August 28, 2008
On the evening of August 27 a non-partisan informational seminar was hosted by the Josiah Barlett Center, a NH think-tank that crunches the numbers of state government. The center’s Charles Arlinghaus gave a two hour presentation to prospective candidates for the NH legislature.
Most of the information was technical dealing with the organization of the state’s budget and the procedures dealing with how money is appropriated and spent, and how the budget is balanced.
Using the projected numbers for the 2008-2009 session, it is expected that the deficit will be approximately $300M depending on what kind of revenues are realized from the existing economy.