Kinskey on How JCC Will Work to Bridge Budget Gap

State Senator Dave Kinskey (R-Senate District 22) is in Cheyenne for this year’s legislative budget session and will be updating Sheridan Media during the session.

In his most recent interview, he discussed how the Joint Conference Committee (JCC) will go about reconciling the nearly $1 billion difference in the budgets of the two chambers of the legislature.

Kinskey said the House members of the JCC were planning to bring an offer to the committee to bring the two budgets closer together.

According to a story from Cowboy State Daily, the House members asked the members from the Senate to spend an additional $651 million than the Senate had approved in their budget, which included the return of $360 million for the governor’s Energy Matching Funds program along with $80 million for infrastructure matching grants within the program.

House committee members requested $69 million for Buffalo’s Veterans’ Home of Wyoming and other construction projects to total $228 million in state and federal money.

And the House wants the Senate to restore $110 million in school capital construction funding.

The JCC will continue discussions this week to try to reach an agreement.

We will have more from our conversation with Senator Kinskey in upcoming stories.