Chief Financial Officer Michael Swank told lawmakers during the Legislature's Joint Appropriation Committee budget hearing on Friday that the state hasn't kept up with its portion of funding. "Right now, where the state aid budget is at, we're roughly at between 50 and 53% (in state aid)," he said. "The state aid position hasn't kept up with that particular traditional split of resources to the colleges." During the 2022 budget session, the Wyoming Community College Commission requested $21.2 million in state aid through an exemption request, which officials said was the needed amount to compensate for increased costs of inflation. The Legislature, however, only awarded the commission $7.5 million.
