California Community Colleges 1998 99 Budget PDF Download

The only tax cut proposed in the budget repeals a license fee on out-of-state horse racing revenues and transfers the funds to the horse racing industry for a $3 million General Fund loss. [...] The budget also proposes to expand the State Preschool Program to include 18,800 more children at a cost of $25 million for half the budget year. [...] The budget includes $27 million in General Fund expenditures to expand Medi-Cal to cover uninsured children not eligible for Healthy Families and $34.1 million in state funds for the Healthy Families program. [...] HIGHER EDUCATION The 1998-99 Community College budget of $4.8 billion reflects an increase of 5.7 percent over last year's budget and includes over $40 million in one time increase due to the increase in the Proposition 98 guarantee for 1996-97 and 1997-98. [...] The budget provides a General Fund increase for the University of California of $175 million, including $22.5 million to offset a 5 percent reduction in student fees and $39.5 million allocated to avoid a 10 percent increase in student fees.