Budget cuts by the numbers

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Some of the reductions that make up the $275 million budget reduction plan approved Friday:

- Operating budget reductions: $106.6 million

- Elimination of Project ChalleNG: $600,000

- 50 percent reduction to Textbook, Institutional Supplies and Instruction hardware account: $47,995,714

- Recover revenue through Tax Amnesty program : $4 million

- Eliminate Unclaimed Property transfer to Millennium Scholarship program and transfer to General Fund: $7.6 million

- Revert public health trust fund: $27.3 million

- Divert portion of tobacco settlement payments for 2009: $4.4 million

- Transfer Senior Rx reserves to General Fund: $3 million

- Revert portion of Disaster Relief Account reserves: $4 million

- Revert unused portion of Homeowner Disaster Relief funds: $3.5 million

- Revert unused Youth Parole funding: $330,757

- Revert General Fund highway maintenance funding: $50 million

- Transfer portion of reserves from low level waste site at Beatty: $4 million

- Transfer portion of reserves from Criminal History Repository: $4 million

- Transfer portion of mortgage lending reserve funds: $3.5 million

- Transfer portion of Industrial Development Revenue Bond fund reserves: $800,000

- Revert unused Legislative Health Care Committee funding: $200,000

- Total savings: $275,471,000

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