George L. Bivens

The Pennsylvania State Police Strategic Plan aims to keep communities safe, inspire public trust, and preserve peace. It focuses on effective 21st-century policing strategies, including recruiting and retaining a skilled workforce, leveraging technological innovation, and fostering community partnerships. The plan outlines five strategic goals: ensuring highway safety through enforcement and education, promoting justice by detecting and investigating criminal activity, developing a diverse workforce, providing extraordinary police services through partnerships and advanced resources, and securing communities against domestic and foreign threats. The core purpose is to seek justice, preserve peace, and improve the quality of life for all.

The budget includes funds from various sources and totals $35.8 billion. The proposed General Fund Budget is $17.8 billion, reflecting a 3 percent increase. Tax reductions are proposed to aid working families and stimulate job creation. The budget focuses on job retention and creation through tax cuts, capital provision, technology, marketing, and support services. It includes workforce development strategies, international trade and export assistance, agribusiness support, tourism reinforcement, and community support through initiatives like Keystone Opportunity Zones. The budget also allocates funds to basic and higher education, protection of persons and property, health and human services, transportation, and recreation and cultural enrichment.

Authorizing adjustments to expenditures of federal funds for payment for the period July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. Adjustments are made from the Administration Fund to Labor and Industry for COVID-Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Administration, COVID-Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Administration, and COVID-Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Administration.

The 2014-15 Executive Budget addresses the concerns of all Pennsylvanians and continues historic investments in schools, support for job creators, and care for neighbors in need. It focuses on job training opportunities, the resurgence of Pennsylvania's manufacturing, life sciences, and technology sectors, and making quality health care accessible and affordable. The budget includes initiatives such as Healthy Pennsylvania, pension reform, and strategic investments in education, economic development, and health care.

The document includes the Executive Budget Message from Governor Raymond P. Shafer to the General Assembly, presenting an innovative, long-range financial plan for the Commonwealth. It highlights the work of the Priorities Commission, economists, labor and business leaders, educators, and tax experts. The plan emphasizes truth in spending, a five-year budget, and the use of the Planning-Programming-Budgeting System. Key areas of focus include education, health, welfare, and addressing the fiscal crisis faced by state and local governments.