State Agencies

Delaware Joint Finance Committee Week One Update

Delaware Joint Finance Committee

The Delaware Joint Finance Committee is in full swing this month!  As different state agencies give their presentations for the FY2020 state budget for Delaware, the legislators on the committee have to make some big decisions between now and June 30th.  Alexandra Sparco, the legislative aide for the JFC Chair Quinton Johnson, gave an overview of what’s been going on in the public hearings for the first week.  I hope to get these for all the presentations as they give an excellent overview of what different state agencies are looking to carry out in the next fiscal year.

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Did Governor Carney Actually Heed My Advice?

Family Services Cabinet Council

For most of this year, I’ve been beating up Delaware Governor John Carney over the non-public Family Services Cabinet Council.  My beef has been that the meetings for this group are behind closed doors.  Nobody knows what goes on in these meetings.  That changes on Monday, November 13th.  Carney is allowing the Council to have a public presentation at Del-Tech’s Wilmington campus at 300 N. Orange St. in downtown Wilmington from 6:00 to 7:30pm.

Governor John Carney will host a discussion with the Family Services Cabinet Council at Delaware Technical Community College in Wilmington.

The agenda will include presentations on data-sharing efforts among state agencies in Wilmington, state service coordination for low-income families, and a planned dual generation center to improve the delivery of job-related services, and services for Wilmington children.

The event is an opportunity for stakeholders and members of the public to provide feedback and ideas for improving the delivery of state services in Wilmington.

This is the kind of open transparency I’ve been begging for.  While it is not a solution to my issues with this Council, it opens the door to what they do.  Thank you Governor Carney.  I’m not sure if my complaining had anything to do with this, but I do thank you for this opportunity.  Was this why the Family Services Cabinet Council met twice last week, on October 30th and November 1st?