 Confirming many of the Legislative Analyst's Office's predictions made last month, the California Department of Finance announced it will make mid-year trigger cuts to several programs, including child care and other services utilized by young children and their families.
During a news conference last week, Gov. Jerry Brown and Finance Director Ana Matosantos confirmed that California's revenues will fall $2.2 billion short of the forecast made when the state budget was finalized in July. As a result, $980 million in trigger cuts are scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1.
Included in the trigger cuts is a 4 percent reduction to state child care programs - approximately $17 million from child care programs shifted out of Proposition 98 last July (including Center-based Programs and Alternative Payment Programs), and another $5.9 million to Proposition 98 programs that include After School child care. Other trigger cuts that could impact young children and their families include a $100 million decrease to developmental services, and a reduction in grants to libraries.
"California has to exercise fiscal discipline," Brown said. "We need a real serious public discussion between now and November about whether people want to spend more." He also warned that more cuts were coming in his 2012 budget proposal, due out in January. <<Back to this week's Monday Morning Report. |
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