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KENTUCKY...
State Budget Director Mary Lassiter is again calling on department heads to begin looking for places to cut spending. Lassiter sent a letter to government leaders on Thursday telling them to brace for an initial $35 million in cuts that will be necessary to balance the state budget. That's a portion of the $131 million lawmakers mandated in cuts in a budget they passed in May. Lassiter called for the heads of state agencies to identify places to cut and to outline the potential impacts and consequences of those cuts. It's a call they've heard before with revenues having dwindled by more than $1.5 billion over the past two years.
Final decisions on the next round of cuts will be made later, after department heads submit their responses.