Many agencies proposed to be cut in legislative budget process #msleg

Legislators wield the ax; how sharply will they cut agencies budgets?

NOTABLE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2018 BUDGET CUTS

• Office of State Public Defender: $1.1 million cut, or 36.5 percent

• Department of Audit: $1.3 million cut, or 14.7 percent

• Department of Revenue: $9.4 million cut, or 19.6 percent

• Mississippi Schools for Blind and Deaf (Department of Education): $1.6 million cut, or 14.6 percent

• Chickasaw Interest Program (Department of Education): $1.5 million cut, or 6.9 percent

• Mississippi Public Broadcasting (Department of Education): $1.7 million cut, or 25.8 percent

• Mississippi Developmental Authority: $10.2 million cut, or 36.8 percent

• Department of Archives and History: $4.0 million cut, or 33.9 percent

• Department of Environmental Quality: $2.7 million cut, or 21.5 percent

• Department of Marine Resources: $2.9 million cut, or 74.1 percent

• Department of Insurance: $1.1 million cut, or 8.7 percent

• Division of Medicaid: $10.1 million cut, or 1.1 percent

• Department of Human Services: $4.0 million cut, or 6.8 percent

• Department of Child Protective Services: $14.3 million cut, or 12.8 percent

• Attorney General’s Office: $1.1 million cut, or 3.9 percent

• Secretary of State: $991,513 cut, or 6.3 percent

• Emergency Management Agency: $220,130 cut, or 7.1 percent

• Military Department: $578,948 cut, or 7.3 percent

• Arts Commission: $17,167 cut, or 1.0 percent

• Public Service Commission: $172,097 cut, or 3.4 percent

NOTABLE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2018 BUDGET GAINS OR LEVEL FUNDS

• Department of Finance and Administration: $4.4 million gain, or 11.6 percent

• General Education Programs (Department of Education): $15.1 million gain, or 9.5 percent

• Mississippi Adequate Education Program: Level-funded at $2.2 billion, or 0.0 percent

• Vocational and Technical Training (Department of Education): $1.2 million gain, or 1.5 percent

MSToday
3/13/17