Representative Jim Dotson

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (1:25:31)

both consultants. All right. We have a motion to hire both consultants. Is

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (1:24:54)

Let me hold for just a sec. I guess the third of the options that you mentioned there would be a motion to hire

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (1:24:20)

know that one side or the other is necessarily right or wrong. I think we're all in education together. It's not a partisan issue. It's the future of our state, and so I want to make sure that we have perspective from everybody, and so that's what I'm advocating for, and I'd make a motion

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (1:23:47)

with something as large as education in the state and the future of our kids across the entire state that making sure we get the best recommendations. We don't know which one's going to give us the best recommendations. It's our job to make the decision after we get those recommendations, but to try to figure out what the best practices are and what the perspectives are from various folks, I don't

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (1:23:12)

over the last several months, you know, my opinion has changed from going from just exclusively, probably none, to get a balanced approach from both consultants, and so I'm supportive of hiring both consultants to get a good, balanced perspective. I don't like the fact of possibly spending a lot more money, but I think when we're dealing

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (1:22:41)

I wasn't able to make the last committee meeting I was out of pocket so I didn't get to comment on anything but just wanted to give my perspective on it we've had a lot of discussion on one consultant, two consultants back and forth APA, Shoals, and the like, and, you know, after hearing all the back and forth and discussion

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (16:21)

decade prior to the before, and then an average from like 2013 to current? Yeah,

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (15:59)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On the before and the after, is this a snapshot of a particular point in time on the before, or is it like an average over the course of the last

ALC - PEER — Dec. 17, 2019 (32:50)

highway transfer fund and then this is the first draw off of that yes sir okay thank you any other

ALC - PEER — Dec. 17, 2019 (32:24)

Thank you, Mr. Chair These funds does this is this in addition to the surplus funds, the quarter percent, or the quarter of the surplus funds Representative Dotson, it's part of it. There's 20 million that

ALC - PEER — Dec. 17, 2019 (20:30)

rainy day account fund balance to and how much do we have left for the

ALC - PEER — Dec. 17, 2019 (20:22)

recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is probably more of a question for staff, not necessarily on this particular item, but what does this bring the

ALC - PEER — Dec. 17, 2019 (12:14)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On this $2.5 million, is this all one-time capital improvements, or is any of it going to ongoing expenses that we'll have to add to later on?

ALC - PEER — Jan. 14, 2020 (29:01)

that movement to the regular rainy day can happen in the current fiscal year, and it could be used? Yes.

ALC - PEER — Jan. 14, 2020 (28:27)

as those, when it gets parked in the rainy day fund, is it available for expenditure during the current fiscal session, or does it have to wait until the next fiscal session to be authorized to be used?

ALC - PEER — Jan. 14, 2020 (15:44)

a motion? Yes, ma'am. A second? Second. All those in favor

ALC - PEER — Jan. 14, 2020 (13:28)

has to be before the next fiscal year budget requests are submitted.

ALC - PEER — Jan. 14, 2020 (12:59)

and why wasn't it relayed in September when

ALC - PEER — Jan. 14, 2020 (12:55)

you, Madam Chair. Just a question on why is this coming to us now

ALC - PEER — Jan. 14, 2020 (4:58)

If you would, when you send that, if you could send what your total appropriation was as well as your prior year expenditures and those line items that you're transferring out of. So we kind of have an idea going into the next year's budget session or this fiscal session, I guess, next month.