{"id":57916,"date":"2023-05-12T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T23:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57916"},"modified":"2023-05-12T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T23:15:18","slug":"assemblymember-mike-fongs-statement-on-the-governors-may-revision-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57916","title":{"rendered":"Assemblymember Mike Fong\u2019s Statement on the Governor\u2019s May Revision Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_2501128901159137931Default\"><b>SACRAMENTO, CA (May 12, 2013) <\/b>\u2013<b>\u00a0<\/b>Assemblymember Mike Fong (D \u2013 Alhambra) issued the following statement on Governor Newsom\u2019s proposed May Revision budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year:<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2501128901159137931Default\">\u201cI thank the Governor for supporting our students, including maintaining the 5% increase for the California State University and the University of California, and increasing the Proposition 98 COLA from 8.13% to 8.22% for K-12 and the California Community Colleges (CCC).\u00a0 However, I am concerned about significant reductions to CCC deferred maintenance and delay of funds for student housing at a time when students are returning to the classroom,\u201d said Assemblymember Mike Fong (D-Alhambra), Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2501128901159137931Default\">\u201cReducing last year\u2019s budget allocation of $841 million for deferred maintenance by more than half jeopardizes projects that CCCs have already initiated and funding for projects already completed.\u00a0 I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Legislature to restore funds for deferred maintenance and implement the revolving loan fund for student housing as planned.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2501128901159137931Default\">\u201cLooking ahead, I urge the Governor to support our continued efforts to implement Cal Grant reform next year and support placing a K-14 school facilities bond on the 2024 statewide ballot,\u201d said Assemblymember Mike Fong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, CA (May 12, 2013) \u2013\u00a0Assemblymember&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57917,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57916\/revisions\/57917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}