It’s two weeks to election day, I’ve got way too many dead leaves on my lawn and it’s cold at night. Must be the beginning of another budget season in Olympia.
While the Governor’s supplemental budget is not due until the middle of December, given the state’s looming budget shortfall (estimate range from $1.2 billion to $1.7 billion), Office of Financial Management staff must surely be hard at work developing another round of difficult budget reduction ideas for the Governor’s consideration.
Today in Olympia, the Governor met with what’s left of the capitol press corps and thankfully, The Olympian’s Brad Shannon was there to write about it. Here’s a post from his blog that provides a glimpse into the difficulties of finding savings in the state budget.