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1) Governor Announces Budget Cuts
2) 2009 Annual League Conference is Near!
3) DOE Announces New Funding Opportunity
4) Submit Your City's Photo!
5) City Showcase at 2009 Congress of Cities in San Antonio, Texas
1) Governor Announces Budget Cuts
This morning, Governor Mark Parkinson announced plans to make budget cuts necessary to balance the State’s FY 2010 budget.
An initial review of the Governor’s report regarding the FY 2010 budget shows that, at this time, there are no plans to further cut city funds. In particular, there is no mention of cutting City-County Highway Funds or alcoholic liquor taxes. Most state agencies are being cut by 2%.
The Governor did warn during his press conference that additional cuts will likely be necessary as revenues continue to fall below estimates.
Revenue Gains
| Suspend SGF Transfers Out
|
Health Care Stabilization Fund
State Water Plan FundHousing
Trust Fund
|
2,805,000
3,295,432
2,000,000 |
| Department of Commerce
|
Cessna Bond Payment No Longer Needed
|
4,150,000 |
| Social & Rehabilitation Services
|
Social & Rehabilitation Services
|
18,687,361 |
| Department of Transportation
|
Reduce maintenance and operations and transfer funds*
|
30,000,000 |
| Securities Commissioner
|
Transfer Special Settlement Payment*
|
5,000,000 |
| EDIF
|
Transfer excess balance with direction that Commerce will reduce EDIF spending by an additional $300,000 and KTEC by an additional $140,000 *
|
3,400,000 |
| |
Total Revenue Gains |
$69,337,793 |
Agency Allotments
| Governor
|
2% Reduction
|
(149,101) |
| Lt. Governor |
2% Reduction
|
(4,148) |
| Attorney General
|
2% Reduction |
(94,736) |
| Department of Administration
|
2% Reduction (excluding debt service)
|
(305,352) |
| Human Rights Commission
|
2% Reduction |
(28,864) |
| Department of Revenue |
Operational Efficiencies
|
(1,800,000) |
| Court of Tax Appeals |
2% Reduction |
(28,811) |
| SRS
|
Reduce Salary Budget an Additional 2%
Increased FMAP Rate **
|
(1,483,534)
(4,185,564) |
| KHPA
|
FY 2009 Caseload Savings
Dental Program
Increased FMAP Rate **
|
(5,300,000)
(524,000)
(6,300,000) |
| Department on Aging
|
Operating Reductions
Increased FMAP Rate **
|
(99,000)
(2,768,025) |
| Dept. of Health & Environment
|
2% Reduction |
(641,512) |
| Department of Labor
|
2% Reduction |
(9,515) |
| Department of Education
|
Operating Reductions
KPERS School Over Funded
Juvenile Detention Facilities Over Funded
2% General State Aid Reduction
|
(150,000)
(3,650,000)
(2,451,322)
(39,114,424) |
| School for the Blind
|
2% Reduction
|
(132,477) |
| School for the Deaf
|
2% Reduction
|
(196,395) |
| Regents System
|
2% Reduction
|
(15,295,000) |
| Arts Commission
|
Grants Reduction
|
(50,000)
|
| State Library
|
2% Reduction
|
(95,418) |
| Department of Corrections
|
Capture FY 2009 Savings
Additional Labette Savings
|
(1,100,000)
(500,000) |
| Juvenile Justice Authority
|
Suspend Beloit JCF Operations effective Aug. 28
Increased FMAP Rate **
|
(1,466,131)
(44,375) |
| Adjutant General
|
2% Reduction(excluding disaster & debt payments)
|
(106,178) |
| Highway Patrol
|
Operating Reductions
|
(333,435) |
| KBI
|
CJIS Central Messaging Switch
|
(326,000) |
| Sentencing Commission
|
2% Reduction
|
(172,089) |
| Department of Agriculture
|
Operating Reductions
|
(277,139) |
| Animal Health
|
2% Reduction
|
(17,900) |
| Department of Wildlife and Parks
|
Further Reduce Capital Improvements
|
(116,794) |
| All Agencies
|
Undermarket Pay Plan Savings
|
(765,718) |
| Legislative Agencies
|
Voluntary Reduction*
|
(540,000) |
| |
Total Agency Allotments
|
$(90,622,957) |
| |
Total Gain to the State General Fund Balances |
$159,960,750 |
* Requires legislative action.
** The federal Recovery Act will provide additional funding for Medicaid, allowing Kansas to realize SGF expenditure savings with no program reduction.
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2) 2009 Annual League Conference is Near!
Look in the July 2009 Kansas Government Journal for this year's Annual League Conference Registration Brochure.
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3) DOE Announces New Funding Opportunity
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a new funding opportunity under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to expand solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar heating and cooling (SHC) system installer training. The closing date for applications is July 30, 2009.
DOE has allocated a total of $27 million for these awards. The funding opportunity is open to all domestic institutions and entities. Funding will be provided to expand training and professional development to instructors who are creating or improving existing training courses for their local PV or SHC installation workforce. Funding will also be provided to administer the National Consortium for Solar Installer Instructor Training, which will regularly convene stakeholders from industry, education, government, and other organizations to meet DOE objectives to expand instructor capacity in the PV and SHC installer fields.
To read the full funding opportunity announcement (DE-FOA-0000078), visit https://www.fedconnect.net and click on “Search Public Opportunities” on the right-hand side of the page. Under “Search Criteria” select “Issuing Office,” enter “Golden Field Office,” then click on “Search.” Once the screen comes up, look for the announcement named “Recovery Act: Solar Market Transformation.” The announcement is split into two topics; the solar installer training is covered under Topic 2.
Applications must be submitted through FedConnect to be considered for award. Applicants must register with FedConnect; instructions for registering are available in the FedConnect Quick Start Guide at: https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/PublicPages/FedConnect_Ready_Set_Go.pdf.
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4) Submit Your City's Photo!
The League of Kansas Municipalities will be having its centennial celebration in 2010. To commemorate this celebration, LKM will be creating a 2010 calendar with each Kansas city featured in the calendar. The calendars will be distributed at the 2009 annual league conference. If you have not provided us with a photo, please send them to photos@lkm.org as soon as possible.
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5) City Showcase at 2009 Congress of Cities in San Antonio, Texas
City Showcase is the NLC’s forum for municipal officials attending the Congress of Cities to network with each other while learning about effective and innovative programs around the country. We need your help in identifying and encouraging programs in your state that belong in this kind of national showcase.
The City Showcase is also a chance for cities to “show off” a little. Participating cities and their programs are highlighted in Conference literature, on NLC’s website, in the City Practice Database, and in Nations Cities Weekly.
For a City Showcase application click here. Please forward it to anyone you think may be interested. Cities may apply with more than one program. The application deadline is July 3, 2009.
More information about the City Showcase is available on the NLC website - http://www.nlc.org/resources_for_cities/awards___recognition/125.aspx.
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