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MDA faces possibility of tight budget.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-APR-05 		Format: Online - approximately 929 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: MDA faces possibility of tight budget.(Mississippi Development Authority)

Article Excerpt
When representatives from the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) attended the Legislative Budget Committee hearings earlier this year, they were armed with a budget that reflected an expected 5% across-the-board cut.

Then House leaders asked the state agency if it could adopt a 25% budget cut, and tourism division director Craig Ray saw dark days looming.

"When you look at those numbers, the sky falls," said Ray. "Just from tourism alone, we'd have to close three welcome centers, do away completely with the matching grant program for CVBs, and probably lose employees. That's major."

In the 2005 regular legislative session, state lawmakers could not agree on how to divvy up the state budget pie, and at press time, Gov. Haley Barbour had called a meeting with House and Senate leaders to discuss the matter. He is expected to call...

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