The Vermont House is set to debate its fiscal 2009 spending plan tomorrow, but Governor Jim Douglas says he doesn’t like the House version of the budget.
Douglas’ finance and management commissioner, Jim Reardon, says the House budget spends too much and doesn’t protect Vermont’s most vulnerable citizens.
House Appropriations Chairwoman Martha Heath says that the governor called for spending all the money the state could find as well, just with different priorities.
One area of agreement: Higher education will get a 2.5 percent increase in funding, despite calls from advocates for an 8 percent increase.