0:49 → 5:01(4m 12s)
Chair reviewed reappropriation items on page 720–721 and identified three reappropriation lines: $472,226 for IT infrastructure and cybersecurity, $208,414 for a law enforcement training center, and a capital renewal initiative (~$5.1 million). Committee confirmed the special committee had deleted the first item and agreed by consensus to reinsert the cybersecurity/IT reappropriation ($472,226).
Higher Education Subcommittee meeting of the Ways and Means committee reviewed university reappropriations and operating requests, approved restoring several reappropriations (including IT cybersecurity and workforce development), voted to add recurring aviation research funding for Wichita State and to remove a sunset on a Wichita State digital transformation appropriation, and approved a package restoring community college funding with new provisos for Excel CTE.
