INDIANAPOLIS -- The road to a special session for state lawmakers begins on Tuesday and Gov. Mitch Daniels said he's confident things will be accomplished.

Members of the budget committee on Tuesday will hear an updated status report from Daniels' aides on where the state stands in relation to spending and declining tax revenues, 6News' Norman Cox reported.

Lawmakers will then start the process of assembling a budget that can pass before state government is forced to shut down on July 1.

Daniels said he believes that goal will be achieved.

"We'll be working together now with a more realistic, grim, but more realistic and accurate picture of how much money there is to spend," he said. "And I think there'll be good support all round for living within our means."

But some Hoosiers said they remain pessimistic after lawmakers failed to agree on several key items during the regular session, including the budget, a bailout for the Capital Improvement Board and local government reorganization.

"Just get things done, quit fighting," one man said. "Quit, you know, finding excuses to not do something because you don't like this guy, or you don't like that guy."

The special session will cost taxpayers more than $75,000 a week, or about $12,000 a day, plus a once-a-week travel allowance, totaling more than $13,000.

Some said that since lawmakers didn't meet their deadline, they don't deserve to be paid.

"Just because everyone else is doing so bad. I mean, why should they get paid for a job they didn't even do?" one woman said.

Lawmakers have laid out a schedule for getting various portions of the budget-making procedure done on time. They said they hope to be ready for the full Legislature to go into special session to pass the budget by June 15.

Daniels will submit his own version of the budget on June 1. He told 6News last week that his bill will include a measure to bailout the CIB.