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By MARY BLEWITT
Anindel Newspapers Staff Writer
Gov. L. Douglas Wilder deferred cuts to localities and eliminated recordation tax revenues slated to be returned to Northern Virginia as he laid out his plan Friday to carve out a balanced budget to meet a $1.4 billion shortfall facing the state over the next two years.
Speaking before the state money committees, Wilder detailed the reductions he had referred to the night before in a televised speech to the people of the Commonwealth.
Under the plan, state agency budgets, which have already suffered up to 5 percent cuts, will experience a $375 million reduction for the 1990-92 budget that began on July 1. Though the governor did not specify the reductions for each agency, some department budgets may be reduced by as much as 5 percent. The governor also announced salary freezes for state employees scheduled for a 2 percent raise on Dec. 1, saving the state $145 million.
“There’s no way you can get the kind of money we’re talking about without cutting services to people who badly need them or cutting the pay of people who provide them,” said Del. Mary A. Marshall (D-Arlington).
A total of $60 million — $20 million this year and $40 million next year — in revenues raised from real estate transactions will not go to local governments as allocated by the General Assembly. Northern Virginia was expected to receive nearly
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