Watch Budget Briefings Online

This week under the gold dome, the House-Senate Joint Appropriations Committee meets Tuesday through Thursday to hear budget requests from Governor Sonny Perdue and Agency heads. The Governor's fiscal year 2009 budget recommendations total $19.3 billion, up from $18.3 billion in FY 08. Available revenues however, show the State has an estimated $21.4 billion available to spend in FY 09.

You can watch the budget briefings online by clicking here.

Scheduled to address the committee today are:

10:00am Chancellor Erroll Davis of the University System of Georgia

11:00am State School Superintendent Kathy Cox

1:30pm Ron Jackson

Interim Commissioner of the Department of Technical and Edult Education

2:30pm Commissioner Gena Abraham

Department of Transportation

3:30pm Superior Courts

Arch W. McGarity, President of Council of Superior Court Judges

District Attorneys

Tommy Floyd, District Attorney, Flint Judicial Circuit

President, Prosecuting Attorneys' Council

Court of Appeals

Chief Judge Anne Elizabeth Barnes