Topeka ? The Kansas Department of Administration has rescinded a decision to increase by 800 percent the fee it charges other agencies for a training program, officials said Wednesday.

The fee increase made headlines in December after it was reported by state Sen. Janis Lee, D-Kensington, who was helping Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in her transition before taking office.

At the time, Department of Administration officials said they increased the price of a supervisory training program from $95 to $795 to help offset budgetary cuts.

Lee said that decision was an example of bureaucrats trying to protect their turf.

Earlier this week, newly appointed Administration Secretary Howard Fricke wrote Lee that the cost of the training program had been rolled back to $95 and that the agency was evaluating different ways of providing the program in the next fiscal year.

“This is more appropriate,” Lee said. She said Fricke’s decision showed that the Sebelius administration was focused on looking at state government as a whole instead of individual state agencies.