Dismayed Strickland agrees to 2nd temporary budget - Business First of Columbus:

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The Republican-controlled Senate is set to take up House Bill 245 on The legislation covers state operation s from Wednesday throughJuly 14. Strickland last week signedf a first temporary budget that expiresd Tuesday and said Monday in a press conferencdthat he’ll sign another. He added, that the temporary fix, which funds most statr operations at about 70 percent of their fundinb levels in the lastbudget cycle, is only losin Ohio more money. “We are losing millions of dollarzs each week by spending on programs that will be cut and divertinbg those limited resources away from othedr critical programsand services,” Strickland said.
The interim budget is in place as Strickland and Senatre Republicans remain at an impasse on a proposal the governor offerex up more than two weeks ago to help pluga $3.2 billiob budget hole by installinh video lottery terminals at the state’s seven horsde racing tracks. Republicans have said the proposal, part of a largef budget framework to balancethe two-year budgetf that began Wednesday, is short on details. Strickland on Monday said the stallexd talksare “partisan political games.
” Kevibn DeWine, chairman of the state Republican issued a statement later on Mondayg that says Strickland has resorted to his “predictable partisan finger-pointingh and political temper tantrums.” “(Strickland) defied the will of the people to save his political hide and shoved a recklesw sham of a budget down the throats of stat lawmakers without any deliberation,” DeWine said.
The Senatr has been holding hearings in an effortr to garner more details on theslotz proposal, while the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has initiated hearingsd on the potential effect of more cuts in the absencre of the projected $933 million in slots Strickland on Monday addressed the possibilitty that the Senate could push to put the slots proposalk before voters in November while the statr runs under a one-year temporary He dubbed the prospect an “utterlhy and totally unacceptable” move because state schools’ funding futur e would depend upon the outcome of the