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The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) appeared Sept. 24 before the Joint Legislative Budget Committee to submit its budget request for fiscal year 2011, which starts next July.
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The numbers portion of the MDA's presentation went off without a hitch. Executive director Gray Swoope told lawmakers the MDA could operate with about the same amount of money in FY11 ($22.6 million) as it is in FY10, which started July 1. The vast majority of the MDA's funding comes from federal dollars.
