In a May 13 memo, the Office of Financial Management (OFM) directed state agencies to identify operating budget savings options to reduce state spending by 15% from the fiscal year 2021 state appropriation.
We are in week six of the 2020 Legislative Session and have already passed the first two major deadlines. Last week brought the house of origin fiscal cutoff, where all proposed legislation needed to be voted out of fiscal committees. Following that, committee members began spending their time on the floor debating and voting on bills.
I wanted to give you a brief update on our DCYF decision packages submitted to the Office of Financial Management last week. The DPs are publicly available on OFM’s website. Here is the link: https://abr.ofm.wa.gov/budget/agency/requests. It only works in Chrome, Edge or Mozilla but is public so feel free to share.
Secretary Hunter submitted a letter to the Office of Financial Management for the Department of Children, Youth, and Families biennial budget.