State revenue collection was more than $300 million under the projected amount, according to the state controller’s office.
The state missed the collection goal laid out by the state budget by $301.6 million dollars, or 4 percent, according to figures the office released Monday. The state is now $705.5 million, or 3.6 percent, behind the general fund revenue collection goals laid out by the state’s budget for this year.
With the state so far behind in its revenue collection, the trigger cuts included in the 2011 budget are closer to being enacted. The trigger cuts include a further $100 million in cuts for the UC. The state has already reduced funding for the university by $650 million for this fiscal year.
“For better or worse, the potential for revenue shortfalls is precisely why the Governor and Legislature included trigger cuts in this year’s State spending plan,” said State Controller John Chiang in a Monday statement. ”September’s revenues alone do not guarantee that triggers will be pulled. But as the largest revenue month before December, these numbers do not paint a hopeful picture.”
Jordan Bach-Lombardo is the university news editor.
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Nobody’s perfect, but some
higher education chancellors are much less perfect as stewards of public funds than
others. University
of California Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau
($500,000 salary) has forgotten he is a steward of public money, not overseer
of his own fiefdom.
UC Chancellor Birgeneau does
not have a grip on financial realities. Trust the evidence.
Tuition increases
exceed national average rate of increase.
Recruits
(using California
tax $) out of state, foreign $50,600 students who displace qualified sons,
daughters of Californians.
Spends
$7,000,000 + for consultants to do the work of his senior management.
(Prominent East Coast
University accomplishing same 0 cost).
University accrues $150 million of
inefficiencies over his 8 year reign.
Pays the
ex Michigan governor $300,000 for lectures.
In procuring $3,000,000 consultants failed
to receive proposals from other firms.
Latino
enrollment drops out of state jump 2010(Krupnick Contra Costa Times).
Best in nation rank: # 70 Forbes.
Academic rank: QS academic falls below top ten.
Tuition to Return on Investment drops below
top10.
Cal is most expensive USA
public university.
NCAA: absence
senior management oversight, basketball program on probation.
It’s
all shameful: these illustrations are not isolated examples. There is no justification
for such irregularities by a steward of the public trust. If UC chancellors
don’t understand the importance of financial stewardship they have no business
in a public office.
Chancellor Birgeneau’s self-indulgent
practices continue. University of California Board of Regents Chair Sherry
Lansing must vigorously enforce financial oversight of Birgeneau. Only then
will confidence of Alumni, donors, legislators, Californians improve.
(My
agenda is transparency. I have 35 years’ consulting experience; have taught at
UC Berkeley, where I observed the culture & the way senior management works.
No, I was not fired or downsized & have not solicited contracts from UC/Cal).
Yours is the opinion that
can make the difference, email UC Board of Regents [email protected]
You have pasted this like a million times. I’m sure you will continue, but can you at least name this school that is accomplishing a reorganization on the scale of Operational Excellence with $0 dollars invested in consulting. Admittedly, I don’t think there is any way to attack a $1 billion dollar annual operating budget without hired guns, but if a comparable university has done this, it does warrant mention. For all I know, you are talking about a 2000 student liberal arts school. Every university out there has a site talking about their initiatives to cut costs so its no secret they are doing it….just name this example that you tout as the model. I think other universities perhaps professors that more interested in cutting administrative waste than the Berkeley profs who do not mind spending millions on duplicate equipment and functions. If you can name this school, it might at least put some burden on the Berkeley professors to watch their departments administrative balance sheet with a lot more scrutiny for duplication of central campus services.
I’ve asked him to name this school a few times already. He won’t. It’s likely to be some piddling college where the president wants the faculty to propose reforms as part of their regular committee work. If he named the school, it could quickly be verified that the scheme is just a stupid boondoggle. This man has no verifiable facts, no reasoning ability, and no candor. I have no idea how he can run a consulting business when his work is a total sham.
We need to start talking about creating revenue in the state, not dismantling key legislation that is necessary for the future of economic growth in the state.
PROTEST THE DREAM ACT WITH YOUR WALLET
BUY AS MUCH AS YOU CAN OVER THE INTERNET FROM OUT-OF-STATE SELLERS AND DO NOT REPORT IT ON YOUR TAXES
AVOID PAYING SALES TAX WHEREVER YOU CAN
STARVE THE BEAST IN SACRAMENTO!!!
so they are going to cut the funding of the UC system while giving reduced prices to illegal immigrants? wtf?
we don’t have enough money for the students that are going to the UC legally, or to even keep open our state parks, but we can throw away cash to felons who jump the border?
“they are going to cut the funding of the UC system while giving reduced prices to illegal immigrants?”
I think “they” are two different groups. The legislature cut UC’s funding. The governor approved non-citizen aid. UC has been sliced down the middle.
So where did the money for the illegal alien Dream Act come from?
Higher tuition.