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JFAC reviews Department of Administration budget, including requests to shift utilities and add procurement staff
Summary
Legislative analysts and the Department of Administration briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on the department’s budget, including a proposed shift of utilities costs from the general fund to dedicated rent funds, and requests for new procurement positions tied to Medicaid contracting.
Frances Lippitt, a budget and policy analyst with the legislature’s services office, opened the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee hearing by summarizing the Department of Administration’s appropriation, funding sources and recent trends.
Lippitt told the committee the department houses four divisions and five budgeted programs and that the appropriation is drawn largely from dedicated funds, with about 10% from the general fund. She said the department’s dedicated-fund ending free balances have ranged from about $527,600,000 to $574,900,000 over the last two years and that, including investments held with the state treasurer, the consolidated balance declined from about $1.39 billion to $1.26 billion from fiscal 2024 to fiscal…
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