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State Budget
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Legislature wraps up capital/corrections bill
June 12, 2008 – As their last piece of business before retiring the spring session, Ohio legislators wrapped up work on the $1.3 billion capital/ corrections bill. FULL STORY
Archived 2008 Budget News...
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Agency Budget Cuts
FAQs: Early Retirement Incentive Plans
Executive Order on Budget Cuts (PDF)
Gov. Strickland's News Release
Early Retirement Incentive (ERI) Plans Memo from OBM Director Sabety (PDF)
Budget Forecast - January 2008 (PDF)
Budget Archives
2008 Archive of All Budget Articles
Union prepares to fight budget
Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections announces its ERIP details
DRC unveils its ERIP (Feb. 20, 2008 - Blog)
Union analysis projects fewer than 500 layoffs with early retirement, attrition impacting rest of 2,700 job cuts
Lacking data, union reserves judgment on budget cuts, layoffs
Governor announced budget cuts, 2 closings
Agencies consider options to fill budget gap
Agency Review Teams request member input; Frontline workers know best how to improve processes, services
See Articles
State budget might suffer massive cuts; Gloomy revenue forecast says shortfall could near $1.9 billion (Jan. 23, 2008 - Columbus Dispatch)
State faces big budget shortfall (Jan. 23, 2008 - The Plain Dealer )
State predicting budget shortfall up to $1.9 billion (Jan. 23, 2008 - Akron Beacon Journal / Ohio.com )
Financial woes push Gov. Strickland to consider ERIs (OCSEA Blog - Jan. 15, 2008)
State considers early retirements (OCSEA Blog - Jan. 8, 2008)
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