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Finance: administration to identify 10,000 vacant positions, details due to legislature soon; LAO, senators press for fund‑by‑fund clarity
Summary
Andrew March of the Department of Finance said the administration will implement last year’s budget agreement by identifying roughly 10,000 vacant positions across fund sources and cutting operations 7.95%; committee members and the LAO pressed for fund‑level detail and program impacts.
Andrew March, a budget manager at the Department of Finance, told the Senate subcommittee the 2024 Budget Act required the administration to identify savings by eliminating approximately 10,000 vacant positions and reducing state operations by 7.95% beginning in fiscal year 2024–25. March said the administration is working with departments to deliver finer fund‑by‑fund detail and expects to provide additional information in the coming weeks.
March summarized the scale for the departments in the subcommittee’s jurisdiction as roughly $500,000,000 in reductions, including about $90,000,000 in general…
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