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California Governor Jerry Brown and the state’s top lawmakers reached a consensus on some of the biggest issues in the budget, granting Brown a significant number of victories on school money redistribution and revenue expectations.
The plan would make an across the board increase in school funding and send additional money to the districts that have a larger number of students who are poor and whose English is their second language, a Brown goal.
In addition, the leaders in the legislature agreed to use the more conservative estimates of Brown for state revenue, bolstering the ability of the governor to limit spending by the state.
Brown met with John Perez, the Assembly Speaker and Darrell Steinberg the Senate Leader in Brown’s office on Monday and all three left smiling. The three told reporters only minor details were left to be straightened out.
Steinberg and Perez persuaded the Governor to accept additional spending for health and social service programs, though not the amount or at the rate, they wanted.
On Monday night, a committee of both legislatures worked out the last details and Brown released a statement praising the work of California’s lawmakers.
He said the legislature is working hard and doing a good job.
By Saturday, a budget must be passed by the legislature and it must be signed by Brown before it would take effective the first of July.
With the deadline looming, California lawmakers have tried to refocus attention on the finances of the state instead of the federal investigation taking place of one of their fellow lawmakers, Montebello Senator Ronald Calderon.
