A Message
from Cullie Tarleton...
As I’m writing this, we are preparing for the short session which convenes on May 12th. I expect we’ll be in session until mid or late July.
The primary purpose of the short session is to reconcile the 2010-11 fiscal year budget. We have already received the Governor’s budget and both the House and Senate will prepare a budget. As Vice Chair of the Education Appropriations Committee, I’ll be heavily involved in preparing the education budget. The bad news is we’ll have another revenue shortfall, perhaps as much as $900m so there will again be cuts all across state government. Rest assured, we’ll do the best we can to be fair to all agencies and departments especially our students, teachers, state employees, mental health and the elderly.
As the new Chair of the House Commerce, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Committee, I expect to help move legislation that will benefit our small businesses. I also expect to see us pass additional ethics legislation along with, hopefully, legislation dealing with childhood obesity. Additional bills will come from the various Study Commissions that have been meeting for the pass several months including the ABC System, Financial Aid for our Community College and University students, Dropout Prevention, Water Resources and Broadband. It will be a busy few weeks of session. Please feel free to contact me if I can be of help to you. I can be reached during session at culliet@ncleg.net or 919-733-7727.
Thank you for the privilege of serving you in the N. C. House.
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