Republican Gov. Sam Brownback cut Kansas’ higher education spending Tuesday after the state’s tax collections fell $54 million short of expectations in February.
The lower-than-anticipated revenues last month left the state facing a small deficit in its current budget, for the fiscal year ending June 30. The Department of Revenue’s report on monthly tax collections came only two weeks after the Republican-dominated Legislature passed a bill aimed at keeping the budget balanced through June 2017.
Brownback ordered a $17 million cut in spending on state universities, or 3 percent of the tax dollars allocated to them, over the next four months. The Board of Regents said it will decide by the end of the week how the reductions will fall.
Read more at The Kansas City Star: https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article63309252.html
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