{"id":4938,"date":"2012-02-17T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:33:38","slug":"budget-setting-committee-adopts-revenue-numbers-budget-writing-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/02\/17\/budget-setting-committee-adopts-revenue-numbers-budget-writing-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Setting Committee Adopts Revenue Numbers, Budget Writing Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4939\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Statehouse-2011-063.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4939\" title=\"Statehouse 2011 063\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Statehouse-2011-063-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Statehouse-2011-063-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Statehouse-2011-063-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Statehouse-2011-063-138x103.jpg 138w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Statehouse-2011-063.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Samantha Wright \/ Boise State Public Radio<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a title=\"Your Guide to JFAC (Joint Finance Appropriations Committee)\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/jfac\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joint Finance Appropriations Committee<\/a> has agreed to budget from a figure that&#8217;s about $33 million less than Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter&#8217;s recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>JFAC agreed with its colleagues in the <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/24\/state-lawmakers-trim-33-million-from-governors-revenue-estimate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee <\/a>to set its revenue estimate below the Governor&#8217;s number.\u00a0 Now, lawmakers will set the state spending plan for fiscal year 2013 with the assumption it has $2.66 billion to allocate.\u00a0 Governor Otter&#8217;s budget plan assumed the state could spend $2.7 billion, a difference of about $33 million.<\/p>\n<p>The committee voted along party lines, 16 Republicans for and four Democrats against, to adopt the lower revenue estimate.<\/p>\n<p>JFAC will now start crafting it&#8217;s budget for 2013.\u00a0 It hopes to be finished by early March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Finance Appropriations Committee has agreed to budget from a figure that&#8217;s about $33 million less than Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter&#8217;s recommendation. JFAC agreed with its colleagues in the Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee to set its revenue estimate below the Governor&#8217;s number.\u00a0 Now, lawmakers will set the state spending plan for fiscal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":4939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121],"tags":[235,56,128,34],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938"}],"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=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}