This periodical is designed to provide fiscal information of general interest and in compliance with state statutes. This issue of Fiscal Focus highlights some of the major components of the states recently enacted budget for fiscal year 2005 (July 1, 2004 June 30, 2005). Articles include: Financial Challenges Remain for the Fiscal Year 2005 Budget; Budgeting for the Increasing Costs of Debt; Medicaid Costs Escalate; Local Government Division Accomplishments 1999 - 2003; West Nile Reminder; Revenue Enhancements; Fiscal Year 2005 Spending Authority by Agency; Pension Funding; Trouble Down the Road; Unusual Fiscal Year Ends; Why a Structural Deficit is Troublesome; and 2004 Tables for April, May and June.
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