Governor Ted Strickland's Executive Budget Proposal for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 was submitted to the Ohio General Assembly and made available to the public on February 2, 2009 in accordance with state law.

Error in FY 2009 GRF Estimates

The Executive Budget Recommendations (Blue Book) contains an error in Section C which incorrectly identifies total estimated FY 2009 GRF spending as $27,413,773,943 when it should instead be $26,930,571,344. This difference is due to an error in a report from the Budget Planning System where two line items were included twice, but were not corrected. The two line items in question are tax relief lines 110401 and 110406 that were listed both under the Department of Taxation, as well as under Tax Relief Programs. This resulted in a double-counting of $483,202,599 in FY 2009, that has no impact on the budget structure for FY 2010-11 but that did inflate the base by which OBM calculated the biennial increase in the GRF budget. This error is being corrected in the Budget Planning System and in the Executive Budget Recommendations. As a result of the change in FY 2009 estimates, the growth rate of GRF spending during the 2010-11 biennium is 6.3 percent and not 4.4 percent as previously stated.

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