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Officials with the Office of Planning and Budget told lawmakers on Tuesday the state’s projected general fund balances for coming fiscal years are expected to be $808 million in the red for 2024, negative $373 million in 2025, and negative $805 million in 2026.
(The Center Square) — Lawmakers on the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget received updates this week from several state departments regarding a variety of issues, including the state’s general
So people can have electricity, and this is part of the reason why we're pushing so hard to invest in a crumbling infrastructure in this country because we know that we need to do it. we need to put money into resilience in this country because things like this, they are preventable. if you look at the city of new orleans, the $14 billion flood protection, risk reduction system that was built in new orleans, it held, and it protected us from water damage. so we have to make sure that we're investing in every community. >> is the investment enough? i mean, a trillion dollars, there's some analy...
State, we have never been more prepared. again, all the models we have seen from the army corps are engineers and from our own cpra that the risk reduction system will hold and perform as intended. will it be tested? yes, but it was built for this moment. i have a tremendous amount of confidence in the team we have assembled at the state level, all the local officials and first responders and our federal partners. by the way, i want to thank fema administrator roberts, and i it tell you a short while ago i had a call with administrator chris well of fema, and she is very closely watching what ...
Warnings for the surge to go all the way to florida border, including mobile bay. notice how the warnings are not just on the coastline. this is saltwater inundation that goes several miles inland. in fact, we're going to be watching like in morgan escity where the surge is expected 10 to 15. this is not like katrina where in cases 17, we had 20, 24-foot storm surges in areas. that was more of a vulnerability problem with the levee system. this is going to cause problems. now, the city of new orleans can handle the surge. the risk reduction system that they have. they spent $20 billion and the...