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Senator Connolly summarized the agency requests and said the agency is \"happy with the Armstrong budget\" as presented; he identified the H-2A (foreign agricultural worker) inspection workload as a priority and said the program has experienced a roughly 30–45% increase in users, creating a need for additional staff to perform required site inspections. Committee members described the H-2A inspector activity as critical and by consensus indicated support for including that position-level funding in the near-term budget plan.

Committee discussion also covered an agency request for a $1,900,000 operating inflationary increase; staff explained that the presentation split that amount roughly half to federal funds and half to general funds (approximately $950,000 each), with details appearing across multiple line items including IT costs. A separate $2,100,000 item was described as a one-time swap proposal: shifting $2.1 million of salary funding from federal to general funds to help fill immediate compensation gaps while the agency examines longer-term federal/general funding mixes. Budget staff explained the swap is intended as short-term relief and that the agency will review structure and funding sources in the next interim.

Senators and staff flagged that Job Service historically has carried a high federal funding share; one staff estimate given in the meeting materials said about 93 percent of the agency's funding comes from federal sources. Committee members said they would not take final action at this meeting but signaled support for including the H-2A inspector funding and agreed to continue discussion of the 2.1 swap and other items when the full committee is present.

No formal appropriation or vote was recorded at the meeting; staff and committee members agreed to take the items up at a subsequent session with fuller membership present.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Senate Appropriations - Education and Environment Division II Jan 29, 2025\t","oneSentenceSummary","Committee members stressed the immediate need for additional H-2A inspection capacity after the agency reported a 30–45% rise in service use, and discussed a proposed one-time $2.1 million swap from federal to general funds to address salary shortfalls.","taxTitle","Appropriations - Education and Environment Division, Senate, Legislative, North Dakota","taxId",28899,"location","North Dakota","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6363109,"System office presents statewide online-enrollment analysis, warns of data limitations",664,1115000,1779000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2166716-13d8791574b12f6eb8f5a240e2b7bf5e&start=1115&end=1779","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2166716-13d8791574b12f6eb8f5a240e2b7bf5e/thumbnail_1115000.jpg","/articles/6363109/North-Dakota/System-office-presents-statewide-online-enrollment-analysis-warns-of-data-limitations","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6363109-660d6e7710f6cd46c6cfdd92b83420ec/orig.mp4?Expires=1773567008&Signature=NAjagjxDjTnllfOXLj9TAqoLK-mLgJnTC9UpsQmOvfdrMHQNlPm~77b-H5Qkto9R30n4z-2QDI~-jh3N487F-pWfgVRQ1y3fNYlVKYWddcRbdQSqguatYcPNINwmOB-DhgLwIN~zGmKP7B6DgA7w8PEU4ha2D-lqbDp3EJ4mLQVBk3Rd2ZPVcJo3RijvTUWlIRGIeqQsUNkskVbGa8CVO4UXDfF6nBnfQ8aQZvDTHTPRoIHeQBMc-kdSmHToKCNZ2iUT17jOksKb-2~y2lDlBYDvdp7UIIbX0832kPNPDemZH5Q-sqsePKwpkOlFxITRDnuj~oXAZ6~3VHz36Quc2w__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Jennifer Weber, director of institutional research and chief analytics officer for the North Dakota University System, told the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division that the system office produced a high-level, statewide snapshot of online enrollment but cautioned about definitional and data limitations.

Weber said the snapshot used fall-term data and that the system counted 44,505 students in that term. Of those, more than 26,000 students had taken at least one online course in their career; about 21,000 students had a single term during which every course was online; and around 3,800 students were \"career online only\" — students who had attended more than one term and every term they attended was only online. Weber summarized the data limitations up front: \"there's a lot of data and a lot of limitations to the data.\"

Weber explained how definitions affected counts. Dual-credit high school students who take an online college course can be classified as online-only for a term if their enrollment record meets the criteria; the committee was directed to a pie chart in the materials showing that 9.5% of students in a specific category fell under an early-entry (dual-credit) admit code. For the career-online-only group, Weber reported those students accounted for roughly 27,000 credits in the fall term, which represented about 5% of census-term credits. She said 53% of the career-online-only credits were from students identified as out-of-state and 44% from North Dakota residents, with the remainder in other categories.

Weber told the committee that identifying out-of-state students is complicated because different fields could be used (origin state, mailing address, residency status) and the student information system contains multiple address fields; that complicates work to attribute students to reciprocity agreements or neighboring-state populations. Committee members asked for the high-level statewide numbers rather than institution-by-institution breakdowns; Weber said the system could produce more detailed analyses but that methodology choices would invite institutional-level disagreement about classifications.

The committee heard the summary as an initial snapshot and did not direct a full institution-by-institution drill down at this meeting; members indicated they wanted a high‑level statewide figure first to guide whether further study is required.","North Dakota University System staff presented a statewide, fall-term snapshot of online enrollment and warned the committee that data definitions and multiple address/residency fields limit precise classification of \"online\" and \"out-of-state\" students.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6363114,"Lawmakers weigh switching higher-education capital allocations from credits to square footage",782,329000,1111000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2166716-13d8791574b12f6eb8f5a240e2b7bf5e&start=329&end=1111","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2166716-13d8791574b12f6eb8f5a240e2b7bf5e/thumbnail_329000.jpg","/articles/6363114/North-Dakota/Lawmakers-weigh-switching-higher-education-capital-allocations-from-credits-to-square-footage","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6363114-57676bae440d29fc697bec2c118c0fd3/orig.mp4?Expires=1773567008&Signature=WBYgXLdRseWQnAzK5jmVvvMM69i4IGjyFsFyzlEJ4XNxW-cMSkGckCRXMMImDnxfg9Zu2zFrbDuX99kSAvVIYhE~dQ3FC4L-5RDOt9AqR6DQ0yPqrySLbmZcdDNZz5BQig~Hv7bUcDDg4PVuRFudGvai01RlbMsa~ebN-w3XmZqrkNy5Rua5noqjmGGFXhtvoZX07QRJ8GSXelX3V3no-i1GgWYH4Y5Yrvke-U440MOcl8ZYT-6JVOzf7mI086K52Dmg7F1AW9OfF25GA6iPlQ8zb~FLhFraPXCXBVRV2yUdDxOe4nTAUze4mtD~S1trWgVzRjEjx37CYFJMdaJcCA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Members of the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division pressed staff to model a square-footage-based allocation for state capital building funds at a meeting that focused on Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 capital categories.

The committee asked North Dakota University System staff to provide a comparison showing how the $15,000,000 state portion of Tier 2 capital building funds (and related match requirements) would distribute across campuses if allocations were based on usable square footage rather than credit production. Dave Krevzak of the North Dakota University System presented the existing biennium allocations and explained the difference between the tiers: \"What you're seeing here is the capital building fund allocations as of the current biennium ...\" and identified $11,100,000 in the Tier 1 extraordinary repairs column, $15,000,000 in the Tier 2 state column and $9,000,000 in Tier 3 in the current display.

Committee members clarified the square-footage definition they wanted modeled. The request excludes athletic facilities and vacant or unused buildings; members said residential (dormitory) and food-service facilities should remain included because campuses must maintain them. Jamie Wilke, director of finance, said Tier 3 generally includes auxiliaries such as residential facilities. Staff agreed to produce a breakdown using the agreed exclusions and to compare results with the current credit-based method for Tier 2; committee members also asked for a comparable, high-level Tier 1 allocation example (the $11,100,000 figure) as a reference.

Members discussed how changing an allocation from the statutory funding formula to a direct appropriation could be implemented. Staff noted the legislature could appropriate Tier 1 dollars outside the formula, but doing so would change base funding and related formula outputs unless the committee reduced the formula by a related amount or moved funds into campus operations. Committee members asked for rough, rounded examples (staff suggested an illustrative $12,000,000 for a reallocation exercise) to understand fiscal consequences before any statutory drafting.

No formal votes were taken. The committee directed staff to produce the square-footage comparison for Tier 2 (and a reference allocation for Tier 1) and return with the results for additional discussion.

The committee then moved to a separate agenda item on online enrollment data.","Committee members asked system staff to compare using campus square footage — excluding athletics and vacant buildings — instead of credit production to allocate Tier 2 capital building funds (state SIF dollars), and discussed implications for Tier 1 and Tier 3 funding and institutional matching requirements.","actionData","errors"]

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