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voiced concerns that the budget ignores many of the $450 million in requests they made earlier this year.
Lottery Funds for Localities
The governor also reintroduced his proposal to return lottery proceeds to localities. The first installment, in the form of a $15 million flexible block grant, would be earmarked for local education — to reduce class size, pay for school construction, increase teacher pay or enhance school safety, and would be disbursed in 1998.
Eventually, all profits would be returned — a program the legislature rejected last winter and one that faces daunting odds at the upcoming session.
Juvenile Justice Reform
Gov. Allen’s public-safety initiatives include funding boot camps, wilderness work camps and implementing “military-school style discipline” throughout the juvenile corrections system.
Allocated funds also would be used to incarcerate juvenile murderers, rapists and armed robbers ages 14 and older in state prisons. Some money is expected to be recouped by requiring parents of juvenile offenders to pay a portion of the cost of corrections.
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more and more to operate the plant which means that system maintenance is falling further behind.
“In the best case nothing goes wrong,” she said. “Then 1 am busy the whole eight hours. That’s fine; I like to be busy. But there’s things that come up. There’s just so many things that need to be done and not enough people to do the job right.”
WSA members asked her if she could serve as program manager for the project with the full-time help. She said she believed she could, but she had come requesting the extra help without knowing of the need for a program manager.
She said she felt they could charge the schools and town more to help pay for the increase in staff costs.
WSA members felt they could not add to staff costs without increasing rates, and they agreed to look at that when they prepare the
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