Adjutant General outlines disaster payments, readiness consolidation and capital projects as LBC trims enhancements

The Adjutant General’s Department presented its FY2025 and FY2026 budget to the committee, highlighting disaster-relief reappropriations, federal-grant shortfalls and a slate of capital projects while the Legislative Budget Committee removed a number of supplemental and enhancement requests.

Kyle Anderson, fiscal analyst with the Kansas Legislative Research Department, said the agency’s initial FY2025 request represented a large overall increase tied to previously approved building projects and disaster-related reappropriations. Anderson told the committee the LBC removed approximately $1.5 million in a reappropriation tied to disaster funds and removed several enhancement requests, while leaving other major items — notably a $12.9 million pre-disaster mitigation ask and ARPA-related requests — unchanged.

Keith Marshall, legislative liaison for the Adjutant General’s Department, told the committee the disaster-relief figures reflect projected state matching obligations for federal disaster declarations. He described the state/federal process for disaster declarations and said the department’s base disaster-relief budget is $1.5 million; with carryover and enhancements the total estimated state obligation for FY2025 could approach…