U could face up to $86 million in unallotments - Robert Downs & Devin Henry, University of Minnesota Daily

The University of Minnesota could receive a 13 percent cut in state funding when Gov. Tim Pawlenty uses his power of unallotment to balance the state’s budget. The state faces a $6.1 billion budget shortfall in the next two year budget period and will use federal stimulus money to cut that number to $4.7 billion , but without a balanced budget, Pawlenty will cut state funding on his own to balance it.