El Dorado Correctional Facility budget presentation cites $5.4 million shrinkage-reduction allocation and capital reappropriation

Nicole Rincher, fiscal analyst with KLRD, presented the El Dorado Correctional Facility budget to the Legislative Budget Committee, detailing shrinkage-reduction allocations, shift-differential adjustments, a deleted FTE reallocated to Lansing and capital reappropriations.

Rincher said the FY2025 approved amount was $46,800,000 and the agency's revised estimate was $48,400,000 (about $1.7 million or 3.6% higher). She identified $382,000 in unspent SGF reappropriations (which the LBC deleted) and $216,000 carried forward from the Correctional Institutions Building Fund for capital projects. Rincher said the agency included a $5,400,000 SGF addition to reduce the shrinkage allocation to 5% and that this action was funded by transfers from the KDOC central office rather than new statewide dollars. She also said the agency deleted $3,200,000 in SGF salaries to incorporate previously approved shift differential pay into base pay and that one FTE position was deleted and added to Lansing, reducing El Dorado's FTEs to FY2024 actuals.

For FY2026, Rincher said the agency requested about $48,500,000 (a roughly 5.1% increase), again driven by shrinkage reductions and other adjustments; she noted an LBC recommendation to delete premium pay for bilingual officers in the FY2026 package. The agency submitted a revised estimate of $216,000 from the Correctional Institutions Building Fund for capital repairs; Rincher said these were reappropriated funds.

The committee asked no further substantive questions before the meeting moved on to the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex presentation.