In her first Cabinet retreat Tuesday, Gov. Jennifer Granholm intended to tackle the state's biggest crisis - the budget - and still emerge with new programs.

By the end of the daylong retreat, Granholm hoped to emerge with 10 ideas from her 79-page plan that she could implement without making the budget crisis worse.

Before her election, Granholm and running mate John Cherry drafted the document, entitled "Securing Michigan's Future," detailing their plan.

"Our main goal is to identify low-cost or no-cost programs," Granholm spokeswoman Mary Dettloff said. "There were plenty of ideas like that in her plan."

She added it shouldn't be too much of a challenge for the Cabinet's first retreat because Granholm and Cherry kept the budget in mind when drafting their plan.

Dettloff said while Granholm and her Cabinet were able to choose programs from "Securing Michigan's Future" to work on, they remained realistic. Some of the programs may have to be delayed - perhaps for years.

"We might have to wait out the national economy problem to do what we want," she said. "There are many things she hopes to get done in her term as governor."

But some are feasible to implement soon, she added.

Dettloff said bills involving Internet sales tax and the creation of a regional transportation authority in southeast Michigan are two of Granholm's priorities - and can be accomplished with little to no spending.

In his last days of office, former Gov. John Engler vetoed a bill that would have created the Detroit Area Regional Transit Authority.

But now leadership has shifted - Tuesday's meeting included 10 department directors Granholm has named so far as well as the acting directors of three departments yet to be named. The heads of the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture, who were named by commissions, also attended the retreat.

Granholm said she also wanted to note the retreat was bipartisan - including William Overton, director of the Department of Corrections and K.L. Cool, director of the Department of Natural Resources, who were retained from Engler's Cabinet for Tuesday's meeting.

"This is the first opportunity for her to sit down with her Cabinet as a group and get ideas for the first year," Dettloff said. "It's going to be a team effort between the Cabinet and the governor."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.