By Rebecca Feldhaus
Murray, KY – Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen says the state will mail the majority of roughly 1,000 layoff notices to state employees this week. The Democratic governor says that the layoffs are being made for "business reasons" amid bleak budget conditions. Bredesen says the laid off workers will be given three months' notice. They will also be paid 32 hundred dollars in severance and be eligible for college tuition credits. Notices will be sent out to 853 workers mostly in the intellectual disabilities and children's services field. Another 317 are due out over the next six months as the state shuts down the Clover Bottom long-term care facility for the mentally disabled in Nashville.