June 2002 Volume 15 No. 13 By the Way . . . Patrick Lenz Leaves the Chancellor’s Office By the Way . . . Board of Governors Member Takes Over CPEC By the Way . . . SB 1419 Held in Assembly Labor Committee Bond Campaign Under Way The Second Principal Apportionment: More Deficits Higher Education Administrators’ Salaries Lag Behind National Counterparts Legislation Passed out of Assembly Higher Education Committee Critical Budget Transfer Held Up by Insistence on Full Funding for K-12 Equalization and PERS Reduction Budget Debate Heats Up Ask SSC . . . Is Final Compensation Based on School Year or 12 Consecutive Months? CalPERS Circular Letter #2000-032-02 Workers’ Compensation Insurance Moves Into the Spotlight State of Mandate Issues and the Budget Conference Committee Slogs On—Tax Issues Remain a Significant Barrier
June 2002 Volume 15 No. 12 By the Way . . . Colleges Illegally Use Social Security Numbers By the Way. . . Legislation Intends to “Sunshine” the Use of Short-Term Employees by K-14 Schools By the Way . . . STRS Final Compensation Legislation Dropped Design-Build Facilities Contract Legislation Limited to Four Community College Districts Community Colleges to Develop Domestic Security Training Program Options for Closing the 2002-03 Budget Gap Ask SSC . . . Where Can I Find Per-Diem Rates? Ask SSC . . . Will Mileage Stipends be Creditable Compensation? The Curse of the Business Manager’s Life: Estimating the General Fund Ending Balance To Accrue or Not to Accrue? Late Budget Would Have Minimal Impact on K-12 Schools, Major Impact on Community Colleges Budget Conference Committee Agrees to Education Package—Proposition 98 Funded at May Revision Levels
May 2002 Volume 15 No. 11 By the Way . . . Mascot Bill Rejected By the Way . . . We Have Prepared a Financial Projection Dartboard for Use by Community Colleges More on the Master Plan for Education—First Draft Available California Master Plan for Education Contains 50 Recommendations for California Community Colleges Assembly and Senate Suspense File Court Ruling Puts Proposition 98 Funding in Jeopardy Assembly and Senate Budget Subcommittees Craft the Education Budget State Budget Now in the Hands of the Six-Member Legislative Budget Conference Committee Ask SSC . . . What Is Impact of Court Ruling that State Can’t Make Payments if Budget is Late? California Public Employees’ Retirement System Audits AB 2700 Questions and Answers Ask SSC . . . Is There a “Correct” Way to Calculate the Cost of Step and Column? Ask SSC . . . What Is the Status of the Suspension of Mandate Reimbursements?