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C.A.S.H. July Facility Planners Update

Posted on July 1, 2015 by CASH

July 1, 2015

Facility Planners Meeting

State School Bond Efforts
Efforts in the Legislature
Efforts on a state school bond have taken a backseat to other priorities in the Legislature, which does not need to act until next year to place a bond on the November 2016 ballot.

Only one of the three main bond bill vehicles met recent legislative deadlines to make it out of Appropriations Committee and to the floor. SB 114 (Liu) was passed out of Senate Appropriations Committee without the addition of a specific dollar amount; however this bill

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Governor Signs Budget, Changes RRMA Contribution Requirements

Posted on June 25, 2015 by CASH

06/25/15

On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, the Governor signed the 2015-16 Budget Act and accompanying trailer bills to implement the budget with very little fanfare. A negotiated deal between legislative leadership and the Governor was announced last Tuesday, June 16, one day after the Legislature approved its initial budget package. The Legislature passed modifications to the first budget bill and most of the accompanying trailer bills on Friday, June 19. The main budget bills are AB 93 and SB 97, and education trailer bills include AB 104, the K-12 omnibus bill, and SB 78, which makes mainly technical adjustments to the Local Control Funding Formula.

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Message from the Chair – April 2015

Posted on April 21, 2015 by CASH

April 21, 2015

State School Bond Initiative, Governor’s Executive Order on Water Conservation, and the NextGen Experience

In last month’s Message from the Chair, I introduced myself as your new Chair, talked about my personal and professional background, and outlined some of my priorities as Chair, including 21^st Century classrooms and how they contribute to teaching and learning. In this month’s Message, we will get right to work on critical issues for the C.A.S.H. organization – the Californians for Quality Schools (CQS) Initiative and responding to the Governor’s Executive Order on water conservation.

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