OVERALL

* Increases spending by 4.2 percent, or $870 million

* Assumes the economy will grow 3.5 percent

* Uses $492 million from a revenue surplus and budget savings from the current year

* Increases the state's "rainy day" fund by $61 million to $848 million

* Adds 768 state positions, many of them in mental health services

* $396 million in budget cuts, or nearly 2 percent of total budget

* $724 million in construction projects

STATE EMPLOYEES

* Teachers would receive an average of 7 percent raises; school administrators would receive 6 percent. Easley would set aside $90 million for teacher bonuses and provides a matching grant for money teachers invest in a state savings account for their kids' college education.

* All other state employees would receive a 1.5 percent raise, a $1,000 one-time bonus and an extra week off. Retirees would receive a 1.2 percent cost of living increase.

EDUCATION

* An additional $34.6 million to cover additional costs at UNC campuses that are growing faster than expected

* Directs UNC system officials to make $18.5 million in cuts

* $11 million to improve campus safety

* $11 million to reduce class sizes for kindergarten through third grade

* $13 million to cover increased diesel fuel costs for school buses

* $45 million for Easley's More-at-Four pre-kindergarten program

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

* $9 million to provide child care for an additional 1,110 low-income children

* $42 million reduction in Medicaid payments by freezing growth at 75 percent of inflation

* $10.4 million to expand N.C. Health Choice to provide insurance to an additional 10,683 poor children

JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY

* $22.6 million for juvenile crime prevention grants

* $4 million for 42 additional staff and other efforts to improve the state's supervision of parolees and probationers

* $600,000 to prevent rape victims from having to pay the out-of-pocket cost of forensic exams

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

* $97 million for a new library at N.C. State University's Centennial Campus.

* $69 million for a new dentistry school at UNC-Chapel Hill.

* $63.1 million for additions to four state prisons.

* $109.4 million for the Green Square Complex in downtown Raleigh, which includes an office building for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

COMPILED BY STAFF WRITER DAN KANE

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