The Hit List

Here are the 39 programs and items which Gov. Mike Rounds proposed eliminating from state government's budget or reducing their funding Thursday. The total amount is $46. 2 million. Individual amounts have been rounded up or down for simplicity.

State employee salary improvements -- $6.7 million

Community service providers raises -- $5.5 million

TCAP teacher pay bonuses -- $4 million

Building repair and maintenance -- $2.45 million

Sales tax refunds on food -- $2.35 million

Regional school service agencies -- $2.2 million

Birth to Three child therapy -- $2.1 million

Closing School for the Deaf -- $2 million

University maintenance and repair -- $1.6 million

Withdrawing special education increase -- $1.6 million

Career and technical education -- $1.5 million

Medicaid dental services for adults -- $1.5 million

Cooperative Extension Service -- $1 million

Catastrophic health care for inmates -- $800,000

Department of Human Services cuts -- $800,000

Eliminate state funding for State Fair -- $775,000

Children's Health Insurance Program cuts -- $753,000

Closing Division of Arts -- $669,000

Adult Medicaid case-management cuts -- $647,000

University system cuts -- $500,000

Alternative education programming -- $450,000

Nursing home client cost-share cuts -- $430,000

Independent living rehabilitation services cuts -- $378,000

State technology aid increase dropped -- $309,000

Community mosquito control grants -- $300,000

Closing archeological research center -- $309,000

HPV vaccination cuts -- $277,000

Public broadcasting tower maintenance -- $230,000

Environmental funding shift to EPA -- $230,000

Independent living services cuts -- $222,000

Planned expansion of university system accounting staff -- $213,000

Inmates adult-education cuts -- $211,000

Inmates community-transition aid -- $201,000

Inmates extra milk -- $200,000

Data center staff for new high-speed Internet for universities -- $155,000

Other education cuts -- $341,000

Other public-assistance cuts -- $991,000

Other protecting-public cuts -- $548,000

Various other cuts -- $617,000