Got it from here:
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ucdavismedicine/features/pay_it_foward.html
UCD Medical Center
Actually this might be of interest to you all. The time table for at least UCD's budget. Pretty much though, we might not see something solid until July. (bad sign)
"The governor's proposed budget confirms what we anticipated - that
additional sacrifice will be required of UC and UC Davis, and of many
others who depend upon state resources.
We, and UC's many advocates, will do our best during the budget
negotiation process to minimize cuts to the university, but it's only
prudent that we begin planning now for what is reasonably likely to be our
fiscal circumstance for 2004-05.
We approached this past year's budget planning in much the same way. With
many unknowns, we created a consultative planning process that was
strategically driven and based on principles. That process and those
principles - including, for example, that cuts would be made strategically
and not across the board and that consultation would be broad and
communication open, honest and frequent - will again serve us well as we
address our short-term challenges in the context of the campus's long-term
health.
The newly adopted "UC Davis Vision: A Strategic Plan to Achieve Campus
Aspirations" will also help guide our budget decisions by confirming areas
for the wisest investment of our resources and our time.
It's too soon to estimate a range of cuts that might be required of the
campus, or to judge whether the very troubling proposed elimination of
K-12 outreach funding will be sustained in the state's final budget. While
the campus' share of UC-wide cuts is generally 15 percent, the Office of
the President hasn't yet informed the campuses how it would assign cuts
for 2004-05, or whether it would pass along the governor's proposed
mid-year unallocated cut of $15.7 million. We are advised, though, to
continue our reduction planning.
Toward that end, the Budget Planning Workgroup recently met to undertake
initial consideration of the governor's proposed budget and other such
fiscal challenges as an annual $5 million shortfall in funding for
utilities, a $100 million backlog in deferred maintenance, and lack of
funding to operate and maintain 320,000 square feet of new
state-supportable space that will come on board this year and next.
Other anticipated budget discussions and actions for the remainder of the
academic year include:
February: Budget Planning Workgroup reviews budget reduction scenarios
and options. The state's Office of the Legislative Analyst releases
analysis of governor's budget in mid-February. Council of Deans and Vice
Chancellors discusses budget process at mid-month retreat.
March: Budget call letter - including budget reduction targets, planning
assumptions and directions for preparing unit budget plans - issued to
deans, vice chancellors and vice provosts. Cross-campus information
meetings held to review and discuss planning framework. Deans, vice
chancellors and vice provosts hold budget planning meetings and
discussions. Regents consider student fee increases.
April: Campus consultation continues. Budget plans due from deans, vice
chancellors and vice provosts.
May: Governor's revised budget due mid-May. Campus's Office of Resource
Management and Planning provides analysis of budget plans to Council of
Deans and Vice Chancellors.
June: Council of Deans and Vice Chancellors holds all-day meeting to
review unit plans and to inform budget decisions.
July: Final budget decisions announced.
As soon as updated information is available, I will share it. Please check
our dedicated budget Web site (
www.news.ucdavis.edu/budget/) for periodic
updates.
I know these are challenging times for our campus family, especially for
those who participate in programs facing elimination or significant
downsizing, who anticipate having to pay higher fees, who may be delayed
in their enrollment, or who will not receive a deserved increase in
salary.
But I have no doubt that we will meet this short-term challenge with
resolve and in good faith, and with the knowledge that better times are
surely ahead. Our observance soon of UC Davis' centennial is strong
testament to the intrinsic value and remarkable resilience of this campus.
I've no doubt that our second century will be even brighter than our
first."