{"id":14218,"date":"2013-01-02T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=14218"},"modified":"2013-01-02T15:41:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T22:41:36","slug":"its-eorac-time-idahos-revenue-estimating-panel-meets-in-boise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/01\/02\/its-eorac-time-idahos-revenue-estimating-panel-meets-in-boise\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s EORAC Time: Idaho&#8217;s Revenue Estimating Panel Meets In Boise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14230\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/85482776.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14230\" title=\"Money Stacks\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/85482776-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/85482776-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/85482776.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Raedle \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s revenue estimating panel with a difficult-to-remember acronym meets this week in Boise. <a title=\"Your Guide to the Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/eorac\/\" target=\"_blank\">EORAC<\/a>, the Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee, meets to come up with a starting-point for Idaho&#8217;s annual state budget.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-member legislative panel will spend tomorrow and part of Friday getting briefed on Idaho&#8217;s finances and economic condition. Then, lawmakers will regroup later this month to determine what they think Idaho&#8217;s revenue estimate (the basis for crafting how Idaho spends its money) should be for fiscal year 2014.<\/p>\n<p>As we explained last year, the EORAC process <a title=\"Idaho\u2019s Budget Process Isn\u2019t a Hard Science\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/23\/idahos-budget-process-isnt-a-hard-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t an exact science<\/a>, rather it&#8217;s more of a crystal-ball-method.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the agenda for the Thursday and Friday meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.idaho.gov\/budget\/EORAC\/Agenda.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Plus, the meetings will be live web-streamed <a href=\"http:\/\/idahoptv.org\/leglive\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho&#8217;s revenue estimating panel with a difficult-to-remember acronym meets this week in Boise. EORAC, the Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee, meets to come up with a starting-point for Idaho&#8217;s annual state budget. The 18-member legislative panel will spend tomorrow and part of Friday getting briefed on Idaho&#8217;s finances and economic condition. Then, lawmakers will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":14230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[210,128],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}