Perdue furloughing state workers
I finished updating this story on the News & Record's main page just a little while ago:
Gov. Bev Perdue has issued an executive order that effectively furloughs all state employees paid with tax dollars in an effort to help bridge a $3.2 billion budget gap for the budget year that ends June 30.All teachers and state employees will lose one-half-of-one-percent of their annual pay by June 30. For a worker making $50,000, that means they’ll have $250 less in their May and June paychecks.
In exchange, those workers will be given 10 hours of time off that they can take by Dec. 31.
“This is not the end of the world,” Perdue told a morning news conference, although she called the measures “distasteful.”
Since taking office in January, Perdue has cut about $2.2 billion from the state government. But tax collections figures from April 15 showed that the state’s current year deficit would be $1 billion larger than anticipated – a total of $3.2 billion.
The furloughs will bridge $65 million of that additional $1 billion. In addition, Perdue said she will use up to $350 million of the state’s rainy day fund, $400 million in federal recovery funds she had hoped to be able to use after June 30, and will pull money out of trust funds and other special accounts as needed.
Click here for Executive Order 11, which Perdue used to order the furloughs.
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Looks like the only thing she has not cut is pork.
Like Basnight bed and breakfast.
Side note. the Raleigh mafia, delayed Hugh Webster trial again! Another Duke case, just get votes baby, facts not important!
Of course I am sure the teachers union, is in lock step with Perdue, after all they are drinking wine, and the teachers get the KOOL AID.
Posted on April 28, 2009 1:06 PM
Correction, Mr. Webster lawyer was sick.
Posted on April 29, 2009 5:23 AM
I'm wondering about the thousands of employees who are paid with state money but are not state employees. Organizations like Smart Start and other groups hold multi-million dollar contracts with the state. Will people employed by these entities be required to make these same sacrifices?
I certainly would hope so.
Posted on April 29, 2009 6:45 PM