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Legislative staff outline $82.2 million department budget and options to address shortfall
Summary
Director Natalie Castle presented an $82.2 million legislative department budget, explained timing for decisions, and recommended changes including reducing two-year blue book spending, increasing the property tax audit contract, and trimming the school finance cost-of-living study appropriation.
Legislative Council Director Natalie Castle presented the Executive Committee of the Legislative Council with an overview of the legislative department budget, timelines for decision-making and options to address an anticipated shortfall.
Castle told members the department's total appropriations for the current fiscal year are about $82.2 million, of which roughly $80.4 million is general fund. She said the legislative appropriations bill accounted for approximately $73.6 million and the long bill appropriated about $7.7 million. "Seventy-eight percent of the entire legislative department budget is salary," Castle said, noting that statutory or constitutional requirements drive a number of operating costs and that significant reductions would most likely require personnel changes or statutory change.
Castle walked through the decision calendar for the spring session and urged the committee to consider…
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