Unresolved, however, is how the budget is to be balanced with the new expenditures.
After its one-day meeting, the Legislature has been in recess and is scheduled to resume the special session today (July 13) to try to work out a compromise budget.
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Lawmakers agree to put $3.8M more to education
Published on Friday, July 10, 2009
After six months of squabbling over Arizona’s projected $3 billion to $4 billion budget deficit, the Legislature voted unanimously in its first day July 6 of a special session on a budget package that restored $3.2 million in funding for public education and added another $400 million for schools.
Unresolved, however, is how the budget is to be balanced with the new expenditures.
After its one-day meeting, the Legislature has been in recess and is scheduled to resume the special session today (July 13) to try to work out a compromise budget.
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has been pushing for the idea of asking voters to approve temporarily raising the state’s sales tax from 5.6 percent to 6.6 percent.
Unresolved, however, is how the budget is to be balanced with the new expenditures.
After its one-day meeting, the Legislature has been in recess and is scheduled to resume the special session today (July 13) to try to work out a compromise budget.
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