...if the cash coming into the state above and beyond the estimate made last June when the budget was passed resulted in more funding for UC. According to the state controller, in the current fiscal year through January, the state received $9.7 million more in revenue than had been forecast, most of it from the personal income tax. This overage persisted even though the fires in the LA area likely reduced inflows from that region in January itself. Indeed, there was also an overage of more than $3 billion compared to the forecast the governor used for his January 2025 budget proposal.*
All of that in normal circumstances would help UC in its lobbying at the legislature for more than the governor proposed.
Unfortunately, what might be normal in Sacramento may be offset by abnormality in DC and uncertainty about everything from federal aid for dealing with the effects of the fires to the many other inflows of federal monies to the state. There is also added uncertainty created by the fire-related decision to delay the deadline for tax filings from LA County, which complicates revenue forecasting.
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