Media report on FY17 preliminary budget forum
The Associated Press, Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News reported on the FY17 Preliminary Education and General Budget Forum held at the University of Maine. As a “first conversation” on the FY17 budget, the forum provided an overview of the E&G budget and the projected gap, and the ways the campus community can be engaged, including providing input via an online comment form. The preliminary FY17 budget gap is projected to be $7.175 million. Like last year, the process in achieving a balanced budget will be done with transparency through ongoing campus conversations informally, in scheduled budget forums and through an online feedback from. “We want to minimize the impact on students and employees,” UMaine President Susan J. Hunter told the Press Herald. The Maine Public Broadcasting Network and WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) carried the AP report.