PowerPoint presentations from UC’s State Budget Town Hall

Session 1 — State Budget Crisis Background
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

Session 2 — Roundtable on Budget Reform
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

Session 3 — Financing Public Higher Education
Steve Olsen, Vice Chancellor, Finance and Budget, UCLA
Bruce Hamlett, Chief Consultant, Assembly Higher Education Committee