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Money-saving move: Interns now unpaid

Wayne Hammon, Gov. Butch Otter's budget chief, presents the budgets for the executive office of the governor and the state Division of Financial Management to lawmakers Friday. Among money-saving moves he shared: Interns now are unpaid. (Betsy Russell)
Wayne Hammon, Gov. Butch Otter's budget chief, presents the budgets for the executive office of the governor and the state Division of Financial Management to lawmakers Friday. Among money-saving moves he shared: Interns now are unpaid. (Betsy Russell)

The governor's office and his Division of Financial Management have eliminated pay for their interns, as part of money-saving moves, DFM administrator Wayne Hammon told JFAC this morning, as he presented the two agencies' budget pitches to lawmakers. "In 2012, the budget is flat compared to 2011," he said. He said the lack of replacement capital is becoming noticeable; "we actually don't have enough telephones to put one on every desk in the agency. ... So we can get by another year, but that is an area of risk. Our infrastructure is starting to show the signs of stress."



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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