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President Thomas responds to Governor's budget announcement
Lewis-Clark State College President Dene K. Thomas wants to reassure the campus that college administration was prepared for Idaho Governor Butch Otter’s announcement on Monday of more holdbacks for the current fiscal budget and that no currently filled positions or programs will be eliminated to meet the holdbacks for the FY 2009 budget.
Otter announced that he is ordering an additional 3 percent state budget holdback because of revenue shortfall for this fiscal year. This 3 percent holdback for current budgets is in addition to the one percent holdback he ordered in September. In addition, the Governor ordered all state institutions to hold 2 percent of their General fund budgets in reserve in case more cuts are needed.
Thomas said LCSC administration has been planning for holdbacks and assured that no current employee will be terminated because of the latest announcement. She said that belt tightening involving travel and other OE budgets will be used to help offset the cutbacks, and that administration will release the details of LCSC’s budget holdbacks later this week. The college and other state agencies have until noon on next Monday to finalize their specific holdback plans to the Governor’s office.
Otter also directed all state agencies to begin preparing immediately for reductions in budget proposals they already have submitted for Fiscal 2010, which begins next July 1. He said those plans should be consistent with the 4 percent reduction in spending already ordered for the current budget year, plus the additional 2 percent that agencies are being directed to hold in reserve for the balance of Fiscal 2009. Thomas said with LCSC’s pro-active Unit Action Plan process, the college’s administration has a blue-print in place to help with these budget-decision processes.
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