It Starts Here: A UC Town Hall Meeting A Forum on the California State Budget December, 2003 1:00-5:00 p.m. UCLA Covel Commons PowerPoint presentations

Sponsored by the University of California Office of the President,
UCLA and the UC California Policy Research Center

1:00-1:10 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Chancellor Albert Carnesale, UCLA

1:10-2:00 Session 1 — State Budget Crisis Background
This session will feature three presentations, focusing on the fiscal background, state economic trends and their relationship to the budget crisis, and California’s fiscal situation in a national context. A review of the causes and magnitude of the state’s budget deficit, this session will discuss the economic, political and fiscal context of the budget crisis, the nature and extent of the structural deficit and the mechanisms of cash flow, and the legal and constitutional constraints imposed on the budget process. Participants will also assess the effects of the 2003-04 budget agreement.

Moderator:
Peter H. King, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times

Speakers:
Tim Gage, former Director, California Department of Finance
Edward E. Leamer, Director, UCLA Anderson Forecast;
     Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management Professor
     Business Economics
Renee Boicourt, Managing Director of Municipal Ratings,
     Moody’s Investors Service

2:00-3:20 Session 2 — Roundtable on Budget Reform
This session will begin with brief presentations on proposed reforms to address the state’s structural deficit, facilitate the budget process, and reduce volatility in the state’s fiscal system. Participants will discuss procedural, structural and tax reform options. The presentations will be followed by a moderated roundtable.

Moderator:
Peter H. King, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times

Speakers:
Alan J. Auerbach, Robert D. Burch Professor of Tax Policy and
     Public Finance, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
John Ellwood, Professor of Public Policy, Richard & Rhoda
     Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Steven Sheffrin, Professor of Economics, Department of
     Economics, UC Davis

Discussants:
Phillip L. Isenberg, Miller, Owen, and Trost (former      Assemblymember, California State Legislature)
Mayor Curt Pringle, City of Anaheim

3:20-3:30 Break

3:30-5:00 Session 3 — Financing Public Higher Education
This session’s presentations will discuss the major issues and fiscal dynamics affecting California public higher education, the role of public higher education, the experience of other states, and possible approaches to meeting the fiscal challenges facing California’s public higher education institutions. A moderated roundtable will follow the brief presentations.

Moderator: Nancy Shulock, Director, Institute for Higher
      Education Leadership and Policy; Professor of Public
      Policy and Administration, CSU Sacramento

Speakers:
Steve Olsen, Vice Chancellor, Finance and Budget, UCLA
Bruce Hamlett, Chief Consultant, Assembly Higher Education Committee

Discussants:
President Robert C. Dynes, University of California
Chancellor Charles B. Reed, The California State University
Chancellor Thomas J. Nussbaum, California Community Colleges

5:00 Closing Remarks

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