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employees will get paid in August
By Tanya Dellaca
Summer On-line Forty-Niner
Another week is
coming to an end and California is no closer to having a signed
state budget in place.
In a bit of good news for Cal State Long Beach employees,
this does not appear to be an impediment to getting paid,
as the state controller’s office reported that who gets paid
will not change from July to August.
“Everything is the same for August,” Stacey Ragland of the
state controller’s press office said. “State employees will
be getting their salary, but the legislature will not receive
a salary and vendors doing business after June 30 will not
be paid for their services.”
A list provided by the state controller’s office details which
payments can be made. Some payments listed include: disability
insurance, most state employees salaries, personal income
tax refunds, payments to state retirees, Social Security payments,
and bills for goods and services provided prior to July 1.
Payments which cannot be made are for goods and services provided
after June 30 to the following: state agencies, University
of California, trial courts and state highway transportation
projects. Also listed are legislative staff, state exempt
appointees and certain elected officials.
Cal State Long Beach campus employees and local state employees
reacted to the budget deadlock affects on payroll differently.
“We aren’t particularly worried about it,” University Police
Communications Supervisor Greg Pascal said.
Others are maintaining a cautious outlook.
“We just don’t know for sure whether we will be paid or not,”
Long Beach Unified School District college aide Gretchen Hutchins
said.
Tanganic Washington of the CSULB Payroll and Benefit Services
Office said payroll has never been withheld before, but that
the department would not know if payroll was not being made
until the day before.
A major issue holding up a budget agreement is spending cuts.
Republican Assembly Leader Dave Cox, responding to letters
from the Department of Finance to different state agencies
which requested spending reduction plans and recommendations
be submitted, wrote a letter to Gov. Gray Davis on August
12, asking the governor for a preview of the list and to implement
spending reductions immediately.
The letter states, “While the DOF budget letters to agency
secretaries and department directors request a Sept. 13, 2002
submission of expenditure reduction plans, we believe that
it is critical that those plans be submitted to the Legislature
for review by no later than Aug. 31, 2002.”
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