Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Sen. Watson Proposes Budget Reforms

Today Sen. Watson proposed budget reforms that would stop access collections in various departments once 110% of fees were collected.  This means that if the annual fees needed to fund driver's licenses was $10,000, once the state reached $11,000 then they would stop collecting the fees.  But how would this work?  The article didn't reveal the details of this budget reform just that it was proposed.  But it leaves me wondering how exactly the state would go about putting it into action.  Would the state take the average revenue of a certain department and drop the cost per person to average out to 110%, or would the first people who pay the 110% renewing their driver's licenses, license plates, etc. be the only ones who have to pay those fees while everyone else gets a break the rest of the year?  I would like to know how the state plans to implement this proposed budget reform.