UM budget next fall could become tighter - Jayme Fraser, Montana Kaimin

UM’s Strategic Budget and Planning Committee began planning for the pending withdrawal of $3.6 million in one-time federal stimulus funding in July 2011 last summer. Then Gov. Brian Schweitzer asked UM to cut its budget 3 percent as part of statewide reductions. And now dismal state revenue projections worry UM officials already weary from a two-year pay freeze and selective belt-tightening. Duringer said UM will take three main points with them to the legislative workshops this fall, the session debates this spring and throughout all other upcoming budgeting.