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Controller asks legislature to fund LUMA positions as dedicated fund expires; auditors and agencies report delays
Summary
BOISE, Idaho — State Controller Brandon Wolf told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee that the fund that paid for LUMA implementation expires this June and the office needs FY2026 appropriations to avoid cutting critical LUMA staff.
BOISE, Idaho — State Controller Brandon Wolf told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on Monday that the Business Information Infrastructure Fund (BIF) used to pay for LUMA implementation costs will expire this June, and that his office needs legislative approval to move LUMA sustainment costs onto the regular appropriation.
"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." He told the committee that without the requested funding the office would effectively lose roughly half of its LUMA team.
Why it matters: LUMA is the statewide enterprise resource…
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