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Friday, March 30th, 2007The Senate removed all local projects, known as pork, from the midyear budget. Those projects include nearly $6 million for local museums, $1 million for the Tour de Georgia, $125,000 for a West Georgia tourism group, $19,000 for library equipment on St. Simons Island, and $350,000 for a new animal hospital at Zoo Atlanta.
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Senate Bill 12 Passes the Senate
Sunday, March 11th, 2007From Senator Shafer’s Blog:
Senate Bill 12, the Zero Based Budgeting Act, unanimously passed out of the Senate yesterday.
As I have discussed before, Georgia’s budget is currently prepared on a continuation basis. Once a new appropriation is approved, it is automatically rolled over into the next year’s budget under a single line item labeled “continution.†[...]