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State Controller moves LUMA costs onto FY2026 budget; committee approves funding and positions
Summary
JFAC voted to add LUMA personnel and operating costs to the State Controller's FY2026 budget, shifting expenses off a continuously appropriated account and onto regular appropriations for transparency and continuity.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved enhancement requests to bring the State Controller's LUMA project costs onto the FY2026 appropriations schedule, adding personnel, operating costs and computer service center charges that had been funded from a continuously appropriated account.
The actions include funding for LUMA personnel (additional FTP to cover positions associated with the project), dedicated funds for computer-service center operating costs, a general-fund appropriation to bill enterprise business operations for those charges, and two financial specialist positions to support smaller agencies in LUMA transition. The office also requested one communications manager position for public-facing transparency initiatives (Transparent Idaho and the local government data registry) and a technical reallocation of leadership team fund allocations to align with LUMA-related effort.
Committee discussion clarified that these are not new programmatic spends but a reclassification of existing costs onto the budget as continuous appropriations expire. A committee member noted that, compared to actual FY2024 expenditures, the FY2026 request represents a decrease. The joint roll call showed the motion carried; the committee recorded the vote totals and announced a due-pass recommendation.
Language accompanying the budget change requires indirect cost recovery revenues to be transferred to the general fund at fiscal year-end, authorizes an accounting correction related to Division of Veteran Services billings for FY2024, and reiterates conditions and restrictions associated with appropriations in the act.
