A joint state House-Senate appropriations committee met briefly Sunday to hammer-out their differences in the 2009 fiscal budget.
Lawmakers recessed shortly after getting underway. They've agreed instead to let the various House and Senate sub-committees work out the differences in their respective '09 budgets. A 32-page document details those differences, which comes out to about 15-million dollars.
One example of the gap--the House has proposed 2.5 million dollars for the Department of Community Affairs. The Senate proposed 5 million.
Republican Jack Hill chairs the state Senate Appropriations Committee.
"It keeps the folks who are the experts in the department budget talking instead of those of us at the table, who deal with it at a different level".
Lawmakers say they hope to wrap-up the '09 budget before the regular session ends this Friday.
Meanwhile, Governor Sonny Perdue has said cuts will have to be made as a result of falling revenue for the state.
-from Valarie Edwards
Lawmakers recessed shortly after getting underway. They've agreed instead to let the various House and Senate sub-committees work out the differences in their respective '09 budgets. A 32-page document details those differences, which comes out to about 15-million dollars.
One example of the gap--the House has proposed 2.5 million dollars for the Department of Community Affairs. The Senate proposed 5 million.
Republican Jack Hill chairs the state Senate Appropriations Committee.
"It keeps the folks who are the experts in the department budget talking instead of those of us at the table, who deal with it at a different level".
Lawmakers say they hope to wrap-up the '09 budget before the regular session ends this Friday.
Meanwhile, Governor Sonny Perdue has said cuts will have to be made as a result of falling revenue for the state.
-from Valarie Edwards
