care, said details of increased spending would await the completion of the Government budget, expected later this month.
Jowell yesterday refused to set a deadline for the completion of the revised budget for building the Olympic Park, which currently stands at £4.3bn, including some regeneration work.
That was when the governor and Legislature could, after months of playing budgetary chicken, hold a joint news conference to tout the completion of a budget, which was merely kicking the can down the road and everyone knew it.
They point to the unusually early completion of the always controversial schools budget.
'The definition of an architect," said an exasperated Lord Blake, provost of Queen's College, Oxford, on the completion of the long-delayed, over-budget, leaky-roofed Florey student accommodation building, "is someone you employ only once".
But Aqa said he's optimistic the fiscal crisis won't stretch into next year because, he said, lawmakers will readjust spending priorities before the completion of next year's budget.
They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to talk on the record about the governor's budget deliberations ahead of the budget's completion.
The budget marks the completion of the chancellor's slow volte face on the environment.
The 2010 budget assumes completion of the nine remaining shuttle flights, including a mission to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station.
