Lauren Dorgan reports in the Concord Monitor that House and Senate negotiators are focusing on the details of the state budget, rather than the bottom line numbers:
Negotiators from the House and Senate yesterday hashed over state funding for charter schools, computer systems, environmental services and more, often digging into small issues that could save the state a few hundred thousand here or a million there. Lawmakers hope to finalize a budget by the end of next week.
At one point, budget conference committee Chairwoman Marjorie Smith put the challenge this way: "All of us want to take limited dollars. We want to stretch those as far as it is humanly possible to stretch them and then stretch them a little more."
The Conference Committee has a June 18th deadline to approve the spending and revenue plans. Much of the heavy lifting waits until that deadline is looming.
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