The Governor insists that finding this funding was not easy. However, in his own press conference on Monday, he cited the previous fiscal year in which he reallocated funding using other monies. The provision of House Bill 6 that the state budget director utilized to reallocate the $9.1 million was always available to the Governor. Sen. Greg Elkins is right — it should not have taken six weeks for this solution to come. The Sept. 8 memo should have never been sent. Recommendations from lawmakers

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