It adopted a budget of $6.4 million for the current fiscal year, compared with $7.8 million last year.

The City Council yesterday adopted a $45.8 million operating budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.

Last month the Government adopted a restrictive budget for the fiscal year.

The budget adopted last year for the 1990 fiscal year was $26 billion.

The budget is $3.3 billion higher than the one adopted for the current year, although adjustments brought total spending to $24.7 billion from $24.1 billion.

Under state law, districts are allowed two chances to pass a budget before having to adopt an austerity budget for the next academic year.

The budget adopted for the coming year calls for $29.5 billion to be spent.

The House adopted a budget figure of $759 billion for the fiscal year 2002-2003, which starts on Oct. 1.

The Legislature passed the April 1 budget deadline without adopting a spending plan for the 17th year in a row.

That is 3 decibels less than we are to adopt for the year 2005 tomorrow.