• BED's 2025 Biennium New Proposal Outcomes

  • NP 601 – Brands Equipment Upgrades (OTO) (BIEN): This budget request was for $180,000 in FY 2024 of state special revenue to fund equipment upgrades for enforcement and market operations. Major items include approximately $100,000 in law enforcement radios, $50,000 in livestock trailers, and the remainder on various Livestock Market minor equipment. This revenue was utilized for the replacement of aging equipment in the brands division. Those purchases included two livestock trailers, as well as radios for enforcement staff. Additional upgrades were made in livestock market equipment and law enforcement communications.
  • PL 602 – Brands Division Overtime Augment: This budget request was for $95,000 in FY 2024 and $95,000 in FY 2025 of state special revenue to fund reoccurring shortages in overtime expenses for the Brands Division's Market and Enforcement staffing. The overtime budget for the division has been locked at $55,979. The past five years overtime expenses average is $134,450 and the past two years average is $167,355. This budget request allowed the division to address the traditional overtime faced in the livestock markets and the time required to implement a new software system in the markets.
  • NP 603 – Additional Market Staff: This budget request was for $52,823 in FY 2024 and $52,857 in FY 2025 of state special revenue to fund 1.00 FTE Brands Market staff to help regulate at the markets with increasing head counts. The brands division is currently recruiting for this position. The position has been designed to help at three eastern livestock markets.