Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, January 22, 1994 TAG: 9401220146
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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Establish reserve fund for settlement with federal pensioners - $30 million.
Hold college tuition increases to inflation rate - $23.4 million.
Open Business Resource Center at the state's Center for Innovative Technology in Northern Virginia - $800,000.
Tourism promotion in connection with Disney's America project - $2 million.
Grants to localities for pilot community-policing projects - $1.5 million.
Keep Mecklenburg prison open another year - $10.3 million.
Biennial testing of kindergarten through 12th-grade students - $1.7 million. NEW CUTS: Total $94.8 million. Some highlights:
1 percent across-the-board cuts for all agencies, except education, in 1995 and 1996 - $18.4 million.
Reduce Medicaid spending, but not cut programs or services - $15 million.
Delay by four months issuing state-financed bonds for various projects - $20.4 million.
Stop construction of the state lottery building - $1 million.
Cut state's contribution to retirement fund for state judges.
Cut general fund appropriation to Department of Social Services after stepping up child support collections - $5 million.
Eliminate funds for staff development in the Department of Education - $1.7 million.
Reduce convention and travel funds for all state agencies - $6 million.
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1994
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