Post by libby on Jan 26, 2016 22:13:45 GMT -6
Frankfort -- Gov. Matt Bevin called for $650 million in “cuts across the board” in his first state budget proposal to the General Assembly on Tuesday, with the details, including possible layoffs of state employees, to be left to his cabinet secretaries.
Bevin said his $21 billion, two-year budget would dedicate $1.1 billion to the state’s ailing pension systems for state workers and schoolteachers, although it was not immediately clear from where that money would come, and even that large sum falls short of what the teachers’ system requested.
The Republican governor pledged to protect per-pupil K-12 school funding, Medicaid, social workers, prosecutors, state police and prison correctional officers; hire more public defenders; and fully fund DNA testing of rape kits and last year’s Senate Bill 192, meant to curb the heroin addiction epidemic.
But most of the rest of state government — such as universities, regulatory agencies, parks, public television, workplace safety, public health, environmental quality and economic development — would face spending cuts of 4.5 percent for the remainder of this fiscal year, which ends June 30, and 9 percent over each of the next two fiscal years. Schoolteachers and state workers other than those in the protected categories should not count on a pay raise during that time.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article56717773.html
Bevin said his $21 billion, two-year budget would dedicate $1.1 billion to the state’s ailing pension systems for state workers and schoolteachers, although it was not immediately clear from where that money would come, and even that large sum falls short of what the teachers’ system requested.
The Republican governor pledged to protect per-pupil K-12 school funding, Medicaid, social workers, prosecutors, state police and prison correctional officers; hire more public defenders; and fully fund DNA testing of rape kits and last year’s Senate Bill 192, meant to curb the heroin addiction epidemic.
But most of the rest of state government — such as universities, regulatory agencies, parks, public television, workplace safety, public health, environmental quality and economic development — would face spending cuts of 4.5 percent for the remainder of this fiscal year, which ends June 30, and 9 percent over each of the next two fiscal years. Schoolteachers and state workers other than those in the protected categories should not count on a pay raise during that time.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article56717773.html