Gov. Brown Signs Budget Relying On Ballot Measures, Risking Automatic Cuts
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Gov. Brown signed the budget just hours before the midnight deadline, even though legislators sent him the budget 12 days ago. (Courtesy Creative Commons)
The $92 million California general fund budget fixes a $15.7 billion deficit but an estimated $8.5 billion dollars of that is expected to come from two Nov. 6 ballot measures. The measures include increasing the sales tax as well as the personal income tax for people earning more than $250,000 a year.
If the measures fail, public schools, colleges and universities will face more than $6 billion in automatic spending cuts.
In a move that angered many Democrats, the budget also features cuts to children's healthcare and will transfer 880,000 children to Medi-Cal. The budget also includes cuts to the welfare-to-work program, reducing the amount of time parents in the program have to find work from four to two years.
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Governor does not cut affluent foreign and affluent out of state students replacing Californians at University of California. There was a 43 percent jump in the number of affluent foreign and affluent out-of-state students accepted by University of California Berkeley. The more non-Californians admitted, the fewer qualified Californians can be. Fall admit rate for Californians drops to record low 18%. A shocking confirmation of inept Chancellor, Provost.
In spite of eligibility Cal. Chancellor Birgeneau ($450.000 salary), Provost Breslauer ($306,000 salary) shed thousands of instate applicants. Qualified instate applicants to public Cal. are replaced by a $50,600 payment from born abroad affluent foreign and affluent out of state students. And, Birgeneau subsidizes affluent foreign and affluent out of state tuition in the guise of diversity while he doubles instate tuition/fees. (Harvard is now less costly than Cal.)
Birgeneau/Breslauer accept affluent $50,600 foreign students that displace qualified instate Californians (When depreciation of tax funded assets are included (as they should be), out of state and foreign tuition is more than $100,000 and does NOT subsidize instate tuition.
With the recommendations of Cal. Chancellor Birgeneau ($450,000 salary), Provost George Breslauer ($306,000 salary) allowed campus police to use excessive force - rammed baton jabs - on students protesting Birgeneau‘s doubling of instate tuition. Birgeneau resigned: sack Provost Breslauer.
Send a forceful message that Cal. senior management decisions are unacceptable: UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu and Calif. State Senator and Assemblymember.