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Joint Budget Committee approves several interim supplementals including DOC bed funds and partial lab spending
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee approved a slate of interim supplemental actions: a capital transfer for DOC projects, a DOC caseload supplemental to add beds (after debate), partial emergency funding and data-review money for the state lab recertification, community-impact grants, and HLD premium adjustments.
The Joint Budget Committee approved a series of interim supplemental requests and over-expenditure letters after staff presentations and member debate.
Capital transfer (DOC capital): The committee approved staff'recommended over-expenditure to allow the Department of Corrections to shift $446,212 from a Buena Vista sewer-line project to an East Canyon City water-tank replacement and directed that the formal appropriation adjustments be completed in the regular supplemental bill process.
DOC caseload supplemental: After a lengthy exchange about alternatives and whether prison-population management measures should be allowed to proceed before adding beds, the committee approved a DOC supplemental to fund additional medium-security beds intended to reduce county jail backlog. Staff said the July/August population was hundreds higher…
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