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4B Daily News – Friday, July 1, 2011 Brown signs rare on-time budget SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown on Thurs- day signed a rare on-time budget a day before the start of California’s fiscal year, a package that is a combination of spending cuts, fee hikes and the promise of higher tax rev- enue that might never materialize. Brown signed the $86 billion spending plan after major- ity Democrats passed it without Republican support. They acted for the first time under a voter-approved law that allows budgets — but not tax increases — to be passed with a simple majority, rather than a two-thirds vote. Lawmakers also were motivated to complete a deal because the same law halted their salaries and living expenses until they passed a balanced budget — a penalty that cost each of them nearly $5,000 and saved taxpayers $583,200 over 12 days, according to the controller’s office. In signing the budget, Brown said general fund spending is at its lowest level since the 1972-73 fiscal year when mea- sured as a share of the state’s economy. Cuts enacted Thurs- day and this spring will affect nearly every aspect of Cali- fornia government, from universities and state parks to in- home services for the elderly and mothers trying to work their way off welfare. ‘‘We really have some retrenchment here across a wide spectrum of important government services,’’ Brown said before signing the budget bills behind closed doors. ‘‘These are really hard decisions, and going forward Californians are going to have to think hard about what we want from our universities, from our police and sheriffs, from our safe- ty net for the most vulnerable.’’ In years past, lawmakers sometimes went months beyond the start of the fiscal year before approving a bud- get, including last year’s record stalemate that ended in October. While California has a spending plan for its new fiscal year, Brown has warned that the state will continue to have ongoing deficits unless it can find a way to bring its annual tax revenue in line with spending obligations. The Democ- ratic governor was unable to renew several expiring tax increases but has vowed to fight for more tax revenue at the ballot box next year to help the state pay down debt and restore education funding. The latest budget includes cuts to higher education, wel- ‘‘These are really hard decisions, and going forward Californians are going to have to think hard about what we want from our universities, from our police and sheriffs, from our safety net for the most vulnerable.’’ —Gov. Jerry Brown fare, health care for the poor and disabled, in-home sup- portive services, state parks and other core functions of gov- ernment. It also relies on optimistic projections that tax rev- enue will be about $12 billion higher in the coming fiscal year than projected in January, largely because the wealthy are doing so well. If that higher revenue does not materialize, more cuts would have to be made during the middle of the fiscal year. That would include authorizing school districts to reduce their school year by seven days. Democrats inserted a provision into the budget prevent- ing school districts from laying off more teachers. Brown’s finance director Ana Matosantos said the state was trying to prevent school districts from acting on the so-called trigger cuts before it was necessary. ‘‘If the claim is that we went out of our way to avoid fur- ther additional teacher layoffs — guilty,’’ said Senate Pres- ident Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. The spending plan projects a $3.1 billion shortfall for the fiscal year that will begin July 1, 2012, and puts $500 mil- lion into reserves. California started the year with a projected $26.6 billion shortfall, forcing Democrats to adopt billions of dollars in cuts to social service programs, higher education and cor- rections. Budgets for the California State University and Univer- sity of California systems have been cut $750 million each, prompting officials to say they will need to raise tuition again. Funding to operate the state court system has been cut by $350 million, and 70 of California’s 278 state parks, beaches and historic areas will close by July 2012 because of cutbacks to the nation’s largest state park system. The remaining budget package the Legislature passed this week relies on further cuts and projections of greater- than-expected tax revenue from an improving economy to close the remaining $9.6 billion deficit. While the budget passed with only Democratic votes, Republican lawmakers declared victory because the 2009 increases to the personal income, sales and vehicle taxes were not renewed. ‘‘This is much-needed relief, and it’s the result of Assembly Republicans standing together to represent the only special interest group we represent, and that’s the hard- working taxpayers,’’ said Assembly Minority Leader Con- nie Conway during a news conference with other Republi- can Assembly members at a Sacramento Ford dealership. In addition to higher fees for community college and university students, the new budget imposes an extra $12 fee on vehicle registrations and a $150 annual assessment on rural property owners for fire protection. Those levies are almost certain to be challenged in court because they did not get the two-thirds vote required for tax increases. The budget also makes major changes to some 400 com- munity redevelopment agencies, which have promised to sue, and shifts responsibility for low-level offenders from the state to counties, helping the state meet a federal court mandate to reduce its prison population. Budget talks accelerated after Brown vetoed a Democ- ratic spending plan passed on the Legislature’s June 15 con- stitutional deadline and the state controller withheld law- makers’ paychecks after determining the package was not balanced, as required under the terms of last year’s Propo- sition 25. The base salary of lawmakers is $95,291 a year, not counting per diem expenses that can add another $20,000 or $30,000. HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY Print Runs Every Monday - Wednesday- Friday $9900 Appliance Service & Used Appliances Appliance Repair Rod Pierce service on all major appliances. 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