• Total general fund budget: $5.71 billion
• Increase over current biennium: $916 million
• Total budget with federal, highway and other funds: $15.8 billion
Increase over current biennium: $2.3 billion
Pay Raises:
Two percent each year for state and classified university employees and public school employees: $173 million total.
Two grade increases for law enforcement and other designated classes (10 percent): $24.8 million.
Health benefit increases: $16.9 million.
Unclassified raises matching classified raises: $2.98 million.
Total: $217.2 million
Public Schools:
Projected fiscal year 2007 school population increase of 35,000 to 422,500.
Proposed per student funding increase of $71 to $4,431.
Plus 2 percent raises each year for teachers.
Total school-account increase: $279 million
K-6 School Improvement Fund
Funding: $100 million
• Schools apply for funds to correct problems noted in their school improvement plans. No limit on types of programs which can range from all-day kindergarten to expanded reading, hiring bilingual teachers, staff development.
• Program designed to allow schools to apply and receive funding quickly this coming year.
University System:
Projected student population 67,100, an increase of 7,000
Increase: $69 million
Human Services:
Medicaid growth from 49 recipient per 1,000 residents in 2000 to 82 recipients in 2007: $106.7 million
Mental Health growth and new programs: $100 million
Prisons:
Open Southern Nevada Correctional Center: $16 million
Growth in inmate population to 11,800 by 2007: $11.8 million
Capital Improvement Projects:
General Fund: $52 million
Bonds: $270 million
Total: $322 million
Major Projects:
University system: $99.1 million
Expand High Desert Prison $58.6 million
Lease-purchase office in Carson City: $21 million
Expand Psychiatric Hospital: $11.3 million
