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That agenda includes ways of spending the $238 million minibudget which Robb’s fiscal experts have come up with for the 1985 fiscal year which begins July 1. Of that amount about $183 million is available for new appropriations.
First and foremost in this election year is the governor’s assurance that there will be no tax increase.
The corrections system will receive an infusion of $9.2 million for guards’ salaries, training, equipment and planning money for a new maximum security facility. Robb accurately labeled corrections the state’s number one problem and took personal responsibility for its recent difficulties.
Virginia public schools will receive $53 million and got a pledge of full funding, for the first time ever, of the state’s Standards of Quality in education in the next fiscal year. Robb noted that the new education money would increase tne perstudent allocation by $100 per year, but in about their only adverse comment about the program, the GOP leaders noted that this would happen only if the localities came up with their matching share of the funds, an unlikely prospect in some of the
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