ALC - Executive Subcommittee
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Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
2:25
right members call an executive subcommittee to order. thank you so much for
being here. I'm gonna ask Senator Hester if you would open us an order prayer please. Father we love you
Senator Bart Hester
Unverified
2:39
we are grateful for the opportunities that you've given us Father pray that we would represent you and all your children in the way that you would expect us to today when we are fruitful in this meetingss your name amen all right thank you s right
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
2:58
any comments from my cochair oreg again perfect. we're gonna begin with item B consideration of emergency rules go ahead and
invite Desse to the table to present I think we have Miss uhallifod and GregRogers. and if you would identify yourself for the record and you may proceed Good afternoon Courtney
Speaker 8
3:20
Salisfod Department of Education.greg rogers department of Education
Speaker 9
3:23
you're recognized so we are asking approval for
Speaker 8
3:29
an amendment to the rules governing consolidation and annexation amendment was necessary to incorporate provisions of Act919 of2025 and Act 157 of the 2026 fiscal session which allows previously isolated schools to vote and detach from their existing school districts and establish new isolated school districts. this will allow the existing school district who
has had students go to the new detaching school district to not experience any significant financial undue hardship because of the loss of those students they will still get declining enrollment funding under existing statute but they will also be given funding to account for the students that have gone to the the new newly established school district and just one other note I'd like to make is that this is being done
using existing funding that the department has had for many years and it has not been utilized so there is no new funding being asked for. our state board adopted these on May13,2026 and we are happy to answer any questions that you have. all right thank you Missfo. we're going to go to Senator Irvin and appreciate you being
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
4:47
here and bringing this and appreciate the work of Senator Irvin on this as well so you'reco Senator Irvin thank you Mr Chair and
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
4:56
I just want to say thank you so much to the department of Education for your
entire work on this entire project starting in 2025. it's been a monumental policy change with very very technical changes made in the law and now in rule and I asked for you to bring this rule change forward when you identified this funding and I'm so grateful for that and I just I'm gonna ask you just to lay out the financials of how this will work just to update everybody we did have4
successful votes at the ballot box from community members that supported a new isolated school district with timborpecial empire and Kingston then to uphold the will of those voters we acted in special language really appreciate the special language committee for their indulgence on that to basically, create some very clear parameters of of detaching and what that would
mean and so through that process we worked and appreciate my colleagues as well as their support and help on this identify this fund and then to bring this rule change this emergency rule change. so my question to you quickly is just if you can outline what funding is currently in place that the parent districts will retain and how then this will be calculated with the subtraction of declining enrollment funding which is currently in state law but what's also in state law is
property taxes that will be retained with those parent districts and not go to those new isolated school districts for a time just because of the way those property taxes are dictated to in state law and how complicated that was to change that so it became necessary to kind of forward fund these isolated new isolated school districts which is why the the special language was so necessary. So so just if you can outline that for everybody so that people
understand the real financial landscape that's out there for those parent districts you absolutely so
Speaker 8
7:12
I'll give an overview and then Mr.Rogers can add specifics if I miss anything but essentially school districts are funded on the prior year enrollment and so umm gonna use mountain viewe as an example because they did have two schools vote to detached and create two new school districts but so Mountain View received this year funding for the students they had last year and
next year they will receive funding for the students they have this year which would include any students who may decide to leave and attend the newly established school districts. So what Act919 and Act 157 did is say to Mountain View you need to give 90% of the foundation funding that those students generated to the new school district so that they have some money to start start operations with the Mountain View school district, the existing school district
will still get their foundation funding on those students for next year. they will still get the declining enrollment funding as you mentioned which will be calculated once we know exactly how many students are going to the new school districts they will still get the local tax revenue because not addressed in these statutes and not governed at all by the department of Education we spoke with the local county clerks and they stated the way things are calculated. The Mountain View school district would continue
to get the local tax revenue generated by the school district as it is now before the detachments for at least the next year. in in the two acts it also talks about the division of property and so anything that has been labeled as belonging to these isolated school districts we'll go with the school districts including any property, any debt assigned to that property. Mountain View will retain all other funding that they have on hand all other property and they will not
any debts that they keep will be those that are attached to mountain viewew properties not any to the detaching properties. um, I think I've the only and then the only other fainting the isolated funding they will have received isolated funding because of the detaching school districts and only the last quarter of the isolated funding is going with the newly established school districts so we truly feel that by providing these additional funds
that the resulting or the the resulting existing school district Mountainview in this case will not experience any financial hardship. you re
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
9:53
send for follow up. My follow up is just thank you. I think that needed to be clearly stated. not just for our purposes but for anybody
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
10:04
watching online right seeing no further questions thank you so much and without objection the proposed emergency
rules reviewed and approved and the review and approval shall be effective upon adjournment of the legislative council meeting Friday June 19,2026. thank you very much Next we'll bring up the department of humanman Services. I think Miss Paula Stone and as she's coming up I I'd just like to point out we have Miss Laurie Mcdonald with us today I think this unfortunately might be her last week or last Alc I know that maybe there's an event later tonight to to honor her and we'll be doing so
on Friday as well so thank you for being here Mr
Speaker 23
10:48
Mcdonald. if you would introduce yourself for the record director of the office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Department of Human Services you're recognized so this rule allows us to amend the hospital manual the general acute hospitals manual and add the ability for hospitals to open a adolescent
substance use disorder unit. it's separate and distinct unit and be paid for those residential services being provided to adolescents and that is pretty much the summary of this bill do we have
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
11:26
any questions seeing no questions you
Speaker 5
11:30
got this this was easy was without objection the
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
11:38
proposed emergency rule is reviewed and approved
and the review and approval shall be effective upon adjournment of legislative council meeting Friday June 19,2026. thank you very en
Irvin do you have a comment or question? you can we just put this on
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
11:55
the agenda for public health next meeting so that we can kind of just get an update on that I think that'd be beneficial thank you. yes I would I would
Speaker 23
12:05
love to do that we have one that is opening so yeah that's gonna be exciting for the state all right thank you
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
12:14
all right we're going to move down to item C. I think we have athletic director from Whitehall and the superintendent from Whitehall had a family situation arise and could not be with us today. so he is standing in for Gary Williams and if you would sir please introduce yourself for the record. and you'll be
Speaker 28
12:33
recognized Mark Cantwell athletic director at Whitehall and you're recognized first I want to thank Senator Gilmorepresentative Eaves and the committee members for considering our waiver request
to exceed a million dollars i utilizing cooperative purchasing for construction services the request for the waivers based on the history with the vendor the system used by the vendor. The base for the project carries a longer warranty than other systems and it's good good system for our project the vendor has a long history with high schools colleges and municipalities in Arkansas and other states along with professional sports teams around the country the contractor's been very responsive to any needs of the district and they have a good
working relationship with the district based on past results of the same system we expect a great system and great service at a good price which is extremely important to our district we value quality vendors and we believe the use of tinota geo is the best interest of the district if this request is granted we will anticipate beginning the work in late August of 2026 and completing the work in November of 2026. Thank youir. Any questions from
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
13:41
the committee? See none what's the will of the committee
have a motion to have a second any discussion see none all in favor sayy aye any opposed ayes have it. thank you so much for being here y'all ok we're going
Speaker 32
14:04
to move down to item D and I will recognize Director Garrty. thank you Mrir. before
Speaker 34
14:09
you under exhibitd is the committee fund allocations for every year for per diem mileage and expenses this body is is required to create or
establish the allocations for the fiscal year beginning July 1 as you can see none of the committee's expended or even really got close to their allocated amount so the ending balance is there but if you want the beginning balance for each committee is under the first column and you can go ahead and if the committee so wi wishes establish the same exact funding allocations this last year. OK, well then I'll entertain a
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
14:53
motion to keep it the same. Do I have
a motion I have a motion to have a second. I have a second any discussion on the motion see
Speaker 34
15:05
none all in favor say aye any opposed ayes have it. Director garrity last item under director's report is the July ALC meeting. this meeting is usually either canceled, postponed or delayed this year with conference schedules it's there is no one week in July
where ALC could meet in its entirety u
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
15:27
including its subcommittees. OK and I'm going to recognize my vice chair Senator Boyd.
Senator Justin Boyd
Unverified
15:32
I think he might have a motion thank you Mr chairir. I move that the legislative council meeting for the month of July2026 is canceled. The ALc subcommittees are permitted to meet only to take up items that have an imminent need such that they cannot wait until the regularly scheduled august meetings of Alc the ALc subcommittees are perm permitted to meet outside the regularly scheduled AlC week in July
through July31st and all actions of the legislative council subcommittees taken during the month of July20 26 will be considered final and she'll be reported to the legislative council at its meeting scheduled for August 21st,2026. thank you senator. So I have a motion. Do I
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
16:11
have a second? right, I have a second and members just on discussion before we call for the vote this is the normal
practice of ALc this is what we typically do as you're aware so with that all in favor say aye in your post Iys have it
OK I see no other business and we are adjourned thank you so much
Agenda
A. Call to Order
B. Consideration of Emergency Rules:
C. Consideration of Fiscal Year 2027 Committee Fund Allocations
D. Director's Report
E. Other Business
F. Adjournment
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Speakers
Senator Ben Gilmore
Unverified
Senator Bart Hester
Unverified
Speaker 8
Speaker 9
Senator Missy Irvin
Unverified
Speaker 23
Speaker 5
Speaker 28
Speaker 32
Speaker 34
Senator Justin Boyd
Unverified