JFAC is holding a special hearing this morning on state workforce budget issues. Legislative Budget Director Cathy Holland-Smith has been detailing the way the state accounts for its employees, which is complicated and varies by funding type and other issues. Bottom line: The "FTP" or "full-time position" count usually used in budgeting doesn't necessarily line up with the number of "active employees," as tallied by the state controller's office annual "rainbow report" that includes stats on state employees. That "active employees" number was 26,040 in January of 2008; it's 24,198 today, after years of cutbacks. That's a drop of 1,842 employees. Also scheduled this morning is a report from the state Division of Human Resources on employee compensation and benefits.