{"id":119025,"date":"2017-04-04T16:50:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119025"},"modified":"2017-04-04T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:33:10","slug":"10-state-cabinet-level-agencies-asked-to-offer-buyouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119025","title":{"rendered":"State agencies asked to offer employee buyouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Ten North Dakota cabinet-level agencies are asking employees to take voluntary buyouts to help balance the state budget.<\/p>\n<p>The letter sent to some 3,600 employees Tuesday comes as legislators continue struggling to adopt a balanced budget for the next two-year budget cycle. The most recent estimates are that revenues will fall nearly $500 million short of the state\u2019s proposed $4.3 billion spending plan.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Nowatzki, a spokesman for Gov. Doug Burgum, says the governor met with the appointed heads of 17 agencies to discuss the buyouts. He says 10 agencies opted to offer the buyouts.<\/p>\n<p>Nowatzki says there is no target for the number of employees who may wish to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The letter says the buyouts may limit the need for layoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Ten North Dakota cabinet-level agencies are asking employees to take voluntary buyouts to help balance the state budget. The letter sent to some 3,600 employees Tuesday comes as legislators continue struggling to adopt a balanced budget for the next two-year budget cycle. The most recent estimates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119038,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119025\/revisions\/119038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}