March 5, 2010

“Budget week” rolls over into another week with Special Session on Monday

·         The Governor will call the Legislature into a special session on Monday afternoon to deal with 2010 and 2011 budgets. 

·         It will probably take all week to round up enough votes to pass the final bills.  No bills drafts have been made public yet.

·         The draft spreadsheets circulating outline deep and broad cuts to health and human services and education. 

·         Hundreds of thousands of more people and families will lose services instead of using reasonable alternatives being proposed.  See the details below.

·         Alternatives like the “Third Party – Five Year Plan” are being rejected in favor of more and more deep cuts.