The Republican is appearing Monday at the spring meeting of the Pennsylvania County Commissioners Association in Harrisburg.
Corbett's 2011-12 state budget proposal is likely to be a focus of his speech. He's called for deep cuts in spending for higher education, $1 billion reduction for public schools and other measures to avert a projected $4 billion shortfall in tax collections.
Corbett promised during his campaign not to raise taxes, but he has left open the prospect of allowing counties and other local governments to impose local "impact fees" to pay for highway repairs and other costs associated with natural-gas drilling on the Marcellus Shale formation in northern and western Pennsylvania.
