On June 29th, CUCFA President Robert Meister sent the following letter to the authors of SCA 21 and ACA 24: June 29, 2009 Senator Leland Yee State Capitol, Room 4074 Sacramento, CA 95814 Fax: (916) 327-2186 Re: SCA 21 and ACA 24 Dear Senator Yee, The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) believes that UC…
On June 4th, Joe Kiskis, CUCFA VP of External Relations, sent the following letter to the ten members of budget conference committee: June 4, 2009 Assemblymember Noreen Evans Chair, Budget Conference Committee fax 916-319-2107 Dear Assemblymember Evans, California’s present economic, fiscal, and political difficulties present the people of the state and their leaders with a…
On May 18th, Joe Kiskis, CUCFA VP of External Relations, sent the following letter to members of both the Senate and Assembly Budget Subcommittees on Education: The Council of UC Faculty Associations asks that the Legislature rescind Section 92612.5 of the Education Code and restore the $20 million General Fund augmentation for UCRP that the…
April 28, 2009 Assemblymember Anthony Portantino State Capitol P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0044 Fax: (916) 319-2144 Re: AB 53 as amended April 14, 2009 — Support if further amended Dear Assemblymember Portantino, We agree that this dire fiscal situation requires sacrifice. Indeed, in the present circumstances the University of California certainly has no plans…
April 20, 2009 Senator Leland Yee State Capitol, Room 4074 Sacramento, CA 94248-0001 Fax: 916-327-2186 Re: SB 219 — Support Dear Senator Yee, The Council of UC Faculty Associations continues to support your efforts to repair California’s whistleblower protection laws. We believe that UC employees should be provided with the same whistleblower protections and legal…
April 20, 2009 Senator Leland Yee State Capitol, Room 4074 Sacramento, CA 94248-0001 Fax: 916-327-2186 Re: SB 220 — Support Dear Senator Yee, The Council of UC Faculty Associations continues to support your efforts to repair California’s whistleblower protection laws, and we support SB 220 for that general reason. In addition, we believe that the…
April 20, 2009 Assemblymember Alberto Torrico P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0020 Fax: 916-319-2120 Re: AB 656 – Support if Amended Dear Assemblymember Torrico, While we endorse both the general aim of AB 656, which is to increase funding for public higher education in California, and the bill’s proposed method of an oil and gas…
After CUCFA sent the following letter to Senator Yee, SB 217 was updated. The proposed legislation no longer ties executive compensation to student fee levels. The current bill (as of April 20) restricts executive compensation in years when the state does not increase general fund appropriations for UC. April 13, 2009 Senator Leland Yee State…
Proposition 1A: Part of the problem, not part of a solution. The Council of University of California Faculty Associations announced today that it opposes Proposition 1A on the May 19 Special Election ballot. Proposition 1A would exacerbate the structural deficiencies in California government, which already make it impossible for elected representatives to govern effectively and…
California legislators continue to wrangle over the state’s budget. The Legislative Analyst’s Office continues to try to label the current per student funding, reduced as it is over previous years, as full per student funding. CUCFA’s Vice President for External Relations, Joe Kiskis, continues to try to educate legislators that this ever diminishing number should…
