From the transcript

I've just been trying to track what's happening with the state operating budget, and I think most of you probably saw what happened with the legislation about the defined benefits legislation that went down along with the— or because of— not because of the Governor not getting the terms that he wanted for the natural gas pipeline. Anyway, that was kind of a bummer. We're still, I guess, waiting to see how he approves and what form the governor approves the operating budget legislation because he has line item veto power. So we'll wait and see what, what comes through from that process. My comment about the whole budget process, which is Apropos of what Chris was just talking about was, I wanted to urge people who are listening and to people who are following this issue, especially here, to not to oversimplify what's happening with our decisions here tonight, because I think the whole issue around school funding is it's not just there's a gap locally and we may or may not raise property taxes to cover it.

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