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Published December 18, 2008

Where the whacking is (That's you, DSHS)

I cannot possibly communicate all the fascinating tidbits found in the budget proposal today, but a few items have jumped out:

TVW's funding is cut by 20 percent. That must mean gavel-to-four-fifths-of-gavel coverage of the Legislature.

The fees charged by the Labor Relations Office to negotiate those contracts that aren�t being funded are being suspended.

CTED is hammered in the coming two-year budget. A drop of 28 FTEs, and budget reduction of 8 percent. (Health Care Authority loses 18 positions.)

But the big cuts, as expected, come to DSHS.

An FTE reduction of 736 from a maintenance level of 19,068. That�s more layoffs than CTED has workers.