In a statement, Chancellor Reed urges legislators to reach an agreement with the governor to protect higher ed from “devastating further cuts.”
With the temporary taxes the governor is counting on to balance the state’s budget expiring at the end of the month, CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed issued the following statement June 24:
“The state of California is at a crossroads. Governor Brown’s proposed budget, including a temporary tax bridge to an election at which Californians can decide the kind of state we will be in the future, is vital to the future of the California State University and present and future students. Time is short. I urge the members of the legislature, regardless of party, to reach agreement with the governor, whose plan is the only way forward to solve the state’s fiscal crisis and protect higher education from devastating further cuts.”
Voters could be asked to weigh in on temporary tax extensions in elections as early as this September, or as late as November 2012. Waiting could mean “an austerity budget — one with more massive cuts to schools, universities and public safety,” according to the San Jose Mercury News. Read more.