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Arizona BudgetGovernor Brewer presented her budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 on Friday, January 13. The budget blueprint proposes total spending of $8.96 billion in fiscal year 2013 and $8.92 billion in fiscal year 2014. Accounting for projected revenues, the Governor's budget estimates "carry forward balances" of $392 million in fiscal year 2012, $588 million in fiscal year 2013 and $330 million in fiscal year 2014. By carrying surplus revenues into succeeding years, the Governor hopes to soften the fiscal impact when the temporary one-cent sales tax expires in 2013.The budget proposes no negative impacts on municipalities with respect to Urban Revenue Sharing or state-collected sales tax revenues. It does, however, perpetuate last year's budget scheme with respect to 1) diversions from the Highway Users Revenue Fund to fund the Department of Public Safety and the Motor Vehicle Division, and 2) imposition of an assessment on cities and towns to fund operations of the Department of Water Resources (ADWR). Specifically, the budget proposes a $39 million diversion of HURF monies away from cities and towns and anticipates an ADWR assessment on municipalities of $6.5 million. |
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