North Carolina State Budget Director Art Pope rejects UNC system's budget proposal - JANE STANCILL, News Observer

Art Pope, the state budget director, has kicked the UNC system’s budget proposal back to the Board of Governors for a rewrite, saying it “simply is not realistic.” In a memo on Feb. 28, Pope took university leaders to task, saying they’re asking for far too much money at a time when the state has competing priorities such as Medicaid and raises for K-12 teachers and state employees. He said the university system had basically ignored his office’s instructions in December to come forward with budget expansion requests of no more than 2 percent. http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/04/3673784/art-pope-rejects-unc-systems-budget.html