JAC Agency Hearings JAC Index 12-13-17pm1 Agenda: PM 014 – Miners Hospital 211 – Board of Equalization 029 – Water Development Commission 12/13/2017 1:07:21 PM 014 – Mary Ellen Young, Executive Director Don Stauffenberg, Board Chairman Young: Overview, 2001, Miners’ Hospital Board created, 8000 miners registered, 2 programs, hearing aid program and repairs, miners medical assistance program, all work related injuries only, up to $5k/year, workers comp – incident specific; miners’ pays long term health issues, coded as accident – no payment, smoking problems – still pay/cardiac Stauffenberg: miners’ employment – 2016 - 9650 miners, 3070 contractors, one year threshold, plus retired miners fall under program Young: 12 consecutive months, WY resident are eligible Larsen: must reside in state to be eligibility Young: must be a resident but can work in a neighboring state; mine in WY but live in other state not eligible, move out of state not eligible, claims checked for residency, tracking if folks moved and still drawing benefits Dockstader: trending up or down? Young: Trending up and costing more (ACA) Larsen: payer of last resort, justify paying deductible Young: paying out of pocket expenses Hastert: for residents, minors can go anywhere in the state to be treated and covered under miners hospital Burns: include gravel pit? Young: not include road workers Burns: PML dollars fund budget, income generated, spend off total PML and income fund Hastert: state leases, acreage Young: $100M total in trust Nicholas: breakdown from lands, income over time, historical analysis been done, Richards: few acres have been sold, pg. 13 and 14, mineral leases goes into both funds, history of income pg. 13/14 Young: 2009 changed eligibility to one year threshold for benefits; miners own deductible, $2K Burns: eligibility – bill through JAC expand to 10 years in mines Young: ok with after “a certain date”, retroactive back to certain date, 1980 Hastert: it’s within the board purview to change eligibility Burns: LSO research timeframe, help reserve the corpus Hastert: limited to 5% of the balance of the corpus in a biennium Larsen: board can determine eligibility, not in statute to pay out of pocket expenses (rules), LSO health care needs and assessment of WY miners, more involved in review of miners’ hospital board Young: pg. 15 ER #1, have never maxed out in using 5%, miners’ medical assistance program, 900 series Burkhart: how did board arrive at $1.8M number? Young: projections indicate running short, 14/15 budget $750K not spent, 15/16 $2M not spent, increasing enrollment and deductibles, Burns: run out of funds Young: program shuts down Staffaunberg : have shut down hearing aid section for part of a year Nicholas: claims, money Sommers: spending authority 5%, could be lowered by Legislation Rivale: 2012 eligibility, requested rescinding did not, Statute 30-6-101, Nicholas: Motion to move eligibility to 10 years; 2nd by Sen Dockstader Wilson: rescind those in the system? Sommers: lower % within bill Motion passed. Hastert: positive comments to board Sommers: statute reference; flexibility in writing code of what to support as ailments, 12/13/2017 1:55:30 PM Complete with agency 014 12/13/2017 1:55:47 PM 211 – Board of Equalization Martin Hardsocg, Chairman, David Delicath, board Member, Nadia Broome, Executive Assistant Hardsocg: 3 board members and 3 staff members, no vacancies expected, WY tax board, uniformity in taxation, hear property tax appeals, governor appointed, majority of cases mineral related, now half and half sale tax and mineral tax. Local is property tax. Fees not assessed. Board has expanded jurisdiction over fuel tax appeals, liquor license revocation appeals; assessors. Burns: CAMA? Hartsocg: regulatory body Driskill: sales tax patterns in appeal; things need to be fixed provide a list Hartsocg: not a lobbying body Schwartz: county level – denies or sends back to assessor, efficiency in process Hartsocg; giving county boards more leeway creating more problems potentially, pg. 3, summary, pg. 7, ER #1, computer replacement, $7K Sommers: pg. 14, code 0242, substantial difference, small agency with 3 board members Hibbert: zero based item, rotational basis for computer replacement Hartsocg: cleared expenditures through ETS, 3 staff members and dual monitors, software included, laptop with monitors, migrating to all laptops, 320 reduction, gov’r denied for this agency; 200 series, turnover training expense, in state travel – statistician needs to visit offices, office supplies, mail, phone costs, $14K is 17% of budget Nicholas: # of appeals/year, documentation/fees/hearings report; breakdown typical types of hearings Hartsocg; between70-100, 1/3 will go to a hearing, about ˝ handled within office, no fees assessed, license revocation/termination, appeals, no money involved Hibbert: 100 series uptick, salary creep, summary in Chapter 17 report, cannot cross biennium’s, small correction from previous biennium 12/13/2017 2:33:21 PM Done with Bd of Equalization 12/13/2017 2:47:30 PM 029 – Harry LaBonde, Director, Andrea O’Dell, Fiscal manager LaBonde: overview of office, pg. 4 & 5, discussed Water 1, 2 and 3 funding, contracts in reservoirs discussed, in stream process, sources of funds into agency – pg. 12 sec 3 special revenue history, severance tax distribution fund, (capped at $155M) 12% goes to water 1, water 2 is 2.1% of severance tax distribution account, ($3.2M), water 3, 0.5% of severance tax Sommers: pg. 12, Dept. of AG, $600K, drainage to municipalities, fire mitigation plan, expenditure from the past, pg. 11, water resources data system, pg. 25, 100 series, 200 series, 300 series went down, 400 series, down slightly, 500 series, rents decreasing, cost /sq. ft. is $19/sq. ft./year, have not looked at another space, space is a premium with capital construction, board of control, leases and rentals discussion, pg. 24 ER, $77K IT replacement request and discussion/questions, one computer dedicated to public use, High Savery Dam Sommers: no cuts due to penny plan last year, explain high dollar differences LaBonde: position vacancies, water dev wasn’t asked to take cuts due to not funded by GF, funding comes from severance tax account, cut one position Driskill: impact on $13M pg. 12, downward trend, and pg. 22, pull reservoir funds and use other places, LaBonde: projection for 10 year period, non self-sustaining, provide hardcopy of projections, pooled into one account not recommended, independent cost center Dockstader: projects LaBonde: rely on sponsors to bring projects, pg. 12 water 1 to Dept. of Ag for drinking water program, office of state lands, pg. 25, pg. 11, in stream flow requests, feasibility studies Nicholas: $400,000 -500,000 to keep up this data base LaBonde: joint effort with UW, breakdown of costs 12/13/2017 3:43:32 PM Wilson: breakdown of user type for website Larsen: water research LaBonde: separate effort Schwartz: water 3 projection comments LaBonde: water 3, $800K/year, interest or rate of return money, not enough to build a reservoir ($41M) costs, using this balance to fund/build Governor’s request fund 10 reservoirs in 10 years, funds encumbered, looking for #5 to be funded, prioritize projects, up to 16 in planning stages in the past 5 years, verify Fontanelle riprap project limitations, no capacity added, bottom 80k acre/feet of space to riprap to make active, $15M investment, drought mitigation strategy, feasibility study to decide how to do riprap, last payment 12 years out, 2004 High Savery Dam is high hazard dam, project a catastrophic failure classification, other dams instrumentation, Ocean lake, natural playa, low spot in terrain, dry, turn flows into lake, outlet has been cut. 12/13/2017 4:10:59 PM Adjournment