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Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee

Interim Meeting

December 15 – 16, 2011

Statehouse, Garden Level, East Wing Room 42

Thursday, December 15, 2011
8:00 – 9:00a
General Fund Update (60 min)
Cathy Holland-Smith, Division Manager
9:00 – 9:15a
Major Reserve Fund Balances (15 min)
Ray Houston, Principal Budget & Policy Analyst
9:15 – 9:45a
Public Schools FY 2013 Budget Request (30 min)
- Review Changes for Past Four Years FY2009-FY2012
- Education Jobs Funding
Paul Headlee, Principal Budget & Policy Analyst
9:45 – 10:45a
Longitudinal Data System Update for K12 and Higher Education (1 hour)
  Paul Headlee, Principal Budget & Policy Analyst
  Tim Hill, Deputy Superintendent of Dept of Education
  Troy Wheeler, Chief Information Officer, Dept of Education
  Tom Taggart, President, Idaho Association of School Business Officers
  Matt Freeman, Deputy Director, Office of State Board of Education
  Andy Mehl, Data System Coordinator OSBE
10:45 – 11:00a
Travel to Tax Commission – Bus will pick up legislators at the front of the Statehouse
11:00 – 12:15p
Tour Tax Commission & follow a tax return through the system (1 hour 15 min).  The Chairman of the Tax Commission, Bob Geddes, and Commissioners Tom Katsilometes, David Langhorst, and Rich Jackson will host the Committee for a tour of the operations of the Tax Commission.
12:15 – 1:15p
A la carte lunch in Tax Commission cafeteria (no host)
1:15 – 1:30p
Return to Statehouse by bus
1:30– 2:00p
Dept of Health & Welfare – Funding Request for Eligibility Interface Changes – Required by Health Care Reform  (30 min)
Russ Barron, Administrator, Division of Welfare
Lori Wolff, Deputy Administrator, Division of Welfare
2:00 – 2:45p
Health & Welfare – Sunsetting of Assessments in Medicaid & Fiscal Impact (45 min)
Assessment History
Matt Ellsworth, Budget & Policy Analyst
2:45 – 3:00p
Break
3:00 – 3:45p
Higher Ed – FY 2013 Budget Request & Funding Methodology (45 min)
 - Funding Overview
 - Enrollment Workload Adjustment
 - Tuition and Fees
Paul Headlee, Principal Budget & Policy
3:45 – 4:3p
Albertson’s Foundation & State Funding (45 min)
Jamie MacMillan, Executive Director
4:30 – 5:00p
Fund Shift back to General Fund for Council for the Deaf & Hard Hearing (30 min)
Matt Ellsworth, Budget & Policy Analyst
Friday, December 16, 2011
7:45 – 8:10
Coffee, juice, and rolls
8:10 – 8:30
Funding Update on Capitol Restoration and Bond Levy Equalization from cigarette taxes (20 min)
 Robyn Lockett, Budget & Policy Analyst
8:30 – 8:45
Higher Ed – Performance-Based Funding (15 min)
Developing a Performance Based Funding Model
Paul Headlee, Principal Budget & Policy Analyst
Matt Freeman, Deputy Director/CFO, Office of State Board of Education
8:45 – 9:30
Dept of Correction – Facility Occupancy Management & Appointment of Special Master for Inmate Medical Care (45 min)
Average Population
Brent Reinke, Director IDOC
9:30 – 10:30
Changes in Statewide Community-Based Treatment for Substance Abuse
Funding (1 hour)
 - Recap of funding distribution by Cathy Holland-Smith, Manager LSO Budget & Policy Division
 - Questions
 - Health & Welfare, Ross Edmunds, Administrator of Division of Behavioral Health
  -Health & Welfare Responses
 - Dept of Correction, Shane Evans, Chief Division of Education & Treatment
 - Dept of Juvenile Corrections, Frank Riley, Administrator of Community Operations & Program Services
 - Dept of Juvenile Corrections Update
 - Supreme Court, Patti Tobias, E
10:30 – 10:45
Break
10:45 – 11:15
Proposed Idaho State Parks (30 min)
Passport Program
Nancy Merrill, Director Dept of Parks and Recreation
11:15 – 11:30
Review Session Budget Hearing Agenda & Setting Agendas
Cathy Holland-Smith, Division Manager
11:30
Adjourn