That is the amount of the new budget proposed by Governor Sonny Perdue:

For the budget year beginning July 1, 2008, and ending June 30, 2009, the governor proposes a budget of $21.4 billion, an increase of about $1.2 billion - or 5.6 percent - from the present spending level.

The Governor is purposing:

• $50 million for loans to local governments for transportation projects
• $53 million for the state’s trauma network
• $30 million to buy undeveloped land for environmental protection
• $17 million in subsidies to provide insurance to employees of small businesses
• $21 million to improve the state’s mental hospitals
• $52 million to dredge the Savannah Harbor
• $25 million to improve the infrastructure of Jekyll Island
• $14.2 million for VIP, a program to get parents involved in their children’s education

You can view the rest of the Governor’s recommendations here.

We won’t really have much to go on as far as pork goes until the House Appropriations Committee meets.

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