Governor Pillen highlighted several of his goals in the biennium $5.5 billion budget address today. He says his overall goal is to shrink the size of state government.
He said the governor’s office will quote “not receive a penny more” than the previous year and proposed to cap the spending growth of the state government at 1.3 percent. Pillen says his administration plans to redirect the money potentially saved from that to invest in the people of Nebraska.
A large portion of Governor Pillen’s budget for the next two years focuses on creating tax relief. He proposes he can do this by creating state-funded school aid to take the pressure off property taxpayers. He says his administration would eventually eliminate community college taxing authority with the state picking up the funding.