January 11, 2011
Memo from Chuck Alexander re: Proposed 2011-2012 Budget
The Governor's proposed 2011-2012 state budget has been released and the highlights are attached for your information. As anticipated, there are some dramatic proposals relative to the CDCR. Again, this is the proposed budget and as such will now begin the dialog between all impacted and or interested parties prior to it becoming a final product.
We have had several meetings with various Administrative representatives including the Governor's Office and the Department of Finance and have more scheduled over the next few weeks. CCPOA has, and will continue to offer viable alternatives to the CDCR proposals that are contained in today's budget proposal. Based on discussions thus far, we are cautiously optimistic that compromises we propose may supplant many of these initial proposals...
