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By Annie Linskey | annie.linskey@baltsun.com | March 16, 2010
A Senate panel took the first bite out of Gov. Martin O'Malley's $13 billion general fund spending plan Monday night, voting to remove an estimated $150 million, mostly from small snips to hundreds of education and health programs. "We tried to do the appropriate thing," said Sen. Edward J. Kasemeyer, who chairs the Health, Education and Human Resources Subcommittee. "We could have taken more." Cuts included a $6.2 million reduction in funding for stem cell research. Senators also eliminated some health-related agency positions, but protected funds for a number of scholarship programs.
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By Howard Libit and Howard Libit,SUN STAFF | January 31, 2002
Republican state delegates charged yesterday that Gov. Parris N. Glendening's budget has so many problems that it should be rejected out of hand and sent back to him for reworking. "The budget is masterful in its deceit, and it violates the spirit of the constitution that requires a balanced budget," said Del. Alfred W. Redmer Jr., a Baltimore County Republican and House minority leader. "Let's send it back and get it right the first time." The Republican caucus members said that they would seek to exercise an obscure parliamentary rule to bring a bill directly out of committee and to a vote of the full House.
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By Annie Linskey and Annie Linskey,annie.linskey@baltsun.com | April 23, 2009
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has proposed borrowing $15 million, eliminating 17 vacant positions and scaling back a street-cleaning contract to compensate for a $26.5 million reduction in state aid. A city budget adopted by the Board of Estimates Wednesday leaves in place service cuts announced earlier by the mayor, such as shortening pool hours and closing child care and recreation centers. Dixon revised her spending plan after the General Assembly balanced the state budget partly by keeping $160 million in highway money that was intended to be distributed to local governments.
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By Greg Tasker and Greg Tasker,Staff writer | February 12, 1992
Yesterday, they joked in school offices that the cover on the superintendent's proposed $112.28 million spending plan for fiscal 1993 waspurple so it wouldn't show any bleeding.Unveiled to 35 citizens last night during a 75-minute public hearing at Spring Garden Elementary, Superintendent R. Edward Shilling's proposed budget calls for the 22,500-student district to spend $5.15 million more next year.Nearly all categories of spending, from administration to instructional salaries, will be increased -- anywhere from 1 to 12.7 percent.
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By David Nitkin and David Nitkin,SUN STAFF | April 26, 2000
Don't touch our stuff. That's the message dozens of Baltimore County residents sent to the County Council last night at a largely tranquil public hearing on a proposed $1.79 billion spending plan for the coming fiscal year. At a time when county coffers are brimming with a surplus expected to reach $85 million, County Executive C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger found something for everybody in the budget proposal he unveiled earlier this month. The plan includes money for everything from comfortable chairs for the lobbies of senior citizen centers to classroom listening devices for special-needs students to pay raises for teachers.
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By Jean Thompson and Jean Thompson,Sun Staff Writer | April 7, 1995
Baltimore's school board amended its original budget request yesterday, adding new programs for disruptive students.After shifting $1.7 million to school-safety programs, the board approved a $646 million spending plan that is 2.3 percent larger than this year's budget.The proposed budget for school year 1995-1996 now includes $900,000 for the creation of six "presuspension centers," $600,000 less than school administrators say they need to launch their programs for counseling and teaching students with behavior problems.