Idaho Governor butch Otter is cautioning state agencies their budget plans for the next fiscal year could be trimmed after state tax revenues came in about $5.4 million below projections during the month of November. In a letter Wednesday, Otter told members of his cabinet that with the new numbers, Idaho is now running $16.2 million behind forecasts for the current fiscal year, which started in July. Otter says the possibility of a large state surplus is unlikely to play out. As recently as Dec. 1, the state was expected to end the current fiscal year with $77 million in the bank. And state agencies were already clamoring for the money, submitting $143 million in requests above their existing budgets.

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