Joint Committee Committee on Executive Committee of the Legislative Council (10/16/2006)

Final
STAFF SUMMARY OF MEETING

COMMITTEE ON EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Date:	10/16/2006	ATTENDANCE

Time:	11:30 AM to 11:49 AM	Gordon	X
		Madden	X
Place:	LSB A	May M.	X
		McElhany	X
This Meeting was called to order by		Fitz-Gerald	X
	Representative Romanoff	Romanoff	X

This Report was prepared by
	Cathy Eslinger
		X = Present, E = Excused, A = Absent, * = Present after roll call

Bills Addressed:		Action Taken:
Adoption of Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Budget Guidelines Funding for the 2007 Legislative Aides Program Proposal for Legislative Printing Leadership Notebook TABOR Surplus Threshold Amounts from the Department of Revenue Executive Session		- - - - - -

11:31 AM

Kirk Mlinek, Director, Legislative Council Staff, presented the Fiscal Year 2007-08 Budget Guidelines and distributed a handout (Attachment A). The guidelines are the guidelines followed by the legislative branch agencies when they submit the agency budget requests for Fiscal Year 2007-08.


BILL:	Adoption of FY 2007-08 Budget
TIME:	11:33:07 AM
MOVED:	Madden
MOTION:	Motion to adopt the Fiscal Year 2007-08 Budget Guidelines proposed by the Legislative Council. The motion passed without objection.
SECONDED:	Gordon
		VOTE
	Gordon
	Madden
	May M.
	McElhany
	Fitz-Gerald
	Romanoff
Final YES: 0 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: Pass Without Objection

11:33 AM

Kirk Mlinek, Director, Office of Legislative Council, presented the 2007 funds available for the Legislative Aides Program and distributed a handout (Attachment B). He explained the funding formula illustrated on the handout. He stated $179,279 funds came from the remaining funds from the 2006 Special Session, leaving $189,021 as the remaining reversion earmark required to fund the aides program.

11:36 AM

Dan Chapman, Legislative Council Staff, responded to a question from the committee regarding when aides first began receiving $10 per hour. He stated that Speaker Dean authorized the $10 per hour in the year 2000.


BILL:	Aides
TIME:	11:37:19 AM
MOVED:	Madden
MOTION:	Motion to adopt the formula along with the beginning and ending dates of the program. The motion passed without objection.
SECONDED:	Gordon
		VOTE
	Gordon
	Madden
	May M.
	McElhany
	Fitz-Gerald
	Romanoff
Final YES: 0 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: Pass Without Objection

11:38 AM

Kirk Mlinek, Director, Office of Legislative Council, talked about expanding the workload of the Legislative Council Print Shop during the legislative session to include introduced bills, daily calendars, and daily journals. He distributed a handout that discussed the current responsibilities of the print shop and issues facing outsourced printing (Attachment C). He stated that there has been a lack of bidders in the past few years, and added that the print shop's ability to bid has been under question as well. Mr. Mlinek directed the committee to the bottom of page 2 of the handout which explained the steps required to implement the proposal to allow the Legislative Council Print Shop to bid for class 1 legislative printing, beginning in the 2008 legislative session. He stated that the following would be needed: a bill to amend the statutes governing legislative printing, funding for Legislative Council to hire a session-only Printer I; and an updated cost analysis of the current proposal.

11:42 AM

Mr. Mlinek explained draft legislation recommended that is attached to the handout. He suggested Legislative Council complete the updated cost analysis of the current proposal. He responded to questions from the committee.


BILL:	Print shop
TIME:	11:43:48 AM
MOVED:	Madden
MOTION:	Move to adopt the proposal. The motion passed without objection.
SECONDED:	Gordon
		VOTE
	Gordon
	Madden
	May M.
	McElhany
	Fitz-Gerald
	Romanoff
Final YES: 0 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: Pass Without Objection

11:44 AM

Kirk Mlinek, Director, Office of Legislative Council, presented the President's Notebook (Attachment D). He explained that the notebook was developed in 1998 and explains transition issues if one were to occur this November election.

11:47 AM

Mike Mauer, Office of Legislative Council, presented the Colorado Department of Revenue Memo concerning new surplus threshold amounts that would trigger the distribution of surplus revenues through a variety of refund mechanisms under TABOR (Attachment E). He stated that even though Referendum C passed and precludes the refunding of state surplus revenues under TABOR and thus the thresholds will not be met, the surplus will return later. Further, the department is required by statute to advise the Executive Committee of threshold amounts.


BILL:	DOR
TIME:	11:48:31 AM
MOVED:	Madden
MOTION:	Motion to approve the TABOR surplus threshold amounts presented in the Department of Revenue's memo (Attachment E). The motion passed without objection.
SECONDED:	Fitz-Gerald
		VOTE
	Gordon
	Madden
	May M.
	McElhany
	Fitz-Gerald
	Romanoff
Final YES: 0 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: Pass Without Objection

11:49 AM

Kirk Mlinek, Director, Office of Legislative Council, announced that there would not be a need for an Executive Session at today's meeting.

11:49 AM

The Executive Committee adjourned.