Gov. Beverly Perdue's budget includes a few projects.
A 118-page summary of the governor's proposed $21 billion budget has a number of specific projects it seeks to fund:
* Fund UNC-Chapel Hill Biomedical Research Center: $10 million.
* Support East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine program for indigent care in Eastern Carolina: $4 million.
* Set up the Office of Economic Recovery, a short-term agency set up to maximize federal stimulus money: $2.3 million.
* Fund Project C.A.R.E., which helps caregivers of people with dementia: $500,000.
* Begin planning for a foundation that would compensate victims of the state's decades-long eugenics sterilization program: $250,000.
Some of the money has also been requested in special appropriations bills: Project C.A.R.E., the UNC expansion and indigent care at ECU, though legislators sought significantly more money for sterilization compensation.
