{"id":148631,"date":"2018-07-06T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=148631"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T19:22:14","slug":"state-targets-budget-cuts-voluntary-buyouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=148631","title":{"rendered":"State targets budget cuts, voluntary buyouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69076\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/calculator2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"86\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota&#8217;s top budget writer has announced another round of voluntary buyouts for state employees.Budget director Joe Morrissette says in a memo to agency heads that employees may begin applying for the buyouts on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Gov. Doug Burgum told state agencies in April to identify spending cuts for the next two-year budget.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum told agency directors to slash budgets 5 percent or 10 percent, depending on the size of the agency. Burgum also called for agencies to identify an additional 3 percent reduction as a cushion against commodity price swings.<\/p>\n<p>Morrissette says voluntary buyouts will count toward an agency&#8217;s spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, about 160 employees from cabinet-level agencies in state government were approved for voluntary buyouts, at a cost of about $3 million.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota&#8217;s top budget writer has announced another round of voluntary buyouts for state employees.Budget director Joe Morrissette says in a memo to agency heads that employees may begin applying for the buyouts on Monday. Republican Gov. Doug Burgum told state agencies in April to identify [&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-148631","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\/148631","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=148631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148632,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148631\/revisions\/148632"}],"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=148631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}