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Eye On Boise

‘The budget for 2010 is balanced’

Cathy Holland-Smith, legislative budget director, told JFAC her staff is distributing its first general fund budget update, showing the impact of budget decisions the joint committee just has made. "It does reflect very, very difficult choices, but at this point the budget for 2010 is balanced," Holland-Smith said. Senate Finance Chairman Dean Cameron, R-Rupert, thanked the JFAC staff for all their work. "Albeit tenuously, it is balanced," Cameron said, "and now we can move forward for 2011."

Cameron told Eye on Boise, "It's very difficult, I think, for agencies to take a 7 percent reduction this late in the year. The only silver lining is that the agencies have been anticipating it and have been preparing for additional reductions. For some - Corrections and Health & Welfare - it's extremely difficult, but we don't really have any other alternative."



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