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Hey i'm members just like we've done in the prior meetings we're going to go through all of section b one two three four five and as we go through those i'm going to ask for questions that means if you have a question on number five wait until I say be five to to light up your mike so that we can kind of efficiently go through that so again if you have a question on befive wait till you get to be five a promise will be you'll be recognized for a question. I'm sorry game and fish you're just an example. Maybe that will happen with that turn over billing thank you miss share where in section be this these are the various temporary appropriate requests the first item be one is a letter from the department of military is from nine hundred fifty thousand appropriations this is to maintain the federal cooperative funding agreement to maintain national guard armories and camp robinson and for chaffy buildings it's supported by general revenue but the letter says an increase in g r's not necessary they will make a budget adjustment to accommodate their current level of george funding and staff learning the department will mostly salary savings on the projects b two is a letter from department of military is for one point four nine million this is again to match funding in the account and to phone state active duty missions this supported by reimbursements from female disasters next item is a letter this b three at a letter from the parliament public safety division state police is for two hundred thousand appropriations it's the cover increases in the arkansas fingerprint identification system cloud contract it supported by special revenues from criminal background checks next item is b four to letter from department public safety division state police is for five hundred and twenty nine thousand spending authority this is to code contracted expenses for the mobile officer virtual environment project supported by special revenues and staff learned the move system allows officers demand citations crash reconstruction in other information from a mobile system in their vehicles next item is b five to letter from game and fishes for six point five million and spending authority this is to do habitat improvements and facilities innovations funding for this request comes later in the agenda in the restriction of fund transfer section that's item e one next item is b six a letter from department of labor and licensing heck licensing board is for forty five thousand and preparation according to the letter this is to maintain their daily operations freedom of keep and general accounts payable staff learning they have three vehicles there in each replacement require additional maintenance. And inspectors are acquired to attend more out of state conferences to keep up with the industry standards this is supported by license fees next item is b seven this is a letter from case for two minutes being authority is to cover extra help salaries due to staffing shortage in full time positions it's supported by general revenue fund but staff learn you see it will be blocking regular salary appropriations to offset the request for extra help ba is a letter from north are so college for three million and to establish a construction line item this is to construct the sinner for robotics in manufacturing innovation facility staff learners will be supported by restrictory reserve and transfer the college received back in fiscal year twenty twenty two those are all the veterans all right thank you members we're going to go through and want to time any questions on b one. B two b three. The. The. Four. The. Five percent I got a question on b five and I promises to do that intentionally earlier again it's someone from gamfish come up. For a question. If you could just recognize yourself for a question you're recognized morning chris racy chief of staff are going to game fish commission. Ben baton deputy director arkansas game and fish commission. Unless you make a cfo arkansas game thank you for being here my question is on these various projects what projects is this money going toward. Yes man we have one million dollar request for renovation of the lake will homeina two million dollars for glaze creek located hurricane w a in white county two million dollars for senator hatchery renovation and one point five million dollars for late conway boatland renovations. So none of this money is going to go to the dave donaldson wmi. That is correct okay as I know that's in our area that's a big deal it's a it's a real controversial plan that i'll have and want to make sure that we're not going to have any additional funding going to that till we come to some type of a agreement with the constituents that you represent in that area cause there I will say by people that represent them I haven't found one person that supports your plan. Representative thank you for that comment we had a series of public meetings on saturday well attended and we're grateful to have the constituents come out and have some what I felt like were some pretty productive conversations before during and after the meetings again is director booth indicated at the conclusion of each of those question and answer sessions with the constituents certainly our commitment to continue to have productive conversations and updates alongside our constituents out there and we will be returning to northeast are consellers more details and opportunities come about and certainly with additional public input I appreciate that thank you. Thank you mister chair along the same lines that was part of man of course you're asking for the whole six and a half million dollars do you is it you're in tier to start these projects on a certain time you know it's just it's always concerning to me that you know we go ahead and drag it out of our restrictive reserve accounts you know in one in one failed sweep so if you don't mind address and there so i'll be a more little more comfortable ball out appreciate it. Yes sir good question each of these projects is on different timelines based on you know the different requirements what I would say overall is that the projects the game and fish does are often challenging due to whether we do things they're located in the bottom of creek beds lake renovations things like this and so it's advantageous for us to have the appropriation of funds ready so that if we get good dry conditions that we can make progress. Just one more mitchell so from what you just said can I take that you're going to do like will remain a hurricane as soon as all that drazer but your intention to get started on that or do you actually have some projected start dates that project is ongoing and we have made progress on it the last two falls we really get to work in there in the fall we need the summer to dry out and then we work in the fall right now the white rivers at about thirty one feet so it's totally flooded out and as soon as it's dry again we will continue that construction and we believe that we can finish it in third quarter of this calendar year. Okay and the other the other ones. Yeah i'm trying to get all of messages I want an answer no problem thank you lake will amina we are still in the design phase on that I would hope to be able to complete that next fiscal year FY twenty five. Glaze we already covered late creek senator hatchery again we're in the design phase that project is set to potentially be ready to bid as soon as a may of this year and then finally lake conway boatland work we are in some information gathering and purchasing supplies for it right now and we are still continging on receiving some permitting from the core of engineers but hope to do that work this summer do you actually have to have have already drawn the money before you put it out for bid is that the one that you have to put out for bid is at while you're drawing the money because if you're not going to start start until next fiscal year i'm just wondering why you're going ahead and making that request out of our restricted reserve which is general revenue that we put in there. Yes I appreciate that question we have the opportunity for some community directed federal funding that we are trying to leverage and so we are working on the total financing for that uh that hatcher so we don't lose out on that opportunity for federal funds that's why we're bringing this to you a little early and that's a good answer and just one final thing and I think that always ask this question and app think dfay let me know whenever we do make these of course we're drawing interest when this stuff should be a restricted reserve account I have soon that all of that still is in the same treasury and at least an equal amount that we've been drawing you are withdrawal so I just always want to make sure that that is transparent in happening because whenever you start talking about money like this and where rates has been or whether it now does make a they significant difference so again that's a little bit for dfa to sminder staying that's happening but I want to reiterate that we bear it that we're very prudent to do that thank you. Thank you senator johnson you recognized so there's a game in fresh err use any evidence funds for these deferred maintenance projects besides engineering and and planning. Yes sir we use a combination of license revenue federal grants conservation tax funds we we utilize a lot of different sources of of finding to accomplish any of these different projects so do you have a reservation the game and fish have any reserve a council reserve funds that go from year to year. Yes or we do carry a fan balance from your two year several of these projects are also done on a reimbursement basis with pitman robinson so glaze creek are gtr grandchief reservations are habitat work they are fun did on a reimbursement basis their federal grants. So so what's the phone balance at this time. The. The. The. So our total cash on here which includes their marked funds that we could not use for some of these projects erm includes it was eighty nine million at the end of the month. Thank you thank you members we have any other questions on b five senator just just one more and I want to make sure I understand based on what center johnson said so some of these phones that you're using that they will not be reimbursed by the feds at some point after it's over. I am these products that were asking for today to my knowledge the only one that were currently using on a federal reimbursement is glace creek now senator hatchery is on a separate stream where we have the opportunity for five million and community directed but the glaze creek is the one that we could if as habitat work is done that is eligible in the federal grant. So. So we have to fund it on the frontier was state was state gr that we're doing today is that correct that's what you're saying and then once it's complete you do have the opportunity to get a a federal repayment of what what we've done yes sir for the allowable expenditure is not all of the expenditures on gloss creek will be reimbursed we do have some structures were putting in that aren't necessarily have a tat work we have some some expenses that it will not be but i'd be happy to get you the breakdown of what we will charge to the grant versus not that what my next by next question is this so whenever you do get though or if you get and for whatever you've done in the past or once you get that federal allocation back to you if it's approved. Then the state phones that you use before you don't send those back to the state you just keep those in in your fund balance and then use them for other needs of game and fish is is that what i'm hearing. So we will use the only make sure I answer this we when we find the whole project and we are counting on that reimbursement from the feds so the reimbursement back to us is night. New money if that if that makes sense i'm I feel like i'm doing a hard for a job answering this for you when we sit around and how to get example but also on class glass creek we're looking at when we budget for that project we budget the federal reimbursement and we budget the state portion we don't over budget so that money coming back is night new money to the agency it was money that we that was cash flood for just that project so if we if we give you one million dollars and you spend the one million. And are in others expenses the fair reimburses you. Five hundred thousand of it. You're keeping that money yesterday but the project would be not one million it would be one point five million so they would reimburse us the half a million and we would have that half millionaire apart but it was included in the original budget. We need the reimbursement to be made hole. Okay as long as it is as long as this being done that way because you know and i'm out and i'm okay that if we use federal fund you know for you to get. You know to get the fair you know if we have to pay it on the front end in the you get it back as far what I don't ever want to see happen in I guess someone can on DF an a rep there is that you know we do something like that and then those phones would not ever flow back to us but what i'm hearing from you is that's not the case no sir if we were to pass the funds back after we were reimbursed it would short another area. Okay I may won't want me when our staff just to look into that a little bit to give me some I want to know exactly how this being handled behind the scenes thank you sir. Without me I got a question thank you mister chair okay sooner he keeps going out of mine going and you said you had fun balance of eighty nine million dollars but up that eighty nine million dollars not all of it could be used for these types of projects is that correct yes member how much of your fund balance could be used for these projects. I can do some matthew table or i'm happy to get you the answer in just a moment. The. Forty six million. Okay so you've got forty six million dollars that could actually be used for these projects where are you coming to us and asking for six months. Our total m construction for this year that we are attempting to execute is actually twenty million so this makes up a small portion of that so we are already working towards better utilization of our existing fund balance this six point five million is a portion of the twenty million that we're working towards a we are heavily invested with our own for funds going forward on these projects and we're carrying over some multi year investments for projects that will carry between years. But if you've had forty six million that you could use your say in your projects or twenty million that leads twenty six million that could still be used for these projects out yes ma'am i'm so sorry I miss twenty million and spend this year we are still working on a resource management tool that will help us identify the total need for all of our facilities but we've already identified well over seventy million in construction need across the next three years with the agency and we we know we do not have the funds for all of those and so we are working to prioritize those in in whittle indid you say thirty years no member over the next three years okay in the end on senator heakey's point I also am concerned that what you say was if you get reimbursed that five hundred thousand out of that million then you keep that because it goes to another project that's what I have concerns about I am I know i've done a poor job explaining that I apologize I will be happy to sit down and discuss it further with anyone but when we when we budget the project they come to me with a ten million dollars project I look to see how much federal reimbursement we have available and then I look to see what portion we need to make up on top of that federal reimbursement and we budget that exact amount so we are counting on that federal reimbursement to be there to balance the project the federal reimbursement is denied additional funds to the project i'm not really worried about the federalist gr that were giving you when you when you made the comment that if you get reimbursed that five hundred thousand you keep that for another project that's what concerns me that's why I want to make sure just like senator hickey said I want to make sure we haven't understanding how that money's handled if you're getting reimbursed gr as far as i'm concerned that money is to come back to GR for the rest of the state to use hanging attack there was. Question. Yeah I know I mean I think just I don't want to be labor the point but I think that main concern is like great if you know just to make sure that whoever's being made whole is the money either going perspective the state we don't want to just necessarily have to see their fund balance continue to grow and their night let you know the state where you're getting the money in order to fry it the project in order to leverage the federal funds understand that it's a smart thing to deal however you know at some point then wanting to make sure that we're not just giving you out of our restricted reserve so that your fund balance can continue to grow I think that's the main concern from me so just I think working with dfa to make sure whatever it needs to be structured appropriately so that you know the the the person that needs to be made whole or the entity that needs to be made home may in fact it may be your or it may be the state's restricted reserve fine absolute my main concern so I just think working through that with the fna would be a good smart smartphone financially for the state we appreciate it and we want to be completely transferring on all these projects absolutely just make sure members are aware there was a set aside a restrictive reserve set aside that was solely to be used by the game and fish in which they would come and ask for you are released from I guess from the governor in it in the form of a letter come for us and we would collectively decide whether or not these projects needed to be funded and that's what's happening today in an as far as and I just want to restate this for you I think and so in your budgeting cycle in a year you've you've got the same thousand dollars to work with net thousand dollars you're going to budget a hundred dollars to this project you may be ten projects three of those projects are reimburseable by the feds so you've turned up your hundred thousand dollars and at some feature point when the project is completed then you're going to get your hundred dollars back and then you're going to reapply that hundred dollars to another project the twenty million that we're talking about right now it's abo. You know on top of that so there is a fed match so that the hundred thousand or the hut or whatever my terrible example was a hundred dollars that you're going to use if you're only that you're going to get reimbursed the project itself might have cost two hundred dollars and so we're kicking in at a hundred dollars towards that project through this. And then they're getting your imbursed for the other hundred ballot dollars at some feature point in that will roll into another program is that fair yes when you did a much better job explaining think here singer johnson you recognized so how much is it certified and restricted six point five six point five million yet total was twenty either six point five left this is the remainder so how much there's the game and fish have in the third maintenance construction projects. Total sir we're working on that as emily reference earlier we are working on a capital resource management system that going forward is going to help us keep track of all assets and deferred maintenance schedules etc several years ago we estimated two hundred and fifty million dollars in deferred maintenance and that was before construction prices have risen significantly i'd hate to hazard a guess but it would have to be four hundred plus million dollars thank you membership you hear the end of the there is this is a never ending project thank you how clarificate your correction i'm up or there was tin million it was set aside three point five has already been released this is the remainder of the six point five. All right do we have any other questions I see none we're gonna move to b six. Any questions on b six seven. The. Season i'm sorry. Your way head of the game aren't see are b seven sorry go see seven I mean b seven b eight are at seeing non members are there any of these. Soon you are recognized for a question we have anyone from north arkansas college here for a question. The. Richard stype or chief financial official normal arkansas college. Thank you I appreciate uh take taking some questions refers to just a quick clarification on this this because i've got some interest with folks and in my district get in the robotics we've got some teams competing across the cross the country and in actually at worlds representing arkansas and so when I saw this pop up on the agenda I would love some clarification on the three million is this solid for construction or is also with staff in scholarships as well the three million is so for construction and that supportion of the funding it's about an eight million dollar project okay and so on the center for about as I said I keep here and more and more about the growth of this could you tell us a little bit about that program at your school and in its growth rate compared to other programs and where you see that growing well the focus of the facility is to enhance what the college can do with its industry partners in the boon county and north arkansas region. And so the development is a program in robotics and manufacturing and industrial electronics that the college already has but the program is expanding in response to to transit work force education expend faster than other programs or similar somewhat but but primarily to embrace the technology and and the more innovative forms that manufacturers are using now to try to maintain relevant and to be current with what those industry needs for the appreciated thank you sorry. Or do you have any other questions on b eight. All right got no other questions and to make sure membership we would pull any of these out for a separate vote does aren't be five aren't members so i've gone to have two motions the first is to approve adams b one through four six seven in eight. Got a motion i've got a second others in favor of sign if I was saying I was opposed motion carries aren't members will get a motion to approve item b five got a motion of get a second others in favor of signed five saying I are the supposed motion carries out we're going to move on to section scene m share rending american rescue plan requests there's one direct federal award and item c two through call or awards made by the executive from the one point five seven billion state discouragory phones that the state has discretion in awarding the seven state awards total seventy one point eight million. First I don't see one is requested by university arts on months is for sixteen twenty million this is to build the arkansas force health research center to address current in future force hill threats pages for information a break out of the calls for what is estimated to total twenty point five million to construct equipment supply instead the sixteen point eight million requested here will go towards the construction next items begin the state awards it's on page six on page six c two this is the effects person offered sixteen twenty million this is the appropriation for the dispersion of the dfa to send the state award to you and for the arch of force health research center it's the same sixteen point eight billion in the last quest two appropriations are necessary because the institutions do not have accounts in the state treasury they would allow a fun transfer so spending authorities required to send the funds from the two am. And it's amazon page eleven. Yeah. On page level to see three this is the fades first officers for carton it's for seven million appropriations this is to expand quite our facilities and services in south arkansas page thirteen shows the project the cost breakdown with almost four million dedicated to construct in finish on a seventy one hundred square foot space in sale the cancer center in elderly next items on page fourteen. On page fourteen to see four this is the faith first officer from mercy it's a for twelve me in appropriation is to construct the cancer center at mercy fort smith based two of the revitalist revitalization project includes this hundred and ten thousand square foot one hundred million dollar handset center according to the executive summary on the following page mercy is invested seventy million and they have fun raises over nine million as the as of the mid december next item is on page seventeen. Paid seventeen and see five is the face person offered nursing program support it's for six million this is to make grants to harden john brown in a washed or bad university is to expand the nursing work force in arkansas each university would receive two million page eighteen shows how they would spend the funds on simulation equipment facilities expansion and upgrades. Next item is on page nineteen page nineteen c sixty each s for thirty million this is to support healthcare delivery of mental health substance abuse and community reintegration services across the details divisions that will dress known gaps in the services according to the request it will result in savings for the state by diverting patients from high cost impatient facilities two coordinating care of patients as they progress from war to less instance of levels of services next item is on page twenty four. On page twenty four c seven this is department of commerce economic development commission this is a real occasion of previously water preparation for the arkansas rule connect program according to the request refunds from projects that completed under budget have made it possible to expand offer institute cole hill in harmon the renewed request is to bring fiber internet to five hundred eighty one locations in this project the print. Next item is on page twenty seven. On page twenty seven is ca this is a request from public safety commissioner law enforcement standards and training this is also a realication that previously awarded appropriation this will allow the agency to purchase breeding vehicles and equipped them to replace him out vehicles. Is shared those are all the air peer questions and thank you members again we're gonna go one item at a time and so if you're ready for branch at c one this is when you would like up your mind so. All right stinger chesterfield you are recognized but thank you mr chair of mine is on interiority because I remember when we came in here at one time we were advocating I was advocating for funding for a for lander smith college of school of allied health and I was told that one of the reasons it couldn't be funded was because it was more general improvement find so could you differentiate for me between what you define is general improvement funds and what we are looking at today. But we no longer have general improvement phones or we didn't have it then either so i'm they're not sure that i'm not familiar with even though I make i'm not sure that I made that argument yesterday between you know people have long term memory of. Because we are now dealing with giving individual institutions funding and you said it would it reminded you of gift and those went down and flamed I just need to know what I need to do to get what I was interested in back on this calendar. I don't know I don't I don't make the counters presented two mean we proceed through it I mean I would say as far as the conversation that we were having before there was not detailed plans for how those institutions were going to utilize the money and I think that's what we were talking about in reference to the old general improvement program not that one exist today but it was mimicking what was happening prior to but again were were in this room today to have a debate and have a when there's something that you want to push to the forefront then I understand that well i'll be back with that same thing that we had gone through because we west room the totality of the process in the previous administration we went through the totality of that process we got it all on this agenda and then it was shut down because it was deemed to be giant leaning rather than whatever it is we're using for this today i'm not opposed to these things today but I just wanted it not a have once a rules for some and another set of rules for others thank you so very much aren't members to any questions on c one. See two. The. Three. At c three center hickey and man's gonna be I could also include c four and I don't know if this is for DF and a if they've looked at it my my question is here with these two particular things are these are way as bonds they're going to be needed to finish both of these but because it kind of alludes to that but then my next question is this because we've already ran into this with one of our other hospitals the phones that have already been spent is everything on schedule I want to make sure that none of the suppliers are behind that there's no delinquency that there's no significant overridges that we don't know about so. Band with both of the projects personally but i'm just I want to make sure that we're not going to get into a similar situation with what we've seen on another one. And you may need someone from those entities to help into that question and maybe a little provide some assurances but right I didn't know if they had already asked the question in our I would love to hear from the entities if they're here also but now can recognize yourself I think you understand generally the question we need restated just let him know yes you're a good morning jim heads and secretary dfa in in terms of for a mercy and for carta those are different projects than the role hospital assistance that we've been funding to date so this were very very specific capital intensive project so it's that for ongoing operations right now like that was for construction though yet yesterday this control and it's it's my understanding that that construction is already has already began with these projects and and and thank you mister hotel you know i'm a job appreciate you but my question is this the money is it's out there that have already been used it's in a it's an ongoing construction project what I want to make sure is that we are up to date with that construction project that is moving along the way it's supposed to be that we don't have any suppliers who have not who have not been paid or any bills that are delinquent there there was inflation is not caused this project to be a whole lot higher than what was a regionally estimating and that new funding you know and if it it has been I want to make sure that that new fundings in place to cover. To cover the whole project yes so now I understand which question is i'm sorry about the earlier answer mister heads here from from cartous he can probably give an update on that project but. If we get appropriation to prove today we're going to structure the grand agreements and will have covenance and representations built in those grand agreements to understand what the status the project is and then will be releasing our phones on a progress basis you know insurance pliers are getting paid and just being good prudent you know sooner so to speak well I like your here and those agreements I would mister chair if it's okay if the entities are here just a just answer my question as for it as far as where you are with your current construction. Is everything proceeding the way that you're originally estimated all suppliers are paid nobody's doing clinton or anything like that because all over the nation and I know two that or close to home here were having issues right now and i'm here in all over the nation with hospitals I just want to make sure that there's not any details that we don't know about here. My name is adam heard on the president and ceo of cartai teach your question yes senator were were paying our vendors specifically and construction this specific project we've already invested twelve million that part is complete the phase one this is specifically for the phase two which would be the remaining third of this project so we've already got the plan outlined we're prepared to execute but ensured it's a short term investment with a long term generational impact i'm not quite yet and I appreciate that i'm not questioning that at all as I said in the beginning i'm for the projects my thing is is again I just want to make sure that this is an ongoing project that there's not been any trouble with where you are in help where you get your funding to just pay for that or do you get other other funding or there were some there were some donations and everything else was just we were able to fund ourselves and we knew that we weren't going to be able to get forward until we were able to find some funding in other way to significant portion of all those bills have been paid yes sir okay thank you sir thank you mister chair. You recognize yourself and if you need to restate the question just let us know certainly patrick penalty and executive director of mercy health foundation for smith. Hey i'm any foreign vice president of operations. And of the project mercy is a newer project for us we are in the planning and design phase of nearing final contract on the piece of property so the physical construction has commenced yet it is a roughly hundred million dollars project that mercy is committing seventy million towards so the foundation has been working on raising that additional thirty to date where we stand was a gift of eight million from the churchy nation as you know we reside on the border and so significant percentage of our patience that we serve to come across from local homa but a tremendous gift from them and eight million we've raised a little over million since then so looking for some injection to get us to that final thirty amount we were very confident we can get there and I think that you have appropriations from the state is as a tremendous opportunity for us to close it out very quickly sure in my map and in a no i'm not telling you anything is there's hospitals a couple that are close to my area that actually had have stopped construction or one of them that had actually stopped construction not sure of all that again i'm hearing about this all of the nation had another one within my district across the state you know that their construction inflation had made that you'll have so that is my mob you know reason for doing this here is I just want to make sure that since these are opera phones that the state you know was in control of I just want to make sure that we don't put this money in there and then all the certain do diligence has not been done in there's you know somebody's not following you know the drawer schedule things to that nature inflation is kicked in somebody miss something in and all of a certain fifty million dollars or or five million dollars short and finish in this project with the state money that is sitting there so there I think yet you points that it's good point I think before again we excuse the grand agreements just assure this body. There will will have conversations understand what their progress is on the projects they need to obligate all their money first state moneys come in last make sure their own schedule any if they are not on schedule understand what the planner mediation is before we obligate our funds and I love that just one one additional place to know and again that's the way I want to do our business down here is there any issues with their with the way or but with structured with these federal phones because if they're in the beginning of their project and we're going in a weight to put ours in towards in which I want to do is it is that going to cause us in the issues or does this approval today does that does that make it so that we show that those funds have been committed and we wouldn't have to give them back to the federal government well actually the the obligation definition under the arpa rules is a little bit more specific so we actually have a have to have a contractual commitment that would be the grand agreement okay so your appropriation is the first step that authorizes the f a d enter into the grand agreement to be able to fund the project as long as we have a band in contract in place especially when the cash is going to get released and for what purposes the cash will be used were good in terms of harbor excellent and then back to what you said and it is irontant within that within that agreement or both of the or both of those agreements as those will be the last funds that will be used is that these projects yes or yet. Excellent thank you sir thank you at sinner urban recognized for question yes sir I have a comment on c six and then a question on c so. Okay perfect thank you. Yeah. Alright thank you to wave any other questions on c three or four seeing nine c five. Sinanci six and her urban feeling you are recognized. Thank you and the the folks from dhs don't need to come to the table but just I wanted to just make sure that members read through the information on cs because this is an I think they've done a fabulous job of putting this request together and it answers a lot of the questions that the legislature has been asking about mental health and services and what's happening so if there's a member that wants to talk about this with me i'm very first in this one as well but I just want you to pay attention to it and read what's been presented because I think it's a really great use of the money and it's very well constructed and it's been needed needed for such a long long time. So just pay attention to that one and on c seven I did have a question real quick about that let me see if there's anyone else as any questions are comments on seasons c reps in advance you are recognized. Thank you sir I was gonna just. The old man time but we have worked very very hard and our mental health task force me group trying to figure out better ways for mental health to be addressed in the state of arkansas it's been an honor to work with you and I really do appreciate all the hard work we've been asking for this money for at least five years it's so nice that we're finally going to be able to move forward this is just the tip of the aspect but i'm i'm very grateful for everything that you've done. All right thank you any other questions for comments on c six senate cease seven center urban your recognized area. Thank you just my quick question on this the broadband request if if is there somebody will quick that could answer a quick question for me. If you could just recognize yourself for the committee in your welcome nasty good morning and alice and happier cheaper staff at commerce. Thank thank you so just quickly are we looking at trying to pursue any last mile funding for for broadband and does this request include anything like that. Yeah so specifically thank you senator so the last mile were typically referred to home connections where I connecting the house or business to the farmer line sense with this project does are this buildings out power to the premises for the residence and businesses and call hill and hortman and moving forward into the beat program with the application period that we think or open up probably late summertime early for of this year those will all be. Internet to the premises so last mile connectivity so it's a different about this area I mean I get for the cold hill hartman. Yes a long story I guess short none for the committee today there was a a priority grab document. Really quickly. The. So is that a prior award for these communities. Back in twenty twenty one and that there were two separate projects for the two separate communities and to date these are the only two projects out of one hundred eighty five that we have done with those two projects stalled and so we had to go back and try to find a new provider to bring internet to these folks that's been our number one priority and after several difference a potential offerings for those folks and we were finally able to secure a new provider to go in and finish the project for these individuals okay so this request is an addition is added money to that previous satisfactory so we and we're also using to the phones for this particular project have come from refunds of other projects that came in under budget so this is not new money when it's right purpose thing refunded but it was just was part this one project the call her heartman was part of this previous wines but it's filed because they have provider fell out or whatever okay and where is this located this is in johnson county approach no I appreciate that II really I think that last mile for forums businesses things like that is just really important so thank you for pursuing that for instantly thank you really appreciate it thank you thank you representative pilgrim to your recognized thank you chairman just want to make a few comments real quick first off I want to think burner commerce in the broadband office for all your work you've done on this project I think was a couple months go both a you guys were in call hill with us going around looking at the sites looking at the project and how it had sold and I really appreciate you being boots on the ground and being so helpful with these two communities make I had questions for break speed there is some concerns over them I should know their former early century link there's issues with concerns about hidden fees costs of service things like that you know this is one of the poorest areas in my district and it's which it looks like it might end up having the highest internet cause. We've got conflicting reports I know just this morning you've got me better information on those prices I just want to hear it from bright to be themselves obviously understand there is a family. Issue that popped up and so they couldn't be here today to represent it but so while II don't want us to hold anything II do want them to be aware that there will be some questions on friday in which I assume they will be attending just want to make sure that these these people in my disheart could take care of them like a set appreciate the broadband's office what they've done just want to make sure the bright speed is doing all they can to take care of these people obviously I know there's more money coming down the pipeline with bead and so just you know it's always good to remember if you can't take care of the small things there's no way we can trust you with the big thanks and so I just look forward to having a conversation with them on friday so appreciate that thank you yeah I think you're presumably for that it is our understanding other bright speed attempts to be here on friday. Alright and on that if we can't it's always been money to me and i've never understood we've put a bunch of money towards by brand for build out for these entities they have some skin in the game but in some of it in in most cases we're providing the vast majority the money i've never understood how we have assurances what rates can be charged to the ultimate you know consumer and because there's a great benefit we're providing the money for them to do the build out I mean is it three years before they're able to I mean II just don't have any clue and i've never had explain to me how that works and immediately appropriate whenever they're addressing questions on friday that would just give a real quick primary on what that looks like. Be more than happy to do that thank you reps in what all you recognize. Just to clear up discussion going on at the moment there be no testimony from any vendor on friday it is a council rules on an apartment will be able to answer questions on friday but right speed so a thursday need for that it needs to be expressed here in the subcommittee. The. I just I don't want anybody to have expectations and can't be filled on friday so I just think it's fair that we make it known to the committee. Thank you chairman members who have any other questions comments on c seven i'm living to category questions comments aren't seeing none. Or where senator hickey thank you cheer I don't want to waste a lot of times making it thumbs up both sheets neither neither one of these is for three vehicles the three vehicles that you're looking to purchase our new vehicles. I got a thumbs up. State police that's what I needed thank you thank you. The. Aren't members any other questions. Alright seeing none intent is vote that this uh these items see one through eight as a batch. And would like to pull anything out seeing none got a motion to approve adam see one through eight we've got a second indiscussion seeing no discussion I was in favor of significant saying I was opposed motion carries the one and before we move on requires I think they made it off here and a little bit we do have two guests in the audience with this today of course we have a mac williams president of the heart of university also division to national football champions next to him we have been sales president of washington unfortunately not a national champion but we will hold that against you but again we welcome you both appreciate you taking your time to be here today to answer questions in and be the guest. And so that with that we're gonna move on to d one. Is there a synricky. Yep apologize there was two parts of two eight there I mean the c eight are there and part there was a part about the vehicles and then there's a twenty one million dollars twenty one million dollars I don't think that we should just. Apologize for missing there if i'm the only one in the room that did but I think that we need some though some update on this twenty one point eight million dollars before we just pass it for a year if we can go ahead and have some money come up for a category to back up and and under cape we can but we'll see if we need to get some questions answered first. Yeah she karen period cfo department of public safety. For law for some standards and training okay thank you mac mcwisters is water money total money and if you were if you would just give us an update of what you're going to do how you come to these calls numbers a end you know of course from this from this body standpoint you know whether or not that's a priority. I assume that this is similar to black river where we allocated four to five million dollars here to actually build a facility earlier in the year I guess it was or within the last year. So I guess my thing is now as this is maybe not quite three terms that for renovations I just I need some specifics. How about that thank you senator so for clarification the state runs three training academies located in various locations across the state of arkansas the money will be used to renovate and build out new facilities at two of those locations both northwest located an elder springs or springdale they will receive a thirty thousand square foot new training facility on that campus as well as updates to the firing range and some technology updates the candidate facility which has deteriorated over time a very old facility will have a remodel to the dormitories as well as a thirty thousand square for new training facility and and update to the range the three vehicles the money that is being reallocated was realized through an additional grant from the attorney general's office we were able to cover some of the technology upgrades which freed up that money for the vehicles okay I guess I guess nothing is with this weather that i'm looking at and I won't only see warn I guess my question was whenever I was talking about it says update current facility so you're actually going to have a consider you're going to have construction war a large amount of construction at both at both of these facilities and that's where the vast majority of this cost is going to come and that is correct or we are currently in the design phase I believe the contract is coming for a vote this week and yes sir the majority of that money basically all the money will be for construction cost okay and how did how did you actually since you're you know I don't know if you're designed phases it's done a night down. How how did you come to the cost of of what that's going to be those are based on fair market or current market value per square for for commercial buildings and in those types of constructions crossed states or can end did you have somebody that analyzed those pretty good and are did they just say well it's. Favourite making up some five hundred and twenty dollars where food I mean well it was done by talking to local contractors across the state and the various locations and and would I do believe our stepped in our due diligence to come up with those estimates knowing that their simply estimate sir ok and I guess similar trial their conversation dfa we're going to have those same type of operating tap agreements in this to make sure everything's the drawers are all done correctly. Sorry to put you on the spot it's just it's a total money yesterday. And you it's all across the state right now we're hearing you know inflation cost overruns every time we come come before this body some project you know there's been ongoing you know we're hearing the thirteen fifteen percent over at I just want to make sure that whenever we're doing these I want to make sure that we're doing them as prudent and efficient as possible but those numbers have to be correct you know on these customers estimates because you know you get ten percent over on own numbers like this you know the next thing we know somebody's need another to me and your three million dollars you know to finish out some projects and I just want to make sure that that and sometime that's not some of our specialties down here but we have got to make sure that that's being done correctly so from dfa standpoint and thank you for the attitude mr. Definite from the outstandpoint are you all going to be the ones that that are within those operating agreements that you discussed earlier mr hurts in the make sure that all of this stuff is being bothered correctly and of you know we get the slab down on these new facilities and we're only supposed to spend seven hundred thousand dollars at that point but if we were to spend nine hundred thousand dollars at that point who's going to make sure that that gets on back on tracker that there is a you know there has to be somebody that's going to be in charge of this as low as down because you know if you're if you have financing through a bank which you're not because the states doing this you know if you have financing through the bank you know in the bank's providing funding like that whatever there's a cost over and is like everybody comes in everybody sits down and says why are you over at this point in terms and her we gonna dress that how are we going to cut that to make sure that it doesn't continue so I just don't know that we have that project in place here and I believe that we need to a yesterday center so the previous projects the preparations come to dfa so you know cannot my sharp my house and my responsibility I think the appropriation here is not coming to earth but what you're talking about best practices I will make sure dialogue with center hagger and. We will make our best advice available to dps to ensure they've got the rod agreements in place to protect us because it is a typical for sorts of things that they would be handling for for a grand group we can win a school them up on that sure and I have a lot of respect course right here with this but by the same token you're in your interpret these projects like this they require a different type of way to proceed sometimes then you know what what we're familiar with so I hope we have those people in place that no no what they're doing with this where we certainly you know from an arpa perspective in general the monitoring and accumulating the receipts evidence of expenditures that is a dfa function so we have a unit in the fa dedicated to that so what we were capturing that for federal reporting purposes but just a monitor that compliance of grantees that something the agency has to do but what partner with them on there okay thanks sir senator I would ask aware that my philosophy in these building projects is if they do start to come in over budget or we see those cost inflations will reduce the size and the footprint of the facilities to meet the budget or goal is to build very spartan type facilities for general law enforcement training programs there's nothing this is not a categoristic thirty built pre estimated speed so we wanted to be we want to stay with them budget and will just accordingly sir sure and I do appreciate that in those or the tap things you'd need to do the only thing that I would say just to guard against since you said that if you weren't ever getting to the situation like that make sure that your partner with the with the legislature to tell them what's going on because you've been recorded and publicly stated that it's a certain sized building and stuff like that and if you were to do that I wouldn't want any bad say. You know I would want all that to be transferring it up front so we know so our appreciate what you say but make sure that if that war to happen that we are included with that know what's going on yes are though those comments earlier as far as the square footage that's a a perfect world scenario and that's what we'd like to see for law enforcement training across the state of arkansas but understand that we could adjust is thanks sir and I apologize that in catch it quicker send her I would also like to add that we hold weekly meetings and in house to go over all these big projects just so everybody's on type and we know what's going on so we'll know if anything comes up. The. All right thank you alright I think to the note no action needs to be taken we're going to move forward from there. Sinner days did remind me or or let me know that we do have representatives john brown here today and they were the two thousand and five basketball champions so. We're gonna move on to section e d i'm sorry we were trying the earlier thing to be shared with section d these are the infrastructure investment jobs act appropriate she requests there's only one on the agenda is from the department of energy and environment division of environmental quality is for one point sixty nine million and this is to do reclamation projects on a ban in surface coal minds in southern sebastian county thank you members who have questions on the one all right seeing none with will committee we got a motion to approve we've got a second in discussion on the motion seeing none I was in favor significant saying I was opposed motion carries now we'll go to section eight. Thank you miss share where in section eight these are the restrict reserve fund transferring quest the first one one is a letter from game fish commission is for six point five million dollars transfer this is from the game of fish grant set aside account within the restrict reserve and this is to do habitat habitat improvements and facility renovations one million for like will immediate renovations two million for the glaze creek green tree resort restoration project. Two million to increase capacity at the standard has re one point five million for both lane work at the conley again the spending authority for this request is made in the various temporary appropriate appropriations section earlier in the agenda that was item before next item e two is a letter from a public safety commission law enforcement standards and training is it two hundred thousand dollars transfer this is from the various general discretionary majority vote set aside account this is to provide advanced law enforcement rapid response training the appropriation will be requested later in the agenda in the cash section that item g three next items e three to letter from the just a vision of development disabilities it's an eight million dollars transfer this is from the human development center masterplane upgrade set aside account this is to pay for construction of phase one and a portion of face to of the jones borrow human development center these one is to construct a new health health center or clinic fees two is to build beneficiary residences today's transfer would cover the costs of one new residence to start fees to the spending authority for this project will be requested later in the cash fund section that's later the engine and items you for next item is effort this is a letter from department transformation and share services this is a four point two two nine million our transfer this is a it comes from the various general discretion in majority vote set aside account within the fun this is to hire a consultant to conduct an efficiency review on organizational strategic alignment personnel procurement real estate vehicle fleet management and it spending authority will be requested later in the agenda that's in the cash section in items you filed in the contract for the consultant will be reviewed later today in the review subcommittee mischeer those are all the requests alright thank you members can we do these wanted time any questions on e one. E two. Three. Or four. Aren't seeing no questions what's the will of committee we've got a motion to approve adams e 1 3 4 we've got a second in discussion on the motion seeing no discussion others in favor significant saying I are the supposed motion carries out and for reviews section f. They give a share in section f these are appropriation interferent transfer requests f one from the public defender commission commission on parent council has been pulled by agency request we're going to move to f two. This is a letter from the game of fish commission special language in the commission's appropriation act allow for transfers and review by alc the commission request transferring four point seventy five million spending authority from their capital outlet line item and seven hundred and fifty thousand will go to personal services matching due to a project is shortfall as a result of nine clean your recent increase of health insurance costs one point five minute open expenses to pallet at least vehicle program within a rows in two point five million to construction to continue moving forward with infrastructure projects that are ahead of scheduled due to the drive all conditions. I think you members any questions on f two. Synergically you recognize for question help them apologize for talking so much but the this operation expenders of one mean five hundred thousand is this something it's going to be building to the budget from now owner is this an ongoing thing. I mean but so we're gonna start remote lease our vehicles have we. It will use them that we use the balance and now we've moved into this little explanations all I need. Information again just recognize yourself with committee in your welcome to and question if you need to stretch restate this letter. Chris racey cheaper staff arkansas gaming fish and baton deputy record arkansas game and fish. Unless you make the ever. So i'm just looking at this that you had capital outlay so you saw you originally asked for us with with capital outlay what were you planning on using the money for it was that I mean we capital I mean is that for vehicles I wouldn't thought so but possibly. Yes so we're moving amount the equal amount that was budgeted for vehicles from purchasing those vehicles to this enterprise lease we're gonna start a pillar program towards leasing some of these vehicles we've had is long with other agencies issues procuring vehicles in the last couple of years and the prices have increased with enterprises group buying power we're hoping that this will lead to a quicker turn around for vehicles but also we're able to leverage the group buying through enterprise for better prices. The. So your leases that you're doing are they one you're leave to your lease fabulous is what would all. What is that sir this pilot project is what's known as an equity lease where we actually pay for about ninety nine percent of the vehicle's value on the front end they help us purchase the vehicle and they help us monitor minimizing costs to the life cycle and selling it at the appropriate time they also again they have the huge buying power they generally sell about fifteen to twenty percent above bluebook value and so for these vehicles there's it's not a period lease it's were leasing the vehicle for the life of it and then again they will help a guide us on when we sell the vehicle. So you pay you pay for all of it up right. But then you tell me that if you want to turn around after a year or two. And least another vehicle is that going to be your intent so that I mean I guess i'm a little I understand if a corporation or something does this and they put something on the least they are able to get some advantages from their text off with you know depreciation and things like that but from your isa. Cause I state agency or whatever you are. II guess a struggle with that a little bit so you have young done someone analysis do you have any tap or written analysis that proves their proves up why at least in these vehicles is going to be more invantageous for you or is a state is putting GR in there then it is to purchase do you have something in writing I would say in addition to the benefit I talked about in working with enterprises as part of a larger fleet management strategy that the game fishes is wanting to pilot we also get access to their fleet management software which helps us track details we were going to do some vehicle tracking as well and maintenance program so it's part of a larger picture we will have access to their software and have data on vehicles that we have not had in the past that will help us make more informed decisions so my question well why is respectfully my question worse. Do you have a cost analysis because well I understand if you're going to use some other problem that you know i'm sure you could have some software to track a vehicle. So matt my specific question is as it relates to what's most environgeous to you do you have any type of written breakdown that shows why this is going to be more advantagious to you because I know you're not going to acquire any tap a text benefit for it with the lease of wireless why are you all believed this is more advantagious to lease than to purchase these vehicles sir to answer your question directly I do not believe that I have exactly the written outside so you're talking about however what I would say is in the past three to four years we have had to keep vehicles into the pushing two hundred thousand mile mark which is incredibly expensive are because the maintenance that you see after a hundred thousand miles through this program of being able to get vehicles more readily we believe we can turn them over in the ninety two hundred thousand mile range significantly decreasing the overall cost of the life of each vehicle they would be great if I could see it in writing that I understand what you think I just want to see where somebody set out and took three hours to prove that that that's all i'm asking for mister chair if I if I can't if I can get that out as for that particular adam to be voted separately with its alone today they're the only left on the. The other word the other item in there for sport agency. Alright. Oh can I switch soon representative would order its your recognized thank you mister chair so the currently manager fleet internally. Yes we do sir and is that said then you're out in the move away with from agency one no sir these are tools that are going to be available to our fleet manager to use we still make the decisions we just have better data on each of our vehicles and the advice of enterprise fleet management which we can choose to and we will still self manage just utilizing their tools what do they charge you for the service the service is thirty dollars per vehicle per month how many vehicles do you have in your fleet roughly we currently have a five hundred and fifty vehicles not every one of those vehicles would be would we utilize the service but the vast majority so roughly four hundred of the five hundred you think at thirty dollars a month yes sir okay thank you mister chair. Alright thank you all on this particular item I wouldn't follow what you were saying since I mean there's. The. Now you're working out your question first aren't you recognized sorry thank you mister chair from being in the car business with a little history on you understand why it was hard to procure vehicles didn't they weren't there. They weren't made they were manufactured there weren't chips. So nobody could procure enterprise couldn't procure him. Hearts couldn't procure on dealers couldn't procure they were not there that's why you had a hard time finding inventory like everybody else did inventories free up now and you should be able to purchase your inventory so if you're going to pay them thirty dollars a car so you can pay them twelve thousand dollars a month. For the management of this is that is that what you're saying. Yes ma'am okay we got a hold this thank you. Reps in the barrier recognized thank you mister I guess I may have missed something but what are you getting for the one point five million. Can you break that down. Yeah the one point five million is for the the actual purchase of vehicles so I how how many excuse me the equity leasing my apologies how many vehicles we will mostly be buying pickup trucks and I don't know the exact price of those off the top of my head write this minute i'm sorry my I guess that's the concern that there's letter on answered questions here about how many vehicles and love the questions that senator hickey rose so you know that would be you know I would propose holding this until we get some of those questions answered because there's just nothing on paper just says one point five million dollars at your request and so thank you miss german so representative and director you mischer mister ben is to a quick question of in in your. Previous system prior to this option where the vehicles that you procured for game and fish purchased from in state dealers. Who state buying program or. Local dealerships are we made every attempt to purchase first locally on state contract this last year I believe we did make one of our first out of state purchases get enforcement vehicles so through this program then through enterprise most likely none of your vehicles would be purchased from in state dealers as that correct. I can I cannot speak directly to who they would be purchasing from so I would say that this is a small portion of our vehicle purchases and we're doing this as a pilot program uh we drive our vehicles and conditions that very few other people do so we're going to start we want it to start this out with poor vehicles we will still be purchasing enforcement vehicles trucks that are out on the terrain through through local dealers through our funds where we will buy those cars outright this was an attempt for those other. So kind of here here's where we are I mean I think the recommendation is to hold we're not going to take an official action today in committee but one thing to keep in mind is if this is to be separated out it will require a new request and so there would you know if you. And I would probably recommend good hand splitting it out I don't believe that there's any problem with the personal services matching of seven and fifty thousand or the construction for two point five so one letter for that and another letter for the one point five if that's something that you move forward work with after discussion with the members and again i'll just remind the members this is for review this is not approval and so there is some the others some latitude that the agency would have with their position do you have any questions on that and I probably need staff to do it better than me can we amend our request today to pull out just at one point five to discuss that letter to be able to see him to be submitted so. We we can take a week. How we can do is have emotion to approve our mentor review items. What are we going to call this fable one oh oh oh three n about five is that yeah okay we can approve a review those two items continue on a new letter being submitted on friday. Sorry we've got a mouth night synergically. Well I will make that motion but I wanted a little more clarification on the review because is this but it is this particular adam truly gonna be review because it's a it's a transfer from kept from capital which I understand that we've done but that was the appropriation that was done there so would we normally just review an additional appropriation or would that be an approval item a new appropriation would be an approval. Syrica they have special language in their appropriation action allows a transfer after review by else either other agencies have transferred approvals based on approvals so it just really depends on how that language was fashion when it was an acted so for purposes of this request they have a section in their bill section on of x six or one to twenty says review by all sea to make these transfers hmm interesting web I appreciate that but you know I guess that's that's my thing with it although that's in there you know you're talking about something if we do this is going to require something with their own with the ongoing budget process because once you start there's. I don't know how you get out of it you know so it is going to be a little more detailed and that I understand we've got a review and that's you know if we are the expectations if this becomes ongoing that they should build in into their budget at the next budget hearing okay thank you sir thank you so I have a motion to review. Oh three n o five from f two. Contention on a new letter being presented prior to council on friday got a motion i've got a second. In discussion on the motion seeing no discussion I was in favor of significant saying I are the supposed motion carries. Alright we're gonna move to item g. They keep a share where section gee these are the cash phone appropriation requests item g one is a letter from the department of public safety c crime levels or three hundred fifty thousand appropriations this is to outsource supposed mortgage tax ecology testing it support about funds from the office of its of the attorney general I g to as a letter from public safety crime information centers for fourteen thousand and spending authority is to pay for lodging in room rental expenses for their annual conference it's supported by conference registration fees I don't three is a letter from a public safety commission on law enforcement standards and training is for two hundred thousand and preparation this is to provide advanced law enforcement rapid response training the funding was requested in restriction reserve section earlier in the agenda g four is a letter from dhs division veldmental disabilities is for eight million and preparation is to pay for the human development center master plan upgrade again the funding for this project was requested earlier in the agenda. G five is a letter from the public transformation shared services this is for four million to twenty nine thousand is to higher consultant to do efficiency reviews the funny was requested in the item earlier the agenda and g six is a letter from transformation shared services is for one point three million appropriations this request is also to contribute spinning authority towards hiring the consultant for the efficiency review bunning for this portion is from cash funds the department already has informed balances mister chair those are all the requests are members we make questions on g one. Sooner letting nope. G to. G three four. Five. Soon letting you recognize thank you mister chair just a couple of quick questions about the project timeline and potential savings there's anybody. In one from shared services or dfa i'm not sure who's going to be up. Therefore point. You can just recognize yourself for the committee and then you recognize for your questions good morning leslie fiscal secretary of transformation insurance services. Yeah. Yeah james code was cfo transformation insurance services. Jessica patterson chief legal council and tsus. Can you suggest I just curious about how long we anticipate the project is something they'll be able to write up by the end of the year in time for the accession or just a multi project at this project is for one year it's actually scheduled out fifty four weeks to start after approval based on you in our colleagues approving this contract starting next week and of fifty two to fifty four week time frame our priority within this is for the pay plan and a personal evaluation and merit evaluation system for a recommendation to come to us by june first I give you that detail because that specifically we would like to start working on with your approval language that would need to be changed in the class and compensation act for the session and is there any estimate about how much the site might be able to save an increased efficiency. There are numbers you know that have been included in here I mean this is really for us about it is about savings but also updating our internal and external processes and really creating a better or experience for our customers the taxpayers are so creating that are processes internally for our employees there are estimates of approximately five hundred million in savings and the majority of that is looking specifically a procurement with duplicate of contracts renegotiating contracts and then also looking at the fleet vehicle management one more mission charges about this vendor where they just submitted the most favorable bid or where they're multiple submissions. Yes there were multiple submissions there were eight proposals that were submitted it was narrow down this one how the highest technical scorer and they had the lowest cost which is what awarded them that's how we selected this contract thank you mister chairm. Representative word lawyer recognized thank you mister. And I know we've discussed some of this offline but there's a proposal in and I guess this afternoon we can talk about the measurables in the different pieces of it cause this is not the review this is a transfer for the money but. There is a measurable savings that we're looking at achieving can you walk through what those savings look like and where the the main part savings will be coming from cause I think it's my understanding procurements while the places were looking at. Up yes we're looking at mazerball savings looking over all it organizational strategic alignment but procurement real estate vehicle fleet management it and looking at a personnel as well no we're not changing any jobs were at losing any jobs but looking overall within our personnel and paypal and structure and the the significant savings would be precurament i'm real estate and the fleet management and possibly it what was the projected savings out the over the next year they have protected five hundred million is what could be saved. Thank you thank you thank you members and the other questions see forty five insurer you're reading us thank you mister chu erm over what time period is that five hundred million saved at part of the savings could be it could happen initially literally within the first year we would get these recommendations we have to put a lot of these changes in the place over a two to three year time frame but the recommendations will come to us and immediately the procurement and the vehicle fleet they got there quicker as they've said low hanging through where we can see savings. Alright thank you any other questions aren't seeing none at similar one thing on the the vehicle fleet management are you looking at at one point I actually pass legislation that would allow agencies to utilize the same technology that is being utilized by like fedex tracking services and things like that the state of mississippi and her governor hailey barber and acted this program and it resulted and tremendous savings for the states but that legislation's already on the books and it's permissive it's not mandatory but are you looking at that yes am senator urban that's a really good question that's something that we talked about you know historically even i'm working together as a team to even put the rfp together was looking at that legislation I know that you worked on and really creating efficiencies with them the vehicle fleets we have heard we've learned from other states including mississippi that even allow their fleets they've worked with private businesses that allow them and rural areas to park fleet part of their vehicles for example for dhs and you know stone county and a walmart parking light so that they can better utilize that they also have out you know they use an app future to track the mileage location which is for efficiency but also for a safety tennessee is using that they actually use that for a safety feature two weeks ago on tracking and employee and a vehicle and it also in an answer can tell you linked safer for your employees too because it will tell you when the all needs to be changed or the tires or whatever you are so because a lot of times some of these employee employees are in vehicles that are not maintained well because it's so peacemail to author out yet so i'm just so excited about this cause this was legislation I passed in twenty eleven. Great my very first session so i'm just excited that you're using it fine for it yes yes thank you thanks I think it just any chance that will partner with enterprise to have your fleet management all right do you have any other questions do you want through six arts seeing nine g one three six are any objections aren't seen the objections adams do you want three six or viewed section h thank you miss share where is section h these are a budget classification transfer equipment the first one is from the office of attorney general it's a sixty thousand appropriation transfer from operating expenses and professional fees to capital outline is as a purchase two vehicles from medicaid fraud investigations. Next item h two department labor license seeing board of obstructors appraisers in home inspectors it's a ten thousand dollar transfer from professional fees to operate expenses this is to cover the unforeseen costs of the electronic license in platform each three is from the public service commission it's a seven thousand dollar probation transfer from operating stances to capitally is the purchase a replacement vehicle to request notes of the vehicle prices have increased significantly since the original budget requests you share those were all of the bcts all right thank you members where the questions on item one through three h one three three. I seen non any objections in non items one through our h one through three have been reviewed without objection i. Thank you mister chairman the people in appropriation quest section I there's only one item from the department of finance and administration revenue division it's for a hundred and ten thousand and preparation this is to support extra help employees and the dfa spring intern program. All right thank you members where many questions on I won. In comments no all right with that is are there any objections you have no objections items are or item I one has been reviewed now we're under reports. Thank you miss share the first section reports is the similar annual ports from us national cancer issue destination trust fund act one eighty one and nineteen created you aim as national cancer institute designation transferring to pursue a national designation for the winter our broccoli cancer into the act also require similar in reporting the fund and page six in this report shows a fun detail of the funds. Looking at able to on june first twenty twenty three the funds beginning balance is thirty six point three million there is a total transfers in line items showing twenty five point five nine was received staff learned to this is the funds last installment from the medical mirror want a tax of about twenty five million and a hundred million transfer from the set aside account within the restrict reserve fun it was approved by lc the phone also received eight hundred thirty six thousand special revenue from the cigarette people tax in the next table expenses total time point three million that have been cleared in the seat white account system plus another four point seven six million that posted by the time of this report there leaves an adjusted in the balance of a hundred and forty eight point five five million as of november thirtieth outside this reporting period the institute announced earlier this month that they have also met their goal of fundraising another thirty million they'll be used towards the inside the designation. Next section reports are quarterly reports the first one is kay once the DHS interagency and interdivisional match plan transfer report and it shows the match then transfers as required to language the report shows over one million transfers from the individual divisions fund accounts to the corresponding grants payment accounts k two is the office of the tree general cash settlement fund report and shows a quarterly cash counter account activity the report details twenty settlements and shows the balance of cash phones cash receives in disbursements k three is cc police asset for for sure expenses report and shows the expenses for each quarter of the fiscal year the first page is report she was twenty nine thousand expensive for the second quarter out of the tpc zero one hundred phone that is for federal asset forfeitures and on the second page it shows a hundred and four thousand expenses out the t p c's you're two hundred fun that is a fun for state asset for for just k four is the federal grants application a word report and shows all application the words basically AB c's in the second quarter is twenty four the next section of the month first one is l one this is a surplus income and distribution report in it shows the sources of unobligated phones and in the distributions for their ship reserving catastrophic reserve fund as of the end of january the restrictions are fun in the middle table shows three hundred and sixty three point eight million distributions and overall balance of two point one four billion the total catastrophic reserve and balance is one point five three billion the second page of the report breaks out that satisfied accounts with injury secrets are fun today's transfer request will come from setting sites all one o nine and o eleven in the middle chart on the page and total eighteen point nine million. The new overall balance after these requests are approved will be two point one two billion two is the budget stabilisation trust fund report and it shows cash flow loans throughout the fiscal year as of the end of january either thirty thirty point eight million and outside loans and the cash balance is a hundred sixty five point five million ill three is a tobacco settlement report and it gives a summary of income from balances investments actual payments to the state and on the second page all expenses about the school year for as it's the central service it's been report and it gives the phone mountain dispersements as well as the expenditures of each agency supported by the phone and the last report il five is the american rescue planet report and this has emergency a really to hospital distributions the first six pages of their ports show requests were approved by the state the bounds of the state physical recovery funds are important three hundred and twenty two million today's agenda had seventy one point eight million information the new balance after approval of items today will be two hundred and fifty million on the seven pages report on emergency and release the hospitals each hospital of participating the program has received their initial disbursements these these dispersements currently total twenty three point five million. On the eighth page begins attachment aid that's report of funds that were sent directly to state agencies and on page twelve that should be this report of funds were sent directly to institutions of higher education. Alright thank you members which mean question is on the reports okay one minute on members get a chance to take a look at the item and we went really quickly but they were able to achieve their fundraising goal for the incident designation which means that they are on go and I think we're gonna look back at what's happened here and probably one of our product moments as members am collectively this was a priority for the membership when we were in the budget session in making sure that this happened in I mean it's it is a credible opportunity I think the state in patience in health care I also can't think for that to urban your recognized. Thank you so as my actually was going to make similar comments to you and this this is so exciting and I just want to apply all the people that have donated privately for ms to raise these fines I meant to reach that goal I think where I had a schedule in and that goal and so just congratulations to ramas but this is exciting for the legislature I know we all work towards the so i'm excited to see that we are speeding down that road to incident signation but it congratulations and what are great just a thank you to all those people at made huge donations are now recently there was a huge donation that that topped them to that thirty million so just appreciate that thank you. Thank you members to him the other questions or comments on any of the reports seeing name think for a time today and we are adjourned.