"There will be an inventory process on a number of things, including keys, and that will be undertaken shortly to prepare for if there is no appropriation" of state money by the end of April, Wogan said.
Still, the budget cuts, more than 10percentt of state appropriations in some cases, have been too great not to take their toll.
A fiscal analyst for the Assembly said that since the savings from the change would be included in the governor's budget, "we could try to get the amount of state appropriations bumped up or we could try and address it through budget negotiations".
He was also named to a joint committee to investigate the use of state appropriations to Transylvania University.
The day's testimony opened a door on a system of contract appropriations in which an out-of-state company's first thought was about which public relations and lobbying firms to hire as it sought state business.
This meant the appropriation of land and reconstruction.
And given the difficulties of cutting costs for Medicaid or K-12 schools, which get the biggest chunk of state budgets, appropriations for higher education are likely to shrivel further, leaving public universities ever more dependent on tuition money.
While tuition has risen at public and private institutions alike, the inequality between the two sectors has grown, as the public colleges' increased tuition revenues have not been nearly enough to make up for their loss of state and local appropriations.
The agency also reduced the rating on $7.2 billion of state lease and appropriation-backed debt to Aa3, from Aa2, and $4.1 billion of lease and appropriation-backed debt to A1, from Aa3.
Minnesota, $654.2 million of state general fund appropriation refinancing bonds.
