Today we had Joint Appropriations Committee in Casper. The agenda was full with detailed conversation between the committee and:

The Gaming Commission of propose gaming rule and statute changes
The Dept. of A&I on state employee compensation and health insurance
State Lands and Investments on state loan programs
Enterprise Technology Services on Agency Recommendations for the structure of their agency and a how to incorporate the responsibility of a statewide GIS also into that agency.

We also had a long conversation and debate on streamlining the School Capital Construction Account to make the funding of education more transparent and the funding easier to understand.

Coming off Beaver Rim about 9:00 p.m. I met an extremely impressive bull elk standing in the middle of the road. I went around him then turned around and watched him for a minute or two. It was a nice way to end the day putting in perspective why all of the time spent on the issues of the state are important.