Joint Budget Committee

Members of the go ahead and and make your way to the front we're going to go ahead and get started we grab your seats. Give your just a minute trip up conversations grab receipts if your back would make little front. One. All right with that chair sees a quorum of first we have a port on the personnel subcommittee Senator Davis. King Hitcher Mike. I recognize you to read the report thank you Mr chair that personnel subcommittee of JBC met at Tuesday February ninth and reviewed the items listed in the report items one through sixteen or house and Senate bills return to JBC as recommended by the personnel committee this includes H. B. eleven twenty five for the treasure of State with an amendment that included Teague classification classification changes in line item maximum increases The Amendment is to attach the report I am seventeen and eighteen are regular business requests from the office of personnel management for miscellaneous federal grant at the department of health and the transfer of three positions from the department of labor and licensing to their shared services division Adams nineteen through twenty two were or were reports from the department of higher ed and in the department of correction that required no action by the committee be happy to answer any questions and move that we adopt the report at the appropriate time. Thank you members to any questions on the report. All right seeing nine we have a motion to adopt we have a second all those in favor signify by saying aye of those those. All right motions adopted. UP next B. two. Committee that Sir. Thank you Mr chairman item B. two in your packet this is a report that requires review by the A. L. C. Arkansas Legislative Council or Joint Budget Committee this for state parks and tourism division this report lists the general revenue to be disbursed for each park and where that expenditures are for the first six months of the year German this does require review through special language thank you. Members do we have any questions on the letter. All right seeing nine we have a motion review and a second all those in favor signify by saying aye all those opposed motion carries. B. three. As chairman item B. three in your packet this is a report that requires every approval this is the special language this is to show world broadband ID grant awards on the first page you can see the awards all right thank you when we questions on the letter. All right seeing none. What will the committee The motion to adopt and get a second all those in favor signify by saying aye those opposed all right and approved in motion to approve. All right I'm City thank you Mr chairman item see this is a miscellaneous federal grant request. You'll see on page two this is for the Department of Human Services child care and early childhood education this is to assist families and educators during the pandemic it is a sixty million dollar request there are no positions associated with it it is for it is a hundred percent federal. Thank you have any questions. Read as Springer you're recognized for a question. Good morning and thank you Mr chairman what are these phones going to be used for specifically I'm just give a second has not come up in and give the next election. You could just go ahead recognized subcommittee and you're welcome respond. Williams division of child care and early childhood education thank you revisions Springer and we received forty one million if your member last spring and we used it to service center worker families at we also pay providers payments to help them maintain safety during the pandemic so they could use it for cleaning equipment just anything that would help them remain open and we also played paid a rate above our current voucher rates for children who are low income that's what we plan to do with the spending it's a under the federal guidelines they really want to pending to go to early care and education providers so we planned the service and to working families hire families that get a voucher that providers at ten dollars for infant toddler seven for preschool age children and five for school age and then we also plan to do a quarterly payment to all licensed care providers to help them meet the requirements of the pandemic. Follow Mr. Yes our company provides the with speaking of across the state of Arkansas I mean are we talking about at nineteen hundred. Do they have. The recall resubmit their odds. Paperwork in order to be reimbursed or do you all just allocated like that yes now that's a good question so let me for central worker families the families that we've currently been serving we will renew those families we will begin taking applications first into worker families because we're going to be able to add additional and and we'll start that March first for the providers we are paying them based on their at a past City what their enrollment is in our system so if there they're serving hundred children it's not attendance but it's based on their license capacity so which we try to make this as seamless and not have them have to submit paperwork the only time there submitting anything is if I have to close for declining and I submit an invoice for that and we reimburse them for that. Last question. So how are you give them notice of this they already have notice of this the process for them to receive this we are doing five weekly calls with them and so we had a call yesterday we meet every two weeks with them on the same and so but we will also be putting out information that through email to all the providers and posting it on our website. Thank you. I thank you a Representative will you're recognized for a question. Thank you Mr chairman could you. Witcher masteller would you buy. Okay now Sir and you may have the answer this And I couldn't understand it. A the hundred hundred nineteen million. Is it is for assistance to childcare providers is that daycare centers yes it's all. How do they apply to me you have a mechanism for on the plan yes that I do not have to submit anything Representative wait and they will Jett we have all of the data that they are licensed by us they tell us how many children they're going to be licensed for our staff what monitor so we'll be basing it on their license capacity that's what we did last spring and that's what we plan to do this time it makes it a lot more efficient for all of us they don't have to send something in and we're not having to deal with you know paperwork and things for them okay thank you Mr. Yes Sir thank you represented do we have any other questions. Icing on this is review item which will the committee we've got a motion review we got a second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries. We're gonna pass over a governor's letter number. Two in a gang members encourage you to to kind of run through this anything jumps out to bring Scotian before we have the bills drafted that brings us to the governor's letter number four. You're recognized yes Sir thank you Mister chairman governor's letter number four this is a request to have supplemental bills drafted and supplemental bills provide spending authority for the year were in there six months left in this year all of these are for institutions of higher education this is for them to spend general revenue that was carried forward from last year. You can see on the third and fourth page there's a summary for all of the request this is no new general revenue this is spending authority for all of these institutions. Thank you members we have any questions. With the comments. All right seeing none what's the will of committee we've got a motion to adopt and get a second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries governor's letter number five there's a couple things are gonna have to do with that so we're first going to need to remove section six and then section. Ten. Okay so if I can get a motion to remote bring those those are both clean up items get a motion to get a second on favor signify by saying aye motion carries and with that we're going to send it to personnel. Okay you want to go over those two items. With an account. Yes okay. Yes Sir. Okay so Mister chairman those two items that we pulled out for the committee to consider you can see on the bottom of page one. This is an amendment to house bill ten eighty six which is the Department of Human Services secretary office word starts please remove section six this is to remove an appropriation that they are no longer using. Limited access Mr chairman and the next one where it starts on page two please remove section ten this is to move that community service and nonprofit support cash appropriation out of DHS and it's going we're going to get another governor's letter to put this same appropriation in the Division of higher added in a future date his or clean up Mr chairman thank you have any questions members. Hi seeing none was will the committee we've got a motion to adopt we've got a second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries and then personnel. Yes Sir okay. That brings us to. Three preparation bills yes. I'm members you have ahead of your desk we're gonna vote these in batch and so if there's any of these items and to give you just a minute or so to flip through see if there's anything you want to vote on separately. Again these are reappropriation is going to say at the top of the page it's turned a horizontally and it said twenty twenty one regular session re appropriation bills in front and back. That's in spring you're recognized for a question pull out one of the items I just have. Thank you Mister chair I just have a question okay on the back pay Senate bill two seventy two. Pacific Lee what is that for the department of education that's been real property okay hold on one second. Yes Sir. Mr Mr chairman you can see that this is for Capitol Complex renovation repair. A capital improvement. Projects for a renovation repair services I can look up the exact details on this. Are they in different. Senate the reverberation over yes those re appropriations. We can't. Do you like to have that one pulled. No other questions do you just want to get the information. Yes yes yes Sir I would yes ma'am we can get you that information we have a detailed Jake might have some more information on this is misleading to come up and see if we can. We still on. Okay. I don't take the DFA office of budget I don't know that I have all the details I can promise you I'm not the expert on the part of education is located back here on the the capitol grounds they've been doing a number of work to building that they're located in is a very old building I don't know if you've been over there but they've been renovating it for some time I believe this appropriation is necessary for them to continue those present renovations which are ongoing right now. We can certainly get you more information on a. Thank. All right members and so just to just confirm residents bring or do you want to hold any of these out are we gonna go to miss batch. Check in you for the information just one information okay members any other questions anyone would pull any of the items out. All right see number in a motion to adopt a second I was in favor signify by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries. So you're recognized so Mister chairman I was do pass on the all these reappropriation bill and to get additional information on that one bill isn't that. So now is German we're in the Senate packet. That's the S. in upper right hand corner. If you go to page thirteen in the Senate package. Page thirteen Senate bill two hundred issue Three Rivers ready Mister chairman. Any questions or comments from the Committee. Seeing then was the will of committee we got a motion to pass the second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries. Mr chairman on page sixteen. On page sixteen Senate bill two fifteen university of central Arkansas. Any questions or comments seeing none was will committee got a motion to pass and get a second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries the chairman or two more in the Senate back it said bill to sixteen southeast Arkansas college any questions or comments seeing none was will the committee we've got a motion to pass the of the second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries. On page seventeen Senate bill two twenty four essay you tech any questions or comments. Seeing none was will the committee got a motion to pass we have a second all those in favor signify by saying aye those opposed motion carries. Mr Texas to the House packet. In the House package house bill ten ninety four min Commerce rehabilitation services is ready. We are for yes Sir Page four. For any questions or comments on house bill two ninety. Seeing none was will the committee. Got a motion to pass the second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries. Okay now we're on page thirteen house bill twelve twenty this is the Division of heritage. Any questions or comments on house bill twelve twenty. Seeing none was will the committee. We got a motion to pass a second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries the German less item we have is on page twenty one this is house bill forty nine fifteen of the house bill twelve eighty four. Yes Sir house bill twelve eighty four is ready. That's on page fifteen. Northwest Arkansas community college. Our members were on page fifteen house bill twelve eighty four with any questions or comments. Seeing none with a motion to pass me a second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries. Okay soon Mr chairman were on page sixteen House Bill twelve eighty nine a issue Mountain Home. Thank you to have any questions on house bill twelve of twelve eighty nine any comments C. nine we've got a motion to pass a second all those in favor signify by saying aye those opposed motion carries on page seventeen House Bill thirteen oh seven you have a Pulaski tech. I thank you to waive any questions comments on house bill thirteen oh seven. Seeing none we have a motion to pass a second all those in favor signify by saying aye those opposed motion carries. Bill on page seventeen house bill thirteen oh eight it was our college. Thank you do have any questions or comments on house bill thirteen oh eight. Seeing none with a motion to pass in the second all those in favor signify by saying aye All opposed motion carries and now the last one so I ask if those are the ages that together Mr chairman is on page twenty one House Bill fourteen nineteen this is office of treasurer this is a refund of local taxes supplemental that was requested in a letter that was adopted by the committee thank you have any questions or comments on house bill fourteen nineteen. Seeing none with a motion to pass the second all those in favor signify by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries. We at the next meeting will be Wednesday at eight thirty do we have any other business all right sing nonmembers thanks for time or adjourned.