Breakdown of Gov. Jerry Brown's Budget Proposal

to a state that has lost more than one million jobs since the start of the “Great Recession.”

As local officials examine the 266-page budget summary for consideration, Patch dug through the pages, too. Here's a breakdown of key parts of Brown's proposal.

Here are some things to keep in mind:

• Each proposal—whether it’s shifting responsibility or making cuts—includes the governor’s reasoning behind it.
• Numbers offered are from the governor’s office and do not include insight from the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst's Office.
• This breakdown does not include the following chapters: Economic Outlook, Revenue Estimates, Demographics, General Government, Tax Relief and Local Government, and Statewide Expenditures.
• This is a proposed budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year; Decreases or increases to programs could change in the future.
• Proposals apply to Fiscal Year 2011-12 unless specified.
• Proposed policy changes are also included in the budget.
• The full budget proposal can be downloaded as a PDF from the governor’s budget website at EBudget.CA.Gov/

The introduction to Brown’s budget proposal stated that California is dealing with the following:

• The projected budget gap for 2011-12 is $25.4 billion.
• 2010-11’s revenues are $3.1 billion lower than originally projected.
• November’s Proposition 22 (which prohibits the state from taking funds from local governments) created an additional budget shortfall of $1.6 billion; workload adjustments added another $2.1 billion to the shortfall.

Brown proposes $12.5 billion in cuts, including:

• $1.7 billion from Medi-Cal.
• $1.5 billion from California’s welfare-to-work program.
• $1 billion from the University of California and California State University.
• $750 million from the Department of Development Services.
• $580 million from state operations and employee compensation.

Borrowing and saving:

• $1.8 billion in borrowing from “special funds.”
• $1.7 billion in property tax shifts.
• $1 billion from Proposition 10 programs.
• $900 million from Proposition 63 money.

Phase One of Realignment, for the most part, is possible only if voters agree in a proposed June election to keep several tax rates as they are for another five years. If voters approve to keep rates at 1.15 percent for Vehicle License Fee and 1 percent for sales tax, the state will gain $5.9 billion in revenue to make the following changes:

• Shift current CAL FIRE responsibilities for fire protection and medical emergency in wildland areas to local governments.
• Shift funding of court security to counties.
• Shift responsibility of “offenders without any current or prior serious or violent or sex convictions” to local jurisdictions.
• Shift responsibility of adult parole to the counties.
• End “state’s role in housing and treating youthful offenders.”
• Shift and offer funding for counties to administer prevention, treatment and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse.
• Shift primary program responsibility of Child Welfare Services to counties.
• Shift responsibility of Adult Protective Services to counties.

Phase Two of Realignment:

• Eliminate existing redevelopment agencies beginning fiscal year 2011-12.

The state will also provide $420 million from the General Government fund for realignment.

• $200 million cut to the courts.
• Repeal trial courts conservatorship program, bringing $17.4 million in savings.
• $4.5 million cut to the governor’s office.
• Governor’s office will only use a “portion” of the fund budgeted for transition of the new governor.
• Eliminate the office of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Inspector General six months early.
• California Technology Agency proposed changes: an increase of $19.7 million and 23 positions to cater to “workload growth”; an additional $10.6 million to “support migration of state agencies to a shared e-mail system"; and $966,000 to “transition independent oversight of state information technology projects from vendors to agency.”

• Reduction of $3.7 million to the California Science Center while offering the center the ability to establish an admission fee.
• Franchise Tax Board to see these proposed changes: an increase of $3.2 million for workload in Audit Program; an increase of $1.3 million to the Financial Institution Record Match; and an increase of $500,000 to the Voluntary Compliance Initiative.

• Department of Transportation non-General Fund proposed changes: $3 million cut to Enterprise Resource Planning Financial Infrastructure; redirection of $1.4 million; an increase in $2.4 million to complete Planning Program Project Initiation document; $4.9 million cut in State Highway Account resources; $7.2 million increase in reimbursements; $274,000 increase in Job Access and Reverse Commute; and $2.3 billion appropriation for capital funding of bond projects.
• Department of Transportation general fund changes: use $262.4 million in weight free revenues from 2010-11 and $700 million in 2011-12 to reimburse General Fund for debt service; reenact gas tax proposal of 2010; and augment the Public Transportation Account fund balance to fund debt service of 2011-12.
• High-speed rail proposed changes: $1 million increase for Program Management Oversight; $1.136 million increase for Interagency Agreements; and $37 million cut to Program Management Services.
• Department of Housing and Community Development proposed changes: $99 million cut to housing bonds; $106.8 million cut to one-time local assistance; and a $1.1 million shift from state operations to local for Community Development Block Grant Funding.
• BTH Agency Secretary proposed changes: $84.4 million increase in Federal Augmentation of Small Business Loan Guarantee Program and a $20 million cut to the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program in 2010-11.

• Department of Forestry and Fire Protection proposed changes: Eliminate funding for CAL FIRE’s fourth firefighter; realign fire protection services to local governments; continuation of $42.7 million for CAL FIRE’s aviation program; a $10.6 million increase to fund unemployment insurance claims for seasonal firefighters in 2010-11 and 2011-12; and a $1.7 million increase to the Civil Cost Recovery Program.
• Department of Parks and Recreation proposed changes: $11 million cut to state parks.

• $12.8 million cut to State Water Resources Control Board.

• $217.4 million cut to services.
• $557.1 million cut that will require beneficiaries to share in the cost of services.
• Elimination of adult health care and other benefits.
• Reduce Medi-Cal rates by 10 percent.
• Redirect Proposition 10 reserves.
• Extend hospital fees.
• Healthy Families Program proposed changes: eliminate vision benefit, increase premiums and copayments, and continue the collection of revenues from taxes assessed on managed care plans.
• Department of Public Health proposed changes: one-time cut of $76.3 million in 2010-11 to Safety Net Care Pool; $10.6 million cut in 2010-11 to Every Woman Counts Program; and a $52.1 million increase to ADAP Program in 2010-11 and $108.9 million in 2011-12.
• Department of Aging proposed changes: eliminate MSSP optional benefit.
• Department of Developmental services: $6.7 million cut in 2010-11 and $13.3 million in 2011-12 to Workforce Cap Adjustment; $11.2 million cut in 2010-11 to personnel costs; and a $27 million increase to accommodate for effects from the expiration of federal stimulus funds.
• Department of Mental Health proposed changes: use Proposition 63 dollars to fund Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment programs; cut $55.3 million in 2010-11 and 2011-12 for Workforce Cap Adjustment; cut $56.8 million in 2010-11 in personnel costs and $20.8 in 2011-12; $7.5 million increase in 2011-12 to accommodate state hospital population adjustment; $3.4 million increase in 2011-12 for billable legal services.
• Department of Social Services proposed changes: establish time limit of 48 months for monthly cash benefits to eligible families; reduce CalWORKS grants; reduce SSI/SSP grants for individuals to $15 per month (the federal minimum); reduction of service hours; eliminate domestic and related services for certain recipients; eliminate IHSS for recipients without physician certification; eliminate state funding for IHSS advisory committees; reduce Transitional Housing Program-Plus.
• Department of Child Support Services proposed changes: suspend county share of collections.

• Local jurisdictions will take responsibility for offenders of convicted “nonviolent, nonserious, nonsex offenses, and without previous convictions for such offenses.”
• Elimination of the Division of Juvenile Justice by June 30, 2014, and transfer authority of offenders to local governments.

• Proposal maintains about the same level of funding for K-12 education in 2011-12 as in 2010-11.
• Proposal offers $22 billion in total funding and $11.7 billion in General Fund and Proposition 98 sources to higher education (a decrease of $1.7 billion).

• 10 percent reduction in take-home pay from employees in the six bargaining units without contracts.
• Provide "core health plan" to save $72 million.