... the AP. The funds for the project would have to be released by Beebe through his discretionary portion of the General Improvement Fund. We see legitimate need for useable office space at the Capitol and other properties such as the Multi-Agency ...

... plan to offer legislators a proposal that would allow him to use the state's surplus, commonly known as the General Improvement Fund, to help pay for some of those shortfalls if revenues next year come in as expected. If revenues come in above ...

... 676 million in capital projects that he said he would like the Legislature to consider paying for with the General Improvement Fund. "I submit these appropriation recommendations with the understanding that actual funding decisions will be ...

... put together a buying group that he would augment with whatever reasonable amount would be necessary from the General Improvement Fund that aforementioned surplus. Ironies abound richly. Johnson now wishes to preserve the very water supply he ...

... big check from the state General Improvement Fund, which Johnson, as president ... price with money from the General Improvement Fund through an appropriation ... money to secure from the General Improvement Fund. He ...

... said legislative leaders had recommended that lawmakers avoid filing requests for local projects using the General Improvement Fund. The state Supreme Court ruled that such appropriations violated the state constitution's ban on funding strictly ...

... sensitive, Luker says, to state legislators' motivation in wanting to tap state government's surpluses in the General Improvement Fund to help folks back home. Fair enough. It was mostly the unaccountable procedure of local project funding that ...

... Beebe is saying right now," Harrelson said. "I just think this gets into a little tug of war match with General Improvement Fund and this is one way for the governor to improve his posture, not that we're saying that's what the governor ...

... money from the surplus for various projects, but not all of them will be funded in the bill. Johnson said the General Improvement Fund bill will set aside $50 million for the governor's Quick Action Closing fund to attract new businesses and ...

... Senate versions of Revenue Stabilization and General Improvement Fund bills, which cover the state's proposed ... other projects, under the proposal. Under the General Improvement Fund proposal, only 75 percent of the money set aside ...