Post by Logan on Apr 19, 2016 0:23:24 GMT -6
Inslee signs supplemental budget; includes mental-health, wildfire money
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee signed a supplemental budget Monday that puts more money into the state’s mental-health hospitals, pays for the cost of last summer’s devastating wildfires and spares the state auditor’s office from a budget cut.
The budget increases spending from the two-year $38.2 billion plan adopted last year by about $211 million and does not come with tax increases. Instead, it uses extra money in the state’s general fund and directs money away from state functions and other measures to pay for new priorities.
Inslee vetoed a provision of the budget originally passed by the Legislature in late March intended to shift $10 million away from the state auditor’s Performance Audit account. The audits are used to make sure government is running properly and efficiently.
“We think these performance audits have value for the state,” Inslee said Monday. “They help us perfect operations, and we thought it was important to keep this significant investment in this service.”
Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-budget/
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee signed a supplemental budget Monday that puts more money into the state’s mental-health hospitals, pays for the cost of last summer’s devastating wildfires and spares the state auditor’s office from a budget cut.
The budget increases spending from the two-year $38.2 billion plan adopted last year by about $211 million and does not come with tax increases. Instead, it uses extra money in the state’s general fund and directs money away from state functions and other measures to pay for new priorities.
Inslee vetoed a provision of the budget originally passed by the Legislature in late March intended to shift $10 million away from the state auditor’s Performance Audit account. The audits are used to make sure government is running properly and efficiently.
“We think these performance audits have value for the state,” Inslee said Monday. “They help us perfect operations, and we thought it was important to keep this significant investment in this service.”
Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-budget/