Warner warns Virginia of an additional $1 billion cut
Gov. Mark. R. Warner advised Virginia's local governments to rethink their budget cutting strategies as heannounced plans to cut the state budget by an additional $1 billion in January.
At the annual meeting of the Virginia Association of Counties held Nov. 4, Warner said the Commonwealth needed to analyze specific state services such as mental health and elderly services and libraries.
"To think that we are simply going to batten down the hatches as we go through the next billion [dollars] of budget cuts without change is wishful thinking," Warner said in a Washington Post article.
At the meeting, Warner also said he will try to find to improve transportation in the Commonwealth. Last week, voters in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads rejected a proposal to increase taxes to support transportation.
"Are we going to throw up our hand?" he said. "Or are we going to go back to work and say we have to fund an adequate transportation system?"
Arkansas college lays off faculty to close deficit
While the University enacts its budget cuts, Philander Smith College, a historically black college in Arkansas, laid off more than 10 percent of its faculty and staff members.
Philander Smith College aims to close its $300,000 budget deficit.
Ninety percent of the deficit should be shrunk when the cuts go into effect.
The deficit was acquired by an increase in health-insurance costs and could not be alleviated by small measures such as reducing supply order duplications.
Five of the 25 laid-off full time faculty members were asked to leave at the end of the fall semester. An additional 117 staff members were asked to leave the college.
One faculty member's position was terminated after the professor broke the college's rules when he spoke with the media about the budget cuts.
Trubie Kibbe Reed, president of the college, said she ordered all faculty members to refrain from speaking with the press about the budget cuts in hopes of not releasing incorrect information, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
--compiled by Deirdre Murphy
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