Scott top aide asks for level-funded department budgets

Commissioner of Finance and Management Adam Greshin. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerGov. Phil Scott’s administration is asking agency and department heads for level-funded budgets for the next fiscal year — and that’s before any cuts in the federal funding that makes up more than 40 percent of spending by the state.
Funding requests for fiscal 2019 — which starts next July 1 — should be flat and “filtered through the prism of the governor’s strategic