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Committee questions ADS request as members weigh $14M net increase and transparency on IT projects
Summary
Members examined the Administration for Digital Services (ADS) budget request that includes a $9 million new general-fund appropriation plus allocation shifts and an SLA reduction; committee members pressed for clarity on where the money will be spent and asked how to track large, multi-year IT projects across departments.
The House Committee on Environment & Energy spent part of its Feb. 18 session examining budget details for the Administration for Digital Services (ADS), pressing administration witnesses for clarity on the composition and implications of a roughly $14 million net increase in state budget authority.
Speaker 1 and Speaker 3 summarized the ADS picture: a new $9,000,000 direct general-fund appropriation, an approximately $10,000,000 rise in allocations across agencies and a $5,800,000 reduction in service-level-agreements that together were described as producing a net increase of about $14,000,000 in general-fund authority. "The net is about $14,000,000 additional, general fund," Speaker 3 said, characterizing the…
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