LANSING (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Legislature’s top leaders met for the first time in a month Thursday but focused very little of their discussion on the messy state budget process, instead talking about criminal justice legislation.

The meeting was held in the wake of the Democratic governor’s signing a largely Republican-written budget this week while vetoing an unprecedented $947 million in proposed spending. The GOP-led Legislature had sent her the plan days before the deadline following a breakdown in talks over shifting discretionary funds to repair roads and bridges.

Whitmer wants lawmakers to pass a supplemental budget bill that includes her priorities and could potentially restore items she vetoed.

“What we’re trying to do is bipartisan work on some policy issues first and see if we can get some agreement on those and kind of recalibrate and get to a place where we can get back to the daily functions getting done,” said Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, a Flint Democrat. “That supplemental can go at anytime or not go depending on what the majority decides to do.”

Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, a Clarklake Republican, had said he was in no rush to revisit the budget and wanted to discuss legislation related to raising Michigan’s age to treat criminal defendants as adults to 18 and overhauling the expungement process.

“It was an overall very positive meeting,” said Amber McCann, Shirkey’s spokeswoman. Whitmer spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said it was a “good meeting overall.”

The vetoes affect funding for roads, hospitals, counties, need-based college scholarships, tourism advertising, charter schools, sheriff’s road patrols and other parts of the budget.