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Department of Finance and Administration presents largely aligned executive and LFC budgets; committee hears audit and staffing notes
Summary
DFA staff told the committee that the House Appropriations and Finance Committee largely adopted the Legislative Finance Committee recommendation and that main differences involve settlement and Medicaid funding; DFA officials also discussed audit findings and requested resources for financial control.
Emily Hilla, the Legislative Finance Committee analyst for the Department of Finance and Administration (DFA), told the committee that DFA’s operating differences between the executive recommendation and the LFC were small and that House Appropriations and Finance Committee (HAFC) adopted the LFC recommendation while adding personnel funding and supplemental items.
Hilla said HAFC added $485,000 in personnel and that the general fund total was close to the executive request, differing by roughly $100,000. She identified three core sources of divergence: opioid settlement revenue, tobacco settlement funds and county-supported Medicaid. “Those are the high-level overviews,” Hilla said.
Nicole Macias of DFA confirmed civil legal services recurring budgets were aligned between the executive and LFC recommendations.
An unidentified DFA cabinet-level official (listed in the hearing as Secretary, Department of Finance and Administration) thanked DFA staff and said there were “fewer audit findings this year than last year,” that the agency welcomed audits as a way to improve controls, and that DFA intends to add resources to its Financial Control Division. The secretary asked Mark Melhoff, head of financial control, to provide details as needed.
Senators asked for a briefing diagram on the audit findings to better understand causes and proposed remedies. No formal committee action or vote was recorded on the DFA presentation during the hearing.
