• Save $4.9 million from a 1 percent reduction in payroll costs achieved largely by not filling vacant jobs.
• Cut $1.3 million from the Department of Corrections, including a $250,000 savings from spending less than expected on clothing and cash for inmates leaving prison; and an $89,100 savings from reducing 20 private prison beds at the Trinidad Correctional Facility.
• Transfer $15 million from a cash fund generated by oil and gas drilling that is used to provide grants to local communities affected by the energy companies' activities.
• Sweep $5 million from a local government severance tax fund.
• Take $11.4 million from a grant reserve fund for local communities generated by federal mineral lease royalties.
• Move $9.4 million from a fund for higher education funded by federal mineral lease earnings.
• Transfer $9 million from the Medical Marijuana Program Cash Fund.
• Take $3.5 million from a cash fund in the secretary of state's office.
Nearly $41 million of Monday's budget-bridging actions came from oil- and gas-related funds meant for local communities and higher education. Ritter said not using those funds would have meant other places in the budget had to be cut.
"One of those options was taking teachers out of classrooms, and I'm not willing to do that," he said.
