Falling energy prices prompt Wyoming budget cuts

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Falling energy revenues are prompting Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead to order state agency directors to make deeper cuts to their budgets and cap the number of state workers.

Mead sent a memo to state agency directors on Friday directing them to prepare for 8-percent budget cuts in the state fiscal year that starts in July 2013. That cut is twice the amount that the Wyoming Legislature earlier this year had directed state agencies to prepare for.

The larger cuts apply to all agencies except the Wyoming Department of Health, which was already under orders to trim spending.

Mead also directed state agencies not to add to the total number of state workers.

Mead says in his memo that the state’s revenue outlook remains somber.

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