
Band Aid
June 26, 2002
Keywords:
Oregon, budget, band aid, hole, deficit, shortfall, borrow, spend, legislature, accounting, trick-
News Item
Even after voters rejected a "borrow-and-spend" fix to Oregon's $850 million budget deficit, the state Senate persisted in trying to reconcile the gap by shifting the burden to the next biennium with accounting tricks and depletion of one-time reserve funds.