Wednesday is the start of a new budget year, but the state of Illinois remains in stalemate over getting a budget deal done. In Springfield, Governor Pat Quinn vetoed a bare-bones budget that included billions in cuts to social services.

With the veto stamp in hand, Governor Quinn has left the state with no spending plan but still operating.

"I think it's important that our workers stay on the job, do their job. They will get their paychecks," Quinn says.

The governor says the budget brought to him by the General Assembly was unconstitutional and unfairly put the burden of balancing the budget on the back of human service agencies.

"We need to come up with a budget that doesn't take all the cuts, $5-6 billion of cuts, and take it out of people who work in community mental health, helping children or helping senior citizens or helping our veterans," Quinn says.

The state funds about half the budget at the Center for Prevention of Abuse. Martha Herm is staring at 700-thousand dollars in less funding.

"We are a bit panicked as you can imagine," Herm, the Center's Executive Director, says.

The center contends that if the cuts stay they may have to keep its doors closed to a thousand people each year needing their services.

"The reality is who do we turn away if we have to implement any cuts, if we have to stop any services. For example, emergency shelter, where are those people going to go. Where are they going to be safe. Who's going to take care of them," Herm says.

It's a situation that lawmakers know they're leaving residents in limbo.

"I talked to a woman this morning who early this morning was out of a job and then because of a decree from a judge and not allowing the state to cancel contracts she was called and she would be back to work. People don't know. People don't know how to plan their lives," State Senator Dave Koehler, a democrat, says.

The Governor hopes to have a budget plan in place in the next couple days as he talks with lawmakers across the state. Meanwhile, the House Speaker and the Senate President have called a special legislative session for July 14th to consider overriding the governor's veto.

Governor Quinn is still pushing lawmakers to approve an income tax hike to help pull the state out of its deepest deficit in history. He also said Wednesday that his budget would include a serious reduction in corrections, but did not detail specifics.