WHEREAS, I have determined that expenditures from the General Fund authorized by the Legislature for the current fiscal year will exceed anticipated state revenue to meet those authorized expenditures for the current fiscal year;

     NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dirk Kempthorne, Governor of the State of Idaho, by the authority vested in me under the Constitution and laws of this state, and pursuant to Section 67-3512A, Idaho Code, do hereby order:

1. That the General Fund spending authority on file in the Office of the State Controller be reduced for all departments, offices and institutions of the state by two percent (2%) of their Fiscal Year 2002 General Fund Appropriation with the exception of the offices of the elected State Constitutional officers, the judicial and legislative departments, and public school support.
2. That each department, office and institution shall notify the Office of the State Controller and the Division of Financial Management of the Executive Office of the Governor of budget changes by September 24, 2001.
3. That elected State Constitutional officials are requested to reduce General Fund expenditures for Fiscal Year 2002 to reflect the realities of the projected revenue shortfall without impairing the discharge of their constitutional duties.
4. That officers of the legislative and judicial branches are requested to assess and evaluate a reduction in General Fund expenditures for Fiscal Year 2002 to reflect similar revenue shortfalls in the executive branches of state government.
5. The public school support General Fund Appropriation is reduced by one and a half percent (1.5%) of their Fiscal Year 2002 General Fund Appropriation.

     This order shall take effect immediately upon its execution and shall continue in effect until January 31, 2002, unless revoked or modified by the Governor, or until the Legislature or the Board of Examiners takes further action.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this twenty-ninth day of August in the year of our Lord two thousand and one and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred twenty-fifth and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred eleventh.

PETE T. CENARRUSA
SECRETARY OF STATE