6870 Board of Governors of Community Colleges
Major Program Changes
  • The budget includes proposals to help reduce the 2008-09 Proposition 98 Guarantee to the minimum level by eliminating the $39.8 million cost-of-living adjustment included in the Budget Act of 2008 for Apportionments and defers $230 million in payments from January and February, 2009 to July, 2009. The deferral does not reduce program spending in the current year.

  • Additionally, the Special Session budget proposal includes significant categorical flexibility that authorizes districts to transfer any categorical allocations to their general fund in order to preserve course offerings aligned with the system's highest priorities for transfer, basic skills and career preparation.

  • For 2009-10, the budget includes a 3-percent growth increase of $185.4 million to fund 36,000 additional Full Time Equivalent Students. Further, the budget achieves significant cost avoidance by eliminating a $322.9 million cost-of-living increase and by suspending reimbursable state mandates for a savings of $4 million.

  • The budget also includes an increase of $167.5 million Proposition 98 General Fund to replace the allocation of State Lottery revenues to community college districts pursuant to Chapter 764, Statutes of 2008 (AB1654).