By Bob Allen
Michigan State University Extension officials may face closing their statewide facilities if Governor Granholm vetoes their budget.
The state pays the program each month. But in October, the $5 million check never came through.
Tom Coon directs MSU Extension, and he says the governor has threatened to single out extension programs for cuts.
"And a veto may be the entire higher education bill," Coon says. "I doubt that she would do that. And her other alternative onthe veto is to identitfy specific lines in that bill that she would veto. And, of course, that's what we're most concerned about."
If the governor vetoes that budget, Extension will be forced to close all their county offices and stop their programs. And 17 Agriculture Experiment Stations, including the one in Leelanau County, would begin to shut down within a matter of days.
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