KCC budget hearing spotlights docket-system overhaul, federal grant timing and ETC backlog

At a legislative budget hearing, analysts from the Kansas Legislative Research Department and Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) officials reviewed the KCC’s fee-funded budget, saying the agency plans to continue a multi-year overhaul of its docket management system and is adjusting federal grant estimates tied to recent federal infrastructure and energy legislation.

The presentation to the committee by Luke Drury, senior fiscal analyst, said the KCC’s FY2025 budget includes a fee-fund increase of about $1,900,000 "mostly attributable to the, contractual services as it specifically relates to updating the agency's docket system." Drury told the committee that the increase was delayed from an earlier fiscal year because of procurement problems and is expected to be largely expended in FY2025.

The hearing also covered changes in federal funding estimates. Drury said the agency is deleting about $14,700,000 in federal funds…