2010 Budget Session Convenes
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Feb 8, 2010 Posted by Bri Jones
The budget session of the 60th Wyoming Legislature convenes today. Governor Freudenthal will be delivering the State of the State at 10:00 AM and you can listen in here: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2010/audio/AudioMenu1.htm.
These blogs will be regularly posted throughout the budget session on topics important to Wyoming's Democrats, working families and informed citizens. If you have any questions about a particular issue or post please feel free to contact me at brianna@wyomingdemocrats.com. Happy legislative session all!
Yesterday the Wyoming Democratic Caucus met and discussed the budget reccomendations coming from the Joint Appropriations Committee (JAC) as well as individual bills certain legislators are bringing forward. The caucus was also addressed by Gov. Dave Freudenthal, Speaker of the House Simpson, Sec. of State Max Maxfield, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Jim McBride. Some special topics of interest, especially in the exchange between Gov Freudenthal and democratic legislators, were wind energy taxation, eminent domain moratorium, funding for developmental disabilities (DD) programs, state employee contributions into retirement accounts, fiscal conservancy, education spending and school construction, savings or "rainy day" accounts, and funding for local governments (towns and counties). Mainly these were touched on for informational purposes and there weren't any detailed policy decisions.