BY RANDY ELLIS rellis@opubco.com
The Oklahoma Legislature is projected to have about $170.8 million less revenue available to appropriate for next fiscal year than it appropriated for the current fiscal year, state Secretary of Finance Preston Doerflinger announced Wednesday.
That would be a 2.4 percent cut and set the stage for tough budget negotiations.
State employees already are pushing for a pay increase and state government officials previously committed to trying to fund multimillion child welfare reforms as part of a settlement to a class-action lawsuit.
“Barring a big revenue increase, it looks like the next state budget will be slightly smaller than last year or flat,” Doerflinger said.
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