Gov. Sonny Perdue's order to all state agencies to suggest 3.5 percent cuts from their state budgets for the 2009 fiscal year, which began July 1, and 4 percent from proposed budgets for fiscal 2010.
State tax collections are down by 1.1 percent over the last year, Perdue said Wednesday.
The governor said he would probably take $600 million out of the state's $1.5 billion reserve to balance the budget for the fiscal year that ended June 30.
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