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Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex budget hearing cites population-driven food service increases and large shrinkage-reduction allocation
Summary
Nicole Rincher, fiscal analyst with KLRD, presented the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex FY2025 and FY2026 estimates, reporting a FY2025 revised estimate of $29.5 million driven by a $4.7 million shrinkage-reduction allocation and higher food service contract costs tied to population increases.
Nicole Rincher, fiscal analyst with KLRD, summarized the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex (KJCC) FY2025 and FY2026 revised estimates for the Legislative Budget Committee, highlighting a substantial shrinkage-reduction allocation, reappropriated building funds, deletions of FTE positions and an increase to the food service contract tied to higher population.
Rincher said the FY2025 approved amount was $26,900,000 and the agency's revised estimate was $29,500,000 (an increase of about $2.6 million or 9.5%). She told the committee the agency carried forward $2,023 in unspent SGF monies (deleted by the LBC) and $363,000 from state institutions building funds for capital improvements. The agency added $4,700,000 SGF to reduce the shrinkage allocation to 5%, which Rincher said did not increase the total state budget because those funds were transferred from KDOC central office. She described a deletion of $2,100,000 in SGF salaries to incorporate previously approved shift differential pay into base pay and said the agency deleted 18 FTE positions and added them to newly reopened housing units (Lansing was referenced elsewhere in the meeting); Rincher explained the agency added $380,000 in FY2025 to increase the food service contract due to growth in population.
For FY2026, Rincher said the agency request again was $29,500,000 (a reported 11.2% change from an earlier approved figure cited in the transcript) and repeated the $4,700,000 shrinkage-reduction addition, deletions for shift differential adjustments and the deletion of 18 FTE positions reallocated to Lansing. She said the agency added $394,000 in FY2026 for food service increases and that the agency submitted a revised estimate of $354,000 from the state institutions building fund for capital improvements (reappropriated funds).
The committee closed the KJCC hearing and adjourned the meeting with no additional items on the record.
