The state budget signed into law this weekend is expected to pump billions of dollars into Philadelphia — city schools in particular would benefit — but the news was not all good with a 1.3 percent cut in overall spending.

Signed by Gov. Ed Rendell on July 4, the budget specifically included money earmarked for Philadelphia schools, courts, crime prevention and human services programs. Funding for some went up — down for others.

“I think Philadelphia fared the same way the entire state fared,” said Johnna Pro, spokeswoman for state Rep. Dwight Evans, chair of the House Appropriations Committee. “The financial picture (has) changed for Pennsylvania as it has for the entire county so it reflects a very conservative use of funds.”

The $28.3 billion budget included no new taxes, and according to Pro: “held the line on spending.”

Not everyone is expected to be happy with the results.

“There were programs that got sliced throughout the budget,” Pro said. “Everything took a 1.3 percent hit across the board. Some folks (agencies) will be struggling this year to try to make ends meet.”

But, overall she lauded the spending plan for maintaining education spending, investing in economic development and developing an energy policy.

“Those were the three main priorities for Democrats,” she said.

Republicans, too, said the state budget was about as good as could be expected.

“People will not see a single new tax or a single tax increase,” said state Sen. Dominic Pileggi. “Which, when people are struggling to pay their high gas bills and fuel bills and food bills, the last thing they need is a new tax.”

As far as the city of Philadelphia goes, the largest allocation would go to city schools. The school district would receive $932.6 million in basic state subsidies. That’s up nearly $51 million from last year’s $881.6 million allocation. Special education funding was also increased in this year’s budget with Philadelphia expected to get $126.2 million up from $124 million last year. Overall spending on city schools rose a combined 7.56 percent.

Funding for the Firearms Task Force remained flat at $5 million.

In a summary of expenditures, legislators said they had not included an increase because the “appropriation is expected to meet the needs of expenses for personnel, operations and fixed assets.”

The task force was established to fight gun violence in Philadelphia.

In a related program, funding for the Pennsylvania Injury Reporting and Prevention System also remained stagnant at $1.3 million.

The statewide program was started in 2006 in Philadelphia.

It is a hospital based injury surveillance program started in response to the high incidences of people age 15 to 24 suffering from gunshot wounds.

Another crime prevention program, the Drug Strike Task Force, did get a slight funding increase.

The state would give the organization approximately $2.2 million, a .7 percent increase over last year.

Funding for the city’s municipal and traffic court was increased from $7.2 million to $7.4 million.

Municipal courts took the lion’s share of the increase with a funding jump from $5.9 million to $6.1 million. Traffic court funding rose from $942,000 to $1 million.

Total funding for four city universities went down. Lincoln and Temple universities got a funding increase.

Lincoln’s state appropriation was bumped from $13.8 million to $14.5 million.

Temple University would receive also receive more money, getting $175.5 million this year compared to $172.9 million last year.

Drexel’s subsidy dipped to $6.9 million, down from 7 million. The University of Pennsylvania also saw its funding dip to $42.6 million down from $49.4 million in 2007.

Philadelphia’s ports saw their funding cut from approximately $11 million to about $10 million.

The African-American Museum received an allocation of $359,000 up from $356,000 in last year’s budget.

Funding for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was cut from $451 million to $445 million.

Veterans’ homes funding was slashed from $90.8 million to $84. 9 million. Allocations for specific homes were not included in the figures released on Monday.

Last year state officials boosted the amount dedicated to the Delaware Valley Veterans Home; funding went from $10.5 million to $11.3 million. Combined with federal funding, the home will receive a total of $17.5 million, up from $16.4 million in 2006.

State officials allocated $22 million for public welfare programs up from $21 million in 2007. That figure reflected federal subsidies of $11.7 million. Pennsylvania’s portion of the tab was $10.3 million. Both figures were unchanged from last year’s budget.