A special session to call lawmakers back to the Capitol appears on the horizon. Governor Sonny Perdue is expected to announce this week when legislators should return to hammer-out a solution for the final two months of the fiscal 2007 budget. Perdue on Thursday had vetoed the 700-million dollar mid-year plan. On Friday, the Senate passed on joining the House in an over-ride of Perdue’s veto. At issue for the Governor is a property tax-cut of 142 million.
Lawmakers late Friday did get the budget done for next year. The 20.2 billion dollar plan includes funding for several of the Governor’s requested projects, and a three-percent pay raise for teachers and state employees.
