Part of the reason that the U.C. and C.S.U. systems are seeing their share of higher ed funding from the state fall relative to the community college system is that community college funding is locked in, as are many other General Fund commitments, which is making it impossible to make reasonable political decisions about how to allocate higher ed funding. Sure, we may need more funding, but subject to the fiscal constraints imposed by our political situation we need to allocate funding wisely -- that is made more difficult when all the money is tied up by pre-commitment bills and propositions that turn discretionary expenditures from the General Fund (which have no dedicated funding mechanism) into implicit non-discretionary commitments... Its this type of thing that made me vote against Proposition B, which would have tied the commitment of the San Francisco General Fund to the SFMTA to population growth >.< (Of course, that also has the flaw of 1) being bound to the SFMTA despite the fact that we have a interconnecting web of transit authorities and providers, and 2) that theres not much reason to believe that the appropriate amount of funding for SFMTA is somehow linear in population...)
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:53:40 +0000
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