Articles Tagged "budget"
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Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:24:21 -0700
A survey by two national groups concludes that state budgets will have rough sledding in the coming year -- no big surprise to people who have followed Arizona's budget travails. "States, unfortunately, are still suffering," said Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers. That means that state budgets will not recover to pre-recession levels as they go into the 2011 fiscal year, which begins July 1, Pattison said in a news conference announcing the release of a survey done by his group and the National Governors Association. He and Raymond Scheppach, executive director of the governors' group, said state budgets ...read the rest of this post
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Fri, 21 May 2010 15:43:55 -0700
Before Prop. 100, there was Prop. 301. That effort 10 years ago promoted a 0.6-cent increase in the state sales tax to pay for education. Voters said "yes," but the man who ran that campaign said it could have garnered more than 53.5 percent of the vote if not for one explosive detail. That would be the alt-fuel scandal, in which a state incentive program to convert cars to alternative fuels threatened to bust a huge hole in the state budget. “It was like a tsunami,” recalled Jaime Molera, who ran the campaign. “Everything got sucked into it.” That included then-Gov. ...read the rest of this post
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Tue, 18 May 2010 18:21:27 -0700
People are always going on about the need for bipartisanship these days, so we'd like to highlight a rare case of candidates reaching across the aisle for a common cause. In this case, the cause is Prop. 100, and your candidates for Arizona treasurer agree: It must be stopped. On the Republican side, Sen. Thayer Verschoor heads Ax the Tax, the committee working to oppose the 1-cent sales tax increase. "Our most trusted and expert economic minds state that Prop. 100 will actually make our budget problems worse in the future by keeping state spending artificially high and leaving taxpayers facing larger ...read the rest of this post
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Mon, 03 May 2010 15:29:01 -0700
Arizona State University will merge departments and eliminate some colleges, resulting in 98 positions being cut, to address $5.4 million in budget cuts for next school year.
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Wednesday, Apr 28, 10 at 07:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE -- Republicans eagerly voted to cut state parks in March budget; House Democrats expose GOP harmful sham parks plan, successfully kill it
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Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:44:35 -0700
The Arizona Legislature will convene its eighth special session Monday to give Gov. Jan Brewer the authority to sue the federal government over the health-care bill. Brewer issued the call Friday afternoon and followed it with her call to arms. "Arizonans are increasingly concerned and alarmed about the rpaid and dramatic expansion of the federal government into their personal lives," Brewer said in a statement. "This massive new federal mandate is a threat to our individual freedoms, and state soverignty as well as a devastating new cost to our state budget." Brewer and many legislative Republicans have complained about the cost the new ...read the rest of this post
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Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:08:32 -0700
Maricopa County officials are scrutinizing the budget of Sheriff Joe Arpaio as they prepare to negotiate next year’s budget. The Office of Management and Budget is digging deep into the office’s $270 million-budget as part of its normal budgeting process, a county official said. The office’s general fund, which pays for patrol operations, is fairly tight and getting tighter as legal fees related to county infighting continue to pile up. “I do think that even going into a flat-budgeted year, there will be some alternative analytical capabilities,” the Board of Supervisors will have, County Manager David Smith told The Republic. If Arpaio’s ...read the rest of this post
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:18:48 -0700
The fiscal 2011 state budget is pretty much a done deal. Still, local religious leaders have banded together to denounce recent budget cuts and asked Gov. Jan Brewer and the Legislature to try again. The leaders put out a statement Tuesday, saying that the “poorest and the most vulnerable” will suffer from the cuts. “As people of Christian faith we cannot accept these cuts,” the statement read. “Throughout the history of our faith, the prophets have warned us that an economic system that shows indifference to the needs of the poor is contrary to God's will and leads to ruin for society.” Last week, ...read the rest of this post
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Tuesday, Mar 16, 10 at 07:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE -- Speaker Kirk Adams' Statement On Budget and Sine Die
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:36:27 -0700
The Senate adjourned on Monday without acting on either of the two budget bills it has yet to consider. But members of the minority party are still hoping to make some tweaks. Republicans need a handful of Democrats to pass House Bill 2013, which would repeal a tax credit given to businesses to defray the cost of collecting taxes. The bill needs a two-thirds majority to pass because it results in an increase to state revenue. Democrats aren't quite ready to vote for the bill, Sen. Jorge Garcia said Monday. Democrats are galled that other budget bills not only de-funded some of ...read the rest of this post
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:36:07 -0700
That thought might be running through Sen. Thayer Verschoor 's mind now that he realizes the state budget could put a $31 million hole in the charter-school budget. Verschoor is chairman of the Ax the Tax Committee, which is working to defeat the one-cent sales tax hike on the May 18 ballot. If his committee succeeds, the cut kicks in, according to the "alternate budget" that is moving along with the fiscal 2011 budget. Verschoor, wearing his senator hat, proposed an amendment that would reduce the hit to charter schools to $15 million. He also led a mini-rebellion that held up work ...read the rest of this post
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Thursday, Mar 11, 10 at 08:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE -- Statement by Speaker Adams on Budget Passage
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Monday, Mar 08, 10 at 08:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE -- Republicans to produce phony budget from behind closed doors
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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:28:12 -0700
On Monday, Collin DeWitt stepped into a role he never dreamed of playing when Town Manager George Pettit retired after eight years. And he steps in just as the town begins setting the budget for one of its toughest years ever.
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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:28:12 -0700
On Monday, Collin DeWitt stepped into a role he never dreamed of playing when Town Manager George Pettit retired after eight years. And he steps in just as the town begins setting the budget for one of its toughest years ever.
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:25:46 -0700
As closed-door talks continue on the state budget, it appears lawmakers are angling for a smaller debt load than what Gov. Jan Brewer is proposing. A draft version of a budget proposal making the rounds at the Capitol also shows that legislators hope to ask voters to repeal an early-childhood program and direct its $325 million treasury into the state's general fund. Brewer has proposed borrowing $300 million from that fund, taking up a proposal from the directors of the First Things First program. A repeal would have to go on the November ballot and win voter OK before the state could tap the First ...read the rest of this post
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:25:46 -0700
As closed-door talks continue on the state budget, it appears lawmakers are angling for a smaller debt load than what Gov. Jan Brewer is proposing. A draft version of a budget proposal making the rounds at the Capitol also shows that legislators hope to ask voters to repeal an early-childhood program and direct its $325 million treasury into the state's general fund. Brewer has proposed borrowing $300 million from that fund, taking up a proposal from the directors of the First Things First program. A repeal would have to go on the November ballot and win voter OK before the state could tap the First ...read the rest of this post
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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:37:49 -0700
Two female Arizona Senators, one Democrat and one Republican, blew their tops at their fellow lawmakers during a Committee of the Whole hearing on Tuesday. Lawmakers have dubbed this "Budget Week" and cancelled most committee hearings to focus on the budget. But Tuesday's Committee of the Whole agendas included 28 bills and lasted for hours. One of those bills dealt with human eggs and another with human embryos. "The calendar today appears to me to be almost anti-female," Sen. Carolyn Allen, R-?? said. "This is not the year we should be loading up on all of these kinds of bills. We should focus on ...read the rest of this post
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Friday, Feb 26, 10 at 08:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE -- To focus on budget, Senate President Burns suspends committee hearings
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Friday, Feb 26, 10 at 08:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE -- Reps. Antenori, Gowan To Hold Town Hall Meeting on Budget, House Legislative Agenda