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Budget committee reviews administration, appropriations process, and personnel funding practices
Summary
Members of the Committee on General Government Budget discussed the committee's recent work: the legislative budget committee review, treatment of enhancements and FTEs, Economic Development Initiatives Fund adjustments, ARPA use and drain, and lieutenant governor compensation formulas.
The Committee on General Government Budget spent the latter portion of its meeting reviewing how budget decisions moved through the legislative process, and discussed oversight of agency reappropriations, carryover FTE positions and the use of one-time federal funds.
Representative Turk said reviewing the governor's budget and Department of Administration at "high altitude" helped the committee understand agency decisions and one-time grant spending. He added that "a lot of these grants are very important, and the legislature needs to know where they go." Representative Turk urged members to use the committee's review to anticipate questions that will arise in the larger appropriations committee.
Committee members described several procedural…
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