LANSING, MI (WHTC) – The Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittees of the state House and Senate moved forward separate Fiscal 2016 budgets, with the Upper Chamber concurring with the Governor’s proposed two-percent funding increase, while the Lower Chamber went for a one-percent hike. According to MIRS News, Grand Valley State gets four percent more in the Senate plan and nearly two percent more in the House proposal; Western Michigan University receives around two and one percent, respectively.
Meanwhile, the Senate Appropriations Corrections Subcommittee moved forward a Fiscal 2016 budget that is 14.5 million-dollars less than what Governor Snyder proposed in his spending plan submitted to the Legislature last month. MIRS News reports that the trimming was done in advance of a scheduled merger of physical and mental health care contracts being worked on by the Department of Corrections. A similar spending plan going to the floor in the House has a 900 thousand-dollar trim.
