Much of our Facebook activity for this week related to blog entries analyzing the Governor’s budget. A few other additional items we touched on:
- There was a great question regarding the 3 percent cuts to state agency budgets in the Governor’s budget proposal for FY 2010, which is the current budget year. Back in early December, Governor Pawlenty ordered agencies to immediately begin holding back 3 percent of their operating budgets in anticipation of using that to help solve the deficit. So agencies have actually been planning on a 3 percent reduction for more than half of the biennium.
- We highlighted that the early-bird deadline for MCN’s Technology Conference is this Friday. Breakouts for the advocacy crowd include “Video Testimonies for Advocacy and Grassroots Organizing”.
- Earlier in the week we reported that the Minnesota House would be voting on General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC), with links both to our analysis on that issue and the Save GAMC coalition, which is a helpful resource for anyone wanting to keep up to date on how GAMC is progressing in the legislature and participate in advocacy efforts.
You may have noticed that MinnesotaBudgetBites.org was down for nearly two hours yesterday afternoon. In fact, all of the blogs hosted by our blog provider were down during that time. We apologize for any inconvenience.
-The Minnesota Budget Project Team
