State Independent Living Council budget review highlights federal timing and a small fund shift

The Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee heard a presentation on Jan. 15 about the State Independent Living Council’s fiscal profile and a proposed small shift of appropriation from the council’s dedicated fund to the general fund.

Legislative Services Office analyst Kellen McGurkin told the committee the council’s dedicated fund receives federal independent living service grants (identified in the presentation as Title I of the Rehabilitation Act and Title VII of the Workforce Investment Act) that pass through the Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. McGurkin said timing differences between federal grant periods and the state fiscal year can make an agency’s expenditures in a year appear larger than receipts for that year even when available federal revenue exists.

McGurk…