The conferees working on the state budget have agreed on the amount they will spend: $21.74 billion.
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This is $265 million more than the budget passed by the Senate, and $420 million less than the budget passed by the House.
The House budget funded Driver Education and maintained funding for teaching assistants.
If the agreement is that there will be $420 million less than that House budget proposed, then there will be cuts.
Somewhere.
Will it be in Driver Education? Teaching Assistants? State employee raises? Pre-K classrooms?
If you haven’t reached out to members of the Wake delegation serving as conferees, you’re running out of time.
Wake Delegation – Budget Conferees
House of Representative Senate
Nelson Dollar, Senior Chair John Alexander
Marilyn Avila, Vice Chair Chad Barefoot
Chris Malone, Vice Chair Tamara Barringer