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Board of Regents outlines FY2026 budget request, flags salary shortfalls, cybersecurity and campus restoration funding
Summary
Kansas Board of Regents staff and President Blake Flanders told the Committee on Higher Education Budget the system’s FY2026 request emphasizes closing employee pay shortfalls, funding campus cybersecurity and sustaining student success initiatives while many one‑time supplementals were deleted by the Legislative Budget Committee.
Brianna Horton, a budget analyst with the Kansas Legislative Research Department, briefed the Committee on Higher Education Budget on the Kansas Board of Regents’ (KBOR) FY2026 revised estimate and systemwide requests.
Horton said KBOR’s FY2025-to-FY2026 reappropriations and line items include $19,500,000 in State General Fund (SGF) reappropriated balances from FY2024, with large items such as $8,600,000 for the Kansas Promise Act and $1,100,000 for state scholarship programs. She also outlined that the Legislative Budget Committee (LBC) deleted roughly $3,900,000 in SGF reappropriations and that the LBC “did a sweeping motion to delete all supplementals and enhancements,” removing multiple FY2026 enhancement requests in HB 2007.
President Blake Flanders of the Kansas Board of Regents told the committee the board’s top budget priorities are addressing state employee plan shortfalls for system employees, a cybersecurity initiative for campuses, and…
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