried. Perkins: Most are authorizations only, not those that have general funds. Of