Estimate of State General Fund Revenue and Operating Deficit
Thank you for your continuing support of the Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH). One of our goals is to provide you with accurate budget and education policy information throughout this pandemic.
Keeping Our Eye on the Ball
In my inaugural Message from the Chair, I thanked Don Ulrich for his leadership as the outgoing CASH Chair and formally introduced myself to you. I spoke of having ‘high hopes’ for faster implementation of State bond funds for California schools, but ‘hope’ is not a strategy. My primary focus as Chair of the CASH Board: Full implementation of Proposition 51 to fund previously approved School Facility Program (SFP) projects and support for a 2020 bond as a bridge to a sustainable capital funding system to address current and future needs. In this Message, I will provide updates to our membership on these foundational issues for the organization.
Senate Education Committee Approves AB 48 (O’Donnell)
Today the Senate Education Committee approved AB 48 (O’Donnell), which makes improvements to the School Facility Program (SFP) and places the Kindergarten-Community Colleges Public Education Facilities Bond Acts on the March 3, 2020 Primary and November 8, 2022 General elections. The final vote was 7-0.
After the Budget Conference Committee ironed out the differences between the Senate and Assembly versions of the budget, the Assembly and the Senate will vote on the final version of the budget today to meet the June 15th Constitutional deadline to pass the State Budget.
Message From the Chair – Know Your Number
My time as Chair of the CASH Board of Directors has drawn to a close; this will be my final Message from the Chair. It has been a pleasure and an honor to serve the CASH organization and its members, and I leave with a sense of humble accomplishment and hope for the future. I look forward to being a resource for our incoming Chair, Julie Arthur with Palm Springs USD, as she continues CASH’s important work. I would like to thank my colleagues on the CASH Board who I have served with, as well as each of our members for the honor of serving as your leader these past two years. In addition, I would like to thank the CASH past chairs that have been an invaluable resource to me during the last two years. I would like to use my last Message to reflect on what we have accomplished, as well as looking forward to future challenges for the CASH organization.