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Anderson said the FY2025 increase largely reflected a large number of highway and bridge projects beginning construction in that year. \"The large sums of contractual lettings in the KDOT budget are in part due to the fact that when a project is set to start, it may be a multiyear project, but those projects are allotted in full in the budget the first year,\" he told the committee.

He flagged a $179,400,000 increase in contracts for highway and bridge projects (noting this is driven by IKE program lettings), a $9,900,000 request for innovative-technology financial assistance to local communities, and line items adding regular-maintenance salaries (an increase of about $4,100,000 and 45 FTEs). Anderson said KDOT proposed $1,700,000 for construction-inspection program salaries with additional FTEs for inspection oversight and testing. He also noted several program decreases tied to reorganizations and vacancy patterns, and described capital-improvement requests that included large rehab-and-repair totals in the construction portfolio.

Bridal Yorkie, assistant director in KDOT's Division of Administration, provided revenue and financing context. Yorkie said KDOT is not SGF-funded; its principal revenue sources are sales tax (KDOT receives a share), motor fuels taxes (currently $0.24 per gallon for regular fuel and $0.26 for diesel, per the presentation), and federal reimbursements. She said KDOT expects to increase bond proceeds in 2026, part of a planned issuance profile tied to the IKE program.

Yorkie and Anderson described a previously announced plan to issue roughly $1.2 billion in bonds for IKE over several years; KDOT reported it had issued $200,000,000 in 2025 and planned to issue $400,000,000 in 2026. Yorkie said debt service is subject to a statutory cap that limits debt service to 18 percent of revenues and that current projections keep KDOT under that cap.

The presenters explained why the construction program total drops between FY2025 and FY2026: KDOT budgets the full cost of a project in the year it is let (creating year-to-year variation in the budgeted lettings), while actual payouts are scheduled across multiple years. Anderson and Yorkie used the Polk/Quincy viaduct project as an example: the committee was told the project was budgeted in the year it was let (about $239,000,000) but will pay out across multiple years; committee members asked how KDOT would handle cost overruns, and Anderson said the agency would reassess available funding and adjust as projects evolve.

On operations (what KDOT calls \"AC ops\"), Yorkie said the approved operations cap is a binding constraint and the submitted FY2025 operations request was modestly higher than the approved level (the approved AC ops line was cited as $344,000,000). She asked the committee to consider flexibility for snow-and-ice spending given recent expensive weather events (the presentation noted a recent event cost about $10,000,000).

Members of the committee asked several clarifying questions about FTE counts, the difference between lettings and cash flows, and ordinary versus extraordinary transfers. Representative Hoye and Representative Resmond pressed for clarifications on the governor's numbers and multi-year projects; Representative Blum raised concerns about local transit funding and safety issues raised by constituents.

The presenters concluded with a summary of where KDOT stands relative to the IKE preservation and modernization benchmarks and said KDOT expected to meet preservation targets and to complete remaining modernization lettings in the near term.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","House Committee on Transportation and Public Safety Budget 01/29/2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Kansas Department of Transportation told the House committee its FY2025 budget request totals $2.6 billion — a 10 percent increase from the prior approved level — driven by a surge in highway and bridge contract lettings, while the FY2026 request falls to $1.7 billion as those lettings and bond proceeds shift across years.","taxTitle","Transportation and Public Safety Budget, Standing, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative, Kansas","taxId",57685,"location","Kansas","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},6362845,"KDOC seeks higher budgets for Topeka and Winfield facilities; shifts pay into base and reappropriates capital funds",441,20975,462085,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2167254-dc00d22e34646f7fb07d9001466c188b&start=20&end=462","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2167254-dc00d22e34646f7fb07d9001466c188b/thumbnail_20975.jpg","/articles/6362845/Kansas/KDOC-seeks-higher-budgets-for-Topeka-and-Winfield-facilities-shifts-pay-into-base-and-reappropriates-capital-funds","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6362845-73aba22f8ffa0947140a554eadd6ac4b/orig.mp4?Expires=1773750613&Signature=S9~Zp-dhL17FCDvGlRJwzLHwNY3z9MI64ZUOgDdxjvJRS-PJ8-4765Q5BhkTALqSPoZ7qKtRCjv6ipD4pSS0NsEKfO1N-yS623FGZv~ahWCI1hQtakfmLdxWOfCd0kUC7ZIpfR-~B71Jhc56GCcx9eseCzHyuVZuPKRWkt2YAUchA7RBkmzDCLGX8OJAgskKsRu~fnAM5LjIeioElNzqGJgysHl3veohKRQ1u~psU-RR-hNxXnz9HqzgO~6ufb2ny7M4JIVfgyZcqzXWcea4-SWe3E7utMehDiLfLnRsWCvnYtv2gmJJTFshSkrjef-v4CLbtmI-0OKAxwHRPvjtjA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Nicole Rincher, the Kansas Legislative Research Department budget analyst, presented revised budget estimates for two Kansas Department of Corrections facilities and described several line-item adjustments and reappropriations.

For the Topeka Correctional Facility, Rincher told the committee the fiscal year 2025 approved amount was $23,700,000 and the agency’s FY25 request was $25,200,000 — an increase of $1,500,000, or 6.3 percent. Rincher said the agency included a reappropriation of $43,800 in unspent Correctional Institutions Building Fund money for capital improvement projects and added $2,400,000 from the Central Office budget to reduce the facility’s shrinkage allocation. She said the agency’s revised estimate also included $381,000 to convert previously approved shift-differential pay into base pay and proposed a $639,000 deletion to utilities to better match anticipated expenditures.

Rincher asked committee members whether they had questions before moving to fiscal year 2026; no substantive changes were recorded in committee discussion on FY25 beyond clarifying questions.

On fiscal year 2026 for Topeka, Rincher reported the agency requested $25,400,000, or $1,700,000 (7.1 percent) above the FY25 approved amount. She said the FY26 request again added $2,400,000 SGF to reduce shrinkage and included $546,000 to convert shift differential to base pay; the agency proposed deleting roughly $624,000 for utilities. The Legislative Budget Committee recommendation included a $105,000 deletion for premium pay for bilingual officers.

Rincher also summarized capital-improvement activity for Topeka as a revised estimate of $43,871 from the Correctional Institutions Building Fund, which she characterized as reappropriated funds.

The analyst then reviewed the Winfield Correctional Facility. For FY25 she said the approved amount was roughly $25,700,000 and the agency’s revised estimate was $28,000,000 — an increase of about $2,400,000 or 9.5 percent. Rincher said the agency showed a statutory GF reappropriation of $83,629 that the LBC deleted, and carried over $24,000 in unspent special revenue for capital improvements. She said Winfield’s revised FY25 request added $2,100,000 SGF in salaries to incorporate previously approved shift differential into base pay, and added $388,000 SGF for an increase in inmate incentive pay, a change the 2024 Legislature had previously approved; she noted those adjustments were funded by transfers from the KDOC Central Office budget and did not raise total statewide SGF spending.

For FY26 at Winfield, Rincher reported the agency requested $28,200,000, a $2,600,000 (10.3 percent) increase from the approved FY25 amount. She said the FY26 request included $2,300,000 in salaries (shift-differential-to-base conversion), continuation of the $388,000 inmate incentive pay increase, and a deletion of two FTE positions that were moved to Lansing Correctional Facility. The LBC recommendation included deleting $84,000 SGF for premium pay for bilingual officers.

Committee members asked routine clarifying questions during the presentations; no formal votes or policy changes were recorded during the hearing portion reported in the transcript. Rincher closed the KDOC budget hearing after summarizing the capital-improvement reappropriations for the facilities and noting printed corrections would be provided to the committee.","Nicole Rincher, the Kansas Legislative Research Department budget analyst, presented revised FY2025 and FY2026 budget estimates for the Topeka and Winfield correctional facilities, citing reappropriated capital funds, a transfer to reduce shrinkage allocations, and conversions of shift-differential pay to base pay.",{"_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},6362835,"Economic Lifelines urges restoring commercial vehicle fee transfers to Special City County Highway Fund, cites $10–12 million shortfall",202,3112845,3315065,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2167254-dc00d22e34646f7fb07d9001466c188b&start=3112&end=3315","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2167254-dc00d22e34646f7fb07d9001466c188b/thumbnail_3112845.jpg","/articles/6362835/Kansas/Economic-Lifelines-urges-restoring-commercial-vehicle-fee-transfers-to-Special-City-County-Highway-Fund-cites-1012-million-shortfall","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6362835-298979b18ae1610f1cfc2b57ee653258/orig.mp4?Expires=1773750613&Signature=Eu~e1g-3IbVkDxlPwoV3Xc8dOnyJpZlNf~Lvn~p3nXo5ZAlJPne0rAy5j6TM6py7LJcRNpLTaY65uFeO302QWzXORjISFUQhH-jYKdZuC8r3c~AacMD4hL3KgTc3jRxf-62bH5egPRn1NvZ0YISDH8Jd16QyQu0FNfuWEuiZtDjSau50qZoZMpKBiiWhCbpPh1X8corQp-pCi58NNYafPtgXPGhIkHBpmdJMMLpnZyj96cPEYQ6h0knd5HJVPYtqdEwBPg6RkfGazW6CpEYQnKyyQgeVTu9BnI1KAFu65YhdezQ5wj9itla0uBdA62ROj6fnLz~gqkRwgqESCFm4Dw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Travis Love, representing Economic Lifelines, told the committee that the special city county highway fund is separate from the State Highway Fund and is intended to finance local road construction and maintenance.

\"One third of all state motor fuels tax goes to the special city county highway fund,\" Love said, and he added that revenue from commercial vehicle registration fees — which varies by vehicle weight and age — is statutorily supposed to be transferred to that fund but has not reached it in recent years due to a proviso in the base appropriations bill. Love told the committee that the diversion has created an estimated $10 million to $12 million shortfall for the local fund.

Love asked the committee to restore the scheduled transfer that he said is listed in the base appropriations language (he referenced page 321 of House Bill 2007). He said restoring the transfer would put funds that were collected for local road use back into the Special City County Highway Fund and avoid shifting the shortfall onto property taxpayers.

Committee staff noted written testimony from Economic Lifelines and a related submission from the Motor Carriers Association was available for members to review; no committee action on the request was recorded in the hearing segment included in the transcript.","A coalition representing Kansas transportation interests asked the House committee to restore a scheduled transfer of commercial vehicle registration fees to the Special City County Highway Fund, saying the transfer has been diverted to the general fund for several years and creates a local funding shortfall.","actionData","errors"]

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KDOT requests $2.6 billion for FY2025, plans $1.2 billion in IKE bonds; FY2026 request falls to $1.7 billion

KDOC seeks higher budgets for Topeka and Winfield facilities; shifts pay into base and reappropriates capital funds

Economic Lifelines urges restoring commercial vehicle fee transfers to Special City County Highway Fund, cites $10–12 million shortfall