Governor Brown and state legislative leaders have agreed on a state budget proposal that the legislature is scheduled to vote on tomorrow. The Sacramento Bee has some details at:http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/06/more-details-on-the-democratic.html
What does it mean for UC? As was the case in last week’s budget proposal, this budget would cut UC $150 million on top of the $500 million cut in the March budget. But this proposal may go further: if an anticipated $4 billion in revenue expected due to the improving economy falls more than $1 billion short, UC would take an additional $100 million mid-year hit in January of 2012.
At least a $540 million deferral of payments from the state to University of California that had been proposed in last week’s budget has been eliminated in this proposal.
As mentioned above, the legislature is scheduled to meet tomorrow to vote on this. No GOP votes are necessary to pass it. Gov. Brown has already promised to sign the budget tomorrow, so he obviously expects the Democrat’s votes to be there.