She told them the state budget could be cut further.
The state budget is already more than four months late.
The state budget for education was $5.5 billion in 2009.
Higher education made up 4.4 percent of the total state budget in 1995.
That would add more than $3 billion a year to the state budget.
So we could start with that to cut our state budget.
Land tax rates were cut in the 2005 state budget.
The new state budget is to take effect April 1.
The state budget can have a major effect on the city's spending plan.
Even the leaders, who are supposed to be working on an already late state budget, meet for little more than an hour a day.
