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Strickland orders more spending cuts
Gov. Ted Strickland on Wednesday, April 22, ordered state employees to take more steps toward reducing spending, including holding off on purchases, renegotiating contracts, limiting travel and taking a lower mileage reimbursement rate.
Strickland issued an executive order, saying state agencies should strive to reduce spending on contract service and supplies by 30 percent in the next two years. State agency directors are instructed to personally review any purchase orders of $1,000 or more.
“…even after reducing the state workforce by more than 3,500 employees and undertaking nearly $2 billion in spending cuts and reductions, the national recession continues to impact the state budget,” Strickland said in a written release.
Personal income and sales tax revenues - the horse power behind the state budget - have been falling below projections. In March, personal income tax and sales tax receipts were each 10.2 percent less than expected.
Lawmakers are currently debating a proposed two-year, $53.9 billion state operating budget for fiscal years 2010 and 2011. The budget bill must be adopted by June 30 because the new fiscal year starts July 1.
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By L Berry
April 23, 2009 9:15 AM | Link to this
Even with spending the entire “rainy day fund” and all of the economic stimulus monies The Governors budget is still way out of line. He has mandated future deficits without any means to provide the necessary revenue to fund. He should go back and remove teh big spending items that we cannot afford and allow necessary, current issues to be funded. His attempts is to save penny’s, when we are dollars behind. Come on Govenor, make the hard choices and withdrawal the new big ticket spending in your so called budget.