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Yolo County a week away from yellow tier
Gov. Gavin Newsom presents the breakdown for the $267.8 billion budget revise in a program dubbed “California Roars Back” at the Secretary of State building auditorium in Sacramento on May 14.
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County has seen a steady decline in daily new COVID-19 cases over the last 10 days and now finds itself on the verge of yellow. The county could enter the leastrestrictive yellow tier of the state’s color-coded blueprint next week, provided case numbers and test positivity rates remain low. Moving to yellow will allow for greater indoor capacity at many businesses, including gyms and fitness centers, movie theaters and museums. However, the county’s stay in yellow would likely be short-lived — the state is poised to ditch the tier-based system altogether just three weeks later, lifting all restrictions on businesses and activities on June 15. Nevertheless, moving to yellow marks a step forward for Yolo County, which has been reporting stubbornly high case rates for a couple of weeks, something officials had blamed in part on the UK variant circulating locally. But in the battle of vaccines versus variants — which is playing out across the globe — vaccines seem to be getting the upper hand in Yolo
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Newsom goes big on spending By Edward Booth Enterprise staff writer Gov. Gavin Newsom released the entirety of his state budget proposal for the 2021-22 fiscal year on May 14, after a week of him revealing pieces of his $100 billion California Comeback Plan. The governor’s plan is supported by an estimated $75.7 billion in budget surplus this year and about $27 billion in federal support. The surplus stands in stark contrast to a $54.3 billion shortfall that was estimated last year. Newsom said in his budget presentation Friday that the
There is, however, contention about how much money the state actually has to spend. On Monday, the state legislature’s budget analyst estimated that the state has a $38 billion budget surplus to allocate. The difference between the estimates, according to a report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office, is that the governor’s estimate includes “constitutionally required spending on schools and community colleges, reserves and debt payments.” Funds required for those categories aren't considered surplus by the office because they need to be allocated for specific purposes,
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The Davis school board on Thursday will hear an update on the district’s plan to create ethnic-studies programming, a presentation on the district’s return to in-person learning and will consider compensating district employees with one-time stipends of $2,500 for extra work they’ve done during the COVID-19 pandemic. The board will also hear an update on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recently proposed state budget, and will consider adopting expanded learning
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The University of California Board of Regents discussed a proposed tuition increase this week. The limited fee hike would go into place in fall 2022 without continuing to increase in the following years. At the regents’ virtual board meeting Thursday, UC President Michael V. Drake said the proposal would make a UC education more accessible for many low-income students by raising funds for financial aid.
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The plan would also help stabilize the UC’s finances as state funding has failed to keep pace with the university system’s enrollment growth, Drake said. Over the past two decades, the number of students in the system has increased by 67% while state funding per student has decreased by 33%. “It doesn’t take much to recognize that this is just simply not sustainable,” Drake said. The proposed tuition increase would raise fees for incoming students beginning next fall and then remained unchanged for
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up to six years. California residents beginning at a UC next fall would see an increase of $642 from the current cost of tuition of $12,570. Incoming classes in the following years would face a similar increase that would be tied to the rate of inflation. Much of the money gained from the tuition hike would be used to help low-income students. More than half of California residents in the UC system already pay no tuition based on their financial need. Under the proposal, more than
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“UC has been a national leader in providing opportunities for students from all income levels,” Drake said, “and now we can be an adopter of a model that creates stability and predictability for all of our students
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according to the report. The final state budget for the next fiscal year needs to be approved by the legislature in June. Before the full reveal of his proposal last week, Newsom highlighted a proposed $20 billion investment into California schools, $12 billion to take on the state’s homelessness crisis, adding $1.5 billion to a fund for direct grants to California small businesses, $5.2 billion for the payment of all unpaid back rent that tenants have accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic, giving $600 stimulus
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budget reflects an attempt to address recession-induced impacts from the pandemic as well as historical inequalities. “Our budget, understandably, represents and reflects the realities of this recession and the realities of this pandemicinduced reality,” Newsom said. “Particularly as it’s related to the issues that have impacted lowwage workers, small businesses as well as decades-long inequalities, those pre-existing conditions around race, ethnicity, the pre-existing conditions around wealth disparities and income disparities, obviously have come to the fore and must be addressed.”
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