Understanding Kansas Budget Trickery: Insights and Impacts from Rep. Pete DeGraaf

1. Budget Trickery Representative Pete DeGraaf

2. House District 81 – Rep. Pete DeGraaf

3. My Newsletter • My Contact Info • I serve on the House • Appropriations General Government Budget Government Efficiency South Central Delegation KLEAR • Please take my online Survey www.Peter DeGraaf.com

4. Turning PASSION into Positive Power

5. How to Write Your Legislators • Keep it Short (The shorter the better!) • One Topic per Letter • Identify yourself (I live in your district a and I’m a concerned parent, business owner..) • Thank them for serving • Be Specific (What you want them to do about an issue or bill) • End with Your Name, address, phone number, and email address

6. The Kansas Budget: A “Simple” Overview 6

7. $$$ and Circles 7

8. Trickery Use of Debt – 8

9. How much is our state debt?

10. How much do we owe?

11. Trickery Use of Debt – See Report – Worst in Region 11

12. Trickery Refinance Debt – Lengthen Repayment Pay Interest Only 25yr Transportation Bonds 12

13. Trickery Hidden Liabilities - KPERS ($8 -19 billion) - School Bonding (Equalization) - City and County Debt - Federal Emergency – 25% 13

14. Trickery Hidden Liabilities - KPERS ($8 -19 billion) - School Bonding (Equalization) - City and County Debt - Federal Emergency – 25% - Case Loads - School counts / formula 14

15. Trickery Hidden Liabilities Abandoned Oil Wells, Wind Mills? , Old Hotels, Amusement Parks, Coliseums, Race tracks, Ice Rinks… will Casinos be next? Meth Homes… 15

16. Trickery Looking at only part of the picture - 16

17. All Funds verses State General Funds 17

18. KS Fiscal Factspage 25All Fund ~ $14 BState General Funds ~6 B 18

19. Trickery Looking at only part of the picture – Transportation Budget K-12 School Budget Regent’s Budget 19

20. Trickery No Emergency Fund - 7.5% Ending Balance see handout - Exempt ourselves 20

21. Trickery Change your projections - Percent of Growth too optimistic 21

22. Where does the money come from? Total Revenue: $6,047.6 Total may not add due to rounding

23. How have the State General Fund revenue sources changed?

24. How do receipts and expenditures compare over time?

25. Trickery Use Savings and Sell Assets - Can be good thing - Over taxed – too high of Fee - Fee Sweeps for other things - 20% Fee to Service Industry - Unused Buildings and Land 25

26. Where does a dollar come from? FY 2012 Estimated State General Fund • Individual Income Tax 45¢ • Sales and Compensating Use Tax 39¢ • Corporate & Financial Income Tax 4¢ • Insurance Premium Tax 3¢ • Alcohol Taxes 3¢ • Tobacco Taxes 2¢ • Severance Tax 1¢ • Other Taxes 3¢ Total Receipts $1.00

27. Where does the money go?

28. Where does a dollar go? FY 2012 Approved State General Fund Expenditures • Department of Education 50¢ • Board of Regents and Institutions 12¢ • Other Education 1¢ Subtotal Education 63¢ • Dept. of SRS (including Hospitals) 12¢ • Department of Health and Environment 10¢ • Dept. of Corrections and Facilities 4¢ • Dept. on Aging 3¢ • Judicial, Board of Indigents’ Defense 2¢ • Juvenile Justice Authority and Facilities 1¢ • All Other 5¢ Total Receipts $1.00

29. Where does the money go? Total Expenditures: $13,913.1 Total may not add due to rounding

30. Where does a dollar go? FY 2012 Approved All Funds Expenditures • Department of Education 26¢ • Board of Regents and Institutions 16¢ Subtotal Education 43¢ • Dept. of SRS (including Hospitals) 13¢ • Dept. of Health and Environment 13¢ • Dept. of Transportation 10¢ • Dept. of Labor 5¢ • Dept. on Aging 4¢ • Dept. of Corrections and Facilities 2¢ • Judicial, Legislative, and Elected Officials 2¢ • Juvenile Justice Authority and Facilities 1¢ • All Other 7¢ Total Receipts $1.00

31. How is the money spent? Total Expenditures: $13,913.1 Total may not add due to rounding

32. How is the money spent? Total Expenditures: $6,054.8 Total may not add due to rounding

33. Trickery Skip Payments - KPERS 33

34. Trickery Delay Payments - Schools (Not one this year) - Revenue – Refund Checks 34

35. Trickery Defer Maintenance - Building - Boilers - Roads - Bridges - Airports 35

36. Trickery Counting Chickens before they hatch - Casino Money - Tax Settlements 36

37. http://www.kansas.gov/KanView/

38. The Executive Branch is getting better at providing better Access and Transparency – now they need to focus on making the data easier to understand. 38

39. http://www.kansasopengov.org

40. http://www.kansasopengov.org

41. Trickery Use of Personnel Funding - Open Positions - “Shrinkage” 41

42. A cumulative look at K–12 Expenditures

43. Where does the money go?

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46. Where does the money go? Total Expenditures: $5,450.1 Total may not add due to rounding

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50. With allotments, what has happened to education spending?