With downward projections of the Kansas budget expected later in the week, the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday reviewed its current financial situation with a careful eye toward the future.

Diane Duffy, the regents’ vice president for finance and administration, told regents on Wednesday that all signs point to a declining revenue forecast later this week.

She updated the board on a number of different funding items that had been pending, but warned they still must undergo review when the Legislature meets later this month for its wrap-up session.

Some of the updates included:

• An authorization to provide $6.5 million in stimulus funding from the Kansas Health Policy Authority to fund the Wichita Center for Graduate Medical Education for next year. The Board of Regents is collaborating with those invested in the program to find a long-term solution to the funding issues facing that partnership that trains many Kansas rural doctors.

• The current fiscal year 2010 budget includes $30 million in bonding authority for the KU pharmacy school expansion in Lawrence and Wichita, which will provide the first elements of that funding that had been removed after gaming revenues dried up.

• The budget allows for full funding of Kan-ed, a program that provides broadband Internet and intranet access to libraries, schools and hospitals for distance learning purposes, for the year. A separate bill that would have funded the program through 2012 is expected to die in a House committee.

• Current state general fund reductions for higher education institutions remains at 7.1 percent from the original 2009 budget for the fiscal year 2010, she said.

Today, the board is expected to discuss its proposal that would have instituted a tuition freeze if budget cuts remained at the governor’s recommended levels.