Mike Shields — KHI News Service LENEXA — Gov. Sam Brownback today said he will ask the Kansas Legislature to approve spending an additional $2.6 million in state funds to help reduce the waiting lists for in-home, Medicaid services for the disabled. If approved, an estimated 209 additional people would receive the services. There are about 5,000 people on the waiting lists; more than 3,100 are developmentally disabled. About 1,800 physically disabled people also await services, though administration officials said they were still in the process of verifying the accuracy of that number. If the governor’s funding request is approved by lawmakers, 77 of the 209 beneficiaries would come off the developmental disability waiting list and 132 from the physical disability list, according to Brownback officials. The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services reported there were 8,759 developmentally disabled Kansans and 5,467 physically disabled people receiving in-home services as of April 15. “Reducing the disability waiting lists has been a priority of this administration for the past three years,” Brownback said during a press conference at Johnson County Developmental Supports to announce his budget amendment. Johnson County Developmental Supports is a county agency that assists the developmentally disabled with job support and other services. The reaction to Brownback's announcement from advocates for the disabled was mixed. “For the 77 (developmental disability) families, it’s very good news, absolutely,” said Tom Laing, executive director of Interhab, the association that represents most of the state’s Community Developmental Disability Organizations or CDDOs. “But as regards the system as a whole, it’s really nothing…...