Inslee urged to use the red pen on a few budget provisions
OLYMPIA — Before Gov. Jay Inslee sits down Tuesday to sign a new $52.4 billion state budget, he’s got to decide if there is anything in the two-year spending plan he wants to veto.
In recent weeks, he’s been asked to axe a $750,000 study on the breaching of dams on the Snake River and creation of a legislative task force on the management of fish hatcheries.
And leaders of two state agencies and a state workers union want him to cross out a provision requiring $22.5 million be trimmed from department budgets through “efficiency” savings.
“These cuts are substantial,” wrote Dennis Eagle, director of legislative and political action for the Washington Federation of State Employees. “Our concern is there don’t seem to be a lot of ‘efficiencies’ left to be achieved in state government. Human services, public safety, natural resources and higher education were all cut dramatically during the recession and have yet to see their budgets restored to pre-recession service delivery levels.”
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