Lawmakers accept stimulus cash
The Interim Finance Committee Wednesday voted to accept $265.7 million in federal stimulus cash, at the same time implementing the so-called "Hawaii plan."
In a somewhat convoluted series of money transfers, the committee essentially used federal education money to free up general fund money for other uses in the budget.
The financial maneuvers freed up $128.6 million in state money for other uses in balancing the budget.
The trick was first used by Hawaii and, according to the federal Department of Education, is permitted by the stimulus legislation.
A total of $296 million in federal education stimulus money is available to Nevada. The remaining $130 million will be released to the state later this year for use in fiscal 2010.
Weekly not taking state contract
(AP) " Nevada legislators have been told that Lawrence Weekly, a Clark County commissioner awarded a state contract to work as a green jobs training coordinator, isn't taking the contract that would have paid at least $48,000.
Larry Mosley, director of the Department of Employment Training and Rehabilitation, told the Assembly Ways and Means Committee that Weekly made the decision "due to the perception of conflict."