In a darkening global financial crisis, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine ordered $1.4 million in cuts to his office and residence, part of what is expected to be billions of dollars in state government austerity moves.
Kaine plans to outline broader cuts Thursday to state programs and agencies as Virginia government braces for anticipated revenue shortages of $2 billion to $3 billion over the next two years.
The cuts he ordered to executive offices, including offices of his cabinet secretaries and the executive mansion, total $900,000 in the current fiscal year, now in its fourth month, and an additional $500,000 in the next budget year beginning July 1.
Kaine has cut his salary by 5 percent, and the total reductions to the executive mansion budget amount to 10 percent. Last October and in February, he ordered spending cuts for his office totaling more than $660,000, all of it in the fiscal year that ended in June.
Brief by The Associated Press