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Idaho Department of Administration requests general-fund support as governor’s housing stipend nears depletion
Summary
Budget analysts and the Department of Administration told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee that the governor’s housing fund lacks a stable revenue source and will exhaust its balance by mid-2026 without an appropriation; the department also requested staffing and small capital adjustments to align operations with workload increases.
Frances Lippett, a budget and policy analyst with Legislative Services, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee that the Department of Administration’s governor’s housing fund currently pays a monthly housing stipend to the governor and has “no consistent source of revenue.” Lippett said the stipend is currently set at $4,551 per month and that, without additional funding, the governor’s housing fund will be depleted in 2026.
The analyst said the department requested a $30,000 appropriation from the general fund for fiscal 2025 that the Legislature did not approve and said the department was requesting a separate appropriation for fiscal 2026. During committee discussion two different FY2026 figures appear in the record (the analyst referred to $60,600 in one presentation and…
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