JAC Agency Hearings
JAC Index12-14-17pm1
Thursday December 14, 2017
Agenda: PM

206 Department of Education

12/14/2017 1:20:26 PM
Carroll: pg. 148, Special Education, 100% FF, move state funding into this unit 1301 to 1351
Larsen:  MOE to meet a certain level of match funding, history
Shanor: terms –MFS Maintenance of Financial Support; MOE – maintenance of effort, $200M MFS
Sicorelli: funding explanation, color of the pots of money, how money flows through the year, additional admin budgets, had a “do over” with acronyms explained
Larsen: FF’s, per child cost/special Education, districts get ADM or just state? 
Sicorelli: Not specific driven, general block grant
Larsen: salaries and benefits, unsustainable growth, control, adjustments
Sicorelli:  largest component is salaries and costs, control costs – recalibration committee, staffing standards
Larsen: compared to other states? Dialog with DOE – fed level
Willmarth: WY is only state allowable reimburses 100%; $/student comparison in top 10, 
Sicorelli:  waiver, match against state itself, MFS meets level for prior year
Sommers: need to do something, WY is unique in funding model, reapportionment, and districts are mandated to do a certain job with Special Ed, trend line of population
Landen: family moving here as WY pays 100% reimbursement
Carroll: pg. 154, state personnel development, pg. 157, pg. 160, IDEA funding, goes to Behavioral Health division, BHD
Larsen: DOH has responsibility, DOE has accountability
Sommers: 3 agencies involved, consolidate into one agency, efficiencies, money flow
Shanor: topic of conversation, better outcomes in DOE Part B and C vs DOH; head start
Carroll: pg. 163, Title III, English Language acquisition
Willson: numbers of kids who fall in this category
Shanor: over 2500 EL students
Carroll:  pg., 169, Title II, professional development for teachers, fed grant program to improve quality of teachers
Schwartz: summary of federal programs DOE deals with
Walters: money from Elbogen to do this, no money can be shifted for after school alliance
Carroll:  pg. 173, eliminated, pg. 178, Homeless education, # of homeless students – over 2000, pg. 181. Title IA, funds in high poverty areas, most district for funds all districts receives some title1 money, 2 districts do not, transfer funds to 1361, pg. 184,187, 191, 193, 196, 199, 202
Shanor: pg. 202, opted to not take money, data sharing agreement came with the money, district Washakie received these funds, pg. 208, 211, Federal Perkins Unit, pg. 212, funds transfers, Pg. 216, moving money, pg. 219, USDA school lunch, pg. 220 ER #5 move funds,  pg. 221, ER #7, $4.7M for next biennium
Shanor: school lunch funding, controversy Obama lunch program opted out, too many fed regs costly to district
Carroll: pg. 225, spending authority only, pg. 228, spending authority only, pg. 231, new unit 1380, grant payments in 600 series 
Shanor: buying bison one time allocation, used it up, 4 districts participated, spent $4600
Nicholas: reconstruct historical spending difficult through reorganization efforts, historical reorg chart 

12/14/2017 2:19:08 PM
Break
12/14/2017 2:36:36 PM

205 – Education – School Finance
Carroll: pg. 15, ER#1, Gov’s rec $1.6M, pg. 16, retirement reimbursement, $22.5M,
Pg. 20, ER #6, $2.2M
Richards: reduction based on historical reversions
Carroll: change in Legislation, increase in expenditures, increased 20%
Shanor: negotiations with facility – no, DFS, DOH and DOE share costs for taking care of children, varies between facilities, no double payments, 
Nicholas: medical breakdown admissions by counties 
Larsen: RTF placement, freed up money for ADM to county
Carroll: if treatment facility provides education then district loses money, if not the host district gets the ADM money
Sommers: quite a morass to sort through, don’t have a handle on it, task force one meeting, follow up on this issue, Navigant discussion
Shanor: formula, Navigant
Carroll: Navigant, hourly billing, cost of care captured, concern about rates, pg. 24, Unit 4502, instructional facilitators, pg. 27, pg. 30 unit 4504, pg. 32. Distance education grants
Sommers: DEG not part of block grants, CTE either
Wilson: 2007 strategic plan, updated work, additional funding
Shanor: WEOHA, WY workforce council collaboration, duplicating efforts investigate
Carroll: pg. 32, 35, pg. 38, Student assessment, pg. 40 digital and distance learning
Shanor: do detailed investigation for on-line education, pg. 44, WISE implementation, pg. 46

12/14/2017 3:06:45 PM
Finished Agency 205
12/14/2017 3:12:05 PM

027 – State Construction Department – school facilities; Shelby Carlson – administrator
Del McOmie – Director;   Brandon Finney, Financial; SF 92 created agency, asking for a 3rd division, division explained, h/o 83, pg. 1, position swaps/moves
Sommers:  h/o indicates duplications, can more be consolidated
McOmie: positions’ focus is different, pg. 3 of h/o 83, health construction, school facilities overseer, and explained organizational chart
Larsen: state leases for buildings, condition of building issues
McOmie: general services in A&I are responsible, problems with buildings,  need a summary of who does what when issues arise, consolidate operations, budget modifications for new personnel
Nicholas: how is new division working?
McOmie: working good as everyone is in the same building, eliminated silos in personnel management
Richards: new distribution of responsibilities would require new bill for statute change
Nicholas: JAC responsibility for bill
Larsen: adjustment/ responsibility/ efficiencies
McOmie: cross training, budget, pg. 4, state construction dept., column 2 is preliminary estimated budget, departure from regular budget, 320 cuts outlined, 27 FTEs, 3 AWEC, pg. 9 , operations budget, new division asking for permission to create, 100 series, $4.6M, 200 series $1M, 400 series $81K, 19 employees in new division, pg. 10, new operations personnel where moved from
Finney: pg. 3, h/o 96, vehicles
Nicholas: no reductions in travel only increases
Hibbert: trending upward, small change, 8 agencies, 5 increases, 3 decreases
McOmie:  pass down vehicles for new division; agency has 14 vehicles, sharing school facilities and CM
Finney:  Vehicle maintenance, high mileage user, AiM software
McOmie: contractor walks buildings, school districts does the same, condition notes put in AiM data base, multiple teams, size of each rooms, designated room use, heavily used plotter, maintenance for plotter $2500
Richards: statute driven, 2016
Nicholas: zero based budgeting, confusing, tracking lost, LSO statutory memo 
McOmie: setting up a new division same challenges, pg. 13, positions should become permanent, minimal cost to switch over from AWEC to FTE, one person does Aim database, AWEC position, advertising for a backup position
Finney: pg. 13, col 4 transfers, money and personnel
12/14/2017 4:17:36 PM
Break
12/14/2017 4:31:08 PM
Nichols: overview the projects prior to going over the bill
McOmie: planning section for school construction, $300K, pg.21, Design appropriations, $1.2M, 2016 session laws put a moratorium on construction and design on alternative schools, 2019 expires, asking in this budget, supplemental request for next year, and school district has done layouts
Larsen: moratorium on alternative schools
McOmie: no future work on projects until after June 2019, Sheridan 2 uses Community College as interim solution, exception to design to move forward, existing school was condemned last year, use CC as an alternative school for 3 other district, Sheridan 2 had unused space, building in terrible shape,  using leased space
Stolz: 75 students attending alternative school, 
Sommers: designed for 116 students, bill forbids building alternative schools, moratorium expires
McOmie: looking forward for student number growth
Burns: money not appropriation would not be allocated until after moratorium is lifted
Larsen: planning acceptable under moratorium 
Hewett - LSO staff attorney: no money for planning until after June 2019
McOmie: the notwithstanding allows the department to move forward, the CC needs space back and this is the right time for the budget request, reduction in request, pg. 23, pg. 24, div 600, reduction,  reducing modular across the state, explained scoring of facilities
Finney: remove old one, upgrade utilities, $225 cost/sq. ft., and modular run 1400 sq. ft. , modular owned by different entities, can be moved around state, pg. 27 leases, Poder a long term lease, pg. 30, contingency/unanticipated account, JAC h/o 83, h/o 7 from agency, pg. 34, demolition projects, owned modular, have depreciated, pg. 36 land purchases, pg. 39, Sheridan 3, track projects, pg. 42, component projects, reference LSO h/o 83, agency h/o #4, page 5 discussion, pg. 42 continued, pg. 43, pg. 44 – 46, condition, depreciation, scales

12/14/2017 5:21:10 PM
Concludes agency 205

12/14/2017 5:22:08 PM
Willmarth: select committee recommendation, Ted Hewett – lawyer, draft bill 18LSO – 0216 discussion, reference LSO h/o 086, pg. 2 table, school capital construction account, final recommendations to JAC
Nicholas: breakdown of where funds came from $10M
Willmarth: gave breakdown, 3 recommendations from select committee
Nicholas: compare to land leases/purchases
Willmarth: reversions, state royalties on public school lands, 18LSO -292, distribution
Richards: Nicholas discussion to finance this
Willmarth; 1% severance tax use, differs from Gov’s profile
Hewett: LSO -0216, pg. 4 subsection g; (i), (ii), pg. 6 line 8, is $315K, effective immediately, (iv), (v), pg.7, effective immediately, pg. 9, lines 13 and 14 delete, pg. 10, Section 2. Pg. 11, appropriate funds, pg. 12 section 3, section 4, section 5.
Nicholas: Amendment W.S. 9-4-305(b) revenue committee amendment, reversions go to GF
Wilson: common school account, impact
Willmarth: 2/3 goes to corpus, 1/3 support of public schools, balance of 1/3 goes to common school fund; interest from CSA goes to CLF
Richards: slow growth
Wilson: how much is CSA
Richards: 5% guaranteed to go into CSA
Willmarth: no borrowing authority for school capital account
Walters: thanked select committee plus school facilities division
McOmie: consider request using 10% of major maintenance fund for security projects
Sommers: current use
McOmie: will follow up on question, districts vary
Willmarth: LSO 91, amendments within bill, 3 categories, indoor and outdoor security projects

12/14/2017 6:01:01 PM
Adjourned