ALC-JBC Personnel

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You You You Good afternoon, folks. Thank you all for being here today. We are now called to order. And with that, I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Robinson, Tony. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Committee members, on your desk, you're going to find two big packets, a B packet, and then another packet starting with C. These are the reports we use. These reports show the changes that agencies have requested and the executive branch is recommended for personnel position changes. Item B, that's a batch packet, meaning all of these agencies in the B packet either have no changes, meaning they're going to stay the exactly the same way they are in their current appropriation act, or they are eliminating positions that's all they have in the B packet. And so we'll look at batching those when we get there. In item C and the pages behind that, you'll find where agencies have requested reclassifications, basically changing a position from one authorized title to another. There's transfers from one division of a department to another department. You may have grade changes where they're asking to increase or decrease a grade on a particular job title. But the staff as they present these will go through each of those. With that, Mr. Chairman, I'm going to let Kay Barnhill talk about the position eliminations for just a second. Kay, how are you today? I'm doing well. Good to see you. Nice to see you. And I'm Kay Barnhill State personnel director for those of you who haven't met yet. But what we did this year is we sent out budget instructions and basically told departments if you have unbudgeted vacant positions, we're not going to recommend them for the next year. So there's a little bit over 1100 about 1160, I think, unbudgeted positions that we will be eliminating throughout this process really has no fiscal impact on EBD, the dis vacant positions that will not be used. Otherwise, some of the departments asked for reclassifications which which meant they thought their job title was not the correct title for their job duties. Some departments asked for upgrades. They thought the grade was too low for their position. And then some people asked for additional positions. We looked at all this very carefully and had a very conservative recommendation that comes over here. We didn't make a whole lot of changes because the pay plan went up back to 25, which changed everybody's salary, everybody's salary ranges and most of their titles. But there were some that needed correction. I think there'll be a couple that come up today as we go through the reports. But that's kind of summarizes what we did. Now move to B. Yes, sir. Members with that, we're going to move to item B. And it is our intent to batch all these agencies that they have no changes or eliminations. Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman, no changes or eliminations only. So lowering the number of total authorized positions at that agency. And that's B1 through B58. I'll give you a moment to look over there. Members with that, I'm going to ask for a motion. Have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. And with that, this has been reviewed. Has been reviewed. Moving on to items. Item C, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Angel will be giving the presentation. I do want to point out when we get to item Q. There is an additional handout on your desk for item Q. The original item Q1 had some errors in it. And so DFA has replaced Q1 and that is what is on your desk and when we get there, we'll point that out again. And sir, if you will please them, announce yourself. Yes, sir. Bart Angel, Bureau of Legislative Research. Thank you, Bart. Mr. Chairman, item C, starts the second section of our packet, the second large batch of documents. It's a State Board of Election Commissioners. Act 164 of 2026, authorizes them nine positions. The requesting one reclass. If you look on your report there, line nine. They're taking an election coordinator at SGS 08 to an election supervisor expert to an SGS 10. That's an increasing grade. There's no other changes. It brings their request to nine and the executive provides for this request. Mr. Chairman, that's all I have for the State Board of Election Commissioners. Members, are there any questions on this? Representative Ferguson, your recognizer? Didn't come on. Oh, thank you, Mr. Chair. Quick question. What is that in terms of the difference in the money, the salary? Well, there'd be an increase in grade from the SGS 08 to SGS 10. I don't know what the, if there's an actual pay increase is going to be, but I can certainly provide the difference in the grades if you like them. Yes, yes, please provide a good staff force. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. The midpoint of SGS 08. I'll start. There's a 78 to 27. The midpoint for the SGS 10 is going to be 94 656. Members, are there any other questions? Okay, representative Lane, your recognizer? Now you should be able to know. Now I'm recognizing. Thank you. Normally on personnel committee, we had these pay grades here at our desk. If we quit putting those out the ranges I'm talking about. Of course, we can get this for you. That helps. Members, and I have to ask those questions because you kind of know, but I've looked and looked and I can't find one. We'll make copies and get you one real quick. Okay, thank you. Members, are there any other questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Members, I have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. And it has been reviewed. Moving on to item D. Thank you, Mr. General. Item D is the Attorney General's Office. Act 38 of 2026 authorizes in 192 positions. They're requesting to eliminate one. If you look online, eight of your report, you'll see that. It's an administrative assistant to moving down a little bit to lines 14 through 17. There's four reclassifications. First is assistant attorney general to to a assistant attorney general one senior assistant attorney general one to a deputy attorney general. And then two administrative assistant ones to two senior administrative assistants and all these would see an increase in line. I'm a maximum. That brings the attorney general's request to a total of 191 positions. That's a decrease of the one eliminated position, the admin assistant to Mr. Chairman. That's all I have for the attorney general's office. Thank you, sir. Representative painter. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is a question for staff or maybe you guys can answer this. So just looking at the last couple of pages, understand that the grade. What's the difference in grades? You have one that says SGS, then you have some that say Q430U, then you have SPC. What does that mean? As a first time member of the personnel committee. Okay, do you want to answer that? Yes, sir. Okay, in the statewide payroll system, we have five different tables. And the tables are state general services, which means SGS. Okay, then we have the medical pay table, which is mainly doctors and nursing type positions. We've got the specialized services pay tables where you're going to find maybe some of your attorneys, some of your specialized jobs and that particular pay table. We've got law enforcement, which is mainly used at state police and farmer corrections and a little bit of forestry and a couple of other departments. We also have information systems and security and those are of course IT related positions. I was wrong, I said bye, but we really have six. The six table is the executive pay table where appointed type positions and everything are on that particular table. Yes, sir. Members, are there any other questions? Seeing none, on item D. On item D, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Members, I have a motion in that second. All in favor say aye. Any, anybody opposed? Say nay. I was almost as loud as the eyes. With that, it has been reviewed moving on to item E. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Item E is the Governor's Mansion Commission. Appropriation Act 44 of 2026 authorize them nine positions. Look on your report. Here on line eight, you'll see a growth pool position. That's a Governor's deputy mansion administrator at SPCO five. They receive this in the interim. These are, this position is already in their act of the nine that you're seeing on your report there. This brings the governor's mansion to nine. That's no change in position numbers and the executive records provides for this request, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, sir. Members, are there any questions on item E? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. It has been reviewed. Moving on to item F. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Item F is the Governor's office Act 134 of 2026 authorize them 59 positions. They're requesting two new titles director of policy at SPCO seven and a director of legislative affairs also at SPCO seven. Look on the report. Those are going to be on lines nine and 10. You'll see these titles used here shortly lower on the report. Moving down a little bit, line 15. There are a question to eliminate one position. The advance and coalition's coordinator, SGSO five. If you look down to lines 21 and 22, there are a question to reclass two positions as senior policy advisor at SPCO eight to a director of policy at SPCO seven. That's a decrease in grade. And also office staff SGSO eight to director of legislative affairs SPCO seven. That's going to be a change in the table that came mentioned a few moments ago. And these are the two new titles that are up higher on the report, they're using those there. It springs the governor's office to a total of 58 positions. It's a decrease of the one advance and coalition's coordinator and the executive right provides for this, Mr. Chairman. That's all I have for the governor's office. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Representative Wooden, sir, you are recognized. Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. What's the range of salary on that position? Which position, Mr. Wooden? On the last two, on the two that are in the governor's office. What's what's the salary range? The two new directors that they're wanting to reclass to. Those are what you're speaking of. The range for the director of policy. The range for the director of policy would be 57, three. Sorry, I was on the wrong table. Here we go. 103991 to 153907 for the director of policy. 50,000. What are we talking about? I can't on that one. I can't comprehend because I don't have the salary amounts of range. What is 103 to 153? Yes, sir. Is that the range? That is great. What are they paying? That's a SPC of seven and that's the range there. They're taking the governor director of policy. It was a senior policy advisor, which was a SPCO 8. So they're actually going down and salary range without particular position. And the SGS position was a vacant position. They weren't using it. And we're making that one a SPCO seven as well. Governor's director for legislative. So there were no want to pay increase. On that particular position, that position will also begin at 103991. I think there's an current incumbent that'll be moving in there. So it wasn't a SGS08 position. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. Representative Jeane. Sir, you recognize? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Barnhill. Yes. I'm over here. Yes. You know, for years and years, we had 60 employees. Right. Now we're at 58. How many of those 58 are occupied? I mean, how many vacancies do we have in the governor's office now? I think they have that. But let me look just a minute. Okay. Actually, I don't have the head count on the governor's office, but I can get that for you. That'd be five. Thank you. Representative Clanny. Ma'am, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry, just to go back to this director of legislative affairs position, you said this governor's office staff position is currently not. There's nobody in that role right now. Right. So this would be a potential zero dollar spend to $153,000 spend. And then what is, I know that we have, I just don't know the title. We have legislative affairs person in the governor's office right now. How is this role different? Or is it a different title? This is for the person that's in the governor's office right now. This is going to be his new title. So do you know what his title is now or what his, I guess why are we taking this empty position? And making it director of legislative affairs rather than whatever the person who's in the role now is called and his current class, you know what I mean? Yeah. So that we can do a direct one to one. Yeah. And to be honest with you, I think they're using the position he's in in a different manner already. So they're going to use that position for something different and then use his position and use this position as the director of legislative affairs. So it'll just be a transfer position. So will there be two directors of what? No, we'll just be one director of legislative affairs. But we don't know yet what's happening to his current position. No, that's not in our personal. Okay. That's confusing to me. But I mean, I appreciate that's all the information you have. Thank you. What is the range? Members, are there any other questions? Seeing none on item F, do I have a motion? Do I have a second? Members, I have a motion. A second. All in favor? Say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. I'm going to hold off. Can you go ahead? I was just going to answer Representative Jean's question. There's 41 filled positions in the governor's office right now. All right. Thank you. Seeing that, item if has been approved or has been reviewed. Moving on to item G. Members, Chairman, item G is the Court of Appeals. Act 45 of 2026 authorizes them 49 positions. If you look online, it's 89 and 9 of you report. You'll see they're requesting two new positions, two staff attorneys at SPCO 7. It brings their request to 51. That's an increase of the two new staff attorneys. Mr. Chairman, that's all I have for the Court of Appeals. Thank you, sir. Members, we are on item G. Are there any questions? There we are. Representative Booten, sir. You'll recognize you. Do we have someone from the agency from the Court of Appeals that can come forward? Is that permissible, if you would? If you would, please identify yourself. Ann Solomon, chief staff attorney for the Court of Appeals. Mark Clavenbach, chief judge, Arkansas Court of Appeals. Thank you. You may continue. You may go ahead. Thank you. Thank you all for being here. Would you explain to the committee exactly what you all are facing over there? I'd love to. Thank you, Representative Booten. So the Court of Appeals is asking for two new staff attorneys to help us manage our docket a little more effectively. We have seen a change in our docket in that in the last five, six years we've gone from conventional paper records to electronic records. And the way that those appeals come to us when we had a conventional record, that would be condensed by the attorney who was pursuing the appeal. And so we would be given some paperwork that would be the most important pages for our judges to look at first. With the change to electronic record appeals, we received the whole record from the trial court every single piece of paper that gets filed every single moment of the trial that happened. And that is read by our judges and their staff before they make a decision in the case. So the reading has increased exponentially at our court. What we do with our staff attorneys is that those lawyers we have three currently. They handle our more voluminous cases and our more difficult cases. The number of voluminous cases has risen dramatically. And we're asking for these two new positions so that we can clear those voluminous cases faster. Thank you, Judge, in your opinion. Is our justice system threatened by what we're seeing take place by the overload? And I use an example, the public defender's office has 301 attorneys. They have a 250 case load. I understand that your committee or your board court is facing reviewing an 80,000 page document. Is that correct? I don't know any circumstances, anything about it other than 80,000 pages and you currently have two staff attorneys. Actually, 86,000 pages, yes sir. And I am staring down every time I look at our docket. That is a civil case. That's not a criminal case. But that is a great example. That's our largest record that we have right now in our docket. But usually a judge, Chief Judge Clappenbach and his staff have two weeks to receive an assignment and make a decision on it. And they cannot make the kind of decisions that these folks want to make, which are the very best ones they can make every day if they're trying to read 86,000 pages in two weeks. That's where we need a staff attorney to step in. Judge, yes sir. I don't feel a necessary threat to everything but we are just trying to get our cases out and get them going as soon as possible because some of these cases have been here for a couple of years or so. We're trying to reduce that and that's what we needed to do new staff attorneys for. That's fine. Yeah. Mr. Chairman, I just felt that that information needs to be presented to the personnel committee, that they needed to be aware of exactly the problem over there in the Court of Appeals, as well as in the public defenders office, as well as in the circuit court, as well as in the district courts. They're all facing in, so thank you. Yes, and I might add that we've had so far since September, we've had 157 cases decided so we're trying to move on as quick as we can. Well, I feel you're doing an admirable job with what you, with the staffing that you have. Thank you. Thank you both. All right, appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. I'll tell you we're viewing a 86,000 page document as mind-boggling. Members, we own item G. I see no other questions. Do I have a motion? Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? I have a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. And it has been reviewed. Moving on to item H. Mr. Chairman, item H is legislative audit. Act 43 of 2026 authorize them 296 positions. If you look at your report on line 9, they're requesting a new title. Legislative audit network administrator IST 11. They're also requesting two reclasses. Those will be done on lines of 15 and 16. Two staff auditors at SPCO 6 to a senior network services specialist IST 06. And a network administrator IST 11. That's the new title above on the report. Both of these are reclasses to IT positions. This brings legislative audits requests to 296. That's no change to the position totals. Mr. Chairman, that's all I have for legislative audit. Thank you, sir. Members, we're on item H. Do I have any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? Do I have a second? Members, I have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. It has been reviewed. Moving on to item I. And Mr. Brown, Barbara Brown. Barbara, if you will please identify yourself. Barbara Brown, Mayor of legislative research. Yes, ma'am. And you're welcome to continue. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We're starting with exhibit I, which is on page 7 in your handout. It's with the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System. If you look on line 8, there's an executive recommendation to change the authorized grade of the retirement system director. Deputy director from SPC-08 to SPC-09. And grade changes and title changes don't change the authorized totals in the positions. The agency and executive recommendation is for 78 positions. And Mr. Chairman, that concludes my presentation for Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System. Thank you, ma'am. Members, we are on item I. Are there any questions? Seeing none. Do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Members, I have a motion. A second. All in favor? Say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. Seeing none. Members, it has been reviewed. Moving on to item J. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Item J which is on page 8. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. Line 9 to agency requests a new classification for a retirement system manager at a SGS-10 grade level. In addition, on line 14, there's an agency and executive recommendation for a grade change request for retirement system deputy director. Chasing the grade from SPC-08 to SPC-09. And again, the salary range for that position SPC-08 is 114,390 to 169,298. And SPC-09, the salary range is 125,829 to 186,228. There's a difference between the two positions of $16,930. On line 19 and 20, there were two retirement system manager positions added. Bring in the total agency requests to 89. The executive recommendation provides for this request. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. Thank you, ma'am. Members, we are on item J. Do I have any questions? And my co-chair, go ahead, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Do you know if these positions that are upgrading, are they maxed out at their current pay level? No, sir, they are not maxed out. They may not even receive an increase because if they're already above the minimum of SPC-08 and they're going to SPC-09, their salary will just fall into the new grade at that particular point in time. It gives them the ability to raise it over. It gives them a higher limit, a higher maximum. Okay, thank you. Members, do we have any other questions? Seeing none, members, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Members, I have a motion. A second. All in favor, say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. Seeing none, it has been reviewed. Item K. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Exhibit K, which is on page 9 in your handout. It's a business area 9907, Department of Health, Administration and Shared Services. Online 8th, Department of Health, 0645 is transferred in the position of health program supervisor slash expert to 9907, which is an Administration and Shared Services. The executive recommendation provides this request. Mr. Chairman, this includes my presentation for Department of Health, Administration and Shared Services. Thank you, ma'am. Members, we are on item K. I see no questions. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? Members, I have a motion. A second. All in favor, say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. Seeing none, it has been reviewed. We're now at item 1 of K, Department of Health, Arkansas State Medical Board. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Exhibit K1 on page 10, Department of Health, Arkansas State Medical Board. This agency has a base level of 34 positions. However, on lines 8 through 12, they have five eliminations. This brings the agency and executive recommendation to 29. Also, lines 18 and 19. There's an executive recommendation for the reclassification of two positions. Again, reclassifications do not count in the position told us. Mr. Chairman, this includes my presentation for business area 0274, Department of Health, Arkansas State Medical Board. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions on item 1? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Members have a motion. A second. All in favor, say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. It has been reviewed. Moving on to item 2. Go ahead, ma'am. Mr. Chairman. Exhibit K2, page 11. Department of Health, Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy. The base level of positions for this agency is 10. There's an agency and executive recommendation to add one position, bringing the total to 11. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for our Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy. Thank you, ma'am. Members, we are on item 2. Are there any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Members, do I have a second? I have a second. All in favor, say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. Members, it has been reviewed. Item 3. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Exhibit K3, page 12. Department of Health, Arkansas Minority Health Commission. The base level of positions for this agency is 9. There's an agency and executive recommendation to eliminate one position on line 8, bringing the total positions to 8. There's also, on line 14, an executive recommendation to reclassify one position. The HR coordinator to reclassify the HR coordinator to a health program coordinator. There's also special language for Arkansas Minority Health Commission. The special language pertains in the special language is on page 13 in your exhibits. The special language pertains to positions paid for by the tobacco settlement fund. There are no changes to this language. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for the Arkansas Minority Health Commission. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion on item 3? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Members, I have a motion. Second, all in favor say aye. Any opposed, say nay. Moving on to item 4. Thank you, Mr. Chair. But exhibit K4, page 14. Page is 14 through 30. There are 357 eliminations. Page 31, there's an executive recommendation for the reclassification of 15 positions. And also on page 31, line 16, the Department of Health Business Area 0645 is transferring one position a health program supervisor's last expert to the Department of Health Administration and Shared Services Business Area 9907. These changes bring the agency requests and agency recommendations to 1,894 positions. There is also special language for this business area. On page 32 and you hand out, the special language contains the positions paid for by the tobacco settlement fund. And there are no changes to this language, Mr. Chairman. This concludes my presentation for the business area 0645, Department of Health. Thank you, ma'am. Representative Paner, you are recognized, sir. All right, thank you, Mr. Chair. And this may be a question for y'all of the department. But on these positions, eliminations, are these positions that haven't been filled in years? Or what? I think I'm going to leave that to the department. I believe it's a mixture of positions. Mr. Chair, if we can have the department. And so, if you will, please introduce yourself. Don Adams, Chief of Staff, Department of Health. I can't get one more department health. Good to see you, Matt. And you may continue. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So just to kind of restate my question of all these positions, I think. Are these a mixture or positions that I know I've seen y'all in committees that we've had a hard time. Some of these over two years old. Is that some of these positions and also to how many of these positions are at the county level? Yes, sir. Representative, the majority of them have been vacant for a while. Okay. There's, I think, 214 specifically there have been vacant over two years. And part of that act, 796, we're surrendering those. Some of them have been vacant for a year. There are a few of them on the list that have recently vacated. And we reviewed that position and the justification to refill it and decided that, you know, it wasn't justified. So it is a combination, but most of them have been vacant for quite a while. Okay. How many of these have been at the county level? There are some that are what we call local public health positions. But in particular, we scrutinize those and look at our case loads and our backlog of demand to determine whether or not we need to refill those. You know, it's a priority for the agencies to make sure in the field that we have what we need to meet the demands. Can you get me out of these positions, the list of what these positions that are at the county level, what we're eliminating, and maybe where? Yes, sir. And the reason why I ask that is, is like in my neck of the woods, I've had some issues where maybe not have appropriate staff that are not and the public's not happy. Not, you know, getting resources or whatever. And so my concern is if we're eliminating positions granted, there may be years ago, but if not at the local level, I don't want us to affect the average taxpayer that's going in there needing some help if that makes any sense. Absolutely. And we share that priority. We can get you a list of where these positions are from, whether or not they were central office or out in the field. If we did not fill a position in the field, it was because we analyzed the caseload, we look at how far it is out to an appointment, we make sure that we have access to services in the field in making those decisions. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. Representative Wooden, Jim, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. How many of the positions do you, are you surrendering in total? How many of the numbers across all business areas in the age is 365? Okay, 365. Of the 365, how many have an appropriation or being held captive? That the money is being, how many of those are budgets? It's just put it that way. Do you know? I believe all of them were not budgeted this fiscal year. All of them are non-budgeted. Double check that, but it's either all of them are unbudgeted or the vast majority are more unbudgeted. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Representative Clooney, ma'am, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I heard you all say that there was a sort of a variety of how long these positions have been open, but just to verify, are they all currently unfilled or are any currently filled positions being eliminated? These positions, the 365 are all vacant positions. Thank you. Members, are there any other questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? Jim, is that a second? Representative Mootan, is that a, is that a, is that a, did you make a second? Yes, sir. Okay. I have a motion that's second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. Seeing none, it has been approved or reviewed, rather. Moving on to Adam L. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Exhibit L. Pace 33. Parks Heritage and Tourism, Parks and Tourism Division. Lines 8 through 16, the agency is requesting nine additional positions. Three growthful positions on line 22 to 24, eliminating 30 positions on pages 34 to 35, and reclassification of three positions. The agency requests an executive recommendation, agency requests an executive recommendation for this agency is 714 positions. There is also special language for Parks and Tourism Division on page 36 of your handout. The special language pertains to extra help hours at War Memorial Stadium, and there are no changes to this language. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for Parks and Tourism Division. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions? I've seen none. There's one. Representative Painter, sir, you recognize. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and this will probably be a question for the department. Good afternoon. If you would please identify yourself. Good afternoon, Shay Lewis, Secretary of the Department of Parks Heritage and Tourism. Suzanne Grabmeyer, Chief of Staff, Parks Heritage and Tourism. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Secretary, and kind of like what I asked the health department. Are these that we're eliminating or have these been positions that have been vacant for a long period of time, and also tours, you know, maybe, and you can do this later. Like your park managers and superintendents, can you just kind of tell me where those, what parks those are affecting? Sure. Be glad to. Yes, the positions that you're seeing that are requested for elimination or acts of a 96 positions that have been vacant for two years and are currently vacant. The additional position request are related to the new state park, number 53 Blanchard Spring State Park that we have added to the system. So six of those positions have been added there. Three are additional positions for petigene state park. We've expanded some recreational opportunities there, seeing growth and visitation and need additional positions there. The growth pool positions that you see below are related to Blanchard Springs as well, but have already been requested and filled. This is codifying them into the. Okay, great. I figured that had something to do with Blanchard Springs, but I just want to make sure. All right, thank you, thank you, Mr. Chair. Members, are there any other questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion, do I have a second? I have a second. Members have a motion, a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. It has been reviewed. Moving on to item Ilm. Mr. Chairman, it's item Il1, page 37. Excuse me, I have a mistake. We have Il1, that's what I should have said. Yes, sir. Thank you, Barbara. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is area 0-865, parks, heritage and tourism. The vision of Arkansas Heritage. There are a total of 16 eliminations for this agency. Lines 8-23. Also on page 38. Lines 6, there's an executive recommendation to reclassify the heritage, the heritage deputy director to a marketing director. The base level for this agency is 131 positions. The agency and executive recommendation is 115. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for business area 0-865, the vision of Arkansas Heritage. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions? Seeing none, on item 1, do I have a motion? Do I have a second? I have a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed say nay. Members, it has been reviewed. Moving on to item Il1. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Exhibit Il, page 39. Department of Agriculture, Administration and Shared Services. There are a total of six positions, six position eliminations. Lines 8-13, as well as an executive recommendation for the reclassification of one position. The fiscal support supervises last expert to a laboratory technician too. The base level for this agency is 67. The agency and executive recommendation. Recommendations are for 61 positions. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for Department of Agriculture, Administration and Shared Services. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? I have a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed say nay. It has been reviewed. Moving on to item 1. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Exhibit Il1, page 40. Department of Agriculture. Page 40 line 9. There is an agency request for one new classification for state veterinarian at a grade of MED-10. Line 14, there is also an agency recommendation for a grade change request for the state veterinarian. This request is a change the authorized rate from MED-10 to MED-12. Page 41, there is an agency request and executive recommendation for the elimination of 16 positions. There is also a request for the reclassification of one position. The base level for this agency is 607 positions. The agency and executive recommendation is for 591 positions. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for the Department of Agriculture. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I do not hear a second. I hear a second now. Members have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed say nay. This has been reviewed. Moving on to item N. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Exhibit N. Page 42. Department of Corrections, Administration and Shared Services. The base level is 285 positions with the agency requests and executive recommendations at 285 as well. There is an agency request and executive recommendation for the reclassification of three positions which online is 9-3-11. There is also special language for Administration and Shared Services. The special language pertains to holiday compensation. The Department of Corrections may pay employees for unused holidays in an employee's account. There are no changes to this language. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for Department of Corrections and Administration and Shared Services. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions on item N? Seeing none, do I have a motion? Do I have a second? I have a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed say nay. And this has been reviewed. Moving on to item 1. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Exhibit N.1. Page 44. Department of Corrections, Division of Corrections. The only change for this business area is the reclassification of two positions. The base level agency requests an executive recommendation gets from 5,060 positions. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for Department of Corrections and Division of Corrections. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions? Seeing no questions, do I have a motion? Do I have a second? I heard it at that time. I flew helicopters too long. Members, we have a motion in a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed say nay. It has been reviewed. Moving on to item 2. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Exhibit N.2. Page 45. The only change for this business area is the executive recommendation for the reclassification of three positions. The base level agency requests an executive recommendation is for 21 positions. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my presentation for the post-present transfer report. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? Do I have a second? I have a second. Members, we have a motion in a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed say nay. It has been reviewed. Thank you, bubber. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If you would please identify yourself. Angelica Mercado, your legislative research. Yes, ma'am. Starting with exhibit O, we are at the state military department. They are currently authorized at 455 positions. They received one MF2 positions in two growth pull positions. They are on lines 9 and 10 on page 46. The agency is requesting to eliminate 20 positions. On page 46, all the way to page 47, line 13. They also requested three reclassifications. And you can see that on lines 19 through 21. The net effective these changes will decrease the number of total authorized positions for 455 to 436. And they also have one piece of special language on page 48. It addresses the line item max for the position of an adjutant and deputy adjutant general. And that is all I have for the agency. Thank you, ma'am. Representative Painter. Sir, you are recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Dear Wood, I see you in the back. If you could just shake your head. Are these 20 positions that we are eliminating? Part of act 76, all positions that haven't been filled in two years. No. You know, if you want to come up and tell me, yeah. It is, yes. It is. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Go ahead. You know, speaking of that, is there a way that, as we're moving on in the personnel committee, that we can find out these positions that are being eliminated without maybe having to call the agency up to just automatically know that these are part of the act or not? I'll turn that over to you. Okay. So you want us to identify which... So like, you know, we had the health department eliminating a bunch of positions. Right. Okay. That was part of the act. Right. Is there, instead of having them, you know, every agency because I'd like to know if we're cutting a bunch, is it because we haven't filled it or what's going on. It would just be nice to have that identifier to let us know. Yes. I think we can identify for you all the 796 positions that are being eliminated. That's all I'm asking. That would be great. We'll work on that for the future. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. Members, are there any other questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Members, we have a motion, and we have a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. It has been reviewed. Moving on to item P. Item P is the Department of Labor and Licensing, Arkansas Real Estate Commission. They currently have 15 authorized positions, and they are requesting one investigator, three, at a grade SGS06, and the net effect of the changes will increase the number to 16, and an executive record provides for this request. That is all I have for that one. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions on item P? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Members have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. It has been reviewed. Moving on to item Q. Item Q is a DFA admin and shared services. They currently have 46 authorized positions. They are eliminating two positions, on page 50, lines 8 and 9. They are also reclassifying one position online 15 from a state infrastructure coordinator to a finance supervisor expert. They are receiving two positions, on lines 20 and 21. That is a chief legal counsel to from revenue services and attorney to from DFA management services. They are transferring a total of 25 positions to DFA budget and management services. On page 50, lines 22, all the way to page 51. And the net effective these changes will decrease the number of authorized positions from 46 to 21. And exact correct provides for the agencies request. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions on item Q? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. I have a favor to say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. It has been reviewed. Members on item 1, there was an error on what we received originally and there was a new copy on your desk. And with that, we will go back to item 1. DFA budget and management services currently have 187 authorized positions. They are eliminating four positions that are on lines 8 through 11. They are reclassifying one position, state economist to a state accounting supervisor slash expert. And they are transferring one position to shared services on line 23 and an attorney to. And they are receiving 60 positions, 35 positions from revenue and 25 from shared services. The net effective these changes will increase the number of total positions from 187 to 242. And the exact correct provides for the agency's request. And that's all I have for that. Thank you. Members, are there any questions? Seeing none, on item 1, do I have a motion? I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a second. Members have a motion in a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. Item 1 has been reviewed, moving on to item 2. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Next up is child support enforcement division. They currently have 775 authorized positions. They are reclassifying two positions on page 58. One trainer to fiscal support supervisor expert and another to an executive assistant. There are no changes to the number of positions and they will remain at 775. They also have one piece of special language on page 59. The agency is requesting to revise the language to replace the seven month employment limit with the 1,500 hour limit established in Arkansas law. If a temporary or part time employee exceeds 1,500 hours, the agency must submit a report to legislative council or joint budget. And that is all I have for the agency and the exact correct provides for this. Members are there any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? I have a motion, do I have a second? I have a second. Members have a motion, a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. And it has been reviewed. Moving on to item 3. I got lost. Item 3 is a revenue division. They currently have 1,545 positions. They are eliminating 17 positions. All this is on page 60, lines 8 through 24. They are reclassifying two positions that are on page 61, line 6 through 7. And they are both tax auditor 2 to revenue program coordinator. On page 61, line 12, page 62 shows the agency transferring out a total of 36 positions one admin services in the rest of budget and management services. The net effect of these changes will decrease the number of total positions from 1545 to 1492. The agency also has two pieces of special language. The first one is on page 64 and then is the extra help exemption that I spoke about in the last one as well. And the second one is the authority to employ certified law enforcement officers. It gives the agency classifications to use to employ certified law enforcement officers as provided under Arkansas Code 129-101. An executive rat provides for the agency's request. That's all I have for that, Mr. Chair. Thank you, ma'am. Members, do I have any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? I have a motion of second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. It has been reviewed, moving on to item or rather item are. Item are is the Department of Shared Admin Services. They currently have 210 authorized positions on page 66. They are requesting 10 positions, two state personnel supervisor expert and eight state personnel specialists. The agency is eliminating seven positions. This is on lines 23 and on page 67 line seven, all the way through page 67. They are also reclassifying one position, a public information coordinator to a state personnel specialist. They are receiving 13 positions on page 67 line 18 through page 68. From Office of State Technology, the net effective these changes will increase the number of total authorized positions from 210 to 226. An exact correct provides for the agency's request. That's all I have for that, Mr. Chair. Thank you, ma'am. Members, are there any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? I have a second. Members have a motion of second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. It has been reviewed. Members, item S is other business. Does anybody have any other business? I have what did I miss something? R1. Okay, R1, I miss R1. Please go ahead. The last one is Office of State Technology. They have 215 authorized positions. They are requesting to eliminate 20 positions. You can find us on page 69 lines 8 through page 70. They are also transferring 13 positions to shared admin services. Net effective these changes will decrease the number of total authorized positions from 215 to 182. And that's all I have for that, Mr. Chair. Thank you, ma'am. And representative Wooden. Sir, you are recognized. Yes, I have a question of Ms. Barnhill, if I may, three questions very quickly. I have two reports here. One is dated 617 over your letterhead. Yes. And it concerns act 796, which has been held to the bank sign. And then I have a report dated 105, which has all the vacant positions, 21, I mean 2144. My question is, of these, of these in the 617 report, do you know how many of them were budgeted positions? Yes, sir. Okay. I actually do know that. 785 of those positions were budgeted. 1146 were not budgeted. Yes, the letter that I sent you back. Yes. Can I have a copy? Yes, you can. Okay. How many of the 2144 were there were the 105 report or budgets? Do you know? I mean, I don't have that information right here with us. 796 is held to an advance awaiting a decision to be made about what to do with the phantom employees. Is that correct or the health benefits? Let's put it that way. Are we paying health benefits on vacant positions? If they are vacant budgeted positions, yes, they can help benefits. Then we are paying. Oh, I'm budgeted positions. We don't pay anything. Okay. Do you know what the status is of coming up with a solution? And that was pointed out to the body at the time that the 796 was passed. Right. Of the consequences. Yes, sir. I believe Mr. Wallace, Grant Wallace of the Employment Benefits Division, is working on a plan that he's going to present to you. I'll add a later. Okay. That's right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Members, are there any other questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? A motion? Do I have a second? I have a second. Members have a motion. That's second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Say nay. Members, R1 has been reviewed. Moving on to item S. Is there any other business? Members, when we started this thing at 130, Tony Robinson said it would take about an hour and it took an hour and three minutes. If I wouldn't have stood it a couple of times, we'd have probably made it or if I'd talked a little bit faster. So with that, I have a motion to adjourn. Is there another motion? Do I have a second? Thank you. I have a second. And we are adjourned. Thank you all for being here.