A possible ‘trigger cut,’ based on faltering California tax revenue, is expected to have little affect on the Cal state Long Beach’s spring semester.
According to Mary Stephens, vice president of administration and finance, the California State University system would take a $100 million cut and CSULB would share about $7.7 million of that cut.
Ted Kadowaki, assistant vice president for university services, said that the cut will happen if state revenues don’t reach a certain level.
According to Stephens, the revenue that the state needs in order for the cut not to take place comes from taxes. She said that state revenue has been low and that the university is expecting the cut.
The Resource Planning Process Task Force is a committee of employees at CSULB who volunteer to make recommendations to the university president based on the governors’ budget and other budget cuts to the campus.
Stephens said the RPP does more of its work in the spring but it has already met twice this fall about the prospective cut.
According to Kadowaki, it doesn’t take any extra funds to pay for the RPP because it consists of a committee of employees who volunteer and make advisory recommendations to the university president. The president usually follows these recommendations closely, he said.
Kadowaki also said that RPP aims to determine how the budget will impact the campus. The last few years the budget has been negative.
“It’s very important,” said David Dowell, vice provost and director of strategic planning. “It’s a fairly integral part of our budget-planning cycle.”
Stephens said the RPP didn’t have any recommendations because they agreed with the university’s plan to not cut anything and use reserves to pay for the fall semester.
Stephens said that they are assuming at the moment that the ‘trigger cut’ will be a one-time cut.
“We read, digest and try to understand the governor’s budget as best we can,” Kadowaki said about the RPP.
Dowell said that the RPP has been in place for more than 20 years and is a widely copied model by many schools, including Cal State Fresno.
Cal State Fresno’s task force
A new task force at Cal State Fresno has proposed drastic cuts because its division of Academic Affairs has lost $1.7 to $2 million.
According to Dennis Nef, co-chair for the academic affairs budget advisory task force, the task force has recommended changes to organizational structure, aggressive enrollment management, changing the way they allocate funds and more self support programs in order to save money.
According to The Business Journal, the task force has also recommended that $250,000 to $300,000 could be saved if the number of schools and colleges were cut down to six or seven.
Nef said that during the next three weeks Provost William Covino will be meeting with the schools, colleges and staff to get responses to the taks force’s recommendations. Recommendations will be modified based on the feedback
In January, Covino will meet with the Task Force and in March Covino will make decisions based on the recommendations and feedback provided to him, Nef said.
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