September 2011 Volume 24 No. 20 By the Way . . . Student Success Task Force Meeting Calendar Posted Lawsuit Filed Asserting Proposition 98 Guarantee Violation By the Way . . . Chancellor Scott Announces Receipt of Federal Grant Promoting California Exportation Trigger Tracker—Know How Worried (or not) You Should Be At-a-Glance By the Way . . . Congratulations to San Joaquin Valley Colleges for Receiving a $20 Million Grant! Community College Financial Projection Dartboard Updated to Reflect Recent Events By the Way . . . Surplus Property is Available to Public Schools By the Way . . . Senate Subcommittee Preserves Maximum Pell Grants Ask SSC . . . Which Mandated Activities Are Funded, Unfunded, and Suspended in 2011-12? Governor Signs Fee Delay Bill UCLA Says Economy Stalled Field Poll Illustrates Voter Distaste of Proposed Budget Trigger Cuts Yet Another Pension Reform Initiative Has Been Cleared for Circulation State Revenues Fall Short in August Governor Vetoes Trigger Amendment Bill (SBX1 6) By the Way . . . Internal Revenue Service Releases Guidance on Employer-Provided Cell Phones
September 2011 Volume 24 No. 19 By the Way . . . Revenue Anticipation Notes Sell Out Ask SSC . . . Is the Revenue Situation Really Improving? American Jobs Act By the Way . . . Student Success Task Force Recommendations Previewed System's 2012-13 Budget Proposal and Impacts of Budget Cuts Last-Minute Legislation Legislative Analyst’s Office Examines a Decade of California’s Infrastructure Spending By the Way . . . Attorney General Declines to Comment on Proposition 98 Query Trigger Fee Delay Bill Sent to the Governor Amending the Trigger Cuts Could Threaten Bond Sale Governor Jerry Brown Announces Jobs Plan Tax Agreement By the Way . . . New Legislation Calls for Pension Reform Committee Update on Public Employment Ballot Initiatives By the Way . . . Governor Vetoes Bill Improving Survivor Benefits Under PERS State Budget Alternate Trigger Bills—An Update Court of Appeal Clarifies Temporary Classification of Part-time Community College Faculty Budget Bills to Require Alternatives to Trigger Cuts Standard & Poor's Gives California's Short-Term Borrowing a Top Rating By The Way . . . Additional Revisions to STRS Interest and Penalty Regulations Exclusive Interview with State Controller on State Economic Issues—Video
September 2011 Volume 24 No. 18 Ask SSC . . . What is the Funded Status of our Retirement Systems? SSC Mourns the Passing of Dr. Carol Berg Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees Act on Suspense Files Pension Reform Bill Remains In Appropriations Committee Governor Brown Proposes Jobs Package Update on Osher Foundation Seed Money . . . Watching it Grow Bureau Recommends Decrease—Not Increase—in Workers’ Compensation Rates Chancellors Hold Press Briefing on Two Subjects: Transfer and Potential Midyear Cuts Ask SSC . . . Do Employees Have to be Members of the Union or Can They Opt Out? Ask SSC . . . Can You Give Us Advice on How We Close a Fund? July Job Growth Stalls and the Unemployment Rate Rises The Bill is Gone! Senate Bill 931 Dropped by Senator Vargas Senate Bill 857 Prohibits PERB from Awarding Damages for Unlawful Strikes