"What we're trying to decide is where to put the emphasis — children, adults and reimbursement rates," Knudson said. "When we're all done with all this, there'll be dollars in there. How much, I can't tell you."

Senators were not asked to vote on budget priorities, Senate President John Valentine, R-Orem, said. "We're not asking for a vote at this point," he said. "We're giving them information about where the negotiations are so that if they have a severe objection . . . we know it."

Bigelow said there will be more negotiations among the governor and House and Senate Republicans before the majority party puts together an estimated $8.6 billion budget for next year.

Still, there appear to be some winners on the preliminary draft spending lists discussed Monday:

• Huntsman gets another $4.7 million for increases in the Weighted Pupil Unit, the basic funding block for public education. Earlier this session, lawmakers adopted a 3.5 percent increase in the WPU. With Monday's extra cash, the WPU next year would be 4.5 percent, Bigelow said. "The governor insists on that number," Bigelow added.

But Rep. Gordon Snow, R-Roosevelt, warned that some representatives want to revisit that number in coming days. Republican senators, though, support the 4.5 percent to cover growth in education, Knudson said.

• Huntsman gets $3 million put into the LeRay McAllister open space fund. Senate President John Valentine, R-Orem, joked last week that maybe Huntsman should get what he asked for in the open space fund after learning that the governor will pay around $3 million in state capital gains taxes when he sells out his stock in his family's large chemical worldwide firm later this year.

• Conservative GOP lawmakers will push $90 million in ongoing tax revenue and $30 million in one-time tax surplus into road construction, for a whopping total of $120 million in new money going to increased transportation funding.

Conservatives have been worrying this year that with so much new cash available, too many state programs would be increased, jumping overall state spending well above population growth and inflation. Pumping new tax growth into road construction hinders the growth in state programs.

House Minority Leader Ralph Becker, D-Salt Lake, said: "Just call this the Legislature of transportation funding." Noting that Republicans have preliminarily put $120 million more into roads, "we see an imbalance — the new funding for roads is like 6-to-1 over education." Republicans are putting "$3 million more into open space and then all that into roads, you see their priorities."

• $5 million dollars more will be spent on a program to persuade the federal government not to close Hill Air Force Base.