Continued emergency funding

While the state is projecting an annual operating budget surplus that near $700million, the legislature is busy finding ways to spend it before the fiscal year has even ended. Here's one bill that provides "continued emergency funding":

AN ACT CONCERNING DAIRY FARM PRESERVATION

It reads:

The sum of four million dollars is appropriated to the Department of Agriculture, from the General Fund, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, for continued emergency funding for dairy farms. Such funding shall be disbursed as grants to distressed dairy farms by the Commissioner of Agriculture based on the amount of milk production by such farms during calendar year 2006.

I'm still trying to understand what is meant by a "continued emergency."

And here's an article on the use of another $4.6million of state tax dollars (NHR, by Michael Gannon) that's been approved by the Environment Committee and is intended for the district of state Senator Ed Meyer in Guilford. The article details the intended use of the tax dollars as

$3 million for open space acquisition in Guilford; $665,000 for the Shoreline Trail, a greenway planned to run from New Haven Harbor to Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison; and $500,000 apiece for the Blackstone Library and for work to establish a park on the Swatchuk property in North Branford.

Tim White