[CAUT] University Budgets and Payroll

[David Ilvedson]

Proposition 13...we went from #1 in the country for schools to nearly last...no one wants to pay for services...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

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From: "Rob & Helen Goodale" <rrg at unlv.nevada.edu>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 6/9/2009 4:34:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] University Budgets and Payroll


>California is just one example, many states have spent themselves broke but 
>California is probably the worst.  I grew up there, spent half my life 
>there, have family there, live 2 hours from the state line, and visit about 
>every other month.  Trust me, 30 years ago there was no comparison.   I 
>really miss the California I grew up with.   Back then they didn't have to 
>delay tax returns for a month because the state was too broke to pay them. 
>I know the guy that used to be the city manager of  South San Francisco, he 
>was my best friend's dad.  When he took the job the books were a complete 
>mess with a deficit FAR out weighing revenue.  They kept asking him to 
>approve more spending.  When he argued that he couldn't they fired him and 
>found someone who would.  They didn't want a city manager, all they wanted 
>was someone who would sign blank checks and look the other way.  Now THAT is 
>stupid!

>Rob
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>Rob, you caught me at "the right place at the right time"...

>WTF?  You take potshots at California, seemingly espousing
>fiscal responsibility and then try and find a way to
>game the system?!?

>Shame on you.