State Budget

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Economic woes are hitting home in Georgia. ...

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When the news came out that Penn State would be raising tuition, no one should have been shocked, or even mildly surprised. ...

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LETTERS: Real facts on the State Budget ...

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The State Budget signed by Gov. Mike Easley on Wednesday includes $2.7 million to renovate and expand the polar bear exhibit at the N.C. Zoological Park and an additional $600,000 to plan and design buildings to replace the aging African Pavilion. ...

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Gov. Jennifer Granholm has signed more of the next State Budget but also has used her veto pen to strike out parts she disagrees with. The governor released letters Friday explaining her line-item vetoes. The State police Budget included an... ...

Source: blog.mlive.com --- 10 days ago
LANSING — Negotiators are close to deciding how much money Michigan's K-12 public schools will get in the fiscal year that starts in October. A panel of State lawmakers debating school funding is expected to meet Thursday. If they reach... ...

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Action on the State Budget will have to wait another day. The Illinois House convened Tuesday afternoon but adjourned almost immediately. ...

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In a surprise to some, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Monday that the State is now projected to finish the just-completed fiscal year with a surplus of $22.3 million. That total represented a sharp turnaround from the May projection of a deficit of $19.7 million. The one-month turnaround was $42 million, which Budget director Robert Genuario said came from $30 million in spending cuts and $12 million in higher-than-expected tax collections. The State income tax brought in $20 million more than expected in June, but the overall net - including all other taxes - was $12 million more than projected for the month. More calculations will be made in the coming weeks, and the final results for the 2008 fiscal year - which ended June 30 - will not be made until September. "We're not 100 percent out of the woods yet,'' Genuario said. "This is still based on some projections.'' The surplus is a tissue-thin margin, and the State has been teeter-tottering between a surplus and a deficit. "I was concerned it could go either way,'' Genuario said. For further information, see www.courant.com .   ...

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Now that Gov. Corzine's austere Budget has become law, can it be said that New Jersey's fiscal prospects have improved? ...

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Members of the Assembly took a cue from the State Senate yesterday and went gone on vacation themselves, leaving the Capitol virtually lawmaker-free, except for the leaders negotiating the Budget. Barring any breakthrough, both houses will be dark until Aug. 4. Don’t hold your breath. ...

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South Dakota State government had to use more reserve funds than expected to balance the books for the Budget year ...

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Yuma officials' reaction to a State lawmaker's amendment that could replace the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards, which is required of all high school seniors to graduate, has been one of cautious acceptance. ...

Source: www.pjstar.com --- 7 days ago
Budget ping-pong at the Capitol is finished for now. Lawmakers have gone home likely until the fall without restoring Gov. Rod Blagojevich's deep spending cuts. The mess left behind causes great uncertainty for State employees, service providers and taxpayers. Answers are fleeting now and could be for weeks or months. Here is an analysis of those Budget pieces and the role they're playing in this Budget mess. The puzzle Democratic lawmakers sent the governor a Budget in May they acknowledged had more spending than money to pay for it. Blagojevich said it was $2 billion out of whack and made $1.4 billion in cuts last week. He called lawmakers back to town last week to pass more money to stave off the cuts, but they refused. The House then voted this week to restore about $480 million in cuts, sending those to the Senate for consideration. Now neither chamber plans to come back until November, leaving the fate of the cuts in limbo. The House The House didn't go along with the Senate-approved ideas for money-raising ideas to pay for extra spending: borrowing to pay down pension debt, sweeping money out of special State funds, authorizing a $34 billion capital construction program. House leaders say there's simply not enough support in that chamber for those proposals in their current form, although they're willing to talk about alternatives. The House voted to restore millions of dollars for Secretary of State Jesse White's office, ...

Source: www.ncnn.com --- 8 days ago
(RALEIGH)- Governor Easley thanked the legislature for their hard work on Wednesday, and with little fanfare signed the $21.4 billion spending plan. This year's Budget greatly increasing borrowing for construction projects at UNC campuses, State prisons and other State facilities. Social programs like NC Kids' Care saw their funding delayed until 2009. ...

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Gov. Tim Kaine 's administration on Thursday ordered State agencies to curb hiring, travel and purchases, and warned that Budget cuts are on the way.In a letter to legislative Budget writers, the admi... ...

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The Issue: Gov. Ed Rendell signs a $28.3 billion Budget with record increases in basic subsidies for public school districts. Our Opinion: As long as statewide revenues come in as anticipated, this is about as good as a State Budget can get. There is no doubt about the big winners in the 2008-09 Pennsylvania Budget of $28.3 billion: Public schools, social services and energy projects came out ahead, while legislators were able to hold the line on taxes and avoid tapping the so-called rainy-day fund. But some have predicted that the tax revenues anticipated in the Budget will fall far short of expectations as a result of the lagging economy, forcing the State to raid its contingency fund, raise taxes next year or both. Budget critics also point to heavy borrowing in the Budget, most of which must be paid back during the next few years, provided the revenues are there to do so. And of course another year has passed in which the Legislature has taken no action to eliminate the property tax used to fund public schools. But on the whole, most residents should be fairly pleased with the spending guide, as long as those revenue projections are accurate. Public schools in Berks County will divide $21.1 million more than they received last year, with the Reading School District getting the bulk of that at $15.6 million, an 18 percent increase from last year’s basic subsidy. Every district received at least a 3 percent increase, with the Mu ...

Source: www.pjstar.com --- 8 days ago
The Illinois House backed reversing some of Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s deep State Budget cuts Wednesday but left the fate of all the reductions in doubt as they left town until the fall. The House took up the vast majority of the $1.4 billion in cuts Blagojevich made last week in a series of 33 votes. Only six of those 33 motions to restore the funding passed, worth about $480 million. They now head to the Senate for consideration. House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, then sent his members home late Wednesday afternoon, saying he doesn’t intend to bring them back until the fall veto session in November — unless plans change. “If the need arises in the interim, I may call the House into session,” Madigan told the lawmakers. Senate President Emil Jones, D-Chicago, has said he doesn’t intend to have the Senate convene to take up what the House passed right away, since the Senate had already approved revenue generators that would have made the cuts unnecessary. That leaves substance abuse treatment centers, hospitals, schools, historic sites and other victims of the cuts in limbo for a while longer. Republicans, who opposed many of the motions to restore the cuts, complained the House votes were about political posturing that toys with groups in need of help. “We are creating so much false hope for people in this State, and it’s because of games that we play,” said House Minority Leader Tom Cross, R-Oswego. “The childish games are fi ...

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The State has ended the latest fiscal year with its third consecutive balanced Budget. ...