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William Parrish
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3:00
Mr. Billy. Madam Chair, the first item on the agenda are our cash fund appropriation increase requests. These are requests by
agencies to increase the spending authority for line items that are supported by a cash fund account. The first item is a letter from the Arkansas Arts Council. It's a request to increase appropriation by $46,000 to a grants and aid line item. The increase will allow the agency to spend an unexpected grant from the Wingate Foundation. I spoke with the department and learned that the grant will be used to make sub-grants
for arts curriculum development, summer and after-school art programs, and in-school artist residencies. The next item is a letter from Ozarka College. It's a request to increase appropriation by $500,000 to a capital outlay line item and $250,000 to an operating expenses line item. The increases will allow purchase of materials, equipment, and to make renovations possible for a technical training center in Ashfield. The new training center will offer courses in automotive technology, diesel engine repair, medical professions, welding, and construction trades. The letter states the programs will be
supported by cash from the college's reserves and from grant funding. Next item is a letter from the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, and it's a request to increase appropriation by $513,333 to an operating expenses line item for the Arkansas Career Training Institute in Hot Springs. The increase will allow extending boiler operations, security, and maintenance upkeep on the property. This request will be supported by a rainy day fund transfer, and that will come in the next section on the agenda. The next item is a letter from the Department of Agriculture, and this item was on last month's agenda.
The committee sent this request to ALC without a recommendation. ALC sent this request and a related rainy day request back to Pierre for reconsideration, contingent upon the department and dfna addressing members concerns discussed during the committee meeting the request is to increase appropriation by 1 million and it will allow the department to make grants and support projects in the buffalo river watershed this letter is to establish the spending authority and the funding will come in a rainy day release and that is again on
the next section of the agenda. Thank you. Are there any questions? Senator Rice, you're recognized.
Senator Terry Rice
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5:12
I'd just like Secretary Ward at the proper time when this falls to have discussion first. Secretary Ward, can you come
to the table? Thank you, sir. Yes, sir.
Speaker 15
5:49
State your name for the record, please. Yes, ma'am.
Senator Terry Rice
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5:57
Wes Ford, Secretary for the Arkansas Department of Agriculture. Senator Rice, you're recognized. Thank you. Good morning. Appreciate you being here. Just since the last meeting and the things that were discussed, I didn't find out until this morning. I think Senator Irvin for her lead for her and the area legislators up there having meetings for the public, the things I didn't find out until this morning,
I tried to keep up with through the news because I wasn't able to go, not on the committee, but she did invite me and I wasn't able, was the subcommittees of the Buffalo River Commission and the inclusiveness of small animal agriculture. Can you state, and we'll have a public statement of how that's been addressed, and Senator Irvin may
Speaker 15
6:49
have something further, too. Yes, sir, and I want to echo your comment about the legislative leadership
and the meetings that we held. I know several legislators that are here were also at the meetings in Marshall and Jasper and provided some really good insight and feedback to their concerns and their issues and how they would like to see this move forward. Regarding the subcommittees in particular, we have not identified those directly yet. And the reason why is because we wanted that to be a joint effort between the BRCC members, the four members that make up the BRCC, as well as the governor through its executive
board as well as the legislators in particular the legislators in that particular area so regarding small animal owners and small animal agricultural producers we we certainly would invite their participation to to be on those subcommittees uh for you know regarding the makeup and what we're looking at agriculture certainly would play a role in those subcommittees uh and in particular looking at you know agricultural producers that are uh that are well known well respected and within the area not someone from Little Rock but people within the area that are known respected
that people value their opinions and an insight and those are those are the people that we want to serve on these subcommittees and I know that there are you know we identified at least two from from those public meetings that were held in Marshall and Jasper that that we think would be really good participants on the subcommittees we have we have not reached out to them directly yet just pending the results of this request and the
Senator Terry Rice
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funding coming over. And I appreciate hearing that. And just to state, we're talking about a million-dollar rainy-day fund
being put out there when we have senior citizen centers closing. We've got other ones struggling that we've asked for additional monies for. And while this is monies that can do some good, there's a lot of places monies can do some good. and I'm looking again as I stated before is is down the road as I try to do because I've got a short nose and sometimes I follow it but beyond Secretary Ward beyond the current administration
when we have this I mean all the states of watershed may not be the Buffalo River watershed it is as critical as it is but i want everybody to understand and i want this public we need to be inclusive when we're doing things and discussing things and previously what was put out in media was that the subcommittees all the ones named and i read them last month they did not have small animal agriculture on there
that is critical to this state. So, and you can have stacked committees and hopefully just having a voice of two people, especially if they are active in their other larger associations will be a voice to help balance that. So I appreciate your leadership on that. I appreciate, again, Senator Irvin and other legislators would do that. But looking beyond down the road when other things come up, I hope that's done as a forerunner rather than us catching it here.
Senator Missy Irvin
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10:15
Thank you. Senator Irvin, you're recognized. Thank you. Thank you, Senator Rice, for your assistance on this issue. Also, the first thing I want to say really is to thank the people of Searcy County and Newton County. The people of Searcy County and Newton County came to the meetings in Marshall and Jasper, and they deserve all the credit here. They are the ones that showed up. They spoke out loudly. They gave great input.
They asked great questions, and they expressed themselves really sincerely and personally and intimately. And I give them full credit, honestly, for this. And I really appreciate Representative Ladyman, my co-chair for the House Public Health Committee, for authorizing us to meet there and to driving all that way. I really want to thank all my colleagues that drove up to those meetings.
It was a long day. And then I really want to thank you, Wes, and Stacey Hurst and Dr. Nate Smith and Dr. McMullen, who came from the health department. and listened. And that's the most important word. You listened. And I thank the governor for meeting with us as well in this letter. But again, y'all were the ones there on the front lines. And you came and you listened to people. And I think that's really what this whole thing
was about for all of us, was the ability to really listen to the people who are affected by this policy that we put forward and for them to have their questions answered and addressed and their input given and taken and received and acted upon. And you did that at the meeting with those two individuals. And I think they will be great. And I think there's a whole list of names that I think will be really good moving forward. Hopefully they will agree. Because the last thing I think the legislature wants to do is relinquish our ability or our job of oversight
over appropriation over spending that's the legislative branches role that's our role in government to make sure we know how the taxpayers dollars are spent and that they're spent wisely and that they're spent effectively and efficiently and so the last thing that we want to do is authorize a million dollars that's just going to sit there that nobody's going to participate with because they're so skeptical right that's just a waste of us spending a million dollars sitting over there doing really no good so that's why this whole process was really important to me
and to the area legislators representative Keith Slate was has been incredible on this issue Breanne Davis Jack Fortner Ron McNair all of y'all have been really really wonderful in this process John Payton, Nelda Speaks, and I know Senator Flippo was not able to be here, but he's very supportive of all of this as well. So, and Senator Rice, and so I just, I just want to say, you know, I think we, we had requested that there would be oversight and reports coming to Public Health
Committee, which was, have been agreed upon as well. We are happy to meet jointly with Agriculture culture committee if we need to do that or however that proceeds or if those requests are made to us we're happy to do that because and I also think it would be beneficial to have once subcommittees are set and we've been able to have good exchange and communication on those subcommittees and the way they will function is to go back and have meetings after those are set with those people I think would be really beneficial as well because a lot of people's questions probably didn't get
answered the first time in Marshall because we were trying to find out the information ourselves about what this was and how it was going to work so I think we've we've done our job well and I think moving forward it's going to be hopefully beneficial because those people that live there who are going to be affected will have the input to direct this. And I also have to say, too, that I know there's a lot of skepticism from the million dollars that was given through the private sector. I've had conversations with the Nature Conservancy about exactly where their
intention is for that money, and that is to leverage or to be able to use that money to supplement the match if there's a match for a federal program they're really focused on the USDA programs and the RCPP programs which I can tell you farmers in this area and everywhere understand how those USDA programs work and representative former representative David Branscom is the head of the USDA and he lives there he's from Searcy County lives in Marshall
um but they're very familiar with those programs because they do them all the time so if you know that's the intention for that money is to help with that match portion of it whether it's a city or the county or an individual farmer so i do appreciate all the communication really that i have received on this issue and so you know with that my final thing and thank you madam chair for indulging me but the separate request the separate issue is the appropriation
request and jake thank you bleed mr bleed thank you for being here um because i think there was some confusion um after legislative council that might be readdressed at legislative council about the way this is a separate issue about rainy day funds and the development enhancement funds and how that's kind of commingled and how it is operated and you don't really need to address that here today but I do think there needs to be more of a look at that because to the public
a rainy day fund means something and we and I say we because that's the legislative branch's job too and the executive branch we need to really kind of think through that in my opinion because it a rainy day fund was the four million dollars that governor beebe released for the drought to help with farmers and hay forage and all of that people understand that um but they they don't understand i don't think this and so i think we just need to do a really a better job of communicating
and using our words wisely and um and make sure that we are intending what we are saying So with that, I appreciate this and support these requests, items for both B and C.
Thank you. Thank you, Senator. I'm going to piggyback kind of
off of what Senator Irvin and Senator Rice said. I think farmers all over Arkansas realize that we are all in a watershed somewhere, somehow.
And I think farmers all over Arkansas are watching this very, very closely, wondering when their industry, whether it's small or medium-sized, will be impacted by something just like this also. And we can't, as legislators, forget that Arkansas is our number one. Our number one growers are here in our state. I mean, we have some of the top five industries in our state. and and it does impact everybody at some point in some way and so i do believe farmers are extremely
nervous which i have echoed since this all began very very nervous about all of this because we need farming in arkansas that's how this
state runs is from agriculture so i thank y'all for your hard work and dedication to this senator hammer you are recognized thank you madam
Senator Kim Hammer
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18:27
chair director ward let me just ask you some pointed questions will one of the people on the subcommittee be appointed because they represent the entity that's given the million dollars no sir and and
Speaker 15
18:43
we haven't we haven't identified who those particular members are going to be yet
but in regards to the nature conservancy and their role on a subcommittee we we have asked that question if there was an expectation that they would participate i think there are two separate issues that million dollars from the governor million dollars coming from tnc and the buffalo river foundation the million dollars from the governor doesn't get mingled uh with with their private donations uh but we did ask them it's like is there an expectation that you're going to participate in subcommittees and they said there's not it's like we we want to be
supportive we want to be helpful we have no expectations of serving on a subcommittee
Senator Kim Hammer
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19:25
okay and question i asked you up there in one of the meetings was regarding um and and there's potential for up to a 10 million dollar match with this money is
Speaker 15
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that correct i don't i don't know that we have a direct figure uh so i i would hesitate to say 10 million dollars but uh as as senator ervin mentioned the the potential to leverage some of these larger usda programs will help that that funding go further i don't have an exact dollar figure but rcpp
joint joint cheese proposal those sort of things can leverage additional federal funding to be able to implement okay one
Senator Kim Hammer
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20:00
of the questions you were asked in one of those meetings was the urgency of getting a million dollars before the local people would know that they're guaranteed because we're going on a promise no disrespect we're going on a promise here that the people in the area like the uh gentleman that was representing the ranchers in Searcy County and everything you pretty much asked him in the meeting would you be on the committee so you know we're going on the promise that the local individuals are going to be the ones that are
going to be on that committee again why would you have not got the committee together before you ask for the million dollars or because from from here on out once we relinquish control you could you're going to be able to pretty well do
Speaker 15
20:46
what you want to do so can you address that thought make sure i understand the question and comment correctly uh i do think that there are there are federal opportunities through these USDA programs and other opportunities out there where funding can be leveraged to go further. But I think the not identifying the subcommittees currently is really
a testament to the governor on not trying to rush anything. I know that there's a perception that we've moved faster than what we probably should have on some things, but it hasn't been an effort from from the governor from us to say we're we've already got this figured out we know exactly what we're going to do uh the intention is for uh for the the local stakeholders with within that area to identify what their priorities are and so that that's why that's why these subcommittees haven't haven't been officially named that's why uh we want them to to to meet
and say here's what our priorities are uh with the with a broad group of stakeholders from elected representatives to you uh chambers of commerce agriculture together within the area saying here's here's what's important to us and here's what we want to try to try to accomplish all right thank you thank you chair are there any
other questions seeing none thank you for working so well with
the committee we appreciate it next time we might just come to the committee before we go through the whole debacle but thank
you thank you are there any other questions for any of these
Representative Johnny Rye
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22:20
other items yes uh representative right yes um i would like to say this much um i went and watched that meeting and i don't believe that i've ever seen a meeting that was any better directed than that meeting missy i mean that was a good job and you know when you really look at that situation up there there was a mistrust of government that I could feel, and I think it goes back to about 1983, Ms. Chairman, of when the
federal government actually took over the Buffalo River, and I would say that Secretary Ward done a heck of a good job, and
you did a great job, and Jack, you did too. That was just one great meeting.
Thank you, Representative Varai. So without objections, we will view these items as reviewed. And the next set of items. Thank you, Madam Chair. The next
William Parrish
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23:18
approval. These are rainy day fund release requests. On the second page is a letter
from the governor requesting a reconsideration of last month's rainy day fund transfer request of $1 million to a cash account for the Department of Agriculture. The letter states the governor and the staff have fulfilled requests to meet with legislators and their constituents to answer questions. And on the next page is the governor's official request. This is the $1 million transfer of funds will be used to support grants and projects in the Buffalo River watershed, which will include, but are not limited to, voluntary best practices for the land, improvements to city and county wastewater and septic systems, and sediment reduction from
unpaved roads. The letter also states the Buffalo River Conservation Committee will be the entity responsible for identifying projects and distributing funds. Madam Chair, this is an approval item for
the committee. Are there any questions? Do
I have a motion? Motion. Do I have a second? All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those
William Parrish
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24:23
opposed, nay. This motion passes. Madam Chair, the next item is a letter from the governor requesting a $513,333
transfer from the rainy day fund to a cash fund for the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services. The transferable support operations of the Arkansas Career Training Institute. It was stated in the cash letter from the HC that we went over in the previous section that funds would be used to extend boiler operations, security, maintenance upkeep, and maintenance upkeep on the property. Are there
any questions? Seeing no questions, do I have a motion? Motion, a second? All
those in favor say aye. All those opposed, nay. Motion passes. Next item.
Speaker 43
25:02
We're now in Section D of the agenda. These
William Parrish
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are the budget classification transfer requests, and these are requests by agencies to make a transfer among the five sub-items of maintenance and general operation. This is in the event a certain lot item does not have enough spending authority for an expected expense, but another lot item in their M&O has excess or spare appropriation. The request for appropriation only, the agencies have funding to carry out the request, and there is only one request on today's agenda. That is from DF&A Management Services.
It's a request to transfer $10,000 from operating expenses to conference and travel expenses. The transfer will accommodate travel to a mandatory conference related to the administration of
their grant awards. The request notes inconsistent scheduling of the conferences is why it was not originally included in
the budget. Are there any questions? Seeing no questions, without objection, we
will consider these items reviewed. Next item. We're
William Parrish
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26:01
now in Section E. These are miscellaneous federal grant appropriation requests. These
are requests by agencies to increase spending authority at federal funds resulting from an unanticipated federal grant award. If a grant expires, state funds will not be used to replace federal funds unless it is later appropriated and authorized by the legislature. The following requests have received an approval recommendation from DF&A and are sent to this committee for review. The first item is a request from the Department of Health. It's to request for 2.4 million in federal appropriation and to establish one position. They have a grant from the CDC and it will fund projects related to the increased ease of use
of the prescription drug monitoring program and education for prescribers, opioid misuse, and drug overdose surveillance and prevention, linkages to care for substance use disorder, education and awareness of opioid crisis, and support to partners like the Arkansas Crime Lab and the Arkansas Drug Director. The position, that's an epidemiologist, be reviewed in the personnel committee later today for title, class, and grade. And this item is 100% federally funded. The next item is a request from the Department of Education,
Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. It's a request for $4.8 million in federal appropriation. They have a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to advance literacy skills. Funds will be used over the next five years to provide access to books, materials, resources and activities, and for professional development. This item is 100% federally funded. The next item is from the Office of Attorney General. It's a request for $96,000 in federal appropriation. They have a grant from the Office of the Inspector General to investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud and patient abuse or neglect. This item requires a 25% state
match, which is $32,000. I spoke with the AG's office and learned the state match will come from their general operations fund which is supported by state central services but they said there's a possibility that it also could come from the consumer education and enforcement funds madam chair those are all the items for mfg's question senator arvin
Senator Missy Irvin
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28:01
yes i just would like to hold um i just have some questions i can get with the agency and the department of health that one if that's
okay i can just get with them separately okay if
can we just hold that yes ma'am and i'll work on that
today yes ma'am that's perfect if you get it figured out will you bring it
to yes yes thank you that would be great are there any other questions seeing no questions all but e1 will be considered reviewed next item Madam Chair, now we
William Parrish
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have the quarterly and monthly reports. Various provisions of law, either in Arkansas Code or in an agency's appropriation bill
require making reports to ALC for information purposes. In some instances, a member of the committee may request an agency to submit a report regarding a matter to keep the committee better informed and updated. The first report is for DHS. It shows quarterly interagency and division match fund transfers as required in special language. The report shows over $3.1 million in transfers from the individual division's fund accounts to the corresponding grant payments accounts. The next item, and Madam Chair, I have to apologize, I did miss a print.
So we have the second page of the AG officer's report, and so staff will be handing that out. And this report shows the quarterly cash account activity. The report details five settlements, and at the bottom of the first page is the current balances of unappropriated funds. And in the pages that are being passed out by staff, it shows the clearing of cash receipts, as well as disbursements for the consumer education and enforcement. The next report is for state police. It's a report that shows the asset
forfeiture expenditures for each quarter of the fiscal year. The report shows $80,000 in expenditures for the first quarter out of the TPC0100 fund. This is the fund for federal asset forfeiture. And the next page, it shows 53,000 expenditures in this quarter out of the TPC0200 fund, and that is the fund for state asset forfeitures. The next report is for federal grant applications, and it shows all federal grant applications by state agencies in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020. The next report is federal grant awards, and
this report shows all federal grant awards to state agencies in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020. The last quarterly report is from ADEQ, and it's a status report on Bella Vista hazardous waste removal. It's a report required by special language passed in the last session. The agency received $20 million in additional appropriation and the ability to receive $10 million in loans from the Budget Stabilization Trust Fund to remediate the underground fire site in Bella Vista. According to the report, total expenses occur by the state to date are $955,500 and will be paid out of the Hazardous Substance Remedial
Action Trust Fund. A loan from the Budget Stabilization Trust Fund will not be required. While Phase 2 was in development, the Bella Vista Property Owners Association assumed ownership over the project and completed fire suppression in June. The property owners groups is currently working on an official restoration plan total expenses to the state are expected to be under 1 million and the report states agencies actively investigating potentially responsible parties who could be held liable to the safe for costs of the remedial or recovery actions at the site once on september 11th the agency executed an administrative order where thomas fredericks
and fredericks construction company agreed to pay 70 000 for potential cost recovery liability and 6 500 for a civil penalty the time period for the comments on the order has not yet elapsed and the report continues that the agency will continue to seek cost recovery when the investigation is complete and there's a final accounting of
all expenses incurred by the state. Representative
Dotson, you're recognized for a question. Hello. There you go.
Representative Jim Dotson
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32:21
There's no line. Oh, there's no line. Okay. So thank you, Madam Chair. This, the handout we just got, on the second page of it, can somebody tell me why we're spending $50,000 on new color guard uniforms and how many we're buying? Is someone here from the
Attorney General's office? good morning mr cox please state your name for the record
Speaker 58
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madam chair members cory cox chief of staff for the attorney general's office representative
Chair
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33:03
that is those are uniforms for uh the various sheriffs deputies that serve on the color guards when an officer dies and they have full honors at the the funeral Scott Bradley with the Sheriff's Association had come to us and said look our our uniforms are wore out they're starting to look pretty pretty ratty
can you help us purchase uniforms for the sheriff's deputies that that that do these funerals and so it's statewide or is it yes it's statewide yes sir it's through the sheriff's association they actually retain the uniforms but then there are sheriff's deputies that are um assigned to to go do funerals and those folks are assigned a uniform if that makes sense yep thank
Senator Kim Hammer
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33:56
you yes sir clears it up appreciate it okay senator hammer you're recognized for a
question? I mean, oh yeah, go ahead, Senator Hammer, sorry. Thank you, Madam Chair. Regarding the advertising that y'all do and everything, what's, what are some of the, is this a consumer alert kind of advertising?
Chair
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34:23
Yes, sir. You got kind of a wide range down through there? Yes, sir. Some of, some of it is. Some of it is notices in, in newspapers. There's some advertising that is like if somebody is affected by a settlement that we send out, postcards from time to time.
Some of it is like going back to the sheriffs. We have Law Enforcement Officers of the Year awards, and we will put congratulatory notes in, newspapers for when your local officer is selected to be Officer of the Year. um radio uh there's not i think that's that's basically it that's listed here what's the red
wool sports properties well it's it's uh advertising on football games for asu okay do you do that i
Senator Kim Hammer
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35:18
mean you kind of selectively we do we do
Chair
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we do uca asu uh and of course u of a Okay. All right. Thank you. Senator Rice, you're
Senator Terry Rice
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recognized. Thank you. Good morning, Mr.
Cox. Senator. I'd say it's self-explanatory on the second page on the catering.
Yes, sir. For law enforcement summit. Yes, sir. And the training. Is that following in the same precedent that's been set in previous
administrations? has that been being done i'm not i can't
Chair
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35:58
answer that question right off the top of my head one reason is that we weren't left a lot of records from previous administrations it's what we have done and the the folks that have been doing that those programs have been
ongoing for since before our administration so i would assume that that's that's roughly the same But what that is is, you know, law enforcement have to have continuing education hours. So we offer these classes where they can get hours. And as you can imagine, if you're there all day, there's going to be a bunch of people that get hungry. And so it's barbecue mostly that we purchase for those officers that are being trained.
Senator Terry Rice
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And my question was just if that had just been started or it had been going on for a number of
Chair
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years. I wasn't familiar with it. We've done it the entire time that we've been in office, sir. I don't know before that, but
Speaker 72
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I would assume that they did. Thank you. Yes, sir. Senator Egram, you're recognized. Thank you. Following up on Senator Hammer's questions, the Red Wolves, the Rural Arkansas Radio Network,
Senator Keith Ingram
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is this what is commonly referred to as the Rutledge Report?
Chair
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37:20
Well, not the Rural Radio Network. Those rule of radio network dollars, that's where we're announcing that there will be mobile offices or there will be, you know, some public event in their area. So those are advertisements to bring, let people know about the mobile offices. The Red Wolves, yes, that would be the Rutledge report that you
Speaker 67
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hear on the radio. And the secondary purpose of the Rutledge
Senator Keith Ingram
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report is to do what now?
I'm not sure. The secondary purpose of what the Rutledge report is to present is typically what message? Oh, it's consumer
Chair
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37:58
alerts. Okay. We talk, it's consumer, it's essentially the news releases that we do turned into a radio ad. Thank you. Senator Hammer. Thank you, Madam Chair. Upon the
Senator Kim Hammer
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income side of things, have we gotten everything out of Equifax we're going to get out of
Senator Kim Hammer
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38:22
Okay. And on the others up there with the Blue Cross one, what was that for? Refresh my memory, please.
Chair
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38:32
I believe that that was a data breach where there was consumer information that they got out. And, you know, any time there's a breach, there are fines that are often assessed and they go into those consumer funds. Thank you. Senator Arvin, you're recognized.
Senator Missy Irvin
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38:52
Thank you. Can you just a little
bit of follow-up on your advertising? Do you have statutory definition about what constitutes as advertising or consumer report type consumer alerts versus what might be construed as advertising for public relations or campaigning? No,
Chair
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ma'am. There is a statute that allows us to spend money on consumer education efforts,
54607, I think. I'd have to look it up. But that general, that statute that talks about consumer education does state that we can spend money for enforcement and or education purposes. Okay, I
Senator Missy Irvin
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was just curious because when most people sponsor, you know,
sponsored by Bale Chevrolet or they're clearly selling something, right? So when they're sponsoring games and things like that.
So I was just curious of how that was written. Do you mind sending me that language? Yes, ma'am, we'll get
that for you. Thank you. Will you get that to Mr. Billy so he can get it to all of us so we'll all have that? Thank you.
Are there any other questions? Seeing no other questions, we will file this as reviewed. Next set of items.
Speaker 47
40:35
Madam Chair, now we're on the monthly reports. The first one is from the Rainy Day
William Parrish
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40:40
Fund, and this report shows Rainy Day Fund income and distributions as of the end of October. Income is listed in the first table. Set-aside projects are listed in the second table. The last table at the bottom of the page shows project distributions and a fund balance of $34,049,933. If today's rainy day fund release requests are approved on Friday, the balance will be $1.5 million less. The next report, G2, is for the Budget Stabilization
Trust Fund, and it shows cash flow loans throughout the fiscal year. As of the end of October, there There are $28 million in outstanding loans, and the cash balance is just over $173 million. G3 is the Tobacco Settlement Report, and it shows a summary of income, fund balances, investments, actual payments to the state, and on the second page are all expenses by fiscal year. The last report is for the State Central Services Fund, and it shows the fund balance and disbursements, as well as the expenditures of each agency supported by the fund.
Thank you. Are there any questions? Senator Ingram, you're recognized? Yes. Would
Speaker 72
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somebody on the Quick Action Closing Fund show me where the debt obligations are? They're in here. I'm just too lazy to try to find it. And what those debt obligations are, Jake? What have we got committed, in other words? I'm not sure if anybody here
Speaker 79
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from AEDC is here to explain that report to you. i'm afraid i cannot but i'm more than happy to sit down with you uh after this the number because
Senator Keith Ingram
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42:16
yeah absolutely showing what that you know we cut it back from 50 to 30. yes sir and then of course we've got outstanding commitments that are out there i'm just trying to see what
Speaker 81
42:25
that balance yes sir i'll get you an updated number and if you'd like
i can get that for billy as well that would be perfect do you want
to hold it until you get it okay okay i'm just making sure Are there any other questions? Seeing no other questions, we will file this without objection or reviewed as reviewed.
And seeing no other new business, we will have our next meeting on December the 17th. Seeing no more, we will adjourn. Thank you. Thank you.
Agenda
A. Call to Order
B. Cash Fund Appropriation Increase Requests – FY20
C. Items for Approval
D. Budget Classification Transfer Request(s) – FY20
E. Miscellaneous Federal Grant Appropriation Requests – FY20
F. Quarterly Reports
G. Monthly Reports
H. Other Business
I. Adjournment
Documents
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William Parrish
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Representative DeAnn Vaught Chair
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Senator Terry Rice
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Senator Missy Irvin
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Senator Kim Hammer
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Representative Johnny Rye
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Representative Jim Dotson
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Chair
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Senator Keith Ingram
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