From the Riverside Press-Enterprise: UC Riverside will get $201 million in new state funding after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an Inland lawmaker’s bill. Assembly Member Jose Medina, D-Riverside, praised the governor’s signing Sunday, Sept. 25, of AB 2046, which allocates $313 million to UCR and UC Merced...
Medina and other Inland lawmakers lobbied for the money to make up for what they described as a funding gap between UCR and coastal UC campuses such as UCLA. That gap, lawmakers argued, forced UCR’s growing student body to deal with crumbling classrooms and a lack of classroom space, counselors and faculty...
Full story at https://www.pe.com/2022/09/28/uc-riverside-gets-201-million-in-bill-signed-by-gov-gavin-newsom/.
The bill seems focused on capital projects and refers to two fiscal years. It is unclear how the funds are split across the two years. There is language in the bill stating that "these funds shall supplement and not supplant any current or future funding." Of course, there is no obvious way to determine whether the funds supplant other funding that might otherwise have been allocated.
The bill is at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2046.
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