Gov. Inslee’s budget office says $583 million of pay adjustments for state-paid workers are “financially feasible”

Gov. Jay Inslee’s budget office on Friday certified that more than $583 million in labor contract agreements for 2015-17 are financially “feasible.”

That determination frees Inslee to include the contracts in his proposed two-year budget, which is due for public release during the week of Dec. 15. The Legislature convenes Jan. 12 and the budget is the major challenge it faces with a potential revenue shortfall of $4 billion, depending what lawmakers do about financing public schools in light of a Supreme Court ruling and voters’ approval of a costly class size reduction measure in November.