Kansas legislative leaders to cut spending
9:55 p.m. Friday, July 11, 2008
Legislative leaders are tightening their own belts in effort to shore up state revenues for the current fiscal years.
The Legislative Coordinating Council is ordering a 2 percent cut in spending, or about $600,000. The cuts will come from travel, printing and postage and hirings. Leaders also will limit the number of interim committees that will meet before the 2009 session begins in January.
The cuts come after Gov. Kathleen Sebelius asked state agencies last month to trim their spending by up to 2 percent.
Reductions were prompted after Kansas ended its 2008 fiscal year on June 30 collecting a little less than $5.78 billion in general tax revenues. A financial forecast predicted in April that tax collections would be $5.84 billion.
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