Brewer budget plans for slow growth, cautious spending

Brewer budget plans for slow growth, cautious spending (access required)

By Jeremy Duda - jeremy.duda@azcapitoltimes.com

Published: January 13, 2012 at 5:15 pm

Gov. Jan Brewer is treading carefully and offering a multiyear budget that plans that includes hundreds of millions in one-time expenditures, but gives the state a financial cushion for the coming fiscal cliff in 2014.

The Governor’s Office today unveiled budget plan for fiscal year 2013 and the remainder of 2012 that is projected to leave the state in the black by about $329 million when the Proposition 100 sales tax increase expires and federal health care mandates are expected to take a major toll on the state budget in fiscal year 2014.

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