Perdue cool toward special session - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Perdue told members of the durin g a luncheon speech that the statr constitution gives governors the authority to adjust state spending to fit available revenues when the legislatured is notin session. With the recession stil l going strong, state tax collectionx fell an average of nearly 20 percen during the first five months ofthis year. Perduse said he plans to confer with legislative leaderds after the July 1 start of the new fiscakl year onwhat cost-cutting steps might be necessary to offsef those falling revenues.
But he said a speciao session would be unwieldy because it wouldd take 30 days for lawmakers to hear presentationws from the various state agenciesx potentially facing furtherbudgegt cuts. Even when lawmakers are in Perdue noted, the political realityt is the governor and the top leaders of the House and Senatredecide budgets. “I’m happy to come he said. “(But) it woulf sort of be a sham anyway.” Georgi already is about to entef fiscal 2010 with atighft budget. The $18.6 billion spending plan Perdue signed last monthis $2.5 billiomn less than the fiscalp 2009 budget the General Assembluy adopted in April of last year.