The legislative session began this week in Cheyenne, and State Senator Dave Kinskey discussed what has happened so far in the first of weekly updates from the session he will be doing with Sheridan Media.
He said this week's focus for the Appropriations Committee has been on the extra $4 billion
SCSD#3 business manager Greg Rohrer chats with Senator Kinskey
At the Wednesday November 9 SCSD#3 school board work session. Wyoming State Senator Dave Kinskey talked to the board about school funding, and the need for more funding.
In a brief interview after his talk to the board, he said tha
The state of Wyoming is taking emergency action to ensure that one Sheridan County town has drinking water. On June 3rd, a transmission main delivering water from the groundwater wells to the town of Clearmont,
The 66
th Wyoming State Legislature balanced the state’s budget with the exception of the K-12 funding issue.
Simply put, the Senate and the House of Representatives could not find common ground during their most recent session.
Some say the legislature “punted” the issue, but State Senator Dave Kinskey disagrees with that analogy…
As it stands now, K-12 education is being supported from the state’s savings account.
In the current legislative forecast, the FY 2025-2026 biennium budget for K-12 funding is projected to be just shy of $1 billion and according to Kinskey, as the state’s “rainy day” fund is depleted, larger and painful cuts will hit the Wyoming school districts…
The budget “battle” continues this week as both the Wyoming Senate and House of Representatives attempt to “tinker” with the Governor’s supplemental budget. That budget called for cuts of $450 million from the previous year’s budget and during Wednesday’s House session, some of those cuts were added back in according to District 40 State Representative.Continue reading