Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature’s Democratic leaders last week formally unveiled a compromise that restores $63 million that was cut from court funding in the governor’s revised budget plan last month.

The court funding agreement is part of an overall compromise that largely mirrors the governor’s proposal for a fiscally restrained spending plan that assumes conservative revenue projections, but which key Democrats said would not prevent them from pushing for additional spending if tax collections exceed those projections.

Brown said there’s no agreement to renegotiate the budget if revenues exceed projections.

“Only time will tell, but in general I think prudence rather than exuberance should be the order of the day,” the governor said.

While legislative leaders wanted more, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said the restoration of $60 million for trial courts and $3 million for appellate courts was a good first step and expressed hope the Legislature will restore more money later.

“We hope that as the state’s economy improves, the branch’s budget will improve so that we can rebuild the kind of access to justice the public deserves,” she said in a statement.