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Controller urges Legislature to fund LUMA positions as implementation moves on‑budget
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State Controller Brandon Wolf asked lawmakers to fund LUMA staff as a dedicated Business Information Infrastructure Fund expires; he warned cutting funding would halve the LUMA team and slow financial processing and audits.
State Controller Brandon Wolf told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee the state's enterprise system, LUMA, is operational and the office seeks funding to continue sustainment work after the Business Information Infrastructure Fund (BIF) sunsets June 30.
"We have 47 employees working on the LUMA project," Wolf said. "The 13 that we asked for, we've already received the okay for the positions in fiscal year '22 and '23. We did not receive the funding for those. . . . If we did not have the funding, then we would almost cut the LUMA team in half." The controller asked the committee to approve an appropriation…
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