Jul 19 2005
Gov. Doyle at UWM 12pm Today
The Governor will be making an announcement about the recent cuts to the UW system budget by the GOP controlled state legislature today at 12pm at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning attrium here on the UWM campus.
The new Chancellor Carlos Santiago will be joining him apparently as well, I’ll try to post anything interesting that happens later on this afternoon.
UPDATE 2pm: About 100-150 people showed up for the Governors announcement that he’ll be reversing the proposed 1.5% pay cut for UW employees (personal note: yay), (re)announced a tuition tax deduction of up to $5,000 for families/students of the UW system, added an additional $8 million in financial aid, and that he’ll be restoring the $40 million that was cut from his proposal by the legislature.
Actually the budget for UW Systems increased by 9 million per year. Dems have been trying to spin this topic for a while now, but the Doyle and the Senate did, in fact, increase spending for the UW system.
But it IS funny that Doyle would be the one talking to this topic. Since he actually DID cut the UW budget by $250 million in 2003.
Anywho .. the State Senate increased spending to UW System by 9 million dollars I believe over the next two years, but didn’t agree to increase spending to 40 million. That’s where Dems spin the argument. So … there were no cuts, they just increased spending less.
By your argument Doyle “cut” the UW System budget from the $240 million requested to $60 this year too.
I can’t seem to find the $9 million number in any of the stuff I’ve read, and can’t pinpoint that down in the 200+ pages of the actual budget that was passed by the legislature, care to provide a link?
That said, even if they did procure a $9 million dollar increase in spending, thats three tenths of one percent of an increase, which doesn’t keep close to the rate of inflation. And the legislature are well aware of how important it is to keep up with the costs of the times, they just approved a 4% raise for themselves yesterday.
If they can’t expect themselves to make due with 3/10ths of 1% more than they took home last year, how can they expect the UW system do to the same?
As passed by the Assembly, the budget would give the UW System about $1 billion in each of the next two years, or about $9 million more than the state currently provides.
Wierd, that story has a date of today but talks about the budget proposal as if it hadn’t yet passed (it has). The $9 million figure you cite though was from the assembly budget proposal, not the actual budget bill passed after the Senate had it’s say and they hammered out their differences.
I’m looking for the actual numbers now…