The administrators of state agencies soon will begin presenting their budget outlines for NEXT year to Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds in a series of hearings. The leaders of nine state agencies will make their cases to the governor at the statehouse. Reynolds, a Republican, spent much of the summer and fall out on the campaign trail and won a four-year term in office last week.

Reynolds will present a proposed outline for state spending to legislators in January. The governor says tax receipts appear steady and reserve accounts are full.

Lawmakers made mid-year budget cuts in each of the past two years after state tax collections slipped below expectations