Edwards administration still devising plan to withhold $60M
BATON ROUGE - Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration hasn't yet settled on its plan for withholding $60 million from state agencies as a deficit-avoidance measure. The governor's chief budget adviser, Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, says the administration will announce next month which agencies will be told to lessen their spending plans. He says he's collected information from the chief financial officers of each department to help make those decisions. 
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