Items vetoed from Michigan’s 2009-10 fiscal year budget include earmarks and pilot programs built in by the Legislature, said Megan Brown, a spokeswoman for the governor.

The package included Michigan’s higher education budget, which eliminates the Michigan Promise Scholarship and about 61 percent of financial aid funding.

“I am particularly disappointed that the bill includes no funding for the Michigan Promise scholarships, and I strongly encourage the Legislature to get to work on finding the resources to keep this commitment to our students,” Granholm said.

The higher education budget also eliminated state nursing scholarships, the Part-Time Independent Student Program, the Michigan Work-Study Program and the Michigan Education Opportunity Grants. State funding for university operations was cut by .4 percent.

Granholm also finalized a $101-million cut to revenue sharing, which funds city services such as public safety.

Granholm avoided what would have been the second government shutdown in two months by signing the bills just one day before the state’s temporary budget expired. The temporary budget was passed after a two-hour government shutdown Oct. 1 when the Legislature failed to balance Michigan’s $40 billion budget.

Granholm signing all 15 budget bills means the state successfully erased this year’s $2.8 billion deficit. However, the governor promised to continue fighting for revenue enhancements and tax increases to restore the Michigan Promise Scholarship and ease cuts to Medicaid programs, revenue sharing and K-12 schools, Brown said.

But Matt Marsden , spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester , has said the Republican-led Senate will not pass any tax increases to refund items eliminated to balance the budget.

Brown said the governor will continue to encourage the Senate to compromise.