April 2003 Volume 16 No. 7 By the Way . . . Community Colleges Gain Support Court Ruling Could Hasten State Budget Process Community Colleges Receive Grant to Create High Schools Education Committes Take Action on Community College Bills No Action on State Budget Until May Revise Ask SSC . . . Can We Offer Classified Employees a Reduced Workload with Full Retention of Health and Welfare Benefits? Ask SSC . . . Can We Reduce Bargaining Unit Pay without Reducing the Number of Days Worked? Ask SSC . . . What Would Be the Impact of a 7% Across-the-Board Cut to Education?
March 2003 Volume 16 No. 6 By the Way . . . Governor Appoints Faculty Member to the Board of Governors CalPERS Board Adopts Regulations to Give Local Agencies More Time to Terminate Health Benefit Contracts Community College Students March on State Capitol—Will it Matter? Golden Handshake Legislation Introduced Another Approach to Student Enrollment Fees—“Differential Fee” Is Back Coalition Formed to Seek the Repeal of SB 1419 (Service Contracts) Mid-Year Budget Cuts Enacted at Last Ask SSC . . . Do the Mandate Deferrals in SBX1 18 Apply to 2002-03 Claims? Ask SSC . . . How Do We Justify Layoffs of Certificated Employees and Plan for Next Year? California Supreme Court Decision Could Subject Local Educational Agencies to Greater Liability for Open Disability Claims
March 2003 Volume 16 No. 5 By the Way . . . Recent Poll Indicates Public’s Dissatisfaction Over How the Budget Crisis is Being Handled Ask SSC . . . Can We Use Categorical Funds To Pay a Retirement Incentive? Master Plan for Education 2003 and 2004 Additional Legislation Introduced as Deadline Passes Impact of Student Fees on California Community Colleges Bipartisan Group of Legislators in the Assembly Attempt to Find a Solution to the State Budget Crisis Assembly Budget Committee Agrees to Reduce Mid-Year Cuts By $38 Million P-1 Apportionment: More Deficits for This Year and Last By the Way . . . Fiscal Squeeze Does Not Delay the Legislature Ask SSC . . . Could Board Members Use E-Mail under the Brown Act? Where Is the Mandate Money? Ask SSC . . . When Will the May Revise Be Out? Another Week Goes By Without Resolution on Mid-year Budget Cuts What Are You Thinking?