Posted on 12/11/2011 10:12:35 PM PST by SmithL
SACRAMENTO -- As Gov. Jerry Brown gets ready to pull the trigger on more budget cuts this week, lawmakers and interest groups are bracing to see how devastating the cuts will be.
While many in the Capitol are resigned to the worst, some believe the governor will do all he can to avoid cuts to schools -- no matter what the revenue figures show.
"He can spin the economic data either way as governor," said Kevin Gordon, a leading education lobbyist. "Ultimately, it's a political decision."
On Thursday, Brown will announce the long-awaited results of his finance team's forecast for the last six months of the fiscal year. The team will determine whether the revenues have improved enough to avert the worst of the potential cutbacks: $1.9 billion to K-12 schools.
When the Legislature passed a rare on-time budget last June, most Capitol observers knew it was being balanced with a rosy assumption that an improving economy would generate billions more in tax revenue. That's nothing new in Sacramento, but this year it's different: At Brown's urging, the Legislature included painful, automatic cuts that would kick in if the cheery scenario didn't pan out.
It didn't. So the only question now is how bloody the "trigger cuts" will be.
If revenues fall from $1 billion to $2 billion short of an estimated $4 billion in new revenues, then Brown will have to pull the trigger on just the first tier of cuts -- $600 million from universities, social services and public safety programs.
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A good start.
1 billion to $2 billion short of an estimated $4 billion in new revenues.
I bet they are 3.5 to 5 billion short. Just wait and see.
Just cut state government 60 percent across the board. Everything. If the government unions don't like it, they can move.
Of course, start with education and public safety, but ignore benefits to illegals and the hundreds of worthless agencies and departments that are of little to no value to 99.999% of the state's population.
CA gov’t ignores going Galt and Laffer Curve effects.
I bugged out of there over the summer, and I ain’t never going back!
The real issue is pensions. They’ve made so many promises, that they will never be able to keep the majority of them. Guys are sitting there at age 54...retired, collecting $80k a year and the state may have to pay twenty years of pension. They simply don’t have it.
The real issue is pensions,
I respectfully disagree, the real problem is SLAVERY. When a group of Elected officials make promises they can not afford or keep, they then choose to hold the Children and the Unborn Financially Responsible for their Decisions by burying them in PERPETUAL DEBT that can never be Paid Off let alone even paid down, it is INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE.
What about some of these?
• Access for Infants and Mothers
• Accountancy, Board of
• Acupuncture Board
• Administrative Hearings, Office of
• Administrative Law, Office of
• Adoptions Branch, Department of Social Services
• African American Museum, California
• Aging, California Commission on
• Aging, Department of
• Agricultural Labor Relations Board
• Agriculture, Department of Food and
• AIDS, Office of
• Air Resources Board
• Alcohol and Drug Programs, Department of
• Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board
• Alcoholic Beverage Control, Department of (ABC)
• Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority, California
• Analytical Chemistry, Center for
• Animal Health and Food Safety Services
• Apprenticeship Council
• Apprenticeship Standards, Division of
• Arbitration Certification Program
• Architects Board
• Archives, California State
• Arts Council
• Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus
• Assembly, California State
• Assembly Democratic Caucus
• Assembly Republican Caucus
• Athletic Commission
• Attorney General
• Audits, Bureau of State
• Automotive Repair, Bureau of
• Barbering and Cosmetology, Board of
• Bay-Delta Authority, California
• Behavioral Sciences, Board of
• Binational Border Health, California Office of
• Biodiversity Council
• Biogeographic Data Branch
• Blind, Office of Services to the
• Board of Equalization (BOE)
• Boating and Waterways, Department of
• Braille and Talking Book Library
• Building Standards Commission
• Business, Transportation and Housing Agency
• Cal Boating (Department of Boating and Waterways)
• California Exposition & State Fair
• California Business Investment Services (CalBIS)
• California Earthquake Authority (CEA)
• Cal/EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• CAL FIRE (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection)
• CalGOLD (Business Permit Information)
• California Broadband Initiative
• California Coastal Commission
• California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth
• California Council for the Humanities
• California Cultural and Historical Endowment
• California Digital Library
• California Geological Survey
• California Highway Patrol (CHP)
• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
• California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts
• California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
• California Science Center
• California State Association of Counties (CSAC)
• California State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection
• California State Fair
• California State Library
• California State Parks
• California State University (CSU)
• California Tahoe Conservancy
• California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)
• CaliforniaVolunteers
• CalJOBS
• Cal-Learn Program (Department of Social Services)
• CalOHI (California Office of HIPAA Implementation)
• Cal/OSHA (Division of Occupational Safety & Health)
• CalRecycle (Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery)
• CalSTRS (California State Teachers’ Retirement System)
• Caltrans (Department of Transportation)
• CalVet Home Loan Program
• CalWORKs Program (Department of Social Services)
• Career Resource Network
• Cemetery and Funeral Bureau
• Central Valley Flood Protection Board
• CERES (California Environmental Resources Evaluation System)
• Charitable Trusts, Registrar of
• Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• Chief Information Officer Archives, Office of the (OCIO)
• Child Abuse Prevention, Office of
• Child Support Services, Department of
• Children & Families Commission
• Children and Family Services Division
• Children’s Trust Fund, California State
• Chiropractic Examiners, Board of
• Citizens Compensation Commission
• Climate Change Portal (Energy Commission)
• Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy
• Coastal Conservancy
• Colorado River Board of California
• Communicable Disease Control, Division of
• Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
• Community Services and Development, Department of
• Conservation Corps
• Conservation, Department of
• Constitution Revision Commission
• Consumer Affairs, Department of
• Contractors State License Board
• Contracts Register Program, California State
• Controller, California State
• Corporations, Department of
• Corrections and Rehabilitation, Department of
• Cosmetology, Board of Barbering and
• Court Reporters Board
• Courts, Administrative Office of the
• Courts of Appeal
• Cyber Safety for Children
• Dams, Division of Safety of
• Data Exchange Center (Department of Water Resources)
• DataQuest (Department of Education)
• Deaf Access, Office of
• Debt and Investment Advisory Commission
• Delta Protection Commission
• Delta Vision
• Dental Auxiliaries, Committee on
• Dental Board of California
• Denti-Cal
• Developmental Disabilities, State Council on
• Developmental Services, Department of
• Disability Insurance, State (SDI)
• Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Certification Program
• DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles)
• Education Audit Appeals Panel
• Education, Department of
• Education, Office of the Secretary for
• Education, State Board of
• Educational Facilities Authority
• Elections Division (Secretary of State)
• Electronic and Appliance Repair, Bureau of
• Emergency Medical Services Authority
• Emergency Services, Governor’s Office of
• Employment Development Department (EDD)
• Employment Training Panel
• Energy Commission
• Engineers and Land Surveyors, Board for Professional
• Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Office of
• Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA)
• Fair Employment and Housing Commission
• Fair Employment and Housing, Department of
• Fair Political Practices Commission
• Film Commission
• Finance, Department of
• Financial Institutions, Department of
• Fire Marshal, Office of the State
• Firearms Division, Department of Justice
• Fiscal Services (Department of General Services)
• Fish and Game Commission
• Fish and Game, Department of
• Fleet Administration, Office of
• Food and Agriculture, Department of
• Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of
• Franchise Tax Board
• Gambling Control Commission
• General Services, Department of
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS), California
• Geologists and Geophysicists, California Board for
• GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Council, California
• Government Claims and Victim Compensation Board
• Governor’s Committee for Employment of Disabled Persons
• Governor’s Mentoring Partnership
• Governor’s Office
• Governor’s Office of Homeland Security
• Guide Dogs for the Blind, Board of
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