Scott administration eyes government cutbacks

Andy Pallito heads the Department of Finance and Management. File photo by Amy Ash Nixon/VTDiggerGov. Phil Scott’s top budget writer has asked state agencies and departments to find ways to cut their budgets starting July 1.
Andy Pallito, the commissioner of the Department of Finance and Management, made the request in a letter May 30 obtained by Seven Days.
Pallito asked agency secretaries and department commissioners to model what 2 percent, 3 percent and 4 percent in general fund cuts w